Chapter 136

"I don't know if this is a hallucination I'm having."

In an instant,

the entire scene fell deathly silent!

Not a single sound!

A moment later,

the captain of the pirate crew finally spoke in a terrified tone, his voice trembling: "I thought it was just a hallucination of mine. But I didn't expect that you all saw it too."

"That figure that just took on a Sea King barehanded…"

"was really a short, small boy! A little brat no older than four or five!"

"Only four years old, and he blew up a giant Black King!"

The words fell.

The entire atmosphere was completely ignited!

Nearly a thousand pirates were utterly shaken.

In an instant,

countless emotions welled up within them.

Fear,

horror,

terror,

disbelief.

One pirate after another, throats parched, stood dumb as wooden chickens, gazing into the distance at that incomparably massive warship.

Gulp!

They all couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, revealing the panic and terror within their hearts.

"Only four years old…"

"Single-handedly took on a giant Sea King barehanded?!"

"Oh heavens!"

"What on earth kind of monster is this?!"

"How could such a monster exist on this sea?!"

A group of pirates boiled over in panic.

At this moment,

they suddenly regretted it.

They should never have set foot on the Grand Line!

This crisis-ridden stretch of sea…

was simply not a place they could set foot in!

They didn't have the qualifications to enter the Grand Line at all!

"This stretch of sea on the Grand Line…"

"Could it be that monsters like this exist everywhere?"

Thinking of this, all the pirates were seized with terror, their scalps tingling.

They had assumed,

that someone could do it—taking on a giant Sea King barehanded, with nothing but empty fists—that alone would already be an utterly shocking, world-defying phenomenon.

Little did they expect,

that the truth was far more terrifying than they had imagined!

The one who blew up that giant Sea King…

was a little brat only four years old!

One might ask,

just how terrifying a monster is this?!

They dared not imagine it.

"C-Captain…"

"How about we just head back to the West Sea?"

"The Grand Line is way too dangerous! It's simply not a place that small fry like us can set foot in."

"If the Grand Line is full of monsters like this, then what's the point of even playing!"

"Coming to the Grand Line, we're probably not even fit to carry this monster's shoes!"

"If we happen to provoke this monster, we probably won't be able to escape even if we try."

"The Grand Line is way too dangerous!"

A group of pirates looked toward their captain in utter panic.

Clearly,

they had already been scared out of their wits by Lu En alone.

The scene of that giant Sea King being killed barehanded by Lu En lingered vividly in the minds of all the pirates, etched into their memories.

Now, looking back,

they could only feel waves of cold dread crawling up their spines.

If they were to be targeted by such a monster…

they would likely be doomed beyond redemption!

"What you said makes a lot of sense."

"Actually…"

"I, too, was just thinking the same thing!"

One could see that this captain of a pirate crew with a bounty of tens of millions of Berries, his face filled with dread, complexion deathly pale, trembling all over, was responding…

He was scared too.

If the Grand Line was full of monsters like this…

Then what was the point of playing the game at all!

Why compete for the title of Pirate King?

Better to hand it over to someone else early on.

The throne of the Pirate King?

To hell with it…

Whoever wants to fight for it, let them fight for it!

Anyway,

They had neither the guts nor the courage to contend with such a monster.

At this point,

A massive pirate crew, having just entered the Grand Line from the West Sea, not having lingered even half an hour along the way…

Just because of the scene of Lu En, bare-handed, blasting apart a Sea King,

Had been scared out of their wits,

Fleeing in panic,

Quickly setting sail from the Grand Line, retracing their original route back to the West Sea.

A great pirate, with a bounty of tens of millions of Berries, was so terrified that he trembled all over, his face deathly pale, and immediately ordered his men to sail the pirate ship, returning along the same route they had come.

This stretch of sea in the Grand Line,

They did not dare linger for even a quarter of an hour.

"This stretch of sea in the Grand Line is truly too terrifying."

"It's far from a place that weaklings like us can hope to set foot in."

"Better to take back the West Sea as soon as possible…"

"Be our local emperor! Be our local overlord!"

A group of pirates, harboring such thoughts, gradually fled the Grand Line.

When they came,

They were full of high spirits, brimming with confidence.