Chapter 781

Earth-shattering Conqueror's Haki erupted violently from Lu En's body.

Crushing all resistance,

Destroying heaven and earth!

Like a storm of mountain-moving, sea-reversing fury, waves upon waves surged wildly, engulfing every direction.

Centered on Lu En's body,

this overwhelming, heaven-shaking Conqueror's Haki spread outward in an invisible circular pattern, extending without restraint across hundreds of meters.

Spreading village to village,

sweeping through the entire scene.

Boom!

Like a meteor hurtling at breakneck speed to strike the ground.

The terrifying Conqueror's Haki churned the dust on the ground, causing the dust to be swept up by the air currents of its eruption, sending billowing clouds of dirt swirling through the air.

An invisible aura permeated around Lu En's body.

At the same time,

hundreds of meters away,

not far from the tavern,

about five hundred bandits had gathered.

They were chatting among themselves.

"Why has Boss been gone so long?"

"Could something have happened?"

Someone asked.

"That can't be—it's just a tiny village tavern. How could Boss, with his strength, possibly be caught off guard?"

A bandit shook his head in denial.

They knew full well how powerful their Boss was.

At least, no dozen men could get close to him.

In this small village, with Boss's strength, how could anything go wrong?

"By the way…"

"Have you heard?"

"A few days ago, that gang of bandits at Trash Mountain was wiped out completely."

"A while back, a group of marines came and arrested all of them."

The bandits shuddered with lingering fear.

At that moment,

someone whispered weakly: "I heard the gang wiped out at Trash Mountain was destroyed by a five-year-old brat. I don't know if it's true or not."

"Are you insane? A five-year-old brat wiped out Trash Mountain's gang? Are you sure? If I remember right, that gang had at least eight hundred men!"

The bandits were deeply skeptical.

How many do we have?

We're barely five hundred strong.

Compared to Trash Mountain's gang, our group is relatively weak.

Of course they couldn't believe it.

A gang larger than theirs being wiped out by a mere five-year-old child?

Impossible!

"I think it's fake too."

"Even a famous pirate lord couldn't take on a gang of eight hundred, let alone a five-year-old brat."

"Exactly…"

The bandits chatted among themselves.

Suddenly!

An overwhelming, terrifying aura crushed down from above.

In an instant,

it swept over every one of their bodies.

In that moment,

Thud!

Thud!

…

One after another, the bandits rolled their eyes back, foamed at the mouth, lost consciousness, and collapsed sideways with dull thumps.

Clearly,

within mere breaths, their minds and spirits had been crushed to dust.

Within the range of this earth-shattering Conqueror's Haki,

they were as fragile as ants.

They had no strength left to resist.

Slain in an instant!

"Ugh… ugh…"

One by one, the mountain bandits' faces went pale, their eyes rolling back rapidly as if their souls had been ripped away, their bodies swaying on the verge of collapse, toppling over to the side one after another.

Once they started falling, a huge swath went down all at once!

A full five hundred-plus mountain bandits, without a single exception, were violently knocked unconscious and instantly killed by the overwhelming Conqueror's Haki.

Not one was left,

not a single survivor.

All of them met with the fate of being crushed and instantly slain.

No fish slipped through the net!

All five hundred and thirty-two mountain bandits lost consciousness, collapsing to the ground one after another, barely clinging to life.

On the ground.

The unconscious bodies of all the mountain bandits lay flat — if not for their still-rising and falling chests, revealing that they still possessed certain vital signs…

one would fear,

that people would mistake them for cold, lifeless corpses.

At the same time.

As this entire band of mountain bandits was utterly annihilated.

Inside the tavern.

An incomparably shocking wave of Conqueror's Haki suddenly stormed in from beyond the tavern's great doors.

The overwhelming, all-conquering Conqueror's Haki enveloped the members of the Red-Haired Pirates in an instant.

And so.

A pirate who was holding a wine cup, preparing to drink heartily, had just raised the cup when he was struck by this terrifying Conqueror's Haki.

Though his strength was considerable, his consciousness was shattered in an instant.

At a speed visible to the naked eye,

his eyes rolled back rapidly, white foam spilled from his mouth, and the wine inside gushed back out.

At the same time,

the wine cup he held in his hands slid off to the side.

Having lost consciousness, he could no longer control his body, and slumped heavily from his seat down onto the floor beside him.

Bang!

The wine cup was the first to fall, shattering on the spot with a crisp, pleasant sound.

The broken cup became countless shards of glass, scattering aimlessly in all directions.

In utter disarray,

the ground was a mess.

The wine from the shattered cup flowed outward, spreading in every direction.

A rich aroma of wine rose up from here.