Chapter 61:
Tifa, wearing a white crop top and black leather skirt, saw the other squad leaders shining so brightly.
This ignited her competitive spirit.
Tifa clenched her delicate fists.
Pitch-black Armament Haki quickly coiled around her fists.
As fist shadows flew,
the Navy soldiers blocking her path were instantly struck hard.
They flew backward rapidly.
While Tifa was unleashing her fists,
Aelria charged into the Navy formation like a war chariot.
Her strength, amplified by the Paramecia-type Power-Power Fruit, became enormous.
With every punch she threw,
several Navy soldiers were smashed into pieces.
Aelria led her squad members in continuously crushing the enemies before them.
This greatly relieved the pressure on the other squads.
As all six squad leaders of the Aitrias Pirates erupted,
the tide of the battlefield began to turn.
This also allowed the various major forces to truly understand the real strength of the Aitrias Pirates.
Reports were quickly sent from Island 19 to the hands of every major power.
After witnessing the powerful combat force of the Aitrias Pirates,
these forces changed their views on the Aitrias crew.
As the six squad leaders continued to exert themselves,
Navy casualties steadily increased.
This caused some less resolute Navy soldiers to begin fleeing.
Seeing this, the Aitrias Pirates crew pursued the Navy.
BANG!
As two fist shadows collided,
Vilin and Zephyr were once again shaken back by each other's attack.
Both unconsciously turned their gazes toward the battlefield.
Seeing the Navy's casualties so severe, Zephyr's brows tightly furrowed.
He was just about to rush in to help
when a pitch-black fist came straight at his face.
Seeing Zephyr trying to support his men, Vilin naturally wouldn't let him succeed.
He immediately accelerated his attack rhythm.
Fist shadows rained down like a storm, constantly bombarding the opponent.
He firmly pinned the anxious-faced Zephyr in place.
After enduring Vilin's fierce attacks,
drops of bright red blood flowed from the corners of Zephyr's mouth.
They dripped onto his white Navy uniform.
Zephyr felt his internal blood and qi constantly churning.
He knew this Navy pursuit of Vilin had already failed.
This was something Zephyr could hardly accept.
Just as he prepared to fight Vilin to the death,
Zephyr angrily discovered
that the casualties among the Marines he had trained were steadily increasing.
Watching one elite Marine after another die tragically before his eyes,
Zephyr felt his heart bleeding.
These were all the Navy elites he had personally trained!
Seeing this, Zephyr could only helplessly issue the retreat order.
"Retreat!"
Zephyr's furious roar instantly echoed across all of Island 19.
"Six Powers Secret Technique – Six Kings Gun!"
Zephyr's muscles bulged as he threw a punch carrying violent power toward Vilin.
Seeing this, Vilin also became serious.
Giant Spirit Fist!
Facing Zephyr's attack, Vilin showed no fear.
His right fist clenched tightly.
He swung it rapidly toward Zephyr's incoming fist.
As Vilin's right fist swung out,
his fist visibly expanded to fifty meters in size at a speed visible to the naked eye.
One punch collided directly with Zephyr's fist.
BOOM!
A muffled thunder exploded in the sky.
Like the tolling of a giant's bell, it rang across the entire Sabaody Archipelago.
Everyone still fighting turned their gazes toward the battlefield between Vilin and Zephyr.
Soon they saw
that after a brief stalemate with Vilin,
Zephyr was directly blasted away by one punch.
Zephyr flew toward the ground like a missile.
Zephyr had actually lost.
Seeing he had lost to Vilin,
Zephyr unwillingly spat a large mouthful of blood in mid-air.
He endured the burning pain in his chest.
Gathering all his strength, he stomped heavily on the ground of Island 19 with one foot.
With a massive boom,
the entire ground began shattering outward with Zephyr at the center.
After dissipating the received force,
Zephyr gave Vilin an unwilling glance and used Moon Step to quickly rush toward the Navy.
Seeing Zephyr defeated,
the surviving Navy soldiers frantically ran toward the port.
They had been beaten into fear by Vilin's crew.
The Aitrias Pirates crew saw the Navy trying to escape.
They immediately pursued.
Seeing Zephyr rushing toward the battlefield, Vilin stepped in the air and quickly followed.
He feared the enraged Zephyr would harm his crew.
Soon Vilin arrived in front of his crew.
"Aitrias Pirates — cease pursuit! Begin rescuing the wounded!"
As his voice echoed in every crew member's ears,
the bloodthirsty Aitrias Pirates crew finally snapped out of their battle frenzy.
They had all been influenced by the battlefield atmosphere.
With Vilin's reminder, all the crew members stopped their pursuit.
Seeing everyone halt,
Vilin finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Vilin worried that an enraged Zephyr might choose mutual destruction.
So he chose to stop while ahead.
He directly ceased the pursuit.
Zephyr saw the Aitrias Pirates crew stop their chase.
Only then did he suppress his raging emotions.
Zephyr quickly led the Navy toward the warship.
He wanted to save as many Navy lives as possible.
The Aitrias Pirates crew saw all the Navy fleeing in disgrace.
They let out deafening cheers.
"Hahahaha! We won!"
"Long live the Aitrias family!"
Watching his crew cheer excitedly,
Vilin's eyes were full of gentleness.
Seeing their bodies covered in wounds, he also felt heartache.
Healing Forest!
As Vilin activated his Devil Fruit ability,
many colorful flowers bloomed around him.
Streams of green life energy sprayed from the flowers, enveloping all the crew members.
The crew curiously touched the green life energy in front of them.
They could feel rich life force entering their bodies.
It quickly helped them repair their injuries.
Watching their wounds continuously heal, all the crew members' beautiful eyes turned in unison toward Vilin's tall 2.5-meter back.
Their eyes were filled with admiration.
"Family! We have won!"
"This time, your names will resound across the entire sea!"
Vilin turned to look at his crew.
A confident smile curled on his lips as he shouted to them.
Hearing Vilin's words, all the crew showed happy smiles.
While Vilin's group was immersed in celebration,
some of the freed female slaves who hadn't yet left walked toward Vilin's group.
They looked at Vilin's crew with eyes full of worship.
"Sir! Please let us join your pirate crew!"
"We have nowhere to go!"
Upon seeing Vilin,
these female slaves all knelt down.
They stared at Vilin with firm determination, requesting to join the Aitrias Pirates and become one of them.
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