Chapter 142
Gem Island.
This was an island that looked like a mining area, with occasional gems emitting dazzling light visible among the rocks.
This was the New World's main gem export hub.
It could be said this island was extremely valuable — like a hen that lays golden eggs.
Gem Island.
There were no longer any gem-mining workers here.
In their place were fully armed pirates.
Around the port were densely packed fortresses like steel walls.
Black cannon barrels protruded from the fortresses, exuding chilling menace.
At the center of the island, inside a giant fortress about ten meters tall,
a bald middle-aged man wearing a wide blue robe was sitting at the head position, commanding everyone to deploy defensive positions.
"Report! Lord Baruk!"
"The Aitrias Pirates disappeared into the sea one day ago."
"After a full day of searching, our men still found no trace of them."
Hearing that the Aitrias Pirates had vanished, Violent Dragon Baruk immediately furrowed his brows tightly.
"Disappeared?"
"Pass down the order — tell all crew members not to relax their vigilance."
"Continue sending people to search."
"Yes, Lord Baruk!"
After receiving Baruk's order, this intelligence officer immediately left the fortress to pass on Baruk's command.
At this moment, the Aitrias Pirates that Baruk was so worried about had already been hovering a thousand meters above Gem Island.
The lookout Annie was using her eyes that had already transformed into eagle pupils to draw the enemy's defensive deployment on paper.
Seeing white feathers growing around Annie's pretty face, Vilin couldn't help looking a few extra times.
Soon Annie finished drawing Gem Island's defense map and handed it to the gunner Kayla.
Kayla gathered all the gunners together and began assigning tasks.
"Xiao Qi, Meilan — you're responsible for these."
"Jiuji, Lili — you're responsible for here."
Soon Kayla had everything arranged clearly and orderly.
Seeing this scene, Vilin nodded in satisfaction.
"Kayla, this battle is under your command."
"Everyone here will support you."
Seeing Vilin trust her so much, Kayla's face flushed red with excitement.
"Don't worry, Captain Vilin!"
"I definitely won't let you down."
Under Kayla's command, Xiao Qi quickly aimed the cannon at the place on the island with the densest firepower.
As Kayla loaded a metal cannonball filled with gunpowder into the barrel.
BOOM!
With a single cannon shot, Vilin and the others saw a pitch-black cannonball instantly blast toward the lower part of Gem Island.
The cannonball shot downward like a meteor toward the Iron Wall Pirates' firepower point.
BOOM BOOM BOOM!
As the cannonball landed on the island, a huge crater was instantly blasted within a hundred-meter radius, and the nearby ground was directly lifted and flipped by the powerful impact force.
Some steel-constructed fortresses were also deformed by the massive impact.
The ammunition stored inside instantly exploded.
In an instant, small mushroom clouds continuously rose, and the entire island shook violently.
Some deeply buried gems were even blasted out by this strike.
Baruk, who was drinking tea, had just opened his mouth when his entire body was thrown to the ground.
The scalding tea immediately splashed onto his face.
"Ouch~"
"Which bastard did this!"
"What the hell is going on?"
With his cheeks burning painfully from the tea, Baruk jumped up and rushed outside the steel fortress.
He wanted to see exactly what had happened.
When Baruk stepped out of the steel fortress, he was shocked to see that the firepower point at the port had been blown into the sky. At this moment, flames were still burning on the ground.
While he was stunned, four more cannonballs came falling toward Gem Island.
Seeing this scene, Baruk instantly understood what was happening. His expression immediately turned ferocious.
"Enemy attack! Everyone prepare for battle!"
With that, he charged toward the nearest cannonball.
He absolutely could not allow the ammunition he had spent hundreds of millions of Berries to prepare to be destroyed.
Baruk's figure flickered, instantly arriving in front of one cannonball.
As his entire body was instantly wrapped in Haki, Baruk raised his fist and punched directly toward the cannonball.
ROAR!
"Shatter for me!"
With a dragon roar sounding out, the cannonball was directly blasted apart by Baruk's punch.
With a burst of firelight scattering everywhere, clanging sounds rang out all over Baruk's body.
Feeling the power of the cannonball, Baruk's expression immediately became grave.
Just as he wanted to stop the remaining cannonballs, a dark-green flying slash quickly appeared in front of him.
Feeling the power emanating from this flying slash, Baruk immediately raised both hands to block the attack.
While he was defending against this attack, the other three cannonballs directly exploded on Gem Island.
Feeling the scorching heat coming at him, Baruk felt his heart bleeding.
ROAR!
"Damn it!"
As the muscles on Baruk's arms bulged, the slash was directly repelled by Baruk.
Seeing her attack blocked so easily by the opponent, Fiona's eyes instantly erupted with intense battle intent.
Vilin standing at the bow also noticed Baruk. Looking at the opponent's powerful defense, even Vilin felt somewhat surprised.
Although Baruk repelled Fiona's slash, the other three cannonballs successfully destroyed the firepower points he had deployed on Gem Island.
Seeing the defense line he had built so easily destroyed by the enemy, Baruk couldn't help widening his eyes and staring fixedly into the sky. But with his eyesight, he could only see a small dot.
Soon another five cannonballs came bombarding toward Gem Island.
Just as Baruk prepared to intercept them, another slash came flying toward him.
This left him somewhat helpless.
Finally, after angrily shattering the slash in front of him, Baruk unwillingly shouted loudly to his subordinates:
"Retreat!"
"Abandon this place — we're withdrawing to defend Iron Mountain Island!"
With Baruk's retreat order, the few Iron Wall Pirates who had survived by luck felt as if they had been granted amnesty and scrambled after Baruk toward their pirate ships.
Seeing Baruk fleeing toward the back of the island, Vilin had no intention of stopping him. Instead, he had Euros lower the Flying Bird to land at Gem Island's port.
Under Euros' control, the Flying Bird gradually descended toward Gem Island's harbor.
Looking at the ground still smoking black from the cannon bombardment, Vilin was the first to jump off the Flying Bird and land on Gem Island.
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