The pinnacle of pirates begins with deceiving fate!

"Is that so?"

John smiled meaningfully, neither refuting nor agreeing.

He can't protect Huang forever, so let's take this opportunity to teach her a lesson in reality.

Let the facts speak for themselves; they're more effective than anything else.

Seeing John's expression, Huang pouted in dissatisfaction.

If a man acts like this, he must be really holding back!

"Hey! Don't get distracted during the battle."

Just as Huang was about to say something, John raised his chin, gesturing for her to turn around and look ahead.

Huang quickly turned back and saw the shark-fish man who had been kicked away charging towards her with a coral knife.

"Are merfolk generally more durable than humans?"

She muttered something, then her eyes narrowed, and she swung her rapier at the oncoming shark-mermaid.

With a clang of metal clashing, the coral knife in the shark-merman's hand snapped in two, and the armor on his chest was also cleaved open by an invisible sword aura.

Phoenix seized the opportunity once more, pressing the sword against the shark-fish man's neck, and solemnly questioned:

What on earth is happening outside?!

The shark-mermaid's expression hardened, and ignoring the sword pressed against his throat, he turned and abandoned his fallen subordinate, running towards the door.

He ran while shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Come quick! The Celestial Dragons are over here!"

Huang stared in astonishment at the shark-mermaid's figure disappearing outside the door, her expression becoming incredibly complicated.

She couldn't understand how this Sea King's squad leader could be so inferior to even some pirates, capable of abandoning his comrades.

"Righteous navy, let's go out and take a look."

John stood up, walked to Huang's side, and gently patted her pert buttocks.

Phoenix bit her lip and glared at John coquettishly, secretly annoyed that the man was still so lewd at a time like this. She then drew her sword and chased after him.

John stopped at the door, glanced back at the fishmen lying dead in the room, and streaks of purple lightning surged from his feet, running along the ground and striking them.

Before the fishmen could even scream, they were trembling as they were electrocuted and charred into carbon.

"The Celestial Dragons are here! Come and kill him!"

As the shark-fish man shouted, squads of Neptune's army gradually gathered, completely blocking the wide corridor.

John hid behind Huang, hands in his pockets, looking like he was waiting to see how she would perform.

Phoenix suppressed the urge to bite the bastard to death and charged towards the dense swarm of fish ahead, sword in hand.

But she was just an eighteen-year-old girl after all, without Lingling's monstrous physique, only having some talent in swordsmanship.

Facing hundreds of Neptune soldiers, it was simply impossible for Phoenix to defeat them without harming them.

As Phoenix, slightly out of breath, struck down the seventy-second soldier with the hilt of her sword, an octopus-like fishman sneaked up to her side...

"Die, Navy!"

The octopus-like fish-man wielded long swords on all six arms, wildly slashing at the phoenix like a meat grinder.

This was the first time Huang had encountered an enemy capable of wielding six weapons simultaneously, and for a moment she didn't know which direction to block the attack from.

That moment of hesitation had already put her in grave danger.

Just as the octopus fish-man was about to chop the navy man in front of him to pieces, his six swords suddenly stopped above the man's beautiful face, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not push the blades down.

Immediately afterwards, a bolt of lightning fell from the high dome of the corridor, striking the octopus-man and causing him to fall straight backward, spitting out black smoke.

"I thought you weren't going to save me."

Huang breathed a sigh of relief and gave John a grateful look.

John remained silent, stepped forward, pinched Huang's fair chin, and bit down on her pink lips.

At the same time, lightning flashed in the corridor, engulfing all the Sea King's soldiers present.

"Well……"

After a long entanglement of lips and tongue, Huang pounded on John's chest, forcibly breaking free from his endless demands.

She looked at the man with a resentful expression, pouting her swollen lips.

"What kind of time is this and you're still acting like this!"

John ignored the complaints, put his arm around Huang's slender waist, and stepped over the charred corpses, changing the subject:

"How about I arrange a Devil Fruit for you?"

"do not want!"

Huang arrogantly raised her chin, directing her gaze upwards to avoid looking at the corpses.

She knew John's indiscriminate killing was cruel, but it was to save her, and she had no right to criticize him.

