I am brushing up materials in One Piece

After hearing that Ace guessed the cause of his death, Cos was a little surprised at first, but he soon felt relieved.

Ace is not stupid, he is just too lazy to think too much most of the time and just fools around happily, just like the meaning of the Fool card in the Tarot. He seems crazy and indulgent but has unlimited possibilities.

And if he is willing to think about it, then it is not difficult to guess the cause of his death from what Cos told him about his future death and Cos's attitude when facing the magma.

"So you jumped in because you wanted to prove to me that you wouldn't be killed and to dispel my worries?"

Kos looked at Ace with a complicated expression.

"No, at least not entirely."

Ace shook his head and said,

"There's another reason - because the magma is there!"

Seeing Ace's proud expression as if a great mountaineer was expressing his thoughts, Cos was completely speechless, but after a long time, he still acted impulsively.

And just when Kos was about to roll his eyes at Ace for the N+1 time, Ace added seriously,

"Cos, you are very powerful, but you always have too many worries. If you keep doing this, you will stay in the same place."

"I can't help it, why am I not the protagonist?"

Kos just smiled and shrugged, this chicken soup was of no use to him, and then changed the topic,

"And since magma can't kill you, it means it's not that your fruit power is incompetent, but that you yourself are too weak!"

"Eh!"

"Of course, I am weak too, we are all weak."

Coase went on to add,

"We're still far behind!"

He has a deep understanding of how many monsters there are in this sea. Even in the first half of the area called "Paradise", there are many strong ones.

And it's not just people, the various bad environments and weather on this sea are also threats that cannot be ignored.

In fact, Kos once wanted to stay in the small garden for a while to improve their overall strength, but they had just entered the Grand Line and had not even seen a few real strong men, so how could they become stronger?

Just talking about Armed Haki, there are only four people on the island who know it, but no one knows how to let others master Armed Haki.

You can't just do a hundred push-ups, a hundred sit-ups, a hundred squats, and run ten kilometers every day for a few years and see if you can make all your hair disappear through exercise, right?

So I just have to keep moving forward.

The time to leave the small garden has also been set, it will be the next day.

After learning that Kos and the others were leaving, Dongli and Brockie held a simple farewell party for them. However, in fact, they had been having banquets almost since they arrived on the island, so this farewell party was different from every day before. No difference.

Early the next morning, as soon as we had breakfast, the Gray Pearl set sail.

Because they believed in Ace's abilities and the volcanic eruption, the signal for battle sounded at an inappropriate time, Tori and Brocky did not go to the shore to say goodbye to the Spade Pirates. They only stopped during the battle to speak to a group of people on the Gray Pearl. The man waved goodbye and then continued to fight.

On the Gray Pearl, Ace sat on the bow, staring excitedly at the sea ahead, because he knew that there lurked a monster that was said to be able to swallow even islands.

As the Gray Pearl left the small garden and gradually headed towards the sea, a huge shadow slowly emerged under the sea.

"It's a goldfish!"

Ace shouted excitedly.

"It's indeed a goldfish, and it's a relatively common type."

Robin also commented on the huge monster under the sea in front of him.

"It's just that this body shape is not common."

"Wow—"

The goldfish-like monster raised half of its head out of the water, opened its mouth so big that it could easily swallow the Gray Pearl as if it were pearls in bubble milk tea, and wanted to swallow the ship and the people on it as if they were breakfast.

"Want to eat us?"

Ace stood up on the bow of the ship, raised his right hand high, and flames continued to emerge from his body and gathered in his palm, quickly forming a large fireball several meters in diameter.

But this fireball seemed to be no different from a small spark to the huge monster, so it still rushed towards the Gray Pearl with its mouth wide open.

"Take advantage of my move first!"

Ace yelled and threw the fireball in his hand.

"Great Flame Ring: Emperor Yan"

Yandi flew toward the goldfish monster at an extremely fast speed and was also expanding at an extremely fast speed. It had only flown half the distance and had already become larger than the Gray Pearl. By the time it flew into the monster's mouth, it was That terrifying big mouth is almost full.

The monster immediately subconsciously closed its mouth after being scalded by Yan Emperor's high temperature, but then Yan Emperor completely exploded. After the sound of "Boom--", the big mouth that seemed to be able to swallow everything not only failed to close, but actually expanded a bit.

The monster, whose mouth was blown open and charred, rolled several times in pain in the sea. Then, after seeing the second Flame Emperor fireball flying towards it, it got into the sea and escaped in embarrassment.

However, despite driving away the monster on Eat Island, the problems faced by the Spade Pirates were not over yet. The monster's rolling caused several huge waves on the sea surface and were about to hit the Gray Pearl.

Facing the oncoming huge wave, Deuce directly turned the right rudder, causing the Gray Pearl to make a perfect drift on the sea. It caught the wave from the side and rode the wave for a certain distance like a surfboard.

When the wave passed, Dios began to turn the rudder and adjust the direction according to the scale on the permanent pointer.

Seeing that both crises were over, everyone on the ship breathed a sigh of relief and began to go about their business.

"Ace, that move you just made was from Emperor Yan? Why is it getting bigger and bigger?"

Kosi remembered that Emperor Yan's move didn't seem to have more and more effect.

"That's because if the condensed fireball is too big, it will definitely damage the Gray Pearl, so I compressed it at the beginning, and the compressed flame will naturally expand on its own after it escapes my control. How about it? ?Isn’t this move very powerful?”

Ace puffed up his chest quite proudly.

But just as Ace was waiting to receive the compliment, a discordant voice came down from the mast,

"Boss Kos, it's bad, the navy was found behind us on the left."

The owner of the voice was Skaar, who was wearing a skull mask. Kos saw that he had the strongest domineering power among all the people, so he asked him to act as a lookout.

After hearing this, everyone ran to the left side of the ship and looked behind. After waiting for a while, a warship indeed sailed into their sight.

"Can you get rid of it?"

After Kos confirmed that it was indeed a warship, he immediately looked at Deus. He was more expert in the speed of ships.

"Probably not."

Deus said with a bitter look on his face,

"Small ships like the Gray Pearl can't beat warships in terms of speed."

"I really live up to the name I chose."

Kos patted the side of the Gray Pearl angrily because it was the fastest ship in the world where the name came from.

But since he couldn't hide, he had to go head-on. It happened that Cos also missed the navy's canned fruit.

"Boss Kos, they opened fire!"

Skar's message came again from above.

"This distance? This angle?"

Cos was a little unconvinced, because neither the range of the artillery nor the positional relationship between the two ships made it possible to fire.

But when he looked back, he found that there were indeed some black objects approaching quickly.

Before anyone else could say anything, Ace jumped up and opened a curtain of flames on the sea behind the Gray Pearl.

If it were a cannonball, it would explode on its own when passing through this fire net, but what flew towards the Gray Pearl was not a cannonball, but a black spear that was cylindrical in shape.

The black spears were not detonated by the fire net. They flew towards the Gray Pearl at an undiminished speed after passing through the wall of fire.

So Kos immediately gave birth to two chain viper swords more than ten meters long, and kept waving his hands to shoot down the flying black spears.

With the crisp sound of "dang-dang-", all the black spears were shot down by Kos, saving the Gray Pearl.

But although the first wave of offensive was barely stopped, the second wave of offensive followed closely.

After the first interception failed, Ace also changed his response method. He began to use the impact of the explosion to shoot down the black spears, while Kos was responsible for picking up the fish that escaped his bombardment.

In this way, the second wave of offensive was intercepted again amidst the sound of explosions and metal collisions.

But then came the third wave...

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Sorry, it's a little late again