Chapter 171

Boom!

A staggering, earth-shaking Conqueror's Haki erupted from Lu En's body, flooding and engulfing a radius of over a hundred meters before even forming a visible form.

Unparalleled,

Unmatched in all the world!

This aura of pressure was too terrifying—simply like a mountain collapsing and the sea reversing.

Radiating outward from the spot where Lu En stood, it formed a perfect circular wave.

The closest to Lu En…

Was the burly pirate, his face twisted in a cruel, arrogant grin, eyes gleaming with ecstatic triumph, as if he already felt the captain's seat within his grasp.

He seemed to see the position of the Fourth Division Captain of the Devil Pirates.

Within arm's reach.

Easy as pie!

With a single reach, he could seize the seat of Fourth Division Captain.

Precisely because of this,

The burly pirate's eyes burned with greed and longing as he stared at Lu En.

His hands were about to touch Lu En's head…

But—

At that very moment.

Sudden change!

Boom—

The terrifying, overwhelming Conqueror's Haki surged forth without restraint toward the burly pirate.

In an instant,

The surging Conqueror's Haki crushed and obliterated the pirate's consciousness and spirit, reducing him to nothingness, vanishing into thin air.

Like shattering a fragile block of tofu…

Unstoppable!

The titanic Conqueror's Haki utterly shattered the pirate's consciousness.

Afterwards,

Visible to the naked eye,

The moment his body was engulfed by the Conqueror's Haki,

The pirate's eyes rolled back, foam spewed from his mouth, his cruel grin froze into rigid stillness, and he lost consciousness.

Once he lost consciousness,

Simultaneously,

He lost control of his body.

Limbs went limp,

Unconscious.

In an instant,

Thud!

A dull sound rang out.

The burly pirate's massive body crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a faint cloud of dust that drifted and danced in the air.

At the same time.

The same thing was happening in every corner of the scene.

This burly pirate's collapse was merely the beginning!

The astonishing Conqueror's Haki surged outward, engulfing even greater distances.

The group of pirates, faces twisted in cruel grins as they charged toward Lu En, were all targets of this Conqueror's Haki.

"Ugh… ugh…"

One by one, the pirates opened their mouths, their expressions freezing stiff.

As the Conqueror's Haki fully swept over their bodies,

Their consciousness was instantly crushed into nothingness.

Their forward movements halted abruptly.

Not a single pirate was spared!

The group of pirates surrounding Lu En had been charging forward with terrifying speed.

But at this very moment,

Every one of their steps stuck as if glued to the ground, locking their bodies in place, immobile.

Boom—

The Conqueror's Haki, vast as the sky and earth, engulfed every pirate within a hundred-meter radius.

Over three thousand pirates—all without exception—

Were all targets of this Conqueror's Haki!

Within a hundred-meter diameter…

All living beings,

None could escape being struck down by the Conqueror's Haki.

Thus,

One after another, the pirates had their consciousness crushed, lost control of their limbs, and their bodies toppled sideways to the ground.

Thud!

Thud!

……

A series of muffled sounds rang out.

One could see,

In the first wave, several hundred pirates collapsed simultaneously.

The very ground seemed to tremble faintly.

When they fell, they fell in great swathes!

In the second wave, nearly a thousand pirates all collapsed.

All of them had their eyes rolled back, foaming at the mouth, completely stripped of control over their bodies, utterly unable to govern their own heavily falling frames.

Even the thin layer of dust spread across the ground was, under the sweeping shock of Lu En's burst of Conqueror's Haki, kicked up into faint clouds drifting freely.

A moment later.

Of the more than three thousand pirates, ninety-nine percent had already lost consciousness and collapsed.

Stunned on the spot by the earth-shaking Conqueror's Haki Lu En unleashed!

Instantly wiped out!

Utterly powerless to fight back!

Throughout, they didn't even have the strength left to resist.

Faced with the eruption of Conqueror's Haki, this band of pirates couldn't dodge it even if they wanted to.

Among them,

There were still a very few survivors.

Their willpower was comparatively tenacious, sparing them the fate of being stunned on the spot by Conqueror's Haki.

Of course.

Such people were few and far between.

Out of the full three thousand-plus pirates who had surged toward Lu En, only a mere dozen or twenty pirates had the good fortune to keep their consciousness clear within the shrouding range of the Conqueror's Haki.

One could see.

In the span of only a few breaths, front to back.

Every pirate on the field had already collapsed in great swathes!

The atmosphere grew strange along with it!

Silence!

The entire field was deathly still!

This bizarre scene was displayed with absolute clarity before the eyes of everyone around.

At this moment,

No one dared to speak lightly and break this eerie, silent atmosphere.

The power of the Conqueror's Haki faded.

It was only an aura of pressure bursting forth in an instant, and could not be sustained for long.

But even so,

The earth-shaking Conqueror's Haki Lu En unleashed had still wiped out the great majority of the three thousand-plus pirates on the field.

What remained were a dozen or twenty pirates, standing trembling among the fallen masses, their terrified and horrified eyes gazing at the companions collapsed all around them.

A chill shot from the soles of their feet straight up to the crown of their heads.

Hair-raising,

A shiver down the spine!

Such a bizarre and terrifying scene overturned their very understanding.

And utterly shattered their worldview!

After a long while,

One of the survivors finally spoke in a trembling voice: "Wh-what on earth just happened?!"

As the voice fell,