Contract Red Hair Shanks, the school beauty kicked me off the boat

Chapter 246 Shadow-Shadow Fruit BUG?

As the mist cleared from Misty Island, we went up to loot the treasure and found quite a few treasure chests.

The Snake King had been entrenched on the island for many years, accumulating an astonishing amount of treasure of extremely high quality. Combined with the abundant resources seized after the destruction of Yang Luo's pirate crew, as well as the massive amount of experience points gained from slaying the Snake King and its vast horde, the overall strength of the Tyrant Feather Pirate Crew had increased considerably.

After looting, they continued their voyage.

When the ship sailed to a treasure-hunting area and found the piggy bank floating on the sea, Ye Yu unhesitatingly threw most of the treasure he had gained in this battle into it.

The remaining portion was divided among the crew.

boom!
An aura far exceeding anything seen before erupted from Ye Yu, sweeping across the entire ship. The crew looked at him with surprise and delight, only to see Ye Yu's eyes gleaming brightly, his aura surging and harmonious.

"Captain, you skipped a grade?" Xiao Ke asked in surprise.

Feeling the surging power within him, Ye Yu nodded: "Level 46!"

However, Ye Yu also clearly felt that the experience required to advance from forty-five to forty-six was already enormous, and the path to improvement in the future would only become more difficult and fraught with obstacles.

I wasn't entirely sure if I could reach level 100 when the navy arrived in two years.

Time flies like an arrow, and the Tyrant Feather Pirates continue their voyages and adventures.

Six months have passed in the blink of an eye, and the timeframe for the arrival of the Navy Headquarters has quietly shortened to two years.

In the past six months, they have traveled to several islands containing rare treasures, fought against giant sea monsters the size of mountains and with terrifying power, and also set foot in several dangerous and unpredictable secret realms with strange rules.

With his extraordinary perseverance, top-notch talent, and repeated brushes with death, Ye Yu steadily and resolutely climbed the ranks.

Ye Yu's aura has stabilized at a new level: level 50!

The seemingly simple threshold from level 49 to level 50 is actually far more difficult than the sum of the previous ten levels.

At this moment, he has inherited more of the combat power of the seven contracted individuals.

"Captain, something's not right in the waters ahead." The lookout's voice, tinged with seriousness, came through the loudspeaker.

Xiao Ke immediately picked up his binoculars, his brow furrowed: "It's the 'Shadow Domain.' Captain, this sea area has been shrouded in a peculiar black mist for the past few months, with chaotic magnetic fields and strange ocean currents. Rumor has it that many powerful pirate crews have entered and never come out again, unable to even send out distress signals, as if they were swallowed up by this sea."

Upon hearing this, the crew members all became serious.

However, as Ye Yu stood at the bow of the ship, gazing at the slowly flowing black mist that seemed to devour all light, a long-lost flame of excitement ignited in his eyes.

Although the past six months of sailing had been quite fruitful, the challenges he encountered had gradually lost that intense sense of pressure that made him give his all and walk on the edge of life and death. The peaceful days, on the contrary, made him feel a little bored.

“The Shadow Realm…” Ye Yu murmured, a hint of interest curving his lips. “Sounds like a good place to pass the time. Order the entire ship to be on high alert. Let’s go in and take a look.”

The Tyrant Feather Pirate Ship, like a sharp sword, slowly pierced into the thick, black mist. Light was instantly stripped away, plunging the surroundings into absolute darkness where one couldn't see their own hand in front of their face. Only the ship's lights struggled to pierce the dense fog, appearing as if they might be swallowed up at any moment.

The air was cold and damp, carrying a strange smell of decay and rust. The currents had become unusually viscous, and the ship's speed dropped sharply.

"My Observation Haki is being severely interfered with!" Xia Ling tried to release her Observation Haki, but found that her perception range was compressed to the extreme, and the information that came back was blurry and full of distorted noise.

"The magnetic field is completely chaotic, the compass is malfunctioning!"

"Maintain formation, advance slowly, and watch out underwater!"

