One Piece: A Guide for Ordinary Players

"Let me give you a heads-up, do you know that the Celestial Dragons have a violent organization called the Knights of God?"

"There's a woman named Mafigong in the Knights of God. She's about your height, has the same hair color, and even the same horns on her head. Do you think it's possible that you're her illegitimate child?"

Pissarro looked completely bewildered. As a former king of a nation, he certainly knew about the Celestial Dragons, but he knew nothing about the Knights of God and the Mafi Palace that Robert mentioned later.

The explosions overhead subsided, indicating that the NOE Navy believed most of the pirates on the island were dead, and thus ceased their bombardment.

Pizarro activated his Devil Fruit ability almost the instant the cannon fire stopped, using Beehive Island as a medium to instantly appear on the other side of the island.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief and was preparing to find a way to escape this hellish place, he suddenly felt a chill down his back.

"It seems you know nothing, so there's no need to keep you alive. I was originally planning to find an opportunity to use you to threaten the Knights of God."

Robert's voice rang out from behind, sending chills down Pissarro's spine. He couldn't understand why Robert was still following him like a shadow, even though he had crossed several kilometers in an instant.

A lightning-shaped black blade pierced Pizarro's back, passed through his body, and emerged from his chest. Then, countless black blades pierced Pizarro, turning him into a hedgehog.

Leo's Den Den Mushi rang, and Robert removed the electric blades imbued with Armament Haki from Pizarro's body and answered the call.

"Robert Lando! Blackbeard has broken away from the main force on a huge Pegasus and should arrive at Beehive Island in about an hour!"

Robert frowned. This was more than half a day ahead of his expectations, but it didn't matter. They would have to meet sooner or later anyway. He wasn't flustered at all; in fact, he was even secretly looking forward to it.

"And there's more!"

Leo's anxious voice came through the phone, and Robert couldn't think of anything that could make him so anxious.

"I saw a large ship heading towards Beehive Island!"

"Standing on the bow of the ship is former Marine Admiral Akainu!"

Chapter 29 Who's Whose Father Are We?

Robert cursed Shanks under his breath, saying he absolutely did not believe that Shanks had not let Akainu go on purpose.

With the power of a Yonko, it's impossible that he didn't know about the battle between the Blackbeard Pirates and the Whitebeard Pirates. The two sides had just stopped fighting, which was the best time for the Whitebeard Pirates to withdraw. Letting Akainu go over there, could it be that he was going to have to fight in a relay with Blackbeard?

Based on the information Leo brought, it's said that Akainu is heading towards Beehive Island with a clear purpose. So, who is his target? It's hard to guess.

Damn, that bastard Shanks definitely sold me out. He made a deal with Akainu that he wouldn't harass the Whitebeard Pirates in exchange for letting Akainu come and seek revenge.

If you were to ask Akainu who he most wanted to kill, he would definitely be number one.

The Marineford War practically destroyed his political career. Just considering the life of that Celestial Dragon, it was already a mercy from the Five Elders that he wasn't executed, not to mention that he lost his entire arm.

She faked her death before, so he wouldn't be able to figure out who launched the attack.

Now that he's back active at sea, if Akainu still can't figure out who tricked him, he might as well sit at the same table as Edward Weevil.

Beehive Island was already chaotic enough, and this chaos was deliberately created by Robert to fish in troubled waters and win amidst the chaos.

But if Akainu gets involved, he'll likely target me specifically to kill me, and that would break the balance.

According to Observation Haki, the pirates on the island had suffered heavy casualties, with only a small number of powerful individuals who were not afraid of the cannon fire still having the strength to fight.

At this point, the NEO Navy would no longer waste its efforts and began to mobilize warships to dock, preparing to land on the island and encircle and annihilate Weevil.

The sudden shelling left Webull completely disoriented. After all, with flames suddenly erupting all around, and explosions and dust everywhere, anyone would be confused.

But as soon as the artillery fire stopped, Weevil immediately acted as if nothing had happened, shook his slightly dirty hair, and started yelling for Van Auger to come out again.

Ignoring the chaos on the island, Robert dragged Pizarro's corpse to the ground. Not a single pirate dared to stand in his way. The great pirate, worth nearly a billion, was far more intimidating than the surrounding warships.

With things having progressed to this point, Robert no longer needed to target the underlings; the NEO Navy would naturally exterminate them all.

Robert hung Pizarro's body high on the broken skull, which was mostly collapsed but still the highest point on the island, and sat down to rest with his eyes closed.

