C17 Summoner

"Colonel Rega, a ship is barreling towards us at high speed."

Aboard one of the warships, a navy soldier approached a middle-aged man with a buzz cut, a chiseled, stern face, and draped in a Justice Cape.

"Is it pirates?" Rega's eyes gleamed as he inquired coolly.

"No, it appears to be the Pirate Hunter, Summoner Ze," the soldier replied.

"Oh? The one who's been making a name for himself these past few days?"

Rega's eyebrows arched.

"Yes."

"What's he doing here?"

"He's probably here to..."

Boom!

A thunderous explosion interrupted them.

A pirate ship suddenly plummeted, and a colossal dinosaur crashed onto its deck.

A malevolent presence, accompanied by roars, filled the air.

"Ah... Help!"

"No..."

"Ahhh~"

Screams echoed across the water.

On the two pirate ships, a towering pirate, three meters tall, wielding a menacing one-and-a-half-meter wolf fang club, bared his savage teeth.

His eyes, burning with rage, fixed on the rampaging Australovenator.

"Damn Summoner, what's he doing here?"

"Kill!"

The Blood Wolf bellowed, muscles swelling rapidly across his frame as coarse gray fur sprouted. Transforming into a werewolf, he hefted his massive club and struck at the Australovenator.

Clang!

The club collided with the dinosaur's thigh, sending sparks flying and jarring the Blood Wolf's hand, drawing blood.

"Ah..."

The Blood Wolf howled in pain.

But as a Fruit Power user who had recently acquired the formidable physique of a gray wolf, he was not easily deterred.

The Australovenator's massive head moved deftly, its jaws cleaving pirates in two with ease. Anything touched by its teeth was severed.

Its robust body shrugged off the feeble attacks of knives and spears without a scratch.

"Puff..."

With another swift movement of its head, the Australovenator devoured a pirate whole, leaving the body in halves as it reopened its maw.

The ship turned into a sea of blood, an endless inferno.

The beast's tail continued its assault, lashing out with force.

Puff, puff, puff...

Pirates screamed and spat blood as they were hurled against the railings, some flung clear off the ship.

"Ah..."

Blood Wolf staggered to his feet, a roar escaping his lips as his body swelled once more. His hands thickened rapidly, sprouting sharp claws that gleamed with a chilling light.

He had transformed into a massive gray wolf, three meters tall and five meters long.

"Roar..."

With a sudden flex of his muscular limbs, the Blood Wolf leapt into the air. The deck shattered beneath him as he lunged, jaws gaping wide, at the Australovenator's neck.

The Australovenator, sensing the shift in its prey's presence, whirled around and met the attack head-on.

"Puff!"

Blood erupted like a geyser.

The giant gray wolf's head was caught in the vice-like grip of the Australovenator's meter-wide jaws, blood spraying from its ten-centimeter-long teeth.

Within minutes, Esaki had finished off the battle on his end, leaving no pirate alive on the two ships.

"This dinosaur..."

Aboard the navy warship, Colonel Rega squinted, observing the Australovenator on the pirate ship with a touch of astonishment.

"Colonel Rega, should we move in?" asked a navy soldier, his face etched with concern.

By now, a pungent scent of blood wafted over on the breeze, furrowing their brows.

"Move in!"

Rega commanded, his voice resonant with authority.

He had encountered numerous Pirate Hunters, yet none possessed true strength; they were merely bit players.

But this Pirate Hunter had been on a spree over the last five days, showing no mercy to any pirate, no matter how insignificant.

The entire East Sea was abuzz with tales of this Pirate Hunter, known as the Summoner, a young man with a cascade of silver hair.