CHAPTER 17

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CHAPTER 17

Kreegan opened the latches around the crate one by one, and the morning sun coming over the sea made the oil shine like gold for a moment. Seeing this, Eldoraggo thought for a moment that the contents of the crate were gold and got excited, then started rubbing his hands excitedly.

Kreegan looked into Eldoraggo's face, and his face was the embodiment of greed. But his face fell when he realized that the thing inside the crate was not gold, while Kreegan lifted the crate, trying not to spill its contents. Eldoraggo shouted in anger, and the men around him put their hands on their swords.

"What is the meaning of this?"

Kreegan acted naively and replied.

"My esteemed captain, this is a humble gift from our village to you."

Eldoraggo stood still for a moment as if trying to make sense of what was being said. At that moment, Kreegan spun 360 degrees in one swift move. He spilled all the oil in this big crate onto the ship and all the pirates. Right after that, Kreegan used Burning Hands with both of his hands and spewed streams of fire onto the unsuspecting pirates like a sprinkler from hell, but at the same time, Eldoraggo used his beam attack.

The strong stream of flames and the energy beam crushed head-to-head and caused an explosion. The explosion's force pushed Eldoraggo and Kreegan off the ship into the sea. Knowing that his boss couldn't swim, Golass jumped after him. The ship was engulfed in flames, and the pirates were all on fire. Almost all the pirates died in flames, except for some pirates who managed to jump into the sea accompanied by painful cries. The oil spreading on the ship had already managed to spread the 5-meter cone attack all over the ship. The explosion caused the ship to start taking water.

Kreegan was momentarily dazed, but after sinking a little deeper, he regained consciousness and swam to the surface. This explosion had really hurt like hell, but there didn't seem to be any injuries. Before the dinghy, on which he had placed his swords, went any further, he summoned his swords and began to swim towards the shore.

Golass and Eldoraggo had managed to throw themselves ashore with incredible difficulty. Eldoraggo nearly drowned. He turned towards his ship, which was sinking in flames, and could not believe his eyes. All his wealth and his men were gone instantly, but no matter what, he will work the villager to the bones and make them bring all his treasure to the surface. At that moment, Kreegan, who had come ashore, caught his eye.

"You... you bastard! Even if it is the last thing I do, I will kill you."

"Golass! Kill this bastard, and I will give you 500 gold coins."

As soon as he heard this, Golass drew his giant sword from his back and attacked Kreegan with great green in his eyes. After the two of them collided for a few moments, Golass used his superior physical strength to push Kreegan back and try to throw him off balance. But the moment Kreegan realized that Golass was stronger than him, he was waiting for an opportunity to retreat, and he used this moment to jump backward with Golass's blow.

Knowing that he could no longer engage in a power struggle with Golass, as soon as he opened the distance, he turned both of his swords parallel to the ground and used Nigiri: Hirameki (flash) to close the distance between them in the blink of an eye. There was something odd about Golass swinging his sword, and it was as if he didn't want to fight and hesitated as he waved his sword, and that hesitation was the end of him.

"I don't know why you are hesitating, but I don't show mercy to the pirates and don't care about your feeling either. If you didn't want to fight for a pirate, you shouldn't have stepped onto his ship."

Golass collapsed to the ground, blood pouring down the side of his stomach, and he had only one thing on his mind as he took his last breath. He was ashamed that he had sold his sword to dishonorable people for money.

Kreegan shrugged his swords and sheathed his swords. Seeing this, Eldoraggo relaxed his body a bit, but he was still full of anger. Eldoraggo started yelling at him for being about 10 meters apart and was confident he could kill Kreegan at that distance since he sheathed his swords.

"If you want something done right, you always have to do it yourself. Your end will not be painless, and I will finish you off in a long and excruciating way."

Eldoraggo lifted both his arms to the top of his head, collected his breath, and got ready to attack as he lifted his arms and crossed above his head. He heard Kreegan talking.

"Shishi Sonson"

Kreegan vanished from his sight, moving at least twice as fast as his previous attack. Eldoraggo felt a great pain in his stomach for a moment, and all the power he had gathered poured out like water and left his body.

"Are you stupid? Did you really think I would wait for you to prepare your attack? What kind of bullshit attack was that? If you take forever to prepare your attack, this is what happens."

Eldoraggo put his hand on his blood-soaked chest in surprise. In the center of his chest was a sword with a blue hilt. His vision was going back and forth. His eyes turned towards the man at the tip of this sword. He wanted to use his Devil Fruit power but couldn't breathe even an iota. He fell on his knees and passed away, regretting that he had acted smugly by not working harder on his devil fruit power.

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After killing Eldoraggo and his pirates, the villagers spent a week trying to bring the gold from the sinking ship to the surface. There were about 30 million bellies worth of gold onboard, and Kreegan left about 10 million of it to the villagers and had the rest loaded onto his ship. After putting Golass and Eldoraggo's heads in a protective liquid, Kreegan set out for the nearest marine base, which would take about four days. After surrendering the heads and taking his bounty, Kreegan had a total of 50 million bellies.