Pirate: My partner is too crooked

Chapter 198

(Um, I forgot the title)

As the redeemed townspeople waved goodbye with piety and a hint of madness, Aqua successfully gained the first wave of Alabasta followers.

The dragon Kangna carried everyone and took off again, heading to the second major city that was severely affected.

Alabasta's territory is too vast, and its towns and villages are relatively scattered.

Running from place to place like this, no matter how fast Kangna was, she would not be able to achieve the ultimate goal of "national faith" in a short period of time.

That would be too tiring and difficult to solve the problem at its root.

In Lin Zhi's plan, he only selected ten large cities and carried out the same publicity method as Eluma.

With these ten places engraved with permanent magic circles as the center, connected canals were opened to cover the entire Alabasta border in a point-to-face manner.

Because it never dries up (unless Aqua dies), civilians living around the city and in villages near canals can also enjoy clean and pure water.

It may be difficult for ordinary people to open a canal in the desert, but for Lin Zhi and his team who are good at causing destruction, it is not too difficult.

As for promoting the water goddess Aqua, in addition to spreading the news among civilians, Cobra also needs secret help.

This was a deal between Lin Zhi and their royal family.

Of course, in a large country with a population of close to one million, unexpected situations will always occur, such as some insects that only work in disguise.

Lin Zhi considered himself not a good person who did good deeds and accumulated good deeds, so in order to make the benefits of the power of faith more pure and huge, he asked Aqua to add some special properties to the holy water.

——People who don’t have sincere beliefs will have diarrhea for a whole day after drinking water!
  To maintain this large magic circle with special attributes, Aqua's divine power would be drained out in minutes if it were in its previous state.

However, as the name of the Water Goddess spreads rapidly in Alabasta, the total amount of divine power restored by harvesting huge faith will be far higher than this consumption!
  Although she paid a small price, the enhancements Aqua received during this trip to Alabasta are still quite explosive and epic!
  Two days passed in a blink of an eye.

The planned town that required a permanent magic circle was successfully completed, including the interconnected canals that began to take shape.

Countless pale white lights rose from all over Alabasta and poured into Aqua's body in the royal capital, making her exude an even more sacred goddess aura.

Of course, the prerequisite is that the stupid goddess should not speak or open her wise eyes.

Cobra saw with his own eyes that Lin Zhi and his group had brought about such a huge change in Alabasta, which had always been barren, in such a short period of time. He no longer had any worries in his heart and started working together with all his heart.

In front of this kind of team that has transcended the scope of ordinary humans, he can only cooperate fully!
  So far, there is only one important city in Alabasta that has not built a statue of the Goddess of Water.

That is one of the very few areas in the entire Kingdom of Alabasta that is not affected by drought. The base camp of King Shichibukai Crocodile - the Rain Land!
  In the Wangcheng conference room.

"Mr. Lin Zhi, according to the intelligence sent back by the rainland agents, Crocodile who received the news is on his way back to Alabasta quickly. He is the King of the Qibukai. It is not suitable for our royal family to participate."

Kobra and Lin Zhi stood side by side in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, looking towards the rainy land through the endless desert. "So, the residents of the rainy land can only solve the problem on your own. Please forgive me for this."

After these two days of getting along, he was no longer worried that Lin Zhi and his gang would do something as boring as stealing the country, but compared to Crocodile, they still lacked official legal status.

He trusts Lin Zhi, but he is more afraid of the Navy Headquarters and the World Government!
  "It doesn't matter, Yudi will let us do it." Lin Zhi nodded.

In addition to harvesting Axis followers, another purpose of this trip to Alabasta is to teach Lao Sha a lesson, not to mention the forces under his command.

Seeing his brows furrowed slightly, showing an expression that didn't match his words, Cobra couldn't help but feel a little worried, and asked tentatively: "I see that you have something on your mind?"

"Don't worry, it just feels a little too smooth." Lin Zhi said.

Cobra didn't know why.

Could it be that being too smooth is a bad thing for you?

At this moment, Ikarem walked in with an anxious look on his face.

"King, something unexpected has happened!"

Glancing at Lin Zhi standing next to Kobra, he hesitated to speak.

"It's okay, just tell me, Mr. Lin Zhi is not an outsider." Kobra waved his hand.

After organizing his words, Ikarem coughed lightly and looked slightly embarrassed.

