How can I become the Pirate King if you don’t work hard?.

Chapter 204 Golden Lion

At this moment, everyone on the boat focused their attention on the rapeseed harbor in the distance.

"What it is?"

The owl has excellent eyesight. Even from a distance of nearly a thousand meters, it can still see the figure with wings on its back, who looks like he is wearing red leather armor, in the streets of the port.

The figure was about two meters tall.

With such a height, in a Grand Route where monsters are everywhere, people of all races gather together, and there are even giants that are more than 20 meters tall, he can only barely escape the third level of disability and is far from being tall.

But at this moment, even though they are thousands of meters away, even though they are no longer in the center of the battle.

The seemingly tangible pressure still made Owl's scalp tingle and his legs tremble unconsciously.

"This twisted and un-ordinary animal-like posture... is it a mythical beast? Is this the ability of the knight Gawain?"

"Animal-Mythical Beast?!"

Gabra jumped onto the mast, raised his head and looked into the distance, but his vision was blocked by the sandstorm that gathered again around the port.

If before, he only suspected that Gawain had held back on him because of Lucci, then now this suspicion has been confirmed.

He is an animal-type ability user, so he is naturally aware of the power difference between an animal-type ability user before and after transformation.

Even if it is just an ordinary animal type, the simple change in strength after transformation can easily reach nearly double the level, and the increase brought by the mythical beast species standing at the top of the animal type will only be more exaggerated.

With Gawain's own Dao Power value of 30,000 to 40,000, if he had activated his ability and used his full strength in that attack, he would have been able to crush Jabra's head on the spot!
"What a joke!"

"Are all the Seven Warlords of the Sea such monsters?"

"No!"

Kalifa pushed her glasses up, her face flushed abnormally, so that her posture seemed a little awkward at the moment:
"It's not the Shichibukai who is strong, but Captain Gawain!"

"Even beings as powerful as the Great Beast Master and Flame Disaster Jin are no match for the Captain."

"Flame disaster...Jin?"

Gabra's wolf ears trembled, and the claws on his fingertips directly embedded into the mast.

on this ship.

Weiwei and the others might not know the weight of this name, but Gabra and the other two, who are CP9 agents, understand it.

The deputy of the Four Emperors and one of the pirates closest to the top under the Four Emperors of the New World!

"This is...Knight Gawain?"

"what."

"The captain was able to become a Shichibukai because of his own strength that is totally unmatched!"

As Kalifa's final words fell, the entire pirate ship fell silent in an instant.

Everyone showed expressions of fear, hope, or longing, and looked again at the rapeseed flower port in the distance that was gradually covered by sand and dust.

After a brief period of calm, the dust in the distance became increasingly restless.

A silver-white sword energy penetrated the sky and earth, cutting through countless buildings, and rushed towards Crocodile, also reflecting his pale face and surprised eyes at this moment.

If before Gawain revealed the power of the Red Dragon Fruit, he could still rely on the geographical advantage and the domineering aura that remained in this body and had not declined with the passage of time to remain undefeated.

The balance of the battle completely tilted towards Gawain at this moment!

The top-notch mythical beast fruit, the observation Haki that can predict the future, and the swordsmanship of a great swordsman.

The combination of the three.

At this moment, Gawain even gave Crocodile the illusion that he was facing the former Barrett!

Only twenty years have passed, and Barrett is still the same Barrett. Even though he is imprisoned in Impel Down, his strength will only improve with the passage of time.

But Crocodile is no longer the high-spirited young man he once was.

During the fight just now, Gawain had slashed him countless times. He could have avoided them, and even sensed them in advance with his observation Haki, but his almost rusty body could no longer perform the movements he remembered.

He is old.

After experiencing that disastrous defeat, he gave up practicing and decided to rely on external forces to reach the top, but he was already old.

Suddenly.

Crocodile finally realized this.

Gawain's figure had already advanced one step ahead of the sword energy and rushed in front of Crocodile.

The speed of the explosion only made Crocodile feel a tingling sensation on his scalp, and...

It’s indescribable, unacceptable and unbearable to feel unwilling!

"Why!"

