Chapter 21: Defeat of Yaluta

  Two days later, in the waters of Dawn Island.

  About a hundred miles off the coast of Chersk town, on calm waters.

  The 76-branch fleet of the Hoppodi slowly advanced, and Hoppodi was still on the deck for a hard weight training. In the expected date, there should be some time before meeting with the pirate group of Yarrita "Iron Rod" who had a bounty of 50 million Beri.

  But just then, Sergeant Matre shouted loudly from the observation deck, interrupting Hobodi's training.

  "A pirate ship has been spotted two miles ahead in the sea! The Jolly Roger with a red heart on the back of the skull... I'm absolutely sure it's not a mistake...... It's the MISS Labradac number. It's Yarrita's pirate ship! All hands, prepare for battle!"

  Ma Te let out a loud roar, and everyone on the deck was shocked, their spirits lifted to 1 million percent. They lined up in front of the armory door, each person holding a rifle, for they knew that encountering pirates was no laughing matter. Next, a fierce battle was definitely waiting for them.

  "Hold the ship!" Hobodi removed his heavy equipment and said on the deck, after which the entire army's soldiers all relaxed, then he hummed softly: "Control the distance well, don't let the warship be bombarded."

  "Commander!?" Mate's expression was puzzled, remembering that just a few days ago, Commander Hobadi had been eager to set sail and capture the pirates, now that they finally saw the pirate ship, why did he want to stop the boat?

  "My intention is that you don't need to take action, I can handle it alone."

  "But—"

  "There's nothing but... " He had to test his own cultivation results, and couldn't let this group of subordinates gain experience.

  Ma Te wanted to say something else, but the commander's shadow on the deck, which had been illuminated by the sun, suddenly became distorted.

  Visible to the naked eye, Mate couldn't believe what was happening in front of her, and the fear that she couldn't hide from her eyes covered her mouth!

  Is this... a dragon?

  Before his eyes, at this moment, he saw a dreamy scene, a pink dragon about the length of an entire warship, coiled on the deck.

  And this dragon seems to have become their commander!

  "Devil Fruit?"

  "Stay here for now, and approach again in half an hour." Hobodi transformed into a dragon, speaking human language, shocking the group of soldiers on deck who were filled with terror.

  "Commander, how are we supposed to get there? The MISS Rabudaku is two nautical miles away..."

  As he spoke up to this point, Matt stopped and didn't continue. He saw an extremely dreamy scene.

  A long, long cloud road leading to the distant Yarlita pirate group stood upright on the sea, a seven or eight meter long dragon climbed up to the clouds, its speed was very fast, in less than a minute, the long dragon that had stopped in front of Mate disappeared into the distance, constantly shrinking.

  Ma Te tried to touch the strange cloud with his hand, and found that when his fingers touched it, the golden cloud disappeared like a bubble.

  At the same time, Hobbit's hind legs, one of his paws stepped into thin air, and he stumbled and almost fell into the sea.

  He turned back and looked at it, feeling a bit unsatisfied. However, he didn't say much more than that. Compared to the first time in Pongkhasad where he couldn't even summon a cloud, now, after just two short months, he could create a twenty-mile-long Cloud Path. What was there not to be satisfied with?

  "It's just as Captain Karp said, my physical control and endurance have increased, and I can use the power of the Devil Fruit more skillfully. A month ago when I returned from the Grand Line, the cloud path I set up would sometimes break in the middle, but now it has become relatively stable, which is undoubtedly the result of physical training."

  "Well then, let's properly test the results of this one and a half months' worth of training...". Looking at the pirate ship less than a kilometer away, Hobodi's face broke into a smile.

  Far away, on the deck of the Swan's Bill ship, Miss Rabudaku, a short and stout woman with an iron rod in her hand, pulled one of her subordinates over: "What is that thing flying in the sky?"

  "This... Yarlita-san, that thing is flying over from the warship, we've never seen it before, and it's already approaching us!"

  "What?! You bunch of idiots, why aren't you preparing to fire the cannons yet?!" Yarrita slammed her staff down, making a loud thud that startled several pirate crew members into retreating behind her. Her freckled face was filled with rage and displeasure.

