Chapter 438

Under Lu En's gaze.

This battle was gradually drawing to its end.

Dealing with those thirty or fifty pirates hardly stirred any ripple of emotion within him.

A swarm of ants, that's all…

Killed, and that's that.

Small fry he could crush with a single stomp naturally wouldn't warrant Lu En's excessive attention.

"The battle is about to end soon."

"This graduation trial…"

"Has also reached its finale."

Lu En's eyes narrowed slightly.

He saw,

Smoker was nearly pinning Cerberus Kulin down.

Including Tina was also pinning that pirate officer down.

The remaining trainees, after their first kill and a brief bout of physiological discomfort, gradually began adapting to the slaughter on the battlefield.

Thus.

Performing at their usual level, they easily crushed and routed these small-fry pirates across the board.

Plain to the eye.

This battle was about to reach its conclusion.

Clearly,

The Marine trainees had the upper hand!

From the start of the battle until now, not a single trainee had died.

This was the absolute elite the Marines had spent a year and a half cultivating!

Against ordinary pirates, naturally they wouldn't slip up.

"Hm?"

"Seems like…"

"A group of uninvited guests has arrived."

Just as Lu En thought the battle was about to end, his brow couldn't help but lift slightly.

The Observation Haki swirling around his entire being fully covered a circular range of five hundred meters in diameter. Within this range, every movement of every thing found it hard to escape his keen insight.

Even the slightest stir of wind or grass…

He could perceive with perfect clarity.

Therefore.

Relying on this powerful Observation Haki,

It allowed him to detect.

A batch of even more powerful existences was rapidly approaching the battlefield's direction! And.

"Friend or foe?"

Lu En pondered.

Friendly forces?

Not very likely.

Every Marine from the Angel Island Marine Branch had already been dispatched, throwing a massive encirclement around the Cerberus Pirates.

And Master Zefa had not ordered the Junbenbu Sect to dispatch reinforcements.

With him, a Marine HQ Admiral, holding the line, plus a monster like Lu En whose combat power was no weaker than a Vice Admiral. Master Zefa naturally didn't feel that dealing with this kind of pirate required the Junbenbu Sect to dispatch reinforcements.

Synthesizing the above analysis.

Lu En reached a conclusion.

This group charging in with such momentum might be up to no good!

"A group of rather powerful strongmen…"

"Compared to the Cerberus Pirates, they might be several times stronger still."

"A more powerful pirate crew?"

Lu En's gaze flickered, his mind beginning to think.

Knowing full well a battle between pirates and Marines had broken out here, yet still daring to charge straight over.

From this alone, one could see…

This group seemed intent on intervening in this battle.

"Reinforcements summoned by the Cerberus Pirates?"

"Or…"

"A pirate crew that happened to pass by?"

Lu En didn't think on it further.

In a moment,

The moment he saw this group of pirates, everything would naturally be revealed at "zero-one-three."

"If this group of pirates is the enemy…"

"Then next, it puts me in a difficult spot."

"This graduation trial, for Smoker, Including Tina, and the others, is limited in content to dealing with the Cerberus Pirates. If outside forces intervene, that falls under interference from uncontrollable factors."

GLOSSARY:

【Lu En, Master Zefa, Including Tina, Cerberus Kulin, Junbenbu Sect】

"Because of this, the graduation trial's difficulty has shot straight up."

"And I have no choice but to step in."

Lu En thought.

Next,

right before his eyes.

The Cerberus Pirates were all but defeated and wiped out.

Only the captain, Cerberus Kulin — a great pirate with a bounty of sixty million berries — remained, struggling to fight Smoker, and even he was already showing a trend of steady retreat toward defeat.

"Smoker, want a hand?"

Tina asked.

"No need, this is my opponent."

Smoker shook his head and chose to refuse.

He was about to win.

"Damn it!"

Being pressed back step by step, Cerberus Kulin's face grew uglier and uglier.

Especially…

seeing his subordinates falling one after another around him, his mood also gradually sank into the abyss.

"Damned Marines!"

"It took me forever to put this crew together!"

"And you people just destroyed everything I've built all these years!"

"I'm absolutely irreconcilable with you!"

"Brat, go die!"

Furious Cerberus Kulin fell into a frenzy, launching wild, chaotic attacks against Smoker.

Smoker still handled it with complete ease.

But just at that moment.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out.

And there, it could be seen,