As the first Undead to serve Loa, Crocodile had always been one of his most trusted subordinates. That was not just because of his loyalty, but because of his abilities.
When it came to strategy, he had devised a grand plan to become a national hero as a Shichibukai, then steal the country.
When it came to organization, he had founded Baroque Works, a name that struck fear across the First Half. Before Ulysses and Simon arrived, he and Jones had handled all affairs on Turtle Island, with Crocodile often taking the lead.
When it came to combat, busybodies had called him the "weakest Shichibukai" while he was alive. But after becoming an Undead and regaining the Sand-Sand Fruit, Crocodile had reached Admiral level.
There was no way Loa would fail to value someone so capable!
Loa was not merely trying to reassure him. Crocodile had a gift for combat; otherwise, he could never have developed a move like "Death Sands: Earth Colossus" and fought Yonko Kaido to a standstill. At its core, that move was simply the most basic elemental transformation available to a Logia user!
But Crocodile had used the limitless stamina of his Undead Body to make his transformed body rather large—extremely large!
How large?
Put it this way: the sand giant Kaido had scattered countless times was less than a tenth of the Earth Colossus's full body! It was a target deliberately left there to draw the enemy's attention and fire!
Crocodile's true body had long since dispersed into countless grains of sand floating through the air, spread across an area large enough to envelop all of Turtle Island! From a human vantage point, it was impossible to tell what the yellow sand swirling everywhere really was!
Only from high above could one faintly make out