  Hobodi's figure gradually approached, walking on the cloud path, when suddenly a few beeping sounds rang out, and several black balls appeared in front of Hobodi, which were shot from below, they were black cannonballs.

  Hoboldi let out a burst of laughter, his grasp not only commanded the clouds that brought forth rain, but with one swipe of his claw through the air, he pinched hard, distorting the atmosphere, compressing the air into a ball. When Hoboldi opened his dragon claws, a gust of wind shot rapidly downwards towards the pirate ship.

  Incoming shells were hit by gusts of wind in mid-air and split in two before exploding.

  "How detestable! That huge catfish is a swordsman? It can even slash."

  "Has the sail been torn? Damn it!"

  "It's coming!"

  Hobodi's giant dragon body towered above the MISS Labadac, gradually shrinking down to human form, and leaped from the clouds onto the deck of the MISS Labadac.

  "What kind of person are you?" Yarlita, as a pirate who could be worth 5 million Beri to the Navy, wasn't just an idiot. The man in front of her clearly had ill intentions, so it was best to stall for time and let all the subordinates in the hold get armed and come out to gang up on him.

  Hobodi looked at the fat woman in front of him, took out a wanted poster from his bosom, and looked at it carefully again. The entire Yarlita pirate group was confused.

  After a long time, Hoboldi spoke up: "Indeed, just like the wanted poster, she's an ugly and short fat woman."

  Bam!

  On the deck of Yarlita's pirate ship, all the pirates heard that sound in their hearts, it was the heartbreaking sound of their captain.

  "Uh-oh, Miss Yarlita is going to blow her top!" The group of pirates standing behind Yarlita hastily backed away a few meters.

  Yarita's face was twisted with rage at this moment, the veins on her entire arm bulged out, and she raised the iron rod high in her hand.

  Men clenching their fists is nothing to be afraid of, what's terrifying is when women clench their fists, that represents a considerable degree of fury. Hobbit had no idea that his one sentence had completely infuriated Yarlita.

  "Who did you say was a short and ugly fat woman?" Yarlita said in a low voice.

  "Hopody pointed at him and said: 'Aren't you the one?'"

  "Damn you, go die! Stupid man!" Yarrita swung her arm with force, the iron rod in her hand striking down.

  Hobbit didn't flinch at all, standing still on the spot, even the pirates thought he was crazy.

  When Yarrita's iron bar fell, less than ten centimeters away from hitting his body, Hopody's body suddenly and mysteriously swelled up.

  Iron block!

  Bang!

  Hobadi took two steps back, furrowed his brow and felt the soreness spreading through his muscles. "Looks like I still haven't got it down pat!"

  But...

  Yarrita and all the pirate crew were stunned.

  "Someone actually dared to knock against Miss Arlequina's iron rod!"

  "And there was the sound of metal clashing, is he a cyborg?"

  The pirates whispered among themselves, Yalrita's hand was still numb from the previous blow, and she looked at Hobodi with a serious expression: "Are you a bounty hunter?"

  "No, bounty hunter 'Sniper God' is my friend. I am the Navy!" Hobodi's hand transformed into a dragon claw: "It's over!"

  "Navy!?" Yarlita's pupils constricted, and in an instant she became furious, a iron rod striking towards Hopody: "Go die!"

  The iron rod fell, and Hobodi instantly stretched out his hand. With a "clang", the head of the iron rod was firmly grasped by Hobodi's Dragon Claw in his hand. The two sides began to contend with each other's strength, and Yarlita wanted to retrieve the iron rod, her whole face strained with effort as she tried to break free.

  And Hobodi's Dragon Claw was like a suction cup, which just wouldn't let her iron rod move at all.

  "Let go, you bastard——" Yarrita's face was full of dissatisfaction symbols replacing the '╬' character.

  "I hereby officially declare that a bounty of 50 million Berries has been placed on Yalrita, captain of the pirate ship! You are under arrest!"

  The result of the prolonged contest of strength finally came out thirty seconds later, accompanied by a cracking sound, Yarlitta's iron rod began to crack and shatter, and Yarlitta herself let out a painful cry as she fell to the ground.

  The wanted poster flew onto Yarrita's face, and Hobodi directly crossed over her fat body to face the many pirates on the deck, charging into the pirate crowd.

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