Pirates' Max Level System

In this round of 16 competition, the tournament organizers did not let Tayuya play first for the first time. Qin Luo guessed that this was probably related to the strength that Tayuya showed.

Most pre-tournament analysis predicted that Tayuya's chances of winning this round were less than 50%, and even if she managed to win, it would be extremely difficult. The organizers had placed Tayuya at the front of the table to drum up excitement, but if she lost, wouldn't that be counterproductive?

Perhaps the tournament organizers hadn't expected Tayuya to make it to the round of 16 from the start, which is why they had arranged such a formidable opponent for her. However, the match schedule for 9:30 was already set, so there was no point in saying this. I'm sure Tayuya would surprise them, too.

Because Duoyou was also ranked behind, Hawkeye became the first one to go on Qin Luo's side.

His opponent was an old acquaintance, Diamante of the Don Quixote Family. The only members of the Don Quixote Family who could make it to the Round of 32 were Doflamingo and two of their top officers. Meeting them was definitely a fate destined by heaven.

Hawkeye is very vindictive, and the memory of the Don Quixote family threatening to take action against him is still fresh in his mind.

"Hey, isn't this the Flower Swordsman? He can't get a woman, but his locker-room declarations are pretty sharp." Diamanti's frivolous voice was tinged with a hint of tension. From the moment he spoke, the audience could sense there was a story between these two, especially one involving women.

People can't help but imagine a complicated and abusive love story. Come on, come on, let the storm come even harder.

Hawkeye glanced at Diamante with disdain. If his opponent was Doflamingo, he would have been willing to taunt back. But with this Diamante, Hawkeye wasn't that cheap.

Drawing the cross sword from his back and pointing it at Diamanti, Hawkeye preferred to communicate with him in the swordsman's way, such as cutting him, cutting him, and cutting him.

Well, that's a perfect solution.

Chapter 720: Crotch-staring Cat

Hawkeye looked unwilling to say more and stared at Diamante with a sharp knife in his hand.

Seeing this, the organizers of the event very tactfully skipped the small theater stage and directly announced the start of the competition.

At the exact moment the whistle ended, Hawkeye kicked off, transforming into an arrow from a bow. The cross-shaped greatsword danced in his hand, and both he and the sword spun in the air before slashing diagonally downwards.

He used the cross sword behind him at the very beginning, which showed that Hawkeye attached great importance to this round of competition, so he used 70% of his strength at the beginning.

Although Diamanti loves to mock people, he has never underestimated Hawkeye's strength.

Thanks to his thorough preparation, Diamanti blocked Hawkeye's lightning strike with his rapier. He also successfully neutralized the force of the strike by taking a small step back.

Hawkeye was certainly not satisfied with this result, so he gradually increased the strength on the cross sword, pressing the blade of the cross sword closer and closer to Diamante's head.

After Hawkeye increased his strength to 90%, Diamanti finally couldn't stand it anymore, and his counterattack was launched in another way.

Silently, the tip of the rapier came alive and bit its prey like a poisonous snake.

Hawkeye reacted quickly, slightly turning his head to avoid the first attack of the rapier, but the "venomous snake" changed its target and attacked Hawkeye's neck.

The neck couldn't be turned sideways like the head, so Hawkeye kicked Diamante, who was controlling the "Snake Sword," away. At the same time, he retracted the cross sword and knocked away the nearby Western sword.

Diamante was suddenly kicked, and his body fell backwards somewhat uncontrollably. But as a Flagman, a user of the Flying Fruit, it was quite difficult to make him lose his balance.

So even though Diamanti was kicked so hard that his arms and legs were almost parallel to the ground, the word "almost" was used. Amid the audience's exclamations, Diamanti straightened his body little by little.

And in the process of "falling to the ground", he controlled the snake sword to swim around Hawkeye and kept biting him.

At this time, the rapier is like a ribbon made of gummy candy, and Hawkeye's slash will only make it longer and more stylish.

However, Diamante's rapier was useless against Hawkeye.

