"Goodbye, Lola!!" Standing on the shore of Thriller Bark, the Straw Hat Pirates waved their hands and loudly bid farewell to the friend who had helped them.
It was as if they had suddenly found their stride, with good fortune arriving one after another.
First came Galdino's return, which directly raised the Straw Hat Pirates' combat strength by an entire level. Luffy, Galdino, and Sanji had become the Straw Hat Pirates' pillar-class fighters.
Usopp remained the sniper, while their navigator was the songstress Carina.
Now, they had even gained the ghost swordsman Brook.
The Straw Hat Pirates had expanded to six members. Better yet, Gecko Moria had been defeated, and Thriller Bark no longer had any enemies. They slowly exiled Gecko Moria aboard a small boat, while they themselves sailed Thriller Bark deeper into the Grand Line.
In history, Carina had once achieved the glorious feat of directly looting Gild Tesoro's flagship, the Golden City. Naturally, she was unwilling to let Thriller Bark go this time.
This ship was somewhat similar to Tesoro's Golden City. The difference was that the Golden City was a massive artificial creation built entirely by people, while these three islands were three mobile islands. After being hollowed out, iron pillars had been driven into them, then they were linked together with iron chains before setting sail.
A giant island like this could not possibly sail without hundreds of people.
Even those lacking strength would be unable to raise or lower the sails.
This was an enormous systematic undertaking.
Even Gecko Moria had only barely been able to control this huge sailing ship by relying on shadows and corpses from the graveyards.
Gecko Moria's sailors had numbered well over a hundred.
These zombies merely wandered through the Devil Mist Triangle. Given the ship's size, a little