The gourmet among pirates

The earth seemed to turn into an erupting volcano under this move!

Breathing out flames wantonly!

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I don't know how long has passed.

When the dazzling golden red flames dissipated and the high temperature disappeared.

All that is left are embers!

The landforms with a radius of one kilometer were completely changed by Ace's move [Great Flame Ring: Emperor Yan].

The river dried up and the water evaporated, leaving only the dry river channel and the corpses of fish and shrimp that turned into ashes at the bottom of the river channel.

And the originally beautiful countryside with lush vegetation turned into a scorched earth spewing lava.

The vegetation turned to ashes!

Only those old trees that are hundreds of years old still have smokey roots under the surface.

He looked at the huge scorched pit not far from him that was blasted out by the [Great Flame Ring: Emperor Yan].

Ace let out a light sigh.

"Not dead yet?"

All I saw was the bottom of the huge scorched crater that looked like a meteorite crater overnight.

There was a mass of burnt black matter, still exuding a trace of life.

Listen carefully.

It seems that a faint heart beating sound can also be heard.

Looking at the charred mass, it was completely indistinguishable in shape and human.

Even Ace was a little surprised by the tenacity of the other party's vitality.

No one knows better than him how terrifying the temperature of 4,000 degrees Celsius in the center of [Great Flame Ring: Emperor Yan] is.

At this high temperature of more than 4,000 degrees, even steel will be melted into molten iron and then evaporate.

Not to mention the flesh and blood of the human body.

Not to mention the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, these ordinary people who don't even have the power to master their weapons and colors.

Even if the bounties in the new world are as high as hundreds of millions, or even billions of beli, the monsters are as powerful as monsters, and the weapons are ridiculously domineering.

They didn't dare to rely on their powerful armed and domineering defense to resist Ace's move [Great Flame Ring: Emperor Yan] head-on.

Because, even if they were to suffer such a blow, they would probably die or be maimed.

That's why.

Ace was even more curious.

How did the coke below survive his [Great Flame Ring: Emperor Yan]?

However, feeling the faint heartbeat below, Ace nodded slightly in his heart.

There was only one heartbeat, which meant that only one of the four Knights of the Apocalypse survived.

For Ace.

at this point.

I can barely accept it!

Click!

Click click!

At this time, a clicking sound suddenly came from the shapeless piece of black coke at the bottom of the coke pit.

I saw something that looked almost completely carbonized.

The carbonized layer on the surface actually cracked, and a blood-red humanoid monster crawled out from the horse.

"Is this thing... or a human being?"

Under Ace's shocked gaze, the surface of the blood-red humanoid creature below.

Flesh and blood squirms!

Muscles, blood vessels, god-level, and even the surface skin are all regenerating at a terrifying speed!

"Hiss... What a terrifying recovery speed!"

Ace took a breath.

Without hesitation, he waved his sword and slashed out.

Ace is not a pedantic guy. He will not wait for the unknown guy below to recover from his injuries before taking action.

Taking advantage of victory and pursuing it is his style.

It was beyond Ace's expectation.

When his sword light wrapped in flames fell.

It was very easy to cut the guy below who was recovering quickly into two halves.

However, the body that was cut in half seemed unable to hinder his recovery.

Even the body that was cut in half secreted a large amount of black-red material, tightly gluing his upper body and lower body that were about to slip.

In just a few breaths, the humanoid creature made of flesh and blood finally turned into a human.

From a distance, the outline looks somewhat similar to that of Famine Knight Perkins, but his body and facial features are much plumper, at least he doesn't look so skinny.

"Hey, I didn't expect you to be the one who survived!" Ace said with some surprise, standing in the distance.

"hehe······"

A hoarse voice sounded like a broken bellows, and Perkins, who was at the bottom of the scorched pit, raised his head with difficulty. His face, which looked much more handsome, was half ferocious and half bitter, and looked extremely strange.

"Why, why... you are so strong!!"

"Why are you so powerful and able to change the world, but you watch countless people struggling to survive and survive..."

"I have worked hard all day, but I can't even get enough food to fill my stomach. I can only live in despair, getting weaker day by day, and waiting to die in despair and helplessness..."

As he spoke, the eyes on half of Perkins' ferocious face slowly turned red.

A factory full of smoke and darkness, with busy workers.

A grown man worked hard all day, but could only get a pitiful piece of black bread mixed with stones and sawdust.

That little food can't fill my stomach at all.

It can only make them survive longer.

They also had to survive.

Secretly go hunting in the jungle and go fishing in the sea.

But in the Principality of Moscow, all harvests are illegal without the permission of the Grand Duke of Moscow.

If caught, they will be sentenced to death.

Only by spending a large amount of money to buy a fishing license and a hunting license from the Grand Duke of Moscow can you "legally" hunt and fish.

However, how can those poor people who live at the bottom of society and find it extremely difficult to survive have the money to buy those things.

Obviously, there are abundant supplies in the sea and jungle, enough for them to survive.

But because of the expensive fishing license and hunting license, they can only look back and sigh.

Gradually being eaten away by hunger.

Then go crazy in despair and die in madness.

Perkins prayed countless times for justice.

I also placed my hope in the righteous navy!

But justice never came, and the navy... never came to their aid.

until.

When Perkins was about to fall into the abyss of despair.

The old man wearing a priest's robe and walking out of the monastery found him.

He said to him:

"No one will care about these poor people whose lives are more humble than ants. The Grand Duke of the Principality of Moscow will not care. Those navy who claim to be righteous will also not care. The only ones who can save them are themselves."

