Pirate's Swordsman

Memory fruit.

This is the most special type of all devil fruits in Xia Nuo's impression.

People with abilities can not only easily read the memories of others, but can even delete and modify the memories after a little development.

This is an ability that is extremely scary when you think about it. In fact, Xia Nuo has always believed that any fruit that involves soul thought is quite terrifying, and can truly correspond to the word "devil".

As long as it is used properly, it can play an unimaginable role.

"I want to keep this one first."

After thinking for a while, he first put away the wooden box, and then glanced at the remaining Devil Fruits:

"As for the remaining seven, as well as the candle fruits sent by the Kingdom of Germa before, they can be used as rewards and distributed to cadres who performed outstandingly in these two wars."

Kira and others naturally had no objection.

Most of them were the first crew members to board the ship, and they were also the core executives of the Gale Fleet. Most of them were already Devil Fruit users. If the remaining few really wanted to become users, they would have obtained them long ago. There is no need to worry about this at all.

Considering that the scale of the Gale Fleet is getting larger and larger, and in order to control the Totland Sea in the future, there will be a wave of expansion. These not-so-top Devil Fruits can be used as rewards to cultivate a group of mid-level forces. Quite a good choice.

"Look more and see if there are any other useful things besides these Devil Fruits."

After handing the extra Devil Fruit to Kira for safekeeping, Shano ordered.

"Yes, Captain"

Everyone responded one after another and began to spread out, searching for this huge treasure house from different directions.

It must be said that the types of treasures stored in this treasure house are quite rich.

In addition to Devil Fruits, the officers of the Hayate Pirates also found many good things in the pile of gold and silver treasures, such as a large number of permanent pointers to new world islands, bio-wave transmitters that can control deep-sea slugs, and digital The quality of the handle is at least the level of a good sword.

The most valuable thing, undoubtedly, is the three huge stone tablets placed side by side.

"This should be the text of history."

Everyone gathered over and looked at the densely packed ancient words on it. Baby5 said softly:

"According to the information collected on the dark web, two of the three pieces in Big Mom's hands are purely texts that record the one-hundred-year history of the blank, while the other piece is the text of a road sign pointing to the final island of Ravdru."

"Signpost Text"

Xia Nuo pondered with his eyes open. Based on the impression from his previous life, he vaguely remembered that there were four road sign texts in the world, among which Big Mom and Kaido each controlled one.

The remaining two pieces, one of Zuowu, is controlled by the Kozuki clan of Wano Country, and the other piece was originally on Fish-Man Island, but it disappeared without a trace many years ago and has never been seen again.

"strangeness"

He looked at these stone tablets covered with profound and unspeakable words, and suddenly frowned slightly.

It was obviously the first time for him to see these historical texts with his own eyes, but for some reason, he always felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as if he had been exposed to these things many years ago.

This subtle feeling came and went quickly, disappearing in an instant. Xia Nuo's expression returned to normal, and he glanced at the three stone tablets for the last time with a deep look.

"Let's stay here and take care of it for the time being. Anyway, almost no one in this world can decipher it."

After thinking for a while, he ordered, "But just in case, I will have two more rubbings made later."

"Yes."

The cadres behind him nodded, and Xia Nuo, who turned to leave the treasure house, walked down the aisle of the castle in the moonlight, his thoughts changing for a moment.

Speaking of which, he had not had much interest in what was recorded in the historical text or in collecting the four road signs leading to Loughdrew.

Instead of spending time studying these things, he would rather practice the sword by himself and move towards a higher level of swordsmanship.

But now, everything is different.

Although that inexplicable sense of familiarity seemed a bit illusory and like an illusion, it successfully aroused Xia Nuo's interest and forced him to start thinking about deciphering the historical text.

"It seems that apart from O'Hara's scholars, I have never heard of anyone else being able to understand the text of history."

His eyes flickered slightly and he fell into deep thought, "Do we really have to go to Alabasta to get Robin from the Sand Crocodile?"

Let’s look back.

Thinking of the various troubles that had occurred in the thirty-four subordinate islands since the recent occupation of the Totland Sea, he couldn't help but shook his head. The new territory needed time to stabilize, and at least he certainly didn't have the time recently.

Time passes day by day.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of days later, the year 1517 in the Hainan calendar came to an end and entered the first month of 1518.

After these days of care, the Totland waters have gradually returned to the right track, and the situation has basically stabilized.

Especially when the tax collection day came at the end of the month, the Hayate Pirates fulfilled their previous promise and indeed collected only about 40% of the taxes from the Ten Thousand Kingdoms Period.

The people on the thirty-four islands finally let go of the last worry and guard in their hearts, and began to regard the current Fourth Emperor Xia Nuo as a rare wise master, and they sincerely obeyed and became his subjects.