"Don't you want to become a Devil Fruit user?"

John didn't expose Huang, but considerately supported her waist to prevent her from tripping over the corpse blocking her way.

Huang shook her head and sighed helplessly.

"Of course I want to, but Devil Fruits are too valuable. If I accept one, I have nothing to repay it with."

"I'm going to rely on my own luck to get a Devil Fruit!"

"Ok."

John nodded, not pressuring him.

But he only said he wouldn't force it; in his heart, he had already decided to secretly put a Devil Fruit in the Phoenix's house.

That's how men are; the more a woman doesn't want something, the more eagerly a man will offer it to her.

If a woman takes the initiative to ask for it, a man may become hesitant or even refuse.

Soon, the two left the Dragon Palace and arrived at the Jilongkaode Square outside.

This plaza is exceptionally spacious, capable of accommodating tens of thousands of people at once, and is where Queen Otohime often gives speeches to the residents of Fishman Island.

At this moment, the square was filled with fishmen and mermaids.

Gunshots, shouts, and cries rose and fell, filling the air with the stench of blood and gunpowder.

On a high platform at the edge of the square, Otohime held a microphone, tears streaming down her face, desperately trying to stop this inexplicable war with her words.

Even with the help of the broadcast, her voice was instantly swallowed up by the noise of the battlefield, and she couldn't wake anyone up at all.

In the center of the battlefield, Neptune, wielding his trident, repeatedly shouted in a hoarse voice as he wounded or killed the attacking murlocs one by one.

In order to protect the innocent residents of Fishman Island, he had no choice but to take action against his rioting compatriots!

"Stop! Stop! What's wrong with you all?!"

However, in response to Neptune's shouts, the fishmen, led by escaped fishmen prisoners, charged towards him relentlessly.

This is not only the filthy place of Fishman Street's revenge on this country, but also the racial divide between fishmen and mermaids.

Instigated by those with ulterior motives, the racial conflict between fish-men and mermaids was ignited.

"John, how can we stop this war?"

Huang saw everything happening in the square and was anxious, eager to help the country.

After spending most of the day interacting with the people of this country, she found them to be lovely and friendly. So why has it turned into such a grotesque place?

John took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath, and exhaled the smoke.

"People need to go through hardship and suffering to grow, and a country also needs to be baptized by gunfire and bloodshed to become stronger."

"This is something this country was bound to go through, but because of one guy, it all happened sooner."

As he spoke, John turned his head and looked at the clock tower on the right edge of the square.

Chapter 137 That's the person you've been thinking about day and night.

On the clock tower

Two hooded figures, their faces obscured by cloaks, stood behind the railing, angrily watching the out-of-control situation in the square.

"Damn it! Didn't I say I'd wait until the Celestial Dragons left before making a move? Can't these idiots understand human language?!"

Pitt's forehead veins bulged as he squeezed the steel railing, bending and twisting it.

Beside him, a pirate subordinate shook his head, both angry and helpless, and sighed:

"Alas, we underestimated the accumulated conflict between fish-men and mermaids. Once it was ignited, it was out of our control."

"Captain, what should we do next?"

After asking for a while without receiving a response, the pirate subordinate turned around in confusion and looked at Captain Pete beside him.

But then he saw Pitt's eyes, hidden beneath his hood, staring intently down below, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.

The pirate subordinates followed Pete's gaze and saw a handsome and noble man with long blond hair, dressed in a long white trench coat.

But that's not the point. The point is the blond man's face.

He would recognize that face even if it were reduced to ashes!

"Captain John?!"

The bodies of the pirate subordinates also began to tremble violently uncontrollably.

The nightmare began after they betrayed and ambushed Captain John in the cave on that island in the Calm Belt.

Not only did they fail to seize Captain John's treasure, but the entire crew was subjected to endless pursuit and killing.

It wasn't just the navy and bounty hunters, but also fellow pirates, slave traders, organ dealers, loan sharks, and so on...

The number of people hunting them down is many, many times greater than when they were famous throughout the world and had a wanted poster placed on their heads!

Many crew members couldn't handle the pressure, either running away or leaving the ship, and then one night they would call the ship...