No matter which angle the attack came from, the blade or tip of the rapier would always be aimed at Hawkeye. In those days, it was unheard of to kill someone with the flat of a blade.

When faced with the edge and tip of a sword, Hawkeye could always efficiently slap it away, as skillfully as if he had rehearsed it.

Finally, the impatient Hawkeye slashed three sword energies at Diamanti, forcing the other party to quickly retract the snake sword to resist the sword energy.

In the first round of the fight, it seemed like neither of them had the upper hand. But some things are more complicated than they seem.

"Both players are very strong kendo masters. Their clash was like dancing on the tip of the sword."

"Hawkeye's swordsmanship remains sharp, while Diamante has incorporated his Devil Fruit abilities into his swordsmanship, producing remarkable results. However..."

The tone of the conversation changed, and the audience, who were quite familiar with the emcee's commentary style, knew that the main point was finally coming.

To avoid offending anyone, the old emcee always praised both sides before getting into the actual details. Everyone was used to it. But we had to admit that this old man still had some skills. He always saw the key points and helped the audience analyze the situation of the game countless times.

"Contestant Diamanti has already begun to utilize his abilities, but Contestant Hawkeye has only used simple moves so far, appearing more comfortable. If Contestant Diamanti can't gain a real advantage, the balance of victory will gradually tilt towards his opponent."

The contestants could naturally hear the host's commentary, and his words were like a death warrant hanging over Diamanti.

Hawkeye sneered and raised his sword to attack.

"Don't use your petty tricks to insult swordsmanship." Hawkeye said softly as he approached.

Diamanti was furious and roared, "You said this was just a trifle, then I'll show you how powerful trifles can be."

Hawkeye intends to let Diamante see what real swordsmanship is like because of his unorthodox swordsmanship.

"Triple body."

Hawkeye held the cross sword behind him, his speed suddenly increasing, transforming into a phantom. In front of Diamante, Hawkeye turned into a monster with three heads and six arms. A Z-shaped sword flashed, and Hawkeye appeared behind Diamante.

The illusion is false, but the slash is real.

Hawkeye turned around and continued to face Diamanti because he knew the game was not over yet.

Diamante's sense of danger saved his life. At the critical moment, Diamante wrapped himself in a bullfighting cloak. Remember, this bullfighting cloak was made of steel by Diamante using the power of the Flying Fruit.

The bullfighting cape was cut into three pieces, but at least it blocked the attack and prevented Diamanti from being injured.

But then Diamanti did something very strange. He picked up the broken cloak and held it in his hands.

"You are very strong, but the young master's orders cannot be disobeyed." In order to win the game, Diamanti still made some preparations.

"Bullfighting scepter."

Diamanti wrapped his rapier into a bullfighting stance and charged towards Hawkeye.

Feeling that his opponent's momentum had changed, Hawkeye held his sword and waited in battle. In his opinion, the best way to break the opponent's attack was to dodge and then counterattack at the moment of the opponent's charge, just like a bullfighter.

But Diamante was well aware of the weakness of his own moves. The moment he approached, he shouted "Army Flag," and a force of strength swung out from him, instantly disrupting the balance around him and turning the ground to nothingness.

Hawkeye was no exception, and was knocked off balance by the sudden combination of punches. He stumbled and was unable to avoid Diamanti's bullfighting mace.

Hawkeye barely managed to get his sword to rest on the bull's horns, and Diamanti pushed him back. The opponent showed no intention of stopping, seemingly trying to force Hawkeye out of the ring.

After analyzing the situation, Hawkeye made plans to break out from the air.

He pressed the sword hard, and the powerful reaction force sent Hawkeye flying into the air. Diamanti would not watch Hawkeye escape, so he took out a piece of paper from the cloak he had picked up.

The piece of paper quickly turned into a hammer and smashed into Hawkeye's crotch. At the same time, the bullfighting staff turned into a snake sword and wrapped around Hawkeye's right foot.

A man has three legs, the middle one and the right one. Which one to protect is the question.

The opponent was a bit unreasonable and also a "crotch-gazing cat". Now, even Hawkeye couldn't handle it.

