Chapter 91

To be perfectly honest, a bounty of 500 million berries—this kid's strength is still slightly lacking; right now, his power is only at the level of a Supernova.

With his strange sorcery, he should be able to toy with those Supernovas to death, but his overall raw strength still falls short.

At most, he's around the 300 million berry level. Among the Sky Six, Luode's combat strength is now only slightly above Pegiwan's, and Runti is about the same. Still, thanks to that strange dark energy sorcery, he should still be able to defeat those siblings.

The Navy's ability to offer such an astronomical bounty of 500 million berries mainly stems from Luode's performance in the Summit War—using his curse ability, he ruthlessly educated Blackbeard, torturing him to the brink of death.

He also cursed the Navy's Three Admirals, who should already have felt the terror of dark energy sorcery; otherwise, the Navy wouldn't have issued a 500 million berry bounty, especially since this is Luode's first bounty.

Still, his most important achievement is controlling Whitebeard—though no one else knows the exact details.

Kaido knows the specifics; this kid's ability to control Whitebeard is inseparable from his relationship with the woman before him.

Relatively speaking, Sylvanas's bounty of 150 million berries is indeed too low, seriously mismatched with her strength. Leaving aside other abilities, this woman's archery sniping skill is that of a top-tier sniper.

Kaido estimates Sylvanas's bounty should be set at no less than two billion berries.

Why? Because Kaido clearly senses that this woman exudes a power so formidable it makes even him tremble with fear.

It is pure deathly power—her arrows of the undead, even if he defends with dark energy, cannot fully block the damage. As for Armament Haki, it offers no defense whatsoever against this magical attribute attack.

Moreover, in recent days, this woman has awakened Conqueror's Haki and is studying Observation and Armament Haki; once she masters all three types of Haki,

combined with the freezing ability of the Yellow Spring Fruit, her strength will increase further.

If it comes to close-quarters combat, Kaido is confident he can defeat her, but if she keeps her distance, her strange undead-arrow attacks will still give him a headache.

Such attacks cannot be blocked by Armament Haki—just like this kid's dark energy magic, Armament Haki cannot defend against it.

It seems I should also craft a set of magical armor from another world, focused on magical defense, since my physical defense is already maxed out.

"This bounty isn't bad—looks like I'm now a major pirate." Luode spoke.

"Your strength is at most around 300 million plus a bit, but you're right—on this sea, you already count as a major pirate." Kaido unscrewed his waist flask, took a big gulp, and said.

After Luode's bounty appeared, Kuinyin and Jin also proposed to him that he be directly enrolled into the Sky Six.

But this decision was rejected by Kaido, who reasoned that Luode now controls Whitebeard, making him the Beasts Pirates' top combat strength aside from himself.

Having the same Devil Fruit ability as himself, his future is limitless; plus, he's my son-in-law, so Kaido has other plans for Luode.

"By the way, you brat—would you be willing to serve as our Beasts Pirates' vice-captain?" Kaido asked.

The Sky Six position isn't on offer, but the vice-captain spot is—you, this brat, still have the strength to earn that position. Of course, this refers to the Whitebeard in your hand.

"Forget it! I have no interest in that position—I'd rather remain your son-in-law. The Beasts Pirates will always be yours." Luode spoke.

Old father-in-law! I haven't taken a liking to your little Beasts Pirates yet—you rule them, so get to work for me! After I smash Kil'jaeden's face this time, Sal Zong's old man should finally be able to face himself properly, and then I can throw out this Marvel World chip.

"Alright! Our strong performance in the Summit War this time has even increased my own bounty—I now have 4.8 billion berries." Kaido spoke.

This time, the strength of his Beasts Pirates can be said to have greatly increased; the Navy naturally took notice, and along with his bounty as Grand Governor, it also rose somewhat.

He'll be able to break the 5 billion bounty mark and match those two fellows.

"Then congratulations, father-in-law. By the way, Moonlight Moria—what's his situation now?" Luode asked.

Since Moonlight Moria was captured by Kaido and dragged back, he's been thrown straight into prison.

These past few days, Luode has been focusing on training stamina and the three types of Haki with the Queen Mother and He, and hasn't visited him.

"Hmph! Still as stubborn as ever—the prisoners report he causes trouble every day." Kaido spoke.

During this time, Moonlight Moria has already been locked in the Wano Country dungeon, but this dead fatso is still as stubborn as ever, refusing to cooperate.

