Apophis

The masked ghost man didn't have time to think before he was pushed aside by an overwhelming force, his mind settling instead, "Didn't you kill me? It looks like this guy is a high-fake at best."

The masked ghost man who felt that he had found his strength was about to go forward and theorize but found that the pirates around him were looking at him with fear in their eyes, and his heart could not help but feel even more robust, "You guys, go kill that impostor!"

"Argh!"

Who knew that after he opened his mouth, the pirates screamed out, either fleeing the guild in panic or collapsing to the ground with a loss of strength.

There was some fear in the man in the ghost mask's heart. He realized that something was wrong with his voice, and the scenery in his eyes seemed to overlap as if the entire world was leaning over.

"I...what's wrong with me?" The man in the ghost mask forced his fear to look into the mirror at the front desk and was suddenly startled.

Only the one in the mirror his face mask had already shattered, a little blood line from his eyebrows to his crotch. It's like a lotus root split in the middle, only by the bloodline to keep the two parts of his body together.

"I...I'm dead?" The ghostly masked man was suddenly lost, and after rising to the thought, he was horrified to find the fracture of the blood line, and the tearing body began to collapse to the sides.

"No, no, I don't want to die!" Ghost masked man will press his hands on both sides of the head, forced to the middle of the patch together, this beautiful scene to see a lot of pirate lower body shiver, and then that is the warm wet feeling filled with the crotch.

Boom!

The body ripped in half, collapsed with no more life left in it.

Seeing that imposter finally die, the other pirates all breathed a sigh of relief, as bloody pirates, they had already seen dead people and such. However, a half-dead, half-alive monster was still beyond their mental capacity.

Come to think of it, the pirates who couldn't escape in time all turned their fearful gazes towards the man sitting in the foreground, and this bloody and supernatural tactic had proven his identity, known as the traveller from hell, the Demon Sword Apophis!

If they had only aspired to Apophis' power because of the legends, they now feared Apophis' methods because they had witnessed them.

It was a terror that went deep into the soul!

Even if real Apophis had offered to recruit the crew, there would never have been anyone else who would have dared to get together without knowing what they were doing. They did aspire to be strong and brutal captains, but Apophis was utterly beyond their definition of brutality.

"Information." In an atmosphere where the air was chilled, Apophis spoke coldly.

"Huh? What?" The balding guild supervisor didn't react, dumbly asked a question, and then suddenly remembered what happened to that impostor before. His face white with fright, losing blood, and busily responded, "Yes, yes, yes, I'll bring you all the information right away."

The supervisor, as if he was drunk and couldn't stand on straight legs, stumbled backwards, passing by the mirror as if he was glancing into it with great determination.

"The nose, the eyebrows, the eyes, the mouth...it's all there, I'm alive, I'm alive!" The supervisor laughed wildly in his heart, and his steps drifted a bit, but he actually collapsed his head against the wall and recklessly entered.

Seeing this comical scene in charge, those pirates who sat on the ground and didn't dare to get up didn't have any grudges in their hearts, and they were afraid that they would only be worse off instead.

Many of them were swimming in the sea of urine and didn't dare to move their nests for fear of making the slightest noise to attract that person's attention.

A few of the receptionists who were left by the supervisor were on the verge of tears, and they were now neither moving nor moving at all, feeling only like they were on pins and needles, literally 10,000 times worse than having their aunt come.

"Here it comes, here it comes!" It seems that he was worried that Apophis was impatient to wait, the bald supervisor was still in the data room, he consciously shouted. The next moment he saw the supervisor with a flattering smile on his face rushed out, "Apophis-sama, originally according to the rules of the guild, as a four-star hunter you can only browse the four-star and below star news. But I took the initiative to take out all the information in the chapter. You can read as much as you want!"

Seeing Apophis look up the information without any reaction or indication, the balding supervisor was instead relieved and would do anything to send the Archdemon away.

What's more, the top of his branch is only five-star information, and judging from the fact that Apophis quickly killed the 92 million bounties ogre Barlow, it's not too much to classify him as a five-star hunter in advance.

The star classification of the Hunter's Guild is straightforward, as long as the registered are one-star hunters, hunted a bounty of more than 10 million berries of pirates is automatically promoted to two stars, hunted more than 30 million is three stars. So on, four stars are more than 50 million, and five stars is more than 100 million, six stars is more than 300 million, seven stars is to have hunted pirates recognized by the Marine and the Government.

The hunting methods were even more straightforward and more brutal. No matter what way was used, whether it was assassination or poisoning, even if it were just picking up leaks, as long as you could get the target's head, you would be recognized by the Hunter's Guild.

In a sense, Hunter's Guild itself is considered a way for the World Government to recruit lone wolves. The honorary status and various invisible benefits that come with the star ratings allow powerful individuals who are strong but unwilling to be constrained by the Marine or the government to work for the government in this way.

The invisible benefits are mainly covered in two areas, information and achievements.

The importance of information is naturally particularly crucial in the world of pirates, just like the Ghost Fruit, Fairy Fruit or Lucky Fruit, without knowing the information, even the strong ones can easily get trapped.

For those lone wolves who rely on their power, the Hunter's Guild's network of information can compensate to some extent for the shortcomings caused by not joining the force.

On the other hand, achievements can buy things that cannot be purchased by conventional means. For example, such as rare devil fruits or O Wazamono, or certain weapons and equipment that been outlawed by the government and Marine. But are still challenging to obtain from the outside world.

"Broken Skull, Buffett!"

Hearing Apophis's emotionless (and harmony) words, the balding supervisor took out the corresponding file as fast as he could in his life.

"Broken Skull Buffett, once a great sea pirate active on the Grand Line with a bounty of up to 120 million berries. Retired from the Grand Line ten years ago and established a mafia in the West Blue that spans several countries and is involved in many illegal businesses such as drug trafficking, casinos, brothels, population, arms, etc., spreading out to the four seas. Even the Grand Line with the West Blue as the centre likes to manipulate everything behind the scenes."

"That man is a purely physical strongman with the terrifying monstrous power of collapsing a small mountain with one punch, armed with a three-headed chainsaw, and his lair is located in the Aethi Kingdom of the West Blue."

Apophis accepted the file and opened the suitcase, inside was a bloody human head, his face seemingly twisted to the extreme with fear.

"Barlow the Ogre!" The bald supervisor shouted, as the supervisor of the Hunter's Guild chapter, he instantly recognized this as the ferocious monster that was notorious among all pirates and liked to suck the brains out of small children. However, it was such a brutal pirate that he was still deep in fear until his death.

What kind of pain did he endure?

Just thinking about it made the bald supervisor shudder and quickly said, "This 92 million berries, I will immediately..."

Before the words fell out, he saw Apophis push his suitcase forward and turn to walk out without a word.

The balding supervisor's first reaction was that he was dead!

He quickly looked in the mirror and saw that all the body parts were still intact, relieved and purposely raising his volume, "Harry, hurry up and credit the reward to Apophis-sama, and remember to round up to a hundred million berries..."

Published in Qidian, March 04, 2019