One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

"I never thought... that he would show up in this country too... Ahem! We must... tell Mr. Long Bread the news... Ahem!... as soon as possible! Ahem!"

Noseiken raised his withered right arm, took out the Den Den Mushi tremblingly, and dialed the number on it with difficulty.

"Bru buru buru!"

At this time, Long Bread was walking back and forth on the deck anxiously, waiting anxiously. He heard the sound of the Den Den Mushi in his pocket suddenly ringing, and hurriedly took out the Den Den Mushi to answer it.

"Mr. Longbread... I'm Noseiken... Ahem! Due to some unexpected circumstances... I failed... Ahem!... Please be careful... There are very powerful people on the island... Ahem!"

An old and weak voice sounded from the other end of the Den Den Mushi. For a moment, Long Bread could not believe that it was his confidant who had followed him for many years. He did not have time to think about these questions and shouted in an extremely anxious tone: "Tell me who made you like this!"

"Tan.....Paz..."

After the last word was spoken, the Den Den Mushi stopped abruptly, and no more sound came from the other end.

However, the name mentioned by Nosaiken made Lingling and Changbaobao, two big men who had seen many storms, suddenly change color.

It was the first time Kaido saw Linlin with such an expression, and he asked in confusion: "Why are you two so scared? Is that Tempaz so scary? He can't be more powerful than Rocks, right?"

Lingling rolled her eyes at him and said, "You've been on the sea for a while, but you've never even heard of the name 'Time Devourer'!"

"I don't like the hassle of investigating the enemy's intelligence!"

"I'm really impressed with you."

Lingling sighed helplessly and explained to him in detail, "In addition to the navy, bounty hunters are also our number one enemy. They capture famous pirates in exchange for corresponding bounties. Tempaz is one of them. Countless pirates with a value of over 100 million have fallen into his hands, so he is considered the world's strongest bounty hunter. Tempaz has always been mysterious and few people have seen his true face. It is said that Tempaz has the ability to devour time, and anyone who has fought with him will eventually be deprived of time!"

"I see. It looks like he ate some kind of devil fruit."

After hearing Lingling's description, Kaido showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, then spread his hands in disbelief, "Could it be that the insider made a mistake? He probably hasn't seen what Tempaz looks like, right?"

"impossible."

Long Bread's face was livid, his brows were furrowed, and his hands involuntarily clenched the Den Den Mushi. "My subordinates are only 35 years old this year, but the voices in the Den Den Mushi seem to be several dozen years older... There is no doubt that it is indeed the characteristic of being deprived of time."

Lingling drew out her long knife without saying anything, pointed at the cream room and said in a deep voice: "Hey, are the little ghosts not woken up?"

The eyes on the house blinked their long eyelashes and reported to her softly, "Everything is normal, Mom. Their room is equipped with a silencer invented by Mr. Uno, and they are all asleep now."

"Very good, I'll leave them to you until we come back."

Lingling lowered her head, knocked on the deck with the back of her knife, and shouted, "Noah! Find a spot on the shore where you won't be easily discovered and stop there! If anyone tries to approach, defeat them without a single one left!"

"Everything is done according to your orders, mother!"

A voice as loud as a bell rang under everyone's feet, making their ears buzz. After a while, the entire pirate ship sailed at a faster speed. It goes without saying that this ship has long become a Homies who only obeys Lingling's orders.

"Well, well, well! At this point, we can only bite the bullet and do it."

Lingling had a bitter smile on her face, but the fighting spirit in her eyes remained undiminished. She raised the knife in her hand and ordered in an excited tone: "All members, prepare to attack!"

Kaido stuck out his tongue and licked the mace. Unable to suppress his excitement, he laughed, "Oh ha ha ha! I've been waiting for you to say that!"

"It's a good thing to be full of fighting spirit, but if you're not careful you can easily fall into the enemy's trap. You need to be careful."

"You are too worried."

Kaido didn't take Uno's reminder seriously. He raised his right thumb to himself and said confidently: "No matter what conspiracy or tricks the enemy adopts, I will crush them one by one! Moreover, that guy named Tempaz dares to call himself the 'strongest', so I have to bring him down myself!"

"You are really impulsive..."

Uno couldn't help but complain, took the telescope from his waist and looked ahead. In an instant, his inky black pupils suddenly contracted, as if he saw something terrible, and immediately shouted, "There is a figure approaching here quickly at 8 o'clock!"

