One Piece: Building the Roxas Empire

However, there were still quite a few people who were too proud to join the Roxas Pirates and they firmly chose to leave.

In the end, among the more than 3,000 people, most of those who were not injured or had minor injuries chose to leave directly. Only those pirates with serious injuries chose to join the Roxas Pirates. The reason was very realistic. They were injured and wanted to rest and recuperate in Kowloon. As for these pirates who chose to join the Roxas Pirates, A Shen and his team would test their loyalty. If they found that someone had ulterior motives, they would be dealt with directly.

On the pirate ship, after the ship started sailing, the members of the Iron Pirates who chose to leave were very excited as if they had survived a disaster: "Great, we finally survived." "Don't be careless, who knows what will happen if they regret it. All the cannons on this ship have been unloaded. Start the ship quickly and increase the speed to the highest possible speed."

At this time, an officer on the ship watched the ship gradually leave the dock, and said with a ferocious look on his face: "Humph, you let us go this time, but I won't let you go in the future. Just wait! We will meet again sooner or later."

"We have to say we were very lucky this time. Darius is such a naive guy that he actually let us go. It's a bit surprising that he gave way to us."

Watching the more than 2,000 pirates of the Iron Pirates leave on a pirate ship, after they had traveled about two or three kilometers, Darius raised a sinister smile and said, "Okay, we're almost there."

No one understood what Darius meant, but the next second, Darius' body began to expand rapidly, white snake scales quickly grew on his body, and he turned into an eight-headed, eight-tailed Yamata no Orochi.

Seeing this scene, the people of the Roxas Pirates were very calm. They just didn't understand how Darius suddenly transformed into the Yamata-no-Orochi. However, the newcomers who wanted to join the Roxas Pirates were shocked. The behemoth before them was so huge, it was like a monster.

The Yamata no Orochi opened its eight big mouths, and eight colors of energy, namely red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and black, condensed in the air and gathered on the snake head in the middle, forming a dark purple energy ball, which continued to expand.

"Quick, everyone, retreat and find a place to hide." Ashen immediately ordered. He now understood why he felt a sense of disharmony just now. He was curious before, why Darius let these people go, shouldn't he recruit them? Was it because he was kind? It turned out that from the beginning, Darius gave them a choice, giving them a ship to leave on their own. If they chose to join the Roxas Pirates, they could live, but if they chose to leave, they would die.

Gradually, the purple energy ball became bigger and bigger, and then began to shrink gradually. At the moment of shrinking, the surrounding air trembled, causing the entire ground to shake slightly, and the purple energy ball began to gradually turn black.

"Yamata Cannon..." The next moment, the black energy ball turned into an energy wave and hit the pirate ship of the Iron Pirates in front and landed on the pirate ship.

A loud "boom boom boom" sound continued to spread, and strong winds and waves blew towards the surroundings. The diameter of the explosion exceeded 500 meters, forming a huge mushroom cloud on the sea. In an instant, nearly pirates on the pirate ship were instantly vaporized and disappeared into the air.

The members of the Roxas Pirates on the shore of Kowloon Town were also shocked. Looking at the explosion in the distance, even from such a distance, they could still feel the heat wave blowing over. They could imagine how high the temperature was in the center of the explosion.

Darius also saw thousands of experience points pouring in. Now he was only a thousand experience points away from upgrading. It turned out that going out to sea was the right decision. The speed of gaining experience points was too fast. The body of the Yamata no Orochi also shrank rapidly and turned back into human form.

"Such terrible destructive power, is this the captain's power?" Looking at this scene, even the cadres were once again terrified of Darius' power. This power was completely in a different dimension from theirs, it was simply a monster.

As for the pirates who had just joined the Roxas Pirates, seeing Darius kill the pirates who chose to leave, they were extremely grateful that they had just chosen to join the Roxas Pirates. If they had just chosen to leave by ship, they would have ended up like those people. However, seeing the death of their former companions made them feel very sad, and they hurriedly asked, "Captain, didn't you just tell them to leave? Why are you doing this?"

Darius looked at the pirate who was speaking and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which immediately scared the pirate so much that he fell to the ground. He felt that there was nothing more terrifying than Darius' smile. Thinking of his new captain who had just killed nearly three thousand people without blinking an eye, he actually dared to question him. He was simply asking for mercy, "No, I'm not questioning the captain. I'm sorry, I know I was wrong. Captain, please spare my life! I..." He stuttered in his words, and it was obvious that the pirate was very scared now. Now he regretted asking such a question.

