Harvesting Blue Ogre, Red Ogre

Holy crap!

There's actually a way!

"Uncle Brogy! Can you tell me the training method?" Lina asked urgently, the fervor in his eyes unconcealed, nor did he need to conceal it.

Brogy looked a bit troubled and scratched his head. "We've mastered it, but we're not proficient. If I were to teach you, the method might be a bit crude."

"Not proficient?" Lina was a little surprised.

Elbaf was a renowned Giant kingdom in the New World. How could Dorry and Brogy, leaders of the Giant Warrior Pirates, be unproficient in Haki?

Dorry explained, "There are all sorts of strange ability users on the sea, which is why we learned Haki. But for combat besides that, we rely primarily on our own bodies and skills."

"That's right, we Elbaf warriors only believe in close-quarters combat, Gahahahaha." Brogy chimed in.

What kind of idiotic thing to say! Can't you fight close-quarters if you have Haki? Lina grumbled inwardly.

He looked up at the two burly figures again. Fine, this is very Giant-like.

"What are you guys talking about?" Luffy asked with a dejected look, tilting his head.

The others were also completely baffled. Lina simply explained briefly.

"But what is this crude method you mentioned?" Lina turned back to the giant uncles and pressed.

Dorry and Brogy exchanged a glance, then suddenly threw their heads back and laughed. "Gahahahaha, it's getting beaten up!"

"..."

Alright, alright, you guys taught Rayleigh, didn't you? A dark line appeared on Lina's forehead.

"Of course, it's not about getting beaten up foolishly. Haki is..."

Brogy then began to explain to them. Knowing that Luffy and the others had no concept of Haki, he explained it in more detail.

"Invisible armor?" Luffy stroked his chin, thought for a moment, and tilted his head. "Emmm... So Haki is just armor that isn't cool at all?"

Duang!

"Idiot! That's not what he meant at all!"

Nami's daily lecture to Luffy.

"I think I understand."

Lina nodded, lit a cigarette, but before that, he had something else he wanted to try. "Uncles, let's continue what we were doing before."

"Ohh~, you mean that? Come on." Brogy directly extended his hand.

Lina began to transform into his half-beast form. Azure flames gradually seeped out from all over his body, surfacing and then covering him, dancing in the wind.

Two short red horns appeared on his forehead, and a bloody pattern spread from the bridge of his nose towards his ears. His body exuded a decaying, deathly aura.

Lina's physical appearance didn't change much, but the dancing azure flames and the deathly aura gave him a hint of heavy, mortal presence.

"Wahahaha, Lina transformed again, so cool!" Luffy was inexplicably interested in anything that could transform.

"Hey Luffy, what's going on with Lina?"

No one present besides Luffy had ever seen Lina transform. Even Nami and the others didn't know much about Devil Fruits or their abilities.

"Ah, Lina's ability is to transform. Damn it, I want one too!" Luffy said with a jealous expression.

Don't worry, you'll have one too, Lina thought to himself.

However, even more shocked than them were Dorry and Brogy. They looked at Lina with expressions of shock and awe.

They weren't surprised by Lina's ability; they had seen plenty of strange Devil Fruits before. It was because they felt a familiar yet unfamiliar aura emanating from Lina.

"Why do you..."

"There's nothing strange about it, Dorry."

Brogy interrupted Dorry, placing a hand on his shoulder. "We've seen similar situations before. Young people have their own paths to take. Let's not interfere too much."

"Ah... You're right, Gahahahaha!"

"What the heck?" Lina looked bewildered, staring at the two who had suddenly become cryptic.

Did my Lich Lord form's 'king's aura' leak out?

"...Never mind."

He placed his hand on Brogy again. This time, it went smoothly without any obstruction. Lina estimated that the initial failure was due to the presence of Haki on the other party.

Even if they weren't actively interfering, Haki still has some effect on abilities? Lina guessed.

It took a full twenty minutes before Lina withdrew his azure flames. "That was exhausting~"

"What is this? Your ability?" Dorry asked, looking at the dancing azure flames on Lina's hand.

Lina was not secretive and simply explained that he could manipulate the undead, hoping they would help him.

Dorry was a straightforward person and readily agreed. Lina then unceremoniously covered him with the azure flames.

This time, it took less time than before. It wasn't that Dorry was weaker than Brogy, but rather that his Devil Fruit had been further developed, increasing the boost to his physical capabilities.

That's right, this is where we need to talk about Lina's Devil Fruit development method.

He didn't understand Paramecia or Logia types, but his method for developing his Mythical Zoan ability was to constantly apply his own powers and bring himself closer to the corresponding forms.

Lina's Devil Fruit development wasn't complicated; it was simply a matter of continuously collecting stronger templates and creating stronger undead.

Simple and crude, but effective!

There were many in the world who defied fate with a single Devil Fruit, and he was just one more. This was especially true for certain bizarre Paramecia types.

However, his advantage was that Mythical Zoans belonged to the Zoan category, meaning the deeper the fruit's development, the greater the boost to his physical abilities.

Unfortunately, apart from the initial massive improvement upon eating the fruit, subsequent boosts were smaller, which was why he still maintained his habit of exercising.

Only hard work would not betray him—

—Run… Marine Hero Koby!

However, these weren't what he wanted to test. Lina had already had ideas for these two blue flames.

He transformed back into his human form, and with a thought, a rift tore open in the void.

Two undead, human-sized and clad like Spartan warriors, emerged from the rift. However, they hadn't taken two steps before…

Snap! Snap!

"As expected, they burst again?" Lina mused, resting his chin on his hand as if this outcome was entirely within his expectations.

He had wanted to compress the undead's size to gain greater flexibility.

But with his current strength, he couldn't compress these two Giants to human size. Their terrifying physical attributes had directly caused the undead to explode.

"This also proves in a way how outrageously strong these two templates are."

Lina wasn't bothered. He summoned two more undead. This time, the appearance of the undead that emerged had changed significantly.

They were slender, nearly five meters tall, one holding a round shield and the other a long spear, with a greatsword at their waist. If one didn't look too closely, they would appear to be Spartan warriors.

But…

"Ah!!!"

A scream came from behind. Vivi covered her mouth, looking at the two undead in terror, quite frightened.

She had only seen Lina's Fish-Man undead, which were relatively friendly in appearance.

Even Nami couldn't adapt to them, baring her teeth and scolding angrily, "Bastard! Why do you always create such creepy things?"

The two Spartan warriors had no skin at all, and their two skull heads were terrifying and ferocious.

"There's nothing I can do about it," Lina spread his hands helplessly, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said, "I was just thinking of shedding some unnecessary flesh and skin to increase their agility."

If he could have compressed them to the extreme, he wouldn't have made them look like this. Lina looked at the red and green long cloths tied around the waists of the two undead.

"Blue Ogre and Red Ogre. I'll just call them by these nicknames from now on," Lina said, flicking his cigarette butt and stepping on it.

Finally, he could test them. Let's see if you can inherit Ha