Everyone hurriedly looked in the direction he said, and saw a small black dot appear in the clouds in the distance, constantly approaching their ship from far away. As the black dot became bigger and bigger, they could gradually see a person with wings spread flying in the air, and the speed was amazing.

"Damn! It came so fast!"

Lingling cursed and shouted to the deck, "Don't let him get close to here! Get rid of him and get to the shore as fast as you can!"

"Yes! Mom!"

The pirate ship moved a little to the right, and flew across the sea like an arrow, splashing waves and leaving a long trail of water. In an instant, it rushed past the man and rushed towards the port.

"what?"

The man was stunned for a moment, as if a little surprised. He made a turn and continued to chase closely, faster than before, like a meteor across the sky, gradually closing the distance with the pirate ship.

"Tsk! It's really difficult to deal with!"

Seeing that his whole body was diving down and was about to fall on the deck, Lingling gripped the hilt of the knife tightly, preparing to step forward to fight with the opponent. A black shadow suddenly rushed out from the side, waving a mace in the air, and smashed it hard at the enemy.

"Qiang!"

The iron rod and the double needles collided violently, emitting a dark purple light. Dozens of thin lightning bolts spread out from them. The surrounding waves surged wildly under the influence of these two huge forces, and the entire ship was shaking violently.

"That brat is really messing around! Zeus!"

Following Lingling's command, countless air currents gathered on her shoulders, forming a white cloud with a child's face, who asked lazily, "Mom, is there anything you can talk to me about?"

"Go get that idiot with the horns!"

"I know!"

After saying this, Zeus circled his body and flew rapidly into the air.

"Well……"

Kaido was planning to smash a transparent hole in the opponent's body, but he was blocked by him easily. He swung his stick to separate the two needles and jumped back two feet away, but he forgot that he was in mid-air and his body suddenly fell down.

"It's careless!"

Just as he was about to fall into the sea, he suddenly felt the sound of wind, as if something had caught him, and he felt something soft beneath him. He looked down and saw that it was Zeus the Thunder Cloud who was following Lingling. He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much more relaxed, and grinned, "You came just in time!"

"Stop talking nonsense and go first!"

Zeus choked him and rushed forward at a rapid speed.

"Use Haki to attach to the weapon to prevent it from being eroded by the power of the fruit."

Witnessing everything that happened below, the man stayed in the air, waved his numb arms around, and said to himself with a little emotion,

"That kid is quite skilled. If it were an ordinary person, his weapon would have been destroyed long ago. I really want to ask his name. But we will know it soon. It won't take much time."

He gently flapped his pair of metallic wings, and a "tick-tick" sound came from the wings. He chased after him at lightning speed.

"bump!"

With a loud bang, the pirate ship crashed heavily into the dock, causing the entire port to shake violently. Several broken boxes flew out, raising a large cloud of dust.

"Cough cough!"

Lingling choked twice on the thick smoke. She gathered herself and looked around. Seeing the long bread that was disoriented by the series of impacts and Uno who was still clinging to the side of the boat, she felt a little relieved and smiled with relief: "We landed safely, ma ma ma!"

"If nothing happens, then there must be something fishy, ​​you little bitch..."

Long Bread touched his head, and he and Uno followed Lingling to jump off the boat and came to the shore. Looking around, the streets were quiet, without any human figures, not even a single soldier was seen on duty.

Lingling kicked a stone in the corner with an unhappy look on her face and said bitterly, "They really expected us to come and took all the residents away for shelter in advance."

As they were talking, Zeus arrived with Kaido beside them. Long Bread asked him anxiously, "Is that guy chasing us?"

Kaido jumped off Zeus and said, "I looked back several times just now and didn't see anyone chasing us."

"Really? That's strange..."

Seeing that everyone was hesitant, Uno suggested: "We don't have time to mess around now. We must race against time to get to the capital before the pursuers arrive!"

"How dare you talk about time in front of me? It's ridiculous."

A cold voice echoed in the air, and everyone who heard it was horrified. They were about to look for the source of the voice, when suddenly, a figure flashed silently ten meters in front of them and blocked their way.

Because the previous fight was too hasty, Kaido didn't see his face until this moment. The man was tall and thin, with short black hair with a few strands of white hair. His face was terribly pale, his eyes were listless, with two deep dark circles under his eyes, and two long mustaches on his mouth. He was wearing a neat gray robe with numbers of different sizes written on it, all ranging from 1 to 12. His whole body exuded an indescribable sense of mystery, which made him have to be extremely vigilant.

