Chapter 254: The Final Negotiation (I)
On the vast sea, a warship flying the flag of the Dragon Hunter Pirates is sailing on the sea.
This time following the record pointer, the voyage was particularly long, and Ian had been on the ship for fifteen days.
Fortunately, the warship that was seized at the beginning was well supplied, and a warship originally carried hundreds of naval soldiers, but Ian and they are now only more than seventy people, and the materials on the ship can fully meet their needs.
At this time, on the deck, the fighters of the Dragon Hunter Pirates were sweating and exercising.
This is one of the things that Ian thought of after going to sea, although most of the members on the ship were the gladiatorial arena slaves rescued from Mary Joya, and they had a good foundation of combat effectiveness, but Ian still began to continue training them with the intention of being strong.
And the one who carried out the drill task was Fuji Hu, who opened a suitable gravity field on the boat to help everyone exercise.
After the Salamis incident, the members of the Dragon Hunter Pirates also felt that their pirates were not strong enough, so they did not have any resistance to Ian's orders.
For a pirate group, there are usually three parts, one is the captain, the second is the cadre, and the third is the combatant.
In this world with this Devil Fruit, those who can become cadres are usually Devil Fruit abilities, and normal people, if they want to compete with the extraordinary power of Devil Fruits, they have to put in more effort to exercise.
In the new world, those who don't know how to use domineering are basically cannon fodder characters, for Ian, these people on the ship have followed him all the way from Mary Joy, so Ian can't bear to let them really become cannon fodder, and it just so happens that there is Fuji Tiger, a person with gravity fruit ability on the ship, who can help them exercise well, maybe these people can awaken their own domineering power as soon as possible.
Ian was also on the ship at this time, practicing his swordsmanship, and when he assassinated Tyki, he took the last step by mistake and understood the use of momentum, and what he did now was to familiarize himself with the use of this ability.
Momentum is such a thing, it is very mysterious, it seems to be completely different from domineering power, it doesn't seem to be energy at all, but a kind of belief exclusive to fighting.
Even you can call the momentum a fighting spirit, call it a killing intent, you can call it anything, people who have mastered the use of momentum, can have a strong sense of threat to the enemy when facing the opponent, and when used in the attack, it will make the enemy have a feeling of not being able to dodge, which is the so-called lock.
This ability is quite useful, because in the new world, there are many people who will use the domineering of seeing and hearing, when two users of the domineering of seeing and hearing are fighting, because they can perceive and predict each other's movements, unless the speed of one side is much higher than that of the other side, I am afraid that the battle will not be able to tell the winner in a short time, and at this time the side that can use the momentum will have a great advantage.
It was because Ian comprehended the use of momentum that he improved his swordsmanship to the master level, which caused him to swing his sword at this time, and the movements when he drew the sword seemed completely different from before.
His swinging sword is very slow, every time he lifts it up and puts it down, it can be easily seen clearly, but every swing of the sword gives people a feeling of condensation, in popular terms, that is, every swing of the sword is very imposing!
At this time, Ian is just swinging in the air, if there is an opponent in front of him, he may feel the mystery of this, it seems to be a simple slash, but it will bring people quite a lot of pressure!
This is the sword posture often mentioned in it, sword posture and the like, Ian has practiced swords for so many years, and it can be said that it is only now that he has really entered the house and mastered a little bit of the essence of swordsmanship.
While Ian was practicing his sword, the lookout on the mast shouted, "Captain, the ship has been spotted in the rear, and it is heading towards us!" ”
In these days of sea voyages, Ian and they have also encountered the rest of the pirates a few times, these pirates, some of them are pirates born in the New World, and some of them are from the first half of the great voyage, of course, no matter what kind of origin, these pirates are not famous, after all, in the New World, the pirates who are slightly famous have either surrendered to the Four Emperors or have been eliminated by the Four Emperors.
Only these little-known pirates can temporarily survive in the cracks.