The title of Ten Thousand Kingdoms has also been cancelled, and the original name of the Totland Sea has been restored. Cake Island, as the core area, has also been determined to become the base camp of the Gale Pirates and was officially renamed Wind Island.

Xia Nuo picked this name casually. Although the old crew members felt that it was a bit too ordinary and could not highlight the domineering power of the Four Emperors, everyone was useless at naming it. They gathered together and thought about it with a sad face for a long time, but they couldn't. I could come up with a better name, so I simply acquiesced.

And the next morning after the name was decided.

It snowed heavily all night on the Wind Island. There was snow everywhere, and it looked like a scene covered in silver.

The sea surface was even more foggy, and a chill enveloped the port, causing Beibo, who was fishing on the pier, to shiver violently.

"Ah"

It sneezed out, wiped the tip of its nose that was slightly red from the cold with its furry bear paw, and muttered:

"Fortunately, I am a furry person, so I can withstand the cold without wearing any clothes, but I am so sleepy. If the fish doesn't come up yet, I will have to go back and catch up on my sleep."

While he was thinking about it, he suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that a lone figure vaguely appeared on the sea in the distance.

"Eh"

Bebo raised his head blankly and looked at the figure coming from the thick fog. When the distance was much closer, it noticed that the other person was actually standing with his hands behind his back, stepping on a small boat that looked like a coffin board. Go up and let the ocean current push you towards the shore.

“very good”

Its dark bear eyes shone with light, and he said with amazement: "You can sail on the sea with such a small boat without an oar."

As he was talking, the small boat had already arrived. A middle-aged man wearing a burgundy shirt and a top hat jumped up from the boat and landed firmly on the pier.

"This little brother Xiong."

After seeing clearly the face of Bebo who was fishing on the pier, Mihawk's eyes twitched without trace, suppressed the address, and said directly in a low voice:

"Excuse me, can you help me call your captain?"

"Hawkeye is coming"

In the castle, Xia Nuo, who had just finished breakfast, was slightly startled after hearing the report from Luo standing in front of him.

"Yes, head of the house."

Luo's spirit was a little sluggish, and he seemed to have not slept well, so he said feebly:

"It was that guy from Bebo who found him. He was fishing at the pier. Eagle Eye asked him to inform you. But this stupid bear just ran to my house and carried me from my bed to the port."

""

Everyone around the table was silent for a few seconds. Xia Nuo glanced at Luo sympathetically, "Then you can go back to bed later, where is the Eagle Eye?"

"Still waiting at the port. It's snowing heavily outside. I asked him to come to the castle for a meeting but he didn't respond. He said he only wanted to see you."

After saying this, Luo turned around and walked towards the door, waved his hand and said, "Then, boss, I'll go back and catch up on my sleep first."

"Go."

Xia Nuo nodded, and after watching Luo leave, he put down the knife and fork in his hand, picked up the sword leaning on the table, and slowly stood up.

"Want us to follow, Captain?"

At the dining table, the crew members of the Gale Wind Pirates who were dining together all cast inquiring glances.

"Need not."

He smiled and shook his head, "I can probably guess the purpose of Hawkeye's visit. Since that guy named him and only wanted to see me, then I can go there alone."

After saying these words, he left the table, and under the gaze of everyone, he held Lanqi and stepped into the snow outside the castle.

"Hawkeye came here, he must want to discuss swordsmanship with the captain."

Looking at the wind and snow outside, Daniel was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses. He counted with his fingers, "It seems that the last time was in the first half of the Grand Route. They haven't seen each other in four years."

"This battle should be the battle that determines the title of the world's greatest swordsman."

Ross, who was sitting across from him, couldn't restrain his excitement. He stood up suddenly and said, "No, as a swordsman, how can I not witness such a meaningful battle with my own eyes?"

"Eh"

Daniel was stunned and said in astonishment: "But the captain said we don't need to follow him."

"That's not necessary, but it's not forbidden."

Ross glared at him and said, "Stop talking nonsense, just tell me whether you want to see it or not, and whether you want to go or not."

How could you not want to go?

Daniel just didn't think about it for a moment. In fact, as a swordsman, he was as full of expectations and curiosity about this battle as Rose. He immediately put down the tableware and hurriedly chased after Rose.

"I know these two guys."

Looking at the retreating figures of the two swordsman captains on the ship, Boatswain Delamp shook his head helplessly, and then looked at his companions around him, laughing and asking:

"Well, the captain is indeed not sure. Should we go over and have a look? Just be careful to keep a distance and not disturb them."

Before he finished speaking, there was a clanging sound of tables and chairs being dragged, and in a blink of an eye, he was the only one left next to Nuo Da's dining table.

""

Delamp stared dumbfoundedly at the people rushing out. It took him a few seconds to come back to his senses. He hurriedly got up and left the dining table, running towards the outside of the castle:

"Hey, why don't you wait for me, you bunch of little bastards"