"How did you get ahead of us, you bastard?"

Facing Lingling's angry questioning, the man ignored her and glanced at everyone. He put his hands behind his back and said proudly, "My name is Tempaz. As you all know, I am an ordinary bounty hunter. The world gave me the name 'Time Devourer', which is nothing more than making time disappear. I was commissioned by King Pecunia to deal with the pirates who tried to disturb this country. I have to explain in advance that I have been rushing here day and night since I received the order. It took me an hour longer than expected, and I have to wait for six days according to the king's order. Normally, I can take hundreds of commissions in six days, but they all fell through because of you. How much compensation do you want for my losses..."

He talked incessantly, which greatly reduced the mysterious impression Kaido and others had of him, and each of them gave him a complicated look.

How talkative is this guy? And his tone of voice is inexplicably irritating.

Long Bread was getting more and more annoyed, and remembering the voice in the Den Den Mushi, he excitedly asked loudly, "Hey! What did you do to my subordinate Noseiken?!"

Tempaz stopped his chattering and returned to his usual emotionless tone: "Well, are you talking about the mayor of the capital? We have indeed taken away a lot of his time, but he is too old. I estimate that he can only live for a month at most..."

Long Baomai could no longer bear it, drew out his long knife and ran away. Lingling was too late to stop him, so she could only order Zeus to go up to support him. Zeus' body turned from white to black, his eyes became much more fierce, and he turned into a thunder cloud and rushed towards the enemy at lightning speed.

One person and one thing attacked from both sides, trapping Tampaz in the core. Tampaz remained calm, kicked the long bread and somersaulted, turned sideways, and quickly tapped Zeus' face with the short needle in his left hand. Zeus felt countless air flows quickly disappearing from his body, and he couldn't help but shouting in panic: "Mom! Save me!"

Suddenly, in the blink of an eye, a thin figure appeared in front of Tampaz and grabbed his chest like lightning. Seeing a faint green light on his palm, Tampaz knew something was wrong and did not dare to take it head-on. He dodged to the side and quickly chopped the long needle in his right hand towards his forehead. Unexpectedly, the man just feinted, turned over, and kicked Tampaz's left wrist with lightning speed. Tampaz's wrist felt numb and he had to move the short needle away from Zeus. Taking this opportunity, the man reached out with his left hand and grabbed the falling Zeus, and did several backflips in a row and returned to the female pirate.

Lingling took Zeus from the man and took a closer look. She saw that Zeus's size had shrunk several times, and its color had returned to its original state. His little face was staring at his master with tears in his eyes. Seeing his tearful look, she snorted and took Zeus back without saying a word. She became more convinced of the rumor that Tempaz could devour time, and did not dare to attack rashly again.

Kaido was surprised to see Uno suddenly rushing out from beside him. He gripped his mace tightly and was about to go up to support him. He stopped only when he saw him successfully rescue Zeus. Looking back, he saw Uno was calm and unharmed. He couldn't help but marvel in his heart. He didn't expect that a seemingly frail person could be so agile. He felt respect for him from the bottom of his heart.

"Why are there so many powerful little ghosts appearing today..."

Tempaz sighed and waved his aching left arm. He looked down and saw that the originally exquisite and gorgeous boots on his right foot had turned into a piece of bread. He had already stepped on it and it was tattered. There were traces of jam on the corners of his clothes. He dipped a little with his finger and put it in his mouth. His eyes lit up and he said with satisfaction, "Hmm! It tastes good. It's a pity that we accidentally ruined the food. This must be the ability of that long-nosed guy. If only he wasn't a pirate..."

Seeing his enjoyable expression, Long Bread smiled bitterly and said, "It's a pity that I didn't touch his clothes, otherwise he would have suffered a lot."

"This concludes the warm-up."

Tempaz straightened his collar, pointed the long needle at the four of them one by one, and raised the corner of his mouth slightly. "Have you ever thought about how much time you have wasted in your life?"

He asked this question out of nowhere, which made Lingling look stunned. Then she reacted and sneered, "I don't know! I don't want to know! No matter how powerful you are, it won't be possible to deal with the four of us working together, right?"

"Hmm... I just asked casually, but I was rejected like this..."

Tempaz seemed a little disappointed. The next second, he regained his cold and arrogant expression. "But my beautiful lady, you seem to have made a mistake?"

"What do you want to say?"

Tempaz slowly opened his arms, and a sinister smile appeared on his pale face: "The moment I appeared before you, you have already fallen into the cage of time."