Comic series: Starting from Pirates to Cultivate the True Self

"boom!"

Hearing Ace's merciless words, the man wearing a strange hat below raised the sniper rifle in his hand and shot a bullet at Ace.

But Ace on the tree disappeared in an instant.

"careful!"

A companion shouted from behind the man in the hat, and a muscular man dressed as an ancient Greek gladiator jumped into the air, raised his two strong arms high, and smashed hard at Ace who appeared behind the man in the hat.

Ace gave up attacking the hatted man. Suddenly, a fierce flame rose from the bottom of his feet. A force made his body spin, and then he kicked the arms of the muscular man who was falling.

"boom!"

There was a loud noise that made one's teeth ache.

“Ah~ah~!”

The two touched each other for a moment, and the seemingly burly man was kicked away by the weak Ace.

The sturdy man's two fists were burning with flames, and he kept flying backwards in the air, letting out bursts of screams.

When the man in the hat saw this scene, his pupils shrank slightly, and cold sweat ran down his forehead. He wanted to escape from Ace.

But the next second,

A heart-pounding feeling enveloped his whole body. It was as if there was a terrifying, ferocious, bloodthirsty beast behind him, staring at his back, causing his running steps to become disordered and his feet to stagger.

It turned out that Ace saw that this person wanted to run, and immediately released his domineering aura from his body, and then flames spurted out from the soles of his feet, and he performed an initial acceleration.

Ace in the air raised his right arm and pulled it back to gather strength, like a fully drawn bow. His fist was covered with a layer of light blue flame.

"Pfft~"

The hatted man was hit hard on the back by Ace's heavy punch, and was instantly knocked flying. Blood spurted out of his mouth like crazy.

Ace then stopped what he was doing, and stood where he was, with a slight curve at the corner of his mouth as he sneered.

I haven't learned any other good qualities from my uncle, but when it comes to holding grudges, I, Ace, am better than him!

I shot you, and you still want to run away?

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It all happened so fast. In just one encounter, the Blackbeard Pirates lost two members.

At the beginning of the action, Teach went to the battlefield, but he had always been hiding his abilities and could not train openly every day.

So his speed was too slow compared to Ace, and he could not keep up with Ace at all.

“Damn it! Who told you to attack? Get out of the way! You are no match for him!”

With a roar, Teach finally stopped Ace. At this time, a black energy that looked like fire but not fire rose from his body, full of darkness and ominous aura.

"Hahaha~ Ace, I know you really want to kill me..."

Ace frowned slightly, not listening to Teach's nonsense, and simply crossed his index fingers, and a cross-shaped blue flame instantly hit Teach's chest.

"Oh, oh, oh, it's hot!"

The attacked Teach began to dance ballet on the spot, screaming miserably.

Ace's frown deepened.

I just felt the black energy from Teach, which should be the ability of some devil fruit. So when facing the unknown fruit ability,

He tried using a long-range attack like "Cross Fire", but seeing Teach's current condition, although he was crying out in pain, there was not much trauma on the area of ​​his chest that was attacked.

This made Ace feel very strange.

Could it be that Teach ate some kind of defensive devil fruit?

While Ace was thinking, Teach also recovered from the pain after being attacked. He still said proudly:

"But I have no choice! Who let Sachi get what I always dreamed of..."

But the next second, Ace flashed in front of Teach, his right fist ignited with flames, and swung it fiercely towards his cheek.

Teach quickly stopped talking, and his fist, which was wrapped in a layer of black energy, collided with Ace's fist.

"boom!"

There was a dull sound of fists hitting flesh, and a gust of air flew up.

Ace was surprised to find that the blue flame rising from his fist was rapidly shrinking and extinguishing, as if it was absorbed by something.

This is! My ability has failed?

"Thief, hahahaha, did you find out? I..."

"boom!"

At this time, Ace, who had retracted his fist, kicked Teach with a powerful left whip kick and sent him flying. He lay on the ground and kept rolling, screaming and cursing:

“Ah~ah~it hurts so much! F*ck you, can’t you let me finish my words?!”

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When Ace heard what Tiqi said, he just sneered with disdain and secretly complained in his heart,

My uncle once said that if you can take action, try to avoid pushing it too much.

However, looking at Teach rolling on the ground, he was also very puzzled. Although his kick was not light, it shouldn't be enough to hurt him so much!

Just like a little girl who is afraid of pain.

Teach wasn't this kind of personality before, was he?

Is it because of the devil fruit?

Thinking of this, Ace's eyes rolled around a few times, and then he said arrogantly:

“Okay, since you want to say it, I’ll give you a chance to make your final speech.

After that, I will send you on your way!"

Teach also stood up at this time, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and grinned at Ace, showing his big white teeth with two rows of gaps.

"Ace, you know the rules on the ship. Whoever gets it gets it as spoils.

I stayed on Whitebeard's ship for decades because that was where I had the best chance of getting this devil fruit. I had thought that if I didn't have this luck, I would just accept my fate.

But this fruit appeared...”

Ace's face darkened, and he immediately retorted angrily:

"Is this why you killed Thatch? Just for a devil fruit, you can kill your friend who you have known for decades?"

"Hahahahaha~ Ace, you don't understand what this devil fruit means.

Perhaps for others, this is just a top-notch natural devil fruit.

But! For me!

This is the key to unlock the ambition that I have sealed in my heart for many years!

It can also make me the strongest ladder in the world!

This is all fate!

And I, will be the Darkness!!!"

Tiqi expressed his inner joy with a crazy look on his face, like a person who had been suppressed for a long time and suddenly gained power, and wanted to show how great he was now in front of his acquaintances.

However, when he looked at Ace's face, which still showed a look of disdain, he laughed:

"Hahahaha, thief. Then let me show you this power known as the 'most evil in the world'!"

Ace sneered in his heart.

Oh, then you are a very nice person!

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