Chapter 225: Besieging the Pollution Lord

Knowing the importance of 【Lord Equipment】, Sengoku,

classified this matter as top secret, and dispatched an Admiral Candidate to make contact with Vice Admiral Jonathan at G-8 Navy Fortress.

"Seizing the Pollution Lord's equipment is as important as the Family Token?"

Upon receiving the news from Marine Headquarters,

Vice Admiral Tsuru closed her eyes, pondered briefly, and roughly guessed the reason.

"Borsalino, you are the fastest. You need to snatch the dropped equipment before the Pollution Monster is killed."

"Redeem yourself through merit."

Vice Admiral Tsuru finally emphasized,

Redeeming Kizaru's assets nearly gave Sengoku, who was stationed at Marine Headquarters, a stroke. When Kizaru returns, he will surely get a thorough dressing-down.

Having been captured once, Kizaru had also become much more subdued.

The Glint-Glint Fruit he had always relied on was actually restrained — the blow and warning to Kizaru were undoubtedly enormous.

"Where is Sakazuki?"

"I'm fine."

The goods sold by the Game House can likewise refresh common medicines, basic equipment, and so on.

It both occupies shelf slots and increases the number of refreshes for players, but it is also the hard currency players must purchase. Even if they have complaints, they cannot voice them.

The injuries had already healed.

But the lost left leg had not recovered. Ordinary 【Life Recovery Potions】 cannot regrow limbs — only something like the Gene Therapy Potion Whitebeard purchased can do that.

In that case, at the very least, a Green Gem that raises the success rate needs to be refreshed.

Sakazuki did not waste military funds.

With the power of the Magma-Magma Fruit, as long as he maintained his ability, the temporary loss of his left leg would not interfere with combat at all.

"Good. Land!"

……

"These ghosts have become so strong!"

"The Pollution Lord relies on these ghosts to spread Yin Qi. We absolutely cannot let the ghosts gather in large numbers, or else the Yin Qi will interfere and resurrection time will keep extending."

Ordinary players recalled the scene of the Pollution Lord's first hunt.

Because of the dense Yin Qi,

once killed, it took a full half hour to resurrect.

Top players could still manage, but for ordinary players like them, a single wide-range attack from the Pollution Lord could kill them. Unable to rely on infinite resurrection, they simply could not gain any advantage.

Ordinary players all had complicated thoughts,

everyone wanted to hunt down the Pollution Lord. Even if they were weak, as long as they got the Final Kill, they could still obtain a large amount of contribution.

"Everyone, stay alert. Watch the movements of the Revolutionary Army Leader. We absolutely cannot let any force other than the Navy take the Final Kill."

Smoker bit down on a cigar, purple-red mist surging around his entire body,

the hunt for the Pollution Lord distributes drops according to contribution — those without enough contribution cannot pick them up at all.

And the one who could bring the greatest contribution in a single strike was undoubtedly the Final Kill, which could almost obtain nearly half of the 【Hunting Contribution】.

The scene deadlocked,

Pirates, the Revolutionary Army, and the Navy all tacitly kept clearing out the ghosts pouring out from the Soul Hook Hall.

But none made the first move, afraid the enemy would snatch the prize.

"Since no one is making a move, then I'll take the Pollution Lord's bounty…"

Countless Green Flame sword Qi spread out like a storm,

countless obstructing ghosts were burned to ashes.

Hawk-Eyes stepped forward, one foot landing on the staircase, and slashed ferociously toward the Soul Hook Hall at the top of the several-thousand-step staircase overhead.

The eerie Green Flame from the netherworld seemed capable of burning everything,

the Green Flame Sword Seed within his body was pushed to its limit, cold and heat merging, even the air around Hawk-Eyes began to distort.

"Try my new move!"

When the sky-covering Green Flame surged toward the Soul Hook Hall, it gradually condensed into a phantom.

