Pirate's Swordsman

New World, Bingtao Island, in the residence of the city lord.

Outside the window, the night was dark and the stars were sparse. Xia Nuo sat cross-legged behind the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the distant coast with penetrating eyes, as if he was thinking about something.

Naturally, he knew nothing about the worldwide sensation he caused after defeating Jonst a few days ago. In fact, he had been concentrating on practicing in this tall city lord's villa for the past few days.

After completing the oath in the theater square that day, the crew of the Gale Pirates took advantage of the situation to clean up the remaining forces under Jonest's men, and occupied the castle lord's mansion in Noda, where they discovered a mountain of treasures and wealth.

Most of these were ill-gotten gains that were forcibly collected when Jonest occupied Bingtao Island. Xia Nuo did not pocket them all, but asked the residents of Bingtao Island to claim them on their own.

Of course, this claim is not without supervision measures. After all, among the ordinary people in any country, although there are few treacherous and evil people, there are definitely a small number who want to take advantage of it by using small tricks.

The solution is quite simple, just ask the Senate to send someone to watch.

Speaking of which, before the arrival of Jones, Bingtao Island had always been a commercial town with a somewhat democratic atmosphere, using a senatorial parliamentary system.

The members of the Senate are basically elders who are well-known among the people. They once led the people from poverty to wealth. However, it gradually declined after the Jonest dictatorship came to power. Today, it has become a complete empty frame.

Therefore, after Schiano completed the cleanup and takeover of Jonest's forces, the first thing he did was to reconvene the Senate, revealing that he was not interested in taking over the so-called position of city lord, and returned power to the hands of these locals.

This move made the local residents who were still a little wary after the theater conflict immediately feel relieved. At the same time, they were also full of gratitude to Xia Nuo. After some private consultations, they even took the initiative to send representatives to request Xia Nuo. Bingtao Island was taken over.

This request actually has another meaning. Although Jonest's death means the return of freedom, to a certain extent, it also means that this land has lost a flag that can protect them.

Therefore, it has become a top priority to find a force that can be relied on. In this case, Xia Nuo, who is one of the Seven Warlords under the King and is far more upright and reliable than Jonster, naturally became the best candidate. .

Xia Nuo also understood the twists and turns involved. Mermaid Island was a similar example. However, when the people's representatives proposed that they would pay 20% of their annual income as taxes, Xia Nuo decisively refused.

He is not interested in money.

As long as it can meet basic daily needs, then the rest is just waste paper, especially now that after successively extorting money from the navy, the remaining wealth of the Hayate Pirates is enough to last for several years, so no matter how much tax Hyoutao Island has It can only be the icing on the cake and is basically meaningless.

This attitude made the elders of the Senate sigh with emotion. You must know that during the previous reign of Jones, he had to collect a full 50% as tax. This was not counting the harvest that he would just rob if he liked it. In comparison, Xia Nuo cannot be described as a good person, he is almost like a saint.

However, the money was not accepted, but it did not mean that they could not express their gratitude in other ways. Not only the best boatmen on the island took the initiative to come and conduct an overall overhaul of the Gale, the fruit farmers also prepared a large number of high-quality ice peaches. Sent to the ship's storage room.

Even the shop owners in the shopping street took action, giving away clothes, and lunch boxes. There were even some young men who approached the leaders of the Hayate Pirates with great reverence and asked to become Hayate. A member of the pirate group.

Of course, the latter was politely rejected by Xia Nuo on the spot. A place like the New World is really not something that a young man can break into with his passion. Letting these little guys who are just stronger than ordinary people join is almost the same as letting them join. They went to die.

and so.

In this atmosphere, Xia Nuo asked the Senate to help distribute the stolen goods in the Jonster mansion. It was naturally impossible for the other party to refuse. Some elders in their seventies and eighties even went to the scene to supervise in person, watching with eager eyes. Which brat dares to come and take advantage and embarrass himself in front of Master Xia Nuo?

The effect of this was immediate. In less than a day, basically all the stolen goods that Jones had collected over the years were returned to the original owner.

There were still many unclaimed ones of unknown origin. Xia Nuo originally planned to transfer them to the Senate for safekeeping, but was sternly rejected by those stubborn old men. He had no choice but to cash them in and keep them as reserve funds for shipboard expenses, and threw them into In the ship's storage room.

After solving these problems, Xia Nuo was not in a hurry to take the crew away in the next few days. Instead, he took everyone to live in Jonest's mansion and rest here for a while.

Xia Nuo chose the largest room on the top floor of the main building. This was not because he had another episode of bed-choosing, but next door to this room was a large training room covering an area of ​​thousands of square meters. There is a hidden mechanism, and when you press the mechanism, countless hidden weapons will fly out. It seems that Jonst is using it to hone his speed.

For Xia Nuo, this was the perfect place to practice the domineering power of knowledge. He was so happy to see Hunter Xin that he spent almost all his time in this large training room in the past few days.