"It's about Miss Aqua. She wants to let the residents living in the royal capital also have access to clean water. Yo yo yo~ summoned a large amount of floods in the central streets where buildings are concentrated, causing nearly [-] million shells. Profitable property damage..."

Summoning floods on central streets?
  The corner of Cobra's mouth twitched, and he was severely shocked by this unusual behavior.

If he hadn't roughly understood Aqua's brain circuitry after two days of contact, he would have almost thought this was intentional!

"Hahaha, you are indeed that idiot." Lin Zhi, his partner, laughed.

This feeling was right. With Aqua's behavior, she didn't make any big noise, but something was wrong.

The frowned brows gradually relaxed and relaxed.

"King Kobra, I forgot to tell you before."

Lin Zhi looked at Cobra with a smile on his face, "Unavoidable losses are also part of the transaction."

Cobra: "..."

Do you call this inevitable? !
  Although he was speechless, he didn't say much.

Compared with the changes that Lin Zhi and his group brought to Alabasta, this level of loss can only be said to be insignificant.

……

At dusk, Aqua, who had caused a wave of trouble, sneaked into the palace's residence.

If the guarding soldiers had not become staunch Axis cultists, she would have been captured on the spot with her ghostly appearance!
  Along the way, Aqua was careful, avoiding Kangna and Weiwei who were studying small insects in the courtyard, Bell who was learning iron lifting skills from King, and Brooke and Ikarem who were discussing music in the lobby.

Just when she finally sneaked into her room, thinking she could breathe a sigh of relief, unexpectedly, Lin Zhi was already lying on her bed waiting.

"Hey, Aqua-chan, we're back to promote the Axis Cult."

Lin Zhi couldn't help but want to laugh when he saw the frightened expression of the stupid goddess.

"Ah, aha, yes, despite the goddess's glamorous appearance, she is actually a super hard profession."

Aqua stood there scratching her head and laughing.

"How about the power of faith restored this time? It should be very impressive, right?" Lin Zhi stood up as if nothing had happened.

"That's for sure. This goddess is completely different from the one she was a few days ago!" Aqua raised her head and raised her chest proudly.

Even though she caused property damage to the people of the royal capital, there was still a steady stream of white light of faith pouring in from all directions and sinking into her body.

Lin Zhi judged from the reactions of his friends that only he could see this white light of faith, and even Aqua herself could not detect it.

I don’t know if it’s some special effect of the wishing fountain.

"In that case, Aqua."

Lin Zhi rolled up his cuffs, and arcs of electricity flowed from his clenched fists, "Let's have a fight?"

Before entering the new world, he wanted to test the combat power of Aqua, who had gained the power of faith from millions of believers. Hearing this, Aqua, who was in a state of pride, was stunned.

After seeing that Lin Zhi didn't look like he was joking, she blinked her wise eyes, coughed lightly and said, "Well, forget it, I don't want to kill you yet."

She was fully aware of Lin Zhi's current combat prowess. Although she didn't think she would lose to the chief cultist in the district, if they were to fight, physical pain would definitely be inevitable.

She is afraid of pain.

"I heard that a certain goddess caused quite a stir in the capital today. Kobra's preliminary estimate of property damage seems to be [-] million."

Seeing the stupid goddess's eyes suddenly become wandering and dazed, Lin Zhi raised the corners of his mouth and revealed a sinister smile.

"As a majestic water goddess, Aqua, you don't want other colleagues to know that you have no money to compensate, right? For example, Eris or something."

"Ahhhh! No, Master Lin Zhi, no!" The spineless Aqua broke the defense on the spot.

As the goddess of water with a heavy idol burden, she could not imagine the scene where her junior Eris, whom she looked down upon, would point her nose at her and laugh at him crazily.

That would be worse than killing her!

"Fight with me, and if I win, the compensation will be mine." Lin Zhi gave the fatal blow.

Sure enough, Aqua, who was on the verge of collapse, instantly became full of fighting spirit, and her right fist condensed a gorgeous flame of God.

"That's what you said!"

Soon, the news that Aqua was going to fight Lin Zhi reached the ears of her friends.

Although they don't know the specific process, there is no doubt that they showed strong curiosity about this battle.

Watching a movie, no matter what world it is in, is an instinct deeply hidden in the human subconscious.

You said you were watching the show between your own captain and his deputy captain?

That would be more interesting, wouldn’t it!