Since no lightning had fallen for a long time, many pirates even thought that Robert had left. However, the NEO Navy took over Robert's work of sealing off the island, and any pirate who tried to leave Beehive Island would be attacked by the patrolling warships.

Robert suddenly opened his eyes. The sick horse Zhuangzhuang, with wings on its back, appeared within the range of Observation Haki, carrying Blackbeard. Moreover, Robert knew clearly that when his Observation Haki swept over Blackbeard, he reacted immediately.

While there are very few people who can increase the range of their Observation Haki to ten kilometers by leveraging their Devil Fruit abilities, there are countless experts who can sense others' Observation Haki spying on them.

Blackbeard managed to scratch Shanks' eyes with his melee skills alone, which was something that happened twenty years ago.

Back then, Robert was just an ordinary person, and when he faced Blackbeard, he felt that Blackbeard was unfathomable.

But Robert is no longer the same as before. He is definitely a powerful figure on this sea. Yet, looking at Blackbeard, he is still unfathomable. In fact, as his intuition becomes more acute, he feels the terror of Blackbeard even more clearly.

Sensing someone spying on him from afar, Blackbeard didn't get nervous at all; instead, he let out a sinister laugh.

He rode his horse high in the sky, with a very wide field of vision, and had long seen the tragic state of Beehive Island.

The stronghold they had just acquired and hadn't even lived in for half a year has now been razed to the ground. There isn't a single intact building on the island, and of the tens of thousands of pirates left behind, only a fraction survived.

Blackbeard was furious, but his face twisted into a beast-like smile.

With a sudden, powerful punch, the Tremor-Tremor Fruit was unleashed. The sea seemed to have been punched, its surface sinking several meters. Then, towering waves rebounded and surged toward Beehive Island.

Blackbeard rode Pegasus as if he were running on the crest of a giant wave. The waves rose higher and higher as they moved forward, reaching a height of a hundred meters when they arrived at Beehive Island.

The tsunami was incredibly fast in both its formation and its advance, covering a distance of nearly ten kilometers in less than a minute.

The NEO naval vessels surrounding Beehive Island had no time to react before being swept up by the huge waves and slammed down.

Blackbeard considers his lair destroyed; all he can do now is exact revenge on all the enemies who destroyed Beehive Island.

Beehive Island, already reduced to a wasteland by bombardment, is no longer affected by another tsunami. In Blackbeard's eyes, the pirates who failed to defend the island were already sinners deserving of death.

Robert remained seated without any intention of dodging, his aura steadily building up. When the waves crashed down on him, it was as if he had struck an invisible wall of energy, creating a large opening in the crest of the wave.

Robert was unharmed after the giant wave, not even getting his clothes wet, but the rest of the island suffered.

Faced with such a top-tier natural disaster, ordinary low-level combatants, whether pirates or marines, are utterly helpless.

First, they were slammed into the ground by the giant waves carrying enormous kinetic energy, and then the raging water swept everyone rapidly through the ruins of buildings on the island. Countless people were smashed to pieces. They hadn't died from the shelling before, but now they were dying at the hands of their own boss.

When the tide receded, only a handful of people were still standing on the entire Beehive Island.

Blackbeard flew through the air, confronting Robert on the island from afar: "Tsk, hahaha! Robert! We meet again. You've given me a real problem!"

Robert's momentum was in no way weak: "There's no other way. I can't just watch you become one of the Four Emperors, can I? Otherwise, I'll never have a peaceful day again!"

Blackbeard's smile faded: "Robert, I've always wanted to recruit you back into the crew. After all, you're powerful now and qualified to be my subordinate. We can completely forget about our past grievances."

Robert looked flattered: "Really? If you hadn't just taken down one of your men in one move, I almost would have believed you."

Blackbeard's face was grim: "They couldn't even defend their base, so their deaths are no big deal."

Robert stood up and dusted himself off: "Do you know that you were able to take over Beehive Island because of the opportunity presented by Terfalgar Law's hijacking of the Rocky Harbor?"

"The Rocky Harbor incident was something that Luo and I planned together."

"What you said to me back then, I'm returning to you now—"

"What I give you is yours; what I don't give you, you can't take!"

Chapter 30: Named Techniques Are Doubled in Power

Blackbeard glared at Robert, when suddenly an angry roar erupted from the island: "Blackbeard! Give me back my mother!"

