Due to the suddenness of the air raid, coupled with the fact that most of the Kingdom’s army stationed at the port had already left, with only twenty thousand soldiers remaining, including fifteen thousand Marines (the soldiers who operate the Clifford Kingdom’s fleet ships), and most of those had gone into the city to deal with the animated flying creatures...
Consequently, no warships from the port sailed out to intercept the approaching Chris Grand Fleet. This allowed the vanguard fleet to land at Micity Port with unusual ease.
Three pirate ships, flying different skull flags, entered the port and reached the shore. The first to disembark weren’t the pirates themselves, but over two hundred stone beasts, all animated creatures.
They roared as they landed at Micity Port, charging at the resisting Kingdom soldiers. Only then did hundreds of pirates pour out.
"Charge! Kill all resistors without mercy!"
Enrod, with his white hair, leapt from the nearly twenty-meter-high ship onto the cobblestone ground of the shore. He then drew the katana from his waist and charged into the fray.
"Forward! Capture this place!"
"Charge! Follow Commander Enrod!"
"To repay Captain Aeridar’s kindness, follow me!"
The pirates, brandishing their blades and guns, charged frantically into the port. Conquering a nation was an irresistible feat for pirates. Participating in such an action filled them with overflowing excitement, making them eager to kill every resistant individual.
"Damn it, what the hell are these things?!"
On the port’s shore, a robust, bare-chested man wielding a gleaming katana swiftly bisected a stone tiger with a single flash of his blade.
At this moment, a cannon from a turret along the coast opened fire on the vanguard fleet docked in the port. Cannonballs struck the sea, sending water splashing everywhere.
"Hm?! There are still resistors in the turret!"
On the Chris, Dimitri immediately ordered, "Blow up all the coastal turrets, leave none standing."
Boom, boom, boom, boom...
Soon, the Grand Fleet’s cannons began to retaliate. Black, searing cannonballs flew towards the coastal turrets.
Perhaps because the Clifford Kingdom possessed a powerful fleet that mostly defended its borders from afar, the port itself didn’t have very strong defenses. There were only a meager less than ten stone turrets, each equipped with only one 18-pounder and a few 12-pounder cannons. Their firepower was truly limited.
A scorching black cannonball flew towards a turret.
"Ah! Run! Run! We’re going to die!"
Immediately, the soldiers inside the turret screamed and scattered.
The top of the entire turret exploded, black smoke billowing, and countless shattered rocks shot outwards.
"Monsters filling the sky, the White Mane Pirates, and two unknown pirate crews, with a Grand Fleet behind them! What’s happening?!"
Inside a tall building on the main street, a man dressed in pink clothes and pants stared with a grim expression at the flying monsters filling the sky and the pirates who had already stormed into the port.
This man had grey-green hair slicked back into a large pompadour, purple sunglasses perched on his head, a gold necklace around his neck, gold rings on all ten fingers, and several other golden ornaments on his body, giving him a very opulent appearance.
Suddenly, the adjacent wall violently shattered, and a massive black shadow crashed in. Bricks and stones flew, and dust permeated the air. The man turned to see a metal black wolf, over two meters long, shaking its head and growling lowly, seemingly a bit disoriented.
Just then, a stray piece of gravel coincidentally struck the man’s face, igniting his fury.
The man charged forward, clenching his right fist. His various gold necklaces, gold rings, gold cards, and other items transformed into a flowing liquid, surging towards his right fist, instantly forming a large golden gauntlet. He then smashed his fist into the metal black wolf’s head.
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
The large golden gauntlet struck the metal black wolf’s head, causing an immediate explosion that blasted the metal black wolf out of the high-rise building.
The metal black wolf crashed onto the street, creating a large crater in the cobblestone and kicking up a cloud of dust.
Enrod, who had just charged over, frowned. He first looked at the metal black wolf in the crater, its head already shattered, then looked up at the gaping hole on the sixth floor of the high-rise.
"Even the black iron was shattered. Impressive strength."
Enrod grinned playfully and slashed at the high-rise with his sword.
A flash of his blade, and the high-rise began to tilt to one side. It had been cleanly sliced diagonally starting from the third floor, the cut remarkably smooth.
On the sixth floor of the high-rise, the man in the pink clothes frowned slightly, feeling the tilting and collapsing building. He immediately leapt down.
A figure landed from the air, shaking the street’s ground and kicking up dust.
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
Soon after, the high-rise collapsed, shaking the ground. Bricks and stones flew, dust billowed, and an area spanning nearly a hundred meters was utterly destroyed.
Moments later, the man in pink appeared before Enrod.
"Gild Tesoro, it’s you!" Enrod’s face showed a surprised expression as he gazed at the man.
"White Mane Swordsman Gerald Enrod, you know me?" The man, or rather, Gild Tesoro, asked with equal surprise.
Indeed, this was the later Golden Emperor, Gild Tesoro, the master of Gran Tesoro, the world’s largest entertainment city. He possessed 20% of the world’s Berries and the power of the Paramecia-type Gold-Gold Fruit.
However, that was for the future. Currently, Tesoro was still on the run, hiding from the Donquixote Family’s pursuit and assassination attempts because he had stolen something from Donquixote Doflamingo. He had mostly been active in the first half of the Grand Line and the Underworld, rarely visiting the New World, and few people knew his true identity.
That’s why Tesoro was so surprised that Enrod knew his name.
"Stealing from Doflamingo and still daring to run around the New World. Should I say you’re bold, or just suicidal?" Enrod mocked.
Tesoro believed Doflamingo didn’t know he had stolen the Gold-Gold Fruit. But in reality, a month and a half ago, Doflamingo, after years of investigation, had already discovered that it was Tesoro.
He had sent a batch of supplies and information about Tesoro to the other Seven Warlords of the Sea Alliance, requesting that if anyone found Gild Tesoro’s whereabouts, they should kill him and bring back his head for a significant reward.
Therefore, Aeridar had also distributed information about Tesoro to his cadres and various pirate crews, which was why Enrod knew Tesoro’s name.
Tesoro’s face changed drastically, and he immediately asked in alarm, "How do you know?"
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