Chapter 1063: The Chris Pirates’ Fleet Advances

Chapter 1063: Chapter 1063: The Chris Pirates’ Fleet Advances

"Target, the island ahead! Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Open fire!"

"..."

Ten massive warships with black wolf figureheads lined up side by side, spanning two kilometers of the ocean. The barrels of the triple-mounted turrets on their bows pointed straight toward the sky, unleashing a roaring barrage toward the island ahead.

Blazing flames flashed at the pitch-black gun muzzles, and thick, acrid gunsmoke drifted across the sea as countless cannonballs rained down like a downpour upon the town on the island. In an instant, it was reduced to a sea of fire; one could constantly witness buildings collapsing and shattering into dust, kicking up plumes of debris that soared into the heavens.

"The Baca Pirates? Hmph~ Just a bunch of idiots!"

Vito grinned, standing with his arms crossed on the bow deck with a look of disdain and mockery. He watched as the three pirate ships docked along the shore of the distant island were turned into giant torches one after another, leaving only the lower halves of their hulls visible above the waterline.

"Can’t be helped."

Rock walked up from behind, chuckling lightly. "There are always some self-righteous fools in this world!"

Having defeated the Big Mom Pirates to become a new Yonko crew, the Chris Pirates naturally weren’t going to let their territory slip away.

Yet, to think anyone would actually try to snatch a piece of meat right out of the Chris Pirates’ jaws, it was sheer suicide!

On the deck of another warship, Oliver lay on a beach chair, his eyes half-closed as he mumbled vaguely, "Keep bombarding... until every last piece of trash on that island is blasted to hell... then stop."

"But, Oliver-sama, what if we wipe Biscuit Island right off the map?" a burly giant of a man bent over, asking with a hint of worry.

"Mosa, don’t you worry about that."

Oliver opened his eyes, dismissively waving a hand at the deputy commander of the large division beside him. "It doesn’t matter. If it sinks, it sinks. Out of Totto Land’s thirty-odd islands, losing a few won’t hurt a bit!"

"A-Are these the instructions from the Captain and the other lords?" Mosa’s expression shifted slightly, somewhat surprised that the higher-ups in his crew were so indifferent to the gain or loss of one or two islands.

After all, in the New World, outside of the sovereign nations, the vast majority of territories were occupied by the Yonko. For any remaining pirate crew, finding an island to call their own was extraordinarily difficult. Furthermore, most available locations were either desolate, harsh wastelands or isolated far from civilization, making resupply a nightmare.

Securing an island with a good location and decent environment usually required a brutal, bloody conflict just to claim it entirely, and many crews even had to share a single island.

Oliver waved a hand dismissively without another word, closing his eyes to rest once more.

The officers and combatants aboard the various warships chuckled or remained utterly unbothered.

"ROAR—!"

Suddenly, a massive, monster-like roar echoed from the island, unleashing a powerful gust of wind that rippled outward.

A giant, dark-green monster shaped like a skull materialized at the center of the island. It was larger than a house, taller than a three-story building, and dripping with green liquid. Cannonballs slammed directly into its body, sinking right in without making a single sound.

"What is that? Is that Dulmon’s ability? Acid?!" Dimitri stepped forward abruptly, pressing both hands against the bow railing as he frowned and stared at the colossal monster.

As the primary target of the Chris Pirates’ initial strike upon entering Totto Land, Baca Dulmon’s abilities were naturally recorded in the Chris Investigation Bureau’s intelligence files and distributed to the fleet’s officers.

"ROAR—!"

The acid monster let out a roar, swinging both arms forward to scatter a sky-full of droplet-shaped green acid that collided with the countless incoming cannonballs.

With a hissing hiss of grey smoke, the steel cannonballs were rapidly corroded by the acid, dissolving completely before they even landed on the island.

"Whoa, that’s some powerful acid! This is getting interesting," Bartolomeo’s eyes lit up as he quickly pulled out a monocular to inspect the scene closely.

"What a disgusting ability!" Betilla frowned slightly, looking displeased.

This technique genuinely shook the members of the Chris Pirates, causing the fierce bombardment to briefly halt. Many of them figured that cannonballs were useless against such an opponent and that continuing to fire would just be a waste of ammunition.

"Hand me a bazooka!"

Dimitri’s expression darkened as he snatched a bazooka from a nearby subordinate, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and took aim at the giant acid monster on Biscuit Island.

"More More: 50x Rocket Launcher!!!"

Whoosh—!

Dimitri pulled the trigger. A flash of fire erupted from the muzzle, and the shell broke free, rocketing outward.

In a split second, the projectile suddenly expanded to fifty times its size, crossing a distance of nearly a thousand meters in the blink of an eye to slam right into the town.

BOOM—!

The next moment, a deafening, earth-shaking explosion rang out...

On this day, the Chris Pirates also dispatched a fleet to Totto Land, acting as if they were collecting their spoils of war and bringing every faction under the scope of their assault.

The intentions of the Chris Pirates were crystal clear: to make every single island in Totto Land hoist the Golden Ring sword-and-skull flag while tearing down all other banners and trampling them underfoot.

The first to suffer the blow was the Baca Pirates, who had been locked in a fierce battle with the Big Mom Pirates on Biscuit Island. Caught completely off guard by a bombardment even more intense than a Marine Buster Call, both sides on the island suffered heavy losses in an instant.

Seeing the Chris Pirates’ fleet closing in, Cracker promptly manufactured over a dozen biscuit warships and fled from the other side of the island with his remaining men.

Meanwhile, Dulmon’s Baca Pirates fell into dire straits. The three pirate ships moored along the coast were instantly sunk, the colossal monster Dulmon had formed from acid was blasted apart by a single shot from Dimitri fired from a thousand meters away, and their Combat Commander was severely wounded by the explosion.

Had it not been for three other pirate ships patrolling the open sea rushing desperately to their rescue, almost no one from the Baca Pirates would have survived, save for a few officers like Dulmon and Sovi.

This battle was swift and decisive. It frightened off Thousand-Arm Cracker, one of the former Yonko’s Sweet Commanders, and heavily battered the Baca Pirates under Corpse Fiend Baca Dulmon, sending shockwaves through all the various factions rushing in to grab a piece of the territory.

One had to remember that when the Blackbeard Pirates defeated the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates led by Marco the Phoenix and became a Yonko crew, they only managed to seize the majority of the late Whitebeard’s territory, leaving a small portion claimed by other Yonko, powerful pirate crews, or factions, parts of which remained unclaimed to this day.

Especially since the Chris Pirates had only just finished fighting the Big Mom Pirates, their strength was bound to have taken a significant hit. That was why many assumed there were easy pickings to be had, flooding toward the Totto Land like rabid dogs purely to claim an island for themselves.

Yet, none of them anticipated that the Chris Pirates would dispatch a fleet so quickly and cleanly devastate the Baca Pirates.

Aside from a few reckless fools blinded by wishful thinking, the more cowardly pirate crews quietly turned their ships around and fled.

Even so, a few formidable powerhouses didn’t take the Chris Pirates’ fleet entirely seriously, believing that as long as Golden Ring Aeridar didn’t step onto the battlefield himself, they had nothing to fear from anyone in the Chris Pirates.

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