That day.

The unkind priest told him a lot.

some words.

Perkins had long forgotten.

The only thing he remembered was.

At last.

Before leaving, the priest asked him if he was willing to use his life to change the world, change this sad, decayed world.

He... agreed.

after that.

Perkins was taken to the basement of Moonlight Abbey by the priest, and then ate a lump of something that the priest took out of his body.

Perkins remembers it well.

The priest said that was something that could change his destiny.

Perkins had no doubts.

He ate the wad.

Since then, his fate has been rewritten.

Ever since he ate that thing, Perkins has become visibly stronger every day.

But at the same time.

He was eating more and more.

The food is enough to fill an ordinary person's stomach, but it cannot satisfy his desire at all.

and.

The more he ate, the hungrier Perkins became.

But the hungrier he gets, the stronger he becomes.

Don't know when it will start.

Perkins discovered that not only could he become stronger due to hunger, but he could even devour other people's hunger.

At that moment, he suddenly realized.

It turns out that what the priest said was to change the fate of others.

Is this it?

If I devour everyone else's hunger, would there be no hunger in the world?

A year ago, during the natural and man-made disaster that nearly killed tens of thousands of people from starvation, in order to save tens of thousands of poor people who were about to starve to death, Perkins devoured all their hunger...

At that moment, Perkins' power increased unparalleled.

He even felt like he could punch through an island with one punch.

But not before he got excited.

Tens of thousands of superimposed hungers directly drove Perkins crazy and made him lose his mind.

That day.

Perkins didn't know what he had done.

But it seems...

If the priest hadn't been prepared in advance and sealed himself together with Saint Monroe and the War Knights.

Tens of thousands of people were saved by him at that time.

possible······

He would kill them all.

From then on, other people began to look at him with a hint of fear and apprehension.

That's why.

Since then.

Perkins began to suppress his hunger, and even locked himself in the Moonlight Monastery, not going out much anymore.

He fears!

He was afraid that he would become the kind of man who would be dominated by hunger again and become the kind of madman who lost his fear.

Because since that day, he smelled the fragrance of flesh and blood, and began to long for flesh and blood.

Even flesh and blood of the same kind.

If he hadn't suppressed it, Perkins felt that he might, would, eat... people!

Perkins once asked the priest, who had become the pope and rarely appeared in public at first, in great panic what was going on.

But said Fr.

This is the test given to him by God, and it is also the price he needs to pay to bear that power. If he does not have a firm will that transcends everything, how can he save this corrupt and fallen world.

Perkins was a little confused by the priest's explanation.

Sure enough, there is no such thing as a free breakfast in this world.

But vaguely, he seemed to feel something was wrong.

after that.

After the three knights of the apocalypse, war, plague, and death, experienced more or less similar situations as their strength increased, it felt even more wrong.

However, with their limited knowledge, they couldn't say what was wrong.

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Looking at Perkins who seemed to be going hysterical and crazy not far away, Ace laughed at himself: "The power to change the world, haha, you really think highly of me."

"In your opinion, my strength seems to be powerful enough to change the world, but in the eyes of those truly strong, my strength is nothing at all. Let alone changing the world, I can't even change my own destiny. "

Thinking that if his teacher Mo Lin hadn't desperately saved him, he would have been imprisoned by the World Government long ago, or even publicly executed like his father, the self-deprecating look on Ace's face became even more intense. Rich.

"Even a strong person like my teacher is restrained by strong people and forces one after another. What do I mean?"

"However, although we can't change the world, we are doing our best to make the places we look at better..."

The world is too big.

Not to mention the whole world.

Even the entire East China Sea cannot be taken care of by the navy.

There are so many islands, kingdoms and city-states large and small, how can the navy really control them?

On the vast sea, chasing those criminal pirates has already consumed almost all of their energy, not to mention other things.

Moreover, countries that join the World Government, such as the Principality of Moscow, have signed contracts with the World Government, strictly prohibiting the World Government and the navy from interfering in their internal affairs.

Without a proper reason, the Navy cannot intervene even if it sees these things with its own eyes.

This is one of the reasons why there are so many tyrants in the pirate world.

of course.

Wherever you see or hear.

Mo Lin should go back and take care of the evil deeds of these kings.

However, that was only where Mo Lin could see.

For example, the Principality of Moscow is quite far away from the Final Fortress, and information is relatively closed.

Maureen never knew the specific situation in this country from beginning to end.

If you don't even know the specific situation, how can Molin intervene in these troublesome things.

"Everywhere you look, this is really... ridiculous!"

A sneer appeared on the relatively normal half of Perkins' face, and then gradually began to look ferocious.

"Since you are unwilling to save this world, then... don't bother us! Hypocritical navy..."

I just want a fair world, a world where no one will starve to death...

In a daze, Perkins seemed to see a peaceful world full of laughter and laughter, with countless smiling figures waving to him with a smile.

In this trance.

In Perkins' eyes, he completely lost the last trace of reason!

Boom!

Boom boom boom!

Accompanied by a huge heartbeat like a drum.

Perkins's face gradually became distorted.

No.

Not only his face, but also his body became distorted.

"what happened?"

When Ace felt the rapidly rising sense of crisis in Perkins through seeing and hearing Haki, a trace of surprise flashed across his face.

"No······"

At this moment, an angry roar suddenly sounded in Ace's ears.

He raised his head slightly.

Ace saw a figure as fast as lightning, running towards him from the other side of the scorched earth.