A cook, vice-captain of the Rocks Pirates?

As the dragon scale barrier of the Azure Dragon slowly dissipated due to energy depletion, the restaurant door opened again.

The members of the Rocks Pirates emerged in high spirits and great energy, their injuries largely healed, and their aura even stronger than before.

Rocks let out a satisfied burp, and looking at the exhausted naval fleet in the distance, a cruel smile appeared on his face.

"Alright, guys, you've eaten your fill, time to get back to work."

"Get rid of all these flies that are disturbing our meal!"

"Oh oh oh!"

Chapter 73 The Rout of the Navy

Amidst deafening roars, a massacre, in which the balance of power had been completely tilted, began.

Newgate was the first to be hit. He didn't even bother with any fancy moves. He simply concentrated the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit into his fists and blasted them repeatedly at the sea in front of him.

"Gurala lala la! The sea is pounding!"

Boom boom boom!

Three punches, just three punches.

Three massive cracks were torn open in the sea ahead, and violent shockwaves, spanning thousands of meters, crashed into the naval fleet's formation like three invisible deep-sea monsters.

Those warships, already battered and bruised, were as fragile as paper toys in the face of this devastating force.

The keels of the three frigates snapped instantly, accompanied by a sickening metallic twisting sound, breaking in two on the spot. Countless naval soldiers were swept into the cold seabed amidst their desperate cries.

"Stay calm! Everyone stay calm!"

On the naval flagship, Sengoku's eyes were bloodshot with rage. He once again transformed into a golden Buddha, unleashing shockwaves from his palms in an attempt to counteract the terrifying tremors.

However, as the tide turned, he was already at his limit, while Newgate was full of energy.

The golden light of Buddha seemed so powerless in the face of the pure white shockwave; the mere aftershocks shook the flagship violently, as if it would fall apart at any moment.

"Warring States, it seems your dinner time isn't quite here yet?"

Newgate carried the naginata, his face displaying a playful, cat-and-mouse expression.

On the other hand, Garp also encountered a predicament that was rare in his life.

Lox's figure was like a ghost, never confronting him head-on, but instead using his elusive gravitational abilities to move freely across the battlefield.

He would sometimes appear above a warship, press down with one hand, activate his black acupoints, and the warship would be as if it were being grabbed by an invisible giant hand and forcibly pressed into the sea.

At other times, it would appear on the flank of another warship, unleashing a repulsive force that would shove it violently towards its own allies, creating even greater chaos.

"Damn it! Rocks! If you've got the guts, fight me fair and square!"

Garp roared, his iron fists capable of shattering mountains, yet he could never catch his slippery opponent.

"beat?"

Rocks' voice came from all directions, full of mockery: "I'm just cleaning up the trash, Garp. You and your fleet are not even worthy of being my opponents now."

Lingling even transforms into a pink natural disaster on the battlefield.

She was full and in a good mood, and Prometheus and Zeus above her head became larger and more active than ever before.

"Hahaha! Renn's rice balls are so delicious! I feel so full of energy!"

She commanded Zeus to unleash a real thunderstorm over the naval fleet.

Countless thick lightning bolts rained down, snapping the masts of warships one after another, leaving the decks charred black.

Prometheus transformed into a giant fire dragon, circling the sea and devouring the fallen naval soldiers and shipwrecks, creating a burning inferno.

Gatz and Silver also found their own fun.

Gatz leaped onto a cruiser, whipping the massive anchor into a whirlwind, sending naval soldiers on deck flying like bowling pins.

Not satisfied with that, he used anchor chains to tie the two close warships together, then roared and dragged them together, causing a deafening crash.

Silver, on the other hand, was like an elegant grim reaper, his figure flashing between the command towers of the various warships.

When he does act, he precisely destroys the ship's rudder or communication equipment, rendering the warships completely commandless and turning them into sitting ducks on the sea.

This battle can no longer be called a battle; it's a one-sided demolition operation filled with dark humor.

The morale of the naval fleet completely collapsed in the face of the overwhelming disparity in strength.

"Monsters...they are all monsters..."

"Run! We can't win!"

Panic spread like a plague, and finally some warships began to disregard orders, turning around in an attempt to escape this hell.

"No one is allowed to back down!"

With a roar, Zhan Guo unleashed his golden Buddha palm, smashing a fleeing destroyer to pieces, attempting to stabilize morale with ruthless methods.

However, this was all in vain.

"Hahaha! Sengoku, stop struggling."

Garp's laughter was filled with helplessness and a hint of bitterness. He gave up chasing Rocks and returned to the flagship.

"If we keep fighting, we'll lose everything we have here."

He looked at the several figures in the distance that resembled demons, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

"These guys... are beyond our current capabilities."

Sengoku fell silent. He looked at the devastated fleet and the soldiers whose eyes were filled with nothing but fear. For the first time, his steely heart felt powerless.

He slowly retracted his Buddha form, returning to his original state, and in a hoarse voice, issued the most humiliating order of his naval career to the Den Den Mushi.

"The entire fleet...retreats."

"Want to go?"

Rocks appeared above their flagship, looking down at the two top naval forces with undisguised mockery on his face.

"Have you asked me?"

"Locks!"

Garp looked up and roared at him.

"We've lost this time! But don't forget, this is Navy territory! If you let us go today, we'll have another chance to fight you in the future! If you push us too far, we'll fight to the death, and you won't get away with it either!"

“The fish is dead and the net is broken?”

Lox seemed to have heard the funniest joke: "You bunch of crippled soldiers who haven't even had a proper meal?"

Just as Lockes was preparing to strike a fatal blow and leave the fleet stranded, a calm voice rang out again through the ship's loudspeaker.

"Captain, it's ready."

It's Rennes.

