“You brat, you made me waste a gas bomb.”

Don Krieg, wearing a gas mask, walked to the end of the deck and looked down at everyone.

He looked at Zeff, whose expression was grim, and said coldly,

“Have you made up your mind? Hand over Baratie’s ship, and then surrender to become our chef.”

“Brat, when this old man was adventuring on the Grand Line, you were still drinking milk somewhere!”

Zeff roared.

“Old geezer.” Don Krieg snorted, “Fire the cannons!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the giant pirate ship’s cannons began to move, aiming at the Baratie restaurant.

With a loud boom, a cannonball was fired.

Carina and Usopp screamed in terror.

Zoro gripped his long sword, gritted his teeth, and prepared to jump up and try to cut down the cannonball.

But he wasn’t sure if he could do it.

Sanji, Zeff, and the other chefs looked grim.

It was too late to either defend or escape by sailing away.

Nami nervously clung to Luo Chen.

Even though she knew nothing would happen, facing a cannonball still made her inevitably afraid.

Luo Chen raised his hand and pointed, and a tree more than ten meters tall grew out of thin air in front of them, its canopy like an umbrella.

Countless branches extended forward like living things, wrapping around the dark cannonball flying through the air.

“Bang—!”

The cage formed by the tree branches quickly expanded, then shrank.

The cannonball was annihilated within it, yet it failed to damage the tree branches in the slightest.

On the Baratie ship, everyone’s expressions froze, and they all looked at Luo Chen.

They clearly hadn't expected that a Devil Fruit user was hidden among them.

The cannonball fired from Don Krieg’s giant pirate ship was actually blocked so easily.

On the top deck, Don Krieg also widened his eyes, his face full of surprise.

His gaze fell on Luo Chen, and he shouted, “Who are you?”

Luo Chen said nothing, merely pointing his finger forward.

The large tree that stood before everyone suddenly rose into the sky, extending and solidifying as it ascended, transforming into a ferocious Wood Dragon.

The Wood Dragon was entirely green, its dragon head lifelike, soaring through the sky and casting a large shadow below.

People were dumbfounded.

A ten-meter-long Wood Dragon was a power that people who had lived in the East Blue for a long time had never seen before.

The Wood Dragon swooped down, carrying the momentum of destroying an army, and crashed into the giant pirate ship.

Don Krieg was greatly alarmed; his golden armor lifted, revealing a Gatling gun.

The muzzle spun rapidly, spewing out flames.

A large number of bullets and cannonballs struck the Wood Dragon, but not even a splinter was dislodged.

“Stop!”

At the critical moment, Don Krieg screamed in terror.

Luo Chen naturally wouldn’t listen to him; the Wood Dragon, like a meteor, crashed into the pirate ship.

“Rumble rumble—!”

The thirty-meter-tall giant pirate ship instantly disintegrated, its deck shattered, and its sails and mast toppled.

The entire giant ship rapidly collapsed, turning into scattered wood chips, slowly sinking into the sea.

The screams of the pirates and Don Krieg echoed through the sky.

Finally, splashes of water rose, and they fell into the sea, their voices gone.

On the Baratie ship, it was as silent as a graveyard.

The East Blue chefs, Usopp, and Carina’s eyes were as wide as copper bells, staring blankly at Luo Chen.

Zoro, Sanji, and Zeff were also utterly astonished.

They truly hadn't expected Luo Chen to so easily destroy Don Krieg’s pirate ship.

Zeff said in surprise, “Who are you? Such power is rare in the East Blue!”

Luo Chen smiled, “A pirate.”

Zeff asked, “A pirate from the Grand Line?”

Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy, who was enduring the pain of poison, all looked over intently.

They already knew about the Grand Line.

It was known as the pirates’ graveyard.

The reason the East Blue overlord, the Don Krieg Pirate Group, only had one main ship left was because they encountered a powerful enemy in the Grand Line.

If Luo Chen was truly from the Grand Line, then such strength was understandable.

Even though Luffy looked pained, he couldn’t help but ask, “What… is the Grand Line really like? Can I become the Pirate King once I enter it?”

Luo Chen shook his head, “I haven’t been there yet; I’m just about to go.”

Everyone was stunned.

So, Luo Chen was a local from the East Blue?

Why had they never heard of such a great pirate before?

Carina saw Nami’s smug smile and turned her head away in annoyance.

She knew what Nami was gloating about.

Their companions had shown a significant difference in combat power.

Luffy was defeated by Don Krieg using poison gas, while Luo Chen destroyed the entire pirate ship with a wave of his hand.

Sending Don Krieg and his many subordinate pirates into the sea.

Usopp looked at Luo Chen worriedly and whispered in Carina’s ear,

“Why don’t you apologize to him? That young man in the trench coat is really strong.”

Carina pouted.

Now wasn’t the time to apologize.

Don Krieg hadn’t been defeated yet.

In the sea, on the wreckage of broken wooden planks, Don Krieg climbed out of the seawater, gasping for breath.

Beside him, more than a dozen pirates climbed up again.

The others had not appeared, clearly having perished in the sea during the recent destruction.

Don Krieg’s eyes were crimson, and he stared at Luo Chen with a face full of murderous intent.

Gin was beside him, deeply pained by the death of his comrades.

“Brat, I’m going to kill you!”

Don Krieg roared, pulling out a huge war spear from his golden armor.

The surviving pirates under him shouted excitedly, “It’s the Great War Spear! The captain’s strongest weapon!”

“As long as he hits that kid once, he can smash him into meat paste!”

“…”

Don Krieg leaped up in a rage, crossing several meters, and swung his war spear down in mid-air.

Luo Chen activated Shave, and his figure instantly disappeared from his original spot.

Whether it was Luffy, Zoro, and the others, or Don Krieg’s pirates, all widened their eyes, searching everywhere.

No one was able to capture Luo Chen’s movements.

Only Zeff looked up at the sky and said in a deep voice, “He’s there!”

Everyone immediately looked up.

In mid-air, Luo Chen’s figure appeared strangely, as if he had teleported there.

He reached out a hand and grabbed Don Krieg’s wooden spear shaft.

Seeing this, Don Krieg roared, his face flushed red as he struggled to swing it.

But Luo Chen seemed to be standing in mid-air, unmoving, and the Great War Spear did not move an inch.

“This golden armor of yours is pretty good.”

Luo Chen chuckled, then stomped his foot in mid-air; he and Don Krieg, who had been falling, rose into the sky again.

Watching the scene of him stepping on air to gain leverage and ascend, Luffy’s crew and the Baratie chefs were once again stunned.

“What… what kind of leg technique is that?” Sanji, who was skilled in kicking, exclaimed in surprise.

Zeff said with a look of doubt, “It should be the Navy Six Styles - Moon Walk. It’s strange for a pirate to be able to learn it.”

In mid-air, Luo Chen suppressed Don Krieg with one hand and swiftly reached out with the other, stripping him of all his golden armor.

“Don’t damage this gold.”

Luo Chen finished speaking and punched Don Krieg in the chest.

Don Krieg’s eyes suddenly bulged, filled with pain, and he spat out a large mouthful of blood, flying backward.

His burly figure crashed onto the ship’s wreckage, continuing to cough up blood, unable to stand up.

Gin and a dozen pirates screamed and rushed over.

But they were immediately all bound by the branches of growing trees; no matter how they struggled, it was useless.

Luo Chen, holding the golden armor, landed back on the Baratie ship’s deck.