Although Dragon's appearance was shocking enough, the Black Cat pirates on the ship were all elites from the South Blue and had quite a lot of combat experience. After a brief moment of surprise, the weapons were directed towards him, and without hesitation, they pulled the trigger of their weapons.
[Bang!]
The first loud gunshot directly kicked off the battle. More gunshots rang out from all directions, and dense bullets poured out like heavy rain.
Seeing this, Dragon frowned slightly and stopped his subconscious instinct to use his Haki.
For him, if he uses Haki or too strong physical skills, this battle will lose its meaning. He must ensure that he only uses the ability of the storm fruit to deal with them.
In an instant, the bullets closed in, but a stream of green wind appeared around Dragon, creating a whirlwind that stopped the bullets and let them fall limply to the ground.
"It's indeed a Devil Fruit ability, but it looks very different from ours, meow!"
The White Cat who had jumped from the white ship to the black ship without anyone noticing, crouched on the mast of the black ship and watched Dragon from above.
He and Black Cat came from the lowest level of the South Blue, so they did not receive any good education. They were only taught how to write for three years by two kind old men, and had no chance to learn about Devil Fruits. Therefore, they had no idea about Devil Fruits. Understanding is limited to knowing that it is the 'secret treasure of the sea'.
Having not seen any other Devil Fruit users in the South Blue until now, they mistakenly believed that all the users had different animal forms, like the two of them.
"It seems like he can turn into wind and control the wind, he sure deflected those bullets with the wind, look closely, meow." The Black Cat warned as he watched the battle seriously.
At the same time, the Black Cat pirates on the deck saw that the musket fire was useless. The surrounding pirates holding steel knives, daggers, and long swords all showed the most ferocious expressions and attacked him.
Sure enough, this time, the suddenly appeared marine man could no longer stand still and ignore the attack. Instead, he followed the green wind and moved among the crowd with extremely ethereal movements, dodging sword slashes and sword thrusts from all angles. Occasionally, some people felt their weapons make contact, but they only hit a semi-transparent layer of wind.
On the other hand, Dragon resisted the urge to fight back, coping with the siege of the pirates while feeling the power of the wind.
At this time, if he was seen by Rear Admiral Irwin, he might think that Dragon was using the Kenbunshoku Haki, but this was just sensing the flow of air, in addition to semi-transforming his body into the wind element from time to time.
Dragon felt that since he was already a Logia-type ability user, he had to get used to using the elemental characteristics as soon as possible.
The move he was using right now was called 'Wind Dragon Shelter'. The wind blessing on the body can not only improve agility and speed, but also provide protection and airflow perception. It seems to be a quite comprehensive auxiliary skill, but It's not just that either.
"Wind Dragon!"
The next moment, the green wind that had been quietly flowing around Dragon suddenly became turbulent. More wind force surged out to form a spiraling wind dragon, which swept nearly a hundred pirates on the deck high into the sky.
"Ahhhh!"
What was even more astonishing was that the pirates covered by the gale began to show multiple bloody cuts, as if they were being torn apart by thousands of knives. They let out piercing cries of pain and instinctively tried to protect themselves.
"Oh my god, what the hell is this?"
The White Cat appeared next to the Black Cat in the blink of an eye, staring in amazement at the wind dragon that was writhing like a whirlwind, with Dragon's figure flickering in the center of the whirlwind.
As soon as the wind dragon appeared, his animal instinct frantically warned the White Cat. Fortunately, he obeyed the instinct and jumped down as fast as possible. Otherwise, he would probably be cut by the wind now.
The Black Cat did not respond to the White Cat because he didn't know what to say. Dragon's ability was so amazing that he didn't even know how to deal with it.
Ten seconds later, as the wind dissipated, the Black Cat Pirates, covered in bruises and bloody mouths, fell like dumplings one after another. Some of the unlucky ones fell directly into the ocean.
The most surprising thing was that the deck had a big hole where Dragon was, but he didn't fall through it. Instead, he floated in the air with a smaller wind dragon around him.
What makes the Black Cat and the White Cat feel most nervous is that Dragon's eyes are focused on them, which makes the two of them assume a feline-like alert posture.
But the latter has no killing intention towards these two 'cats'.
He had already learned about their information on the way here. For pirates like this who only targeted nobles and did not do any harm to civilians and did not kill many, they still had to be caught, but there was no need to kill them.
However, his staring at them finally led the Black Cat and White Cat to take action. Without any verbal communication or exchange of glances. Almost at the same time, they rushed towards Dragon with the intention of taking the lead.
The ability users in Lion cat form and Pallas cat form, one on the left and one on the right, were so fast that their bodies were blurred. They approached Dragon in an instant.
With feline claws capable of cutting iron, they attacked ferociously, one from above and one from below, working in perfect synchronicity.
"Black Cat's Fierce Claws, meow!"
"White Cat's Fierce Claws, meow!"
Meanwhile, Dragon's small wind dragon roared and rose, quickly transforming into a wind dragon more than three meters high and about ten meters long.
It completely ignored the Black Cat's attacks and instead threw it back, with the same speed with which it had come, then, with a flick of its tail, it pushed the White Cat back to the other side.
[Bang! Bang!]
The two of them hit the side of the ship heavily one after another. They both spat out a mouthful of blood and looked in horror at Dragon who slowly floated in front of them and the wind dragon that was swimming in mid-air and staring at them.
In fact, as an Zoan-type ability user, although the wind dragon's attack is heavy enough, it will not lose its combat ability. However, the huge gap between the two sides is disappointing.
"Captain! Captain!"
At this moment, the crew members of the white ship of the White Cat Pirates rushed to the deck of the Black Cat ship, climbing the ropes with hooks and wielding their weapons.
They also saw the strength displayed by Dragon, but the two captains treated them well. Most of them had been oppressed and bullied by the nobles before. It was the captains who showed up and severely punished the nobles and brought them with them. Come out to the sea without worrying about food and clothing and be free.
So, at this moment, even those black cat pirates who were cut by the tornado, as long as they had the strength to stand up, they all braved the pain and rushed towards Dragon with all their strength.
"Captains, escape on the white ship!"
"Yes, run! We'll stop him!"
The pirates of the Black Cat and White Cat groups believe that with the strength of the two captains, they will be able to escape successfully. They are Devil Fruit users!
"You.... You...."
The Black Cat and the White Cat had red eyes, but they did not choose to leave on their own. Instead, they stood up and roared towards Dragon with their crew members.
"We will die together, meow!"
Dragon was also a little surprised when he saw this scene. He had encountered many pirate groups before, but he had never seen such a united pirate group, even willing to die for the captain.
He became curious about these pirates.
"Forget it, I'll imprison them first." Dragon felt that time had almost passed.
The next moment, the wind dragon expanded violently, then exploded with a bang, turning into a raging green wind that swept everything around it, swallowing up all the pirates and the 'two cats'. The black and white ships were destroyed in the wind.
[Roar!]
The faint roar of the wind dragon echoed throughout the sea.
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