[Congratulations host for inheriting Golden Lion's legacy, reward obtained: Paramecia-type Float-Float Fruit]
[Congratulations host for inheriting Golden Lion's legacy, reward obtained: Golden Lion Swordsmanship]
When the system's voice rang in his mind, Rhine couldn't help but take a deep breath, feeling the changes occurring within his body!
The power of the Float-Float Fruit felt as natural as if he was born with it. With a thought from Rhine, the Float-Float Fruit ability activated, and everything around him that he had touched began floating in mid-air along with the fruit's power!
A smile appeared on Rhine's face. So this was the ability possessed by one of the three legends, Golden Lion Shiki?
Truly worthy of being called a top-tier Paramecia-type, the Float-Float Fruit - possessing this ability was equivalent to controlling the entire sky!
But the next second, the commotion from outside instantly caught Rhine's attention.
Without any hesitation, Rhine directly used the Float-Float Fruit's power to leave the palace, appearing above the island.
This also made Rhine discover that besides the island beneath his feet, all the other islands seemed to have fallen with Golden Lion's death, plummeting toward the sea surface ten thousand meters below like meteors as the Float-Float Fruit's power went out of control!
[Host: Lairona Rhine] [Fruit Ability: Paramecia-type Float-Float Fruit] [Swordsmanship Level: Top-tier Swordsman (Golden Lion Swordsmanship)] [Overall Strength: Navy Headquarters Rear Admiral ~ Navy Headquarters Vice Admiral level]
Looking at the system panel's evaluation of his own strength, Rhine couldn't help but take a deep breath. What an incredibly unbelievable growth rate this was!
You have to know that before obtaining the Float-Float Fruit and Golden Lion's swordsmanship, Rhine's strength was at most only Major level!
But just by inheriting the Float-Float Fruit and Golden Lion's swordsmanship level, the current Rhine could now rival Navy Headquarters Rear Admirals or even Vice Admirals!
Although it was unfortunate that he couldn't inherit the three types of Haki that Golden Lion possessed from his aged body, for Rhine, inheriting Golden Lion's Float-Float Fruit ability was already enough!
For the current Rhine, the Float-Float Fruit's ability would bring great convenience to his actions!
Taking a deep breath, Rhine raised his hand to stabilize the island beneath his feet, then looked toward the Flying Pirates crew members on the island. Most were just a bunch of pirates making up numbers, not particularly strong, but fine for doing odd jobs.
Similarly, those Flying Pirates crew members had also noticed Rhine floating in mid-air at this moment. Seeing Rhine's posture floating in the sky, these pirates all showed expressions of disbelief.
They weren't unfamiliar with Rhine - quite the opposite, they were very familiar with him!
After all, Rhine had Celestial Dragon bloodline and was the object most Flying Pirates crew members used for entertainment in their daily lives!
But now it seemed the situation had changed somewhat.
"Hey... what's going on? That Celestial Dragon guy is actually floating in the sky!"
"Isn't this the Admiral's ability?! Why is it appearing on this guy?"
"Damn! Look quickly... all the islands the Admiral controlled have fallen down!"
"Could it be that guy... obtained Admiral Shiki's abilities?!"
Having stayed in the sky with Golden Lion for so many years, how could the Flying Pirates crew members not understand the Float-Float Fruit's power?
At this moment, those islands were all falling out of control into the sea, and only the island beneath their feet was still floating at ten thousand meters altitude!
And Rhine floating in mid-air without any external aid could explain everything!
Rhine's gaze was calm as he looked at those pirates who used to treat him as entertainment in the past.
If Rhine was willing, he could make this group of pirates all perish in the sea in an instant, but Rhine didn't do that, because the power needed to take revenge on the World Government was definitely beyond imagination!
Unfortunately, Rhine hadn't been in contact with Golden Lion's research island, and at this moment that island had already sunk into the sea and disappeared without a trace.
Looking at the remaining few Flying Pirates crew members, Rhine's tone was cold as he slowly spoke: "You should all know what the ability I've displayed means - Golden Lion has been eliminated by me."
"Now... the new Admiral of the Flying Pirates is me, Lairona Rhine. Do you have any objections?"
Upon hearing this, those pirates all felt incredible disbelief. One of the three legends, the legendary pirate who had repeatedly driven Pirate King Roger to desperate situations, even broke into Navy Headquarters and caused chaos for three days and nights, was imprisoned but then escaped from the underwater great prison Impel Down - Golden Lion Shiki had actually fallen at the hands of such a young brat!
Before this, they had never imagined that the Celestial Dragon brat who had already been abandoned by the World Government would do something so unbelievable!
Without any hesitation, these pirates immediately chose to follow Rhine. Since Rhine possessed the power to eliminate Golden Lion and had now obtained Golden Lion's Float-Float Fruit, even if they were unwilling to submit, the final result would probably be abandonment - being thrown down from ten thousand meters altitude.
Such a height was enough to kill anyone!
They didn't have the ability to fall from ten thousand meters altitude and remain unharmed - submission was the best choice!
Just as Rhine's words fell, the sound of gunfire instantly made Rhine furrow his brow!
A bullet had already appeared in front of Rhine. Rhine slightly dodged and looked toward the direction the bullet came from.
The pirate who fired showed an expression of unacceptance on his face, staring straight at Rhine with an unfriendly tone: "How is such a bastard qualified to be captain?"
"Although I don't know why you obtained Admiral Shiki's ability, after eating a Devil Fruit, you still need time to adapt to the ability!"
"I don't believe you've completely mastered the fruit ability so quickly!"
As his words fell, another group of people stood up, all glaring fiercely at Rhine!
These people didn't seem to be risking their lives to avenge Golden Lion, but rather because they couldn't accept Rhine's identity changing so rapidly!
You have to know that before today, Rhine was just an ant that anyone could bully, but now this ant had actually climbed above their heads - how could they endure this?
Hearing the other party's words, Rhine couldn't help but let out a cold laugh, then slowly spoke: "Your courage to attack me - is it because you think... I just ate the Float-Float Fruit, so I can't completely master the fruit's ability?"
"Since you're so loyal to Golden Lion, then I'll use Golden Lion's ability to send you to the afterlife..."