The gourmet among pirates

Immortal!

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Through the ages.

How many people want to live forever, but they cannot achieve it!

How many heroes, heroes, emperors, legends throughout their lives, but when they were old, they made a series of ridiculous actions in order to seek immortality.

Don't they know what they are doing?

Do not!

They know it very well!

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Immortality is too tempting, even if those ridiculous actions have the possibility of coming true and allowing them to enjoy immortality, they will not hesitate.

There is great terror between life and death!

The more a powerful man sits on countless wealth and holds supreme power, the more he fears death.

Especially the kind of person who is watching himself grow older bit by bit, getting older day by day!

But he could only watch helplessly, feeling powerless as he slowly waited for death.

This... is enough to drive those in power crazy!

This is also the reason why the higher the position, the more eager for immortality.

Especially in pirates, a world with extraordinary power.

Immortality is no longer a time for vague rumors.

Those who don't want to die will become even more crazy in their desire for immortality.

Apart from anything else, there are certain reasons why the surgical fruit that grants others immortality through the "ageless surgery" is worth more than 5 billion beli, far more than the top natural devil fruit. Isn't it because of those who know the inside story? Do you have a crazy desire for immortality?

That's why.

An old priest who almost died of old age because of his age.

When he saw that the chance of rejuvenation and even immortality was destroyed by Ace, he suddenly felt a surge of anger in his heart.

He slowly straightened up his stooped body, looked at Ace with extremely cold eyes, and said: "You... deserve to die!"

These few words are as cold as the cold wind blowing from the Nine Netherworld.

Ace, who was in shock because of the old priest's previous actions, instantly came back to his senses.

Looking in front of the old priest, Perkins turned into a monster. After his heart was crushed, his body seemed to be weathered, turning into wind and sand, and his body quickly drifted away.

Ace couldn't help but said: "Perkins and the others are your puppets??? Who are you?"

Recalling the bits and pieces he had heard just now, Ace felt intense fear and anger towards the old guy wearing a priest's robe below!

Although Ace did not agree with everything Perkins and the others did.

But for this kind of person who works hard for his beliefs, he still admires him deep down.

Especially Perkins, who brazenly swallowed the hunger of tens of thousands of people in order to save others, moved him even more!

The kind of person who sacrifices himself to save others.

No matter what, you shouldn't be someone else's puppet!

"who am I?"

The old priest at the bottom of the scorched pit had a hint of reminiscence on his face and murmured: "It's been a long time. No one has asked me who I am. It's been so long that even I have almost forgotten who I am. Haha, bye."德·亚······”

When the old priest at the bottom of the pit mentioned his name, Ace's face changed slightly, and then he retreated several meters without hesitation!

I saw where Ace was standing, a black light flashing, and a black claw with a metallic luster cut through the void with a hiss, causing ripples in the air.

It turned out that just when Ace was about to utter his name, the old priest launched a sneak attack while Ace was distracted.

"Hey, isn't your speed good? You avoided my claw attack in advance. I didn't expect you, a brat, to actually awaken the Haki of seeing and hearing. What a terrifying talent! When I was your age, I couldn't even see what Haki was. I don’t even know.”

Not just when.

In the sky, patches of black gray began to float.

In the black gray, a hazy figure loomed.

Bronze skin, tall and majestic figure, clear and deep facial features, like Greek sculptures, deep scarlet eyes filled with a coldness and carelessness that people dare not get close to, extremely evil but full of evil A kind of strange charm, the long and messy hair hanging down to the shoulders, moving without the wind, seemed to be covered with a faint sheen. If you look carefully, it seems like thousands of venomous snakes are twisting wantonly.

To be honest, recently I have been using reading to follow up, change sources, read aloud with many timbres, and both Android and Apple can be used. 】

And behind him, there was a pair of huge bat wings that looked like bat wings, but were a thousand times tougher. They flapped gently, bringing up a strong wind filled with the smell of sulfur.

"Could this shape be..."