From entering at 5 a.m. every morning to ending at 8 or 9 p.m., except for a brief meal time, Xia Nuo truly did not leave the door or take a step back. This style is vaguely similar to that of some people in the previous life who held their mobile phones every day. The stupid fat house with a giggly smile has the same purpose.

However, it was slightly different from when he was on the ship. This time, Xia Nuo clearly felt that, except for himself, the rest of the crew were also following him and working hard to practice. Almost all the training rooms in the manor were occupied. It’s so full that you can even see people getting up early to exercise in the garden in the early morning.

Just like now, it has already been dark like this tomorrow. In the garden outside the floor-to-ceiling window, two figures can still be seen fighting there. From time to time, the sound of blasting and breaking wind can be heard, obviously they are fighting very seriously.

One of the two people has a red afro and wears large goggles, while the other has messy yellow hair and two scythes attached to his wrists. They are quite recognizable even from such a distance.

It was Kidd and Kira.

"These two boys"

After watching for a while, Xia Nuo saw that the two of them had not stopped showing interest. He smiled and shook his head slightly. He was too lazy to watch anymore and jumped off the window sill and returned to the bed to rest.

Speaking of which, ever since he fainted on the spot after being punched by Jones in anger because of his taunting, Kidd seemed to be a different person when he woke up.

Not only did he no longer look like he was carefree and wanted to be beaten, but he became a bit taciturn. He practiced hard from morning to night in silence for a few days. From time to time, he would also invite other cadres in the regiment to practice. Even though he was hit all over his head by Daz, he never gave up halfway.

This look of someone who was obviously stimulated and wanted to work hard made Xia Nuo feel happy but also a little worried about Kidd, a kid who had a miserable childhood. He learned to kill and take revenge with his own hands at a young age, and his violent aura was shocking. Until he met After getting along with Xia Nuo for so long, things eased.

Therefore, Xia Nuo would rather this little guy maintain his usual funny appearance than have his psychology become distorted again and develop into the murderous monster Supernova in the original timeline.

but

Xia Nuo's eyes flashed slightly. With his own care and protection, this kid shouldn't become so extreme. As long as his momentum slows down or his strength is advanced enough to stand on his own, he will The character will naturally slowly return to its previous normal state.

Shaking his head again to drive away the rest of the distracting thoughts in his mind, Xia Nuo took off his shoes and went to bed with a tired look on his face. Just as he was about to fall asleep under the quilt, he suddenly turned over and sat up, turning his head to look out the window, a trace of uncertainty flashed in his eyes.

At this moment, he obviously did not deliberately investigate, but he could clearly sense the traces of the two people outside in the garden, and even their every move, including the angle and direction of their attacks, and the timing of their evasive movements. , as if it were happening in front of our eyes.

"See and hear color"

After coming back to his senses, Xia Nuo whispered subconsciously, with a hint of surprise in his eyes. Could it be that after these days of special training and hard work, his knowledge and knowledge finally broke through a key bottleneck. Came to a higher level

In order to verify this guess, he closed his eyes slightly, tried his best to use his sense of sight to explore the surrounding situation, and continued to work farther and farther.

After such investigation, Xia Nuo discovered that his range of perception had actually been able to spread to the entire manor, and he could ignore the many walls. He could even "hear" a little black dog strolling boredly outside the manor.

It seems like a breakthrough indeed.

Xia Nuo couldn't help but clenched his fists, and his face showed excitement for a long time. This breakthrough was so crucial, especially in terms of seeing, hearing, and sex. This undoubtedly meant that he would be able to use more of his trump cards in actual combat in the future. There's one more

After calming down, Xia Nuo thought for a while, opened the attribute panel, skipped the previous data, and looked at the last skill column. As expected, he found that the knowledge and color column inside had changed. It was controlled by "Advanced Control" It became "perfect control".

"Most of the powerful people in this world now are no longer as good as me in terms of their knowledge, knowledge and appearance."

After closing the properties panel, Xia Nuo lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling and thinking secretly.

This idea was not an arrogant talk he said when he was temporarily carried away by excitement, but a conclusion he judged based on ideal analysis.

After all, unlike Armed Color Haki, which requires Xia Nuo to work hard to improve slowly, he has been immersed in swordsmanship since childhood, and has shown extremely amazing talent as soon as he practices Shimonoseki.

Before, his knowledge and appearance were no weaker than those of enemies at the level of Doflamingo and White Wolf Jonester, so now that he has broken through to the perfect state, he is naturally no less powerful than the Yonko, the general. The most powerful person.

There are only a few people left who are stronger than him, only those who are specialized and perverted like Katakuri, who can predict the future in a short period of time. Xia Nuo thinks that he is far inferior to him, but his current perfect control In his opinion, it is not actually his limit.

As long as you continue to practice and practice, accumulate improvements, and make breakthroughs in the future, you may not be unable to have the almost perverted ability to predict the future.