Copper Mine Island.
As an important island second only to Gold Mine Island, Copper Mine Island has very high economic value, but the environment is truly awful. You can see small blast furnaces standing one after another in the open ground.
Black smoke and white smoke keep billowing out, and the rivers on the island are so muddy you can't see any fish or other aquatic life at all.
Even looking down from the sky at the sea around Copper Mine Island, the part close to the island is also lifeless, a vast gray haze that makes people very uncomfortable.
Apart from the harsh natural environment, the ragged miners on the island and the guard soldiers holding long whips make the ugliness of society even more exposed.
"Move faster! All you do all day is eat and never put in any effort!"
Crack!
With the sound of a whip, a miner is lashed until blood marks appear. The miners who are whipped either grit their teeth and endure it, or collapse to the ground and draw even more lashes.
Among the miners here now, there are people from Nanami Kingdom and also people from Six-Gold Kingdom.
The ones from Six-Gold Kingdom are the most resentful. They were forcibly conscripted as miners by the new king of Six-Gold Kingdom in the name of providing economic support for the invasion of Nanami Kingdom. It was said that after Nanami Kingdom was conquered, the people of Nanami Kingdom would come to replace their work.
But now no one knows how many people from Nanami Kingdom have already come, yet these people from Six-Gold Kingdom still haven't been released.
They are clearly citizens of the victorious country, yet they are enduring the treatment of citizens of the defeated country? Then whether the war was won or not has nothing to do with them at all… No, when the old king was still in power, they were just miners who worked a bit harder, but they wouldn't be whipped, and they were paid wages too.
Now, the ones who miss the old king the most in Six-Gold Kingdom are none other than these miners.
"All personnel, soldiers assemble! Support Gold Mine Island, support Gold Mine Island!"
There happened to be a small warship docked here at Copper Mine Island. After receiving the king's order, they immediately assembled and set out, and very quickly left the waters around Copper Mine Island.
"What happened?"
"I heard it's remnants of Nanami Kingdom attacking Gold Mine Island."
"That bunch still has the strength to attack Gold Mine Island? The king is really making a fuss over nothing."
The remaining guard soldiers on Copper Mine Island were chatting happily when suddenly they heard a whooshing sound of something tearing through the air from above their heads.
Clang!
A burly black shadow fell from the sky, and when it hit the ground it was like a more-than-one-ton lump of iron slamming down.
"Ah!"
A small squad of guards who were bunched together were sent flying in all directions by the impact.
Bonez slowly stood up. He had become a bit darker than before, and also a bit balder.
Bonez's hair had always been so short it was hard to tell much, but now it was completely shiny and polished, truly "brilliantly bald."
"E-enemy attack!"
A nearby soldier raised his spear and stabbed it toward Bonez. The result was a clang as the spear struck him, and the spearhead actually chipped off a piece when it hit Bonez's body.
The others didn't believe it either and raised their own weapons to strike at Bonez.
Blades and spears shattered, bullets broke apart.
"With attacks like this… you're not even as good as mosquitoes."
Bonez flicked his body, and the people surrounding him all felt a sudden pain. Even though there were no visible blades, blade-like slash marks appeared on their bodies.
While increasing his own defensive power, the sharpness of the Dice-Dice Fruit hadn't decreased at all; in fact, the blades he transformed into had become even harder.
"Alloy Reaper!"
Rings of spinning blades appeared all over Bonez's body. He pushed off with his feet, and in an instant he shot forward more than ten meters.
This was the Soru technique among Rokushiki. Aside from studying Tekkai, this was the speed-boosting technique he cared about the most.
With the spinning blades on his body combined with extreme speed, he was like a high-speed reaper. All the soldiers blocking his path were swept away, and every single one of them had extremely horrific wounds.
"Monster!"
Facing someone who was impervious to blades and spears, whose entire body was made of blades and who would tear flesh apart with a single touch, who would still dare to rush in close?
"Use the cannons! I don't believe he can withstand even cannons."
Of course, some guards refused to believe it and wanted to use cannons to aim at Bonez.
Their actions were quite fast. As soon as someone shouted a reminder, the muzzles of two cannons immediately rotated and aimed at Bonez.
"Roaaar!"
A strange roar sounded from above their heads. Just as they were stuffing cannonballs into the muzzles, a fierce pillar of fire fell from the sky and burned over the cannons.
Boom!
In less than two seconds, one cannon exploded. Then another stream of flames fell and likewise burned and blew up the second cannon.
"There's a flying dragon in the sky!"
"Damn… why does this dragon look so small?"
Small? Your whole family is small!
Charizard hates it most when people say it's small, and immediately began low-altitude flight, spraying large amounts of jet flames at the guard soldiers. With Lena, a Through-Through Fruit user, those guards' muskets simply couldn't threaten it at all.
"Help, I'm on fire… my butt is on fire."
A man who looked like a squad leader rolled around in a sorry state and slipped under a table, then stretched out his hand to the others and shouted,
"Quick, go get the General."
With their strength, there was no way to stop the invaders, even though the other side's numbers were very small.
Bonez felt these guards were extremely boring. He directly grabbed two of them and, with a hard throw, tossed them in front of a blast furnace—and also right in front of the miners.
"Anyone who wants freedom, beat them. This is your best chance to shed your identity as miners."
The miners' resentment was enormous. The former people of Six-Gold Kingdom still had some scruples, but the people who came from Nanami Kingdom had far fewer concerns. Their worst fate wouldn't be any worse than it already was.
As soon as Bonez spoke, these people grabbed wooden clubs or lumps of ore and went at the two guards.
Crackling and popping, the two guards were quickly beaten into pulp.
This spot was like a fuse being lit. Under Bonez's lead, the miners' riot quickly spread.
At first it was only the miners from Nanami Kingdom. Very soon, the people of Six-Gold Kingdom either actively or passively joined in as well.
The passive participation was because when the guards saw the miners rioting, they panicked and struck first at the miners around them. They didn't care where these miners came from; they only knew to strike first to gain the advantage.
If you resist, you get beaten. If you don't resist, you also get beaten. In a situation like this, most people will choose to resist.
There were many miners, and with strong people leading them, the guards were completely no match. For a time, they were beaten back step by step.
...
Clang!!!
A pale-white flying slash suddenly came from afar, heading straight for Charizard and Lena, who were flying low and burning the guards' butts.
Bonez had been observing his surroundings with full attention. He immediately leaped up, hardening his entire body to block in front of the flying slash.
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