Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Best Hunting Ground
The disorganized Colosseum.
The sound of gunfire in the air.
And then there are those who have lost their lives as unjustified as a result.
All of this was presented like a farce before Degal's eyes.
The national conditions he created to be able to consume pirates could not withstand the natural influence of a Devil Fruit.
This made him very unhappy.
In the end, he still far underestimated the pirates' greed and bottom line.
Just to compete for a Devil Fruit, the group of pirates below dares to ignore the army that he feeds a lot of money every year.
"Pirates are pirates, they do things recklessly, they don't have any brains at all."
Digar looked down at the elite soldiers pouring into the Colosseum from the entrances and exits.
On and off the field, a total of 10,000 elites.
Such a force is enough to wipe out all the lawless people who are doing whatever they want in the Colosseum.
However, Digar did not let the army move directly, but let them hold the various passages, forming a situation in the urn.
A thick-eyed general in armor came up behind Digar and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, the soldiers are all in place. ”
"Keep them on standby."
Degar looked up at Lafayette, who was dodging lead bullets in the air.
"Yes!"
The rough-eyed general answered, turned and left the box.
He didn't need to explain much about Digar, he understood Dijiaer's thoughts.
Right now, the pirates in the Colosseum are fighting each other for a Devil Fruit.
In this case, the army does not need to rush into the arena at all, it only needs to guard the entrances and exits and block all the pirates in the Colosseum.
When the pirates stop and even want to flee here, the time for the army to strike.
At that time, they will not let any of the pirates go.
After General Roughbrow left, Dejar's attention shifted from Lafayette to Maude, who was chasing the pirates in the arena.
This kind of fight between "beasts" is something that Digar likes to see.
But for some reason, when watching Maude kill and kill, Digar suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart.
"It's just a pirate."
Digar shook his head slightly, soothing the strange feeling in his heart.
In his opinion, the 10,000 elite soldiers in the arena, coupled with several top domestic powerhouses in the box who were responsible for protecting him, were enough to deal with this group of lawless pirates in the Colosseum.
Inside the Colosseum.
The sudden influx of soldiers was like a basin of cold water, slightly suppressing the high mood of the many pirates and bounty hunters present who wanted to capture the Devil Fruit.
"...... this group of soldiers?"
"What's going on now?"
Many of the pirates and bounty hunters stopped and frowned at the soldiers who exuded slaughter.
The entrances and exits as far as the eye could see were blocked by this group of soldiers.
Meanwhile, Maud is on the stage to kill the prey that he has written information about.
Other than that, he wasn't interested in anything else.
And his bloody and murderous posture also provokes the nerves of the pirates all the time.
Gradually, the pirates sensed that something was wrong.
If it goes on like this, let alone snatching the Devil Fruit, it is estimated that I will have to give my life here.
Several pirates reacted, and suddenly rushed to one of the heavily guarded passages.
Bang bang ......!
The soldiers stationed near the passage decisively raised their muskets and fired a volley at the pirates.
The pirates had two brushes, and they used the corpses that were everywhere on the audience to block the first shot of the soldiers.
However, the nearly 100 soldiers who then surrounded directly stabbed the pirates into a honeycomb with their spears.
Many pirates and bounty hunters in the arena watched this scene, and their hearts were shaken.
Previously, he patronized and grabbed the devil fruit, but he ignored the iron-blooded methods of the Ahab Kingdom army.
Plus, there's that unreasonable Bacardi. Hammond......
With a two-pronged approach, the originally crazy pirates gradually calmed down.
"Ho ho, do you want to catch them all? The army of the kingdom of Ahab ......"
Lafayette's body hovered in the air, looking down at the nearly 10,000 Ahab Kingdom soldiers guarding the passage.
In terms of numbers alone, there were five times as many soldiers as the pirates in the field.
However, rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry, let alone these cold-blooded and rampant pirates.
If the two sides clashed head-on, the pirates might be wiped out, but the army would certainly not be comfortable.
Under Lafayette's attention, some of the pirates in the field directly gave up their luck and began to form a group to kill the soldiers guarding the passage.
Their goal was obvious, to tear a hole in the encirclement and flee from here.
Except for this part of the pirates who acted decisively, the rest of the people were still stopping to watch the Devil Fruit in Lafayette's hands.
"Interesting."
There was a dangerous glint in Lafayette's eyes.
The Devil Fruit in his hand is the bait that the pirates left in the Colosseum.
Now, the armies of the kingdom of Ahab were holding the passages with a static brake, and surrounded everyone in the field.
This kind of clamping behavior, on the contrary, calmed down those who were originally going to snatch the Devil Fruit, and they were divided into two factions.
One is the people who give up the Devil Fruit and want to break out of here, and the other is the people who wait and see and still don't give up on the Devil Fruit.
Lafayette was in the air, taking in the situation inside the stadium.
Knowing the situation, he suddenly grinned.
Then, he flew to Jim and Bailey, who were hiding in the corner as much as possible.
Seeing Lafayette's vain actions, those pirates who still didn't give up on the Devil Fruit shot at Lafayette again without even thinking about it.
At the same time, they jumped off the audience and ran as fast as they could, where Lafayette might have fallen.
Unfortunately, all the buckshot they fired was dodged by Lafayette.
Lafayette landed in front of Jim like this, and immediately shattered the crystal box with his bare hands, shoving the Devil Fruit in the box in front of Jim's mouth.
Jim was mentally prepared and cooperated to open his mouth to bite down on the next Devil Fruit.
"Ho-ho."
Seeing this, Lafayette retracted his arm holding the Devil Fruit, and then Shi Shiran turned around and looked at the group of pirates chasing after him with a calm expression.
"Damn !!"
"My Devil Fruit ......!"
Looking at the Devil Fruit that had been bitten, the group of pirates who tried to get the Devil Fruit were all unwilling.
Without the Devil Fruit, they would have lost their incentive to stay in the Colosseum.
However, the passage out of the Colosseum was blocked by the armies of the Kingdom of Ahab......
That is, the only option left for them was to break through the encirclement of the army.
All of a sudden, the pirates and bounty hunters in the arena unanimously targeted the soldiers around them.
It's not that they didn't want to trouble the Maude Pirates, but the presence of the soldiers around them reminded them that it was out of place.
Let's get out of here first......
The goals of the pirates in the arena gradually converged.
As Lafayette expected, in just a few minutes, all the pirates in the arena were attacking the surrounding army.
Suddenly a scuffle begins!
Lafayette, who was the initiator, was just smiling from the sidelines.
His gaze flew towards Maude's figure.
This kind of melee situation is the best hunting ground for Maud.
Maud seemed to feel something, and turned her head to meet Lafayette's gaze from a distance.
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Then, Maud saw and heard that he was in full swing and blended into the chaos, efficiently harvesting a handful of experience.
A new step is gradually taking shape.
Standing in the box at the top, Degal's gaze was locked on Maude.
He watched Maud go on a killing spree in the midst of the scuffle, unable to understand Maude's motives.
It was clear that he could leave the Colosseum with that aerial walking technique, and the Devil Fruit had already been eaten.
Why ......?
Inexplicably, a chill appeared in Dijiaer's heart, and he subconsciously glanced back at the door of the box.
Around, those members of the noble royal family who were admiring the chaotic battle below, but they didn't notice the strangeness of Digar at all.
They're also looking at Maude, but they don't waste their brain cells trying to anticipate what Maude might bring them.
Inside the Colosseum.
As one by one, soldiers and pirates fell.
This never-ending melee is gradually coming to an end.
Maude, who was covered in blood, looked excited.
Earnings exceeded expectations.