One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

The only one who could remain calm was Shamrock, the leader of the Knights of God. As soon as Hawkeye appeared, he took the initiative to accept the challenge of the greatest swordsman of the era. The two fought fiercely, and no one else could get in.

Loki killed Worchley and then turned around and came back to kill him.

A look of relief crossed Galin's face. He glanced at his son, Shamrock, and then charged toward Loki's giant hammer.

Shamrock's eyes showed reluctance, and he subconsciously wanted to follow, but was blocked by Hawkeye's black sword, Yoru:

"He has his mission, and you have yours!"

Chapter 73 Mozambique Swordplay

The way Garin rushed towards Loki didn't look like he was fighting for his life; it looked more like he was going to his death.

In order to reach Loki as quickly as possible, he even took a direct hit from Law's slash.

Loki's iron thunderbolt traced an arc from top to bottom like a giant swing in an amusement park, finally colliding violently with Garin, who was wielding his sword, just before it reached the ground.

Garin Sei had no domineering aura attached to him; he was like a Japanese soldier who had lost and decided to launch a suicidal charge.

Having withstood Loki's fully buffed hammer blow with his bare body, Garin's entire body was shattered, exploding into a cloud of blood mist like a mosquito swatted by a human hand.

The deaths of two more contractors who had signed the Abyss Pact have undoubtedly caused immense damage to Im. Even from a distance of more than ten kilometers, the few remaining members of the Divine Knights could see the lightning and thunder over there.

Amidst the thunderous roar of the sky, there was also Im's heart-wrenching screams of pain.

Having been severely wounded by the deaths of his subordinates, Im seemed to have made up his mind and once again activated the eerie black mist, enveloping himself and Robert in it.

This time, Im did not take advantage of Robert's loss of his five senses to attack him, nor did he blindly choose to rush towards the port to rescue his subordinates. Instead, he directly took action to begin retrieving the power of the contract.

With all five elders dead, Im's injuries had reached a critical point. If a few more Deep Sea Contract contractors died, he would collapse due to the loss of his soul without anyone else even having to lift a finger.

Therefore, his primary task now is to reclaim the power of the contract and restore himself. Since he is going to reclaim the power, it is safest to start with the strongest power and reclaim it in order.

The strongest among the Five Elders is none other than Shamrock, the leader of the Knights of God.

Black energy surged around Im, and at the same time, several kilometers away, Shamlock suddenly trembled all over, clutched his head with both hands, and then knelt down, convulsing.

The remnants of the Knights of God unleashed their strongest attacks in perfect unison, forcing back their respective enemies before charging madly toward Shamlock and tightly protecting their commander, who was unaware of what had happened to him.

It's not that they have any deep feelings for Shamrock; it's just that everyone knows Shamrock is the strongest among them. If Shamrock dies now, the others will be ganged up on and beaten to death by these ravenous pirates in just a few minutes.

Shamlock clutched his head in agony, like a punctured balloon, black smoke seeping from every pore of his body.

For more than a minute, the members of the Knights of God were almost unable to withstand the outer attacks before Shamlock collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.

The same thing happened to Piet Saint just now, except that after the black smoke dissipated, he was so thin that he was just a skeleton, while Shamlock, although he looked very bad, at least still looked the same as before.

"Saint Shamlock! Are you alright?!"

Mafi Palace inquired with concern. Having lived for so many years, she was an old member of the Knights of God who joined when Garin Saint was the captain, so she naturally had no shortage of experience and knowledge.

They all had guesses about the situation of Pitsaur and Shamrock, knowing that it was most likely that Im was reclaiming his power, but they still harbored a sliver of hope and wanted to get the answer from Shamrock.

Shamrock was young after all. Although the Deep Sea Mark granted him immortality, he shouldn't have died yet. So when Im withdrew the power of the contract, Shamrock was at most a little weak, but he wasn't drained into a dried-up corpse like Pit Saint.

The Knights of God have many old men in their seventies, eighties, or even hundreds of years old. Shamlock can withstand the backlash of losing the power of the contract, but they can't!

Shamrock gasped for breath, ripping off the sleeve of his left arm. His deltoid muscle was smooth, and the deep-sea mark that should have been tattooed there was nowhere to be seen.

Seeing this, even without Shamrock's explanation, all the members of the Knights of God felt a chill run down their spines. Im had abandoned them!

At such a time, being betrayed by Im means certain death for all the Knights of God.

Some people are much older than the human lifespan limit and live entirely on the longevity granted by the demonic contract. The moment they lose the mark, they will die completely.

