Chapter 358: Dragon Rat
A thick stench of blood spread through the air.
Buzz, buzz!
As the rats caught the scent of blood, their eyes instantly turned blood-red, and a vicious aura emanated from their bodies.
Squeak, squeak…
They let out sharp, piercing cries, and then the swarm of rats lunged toward the brown bear that the bald man had transformed into.
A dense, overwhelming mass of rats.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
One rat after another was blasted apart, yet countless more surged forward immediately after.
Very quickly, the enormous brown bear was completely engulfed.
"Roar! Roar! Roar~"
Waves of agonized screams rang out.
Moments later,
the entire pirate ship was reduced to wreckage, floating upon the sea.
Threads of crimson in the water revealed what had once been there.
Yet the rats did not stop spreading—they continued to expand outward into the ocean.
And at the center of that island, now completely overrun by rats,
there lay a massive cave.
Hundreds of meters deep inside the dim cavern, a gigantic rat, dozens of meters long, lay sprawled on the ground, its pair of golden vertical pupils staring into the darkness.
Behind it, small rats were constantly being born. After remaining on the ground for only a few minutes, they fully matured and then scurried outward.
This rat was the Oviraptor that had eaten the Rat-Rat Fruit. Now, after a bloodline evolution, it had transformed into a Dragon Rat possessing true dragon blood, and its reproductive ability had increased drastically.
This caused it, within just a few short years, to produce tens of millions of powerful rats, destroying everything on the island.
Even Jiang Qize had not anticipated this outcome—he had even forgotten about the existence of this dinosaur.
But because of this, the surrounding sea had become a new death zone in the New World: the Sea of Death Rats.
...
In the sky.
"So amazing…"
Tisi sat atop the elemental bird, gazing at the vast expanse of deep blue ocean below. Her eyes shimmered with dazzling light, her long eyelashes fluttering adorably.
Jiang Qize sat beside her, accompanying her as they looked out over the sea.
Grrr~
At that moment, her stomach let out a soft growl.
Tisi's pretty face flushed red as she lowered her head.
"Hungry… Let's find an island and get something to eat."
Jiang Qize froze for a moment, then quickly said.
They had left Windmill Village without bringing anything, and now they had no food.
"Mm." Tisi nodded shyly.
Jiang Qize released his Observation Haki, instantly covering a range of ten thousand meters. Everything within that radius entered his mind.
"Got it!"
His eyes lit up as he directed the elemental bird to fly toward the right.
After flying for a few minutes, an island appeared before them.
It was a large island, covered with towering trees that reached into the clouds. Several massive mountain peaks rose high, and an ancient aura spread from within.
"Ya~"
One could see enormous birds circling in the sky above the island.
"Roar! Roar~"
Waves of beastly roars echoed.
"That's a deserted island… no people at all. Strange."
Jiang Qize narrowed his eyes.
The island was not small—only slightly smaller than Dragon Island—but still about the size of a city, practically a small continent.
Yet there was no one on it.
It seemed he had entered an unknown sea region.
"Are we going down there?"
Hearing the beastly roars below and seeing the desolate island, Tisi grew a little nervous.
"Yeah. With me here, there's nothing to be afraid of." Jiang Qize said, holding her small hand.
Her face flushed red as she nodded, not pulling her hand away.