That's it?

On Island 13 of the Sabaody archipelago, on the flat ground, not far from Shakky's shakedown Bar.

Nicholas smiled as he looked at the nervous Bedeck before him and said lightly, "Don't be so nervous. I have good news for you this time."

Upon hearing Nicholas' words, along with his smiling face, Bedeck couldn't help but feel a sense of despair. How could there possibly be good news when such a big shot came looking for him? He regretted giving his contact information to Nicholas in the first place.

Or perhaps he should have returned to his hometown after that incident and used the accumulation of these years to buy a mansion, marry a beautiful woman, and hire some servants to live a luxurious life.

"Oh, Lord Nicholas, you're joking. It's my honor to serve you."

Bedeck forced a smile that looked even worse than crying as he spoke to Nicholas.

"This time, it's really good news. Trust me."

"Uh-huh, I believe you."

Bedeck nodded quickly, silently cursing in his mind, 'Did you think I didn't see your clenched fist behind your back? Do you really think I dare not believe?'

"That's good, then."

Nicholas loosened his fist and reached out to pat Bedeck's shoulder, indicating that the young man had a bright future ahead of him.

After giving Bedeck some instructions, Nicholas' figure disappeared instantly, leaving Bedeck alone in the wind.

"You're the one that Little Nicholas is interested in?"

Just as Bedeck was still digesting Nicholas' words, a voice suddenly sounded.

Bedeck followed the sound and saw a tall woman leaning against the tree roots of the Yarukiman vine tree in front of Shakky's bar, smoking a cigarette slowly and assessing him.

At the same time, the two people sitting at the entrance of the bar also cast dangerous glances at Bedeck, as if they would kill him on the spot if he made a wrong move!

"Yes, yes, that's right."

Bedeck tried to make his smile look harmless as he decided never to come to the 13th district again.

"Oh, follow Little Nicholas well. There's a bright future ahead."

After saying that, Shakky didn't even look at Bedeck; she just glanced in the direction Nicholas had left and then turned back into the bar.

Now she was just an ordinary bar owner in a regular bar.

Soon, in a place like a slaughterhouse, Nicholas stood on the roof, looking down at a group of people with burlap sacks below, and said lightly, "Mar, the Fear Spreader, with a bounty of 110 million, once led his men to cruelly massacre a town of thousands in the South Sea."

Inside.

Upon hearing Nicholas' words, Mar, who was helping a pirate convert to his cause, stood up from the ground, while the pirate, pierced by his thorns, fell to the ground, powerless and moaning.

Mar calmly looked at Nicholas on the roof.

As for the followers behind Mar, they looked at Nicholas with crazy eyes.

"Albert Nicholas, finally, I meet you. Hahaha~"

Mar let out a neurotic laugh.

"And then?"

Nicholas squatted on the roof, looking down at the frantic Mar with a playful expression.

"Feel it, fear!"

Mar had just opened his mouth when the aura of fear around him permeated like substance.

Just as Mar was about to jump on Nicholas and envelop him in his domain of fear, Nicholas suddenly disappeared into thin air.

In the next moment, Nicholas appeared behind Mar, pressing his hand on the back of Mar's head with one hand.

"Let me feel fear? Are you even worthy? Do you think you're Rocks? Even Rocks can't make me feel fear"

Nicholas said it disdainfully.

At that moment, Mar's face changed dramatically, and he felt a chill at the back of his head.

"Can't move?! My ability doesn't work on him!!!"

In the grip of terror, Mar felt paralyzed.

In that moment, he deeply realized the terrifying power of the New World pirates.

Since setting sail, no one has ever been unaffected within ten meters of him.

It was the first time, and perhaps the last time.

But... why didn't his ability work?!

"Bishop!"

At that moment, Mar's followers also reacted.

They all looked at Nicholas, who appeared behind their bishop, with horror and confusion.

Why wasn't he affected by their bishop's ability?

As the owner of the Paramecia-type fear fruit ability, Mar could gather the fear of others, creating an area filled with fear. Anyone entering this area would be entangled in infinite fear, and their abilities would be weakened.

But now, the guy who appeared behind Mar and pressed his hand on the back of Mar's head seemed unaffected, which was incomprehensible!

Nicholas's hand, pressing on Mar's head, was subtly enveloped in armament haki.

Then, a cold killing intent flashed.

In Mar's heart, a long-lost emotion surged up, and the feeling of sheer terror spread throughout his limbs.

The aura of death, like a cold stream, washed over Mar's nerves.

"Wait... wait!!!"

Facing the close-range aura of death, Mar shouted frantically.

It could be said that since obtaining the fruit, he has only brought fear to others, never experiencing fear himself.

But now he had become a lamb to be slaughtered in someone else's hands.

Even his proudest ability was useless against the opponent before him.

Nicholas looked expressionlessly at the roaring Mar, his hand showing no sign of hesitation, and coldly said, "Is that all you've got? Do you even dare to have ideas about my head?"

With a bang!

As Nicholas's words fell, his hand, enveloped in Armament Haki, smashed Mar's head to the ground, leaving only Mar's twitching feet to prove that he hadn't died completely.

He, who attempted to take Nicholas's head to gain fame, could never have imagined that he would be killed instead.

One supernova down.

"Bishop!!!"

The crew members who followed Mar, unable to stop Nicholas from taking action, were furious.

Nicholas didn't look at Mar's head lying on the ground but turned around slowly, coldly looking at the remaining people.

"Revenge for the bishop!"

Among the crowd, one of the most fanatical followers raised his sickle and shouted wildly, rushing towards Nicholas first.

However, as he rushed out, the others decisively turned and fled in all directions.

The first unlucky guy to rush out realized after a few steps that there was no one behind him, thinking at first that his companions were slow.

But the next moment, he heard a sound and looked back in confusion.

"???"

In his sight, there were only the fleeing backs of his companions; apparently, the fear of death made them surpass the fear of Mar.

Moreover, how could they be opponents of the one who could deal with Mar? Although they were crazy, they weren't stupid.

"You ************"

Before a coded call could be fully uttered, the unfortunate guy who rushed out first was directly pierced through the head by the lightning shot from Nicholas's finger gun.

The others, seeing this scene, ran away without looking back.

Nicholas calmly watched the fleeing Mar pirate crew members.

Then, with his right hand making a gun gesture,

"Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop!"

"Thump, thump..."

In less than three seconds, there were more than a dozen bodies on the ground.

Nicholas glanced at the bodies on the ground, then looked at the unfortunate guy, who had been physically converted by Mar, lying on the ground.

Bedeck watching this was shocked, He knew Nicholas was strong, but the other party was one of this year's Supernovas, representing one of this year's most promising pirates. It seemed he was directly killed by Nicholas.

"What are you looking at? Take that guy and bring him back. We'll split the bounty we'll get from the Navy in half, as agreed."

"Oh, okay."

Bedeck nodded in response and then went over to pull the infamous Fear Spreader out of the ground and throw him onto the bubble car he brought.

Watching Nicholas disappear again, as well as the bodies on the ground and the burlap-wrapped heads that were now stained with blood and slightly collapsed on the bubble car, Bedeck couldn't help but shiver.

Then he quickly pulled the bubble car away from there.