"Let's go! We happen to have time today—let's go see Moonlight Moria." Luode stood up and spoke.

"Fine, want me to come with you? I'm worried you brat can't handle him." Kaido spoke.

"No no no. Father-in-law, if you're tired, just go drink or sleep—this guy is yours to handle." Luode spoke.

"Mm! I just fought Whitebeard, so I'm going back to sleep." After saying that, Kaido transformed into a blue dragon and flew straight away from Luode and company's residence.

"Come on, Queen Mother—let's see if we can successfully subdue this Moonlight Moria." Luode looked at Sylvanas and spoke. Sylvanas, who has now eaten the Yellow Spring Fruit, can no longer consume the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.

The best solution is naturally to subdue Moonlight Moria, but if he'd rather die than surrender, then we'll have to resort to other means.

"Then let's go—we'll go see this Moonlight Moria." Sylvanas stood up and spoke.

Moonlight Moria's zombie-producing ability is very important to me and to the Forgotten Ones tribe.

Sylvanas plans to have Moonlight Moria produce zombies, then she will attempt to infuse them with deathly power.

To see if we can create sentient undead, then increase the numbers of the Forgotten Ones; now that she has consumed the Yellow Spring Fruit, Sylvanas's deathly power has grown stronger.

Combined with this mass zombie-production ability, it should be possible to transform into perfect Forgotten Ones.

Soon, Luode, Sylvanas, and He arrived together at the Beasts Pirates' great prison, the quarry, where sufficient ore is currently being mined for use in constructing the Dark Gate.

The overall supervisor of this great prison is one of the Three Disasters, Kuinyin; normally, his several subordinates handle the guarding.

The arrival of Luode, He, and Sylvanas immediately drew a warm welcome from the quarry's guard chief, Bababunuki.

"Princess He, Lord Luode, Lady Sylvanas, welcome to the detention center." Bababunuki spoke, accompanied by several deputy guard chiefs.

Bababunuki's build is extremely tall—on par with Kaido and Jack in stature—and the artificial Devil Fruit he consumed is directly shaped like an elephant on his chest.

Besides that, there are also artificial Devil Fruit scorpion, hippopotamus, and monkey ability users—three deputy guard chiefs.

After these Beasts Pirates members consumed dark energy power, they also began to exhibit some demonic traits.

For example, the guard chief's chest elephant is now a green demon elephant in appearance.

"Take us to see Moria—nothing else is your concern; go attend to your duties!" Luode spoke.

"Yes, Lord Luode—please follow me."

Soon, Luode and company were brought to a special prison; at this moment, Moonlight Moria is bound by Seastone chains and shackled in his cell.

"Damn bastard Kaido, have the guts to let me out—I'll definitely kill you! If it weren't for that clown sneaking up on me, how could you possibly have captured me?" Moonlight Moria spat and cursed.

The prison cell door opened, and Luode and the two others entered.

"You three scoundrels, tell Beasts Kaido to come see me." Moria roared.

"Alright, Moria—we came this time because we have business with you. I have a favor for you, and this lady beside me wants to recruit you as her subordinate." Luode pointed to Sylvanas beside him and spoke.

"Ha! What are you even—uh uh!" Before Moria could finish speaking, Luode punched him in the stomach.

"I'll teach you a lesson first." Luode said.

That punch just now, he had turned it into a dragon claw, and it was also infused with Armament Haki, so it wasn't pleasant.

"Cough cough! Damn brat, if you've got the guts, let me go and see if I don't blast you to pieces." Moonlight Moria glared angrily at Luode as he spoke.

"Alright! I'll keep it short—I need your ability to create zombies to work for me.

If you're willing to submit willingly, we won't control you; if you're not willing.

You've seen what happened to Whitebeard, haven't you? We'll just kill you outright and turn you into that kind of undead creature, forcing you to obey us." Sylvanas spoke.

Hearing this, Moonlight Moria's face changed drastically—being killed and then controlled by the enemy is quite embarrassing.

Forget it, I'll pretend to agree for now; as soon as I gain freedom, I'll find a way to escape.

"Hehe, I agree to serve you." Moonlight Moria spoke.

Luode and Sylvanas exchanged a glance—this fat guy is really dishonest! Such an obvious escape attempt, who are you putting on this act for? "Forget it, I think it's better to use fel energy to turn him into a demon, or transform him into a death knight, and then impose a slave contract!" Luode said.

"Can your soul power withstand it?" Sylvanas asked.

(End of chapter)