Darius grinned and said in a teasing tone, "There aren't so many reasons. I agreed to let them go just on a whim. As for why I want to kill them, the reason is even simpler. If I let them go, they will definitely slander me behind my back, saying that I am an idiot for naively letting my enemies go. Such an idiot will not live long in this sea. So, in order to avoid them scolding me behind my back, I have no choice but to kill them."

For Darius, he had no intention of letting these pirates go from the beginning. If they were sensible and surrendered to him, Darius could spare their lives, but it was impossible for them to leave alive. Not to mention them, even the members of the Roxas Pirates could not leave Roxas alive.

After hearing Darius' explanation, everyone was silent. Darius looked at Ah Shen and said, "Ah Shen, just rest here for a few days!"

"Okay." Ah Shen listened and nodded.

In the West Sea, at this moment, on the vast ocean, twenty-three naval warships were rushing towards Jiulong Town. The leading warship in the middle belonged to the warship of Lieutenant General Slitt, the Vice Admiral of the Navy Headquarters, and the remaining twenty-two were warships of the West Sea Branch.

"Vice Admiral Slit, it has been confirmed that the Roxas Pirates are now in Kowloon Town, and they have just defeated the Iron Pirates, the overlord of the West Sea, with their absolute strength."

After listening to his subordinates' report, Vice Admiral Slit waved his hand and said to the row of Den Den Mushi in front of him: "My colleagues, you all heard it! The Roxas Pirates are in Kowloon Town. The order from the headquarters is to arrest Darius or eliminate him."

At this time, Colonel Derek of the branch said respectfully: "Lieutenant General Slit, please rest assured that we will fully cooperate with you to arrest the criminal Darius."

Vice Admiral Slit grinned and said, "Well, I'll leave it to you. You will be responsible for arresting the pirates of the Roxas Pirates! After all, this pirate group seems to have nearly 20,000 people. Although they are all a group of minions, they have chosen this path. So they will all spend their lives in prison in the future."

"Yes."

Darius was still enjoying his life in Kowloon Town! He had no idea that the navy had gradually begun to encircle the Roxas Pirates. Even if he knew, he had no way to deal with it. He could only deal with it as it came. Since he killed Vice Admiral Old Bai in Boro City, Darius became more and more confident in his own strength. For him, unless the person who came was a strong man of the level of the admiral, the rest would be a waste. Now the New World is so busy, with Roger, Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Big Mom and others, how could the admiral have time to come to the West Sea to care about a small pirate with only 500 million berries!

The members of the Roxas Pirates are also absolutely confident in Darius's absolute power. Now, one by one, the cadres are leading their pirate ships towards the dozens of villages controlled by the Iron Pirates around Kowloon Town. As pirates, plundering is their nature, and they must take away everything they can steal before leaving.

At this time, the Roxas Pirates were extremely relaxed, and the pirates who stayed in Kowloon Town were also having fun. They didn't expect that the navy would appear at this time.

On the lookout tower, a pirate was drinking and cursing, because everyone was having a banquet, eating and drinking, and he was the only one who was unlucky to be assigned to lookout here. Now in Kowloon Town, members of the Iron Pirates were either dead or surrendered, so he really didn't know what they were still on guard against.

At this moment, there was a sudden 'boom' explosion, and a shell landed on the Roxas Pirates' fleet, startling the lookout immediately. He didn't understand where the shell came from, but the next second, 'boom boom' another shell came over one after another. At this time, the pirate on the lookout sobered up a lot, holding a telescope and immediately looking towards the sea: "Military, warships, yes, the navy, the navy is coming."

All of a sudden, in a hurry, the pirate shouted loudly. They had been out at sea for more than two months and had not encountered the navy. Suddenly encountering the navy made him flustered and shouted loudly, but at this time, the members of the Roxas Pirates were having a party and were drunk, so how could they hear him! At this time, the lookout finally reacted and sounded the alarm.

After the alarm sounded, the pirates who were drinking finally calmed down a little and asked in confusion: "What's going on?" "Who sounded the alarm?" "Is there an enemy?"

The pirates of the Roxas Pirates reacted so slowly that it was beyond imagination. Even after hearing the alarm, some of them continued to drink with confusion in their eyes. However, some of them who stayed behind reacted and said, "Stop drinking. There must be an enemy coming. Be careful."