Looking at the figure that appeared in front of him, which was completely different from the old priest before, Ace seemed to have seen something incredible.

Tong Kong shrank violently and said in silence: "Plundering Devil Ximu, how is that possible? Aren't you already dead?"

"Death, how could I die...but the plundering devil Ximu? This is such an ancient name! Haha, but this is just a name given to me by your navy! I never said that My name is Ximu!"

In mid-air, the old priest, whose figure changed drastically, waved his bat wings gently, causing a gust of wind, and slowly flew into the sky. The stretched bat wings seemed to cover the sky and said to Ace condescendingly:

"Remember, kid, my name is Baird Alves!"

hiss!

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Ace took a breath after hearing Baird Alves admit his name.

Baird Alves, or the plundering devil Nishiki, is not a simple character.

This guy, relying on the power of the devil fruit in the form of a phantom beast and a demon, once crossed the sea, coming and going like the wind, wantonly plundering other people's wealth and lives.

He has gained such a great reputation!

But all this happened more than eighty years ago.

Eighty years have passed, and people have long forgotten about the plundering devil Ximu. If Ace hadn't happened to read a book called "Biography of the East China Sea," which recorded the major pirates who came out of the East China Sea in the past hundred years, and attached them Reward photos and biographical words of deeds.

Ace, he really couldn't recognize it. The guy in front of him was actually the former plundering devil Ximu.

But now, more than eighty years have passed since the days when the plundering devil Ximu crossed the sea.

Ximu, the plundering devil who once achieved great fame, has disappeared for seventy or eighty years.

Including his own age, the old guy in front of him is at least more than a hundred years old. How did this old guy live to this day?

and many more.

At this time, Ace suddenly flashed in front of Ace's eyes, the scene of the other party devouring those lumps of flesh and blood, and then quickly becoming a little younger.

Could it be! Did this guy survive until now by devouring that kind of thing?

puppet!

So this is what puppet means?

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in the air.

Baird Alves looked at Ace, whose hair was in shock, and a trace of amusement flashed on his face.

Even he himself did not expect that after so many years, someone would still remember the name he once made on the sea.

Plunder the devil Ximu!

Ha ha!

The time when he transformed into a plundering devil was truly the most enjoyable and unscrupulous time that Baird Alves could remember.

It's a pity that at that time, during a robbery, I happened to encounter the last "Sparkling Fruit" ability user.

You can't fight and you can't fight, you can't run and you can't run away.

At the end of the fight, a passing naval vice-admiral took advantage of him and imprisoned him in the infinite hell on the sixth floor of the Impel Down City.

This level is seventy-eight years.

If not for the past few years.

The Whitebeard Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates teamed up to capture Impel Down.

Baird Alves estimated that he should have almost died of old age in Impel Down City.

but.

There is always a way out.

With the Whitebeard Pirates and the Big Mom Pirates, we have a golden opportunity to join forces to capture Impel Down City.

At that time, Baird Alves used his last bit of strength to escape from Impel Down City after grabbing some food.

Then it took several months to return to the East China Sea.

Returned to the Principality of Moskot, my hometown.

At that time, Baird Alves, who had returned to his hometown, was already one hundred and fourteen years old. Such an advanced age, coupled with the experience of Impel Down, had already emptied his body and made him run out of oil. The lamp is dead.

If he hadn't become famous early, and the devil fruit in the form of a phantom beast, a demon, also gave him a huge vitality that is unimaginable to ordinary people, hanging on to his last glimmer of hope, Baird Alves would have died long ago. Advance to the city.

However, even so, Baird Alves only had a few days left to live at that time.

However, he was not willing to wait for death after returning to his hometown like ordinary people.

He used the seventy-eight years he spent in Impel City to figure out a little bit of the mystery of plunder.

A seed of flesh and blood was created, this special kind of plunder.

Through the four apocalyptic knights, they plunder the flesh, blood, vitality and soul essence of hundreds of millions of living beings, and replenish their own withered blood and decaying souls.

did not expect.

