Luffy, how can you become the Pirate King if you don't work hard!

I hope he won't be assimilated.

Probably not...

The orange-red dragon was instantly enraged by Luffy's gaze. Although it couldn't understand human language, the way he looked at it as if it were food made it instinctively feel offended.

Therefore,

"Roar!!"

A deafening dragon's roar echoed through the burning ruins, and flames spread outwards with the sound waves, causing the temperature to rise sharply.

"Hey, hey, hey, can this guy breathe fire?" Chopper's eyes widened.

The dragon's mouth began to gather scorching flame energy, and orange-red light condensed deep in its throat, distorting the surrounding air due to the high temperature.

"It's a bit troublesome."

Luo frowned, and the Ghost Cry sword was drawn half an inch from its sheath.

"room",

Visibly, the ejected flames were directly severed.

"Amazing!"

Bonnie frowned.

As expected of one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

This guy must be a supernova from my own cohort, I never imagined he'd grow to this level in just two years.

Amidst these reflections, her captain also began to take action.

"Rubber, Vibration Punch!"

Luffy's figure had already disappeared from the spot.

The next second, he appeared below the dragon's chin, his right fist wreathed in white vibrational ripples, and slammed it hard into the dragon's jawbone.

Click!

A clear sound of bone cracking was heard.

"Hmm, it's pretty hard."

Luffy shook his hand and grinned.

"Where is it hard?"

Bonnie couldn't help but complain.

Because she could clearly see that the dragon's scales had developed spiderweb-like cracks where it had been struck, and its sharp teeth were beginning to fall out of its mouth one by one, landing on the scorched ground.

The dragon let out a painful cry and staggered back a few steps.

What terrifying power this is!

Luffy glanced at the icy river not far away. He would need a means of transportation to cross it.

"Hey, lead the way and we won't kill you."

“Straw Hat, you’re in charge. Dragons don’t understand words, so let me kill it.” Before Luo could finish speaking, he saw something that surprised him.

Terrifying red and black lightning spread around Luffy, crackling sounds of electricity filled the air, and an invisible pressure emanated from Luffy.

Conqueror's Haki!

Suddenly, a human-like fear appeared in the dragon's originally ferocious golden vertical pupils.

It could sense the oppression emanating from a higher level of life, an aura that only beings at the top of the predator chain could exude.

So he changed his fierce posture, lowered his huge body slightly, and showed Luffy an almost fawning expression.

So obedient?

Luo was stunned.

Many of the guys on the island should be unruly.

"But it's alright this way,"

Luo quickly regained his composure. "At least we have transportation now, otherwise it would be very difficult for us to get over there."

"Before that, these people should have been enemies."

Luffy suddenly spoke, turning his gaze to the other side of the ruins.

Law paused for a moment, then squinted and looked in the direction Luffy was pointing.

"Indeed."

He couldn't help but marvel once again at the terrifying power of Luffy's Observation Haki.

Even he himself didn't immediately notice the presence of those lurking individuals.

A group of people dressed in strange equipment slowly emerged from behind the burning building ruins.

They wore high-tech protective suits, oxygen masks, and carried oxygen cylinders on their backs; the guns they carried were oddly shaped.

PH troops, Caesar's direct subordinates.

Beside the PH forces, there was an even more bizarre group of beings.

A human head, an animal's limbs.

The Centaur Patrol consists entirely of remnants of the Tea Beard Pirates, who were wiped out by the magician Barthol Hawkins two years ago. After being modified by Caesar, they became the patrol force on this island.

Trafalgar Law! What are you doing here!

From within the centaur ranks, a centaur who appeared to be the leader roared.

Tea Beard, a pirate with a bounty of nearly 100 million.

He became this inhuman, ghostly figure because of the man in front of him!

"Has it already been discovered?"

Luo didn't seem surprised. "That's right, this island should be full of surveillance Den Den Mushi."

"of course!"

Tea Beard roared, "Lord Caesar and Lord Monet are furious about your actions! Why did you bring a stranger back?!"

"I have something very important to discuss with her."

A cold smile curled at the corner of Luo's lips. "For example, if Caesar had her keep my heart, would she have been released?"

He came to Punk Hazard a few months ago to investigate research materials from the World Government and reached some kind of agreement with Caesar.

However, in order to prevent a possible future betrayal by Law, Caesar Courland took away his heart as a condition for the deal.

The heart should now be in Monet's body, and Luo knows this very well.

Monet, a user of the Snow-Snow Fruit, was an undercover agent sent by Doflamingo to infiltrate Caesar's inner circle.

Now it's time to take your heart back as planned.

"That's so cool."

Luffy's voice interrupted Law's thoughts.

He was observing the group of centaurs and PH soldiers with great interest, his gaze lingering especially on the centaurs: "How can they survive like this? Trout, your abilities are really strange."

Law glanced at Luffy: "Likewise. Straw Hat leader, your abilities are pretty strange too."

He had witnessed that kind of reckless ability back in Impel Down.

"What a pity,"

Luffy suddenly sighed, "I originally wanted to have some fun with them, but it seems like I should just finish this quickly."

His gaze swept over the enemies surging in from all directions.

More and more members of the PH forces emerged from the ruins, and the centaur patrols surrounded them from all directions. It was roughly estimated that at least a hundred people had surrounded Luffy and his crew.

"Hehehe, the Emperor of the Sea, Straw Hat Luffy?"

A woman's soft laughter came from the air.

Everyone looked up and saw a tall, beautiful woman floating in mid-air.

She has long, light green hair, wears round-framed glasses that cover her eyes, and has a mysterious smile on her lips. What is most striking are her hands and feet; her hands have turned into bird wings, and her feet into sharp bird claws.

There is no doubt that Luo is the one who made it this way.

But the woman in front of him is a Logia-type Snow-Snow Fruit user.

"Luo, are you betraying us?"

Monet stared at Luo, his voice carrying a chilling edge.

What is betrayal?

Luo replied expressionlessly, "We've never been on the same side. Now I'm just taking back what's rightfully mine."

He raised his head and looked directly at Monet: "Give me back my heart."

"That won't do,"

Monet smiled and shook his head, his wings fluttering gently, bringing with them a gust of cold wind. "You have openly betrayed us. Don't think that just because you are favored by the young master, you can do whatever you want."

Her gaze shifted to Luffy. "Straw Hat Luffy, don't be fooled by this man. Do you know who you're fighting against?"

Monet spread his wings and gestured back: "Look at your opponent."

Behind her, more monsters emerged from the burning ruins, all of them appearing to have been modified by Luo.

Even more disturbing is a slime.

This is Caesar's pet.

The poison gas was compressed to create a slime monster named Slime. Through high technology, it ate a gel-like poison gas bomb in the form of an axolotl fruit, which allowed it to move freely.

Because it is made of gas, it will explode if it comes into contact with a source of fire or high heat, and it can also split and combine.

Bullets and knives cannot touch it; if a person touches it, they will be burned and poisoned.

Monet would not underestimate the Emperor of the Sea, whom even the young master had to face with caution.