Just as the Tyrant Feather Pirates ventured deeper into the core of the Shadow Realm, the outline of an island began to appear and disappear in the thick fog. It wasn't a naturally formed island; rather, it resembled a colossal lair constructed from countless massive, twisted black reefs and shipwrecks, exuding a thick, ominous aura—Shadow Island!

At the highest point of the island, inside a castle constructed of enormous skeletons and shadows.

A tall, pale-skinned man with bat-like ears and sharp teeth was clearly observing the intruding Yu Pirate Ship through a mirror formed from pure darkness. He was none other than Moya, the ruler of this Shadow Realm and the user of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit.

Moya's eyes gleamed with greed and excitement. "Finally! The One King Pirates, the Faulty Feather Pirates, the Faulty Monster Ye Yu!"

He spread his arms wide, as if embracing the dense shadow that permeated the entire island: "What perfect prey! What a powerful shadow! As long as I can obtain Ye Yu's shadow... no, even just the shadows of his powerful executives, my zombie army will have the power to sweep across the seas! What navy, what world government, will all grovel before my shadow!"

Beside him stood a chubby man dressed in a white coat and wearing round glasses, resembling a doctor and a descendant of Hogback from One Piece. He smiled obsequiously, "Lord Moya is wise! Over the past six months, we have spared no expense, collecting the corpses of countless powerful individuals through various channels, including even..."

He lowered his voice, a hint of fanaticism in it, "The remains of those once-renowned powerhouses who were defeated by Ye Yu! Jin Mo's, Baye's... and also, the body of Yang Luo, which you specifically instructed me to buy from the black market at an exorbitant price!"

Moya's eyes gleamed: "Hogback, you did a great job! Not only did you find the corpses of powerful individuals, but also many strong ones, even powerful beasts and sea monsters. We spent our treasures to buy them, which puzzled them, but in reality, with these, combined with my Devil Fruit ability, it would be extremely powerful. It was well worth it. Now, I have an extremely powerful Shadow Legion, which can even become my own fighting force in critical moments. As for my Devil Fruit's ultimate move, the strongest single combatant might not be Ye Yu, but me, Moya!"

He gazed at Ye Yu's towering figure in the dark mirror, his face filled with a morbid confidence: "Ye Yu... you are strong, ridiculously strong. Even a monster like the Snake King fell to your blade. But you are too arrogant! You dared to trespass into my Shadow Domain! Here, light and shadow are under my control! My 'Shadow Mage' has already evolved, the binding force of the 'Shadow Box' is extremely strong, and my zombie army... is no less than your Tyrant Feather Pirates!"

Moya suddenly waved his hand, and beneath the castle, a massive shadow began to writhe and converge. Countless zombies of various shapes, exuding a chilling aura of death, crawled out of the shadow; some were powerful pirates, others were ferocious beasts, and sea creatures surged in the surrounding waters.

Their pupils were hollow, their bodies were stitched with rough thread, and their movements were stiff yet contained a terrifying power. A dense aura of death and resentment gathered into a visible black cloud, shrouding the Shadow Isle.

A glint of madness flashed in Moya's eyes. "I've also prepared a special gift for you! Those opponents who once took some effort to defeat... they will come back to life in another form and greet you! Ye Yu, are you ready to welcome your nightmarish old friends?"

The Tyrant Feather Pirate Ship slowly approached the eerie dock on Shadow Isle, which was made up of skeletons and shipwrecks.

Ye Yu was the first to step onto the cold, black earth, the rocks beneath his feet feeling like ice. He looked up at the skeletal castle deep within the island, exuding a heavy aura of evil. His powerful Observation Haki activated, keenly detecting the countless cold, deathly, yet malevolent auras surging in from all directions like a tide.

Just then, a gigantic, distorted, nightmarish shadow suddenly rose from the direction of the castle, projecting itself onto the thick black mist and transforming into an image of Moya magnified countless times. His eerie laughter, amplified by the shadow's vibrations, resonated clearly throughout the entire island and sea.

"Welcome, Ye Yu! Welcome to Shadow Isles! Welcome to...your graveyard!"

(End of this chapter)