A few more days passed.
One day, to relax, Link's group started playing games again.
Since everyone had their own opinions, Link's group liked to use drawing lots to decide what game to play.
This time, they drew maze hide-and-seek.
So, Link used Wood Style to create a maze on the Thriller Bark.
While Nami was "it" and catching people, Link, who hadn't had a chance to cultivate his relationship with Vivi for a long time, secretly used Observation Haki to find Vivi's location. Then, in a certain corner with the princess, they studied the specific strokes of a certain word.
"Hmm?"
While they were changing locations from time to time to continue their research, a piece of unfamiliar information suddenly appeared in Link's mind.
The sudden information that appeared in his mind startled Link, making him shiver.
Vivi's beautiful eyes widened, caught off guard.
But afraid of being discovered, Vivi could only endure the choking discomfort.
Link, unlike his usual self, didn't offer gentle comfort. He patted Vivi's head and said seriously, "I have something important to do and will be out for a few days. Vivi, stay with Carina and the others."
Without waiting for Vivi to speak, Link vanished in a flash.
When Link appeared again, he had left the Thriller Bark and was running and flying across the sea as if it were flat ground.
The Body Flicker Technique was extremely fast, countless times faster than the Shave of the Navy's Six Powers.
In Naruto Shippuden, Team 7 took only one day to travel from Konoha in the Land of Fire to Sunagakure in the Land of Wind, passing through dense forests and a vast, boundless desert, as well as the small countries sandwiched between the two great nations.
In the past four months, Link would create two Wood Clones with a huge amount of chakra every month and send them to two places to wait for their prey.
One place was the Drum Kingdom, and the other was the Sabaody Archipelago.
The Wood Clone that went to the Sabaody Archipelago only took half a day each time to travel from the Florian Triangle to the Sabaody Archipelago.
The other Wood Clone only took three days to reach the Drum Kingdom.
The target the Wood Clones were waiting for was none other than... "Blackbeard" Marshall D. Teach.
The information that had just appeared in Link's mind was the real-time intelligence sent back by the Wood Clone.
The unknown Blackbeard Pirates had finally appeared in the first half of the Grand Line.
In the Sabaody Archipelago!
Taking advantage of the fact that they hadn't left the Sabaody Archipelago, Link prepared to wait for them at a place they had to pass through.
The Blackbeard Pirates had no intention of staying in the Sabaody Archipelago.
After robbing a group of bounty hunters or human traffickers in the lawless area, they had a hearty meal, then, without buying or robbing anything else, they boarded a huge raft and left the Sabaody Archipelago directly.
"Hahaha... back in Paradise! Captain, where are we going next?"
"Zehahaha... First, to the Drum Kingdom. I have a bold idea."
"The Drum Kingdom? Isn't that one of the former fifty member nations? Captain, you're not dissatisfied with Doc Q and planning to recruit a new ship's doctor, are you?"
"I strongly agree. Doc Q, a poison user, is nothing like a ship's doctor."
"Zehahaha... Of course not. You'll know when the time comes!"
"..."
On the raft, the five members of the Blackbeard Pirates were chatting freely. Beside them was a sickly-looking white horse.
However, none of them noticed that danger was quietly approaching.
When the raft had completely left the Sabaody Archipelago and the Red Line was no longer visible, in the sunlit sea hundreds of meters below, a figure that had been tailing the raft began to form hand seals.
In an instant, the surrounding seawater boiled, and countless tons of seawater quickly formed a massive water dragon, which then roared towards the raft above.
"Not good, there's something below!"
Teach and the others quickly sensed that something was wrong, but unfortunately, it was too late.
A huge dragon's mouth swallowed the small raft, along with the five people and one horse on it. Then, a hundred-meter-long water dragon shot up into the sky, swayed its body a few times in the air, and fell back into the sea.
The killing power of Water Style was its weight and impact!
The Blackbeard Pirates, who were swallowed by the water dragon, although they didn't suffer any injuries, the terrifying weight and impact caused them all to roll their eyes back and spit blood.
Among them, Teach, as a Devil Fruit user, had his eyes roll back directly, and he lost consciousness from drowning.
As for the others, before they could recover, they were bound by vines that appeared out of nowhere. Their stamina was rapidly drained, and soon, they too fell into a coma like Teach.
The Blackbeard Pirates were instantly defeated!
But getting beaten and instantly defeated was a common occurrence for the Blackbeard Pirates before they became a Yonko crew.
Not to mention, Link knew their information like the back of his hand and had specifically set up an ambush here.
Teach was just paying the price for his arrogance.
If they had just stolen a large ship to leave, they would have been able to exchange a few blows with Link.
With just a small raft with little room to move, unless everyone could fly, Teach and the others couldn't escape the fate of being instantly defeated.
After wiping out the Blackbeard Pirates, Link appeared on the surface of the sea as if he were liquid. This move was the Water Body Flicker.
The Body Flicker Technique had many variations, and its lower and upper limits were both extremely exaggerated.
The basic Body Flicker Technique was something even ungraduated trainee ninja could use. For example, when Naruto first appeared in the original story, he used the Body Flicker Technique and the Invisibility Technique to play pranks on the Konoha ninja.
A powerful Body Flicker Technique could be fused with various ninjutsu, even genjutsu.
The most representative examples were Uchiha Shisui's Phantom Body Flicker Technique and the Flying Thunder God Technique developed by Tobirama Senju.
After returning to the sea surface, Link formed hand seals, and a large number of branches extended from his body, quickly forming a small boat.
Tossing the Blackbeard Pirates, who were bound like rice dumplings, onto the boat, Link immediately headed back towards the Florian Triangle.
On the way, Link used seawater to wake Teach up.
Looking at Teach, who had woken up from his coma, Link smiled and greeted him, "Hello, Teach. No... Blackbeard!"
Hearing his name and his yet-to-be-famous title, Teach instantly became clear-headed.
When he found that he was bound like a rice dumpling, he subconsciously wanted to release his Dark-Dark Fruit ability.
But in the next second, Teach found that he couldn't use his fruit ability at all. Not only had he lost control of his body, but it was also because he had no physical strength.
The branches on his body were like magnets, constantly absorbing his monstrous physical strength.
Unable to resist, Teach could only look at the owner of the voice.
When Teach saw Link, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Then, his face instantly showed the simple and honest smile that had deceived the Whitebeard Pirates for decades, and he flattered, "Zehahaha... Aren't you Lord Impaler? I've long heard of your great name!"
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