"Kill!"
With a low roar, Alex charged forward and suddenly leapt into the air.
That single jump carried him ten meters.
At this moment, his strength and explosive power had clearly surpassed what they were when he first arrived in this world.
He swung the chair in his hands in a wide arc and smashed it fiercely toward a pirate's head ahead.
Bang!
The chair struck directly against the man's forehead. Alex clearly saw blood burst outward as the pirate's skull split open instantly. The chair itself shattered from the immense force, exploding into splinters and fragments.
Red and white matter sprayed all over him, but he had no time to care.
He bent down quickly, picked up a rifle from the ground, then immediately tossed it aside and grabbed a longsword instead.
Whether in his previous life or this one, he had never learned how to use firearms.
A blade, however, was something he could grasp far more quickly.
Bang!
A bullet from somewhere struck his abdomen, making his body sway. Yet his expression twisted fiercely as he lunged toward the pirate before him once again.
The brutality of close combat was unimaginable to anyone who had never experienced it.
Blood and severed limbs covered the ground within moments.
Alex swung his blade, striking the neck of a pirate whose back faced him. Flesh and bone resisted the strike, forcing him to apply greater strength.
The next instant, the man's head separated from his body.
Decapitated.
Taking a deep breath, Alex stepped forward again and faced another pirate head-on.
The two locked eyes, then swung their blades at each other with savage expressions.
Slash!
A sharp sword cut across Alex's face, slicing down through his neck, tearing across his chest and all the way to his abdomen. Blood erupted like a fountain from his severed artery.
But in the blink of an eye, his body restored itself completely, returning to an uninjured state while an even more violent surge of strength flooded through him.
Alex struck again without hesitation, stabbing through the pirate's kidney.
He pulled the blade free and, under the pirate's shocked and incomprehensible gaze, charged toward his next opponent.
For a newcomer on the battlefield like him, death had already become commonplace. In a short span of time, his system points rose to seventy-five.
At the same time, Alex could clearly feel his transformation accelerating.
By the end, he was already moving through the pirates with ease.
However, just as the battle reached its peak, Kuzan's voice suddenly rang out nearby.
"Alex!"
"Look ahead!"
The seriousness in his tone made Alex raise his head toward the town.
Inside the European-style streets ahead, deafening battle cries suddenly erupted. Dense crowds surged forward like swarming ants, charging toward them.
A suffocating pressure instantly enveloped him.
There were too many.
"The Black Ricks Pirates are a large pirate crew with over a thousand members!"
A veteran marine beside him spoke in a low voice.
"Now it depends on Vice Admiral Garp!"
another marine added while pulling his blade free from an enemy's body.
Alex froze, then turned to look toward the warship behind them, where a man stood at the bow with arms crossed.
In the next second—
The warship moved.
No—more accurately, Garp moved.
His knees bent slightly, yet the entire bow of the warship tilted downward with him while the stern rose high into the air, nearly forming a ninety-degree angle with the ground.
The ship's bow scraped violently against the sand, producing a heavy, ear-piercing sound.
When the accumulated force reached its limit, Garp launched into the sky like a cannon shell, soaring hundreds of meters upward before arcing above everyone and looking down upon the battlefield.
His right hand clenched into a fist.
The sky above seemed to hum and creak as though about to shatter, brilliant radiant streaks bursting behind him.
Then, before the excited gazes of the marines, his figure hung motionless in the air.
Buzz!
A ripple spread outward across the entire Jerseylo Island at astonishing speed. Everyone felt their hearts skip a beat.
"Galaxy Impact!!"
Garp threw his punch.
Boom!!!
An unimaginable force erupted instantly, crashing downward into the mass of pirates charging from the town.
It was as if a nuclear explosion had detonated.
The crowd exploded apart. The ground shattered and fractured, cracks spreading outward at terrifying speed all the way into the town itself.
Crack—crack—!
Buildings crumbled. The earth quaked violently, and Alex along with the marines struggled to remain standing.
His pupils trembled violently as he stared at the scene before him.
It felt as though the world itself had shattered.
Under that single punch, everything ceased to exist—erased like a nuclear blast wiping the battlefield clean.
Nearly a thousand pirates vanished without even having time to scream, buried beneath the collapsing earth and the overwhelming shockwave.
"Vice Admiral Garp!!"
Kuzan shouted excitedly, eyes shining as he stared at the towering figure in the sky.
Behind him, the marines roared, their morale surging to its peak.
This was the Marine hero—Vice Admiral Garp!
Alex stood frozen.
For a brief moment, he thought he sensed Conqueror's Haki within that attack, though he couldn't be entirely certain.
"Conqueror's Haki infusion…?"
He suddenly recalled teachings about Kaido, Roger, and Shanks' Divine Departure.
Garp's punch seemed to share the same underlying principle.
Then his gaze fell upon his simple system panel.
"Conqueror's Haki LV10+."
Looking again at the devastated town ahead—reduced to ruins amid rolling smoke—Alex licked his lips, realizing his mouth had gone dry.
His body trembled slightly.
Perhaps from excitement.
His system points stood at seventy-five.
Now, two choices lay before him.
A: Wait until new abilities were learned and allocate points selectively.
B: Max out Conqueror's Haki first and possibly obtain power comparable to Garp's terrifying punch.
Alex clenched his fist without hesitation.
"BBBBBB!!!"
He frantically tapped the "+" beside Conqueror's Haki seventy-five times.
"Conqueror's Haki LV85+."
Instantly, his body trembled. A mysterious understanding surfaced within his mind. His spiritual power surged, feeding back into his body, strengthening his strength, speed, and reaction simultaneously.
Slowly raising his arm, faint strands of black-and-red aura began to coil around it like threads.
He could feel the immense weight behind a single punch—and realized that even without direct contact, this aura could extend outward to strike an enemy's body.
Almost instinctively, Alex clenched his fist and fixed his gaze on the stunned pirates ahead.
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