The Green Flame solidified into substance, transforming into an iron-tower-like giant figure, with an ox-like face, two sharp horns crashing into the great hall.

Green Flame Bull-Headed Ghost General!

During this period, Hawk-Eyes had constantly scraped together Reward Points, even selling his residence on Kuraigana Island, and finally refreshed the follow-up moves of the 【Bimang Sword Art】.

The Sword Seed within his body communicated with the netherworld, infusing spiritual energy into the Jiangji he unleashed.

All things in heaven and earth possess spirit. Scattered throughout the boundless world, perceiving the spiritual energy contained within things and merging it into sword moves is the key step to nurturing a complete Sword Qi Seed and breaking through the Sword Seed realm.

Boom.

The Soul Snatching Hall trembled,

the magnificent palace was pierced with two great holes by sword Qi, Yin Qi leaking out,

two wounds torn open by sword Qi also appeared on the Pollution Lord's chest, thick black Yin Qi gushing out.

"The Jiangji actually condensed into a monster — what on earth is going on?"

"He's not even a Devil Fruit user. Even the strongest Sword Master can't just ignore the rules, can he?"

Some players looked on in horror,

especially Sword Master players who had studied pirate Sword Skill for decades. Suddenly seeing such a fantastical scene, they all felt their worldview crumbling.

Everyone was still cultivating pirate Sword Skill, aiming to unleash Flying Slash as the ultimate goal,

and Hawk-Eyes just went straight into immortal cultivation?

No one could accept it.

"Who can tell me what Sword Skill Hawk Eyes exchanged for?"

"Give it up. I exchanged for a Sword Qi Seed, plus a chain-linked sword manual, and I still haven't even gotten started with either."

The bald Sword Master whose entire body was made of sharp blades—Bon Clay said expressionlessly.

He was a top-tier assassin of Baroque Works,

a blade-man who had eaten the Supa-Supa Fruit, and by all rights a Sword Master of extraordinary talent—yet his progress cultivating the chain-linked sword manual and the Sword Qi Seed was painfully slow.

"Nothing to do with me!"

Zoro clenched his teeth on his sword hilt, watching Hawk Eyes' strike with a gaze full of shock, his eyes growing ever more determined.

The ghostly phantom floating behind him seemed to sense the shift in his emotions and let out a piercing shriek.

He would envy no one's Jiangdian,

because he possessed his own one-of-a-kind Jiangdian, and held absolute confidence that he could reach the very peak of the Jiangdian!

Hawk Eyes—one day, he too would be defeated by his hand!

"Move out!"

The burning Green Flame was like the horn sounding the charge,

and many forces, long unable to hold back, surged toward the Soul Hook Hall one after another.

Tens of thousands of players surrounded the Corrupted Lord and the Soul Snatching Hall in a tight ring.

"Fist Bone: Lightning Dance!"

Garp clenched both fists, shattered a Specter, then shifted like a ghost with every step, each time smashing another spectral soldier, until he appeared at the great hall's entrance.

"Poison Mist Giant Soldier Flame Judgment!"

Smoker roared,

and the pure poison mist condensed from his Venomous Blood and Fire Poison Cultivation Method churned violently, transforming into a massive armored Poison General.

One step forward, and the earth quaked.

The giant footprints he left behind kept radiating a deadly poisonous aura, impossible to approach.

The Navy's two strongest combatants launched their assault on the Corrupted Lord, aiming for a one-hit kill!

"Charge! We can't let the Navy get there first!"

"Death just means respawning—even if I die, I'll have to take a chunk out of the Corrupted Lord!"

Countless players threw themselves wave after wave at the Soul Snatching Hall, brandishing weapons, unleashing skills, their attacks raining down on the Corrupted Lord without cease.

Faced with such a colossal temptation, everyone wanted a share of the spoils.

Even an ordinary player with no power or backing, without the vast fortune needed to found a clan, could still sell a Family Token Fragment for a high price if they picked one up.

(End of this chapter)