"It's time to prepare dinner!"

  Watg the setting sun, El decided not to tiraining. He spread his wings wide.

  "Whoosh..." With a gust of wind, his t figure rose into the sky, flying into the distance.

  Soon, El reached the shoreline of Elbaf's giant vilge. His rge frame moved swiftly, skimming over the sea.

  "Roar—" Suddenly, a terrifying sea king, over a hundred meters long, lunged out from the sea, its monstrous maw wide open as it attacked El.

  "I was waiting for you!" El chuckled lightly, reag swiftly. In mid-air, he abruptly turned, his right arm bulging with muscle as he unleashed a powerful punch.

  "Whoosh—"

  The force was so inte distorted the atmosphere.

  "Boom! Boom!" With a thunderous impact, blood spttered everywhere. The terrifying punch struck the sea king's massive head, causing it to explode. A gruesome hole went through, leaving a shog sight.

  "Sizzle... sizzle..." Fmes fred from the back of El's head, engulfing him in fire. The blood that spttered on him was instantly vaporized.

  The sea king's massive body, over a hundred meters long, lost its strength and began to crash toward the o. But El caught its bloody skull with one hand, effortlessly lifting the massive corpse. With a fp of his wings, he flew toward the shore.

  "Spsh..." Water sprayed everywhere as the enormous corpse of the sea king was lifted from the o, suspended in mid-air.

  "Boom!!" Rocks scattered, and dust rose as El smmed the heavy body onto the long coastline.

  "Swish..."

  Ba the shore, El swiped his right hand through the air.

  "Shing... shing..." Several sharp wind bdes fshed by in an instant. The sea king, which was over a hundred meters long but sidered only a "small disaster" in the seas near Elbaf, was instantly sliced i pieces.

  Thanks to his stant training, El could now use his Devil Fruit powers to some extent even in his human form, without needing to fully transform.

  "Huff..."

  , El lightly stomped his foot on the ground.

  "Swish... swish..." The earth trembled, and green sprouts broke through the soil. Before his eyes, they rapidly grew into massive vines, which pierced through the dissected sea king, stringing up its pieces in the air. Even the ans were pulled out and ed by the vines.

  This was one of the abilities of the Mythical Zoan Snake-Snake Fruit, Model: Quetzalcoatl. The Quetzalcoatl was a god associated with rain, sowing, harvest, aility in mythology, symbolizih ah. It was the god of agriculture, the sky, and the sun.

  El was not only immuo all poisons but could also release powerful toxins. He possessed unparalleled offensive, defensive, and regeive capabilities. Moreover, he could trol storms, lightning, fire, and other elements, even summoning rain at will. He also had mastery over pnt life, able to manipute their growth and form.

  Most astonishingly, El could shed his skin to heal injuries, and each time he did, his body would grer. He specuted that the Quetzalcoatl form might even possess the power of resurre after death, though he hadn't tested this theory aainly wasn't foolish enough to try.

  "Swish..."

  Looking at the sea ki hanging on the vines like a small mountain, El couldn't be bothered to process it slowly. He grabbed a massive k of meat, rger than even a giant's body, and fmes erupted from his hand, engulfing the meat pletely.

  "Sizzle... crackle..."

  In an instant, the intense heat roasted the meat to perfe, filling the air with the savory st of cooked meat. El tore off a rge pied began dev it, finishing it in just a few bites.

  After repeating this process several times, it took him less than half an hour to pletely finish off the sea king's body before the sun had fully set. It was an impressive feat, enough to leave anyone speechless.

  "Burp~ The taste was so-so, but at least I'm full!" El patted his slightly swollen stomad zily sat down, a fish bone dangling from his mouth.

  As he gazed at the rolling waves of the sea, his thoughts drifted to the past. From the moment he was born, the Wover and Navy had relentlessly hunted him. Time and again, he narrowly escaped death. It wasn't until he turhree, when he awakened his past life's memories, that he could fully prehend what was happening. His parents, who had sacrificed everything to protect him, had earned his reition as his true family.

  Even though they were so young wheragically perished, it was all due to the Wover's as. How could he not be enraged?

  One day, he would settle the score with the Wover.

  Thinking of this, a cold gleam fshed in El's eyes. "The Red Line, Mary Geoise... Someday, I'll walk straight up to it."

  As someoh Lunarian blood, it was iable that he would be at odds with the Wover. Whether they feared the Lunarians' incredible natural abilities or coveted their power to survive in any harsh enviro—or perhaps both—was unclear.

  turies ago, the Wover had issued a bounty for any information on the Lunarians. Anyone who reported the whereabouts of a Lunarian could cim a reward of 100 million Berries. Capturing one alive would bring an eveer reward.

  This bounty had no time limit and was still in effect. From the start, El and the Wover were destio be mortal enemies.

  The bck wings on his back, gray-white hair, tanned skin, and fmes on the back of his head—all these traits were the unmistakable signs of the legendary Lunarian race, making him easily reizable. Over the long years, tless Lunarians had been persecuted and hunted, pushing their race to the brink of extin. Only a few scattered survivors remained.

  "Sihere's no way out, I might as well shake the heavens ah!"

  Looking toward the Red Line, El ched his fist.

  His eyes bzed with determination and ambition as he decred with unpreted resolve, "Navy, Celestial Dragons, Wover—just you wait... that empty throne is mine!"

  The King of the World? If the Celestial Dragons could sit on it, why couldn't he?

  Not only would he sit on that throne, but he would do so openly, in broad daylight—unlike Im, the so-called King of the Celestial Dragons, who lurked in the shadows like a rat, secretly occupying the throne.

  As a natural-born monster, possessing both Lunarian and Giant bloodlines, and the powers of the Mythical Zoazalcoatl, El had the fideo achieve this. One day, he would return to the Lunarians' homend atop the Red Line.

  Before the eyes of the entire world, he would wear the of the "King of the World" and asd the highest throne, bringing the world to its knees.