Chapter 246: The Adventurer's Guild is Established, Proclaimed to the World!

"Shanks!"

Luffy's rubber arm stretched out, gripping the Image Den Den Mushi tightly, his face almost pressed against the screen.

He was extremely agitated, his face full of incomprehension: "Why are you unwilling to be a Pirate?!"

A very strange emotion spread from the bottom of his heart.

All along,

Luffy had constantly shouted out his dream of becoming the Pirate King, and even when scolded by Garp and mocked by countless people, his will remained unshaken.

But now, even Shanks, who had guided him onto the path of being a Pirate, was saying such words.

Nami spoke up to comfort him: "Don't be anxious, Luffy, there must be some hidden reason!"

Although she was a money-grubber, among the mostly muscle-headed people of the Pirate World, she was a rare existence with a relatively clear mind.

She believed that the Pirate Emperor must have a reason for saying such words.

"That's right, Shanks definitely won't go become a Navy soldier, we have a promise, I will definitely surpass him and then become the Pirate King!"

Luffy clenched his fists, his eyes wide, waiting for Shanks's answer.

On the other side,

Shanks had already snapped four Demon Locking Chains,

his words caused the Si Hai to boil, everyone held their breath and stared, quietly waiting for his next words.

"You who are unwilling to be a Pirate, why are you making enemies of the Navy?!"

Even Vice Admiral Tsuru could not understand Shanks's train of thought,

Shanks did not explain,

he merely swung his arm, Griffin held horizontally at his side, the blade tip seeming to tear through space, the earth and sky beginning to hum and tremble.

Countless eyes condensed from Wave Breath appeared in the sky.

Their gaze enveloped the Navy family's stone monument,

"Not good!"

Vice Admiral Tsuru's face changed drastically, saying: "All Navy Giants, raise the Iron Wall Barrier!"

A full five hundred Navy Giants let out a roar,

an Iron Wall Barrier was propped open, blocking above the Navy family stone monument, forming a semicircular Shield Barrier.

"Aokiji, Akainu, and Garp!"

Vice Admiral Tsuru continued to shout.

"Ice Dragon Whirlwind!"

Aokiji pressed both hands on the ground, releasing his skill from a distance, a Magic Circle appeared, two towering ice pillars rotated like rollers, wanting to grind Shanks, trapped in the center, into pieces.

"Dragon Scale Shred!"

Kizaru stepped back, countless golden flame spears surged out like a flood, dyeing the entire sky gold.

"Magma Cannon!"

Akainu's arms melted, and after stuffing them into his chest cavity to fill the cannonballs, his chest became like a giant magma cannon, firing massive magma cannonballs capable of sinking islands.

Vice Admiral Tsuru's face turned pale,

her perception-type game ability could connect space in a small range, gathering the Navy generals' attacks in one place.

Just like now,

all the attacks landed on Shanks's body.

Pfft.

Shanks, at the center of the storm, was surrounded by Wave Breath, protecting his precarious body.

But facing the terrifying energy storm, he was still severely wounded, spurting fresh blood from his mouth.

Continuing to stay in place,

he was very likely to be directly killed by the subsequent continuous attacks.

But Shanks seemed as if he had not felt the threat of death, still maintaining the posture of holding his blade horizontally, unleashing his strongest strike that overdrafted his life.

Crack.

Accompanied by the blinking of countless Wave Eyes, the sky shattered like a mirror, exploding with countless cracks.

Under everyone's shocked and horrified gazes,

those golden flame rivers, giant ice pillars, and magma cannonballs were all swallowed by the spatial rifts.

As if sucked away, extradited into another dimension.

"One person's power, resisting the three Navy Admirals, is this the game ability of the Four Emperors Shanks?"

"Ashura!"

"Captain, I also want to change class to Ashura, what a powerful profession!"

Behind the Image Den Den Mushi,

countless shocked eyes, whether Pirates or Navy, as well as the oppressed slaves and civilians, all imprinted this scene deeply in their hearts.

The Revolutionary Drama Leader's exchange, the Dragon Blood Bloodline is expensive, not a commodity ordinary people can buy.

The strongest Sword Master Mihawk's exchange tests talent, players with weak Jiangdian talent progress very slowly and cannot unleash the skill's power.

Therefore, the players' attention was drawn back to Ashura.

"Worthy of being the brat the Captain values, surpassing predecessors, but to actually say unwilling to continue being a Pirate."

On a slave-catching ship, Rayleigh, locked in a cage, took out the Image Den Den Mushi from his arms,

letting his fellow prisoners in the narrow, cramped cabin appreciate Shanks's terrifying martial power.

"Everyone, are we just going to be slaughtered like this, sent to Mariejois to be slaves?"

Rayleigh looked at the fellow prisoners whose faces were full of envy as they stared fixedly at the screen, and suddenly asked this question.

A burly Longleg Tribe man, jangling the shackles on his body, sighed and said, "Uncle, we can also tell you're no ordinary person — this slave ship can't hold you — but we don't have the ability to free ourselves."

"As long as you possess Free Will, I can help you break free."

Rayleigh burst into laughter,

Breaking free from the cage of the flesh is not hard — what's hard is breaking free from the shackles of the heart.

He took a deep breath, and once they had made their decision, prepared to smash these iron cages and rescue these captured slaves.

As long as they were unwilling to be slaves, they were rebels in the eyes of the World Government, destined never to live in peace again, able only to set out to sea and become Pirates.

Rayleigh had no interest in making decisions for other people,

So only when they themselves had decided — whether they were willing to remain slaves, or willing to break their shackles and become enemies of the World Government — would Rayleigh help them smash their cages.

"Become Pirates?"

"We'll be captured by the Navy — haven't you seen the military might of those Admirals?"

"But that's still better than being treated as slaves by the Celestial Dragons!"

"The Celestial Dragons have already renamed themselves the God Clan. Even if you're treated as a slave, you can still survive. Pirates are evil fellows — I don't want to become one!"

The youngest child among them, his face full of disgust, looked at Rayleigh, the one who had spoken those words about wanting to save them.

His entire family had been killed by Pirates, so he hated Pirates,

And when his emotions ran high, the back of his head grew slightly hot, and a wisp of faint flame rose up.

Rayleigh looked at that child and sighed inwardly,

A lone survivor of the Lunaliayazu — a rare race said to have once lived on the Red Line — now on the verge of extinction.

A top executive of the Beasts Pirates, the Fire Disaster King, was a member of this race, possessing absolutely tremendous power; as long as he did not die, he was destined to grow into a prime spark capable of rocking the world.

This was also the reason Rayleigh had been willing to infiltrate this slave ship,

It was all for the sake of this Lunaliayazu child,

But the other party hated Pirates so deeply that he would rather remain a slave than set out to sea.

However,

Apart from going out to sea and becoming a Pirate, was there any other way to save oneself — to save the world?

Just at that moment,

From the surveillance Den Den Mushi came Hongfa Xiangkesi's voice,

"On this sea there are no more Pirate Emperors — the Red Hair Pirates hereby announce their disbandment!"

"From this moment on, I, Hongfa Xiangkesi!"

"I hereby establish the Adventurer Guild, to take in all people who set out to sea with dreams in their hearts, wanting to realize those dreams. No burning, killing, or looting; no oppression or plundering of nations. The countless people willing to venture out onto the great sea should not be called Pirates, and those who pursue the ideals in their hearts should not be weighed down by an evil name!"

"We are the freest people on this sea!"

"We are adventurers!"

(End of this chapter)