“……”

Looking at the islands, Rhodes' eyes flickered, and he was silent for a while.

The bounty of the golden lion that year was also extremely high, although the bounty was eliminated after being caught in the advancing city, but after the prison escape, it was rewarded again, although it was not as high as before, but it still reached as much as 1.7 billion!

A bounty of 1.7 billion!

If he can kill the Golden Lion, the talent point reward he gets is enough to increase his strength a lot, but the problem is that the strength of the Golden Lion is exactly corresponding to this reward!

Encountering Luffy and his gang, defeated under the halo aside, before the Golden Lion escaped from prison, he was able to break into the Navy Headquarters alone, and fought with the two of Karp Sengoku who were at their peak, destroying the existence of nearly half of the Navy Headquarters.

Even if he cuts off his legs in order to escape from prison, and his brain becomes abnormal, his strength will not decline too much, at least he can maintain the level of the admiral!

"It's hard to deal with."

Rhodes pondered for a moment, but still gave such an evaluation in his heart, the golden lion Shiji was not in his prey category for the time being.

But just as Rhodes' ship continued to fly upward, about to separate from the island of the golden lion, a figure pierced through the clouds and came at a rapid pace.

"Someone's coming!"

"It's fast."

Lafitte and the others were aware of the rushing figure, and they all showed a look of vigilance, and almost the next moment, the figure crossed an arc and landed on the deck of the ship.

"Hahahahaha...... It's a good ability to make a ship fly, who is your captain? The golden lion who landed on the boat grinned with a cigar in his mouth.

Although it didn't show anything like the domineering of the overlord, the momentum that belonged to the legendary pirates was also revealed in an instant, making Kaku and the others feel heavy in their breath.

Looking at the uninvited golden lion, Rhodes stood there and said calmly:

"I'm the captain, and I'm sorry there's no drink on board to entertain you, Golden Lion."

“……”

The golden lion looked at Rhodes and narrowed his eyes slightly, although he had been in the sky, he was not ignorant of things at sea, and Rhodes, who had a bounty of one billion Baileys, was enough to enter his eyes, and when he saw Rhodes, he recognized it.

I thought he was a nobody, but I didn't expect it to be a well-known pirate, which was undoubtedly a surprise for him, and the heart of solicitation was a little heavier, and Rhodes could call out his title, it seems that he is also not ignorant of him.

"Your name is Rhodes...... Hahaha, how about joining the Sky Pirates?! ”

After staring at Rhodes twice, the golden lion suddenly grinned, with a hint of domineering in his eyes, raised a hand and clenched his fist in front of him, and said, "If you join forces with me, this sea will be in our pocket sooner or later!" ”

Since he was imprisoned in the city, the old subordinates in the past have almost scattered, and now there are few who still follow him, in a state of loneliness, and there is not even a single one under his command who can handle the combat power.

The pirates with a bounty of one billion, regardless of strength or fame, are eligible to join his pirate group, and can become a sharp sword in his hands!

"Controlling the sea or something, it's really what I want to do, but ......"

Rhodes opened his mouth with a calm gaze, even under the momentum brought by the golden lion, he did not have the slightest movement and change, and said, "I'm not interested in being someone else's subordinate. ”

"Hey."

Hearing Rhodes' neat refusal, the golden lion suddenly snorted, put down his fist, raised his head slightly, and said: "Although I haven't paid attention to the sea for a long time, I still know a little bit, do you think you can defeat those Four Emperors with your words?!" ”

For the Golden Lion, among the Four Emperors, except for Whitebeard and his era, everyone else rose much later than him, and in his eyes, they naturally belonged to juniors.

"If you don't give it a try, how will you know."

Rhodes responded in a calm tone.

The golden lion stared at Rhodes twice, and suddenly raised his head and laughed, and a sound of 'hahaha' echoed in the clouds, and at the same time, a violent and chaotic momentum suddenly swept away in all directions.

Overlord ...... Domineering!

Almost instantly, the nearby clouds were violently affected, stirring up like a whirlpool, as if the sky had lost its color!

This overlord color domineering is far from being comparable to the green pepper, the owl and Kalifa and the others directly fell unconscious, Bruno barely fell into a coma, but his breathing was stagnant, and cold sweat overflowed on his forehead.

As for Kakugabra and Robin, they are all under extreme pressure.

Only Lafitte was able to maintain some composure, and Rhodes was still standing there with a calm gaze.

"Overlord color domineering ......"

Feeling the subtle vibration and oppression coming from the surface of his body, Rhodes murmured in his heart, this was the second time he had encountered the overlord color domineering.

Looking at Rhodes and the others, the golden lion gradually stopped laughing, and the whole person floated slowly, looking at Rhodes condescendingly.

"It's good to have this kind of courage, but it's not enough to have courage, you don't have enough strength, it's just empty words!"

Even the Golden Lion himself is very sure that he can't beat Whitebeard alone, and he is naturally disgusted with Rhodes' 'arrogant' attitude.

However, he knows very well the mentality of a newcomer like Rhodes, who has just risen, and it is normal to be arrogant without anything, and only by experiencing failure and the gap between him and the real strong can he restrain that arrogance.

"Feel the gap, Ghost Hand Boy!"

He flew to a place about dozens of meters away from the ship, his gaze became as calm as water, and he swept it with one leg raised, and the famous sword deadwood that replaced his calf suddenly burst out with a terrifying sword qi and cut horizontally towards the ship directly below.

This sword aura is much stronger than those lieutenant generals that Rhodes has encountered, and the only one who can be comparable to it in his impression is the world's number one swordsman, Hawkeye Mihawk!

No doubt.

The Golden Lion is also a great swordsman who stands at the top of the swordsman!

The purpose of this sword is not to wipe out Rhodes and the others, but just to rush to the ship, trying to make Rhodes feel the gap between him and the strong, and to make him rise to surrender.

But.

Surrendering to the strong or something, such a mentality did not exist in Rhodes's mind from the beginning, a person who plays the game, will surrender to the NPCs in the game?

The answer, of course, is no!

Sou!

Almost at the moment when the golden lion slashed, Rhodes broke through the air and flew up, the gaze in his eyes was calm and indifferent, and he suddenly swung out a punch and blasted towards that sword qi.

This kind of great swordsman-level slash, with his current twisting power, can't crumple it into a ball, but this doesn't prevent Rhodes from blasting it with his strength!

Rumble!

The huge golden sword qi collided with Rhodes's fist, as if a golden crescent moon was cutting through steel rapidly, and a trace of golden light burst everywhere.

The two forces were frozen for about a second, and the huge golden sword qi could not maintain its perfect arc, twisting and breaking from the middle, grazing the sides of the hull and falling into the clouds below, cutting a white cloud into two sections.

Rhodes floated in the air, looked up at the golden lion in the sky, and slowly withdrew his fist, his eyes calm.

"The gap is for catching up."

"Tsk......"

Rhodes was able to block his own blow, which surprised the golden lion a little, but he still sighed, the stronger Rhodes's strength, the more he could strengthen his strength by becoming his subordinate.

He waved his legs again, kicking one after another in the void, instantly sweeping out seven or eight golden sword qis, like a raging storm, slashing head-on towards Rhodes, without any intention of sparing his hand.

Although he intends to recruit Rhodes, a fight is a fight, and if Rhodes dies so easily, it means that Rhodes is not qualified to get on his ship.