A roar came out from between Crocodile's teeth, but the only answer he got was Gawain's even more earth-shattering and domineering sword strike.

laugh!
With the blessing of Armament Haki, Guanze Masamune cut off Crocodile's golden hook like a knife cutting tofu, and also brought out dripping blood.

When Guan Shi Zheng Zong's sharp blade cut off the bones in his chest.

Crocodile's rusty body had just been completely transformed into elements, turning into a ball of yellow sand and being blown away by Gawain's sword energy.

The sand-turned body reunited after a few breaths, and the broken arm brought waves of severe pain.

But none of this was enough to change Crocodile's color.

It really made him clench his teeth so hard that blood oozed from his gums, and his eyes were bloodshot.

It was Gao Wen who was walking slowly towards him, full of murderous aura, and the undisguised look in his eyes...

Contempt!

"I originally thought that as a fellow Shichibukai, even if your fighting ability is not as good as it used to be, you could still make me sweat a little."

"You disappoint me so much!"

Crocodile's face turned red, and he coughed up a large mouthful of blood, staining his shirt on his chest red, the same red as his eyes:

"You're just not as freakish as Whitebeard..."

"I'm tired of hearing this kind of self-deceiving rhetoric."

between words.

Gao Wen swung his sword, wiped off the blood on Guan Shi Zheng Zong, and slowly put it into the sheath.

Just because at that moment just now, he felt Guan Shi Zhengzong's emotions.

Disgust, contempt, disdain...

After all the complicated, negative emotions were gathered together, the blade conveyed a unified will:
'Don't let me touch the blood of cowards!'

Gawain lowered his eyes and looked at Crocodile in the distance, his tone indifferent:

"Even my sword is no longer willing to kill you."

"It seems that Whitebeard cut off not only your arm, but also your spine."

"Defeat?"

"despair?"

"The words of the weak!"

The sound fell to the ground.

The swirling dust around suddenly stopped, and everything was quiet for a moment.

There was only a bright moon high in the sky, casting its cold light on Crocodile.

It makes him look more like a... loser!
Yes.

Loser.

Gao Wen couldn't find any other adjectives.

Crocodile's dream had actually been crushed when he was defeated by Whitebeard.

In the original novel, he did not truly find his original intention until he lost everything and was locked up in the city for several months. The moment he saw the light of day again, he finally found his original intention.

But on the same day, he lost the goal he was pursuing.

At this moment, Crocodile raised his eyes to look at Gawain, and there seemed to be a flame burning in his pupils.

It's just because Gawain and Whitebeard, who were twenty years apart, said the same thing in almost the same situation.

But it made him even more unwilling.

"You have never experienced what I have experienced, so how can you understand that kind of despair?"

"You have never experienced that era, so how can you understand what those monsters standing at the top are like..."

"Even if it's you, there's no way you could survive in the hands of that monster!"

next moment.

Crocodile's voice suddenly stopped, and he stared blankly at the sky in the distance.

A fleet emerged from the clouds, casting a huge shadow, plunging the entire Rapeseed Port into darkness.

Then a golden figure came roaring from the distant sky.

"That is……"

Stunned, shocked...

All kinds of complicated emotions converged before his eyes, and eventually turned into excitement that was difficult to conceal, so much so that Crocodile's expression was almost distorted:
"Golden Lion-Shiki!"

"This monster is still alive?!"

As pirates who truly experienced the Roger era, Crocodile and his generation have a deep respect for the three legends.

This was especially true after he had experienced such a devastating defeat at the hands of Whitebeard and felt the despair of trying his best but still being unable to defeat his opponent.

He turned to look at Gawain, a hideous smile on his face.

Aren't you crazy?
Don't you want to defeat the former legend?

Don’t you talk a lot about profound principles?
just now……

It's time for you to prove it!

"Knight Gawain!"

"Then you can try and see how desperate you will be when facing these monsters!"

"I don't believe you'd be any different than me!"

Gawain glanced at Crocodile, and the disdain in his eyes was so great that it could no longer be concealed:
"I won't prove anything to you, but if that guy really wants to fight me... then I'll try to see how much power this old guy, who already has one foot in the ground, has."

The moment Gao Wen's voice fell.

