With his words falling,
He suddenly moved, running towards the opposite side of the deck, and ruthlessly slashed down at a pirate who was climbing up the rope to board the ship.
A cold arc flashed, and the pirate's head was instantly split open. Screaming, he fell from the rope into the sea.
Splash! A splash of water rose.
Bang!
Suddenly, a scorching lead bullet pierced through Old Via's left eye and exited through the back of his skull.
Red and white matter mixed with fragments of bone flew out.
Old Via's right eye stared wide, and his body fell stiffly backward.
Then, with a thud, he crashed to the ground.
Dead, clean and quick.
At this moment, a subtle look vaguely appeared in Merlin's eyes.
Then his gaze found a pirate on the pirate ship's deck who was holding a gun, the muzzle still emitting smoke.
"The first mate of the Blood Wolf Pirates, Sharpshooter Kaikasi. Bounty 8 million," Merlin said with a gloomy gaze.
Then, seeing his muzzle shift to the side, Merlin's eyes sharpened. He took the grenade out of his pocket with his right hand, pulled the pin, and suddenly threw it towards his position.
The distance of more than fifty meters between the two sides vanished in the blink of an eye.
Boom! A violent explosion mixed with the impact of fire abruptly appeared beside Kaikasi on the pirate ship's deck.
Instantly, screams of "Ah! Wah!" resounded on the pirate ship's deck.
For a moment, the confrontation between the two sides fell into a strange state of silence.
"Bastard! These damn scum."
After a few seconds of silence, the pirate captain, Blood Wolf Abis, reacted. Seeing his first mate lying on the ground, heavily injured with a broken arm, he hurriedly roared at the subordinates beside him:
"Everyone fucking hurry up, board the ship, engage in hand-to-hand combat!!"
The combat personnel on the passenger ship also reacted at this time, howling like they were on steroids and charging towards the pirates who had already boarded the ship.
The battle broke out instantly!
Gunshots, the sound of swords clashing, screams, and wails. In an instant, the entire deck turned into a meat grinder of flesh and blood.
Participating in this kind of naval battle for the first time.
Merlin only felt somewhat insignificant at this moment. This wasn't an ambush in the alleys of Flevance.
Nor was it hunting wild beasts in the deep forest.
This was a head-on slaughter between humans.
A baptism of blood and fire.
Meeting on a narrow path, the brave wins!
At this moment, Merlin stood still as if frightened silly. A pirate with a ferocious and excited face rushed up gripping a cutlass and slashed:
"Got him! The first one."
With the shout, saliva flew from his wide-open mouth. Minced meat still remained between his yellowed teeth, and his breath was pungent.
However, at this moment.
Dynamic vision far exceeding ordinary people slowed down his body movements at this moment. His pupils contracted sharply in an instant as if focusing.
Inside his body, the blood pumped from his heart flowed throughout his body. A warm sensation shot straight from his tailbone to the top of his head, making his scalp tingle faintly.
But at this moment, Merlin's body wasn't tense; instead, there was a feeling of craving for blood in his heart.
The hunting instinct of the lynx.
In this instant.
His right foot quietly retreated a step. Merlin's body naturally turned sideways, and a cold light slashed down closely in front of him. In this instant, his right arm reached down nimbly, grabbing the handle of the dagger on the outside of his thigh.
Amidst the comfortable tactile sensation, Merlin was like a lynx that had sharpened its claws. As the dagger unsheathed, his upper arm raised in an arc, slashing out with the dagger. With a squelch, the windpipe was sliced open.
A spray of crimson blood gushed out before his eyes.
Merlin retreated again to dodge the flying blood, then ignored him.
Thud! The pirate fell to his knees. Then with a clang, the knife in his hand dropped onto the deck. Clutching his throat, eyes bloodshot, he gurgled blood foam.
Even until death, he couldn't understand how a mere boy could slice open his throat so easily.
Taking the dagger into his left hand and drawing the katana from his left waist with his right hand, Merlin moved with light steps and quietly arrived behind a pirate who was furiously slashing at a passenger ship sailor.
With a squelch, the sharp tip of the blade stabbed into the right side of his lower back. Then, lifting his left leg, he kicked fiercely at the pirate's left waist.
With a muffled thud, the pirate screamed and flipped sideways. At the same time, using the inertia, the katana was pulled out of his body.
At this time, the sailor still had thick panic remaining in his eyes, but he also looked at Merlin with gratitude. However, his eyes suddenly froze, and the words blurted out:
"How could it be you?"
Merlin ignored him at this moment. Instead, like a lynx entering the mountain forest, he quietly continued to select prey.
The use of the katana didn't involve any superb techniques, just speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness.
Often with every strike, a touch of blood would stain the blade.
Like a fish in water.
In this tragic slaughter, amidst flying blood, Merlin didn't feel the slightest discomfort; instead, his blood boiled.
A few minutes later, in this encounter battle, no less than five pirates had died under Merlin's blade. And due to Merlin's participation, the declining momentum of the passenger ship side was halted, and they began to counterattack.
