A dozen plates of roasted meat instantly filled Xia Luo's belly, but it didn't take long for it all to be digested.
At this time, hot white wisps of qi (a vital energy in traditional Chinese concepts) were floating above Xia Luo's head.
Ivan, who was reporting work beside him, was stunned, and his voice involuntarily weakened.
In fact, Xia Luo wasn't listening to what he was saying. He didn't care about an insignificant organization like the Wild Wolf Gang at all. Keeping it around was just for better serving himself.
The maids came and went several times, and finally Xia Luo felt full and was filled with strength again.
He jumped off the chair, more than ten meters high, and moved at an extremely fast speed.
Xia Luo punched a big tree that six people could barely embrace.
Bang!
With one punch, this hundred - meter - long tree was instantly split in half by Xia Luo's fist.
"Ah!"
Seeing the tree about to fall right where all the maids were standing, all the maids turned pale with fright.
Xia Luo jumped up again and kicked the tree to one side, sending it flying more than ten meters away.
Bang!
A cloud of dust billowed up in the distance.
He was curious about what level his strength and explosive power had reached in the pirate world.
After all, there was no clear level division in *Pirate King*. However, when he used to surf the forums in his previous life, some netizens had divided the realms themselves.
The levels are as follows: miscellaneous soldiers (with some strength); colonels (able to use some moves); brigadier generals (proficient in more than two of the Six Styles); major generals (proficient in more than four of the Six Styles and either type of Haki); lieutenant generals (proficient in both types of Haki and able to cover their whole bodies with it). Then there are quasi - admirals, which are equivalent to Shichibukai, and they are below the Emperors' right - hand men, Admirals, and Four Emperors.
Although netizens in his previous life had made such a division, there were some very buggy parts. So this realm division could only be used as a reference.
Only an idiot would buy into that.
After all, there was a monster - like lieutenant general named Garp among the lieutenant generals, a chubby shut - in named Moria among the Shichibukai, and Mihawk, the Hawkeye, who often sparred with the Four Emperors.
In short, there were many unreasonable parts, so it could only be a reference.
...
Two more years passed.
Xia Luo was no longer in the mountains.
Instead, he was by the sea.
After learning to swim, Xia Luo practiced sword - fighting in the sea daily. He had read a lot, and in many stories, the protagonists had practiced sword - fighting in water.
Xia Luo didn't understand the way of the sword, but he had seen Zoro practice.
Although it seemed rather vague, Xia Luo only remembered the [b]Ability to Cut Through Anything[/b].
With this belief, Xia Luo swung his sword by the sea or in the deep sea every day, repeating the same movements over and over again, in order to reach the state of [b]Ability to Cut Through Anything[/b].
"Whoosh!"
Xia Luo climbed onto the shore. The soreness in his body and the mental pressure made it impossible for him to calm down.
After each sword - fighting practice, he always felt irritable and couldn't settle his mind.
It had been four years since he crossed over, and he was now fourteen years old. In these four years, he had trained hard every day, and his physical fitness had reached the peak for his age. The rate of improvement was starting to slow down.
This really troubled Xia Luo a great deal. Since his physical strength improvement was slow, he decided to practice swordsmanship. After a year of practice, his strength was probably only comparable to Zoro's when he first set sail.
He simply couldn't achieve that feeling of being able to cut through anything.
When he swung his sword at a rock, only a shallow mark was left on it. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't muster that unstoppable momentum.
"Boss! Here are the swords you asked for!"
As soon as Yifan saw Xia Luo come up, he quickly handed over a towel and a basket full of swords.
These were the swords Xia Luo had Yifan customize. He was using up swords so quickly in his practice that almost every few days, a sword would break. So Xia Luo asked his subordinates to bring him new swords every few days.
This task was assigned to Yifan, and at this time, Yifan would also report the information about the town and provide newspapers.
"Has there been anything going on lately?"
Xia Luo asked casually while looking at the newspaper.
As soon as Xia Luo got the newspaper, he saw that the Rocks Pirates had destroyed a kingdom.
Looking at the bounties listed, Xia Luo's pupils constricted. They were all characters from the anime in his previous life.
Rocks D. Xebec, with a bounty of 1.38 billion berries, was the captain of the Rocks Pirates. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes.
Whitebeard (Edward Newgate), the first - division commander of the Rocks Pirates and the user of the Gura Gura no Mi, had a bounty of 840 million berries. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes.
Shiki, the Golden Lion, the second - division commander and the user of the Float - Float Fruit, had a bounty of 790 million berries. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes.
Charlotte Linlin, the third - division commander and the user of the Soul - Soul Fruit, had a bounty of 570 million berries. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes.
John, the fourth - division commander, had a bounty of 360 million berries. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes.
Wang Zhi, the fifth - division commander, had a bounty of 350 million berries. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes.
Silver Axe, the sixth - division commander, had a bounty of 330 million berries. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes.
Kurozumi Kugai, the seventh - division commander and the user of the Copy - Copy Fruit, had a bounty of 120 million berries. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes. His vice - commander, Kurozumi Sangoro, the user of the Barrier Barrier Fruit, had a bounty of 110 million berries. Wanted dead or alive for heinous crimes.
Kaido (Intern), with a bounty of 30 million berries, was to be captured alive.
The newspaper was full of characters that Xia Luo was familiar with.
"Boss, in the past year, the number of pirates has skyrocketed, all because of the Rocks Pirates. They are in the second half of the Grand Line, right here where we are. They are burning, killing, and looting everywhere. They are also attacking the member countries of the World Government and the Navy branches.
They are using Hive Island as their base and launching attacks from there. Even the Navy is helpless. They've almost taken over the depths of the second half of the Grand Line.
If the Navy doesn't stop them, our island could be in big trouble!"
Yifan said with a worried look.
He was right. Their island was located a bit towards the front in the middle of the second half of the Grand Line. Although there was a Navy G - 8 branch nearby, there was no guarantee that the pirates wouldn't attack.
After hearing this, Xia Luo returned the newspaper to Yifan.
"Don't worry too much. There's a Navy branch nearby. No pirate would dare to cause trouble around here. Go down. Come to me if there's anything!"
"
Charlotte waved her hand, completely ignoring Ivan's concerns.
Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Suddenly, the sound of explosions rang out.
"What's going on?"
Charlotte looked in the direction of the explosions.
A cloud of smoke billowed up from the direction of the distant port.
Oh no! It's bad!
A bad feeling welled up in both of their hearts simultaneously.
"Let's go! Let's check it out!"
Charlotte started running towards the port.
As she ran, she activated her Observation Haki to scan the surroundings.
Instantly, with Charlotte at the center, a three - dimensional view of the surroundings appeared in her mind.
"Oh no, it's the pirates!"
Charlotte saw in her mind that three pirate ships had appeared at the port.