Chapter 721: As long as you swing fast enough

At the last moment, Hawkeye followed a man's heart.

As a man, there was no other option. After shattering the hammer that threatened Hawkeye, Hawkeye finally had time to care about the rapier wrapped around his right foot.

The other sword at his waist was unsheathed and fell into Hawkeye's left hand. The tip of the blade slanted along the edge of the tightening rapier. The sharp blade pressed against Hawkeye's right leg, calmly as if the foot was not his.

Hawkeye's right leg below the knee was completely stripped of its trousers, shoes and socks. The surface was covered in blood and was covered with scars from being entangled by the snake sword. If Hawkeye had not successfully picked up the snake sword in the end, this leg might have been crippled.

As the price for his right leg to escape the injury, the long sword held in Hawkeye's left hand was like it had been through a meat grinder. Not only were there several gaps on the blade, but the sword body was also twisted beyond recognition and was obviously unusable.

Hawkeye angrily stuck the broken sword into the ground. He didn't mind spending the money, having just received a bonus, but finding a sword that satisfied him was a bit difficult.

"How does it feel to be able to perform such a petty trick?" Diamanti's mouth widened, his arrogance and pride revealed without reservation at this moment, mocking Hawkeye.

What responded to him was Hawkeye's increasingly cold gaze, and the eagle's eyes were turning into a dangerous triangle.

A heavy sword aura emanated from the cross-shaped greatsword, causing Diamanti great discomfort. It was as if someone had grabbed his heart, and the hand holding the rapier could not help but tremble.

Diamanti was extremely shocked, his hands were shaking under the pressure of Hawkeye's sword intent.

He couldn't understand why he was so intimidated by Hawkeye's aura when he clearly had the upper hand. What kind of trick had Hawkeye cast on his sword?

The only way to break this strange situation was to defeat the opponent. So, Diamanti attacked again.

The serpent sword transformed into a bullfighting mace once again, and Diamante, standing on the erratic ground altered by the army flag, was now like a savage bull, repeatedly thrusting the sharp point of the bullfighting mace into Hawkeye's chest. He was determined to make several large holes in Hawkeye's chest.

The injury to his right foot slowed Hawkeye's speed, but even so, Diamanti's plan would not succeed. If he were hit twice by such a simple move, Hawkeye would rather swallow the sword and commit suicide than live in disgrace.

After being dodged by Hawkeye three times in a row, Diamanti suddenly stopped, turned the bullfighting staff and put it into Hawkeye's arms.

Hawkeye was neither hurried nor slow. He had been on guard for a long time. He pressed the cross sword against the tip of the bullfighting staff and used the force to quickly increase the distance between himself and Diamante.

Being passive all the time was no good. Hawkeye, having landed, saw an opportunity and, like a swift, swift goose, crouched low on the ground, rapidly approaching Diamante. But as the attack began, the swift goose transformed into a ferocious eagle, its beak riddled with wounds.

Hawkeye shot out countless sword shadows in an instant, and Diamanti couldn't block them at all. The clothes made of steel that he was proud of were not even as good as paper and turned into a pile of holes.

Wounds the size of an index finger continued to appear on Diamanti's body. This was just interest, a return gift from Hawkeye for the injury to his right foot.

After doing all this, Hawkeye flashed past Diamanti and came to a point twenty meters behind him. Watching the ground under Diamanti's feet gradually become soaked with blood, Hawkeye finally let out a sigh of relief.

All of Diamanti's patience and courage had been sapped by the previous round of attacks. His injuries were secondary; Diamanti's biggest concern was his lack of the courage to fight. His hands were constantly shaking, and he wondered how he could continue the match.

Diamanti lifted the torn cloak and took out all the props prepared for Hawkeye.

Diamante fired salute after salute into the air, and the scattered paper pieces transformed into sharp iron balls of thorns. A dozen razor blades, folded like playing cards, returned to their true form the moment they left his hands. Hawkeye was about to experience an impenetrable rain of iron.

There was no place to hide, as this enhanced version of "Death Stardust" covered the area within a hundred meters around Hawkeye.