Even if there were younger ones like Shamrock, in this battlefield surrounded by powerful enemies, losing their strength would only mean certain death.

The entire Knights of God were suddenly overwhelmed by despair and fear, and some even had the negative thought of giving up resistance and dying as soon as possible.

What made them even more desperate was that before the enemy's sword fell, the reckoning of their own people had already begun.

Just moments before, Maffei Palace, which had been concerned about Shamrock, suddenly let out a piercing scream, then collapsed to the ground, convulsing.

"No! Lord Im! Don't abandon me!"

"don't want..."

Her words of pleading stuck in her throat as a long sword imbued with Conqueror's Haki pierced her heart. The person wielding the sword was none other than Shamrock!

A member of the Knights of God, who looked like a giant yeti, glared at them with rage: "Shamrock! Are you insane! What are you doing!"

Shamlock forcefully pulled his sword from Maffei's body and then inserted it back in, finally slashing down with a sword imbued with Conqueror's Haki, severing Maffei's head.

“Im abandoned us, choosing to sacrifice us to save himself while we were still fighting for him!”

"I am the commander of the Knights of God! I cannot watch my members die from this humiliating betrayal, nor can I watch you suffer and die because your power of the contract has been taken away!"

"Since death is inevitable, I would rather give everyone a quick death!"

All the members of the Knights of God were speechless. With the tragic death of Pittor Saint before them, and the horrific scene of Shamrock having his power drained, they had now witnessed firsthand the agony of Mafi Palace when it lost its power.

The Knights of God wavered. They even began to think that what Shamrock said made sense. Rather than being tortured and drained into a dried-up corpse, they would rather die a quick and painless death under Shamrock's blade.

The member of the order who was accusing Shamrock was about to say something more when the ordeal that had befallen him at Maffei Palace suddenly descended upon him. Immense pain emanated from his soul, and he screamed and rolled on the ground, roaring at Shamrock:

"Kill me! Quickly! Please!"

"Commander!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Shamlock filled his longsword with Conqueror's Haki and pierced the heart twice with one strike, then severed the head with the other.

The members of the Thunder Department had already tacitly stopped fighting, simply surrounding the trapped beasts of the God's Knights and watching them kill each other!

Chapter 74 You laid down your butcher's knife when you were about to die?

The saying goes, "Two shots to the torso, one shot to the head; even a god would shake his head."

Back in the day, John Wick used the Mozambique shooting technique to carve through an entire gang to avenge his beloved dog. Now, with the same efficient swordsmanship, Shamrock kills his own teammates as easily as slaughtering chickens.

The entire Knights of God were utterly desperate. Im's act of withdrawing his power was even more terrifying than Shamrock, who was wielding a blood-stained longsword and looking at them.

After all, Shamlock's knife was tangible, and they had witnessed Shamlock's efficiency in killing; dying under his knife would at least lessen their suffering.

But dying from having your power drained by Im is different. First of all, there is the humiliation of being still fighting for him while he discards you like trash.

Secondly, with the reference of the screams of several companions before their deaths, one can imagine how unbearable the pain of being literally drained of blood and turned into a dried corpse must have been.

In comparison, the Knights of God lost all fighting spirit. If it weren't for the fact that their immortality had no way to control it except for an excessive amount of Conqueror's Haki, some of them would probably have already committed suicide by now.

Im then called out the name of a member of the Order of the Gods, and Shamrock killed that member before Im could retract his power. Unbeknownst to him, he had already killed half of the Order's members.

However, using Conqueror's Haki to counter the regenerative power of the Devil Contract is not a contest with the person who was killed, but rather requires being stronger than the Devil Power transmitted by Im.

So, although the members of the Knights of God did not fight back and let their leader swing his sword, and some even put their hearts and necks against Shamlock's sword because the pain of having their power drained by Im was too great, Shamlock had just been seriously injured and had no strength left after executing a few members.

A portal slowly opened beside him, and a red-haired man with a missing arm stepped out.

This person looked almost exactly like Shamrock. If it weren't for the difference in their clothing, short limbs, and three conspicuous scars on their faces, people who weren't familiar with them would definitely confuse the two.

Shanks held Shamrock's arm, which was trembling from exhaustion: "Leave it to me, you've done a great job."

Most of the remaining members of the Knights of God knew some of the inside story. When they saw Shanks appear, they were somewhat surprised, but none of them asked why they looked exactly alike.

