Rocks' words stunned the Rocks Pirates members present. After a moment, it turned into cheers, cheering for the Rocks Pirates becoming stronger because of this.
This also stunned Nox. He hadn't expected that what Rocks meant by a draw was to remain undefeated against John for a day, not to hold out until the very end.
"Congratulations on becoming an executive officers of the Rocks Pirates. If it were a land battle, you wouldn't last a few hours against me."
Seeing Rocks speak, John also stopped attacking and acknowledged Nox's current status.
"Jie hahahaha, Nox, well done! As expected of the man I favor!!"
After Nox returned to where the many executive officerss of the Rocks Pirates were, Golden Lion Shiki was the first to walk up and speak.
It was obvious that Golden Lion Shiki wanted to build a relationship with Nox, as they had met earlier.
"Brothers! Let's feast! Welcome our new Rocks Pirates executive officers, Nox, to join us!"
Rocks said to all the members of the Rocks Pirates.
"Jie hahahaha, I love feasting the most!"
Golden Lion Shiki burst into laughter as soon as he heard the word "feast".
"Mama, mama, I like feasts, I like cake."
Charlotte Linlin drooled and laughed heartily.
As Rocks' words fell, the entire Beehive Island became lively.
The thing Pirates loved most was feasting, then eating meat, drinking alcohol, celebrating, and having fun with their bellies full.
In response, Nox also let out a sigh of relief, quietly withdrew from his Life Return state, and grabbed handfuls of grilled meat to stuff into his mouth.
Then, he used the Sword God Body Tempering Art to digest the energy from the grilled meat and recover from his injuries and fatigue.
While Nox was eating and drinking like crazy, many people in the darkness held cameras, took pictures of Nox, and transmitted them out.
As for those lurking in the dark, Nox's Kenbunshoku Haki had already sensed them, but he simply ignored them.
After all, his Kenbunshoku Haki could sense the enemy's intentions towards him, whether good or bad. No spy could hide from his Kenbunshoku Haki.
"gura rara rara, Nox, want a drink?"
Just as Nox was frantically devouring the grilled meat, Whitebeard walked over with an empty cup that looked like a wine barrel, picked up the fine wine next to Nox, and started drinking.
Whitebeard had finished the wine at his own seat and saw that the fine wine on Nox's side hadn't been touched at all, with Nox only focused on eating meat, so he walked over to get some free drinks.
"Drink!!!"
In response, Nox generously pushed half of the wine to Whitebeard, and he also grabbed a barrel of wine and drank with Whitebeard.
"gura rara rara, this is truly good wine!!"
Seeing Nox's action, Whitebeard didn't stand on ceremony. He picked up the wine barrel, clinked it with Nox's, and started drinking.
Although Nox hadn't drunk alcohol before, his alcohol tolerance was excellent because all the alcohol that entered his stomach would be completely digested.
Therefore, the alcohol couldn't numb his mind. This was the benefit of having Life Return.
Pirate feasts were joyful, and sometimes sad.
Because drinking wildly during the feast led to unconsciousness after getting drunk, and after getting drunk, people vented their emotions, causing some Pirates to frantically attack the targets they hated.
Therefore, during a feast, there would also be quite a bit of commotion. However, for such Pirates, there was only one outcome: being mercilessly killed.
This also led to the executive officerss' positions being relatively close during feasts, while ordinary members chose to stay away from the executive officerss, fearing that those executive officerss might accidentally kill them if they got drunk.
At the very core of Beehive Island, this was the most secretive place of the Rocks Pirates.
Even the many executive officerss didn't know about this place. Only Rocks and a few others knew that there was such a place on Beehive Island.
"I didn't expect you to actually do it!"
Shakky looked at the information in her hand, a charming smile appearing on her face.
She had thought that with Nox's strength, he would at most be like Kaido, serving as an intern, and only after growing for a few more years could he become an executive officers.
However, she didn't expect that Nox would become an executive officers as soon as he joined the Rocks Pirates.
Mary Geoise
The Gorosei were currently reading information about the Rocks Pirates, or more accurately, reading Nox's bounty poster and information.
"Nox, sixteen years old, currently one of the executive officerss of the Rocks Pirates. Most importantly, he is a Vampire Race member. Although not pure-blooded, he is indeed Vampire Race."
Topman Warcury Saint, one of the Gorosei, placed Nox's information on the table and said.
Logically speaking, no matter how much of a genius monster Nox was, he wouldn't be able to attract the attention of the World Government's Gorosei.
After all, in their eyes, Nox wasn't Rocks, just an executive officers. There was no need for them to pay attention; they could just leave it to the Marine.
However, because of the special Vampire Race bloodline on Nox, he entered the Gorosei's line of sight.
The outward manifestation of the Vampire Race bloodline was blood-red hair.
When he lived on the island before, Nox's parents made him dye his hair black.
But ever since Nox's parents passed away and his memories from his previous life Awakened, he hadn't dyed his hair.
Because he had no intention of hiding the bloodline he possessed.
And even more so, because he wasn't afraid of the World Government's slave-catching groups.
But Nox would never have thought that he would be targeted by the Gorosei because of his Vampire Race identity.
"I didn't expect there to still be Vampire Race members on the Sea. No, it should be said that Vampire Race members have always existed, we just couldn't find them."
"This Nox of the Rocks Pirates might be a breakthrough. Through him, we might be able to find more Vampire Race members, or a Vampire Race dwelling place."
Jaygarcia Saint Saturn, the Science Defense God, said.
"The special blood of the Vampire Race can prolong life if drunk regularly. We once sent people to capture all the Vampire Race members in the World and bring them back to the Holy Land to serve as a blood bank."
"But the low fertility rate of the Vampire Race has caused our blood bank to be almost depleted. I didn't expect to still see Vampire Race members now."
"Send someone to capture this Nox and bring him back. He must be alive."
Shepherd Ju Peter Saint, the Agriculture God, said with a fervent gaze.
Even though they did their best to cultivate the Vampire Race members they had captured before.
And had them breed among themselves, or even breed with other humans, the number of Vampire Race members kept decreasing until they were all dead now.
The remaining Vampire Race blood was also extremely precious; using a little meant having a little less.
For this kind of blood that could prolong life, Mary Geoise could be said to be in short supply. Even among the Celestial Dragons, only the most noble ones could enjoy it.
Now, seeing a living Vampire Race member on the Sea, how could the Gorosei restrain themselves?
"Seconded!"
"On the surface, send the Marine to capture him. Covertly, have CP0 capture him. As long as he leaves the Rocks Pirates, immediately bring him back."
Marcus Saint Mars, the Environment God, said greedily.
"Seconded!"
"Seconded!"
"Seconded!"
"..."
Just like that, without Nox knowing, he had already become a target of the World Government.