"Our ship's rum and steak reserves have been replenished. The Navy's food quality is indeed excellent. In addition, the keel of the Azure Dragon has developed three new cracks during the battle just now. If the fighting continues, Dorum might really cry himself to death."

Upon hearing this, Lockes curled his lip, glanced at the imposing but indeed cratered Azure Dragon at his feet, and then looked at the group of navy members in the distance who were terrified and had no will to resist.

He suddenly felt a bit bored.

"Ok."

Lox waved his hand, as if shooing away a swarm of annoying flies.

"Get lost. Go back and tell those old bastards at the World Government to wash their necks and wait, I'll be coming for them soon."

The naval fleet, feeling as if granted a pardon, turned around in a sorry state and fled the turbulent sea that they would never forget as quickly as possible.

A naval battle worthy of being recorded in history came to an abrupt end in a way that no one had expected.

The Rocks Pirates, in the most flamboyant and domineering way, announced their power to the world.

Chapter 74 The New Bounty

The naval fleet's hasty retreat appeared small and laughable amidst the churning, blood-red waves of the turbulent sea.

On the Qinglong, the ecstasy of surviving the disaster mingled with the exhilaration of alcohol fermentation, turning into a deafening celebration.

"Hahaha! Did you see Sengoku's frustrated face? It looks worse than if he ate an expired sea king!"

Gatz carried a huge rum barrel, just borrowed from a naval supply ship, on his shoulder and poured the liquor into his mouth like a fountain, the liquor flowing down his bronze chest.

"Gurarararar! That guy's Buddha aura is still not as effective as Chef Renn's rice ball!"

Newgate laughed just as heartily, sitting atop a mountain of spoils, his naginata serving as a giant roasting fork, skewering an unknown sea monster's leg and grilling it over the small flames spewed by Prometheus.

Lingling let out a satisfied burp. Zeus and Prometheus, who were beside her, had both swelled up in size after eating the steel and gunpowder from several warships, and looked quite adorable.

She wasn't very interested in fighting now; she was just staring longingly at Ryan, anticipating the next dessert.

Silver remained silent, sitting alone on the highest watchtower, carefully wiping his spear with a clean white silk cloth.

A shallow scratch appeared on the gun, left from the aftershock of the Warring States shockwave.

His eyes were sharper than ever before; this clash with the world's top experts had deepened his understanding of power to a new level.

The person who suffered the most in this revelry was none other than the shipwright Dorum.

He wandered around the decks and cabins of the Azure Dragon like a ghost, carrying a small hammer and a stethoscope, tapping here and listening there.

With each new injury he discovered, his face grew more sorrowful, and he muttered to himself as if mourning his lost youth.

"Seventeen fine cracks have appeared on the port side's third armor plate, caused by the aftershocks of Lord Newgate and Sengoku's fistfight... This is a shape memory alloy, a shape memory alloy that can self-repair! Now even its memory is almost blurred!"

"The energy shield generator at the stern is 120% overloaded and is now just a pile of scrap metal! Miss Lingling's lightning burned its fuse to ashes!"

"Keel... My God, those three new cracks on the keel are deeper than the wrinkles on my face! The captain's kick almost blew through the bottom of our own ship!"

Dorum hugged a broken railing and cried like a 300-pound child.

"This isn't a pirate ship, it's a mobile monster arena! Why did I even get on this pirate ship in the first place?!"

Raine walked over with a steaming bowl of calming soup and handed it to him calmly.

"Drink it, then sort and organize the captured naval spare alloy plates. The repair work on the Qinglong should begin tonight."

Dorum took the soup, and as he smelled the soothing aroma, his sobbing gradually subsided.

He knew that complaining wouldn't solve the problem; only by constantly repairing and reinforcing the ship could he prevent it from falling apart in the next, even more terrifying collision.

Just then, a newsbird, in an almost suicidal descent, screamed as it plummeted from the sky.

It seemed to have been terrified by the several still-present, terrifying auras emanating from the Azure Dragon.

He tossed a stack of the latest newspapers and several brand-new bounty posters onto the deck and fled for his life at three times the speed he had come, as if staying even a second longer would mean being crushed into mincemeat by the terrifying air pressure.

"Oh? There's new news again?"

Gatz picked up the newspaper out of curiosity, and when he saw the headline printed in the most eye-catching and sensational font on the front page, his eyes widened like anchors.

[The world is shocked! The Navy's G-1 Fleet suffers a devastating blow! Sengoku and Garp are both defeated!]

In the newspaper, a photo taken by some reckless war correspondent took up the entire page.

The background of the photo is a burning ocean and a capsized warship, while in the very center of the picture, the figure of Rocks floats in the air, looking down at the world with a domineering posture and an arrogant smile, full of a bewitching charm that makes the world tremble.

Below the photo are several brand-new bounty posters, which are somewhat blurry due to the emergency reprint, but still exude a powerful aura.

Undoubtedly, the world government was enraged by the direct defeat of the elite fleet led by naval heroes and strategists, an event that can be described as the biggest scandal in the history of the navy over the past century.

Their bounty amount saw an unprecedented and explosive increase.

At the very top, of course, is Rocks.

[Rocks D. Giebeck: Bounty of 4 billion Berries!]

[Crimes: Defeating the Marine Headquarters Grand Fleet in a direct confrontation, severely damaging Garp and Sengoku, and openly declaring war on the World Government—the crimes are heinous, and capture or execution is warranted!]

"Hahaha! Forty billion! Looks like those old guys in the World Government finally know their stuff!"

Lox looked at his bounty poster and laughed with satisfaction.

This number surpasses all the well-known pirates on the high seas, making him the undisputed most dangerous man in the world.

Following closely behind was Newgate. In the photo, he is seen punching through space, his destructive power seemingly bursting off the paper.