Even King, who always had a serious face, brought a small stool and sat in a row with Meow, Kang Na, and Brooke, preparing to enjoy the battle between water and electricity.

In order not to bring damage to the royal capital, Lin Zhi chose the battle location in a desolate desert far away from the town.

The desert at night is completely opposite to the heat during the day, and the cold wind blowing from the distance is extremely cold.

Amid the flying sand and rocks, Lin Zhi and Aqua stood opposite each other.

Before the battle officially started, Aqua, bathed in blue light, closed her eyes slightly, muttered words, and began a long and complicated magic chant.

“Blessed by goddesses”

“Divine aura”

“Divine Radiance”

"Blessing! Attribute enhancement (blessing! Attribute enhancement)"

"Blessing! Art enhancement (Blessing! Art enhancement)"

"Seal·Goddess Privilege (Seal·Goddess Privilege)"

"Greater Magic Shield"

……

Layers of buffs were continuously added to Aqua's body, making the originally blue light appear colorful.

It can be seen that she is really ready to go all out in order to avoid the pain!

Finally, Aqua, who spent a full minute to stack the buff, opened her eyes, and a different dark blue water flow floated around her body.

"This is pure blue water. Lava cannot evaporate or conduct electricity. If you surrender now, it's still too late, Lin Zhi."

Aqua, who was in the center of the blue water, pointed the goddess staff in her hand at Lin Zhi, with an extremely confident look on her face.

"Otherwise, it would be boring."

Lin Zhi did not interrupt the stupid goddess's shameless set of buffs.

This battle was originally intended to test her current upper limit.

As the three generations of Kitetsu and Yukizou unsheathed their waists at the speed of light, and the dark blade reflected the desert scenery, the "battle of the two gods" between the extremely evil thunder and the goddess of water officially began!

After half an hour.

The original landscape of the entire desert has been completely changed, replaced by deep blue pools, magma swamps, and blackened mine pits, which are shocking as far as the eye can see.

In an inconspicuous corner, Aqua squatted on the ground with her hands and knees, her previously confident eyes became dull and dull, and she entered a state of self-isolation where she doubted God's life.

Obviously, in the end, Lin Zhi, who has the speed to be invincible, won this fierce battle between water and electricity!
  Although Aqua, who had been greatly strengthened in all aspects, showed far more power than before, Lin Zhi was not surprised by this result, and it did not even achieve the expected effect.

It's not that the idiot goddess is not good at fighting, but that this guy who is good at showing off and afraid of pain has a fighting IQ that is really unbearable to look at.

To put it bluntly, if it was a life-and-death battle, Lin Zhi wouldn't even have to show up, he could hide in the distance and use the Thunderbolt and Cliff Sword to kill Aqua, who was so easy to hit. !
  But then again, Aqua's attribute increase is really nice.

Regardless of being noticed and interfered by his opponents, even if he is not domineering enough after taking full advantage, he will have top-level combat power that can truly compete with the Yonko generals head-on!
  After this battle, Aqua was officially labeled as a team support by Lin Zhi.

Fighting alone is definitely out of the question.

……

The next morning, the roar of thunder echoed across the rainy ground.

As soon as Lin Zhi and others appeared at Crocodile's stronghold, they hardly took any action. The forces on Lao Sha's side surrendered on the spot and fled the rainland in panic, handing over the most fertile land in Alabasta. .

They are not stupid as they are always aware of the news of the sea. Even the admiral can be repelled by the opponent, so stubborn resistance will only make them die faster!

From this point of view, Crocodile's subordinates are quite aware.

In other words, enough to be afraid of death.

In this way, the last section covering the entire Alabasta water source was easily completed.

Crystal clear water flows continuously from ten urban formations and runs through the country along canals, completely freeing Alabasta from the natural disaster of perennial drought!

The civilians' belief in the Water Goddess reached its peak, and radiated to farther areas at an extremely fast speed.

At the same time, on the coastline of the Kingdom of Alabasta, the coastal cities were saved by the magic circle.

Yellow sand was flying all over the sky, creating a terrifying sandstorm that looked like a natural disaster.

In the center of the sandstorm, a man with long slits on his face walked slowly forward.

Listening to the report from the men on the phone, looking at the statue of the goddess standing tall in the center of the city, the man's eyes were cold and gloomy to the extreme, exuding a seeping and boundless anger.

King Shichibukai, Crocodile finally returned to Alabasta!
  (End of this chapter)