"Ahhh!!! Damn it, damn it. Captain Abis! There's a formidable guy on this ship; our brothers are suffering heavy casualties!!"
A pirate minion witnessed with his own eyes Merlin instantly taking out one of their squad leaders. He immediately shouted in panic towards the bow where Abis was suppressing a middle-aged burly man from the passenger ship side.
At this moment, although Abis could suppress the passenger ship's guard captain, he couldn't easily disengage himself for a while. Abis swung his blade fiercely, forcing the guard captain back.
His gaze turned ferociously to the pirate. Following the pirate's pointing finger, he saw Merlin pulling his dagger out of another pirate. His face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
The sudden grenade explosion just now had incapacitated his first mate, the sharpshooter. This matter had already made him depressed, but now, another unexpected event occurred.
Kaikasi, that damn trash! Didn't he guarantee me that the intelligence from the guy he bought on this passenger ship was absolutely problem-free? Isn't there supposed to be no other powerful character on this ship besides the guard captain? Then what the fuck is this?
Abis's eyes were bloodshot at this moment, his murderous gaze fixed deadly on Merlin. At this time, Merlin vaguely sensed a creeping chill. Following the feeling, he turned his head sharply, and instantly met Abis's eyes.
Frowning slightly, Merlin calmly backed away. But just then, a hoarse shout appeared:
"Little brother! Join hands with me. Only if we kill this Blood Wolf together can we survive.
"Blood Wolf, this guy, has a fierce reputation. Murder, arson, rape, and pillage—he commits all kinds of crimes. Any woman he sets his eyes on will definitely not have a good end."
Guard Captain Reiner, who was constantly wary of Abis, also noticed Merlin's existence at this moment. Moreover, he witnessed Merlin's clean kills of the pirates and heard the pirate's fearful statement.
His heart instantly lifted.
He hadn't expected that the boy accompanying the beautiful Miss Yol on the ship would be so strong.
He looked at Merlin with expectation. However, at this time, Abis gave Reiner a ruthless, mocking smile, then turned his head and roared at the bearded second mate who was suppressing ten people alone elsewhere:
"Arthur, come over and block this bastard. I'm going to split that mongrel alive."
Instantly, the short, burly man with a beard not far away spun around, swinging his axes wildly to force back the people around him, then immediately looked back. He grinned and laughed wildly:
"Captain Abis, I, Arthur, told you long ago not to play with women just now, but you wouldn't listen. Legs are soft now, huh?"
Abis's face was dark, the corner of his mouth twitching fiercely as he glared at Arthur. Seeing this, Arthur didn't dare to tease him anymore. He strode on his two thick legs, gripping two axes, and charged towards Reiner like a wild boar.
Reiner didn't dare to be careless. He could only give Merlin a helpless look, then held his sword and slashed at Arthur with all his might.
Merlin's eyes flashed at this time. He noticed Abis sneering at him, then stomping on the deck and rushing towards him.
Holding a large machete in his hand, grinning hideously as he charged wildly. The distance of a dozen meters vanished in a breath. Abis rushed in front of Merlin, roared "Ah!", raised the large machete high, and slashed down at Merlin's head.
Whoosh! A strong wind hit him.
The cold blade wind made Merlin's cheeks ache.
And Merlin had no doubt that if this knife landed on him, it would definitely split him in half instantly.
However.
Merlin didn't clash with him head-on. Instead, he moved nimbly sideways. After the blade missed, Abis sneered and suddenly turned his wrist, then stepped forward towards Merlin, slashing horizontally.
Merlin's eyes flashed. He bent his body slightly forward, knees slightly bent, and crossed the katana and dagger in his hands to block forward just right.
Instantly, Clang! A dull sound of metal striking metal rang out.
At this moment, Merlin's eyes widened slightly, because the instant the two weapons touched, a brute force suddenly hit him.
At the same time, Merlin's forward-blocking blades were pushed back in an instant, pressing towards his own chest.
However, Merlin exerted force with his arms at this moment, and borrowing this brute force, he kicked back with his legs and jumped backward.
In the blink of an eye, a distance of fully three meters opened up between Merlin and Abis.
At this time, the corner of Abis's eye twitched. He hadn't expected that his full-force strike filled with anger couldn't take down Merlin.
Feeling humiliated, he gritted his teeth and started to charge again. Merlin, breathing steadily at this moment, stared deadly at Abis.
Although suppressed in strength, what he excelled at now was explosive power and physical agility. Since Abis couldn't crush him in the tentative exchange just now, Merlin didn't fear him.
Abis slashed at close range again. Merlin's pupils contracted slightly, seeing the trajectory of his swing incredibly clearly.
In this instant, the moment Abis's blade fell, Merlin suddenly took a step forward to the right. At the same time, the dagger in his left hand slashed upwards to the left against Abis's blade. Clang! A sound appeared.
Although Merlin couldn't compare to him in strength, he wasn't without power to resist.
This collision caused Abis's figure to stagnate. At this moment, Merlin raised his left leg, and his left knee smashed ruthlessly towards Abis's crotch.