A sharp, overbearing and violent domineering aura was roaring in like a strong wind. The sea water in the entire port was turbulent at this moment, and red lightning flashed in the oppressive air.

And this is just the prelude to the appearance of the Overlord!
"Good fighting spirit!"

Before anyone arrives, the sound is heard first.

As a voice of praise fell into Gawain's air, the figure in the distance was approaching.

The golden lion hovered quietly in the air, letting the strong wind make its clothes rustle.

The half rudder on his head that looked like a rooster's comb should have made him look extremely funny, but no one could laugh at this moment.

Including Gawain.

If Crocodile's heart is old, then the Golden Lion's body is old.

His heart is still young, and his desire to reach the top is still no less than anyone else's.

The domineering aura built by faith has not aged at all at this moment and is still so strong that it is outrageous.

this moment.

Gawain felt the heavy pressure all over his body, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

He thought about it over and over again but couldn't figure out how the Straw Hat guys, with their combat power at the time, could have kicked this thing into the sea.

The gap between the two is so big that it cannot be reversed by so-called willpower.

Gawain could not find any possibility other than Nika showing his awakening in that battle.

……

far away.

above the sea.

Gabra and others stared at the huge fleet in the sky and the proud figure flying in the air, and for a moment they felt their scalps tingling.

"A fleet floating in the air?!"

Weiwei murmured, and her heart, which had just been excited, suddenly cooled down.

The mental shock was so strong that even she felt dizzy. It took a lot of effort for her to stand still.

When they looked back, the pirates on the ship had lost consciousness, foaming at the mouth, and fell to the ground.

"Overlord and domineering!"

Gabra muttered, and when his eyes fell on the figure in the sky, he stumbled and fell directly from the mast.

At this moment his voice was trembling:
"Golden Lion!"

"That guy is a golden lion!"

"How did this monster appear in Alabasta?"

The countless materials he had seen inside the CP organization took on a concrete form at this moment that he would never forget.

The fleet covering the sky is the Flying Pirate Golden Lion Shiki, who is capable of competing with Roger!

When the unreal photo fell into reality, Gabra realized how big the gap was.

That is an insurmountable chasm that countless powerful people cannot cross!
Owl, Weidori and the others were so shocked that they were speechless. It was not until Kalifa shouted to retreat that they turned around and drove the pirate ship with all their might, speeding up their escape to the rear.

If they were at this distance just now, they could have barely survived.

So when the Golden Lion appeared, this distance alone could no longer bring them any sense of security.

Kalifa stood at the bow, looking back at the harbor in the distance, her eyes beneath the lenses flushed red at this moment.

She was trying hard to resist the instinct to return to port.

This was because she knew that facing an opponent like the Golden Lion, her presence would not only be of no help to Gawain, but would even become that man's Achilles' heel.

After all...he has me in his heart!
Facing Crocodile, Kalifa has 100% confidence in Gawain.

But when the opponent becomes the golden lion that once dominated an era and competed with the king, all this confidence turns into uneasiness.

"Sister Kalifa..."

Weiwei took a step forward and wanted to comfort Kalifa, but she saw that the latter's eyes were red and her body was shaking uncontrollably.

Weiwei was startled.

The next moment, she heard Kalifa's voice. The voice that had given her confidence just now made her feel suffocated:
"Captain... can he win?!"

"I……"

Weiwei opened her mouth and was about to speak when her movements were interrupted by several incoming shells.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Red flames rose up around the pirate ship.

If Gabra had not come to his senses and kicked several shells into the sea, the small pirate ship would have disintegrated on the spot due to the bombardment.

Seeing this, Kalifa closed her eyes and took a deep breath, then regained her original calm demeanor and said with a firm look in her eyes:
"Captain...can win!"

"Our mission is to do everything possible to survive!"

……

high in the air.

The Golden Lion glanced at the pirate ship that was sailing away. After using his Observation Haki to sense that there were only a few weak auras on the ship, he no longer had any interest in it.

He turned to look at Crocodile, with unspeakable disappointment in his eyes:

"That kid who shouted that he wanted to challenge Whitebeard back then, has he only reached this level after 20 years?"

(End of this chapter)