Chapter 42

Arlong left the rice farms with some injuries. His crew's life is in the hand of that teen until he does what Lucas demanded from him.

After Arlong left, Lucas turned and looked to the fishmen on the pillars, some of them already started waking up. Lucas quickly knocked them out and moved them to his storage.

"Time to level up some skills " Lucas sighed and cracked his back, then he took the road that leads to a forest. He wanted to be in an isolated place where no one would annoy him.

Lucas took the fishmen out along with the pillars and put them on the ground. A total of 48 fishmen with 3 officers which made it a good XP farm. First, Lucas decided to level up his Massage hands. Lucas wanted to make sure they are in good condition when he levels up his combat skills. Since he used it to heal their bones and his wounds, let's not forget they are strong, Lucas gained a lot of XP for these actions.

After treating 10 fishmen.

[Massage hands +500 XP]

[Massage hands up to level 14 (0/150.000)]

But they're still more than 30 fishmen here need treatment. In order to make sure he would get more XP, he caused them to get more wounds, and no one was an exception. Lucas then continued healing them. With the new level up, the XP he gains got less and the wounds would heal faster and better.

[massage hands up to level 15 (0/200.000)]

The fishmen started waking up, surprisingly, their bodies didn't feel painful at all. They felt like they were floating above the clouds, feeling so good. However, seeing the cold look on the human's face and how they were hanged on the pillars, all of them felt a chill down their backs.

Lucas walked to the first Fishman and took a fighting pose. He started punching him since the fishmen had a physique that was at least ten times stronger than humans'. They could handle some torture. Lucas didn't use any sub-skills but just regular punches, but for an average Fishman, those regular punches were like hell. Most of them could only handle 2-4 punches.

[Boxing + 19 XP]

[Boxing +…]

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[Ding Boxing level up to level 10 (0/50.000)].

[Ding + 1 sub skill : Prince straight ]

[Prince straight: Charge the momentum of three punches in one punch unleashing three folds strength at once.

Note, this skill focus the mass, strength, and energy in each punch of the three]

Lucas saw the notification and nodded, It seems that the prince straight is a deadly skill that fuses three punches in one punch. If Lucas fused this skill with the Adrenaline boost, then he would be able to use 9 times fold strength.

Also, Lucas noticed one more thing, after level 10, each skill would require a different amount of XP to level up, for example, in order to level up the swordsmanship from level 10 to 11, he needs 100.000 XP, but to level up his boxing from 10 to 11, he needs 50.000 XP. Some other skills would only require 30.000 at that level. It seems that the system is balanced when it comes to leveling up, the stronger the skills, the more he needs to level them up.

Now, Only the officers of Arlong still conscious. Chew, Kuroobi and Hachi.

"What are you doing "

"Where is Arlong "

"Let us down"

Their voices brought Lucas out from his though trails. Lucas looked at the three of them, surely, those three can handle the punches more than the regular fishmen.

Lucas didn't bother with their voices and let out a long sigh, " all I need is good workout music, Damn it, I miss the modern life," then without wasting more time, Lucas punched the rest of the fishmen until he leveled up his boxing to level 11

[Boxing up to level 11 (0/120.000]

[+ Sub 2 skills]

[ 200 crack fists: an upgraded version of 100 Crack fist, but this version double the speed of the punches]

[Feather footwork upgraded: create three false after images while dodging or dashing].

Next Nami's house.

Captain Nezumi with some marine soldiers arrived at the orange farm. Captain Nezumi was wearing a marine hat with some mice ears next to his head, the marines that he brought up with him all held shovels ready to dig.

Nami and Nojiko went out to receive them. It was also shocking to know that Lucas was right. After seeing the shovels in the hands of the marine, they were convinced that Arlong wasn't really going to do his part of the deal he made with Nami. Nezumi asked with a high tone about the whereabouts of the money that Nami stole.

"Oh, you are talking about that Money. Since it belonged to the Pirates that I hate and since Arlong sent you to take it away, I will tell you the truth " Facing Nezumi, Nami made an innocent face.

"The truth " Nezumi and the marines looked to the ground and saw holes everywhere. Arlong already told him where Nami hiding her money, so seeing this hole, he already assumed that she moved the money away.

"since I rather die than Arlong takes that money, I burned it all, well, there is some gold, but it was meld with the fire, look there," Nami said as she pointed to the fire that she made some moments ago.

Nezumi heard her, saw the fire and his cheeks streamed with tears, he could see many berries papers around it getting burned. No one knows how much it is painful for a corrupt marine to see his money getting burned.

"Liar, It's not the real money " Nezumi took his gun and pointed at Nami. His hands were shaking from sadness and anger.

Nami acted calm: "If you don't believe then don't believe me, but to remind you, I'm important to Arlong, so, if you want to troubles, please pull the trigger "

"Damn you " Nezumi cursed and put his gun down. No matter how he hates her, the fact that Arlong still needs her. If he killed her, his business with the fishmen would come to its end and he would lose and important income source. However, he won't allow things to pass like that, he smirked at Nami "But I can injure you and say that you resisted "

"Curse you " Nojiko was going to interfere, but then she stopped and looked At Nezumi with a scarred expression, Nami glared at him and made the same face as Nojiko.

"Why did you suddenly turned afraid "

Behind Nezumi, a huge shadow with a height of 260 cm appeared. His expressions were really scary, but his body was wounded a bit and he was missing an arm.

"Nezumi " Arlong said with a chilly voice. As he was walking to this place, he thought a lot about Lucas's demands. Demanding that amount of money was acceptable since Lucas was a bounty hunter who only cares about money. But why would he ask about killing Nezumi? As Arlong thought about it, he reached one conclusion.

Nezumi and the villagers were the only ones who know about how much wealth is Arlong, Arlong doesn't allow the villagers to leave, so the only possibility was that Nezumi called Lucas to take the fishmen down and take his wealth then they would split it among them. However, Lucas changed his mind and became greedy, so he took his crew as a hostage and asked for both of the money and the death of his partner Nezumi.

Nezumi turned to see Arlong: "Mister Arlong as you can see... "

Arlong didn't bother to listen to him, Arlong simply stretched his hand and lifted Nezumi from his head, then he applied some pressure and the skull of Nezumi exploded. The marines and both of the girls were shocked and scared to see such a scene. Before the marines can even react, Arlong ran between them and waved his sword nose, in a few seconds all of them were dead.

Nami saw Arlong's state and action and was stunned, he was badly wounded and missing a hand. She knew that Lucas is here and somewhere they must fight, but Arlong is standing and Lucas is nowhere to appear. She quickly ran out of her home. Arlong gave her a glance and didn't do anything. He already decided what to do, he has only one last trick on his sleeves. Arlong would give the money to Lucas with an extra prize, once he takes his crew away, he would restart his deeds, he would take over other towns and villages and make more money, but first, he must get his crew back

After this, Arlong went to his park, he jumped to the pool that is connected to the sea, then he called a giant sea monster and ordered him to take him somewhere.

After Arlong stopped, he went down and made a hole in the sea, after making the hole, he took a giant chest out. That chest was where Arlong hides his treasures. inside that chest, there was a huge bomb that would explode if someone doesn't deactivate a few minutes after opening the chest.

Meanwhile.

Lucas was standing on the beach and looking to a huge marine warship coming to his direction, above that ship, stood a man with a white coat, Grey hair and two cigars in his mouth.

"So this how smoker looks like, " Lucas thought in himself.