Chapter 439

A bullet tore through the long sky, blasting straight toward Smoker's brow.

The ear-piercing sound of breaking air came with it, along with an intense sense of crisis.

It made Smoker's face shift slightly, and he immediately activated his elementalization.

The bullet pierced straight through his forehead.

No blood flowed,

clearly dodged by a hair's breadth thanks to his elementalization.

"Someone else?"

"Who is it?"

Smoker's face was full of gravity, his gaze locked tightly on the distant direction from which the bullet had come.

Then,

he saw a sniper trailing behind a group of pirates, casting a look filled with killing intent and a ferocious expression.

"A pirate crew?!"

The sight of a band of pirate figures made Smoker's expression grow increasingly heavy.

At the same time.

Including Tina and all her students also saw, one after another, that batch of pirates rushing toward the battlefield.

"Prepare for battle!"

Including Tina cried out in a clear, sharp voice.

Her eyes shone with spirit, and on her beautiful, exquisite, peerlessly lovely face, a thick wariness surfaced.

The remaining students hurriedly roused themselves to full alertness once more, focusing completely on this group of uninvited guests.

Having just finished one battle…

they clearly hadn't expected

that at this moment, another batch of pirates would arrive.

"Instructor Zefa never told us that the graduation trial also required dealing with another pirate crew."

"Does this count as going beyond the syllabus?"

"Here on Angel Island, there are actually traces of another pirate crew roaming about?"

"Who are they?"

"Did they come here to join forces with the Cerberus pirate crew against us Marines?"

"The difficulty of the graduation trial is probably going to skyrocket!"

"……"

A group of students, nervous and uneasy, subconsciously tightened their grip on the weapons in their hands.

The battle between Smoger and Green was forcibly halted, and the two sides pulled back to a certain safe distance.

Smoker's brows were tightly knit, his gaze fixed on the unexpected arrivals.

Green, however, seemed to have anticipated this group of visitors and was not particularly surprised.

"You're too late!"

"Our Cerberus pirate crew has been nearly wiped out!"

"If you had come earlier, we wouldn't have ended up in such a miserable state."

"Damn Marines!"

Green bore some injuries and bloodstains on his body, staring with an angry face at the middle-aged man leading that group of pirates.

He was a man with a head of curly hair, wearing a long grey coat, looking somewhat sleazy, like an older uncle, with a mouth full of stubble and unkempt appearance.

From his body, a heavy stench faintly emanated.

"Cerberus Kulin, did you get one thing wrong?"

"We came here to help you out of regard for our long-standing dealings. In other words, even if we don't help you, it's perfectly reasonable."

"Your Cerberus pirate crew being nearly wiped out—I sympathize with you. But you shouldn't be whining about it in front of me."

"As the captain, you can't even protect your own crew—if that's not a useless fool, what is? What does it have to do with me? Do I have any obligation to protect your crew?"

"Don't push it too far!"

The sleazy older uncle raised an eyebrow, his tone unfriendly.

Hoo!

Letting out a heavy breath, Cerberus Kulin suppressed the fury in his heart, his eyes filled with wariness and dread as he gazed at this sleazy uncle.

After a long while,

he lowered his head: "I was impulsive. I ask that you now help me deal with these Marines. Afterward, I will certainly reward you handsomely!"

Hearing this,

the sleazy older uncle revealed a satisfied smile.

His gaze shifted,

and he looked casually toward Smoker and the students, his eyes carrying a hint of surprise as he sized up Smoker.

"A Logia user?"

"The Smoke-Smoke Fruit?"

"What a rare one."

"To encounter a Logia user here is quite unexpected."

"Cerberus Kulin, you lot didn't lose unfairly…"

the sleazy older uncle said.

Obviously,

he had already recognized Smoker's Devil Fruit ability.

At the same time,

Smoker was also fixing a wary gaze on the lecherous old uncle, watching him intently.

Behind this man,

stood roughly a hundred or so pirates, each one bizarrely shaped and looking like a tough customer not to be trifled with — elites among pirates, the troublesome kind of opponents.

Compared to the Cerberus Pirates…

they had fewer numbers,

but they were also far more elite!

If one were to measure these pirates against the Cerberus Pirates,

then one could say accurately —

they possessed several times the combat power of the Cerberus Pirates!

The two were simply not on the same level of comparison.

"Help me kill him!"

"Kill them all!"

Cerberus Kulin glared furiously at Smoker, then said to the lecherous old uncle beside him.

"The way I do things doesn't need you waving your arms and pointing fingers here."

"Just watch quietly."

The lecherous old uncle cast a casual glance at Cerberus Kulin.

He was not the other's subordinate, and had no need to obey the other's orders.

At the same time.

As this group of uninvited guests arrived on the scene,

Colonel Te Lu, not far away, suddenly changed drastically in expression and blurted out instinctively: "Not good! They're the Swamp Pirates!"

"Their captain is a Logia user, possessing the power of the Swamp-Swamp Fruit."

"A great pirate with a bounty close to a hundred million Beri!"

"A true, top-tier great pirate!"

"Swamp Pirates captain Mo Lisen, bounty one hundred million Beri."

The words fell.

The four hundred-plus Marine elites around him all revealed looks of terror.

Pairs upon pairs of eyes filled with tension, anxiety, and panic turned in unison toward Mo Lisen, this Logia user.