Shanks slowly bowed to the few remaining members of the Knights of God in apology, then without hesitation drew his sword Griffin. He used the God Evasion technique, a signature move passed down from the previous Pirate King Roger, to draw a huge arc-shaped slash with himself as the center, cleaving the few remaining people in front of him in two from the heart.

Thanks to the power of Conqueror's Haki, Shanks' sword aura was even red. His Haki was so strong that he could be considered the strongest in his generation. He then unleashed a full-force attack, instantly extinguishing the life force of the last few members of the God Knights.

Shamlock's face showed a look of reluctance. After all, these were his old comrades-in-arms who had worked with him for decades. Now that they had all been lost, Shamlock was somewhat saddened.

Loki was originally just watching from the sidelines with his iron thunderbolt in hand. He was happy to see them kill each other, but if they tried anything funny, Loki's giant hammer would strike without mercy and wipe out the remaining demon contractors.

But when Shanks appeared, Loki's breathing became heavier, and after all the members of the Knights of God were dead, Loki immediately raised his great hammer:

"There's only one left."

Shanks frowned and stood in front of the already exhausted Shamrock: "He's not a bad person. We made a pact to work together to end the World Government's dark rule."

Loki gritted his teeth. He and Shanks had a deep grudge against each other, not to mention this bastard who had specifically sought him out in Elbaf and tortured him for half a day while he was bound by Seastone chains at the base of the World Tree.

But just now, this guy who looks exactly like Shanks did indeed help everyone kill many members of the Knights of God.

At that time, Im had already begun to reclaim the power of these contractors. If Shamlock hadn't stepped in to calm them down and persuaded these members of the God's Knights to accept their fate without resistance, Im would have been able to reclaim at least half of the demonic power if everyone had acted a little slower.

Loki, having grown up in a relatively simple place like the Kingdom of Giants and been imprisoned in the Underworld for the past few decades, was not as quick-witted as these pirates who roamed the seas. Although he wished he could kill both of his enemies with a single blow, he felt that it would be too disregard for the overall situation.

If it were anyone else protecting Shamrock, Ace would have jumped out and cursed them long ago. But Shanks was really good to him. In the year or so after Whitebeard died, it was Shanks who protected the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates. Ace's growth to his current strength is also inseparable from Shanks's unreserved teaching.

But Ace and Loki weren't the only ones present; there were also Law and Sabo, who didn't have a deep connection with Shanks but whose way of thinking was heavily influenced by Robert.

Luo snorted: "As expected of an aristocratic family that has been involved in politics for hundreds of years, their methods of betting on both sides are truly remarkable."

"If we hadn't come out on top today, would you two brothers have continued to endure humiliation and stand by Im's side, helping him kill us?"

Ever since Sabo met Robert, he felt that Robert was born to join the Revolutionary Army. Many of Robert's revolutionary ideas were refreshing to Sabo, and he even made notes on them to review from time to time.

“Mr. Shanks, Robert once said something that I find increasingly true.”

He said: "Of all virtues, filial piety is the most important. One should judge by the heart, not by the deeds. If one judges by deeds, there will be no filial sons at one's bedside."

"Of all evils, lust is the worst. Judge by actions, not intentions; if you judge by intentions, there are no good people in the world."

"To judge whether a person is good or bad, most of the time you have to look at what they have done, regardless of what their purpose is in helping the World Government do evil."

“His actions should be brought to trial. We do have spies infiltrated within the World Government, but those brothers, while openly committing all sorts of evil deeds, secretly risk their identities to save countless civilians persecuted by the Celestial Dragons.”

"Excuse me, this leader of the Knights of God, besides killing all these Celestial Dragons today, what other good deeds have you done to convince us not to kill him?"

Shanks gritted his teeth and said, "The identity of 'Red Hair' doesn't refer to me, Shanks!"

Chapter 75 Im, you can't do it either!

Im had completely lost the ability to move, collapsing in the dark mist and panting heavily.

Although Robert had lost all five senses, he was able to accurately strike Im with lightning using his imagined quantum entanglement positioning.

Although Robert always joked that his lightning was only good for bullying novices, and could only scratch the surface of skilled opponents.

But from the perspective of his enemies, no one wanted to face Robert's lightning attacks directly. The relentless double blow of physical and magical attacks was enough to make anyone who had ever fought Robert feel hopeless.

Especially those Devil Fruit users whose abilities are related to soul, darkness, or demons suffered greatly from Robert's self-developed exorcism power.

The so-called "scraping" is simply because the masters in this world all have a kind of invincibility cheat. Whenever the damage they suffer reaches a certain threshold, most of their methods of damage can no longer be effective.