Who Says the Undead Can't Be Weapons?

"Nami, we've come to save you!"

"We'll fight Arlong and his crew!"

At this moment, outside Arlong Park.

Villagers swarmed in, their faces filled with anger, clutching crude weapons tightly.

Hearing the commotion, several people turned their heads.

The leader wore a dark brown guard uniform, a windmill pinned to his police hat, and his body was covered in stitched wounds.

"Genzo?"

Nami turned her head, looking at the newcomer in surprise. "Why is everyone here? Could it be Genzo..."

"That uncle is so strange, he has a windmill on his head."

Luffy, wearing a straw hat, said curiously.

Lina's heart sank, and he roughly guessed the villagers' intentions. He turned and sneaked into Arlong's high tower.

"Nami, you handle things here for now. I'm going to do some looting."

After a while.

Inside Arlong's room, Lina looked at the scattered cash he had found. After counting, he estimated it to be around 400 million Belly.

He scratched his golden hair and sighed, "Sigh~, it's much less than I imagined."

This was definitely a huge sum of money, but it was indeed less than he had imagined.

Arlong's crew controlled over twenty villages here. Except for a few that were completely destroyed, the rest had been under his exploitation for years.

Ten thousand Belly per adult and five thousand Belly per child per month for protection. Even the smallest village had at least a hundred people.

After so many years, they had only saved this much?

Thinking of this, Lina couldn't help but curse, "Can these guys spend money that fast?"

"Forget it, at least it's enough to feed Luffy..."

Lina couldn't help but think of Luffy, who could eat up 100 million in one feast.

"Sigh~"

Lina sighed, packed up the money, and left with his backpack.

As he walked out the door, he ran into Nami, who was about to enter.

"Nami, what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to get the sea charts I drew before. What's that you're carrying on your back..."

Nami stared at Lina with a hostile expression, a flicker of greed in her eyes.

Lina: "...Heh heh."

"Fifty-fifty?"

"No way."

"Sixty-forty!"

"No way!"

Soon, the group followed the villagers back to Foosha Village. Lina and the others went to Nami and Genzo's residence to rest.

"This is dried tangerine peel we dried ourselves, please try some."

Genzo brought out several cups of tangerine peel tea and offered them with a smile.

When Nami had led them to Arlong Park earlier, she had immediately gone to find Genzo, which led to the villagers' subsequent arrival.

"It's delicious!"

"It's indeed very good."

"We're glad you like it. Our poor little village can't offer much in return, but I'll pack some dried tangerine peel for you to take with you later."

"Don't talk about repayment. We've already received the greatest treasure."

"Is that so? Nami must be very happy with you."

Genzo left with relief. He was going to pack some dried tangerine peel as a thank-you gift.

The group was also hungry after the fight, and they all leaned weakly on the sofa.

"Rumble~~"

"Ah, I'm dying~"

Luffy lay down dejectedly.

The villagers were already cooking to reward them.

Lina lit a cigarette and began to conceptualize Arlong's template.

With a wave of his hand, several leaping azure flames appeared. Lina could faintly feel the two flames representing Arlong and Zoro attracting each other.

"Should I fuse them?" Lina muttered.

That's right, templates with a certain degree of compatibility could be fused.

However, the stats wouldn't stack; instead, they would complement each other, taking the higher value for each stat.

Both Arlong and Zoro had exceptional arm strength.

Additionally, Arlong's bite force was extremely strong, and Zoro, due to his Three Sword Style, had also focused on training his bite force.

This was why these two templates had such high compatibility.

"Forget it, it's too wasteful to just add that little bit of stats."

"With Zoro's rate of progress, updating him again after some time will directly raise his stats."

He had other ideas for Arlong's template. Compared to Arlong's arm strength, Lina valued Arlong's nose, which was comparable to steel, and his fangs that could crush rocks even more.

Especially the characteristic that his teeth could regenerate continuously.

After conceiving for a while, Lina's mind stirred, and a void rift opened out of thin air.

"Wahaha, Lina, are you making a new monster again?"

Luffy's eyes lit up the moment he saw Lina's actions.

"A robot! Make a robot this time, Lina!"

"...I told you I can't make robots."

"Then what are you planning to make?"

"A weapon."

"Is it a laser gun!!"

"..."

From the void rift, a silver-white hilt gradually emerged.

Lina reached out, grabbed the hilt, and pulled it out with a sudden force. In his hand was a completely silver-white dual-edged sword with sharp serrations on both sides.

The tip was a ferocious skull the size of a fist, extending from the end like Arlong's serrated nasal bone.

"...Emmm, it looks just okay."

Luffy said with a look of disdain.

Lina, however, showed a strange smile. "What if I told you it could extend?"

"Extend! Then it'll be just like me!"

Lina pointed the bone sword in his hand at a large rock outside the door and willed it.

The next moment, the sword body suddenly elongated, and the serrated tip shot out towards the rock.

BOOM!!!

The giant rock instantly shattered.

"Wait a minute, this move is..."

"Yeah, it's Arlong's Shark Rush, right? But it's far from that simple."

As Lina spoke, the bone sword suddenly curved, its tip suddenly turning back and staring intently at Luffy, like a snake.

"After all, he's an undead creature. You can think of it as a bone snake, and I just shaped the tail into a sword hilt."

To be precise, it was a chain sword.

It could extend because the sword body was made of bone fangs. Utilizing Arlong's teeth, it could regenerate continuously by consuming stamina.

Chain swords were very useful weapons, but the skill to use them was very difficult to master.

However, Lina stated, did undead creatures need to practice?

Control it freely, at your will, it can become a sword, a whip, or even...

The bone sword suddenly began to spin, forming a silver-white round shield layer by layer, covered in spikes on its surface, with the ferocious skull right in the center.

If anyone thought it was just a shield and charged at him, Lina would show them what 'Divine Spear' meant in an instant.

"Wahaha, it transformed! Lina, make me one quickly!"

Lina: "..."

Lina directly threw the white bone chain sword to him to play with, ordering the undead creature to obey Luffy.

Luffy excitedly took the toy and ran off, playing to his heart's content. In less than three minutes, he came back dejectedly, running back with a sullen face.

"I'm so hungry~~"

"..."

"Dinner's ready, everyone!"

"Ooh! A feast!"

Upon hearing the shouts from outside, Luffy immediately rushed out, with the others following closely behind.

"Lina, wait a moment. I want to tell you something."

"Hm? What's wrong?"

Lina turned back to look at Nami, who had called out to him. Was there still a hint of shyness on her face?

Could it be?

"Um... the money we got from Arlong..."

"..." "No way!"

"No, it's not like that! I was wondering if... we could leave some for the villagers of Cocoyasi Village?"

"Sure, how much do you want to leave?"

"...Fifty million?"

"Take whatever you want."

"What about a hundred million?"

"That works too."

"Then how about..."

"Wait a minute. Are you sure the numbers you're adding at the end aren't you trying to line your own pockets?"

Lina couldn't help but interrupt.

Nami's face suddenly turned even redder.

"Ahem... then a hundred million it is."

"..."

Alright, alright, you little trickster. You're quite something, aren't you? Hiding things like this?