The blades thrown by Diamante arrived in an instant. All Hawkeye could do was to use his cross sword to create a sword net to block the attack.

The white sword net was inconspicuous in the iron rain and was submerged by the black torrent in less than a moment.

The sound of metal clashing continued, but no one could tell whether it was Hawkeye chopping off the iron balls and blades, or simply the collision of metal objects.

Diamante's equipment was completely prepared to the level of a "natural disaster," and human power is always insignificant in the face of natural disasters. However, considering that the man at the center of the iron rain is called Hawkeye, it seems that miracles can happen.

The iron rain continued for half a minute before it stopped. Diamanti had thrown all his props. Then he raised his rapier again. The battle did not stop until the result was revealed.

At the location where Hawkeye was, a layer of metal tools more than two meters thick was piled up. Thorn iron balls and blades were intertwined to form a mountain of knives.

The rapier continued to stretch, and Diamante wanted to use his strongest slash to send Hawkeye on his last journey, even though he had not been killed by the death stardust just now.

The slash named "Half Moon Funeral" condensed terrifying power, but an even more terrifying sword energy cut through the mountain of swords at a faster speed, cut off the Western sword, and fell on Diamanti's head.

The sword didn't actually land, but the residual force knocked Diamanti unconscious. At the end of his strength, the final strike Diamanti prepared seemed to Hawkeye like a bluff, not threatening at all.

As long as he swung the knife frequently enough, the falling iron lumps would not be able to touch him. Hawkeye firmly believed this, and he did it.

Amidst the rain of iron, Hawkeye remained unscathed, seemingly buried beneath the iron tools. This wasn't the case. The "iron mountain" beside him was simply too high for those outside to see. If someone were directly above Hawkeye, they would have spotted a space with a radius of about one meter in the middle of the "iron mountain."

It was in this space that Hawkeye prepared the final blow to Diamante.

Of course, the one who successfully advanced to the round of 16 was Hawkeye. While he was enjoying the cheers that belonged to him, a pair of burning eyes were fixed on him.

Following his instincts, Hawkeye found the source of that gaze. Doflamingo was now standing at the doorway of the players' lounge, leaning against it, gazing at him with a kindly gaze.

It turned out to be Doflamingo, no wonder.

So Hawkeye also hooked his finger at him.

As if to say, see you in the next game.

Chapter 722 Kidnapping

Qin Luo was very willing to continue watching the rest of the game until his match started. But special circumstances always caught people off guard.

Just now, Tayuya passed a message to Qin Luo in the unique way of Sound Ninja: the rat man Beta was kidnapped by an unidentified guy.

Immediately, Qin Luo, who was dressed as Ebizo, stood up and left the stadium.

"Wait, where are you going, Ebizo? Your match hasn't started yet."

The commotion caught the attention of the other players in the lounge. Due to the large number of players eliminated, the large lounge seemed somewhat empty. The few remaining players stood separately. And at this moment, without exception, they all focused their attention on Ebizo, the unstable factor.

The event staff stopped Qin Luo. After all, there was no precedent for a non-competing contestant leaving the venue early. This kind of thing wasn't something they, the temporary workers, could decide.

Therefore, even though they were clearly afraid of Ebizo, these people still stood in front of Ebizo.

"Step aside."

Qin Luo spoke in Ebizo's rag-like voice, and at the same time used his hand to push away the guy blocking his way.

Ordinary people were like pieces of paper in front of Ebizo's strength, being pulled around by Qin Luo at will. Those who could stop Qin Luo didn't bother. Instead, they were more curious about why Ebizo wasn't mute. However, this sound was basically out of the realm of normal communication.

"Contestant Ebizo, you will be disqualified for this."

Qin Luo turned a deaf ear to these warnings. The Ebizo he played was a tough nut to crack, someone anyone dared to mess with, but no one dared to mess with him. As long as he had collected enough data and Orochimaru had an explanation, Qin Luo didn't care even if there was a big commotion in Calgary.

In full view of everyone, Qin Luo left in a swagger, without even leaving a reason or explanation.