Chapter 9: Instant Annihilation of the Hundred-Man Squad

"Then that's the one."

Link nodded and asked, "Do you know their location?"

"I do."

Carina looked at the image in the newspaper and suddenly suggested, "Link, with your ability, could you do it without killing them?"

Link looked at Carina with great interest. "Why do you ask?"

Nami, standing on Link's other side, also turned to look at Carina.

A few years apart, and this vixen is now pleading for pirates?

However, Carina's next words made Nami realize that her former partner had left her far behind.

Carina's beautiful eyes sparkled as she said, "If you can subdue them without killing them, I suggest we get two birds with one stone."

"Although most pirates have a 'dead or alive' bounty, a living pirate is a walking achievement for some people. So there's a channel in the black market where you can sell living pirates for a price far higher than their bounty."

"We can capture those pirates with bounties, plunder their treasure, and then sell them to the black market for a high price."

Hearing Carina's plan, Nami's jaw dropped. "You can even sell pirates?"

"Of course, and they're very valuable."

Carina continued, "Besides weapons, the Donquixote Family also deals in the slave trade, so there's a channel for that here."

"That's a good idea, but it's unnecessary."

Link first affirmed Carina's idea, but then shook his head in the next second. "I won't let those blood-soaked pirates live, and I don't care about that little bit of money."

This was a lie!

Link truly didn't care about that little bit of money, but that wasn't the reason he had to kill the pirates.

The reason Link mercilessly killed pirates and enemies was simply because only by finishing off a target could he gain experience.

Link had once tried to see if he could gain experience just by defeating an enemy, but the system prompt never sounded.

Only by finishing off the enemy could Link gain experience.

This was the reason Link was so ruthless, impaling all his enemies.

"I understand."

Carina nodded slightly, not feeling any regret.

Link's answer made her understand why Nami followed him.

If she remembered correctly, Nami also hated pirates intensely.

For this captain to hate pirates so much, he must have gone through something.

Led by Carina, Link arrived in front of a tavern.

"The Saw-Blade Pirates are inside. They've booked the whole tavern and have been drinking in there for days," Carina said.

"Stay behind me."

Link pushed the door open directly.

As soon as he entered, the boisterous and noisy shouts reached Link's ears.

Nearly a hundred pirates were drinking and making merry throughout the tavern, some gambling, others dancing with women in their arms.

Whether man or woman, everyone's demeanor suggested they were not good people.

"Hey... kid, this place has been booked by us, the Saw-Blade Pirates! Get lost!"

"What pretty girls! They can stay, the man can scram!"

"..."

The moment Link's group of three entered, someone immediately tried to drive them away.

It was a trio of drunks, arms slung over each other's shoulders, holding wine bottles.

One of them, upon seeing Carina and Nami, was immediately overcome with lust and wanted to provoke them.

However, he didn't notice the pitying looks in Nami's and Carina's eyes.

Link only glanced at the trio of drunks, his eyes scanning the tavern, and quickly found the nearly five-meter-tall mutated human, 'Saw-Blade' Arnold.

Thus, Link formed hand seals, aimed his palm in Arnold's direction, and said softly, "Wood Style: Cutting Technique!"

Black dots appeared on Link's palm, and then dozens of toothpick-sized wooden splinters emerged from these dots, flying towards the targeted crowd.

The moment they left Link's palm, the toothpick-sized wooden splinters immediately swelled up like inflating balloons, becoming the size of arrows in the blink of an eye.

In an instant, a rain of arrows engulfed the tavern.

"Puchi-chi-chi..."

The arrow rain came very suddenly, and most of the Saw-Blade Pirates were drunk.

Many didn't even notice the arrow rain before they were hit by the arrow-sized wooden splinters.

"Ahhh..."

As the wooden splinters entered their bodies, horrific screams immediately echoed throughout the place.

Thick wooden splinters burst out from the bodies of the impaled pirates, killing them instantly.

Among them was 'Saw-Blade' Arnold, with a bounty of 57,000,000 Beri.

Evidently, he had only been given such a high bounty by the Marines due to his mutated human strength, his custom-made saw-blade, and his brutal methods.

However, no matter how strong a mutated human was, there were only two possibilities.

Either they were close to the strength of a Fish-Man, or stronger than one.

"Ding! Killed an enemy, gained 0.20% experience."

The system's prompt gave the answer.

This pirate with a bounty of 57,000,000 Beri was weaker than Arlong.

Thinking about it, it made sense. Because Arlong was in the weakest sea, the East Blue, and hadn't made any big moves in years, plus his collusion with the Marines, his bounty was only 20,000,000 Beri.

If he went to the other three seas, his bounty would definitely be far above twenty million.

But regardless of which pirate, Arlong or any other, in front of Link, they were all cannon fodder that could be taken out in one move.

Just after the first wave of arrows flew out, Link shot out another wave.

In just a few seconds, of the nearly one hundred members of the Saw-Blade Pirates, only the trio of drunks who had been scared sober and were now paralyzed on the ground remained.

Puchi-chi-chi...

Link shot out three more wooden splinters, finishing off the trio of drunks.

The entire tavern was now left with the tavern owner, who was wiping a glass with a stunned expression, and Link's group of three.

"Too weak."

Link, who had just wiped out the Saw-Blade Pirates, had a very ugly expression on his face.

Because after finishing off nearly a hundred people, the system prompt had only sounded four times.

This meant that out of nearly a hundred people, only four had provided Link with experience.

Besides 'Saw-Blade' Arnold, the other three were likely the officers of the Saw-Blade Pirates, and the experience they provided was not even 0.10%.

The experience provided by all four people combined was only 0.38%.

The rest of the pirates, like those kingdom soldiers, could no longer provide Link with experience.

At this point, Link thought to himself, "It seems only pirates with bounties, or guys with bounty-level strength, can provide experience now."

While Link was feeling unsatisfied, Carina and Nami behind him had their mouths wide open, looking completely dumbfounded.