The Pirate's Ultimate Swordsman, One Man is the Royal Group

There was darkness all around him, so dark that he couldn't see anything at all.

"No." Suddenly, a deep and ethereal woman's voice came from the darkness.

"Woman?" Arthur frowned seriously:

"I don't have time to waste here. I have to save Cooper and make my name feared by the world in the new era!"

"I'm curious, why are you so persistent in saving it?" The woman's voice sounded again: "Don't you want to be a king? Becoming a king means being alone, without any ties or emotions."

Becoming a king, this is the secret in Arthur's heart.

Apart from reading it privately with Cooper, he never told anyone else.

But the woman knew it, which shocked him. How did she know?

"It's just an eagle. I watched you rescue it and raise it. Do you treat it as your spiritual sustenance?" the woman said again.

She was in the dark, observing Arthur's puzzled movements as he looked around warily but couldn't see anything.

"Am I being hit by the power of a devil fruit...an illusion...?" Arthur thought to himself.

He began to activate the domineering color in his body in an attempt to escape.

However, he soon found that it was of no use.

So, I stood there calmly and tried to escape quietly.

"Alas." The woman saw that Arthur was completely different from what he was before, and she shook her head and sighed secretly.

In pursuit of strength, even self is abandoned.

"You may seem calm and peaceful, but in fact, there is a struggle hidden in your heart. If you want to become king, you must fight."

Arthur frowned when he heard this.

Fight? If you don't fight, you will die, so why not fight?

"You usually seem calm, but in fact you get very anxious when things happen, and you want to end, get, and complete them immediately."

Every word the woman said was heartbreaking, and Arthur clenched his teeth.

"I've recently started looking for immortality, so I'm keeping myself busy..." The woman paused as she spoke:

"Well... at least half of the hormones in your body have turned into female ones. What did you do? I can't figure it out. Why can you be so forbearing?"

She couldn't guess what Arthur was thinking because she hadn't been with him for almost two years.

"No matter what, if you can endure, there is a knife hidden in your heart... you will eventually hurt yourself and those around you."

"Fuck you, who are you? Let me out!" Arthur suddenly cursed.

Listening to the other person's words, I felt like he was talking to someone who knew me very well.

It kept chirping and calling around me.

In an instant, an extremely icy light flashed in the darkness and appeared in front of Arthur.

She was a woman with an extraordinary appearance, wearing a light blue, crystal clear dress.

She stretched out her hand, her five fingers touching Arthur's, and said:

"Let you go? I've observed you for so many years, watched you grow up, and it will all be in vain if I watch you die."

"What do you mean?!" Arthur stared at her angrily. If he hadn't had a knife in his hand, he would have chopped at her decisively.

However, the other person's breath was so familiar, a feeling that made Arthur feel like he had seen it before.

It feels like he has been by my side since childhood, so friendly and reliable.

"You have already used up most of your strength in dealing with John. Now you are swinging such a sharp knife that even the silver axe defense cannot be cut through."

"His speed and strength have declined in all aspects. He is strong, but his endurance is not enough to deal with the two great pirates."

"Playing mysterious!" Arthur swung a punch at her, but his arm touched her body.

The cold air condensed and the entire left arm was frozen into ice.

Frozen...? Arthur looked at the frozen arm. Arthur stared at her in shock:

"You are…"

Seeing Arthur's surprise, the woman gave him a wicked smile:

"If it were you in the past, you would have probably thought of it a long time ago, right?"

"After all, that guy... says a lot of weird things, and his ideas are also very strange..." As she said this, the woman looked around...

Pulling another Arthur out of the darkness.

"Look, there he is."

Seeing the coward crying, Arthur rushed forward and kicked him to death.

However, that self was just like a shadow, dispersing before his eyes.

"Yes, you killed him, and you killed your former self!" The woman circled around Arthur with her bare white feet.

His five fingers moved along Arthur's body, touching him continuously.

Every wound and every scabbed scar is the result of a life-and-death struggle.

This physique makes the beautiful woman smile with excitement.

Deeply attracted.

It clearly doesn't feel hard at all, and feels just like normal human skin.

Yet he was able to endure so many fatal injuries and still survive.

Arthur's serious eyes followed her movements, his chest panting with fatigue.

"Kill that boy who lived in fantasy and had endless beautiful ideas about the world, and become a man who is decisive in killing."

"Are you, an ice dragon?" Arthur asked, not sure if his guess was correct.

"Ice dragon?" The woman smiled again, thinking of Arthur seven years ago.

The scene of a warship cabin, naked and naming himself.

"You are indeed an ice dragon!" Arthur was immediately convinced when he saw her smile.

"I have another name. People on this sea call me the Ice Devil."

"Controlling the extreme ice element, you can freeze everything."

"Only a master with domineering powers and devil fruit abilities can contend with it."

The woman said, stopping behind Arthur, her slender fingers touching the bullets and shrapnel embedded in the flesh of his back.

"However, I really like the name Ice Dragon, so I responded to you at that time."

"Are you a devil...?" Arthur was curious, knowing full well that there was nothing he could do now.

I could only look at the woman who appeared before me, thinking that there must be some good meaning.

"Well, controlling the extreme ice, and you..." The ice dragon responded to Arthur, and said: "Just like the Lily Carnation you met before on Carnival Island."

"She is a man-eating plant that controls lush green plants. She can revive people in the form of branches, but the price is to eat people and Devil Fruit users to provide nutrients. The more she eats, the bigger and stronger she becomes."

"What about you? What's the price?" Arthur asked again, feeling her cold, slender fingers touching his back.

It was as if a chill was constantly being injected into the body.

"I only absorb domineering aura and physical strength." The ice dragon walked in front of Arthur and his expression suddenly became serious.

He took Arthur's calloused and bloody hand and placed it in the center of the valley on his chest.

"It's hard for a person to survive until now... right?" The ice dragon looked at Arthur with a motherly love in his eyes.

Tears flowed out involuntarily.

These words, and Lian Xin's feelings, changed the indifference on Arthur's face.

As if he felt warmth for the first time, he stared into her eyes.

"Come and sign a contract with me. Let me protect you forever."

"Your aloof and domineering aura belongs only to me, a demon."

As he spoke, Arthur watched as her entire dress turned black.

The whole person was held in her arms, as if being hugged by her mother. It was obviously cold, but extremely warm.

"Demons are born from humans and created by humans. Don't live too hard and lose yourself, Arthur, otherwise you will eventually become a demon."

This warmth made Arthur's eyes moist for the first time in a long time.

It was as if he subconsciously agreed to her signing the contract.

The next second, the woman in front of Arthur disappeared.

The white chest grasped in the right hand turned into a black and blue knife.

"Black knife..." Looking at the black knife in his hand, he felt a new force emerging in his body.

In a moment, the shocked Arthur's eyes went dark and he disappeared into the darkness.

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PS:

The setting of this demon is based on the original movie version, so it doesn’t count as a second setting, right?