He really figured out a way to do this weird move.

He had absorbed countless qi and blood, and he actually used it to extend his life, giving his aging body a glimmer of life again.

Fortunately, too.

Grand Duke Muscovite's request for help was a mistake and ruined Baird Alves's plan.

Let his plan to plunder the vitality of all living beings by operating the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse go bankrupt.

otherwise.

If he really succeeds.

Maybe there will be an immortal old monster raised in the East China Sea.

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"Die, brat!"

"Scarlet Claw!"

In mid-air, Baird Alves, who had turned into a demon form, flapped his wings violently, increased his speed instantly, and dived towards Ace.

The claws, which were about the size of a millstone and extremely out of proportion to the opponent's figure, easily tore through the air and grabbed at Ace's chest, as if intending to crush Ace into pieces.

And the flashing metallic luster on the ghost claw also proves that Baird Alves really has the ability to crush Ace.

Baird Alves, who crossed the sea seventy or eighty years ago, is not a domineering person who does not know how to use weapons and colors.

Even when dealing with natural Devil Fruit users like Ace, Baird Alves has a lot of experience.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to keep up with the previous generation of "Natural-type Shining Fruit" for a long time, and was eventually taken advantage of by the navy.

As for why those Apocalypse Knights in Perkins don't know, or even know about Armed Haki and Wisdom Haki.

Very simple.

That's because Baird Alves never really regarded any of them as his subordinates from beginning to end.

I just don't want to hand them over.

Perkins and the four Knights of the Apocalypse.

It's just a tool used by Baird Alves to plunder the flesh and blood of all living beings.

Sooner or later, Baird Alves will personally deal with these guys and recover the flesh and blood from them.

It is precisely because of this that Baird Alves could hand over the Haki of knowledge and Haki to the four of them, Perkins.

If we give them such dangerous powers as Armed Haki and Knowledge Haki, wouldn't it cause trouble for Baird Alves himself?

What if those guys really made some achievements in Armed Haki and Wisdom Haki?

If Baird Alves cannot successfully harvest blood from them, wouldn't it be like shooting himself in the foot?

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Facing the sharp claws that were tearing through the air and whizzing towards him, Estong shrank, the dead wood around his waist was instantly unsheathed, and he slashed horizontally with his sword!

Ding!

At the same time as a crisp metallic chime sounded, a shock wave appeared in the air and swayed around.

Kaka······

Baird Alves waved his huge demonic claws, a look of surprise flashed across his face, as if he was surprised by Ace's power, but soon returned to normal.

"Hell Death Wind!"

call!

The bat wings behind Baird Alves spread out fiercely and flapped rapidly.

The extremely fast waving bat wings even brought up afterimages in the air.

next moment!

Two gray-black whirlwinds like tornadoes blasted out from the bat wings behind Baird Alves.

It blasted away like Ace who was in a stalemate with Baird Alves!

"Ok?"

Ace paused, put his hands hard, and shouted: "Pyroblast!"

boom!

!

Just when those two tornadoes were about to fall on Ace!

Ace's body suddenly paused, and then suddenly turned into a huge fireball, exploding instantly!

Exploding fireball!

Two tornadoes collided with each other.

A series of bombings started in mid-air.

And the real Ace.

Taking advantage of the moment of the explosion, he suddenly arrived behind Baird Alves and slashed out with a sword.

The blazing sword light, like the scorching sun, flashed behind Baird Alves.

Under a knife.

The dead wood, filled with a fiery aura, directly cut open Baird Alves's bat wing membrane, which was a hundred times tougher than cowhide, leaving a deep wound on his bronze back. .

Just when Ace wanted to take advantage of the victory and expand the results.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Baird Alves' mouth, whose defense was broken by Ace's sword.

"Death Binding!"

Chi Chi Chi!

I saw black bolts of steel erupting from the wounds opened by Ace on Baird Alves, heading towards Ace's restraints.