From this point of view, the Dragon Hunter Pirates are still quite lucky, because they are involved with the Whitebeard Pirates, so they did not attract the covetousness of the other three Four Emperor Pirates, otherwise, with Ian's entire Pirate Group now has a bounty of more than 1.2 billion, I am afraid that they would have been targeted and incorporated a long time ago.
The pirates encountered these few times are different from those pirates that Ian and they encountered before, when Ian was still a 500 million bounty, there were still some guys with a fluke mentality, who wanted to attack Ian and their dragon hunter pirates in order to gain fame, but with the battle of Salamis, after the picture of Ian and Fujitora fighting with Admiral Yellow Ape Zefa came out, no one dared to touch the brains of their pirate group.
Unless it's really a turtle from the countryside, the kind of pirate who is completely ill-informed, otherwise, there are few pirates in the New World who don't know their banner.
This also led to several waves of pirates encountered, and after seeing their flags, they all took a detour and fled quickly, for fear that the dragon hunter pirates would be in a bad mood and find trouble with them.
At that moment, Ian realized the benefits of bounty and fame, and perhaps for some pirates, the Dragon Hunter Pirates are now also big bosses.
So when he heard the watchman's shout, Ian didn't pay much attention to it, he thought it was a pirate ship, maybe after seeing the flag of the dragon hunter pirates, the ship would retreat.
It's just that what Ian didn't expect was that it didn't take long for the lookout's voice to sound again, saying, "Captain, it's not a pirate ship!" That ship, flying the flag of the World Government! ”
"Oh!?" When Ian heard this, he immediately became interested.
As mentioned earlier, from one point in the middle of the new world, the power of the navy is out of reach, and they are all forces under the command of the Four Emperor Pirates, and if a single warship appears with the flag of the Navy or the flag of the world government, it is very likely to be attacked by pirates, and the ship that is coming now is not only carrying the flag of the world government, but also a single ship, and there is no warship without any escort.
"Is it coming towards us?" Fuji Tiger also walked over and asked.
"Perhaps!" Ian replied and said, "Slow down the sails, wait for them to come over, and get ready for battle!" ”
The people on the ship immediately began to act, brought cannonballs from the cabin, adjusted the angle of the guns, and aimed at the ship with fierce eyes.
It didn't take long for the ship to finally approach, it was indeed a warship, perhaps it was taken at Ian's guns, the warship stopped a little farther away, and then quickly lowered a dinghy, took a few men, and rowed towards Ian's boat.
Ian's eyes were good, and he could see from a distance that the people on the dinghy seemed to be somewhat similar to the CP0 members who had been in contact with the Moby-Dick at the beginning.
Sure enough, as the dinghy approached, Ian saw three people wearing masks and overcoats.
Thinking of the words of CP0 on the Moby Dick at that time, Ian immediately understood, I am afraid that this is the World Government sending someone to negotiate with the Dragon Hunter Pirates!
At the beginning, it was just that they put forward the conditions on the side of the world government, and after Ian responded once, CP0 went back to ask for instructions because he didn't have the authority, and now after half a month, they are here again.
This time, it should have been the final negotiation, right? Ian thought.
"Let them get on board!"
With Ian's order, the rope ladder was thrown down the side of the ship to the other party, and three members of CP0 boarded the ship of the Dragon Hunter Pirates with several escort naval soldiers.
"See you again! Captain Ian! "The leader, it turned out to be the man in the feather mask at the beginning, but this time his outfit changed, and another mask was changed, but his voice didn't change, as soon as he came up, he said to Ian: "I came this time to represent the world government and world nobles, to negotiate with the dragon hunter pirates." ”
"Oh, how did they think about the conditions I said last time?" Ian smiled slightly, although it was only half a month, but seeing that the other party was so eager to chase after him, it was certain that the Tianlong people were indeed impatient to wait.
"Your conditions, we have relayed!" The masked man said: "The world government agrees in principle that you will join the ...... of the Seven Martial Seas"