Understood. This guy is from the Navy, and very likely from Navy Headquarters.
If you're working in the World Government's intelligence CP organization, as long as you complete the mission, the people above won't care whether you kill or not.
The atmosphere in the Navy is still pretty decent right now, especially since among the Admirals there's Zephyr, who for now doesn't really advocate killing.
On the surface, Jane Erkoya's actions definitely still aren't permitted.
"Soru!"
Vane saw the opponent's leg muscles suddenly explode, followed by a shrill whistle of air.
Vane moved his feet. He also had high-burst speed—it was the power-generating technique of Thunder Breathing. There were some differences between the two, but in terms of speed the gap wasn't very big.
Of course, it might also just be because the two of them were at about the same level. Whether it was Thunder Breathing or Soru, their speed could still be improved.
In short, at the instant Jane Erkoya's figure vanished and appeared before Vane's eyes, Vane's figure vanished as well.
Jane Erkoya's punch slammed into the ground, and in an instant rings of cracks spread across it.
Seeing that the strike had missed, and hearing a whistling sound coming from above, Jane Erkoya immediately bent down and met the attack with his back.
"Tekkai."
Vane's palm came down right on target. Clearly it was a human body, yet after striking it, it felt like a slab of iron. His palm wrapped in a whirlwind only tore apart the opponent's back clothing, leaving a series of scrape marks on the flesh beneath.
"Blood flow, muscles tensed… really strange."
Jane Erkoya wouldn't give him much time to observe. After blocking Vane's attack, he braced both hands on the ground, flipped into a handstand, and kicked Vane up into the air with both feet.
"Rankyaku!"
Kicking Vane into the sky wasn't the end of it. Jane Erkoya twisted both legs, and two faint blue slashes were kicked out.
"Cross Iron-Cutting!"
Vane gathered the fist wind of the iron-cutting fist in both hands, crossed them, then exerted force fiercely. A slightly green, cross-shaped slash was flung out.
If there were two techniques among Rokushiki that he could learn the fastest, they would definitely be Rankyaku and Soru.
Soru was because he had the power-generating method of Thunder Breathing; Rankyaku was because the whirlwind effect of the Whirlwind Cutting Fist was very similar to Rankyaku's effect.
Especially since he was a swordsman who could use blades to cut flying slashes—without a sword in hand, he would use his limbs as blades, combine them with the Whirlwind Cutting Fist, and naturally slash out.
The green cross-shaped slash collided with the two blue slashes.
Bang! Rumble—
The power was more or less evenly matched, but Vane's green slash didn't completely disappear. The scattered remnants fell into the pirate crowd and caused another wave of damage.
"Move, move, get farther away from those two!"
"Is this really human combat?!"
The pirates all stared at the two fighting with incredulous looks, as if asking why the gap in our levels is so huge.
Then they looked over at the two over there who were more than three meters tall and brawling with each other. Their level also seemed a bit high.
Finally, they put their eyes on the Kingdom Army and the gang thugs. Right—that's more like it.
They were like themselves, and could even be bullied a bit, so the ordinary pirates began to charge at the Kingdom Army.
It was just that they had paused for a moment earlier, and quite a bit of Kingdom Army support had arrived. It was no longer so easy to break in.
...
Outside the city the fighting was blazing, and inside the city another force was also surging in the shadows.
The palace now had only dozens of guards left, extremely fragile.
But with all the pirates still outside, who could attack the high-walled, heavily fortified palace at this time?
Sometimes, an attack really doesn't need to come from the outside—if you know some secret passages.
In a corner room beneath the palace, a place that had always been used to pile up sundries, a floorboard was violently smashed open from below today.
A group of people in the same uniforms filed out from underground.
The last to enter were Capone Bege and a somewhat chubby man holding a cat.
"Take control of this palace. We have to speed it up. The key to open the treasury is in the king's hands."
The treasury was said to be built from three or four meters of solid rock. Without the key, opening it would be extremely difficult. For them, they would probably have to use explosives—and blasting this kind of rock was a technical job. It was best if this operation didn't let too many people know, to avoid causing more trouble.
"The Rose Princess is on the top floor. You few, go up and deal with the princess."
"Everyone else, guard the entrances to the palace. The rest, follow me and rush inside."
He knew the palace's manpower deployment like the back of his hand. Guard the entrances, then take care of the Rose Princess Martha up high, and everything that happened inside the palace would be silent. Afterward, when the pirate disaster faded and some people had died, it could all be blamed on accidents.
The palace's soundproofing was enough to block some gunshots, especially with things being so chaotic outside.
Very soon, several gunshots rang out from the high walls of the palace.
"Rose Princess, dealt with."
"Entrances are under control."
"Guards spotted… already dealt with."
The Gunfire Gang acted efficiently, and the people inside had no defenses at all. Very quickly, the entire palace was under their control.
Finally, they pushed open the door to the hall with the throne, and the Thorn Rose king was sitting upright on the throne.
"So you really chose this moment to make your move—for the Thorn Treasure?"
The Thorn Treasure was, of course, real. The so-called Thorn Treasure was in the kingdom's treasury.
Their Thorn Rose Kingdom's ancestors were the Thorn Pirates. Later they washed their hands of it and actually founded a small country, which developed into today's Thorn Rose Kingdom.
And the wealth left behind by the Thorn Pirates had basically never been touched—vast riches were stored in the treasury, a place only the king could enter.
The king fixed his bright gaze on the gang boss.
"My foolish younger brother, is it worth losing the gang's interests for a bit of treasure? You may not know this, but ships from the World Government and the Navy are about to arrive."
That's right—the gang boss had royal blood. He was the king's cousin.
The gang had always been in the hands of the nobility.
The king was also a shrewd man. He had concealed the World Government's and the Navy's speed from everyone. The information he gave others was that the Navy and the World Government would need at least half a year.
But in reality, the Navy and the World Government wouldn't need that long—especially since he had paid a huge amount of money.
He wasn't too worried about the pirates. As long as those few outsiders stalled them a bit, the Navy and the World Government would arrive and wipe up all the pirates.
"Doing nothing is what's foolish. You think I don't know? Once you join the World Government, with my gang being this dirty, how could you possibly keep it? When the time comes you'll clean me out. Not only will you have no worries, you also won't have to worry about those stingy, dirty things you've done affecting your reputation as king."
The king's face was dark and he didn't retort—clearly he had been hit right in the thoughts in his heart.
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