Blackbeard frowned and glanced sideways at Edward Weevil, who was leaping and bounding around wielding a huge naginata.

He had no ability to attack aerial targets and was helpless against Blackbeard flying in the air, so he could only shout and curse loudly over and over again.

Blackbeard was already in a terrible mood, and seeing this big idiot only made him more irritable: "I'm not your father! Go to the underworld and ask him for your mother!"

He swung his arm, vibrating and compressing the air to strike Weevil from a distance.

Weevil was preoccupied with avenging his mother, but after being reminded by Blackbeard, he suddenly remembered: "That's right, my father was also killed by Blackbeard!"

With both old and new grudges combined, Weevil was even more enraged. Although he was knocked away by the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, he was thick-skinned and not seriously injured. He got up and continued to curse at Blackbeard.

Robert extended a finger, and a powerful current of electricity ripped through the sky, striking Blackbeard directly.

Blackbeard let out a scream. While the Dark-Dark Fruit's power granted him unparalleled defensive capabilities, it also doubled his sensitivity to pain.

Robert's casual strikes now generate millions of volts. While Blackbeard can still defend against it using his Devil Fruit powers, Armament Haki, and elemental resistance from his mental abilities, Sick Horse Strong cannot.

A powerful bolt of lightning struck its head, causing Zhuangzhuang's mane to stand on end. It was then charred black. Had it not been for its already exceptional physical abilities and the fact that it had consumed a Zoan-type Mythical Beast Fruit to enhance its vitality, it would have perished on the spot from that single blow.

Struck by lightning, Zhuangzhuang could no longer maintain his flight. Foaming at the mouth, he crashed headfirst to the ground, his black beard also slamming to the ground.

Blackbeard was furious and got up to fight Robert to the death when a huge figure suddenly appeared from the side, almost twice as tall as him at three and a half meters.

The massive naginata came crashing down, and Blackbeard gritted his teeth and threw a punch. The fist and the blade clashed, and both were sent flying.

Weevil was knocked over by the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, while Blackbeard was simply injured by Weevil's monstrous strength.

Blackbeard had just fallen from mid-air and was hit hard by a knife as soon as he landed. He gritted his teeth and stood up, only to feel a pain in his side and be sent flying again.

When Robert makes a move, it's a relentless and unstoppable storm.

He floated in mid-air, causing the free electrons in the air around Blackbeard to bombard him continuously. Some of the lightning strikes were simple elemental attacks, while others were imbued with Armament Haki.

Blackbeard screamed and howled as he was beaten, his clothes almost torn to shreds, revealing his body covered in black fur.

He never imagined that Robert's strength would grow to such an extent in just over a year.

Back in Marineford, Robert was already able to use his speed advantage to maneuver between two admirals. Although he was mostly protecting himself, his strength was not to be underestimated.

Now, a year later, he is not only faster, but he has also made up for his weakness in Haki. Blackbeard was stunned by this attack and had no idea how to deal with it.

Weevil scrambled to his feet from the rubble, shook his head, looked at Blackbeard who was being beaten one-sidedly, and angrily charged forward with his knife.

Blackbeard roared, and his body suddenly seemed to turn into a black hole, sinking into the ground and leaving only a huge black hole in the ground.

The black hole began to expand wildly, pulling everything it touched into it. Weevil was caught off guard and was pulled into the black hole, with half of his body sinking inside.

Robert flashed into view above Weevil, grabbed the hilt of his naginata, and yanked it hard.

Robert pulled Weevil out of the black hole like a radish, then casually tossed him toward Zhuangzhuang, the sick horse that had recovered and was flapping its wings to take off.

Although Weevil was not very intelligent, his intuition and reaction were as sharp as a wild beast. He immediately grabbed the enemy's mount and mounted it.

A three-meter-tall giant horse carried a five-meter-tall giant on its back, nearly crushing the already sickly Zhuangzhuang to death.

But it dared not act rashly at this moment, for Weevil's large hand was gripping its neck tightly, ready to snap it in two at the slightest movement.

The rest of the islanders were unlucky; whether they were pirates or NEO Marines, those who survived until now were all absolute masters.

However, no expert could survive this round of attacks. Blackbeard's Dark Acupoints were the first skill he developed, and any enemy trapped in them would suffer extreme pressure.

Even a master like Robert could easily dodge the attacks from the hidden acupoints without falling in, but once pulled in, no one could say they could survive by simply enduring the attack with their own body.