Chapter 209: The Alabasta Legion!
Right after that, a second mental link formed.
"Is that you, Vivi?"
Koza, who was organizing the rebel army, suddenly felt a familiar sensation and spoke up instinctively.
"Koza!"
Vivi's voice carried the joy of reunion, but there was no time for pleasantries. She quickly said, "Listen to me, it was all Crocodile's scheme. He wants to seize Alabasta and deliberately framed the king!"
"Chief, are you okay?"
A rebel soldier ran into the tent after hearing the commotion.
Koza shook his head with a troubled expression. "I'm fine. You can leave for now."
Although a voice suddenly appearing in his mind was strange, what shocked him more was what Vivi had just said.
At first, he didn't believe it, thinking it was just Vivi trying to defend her father. But as she listed one conspiracy after another from her infiltration into Baroque Works,
Koza began to waver.
"Please trust me, Koza!"
There was a certain power in Vivi's determined words—something that made them impossible to reject.
Koza subconsciously nodded hard.
[You have successfully recruited a new family member: Koza]
"Well, what can I say... I can't believe you convinced me in just a few words, Princess Vivi!"
Koza could feel something changing inside his body. It was clear it was her doing, and he sighed with a hint of helplessness.
At first, his emotions had been filled with anger—
not toward Vivi, but toward the king he once trusted completely, toward the fact that he and his fellow citizens had been misled.
Now that anger still remained,
but it had shifted toward the so-called hero of Alabasta, Crocodile of the Seven Warlords.
"You're not trusting Princess Vivi. You're trusting the Vice Commander of the Sand Sand Troop!"
"Now I get it."
Koza nodded, feeling an unexpected lightness in his heart.
If they had to take up arms against the royal guards they once fought beside, the rebels would've only felt heavy-hearted.
But now, if their enemy was Crocodile—the true invader—then they would fight with everything they had to drive him out!
"Now I'm the family head!"
Vivi said with a hint of pride, then continued, "Koza, pick your most trusted soldiers and recruit them into the Alabasta Family. While Crocodile is away, let's drive out the real cause of this turmoil!"
Koza didn't even ask what the Alabasta Family was.
Just from what he knew of the gentle princess who had risked everything to infiltrate Baroque Works, almost dying countless times to save her country—
that alone was enough for him to believe in her.
Following that,
Vivi reached out to the captain and vice-captain of the royal guard—Pell and Chaka.
"It was all Crocodile's plan!"
"Drive Baroque Works and Crocodile's forces out of Alabasta!"
The rebel army and royal guard, once locked in bitter conflict, began to unite under Vivi's leadership.
The Alabasta Family reached full capacity—
two hundred soldiers, all wielding the [Flowing Sand Control] ability,
and their collective power was beginning to rival Crocodile himself, as if two hundred novice Sand-Sand Fruit users had emerged.
They surged forward like a sandstorm,
digging out towns buried beneath the desert and advancing toward those occupied by Crocodile's forces.
...
"So this is the power of a family?"
"Mr. Fang Yi, how can we get a family token?"
Near the currently sealed Death Island,
the leader of the Revolutionary Army couldn't hold back and asked, his gaze burning with desire as he looked toward the Alabasta Family territory.
This kind of group-based amplification…
was no different from the strength of nations in the pirate world. It could bring together countless like-minded individuals.
And more importantly, the Reincarnation Game's family token did so in a far more direct and powerful way.
In the real world, alliances and factions were a tangled mess of interests. Even the Revolutionary Army struggled to maintain absolute unity.
But a family token—
it bound everyone's interests together.
Just the power of the family emblem alone was enough to drive envy.
And if he could pair it with his silver-tier item [Magical Fortress], the rise of the Revolutionary Army would be unstoppable.
"Fufufufu..."
Doflamingo watched Crocodile with a mocking grin. "If you don't hurry back, your little nation-stealing plan is going to fall apart, Mr. Crocodile..."
"Shut your mouth."
Crocodile's expression darkened.
On one hand, he wanted to return to Alabasta to suppress the chaos,
on the other, he wanted to stay on Death Island—deep down, he was hoping the Game Merchant might give him a solution.
"Relax."
Fang Yi looked at the restless players and explained, "As long as you're a player, once Death Island opens, no matter where you are, you can enter it by spending some reward points. You don't need to worry about the distance."
It functioned like solo teleportation—the farther the distance, the more points required.
Hearing this,
Crocodile swept a cold gaze over the area, then his body turned into sand and drifted off toward the horizon.
"Vice Admiral Tsuru, shouldn't we stop him?"
"Crocodile hasn't been stripped of his Warlord title, and the accusations from the princess don't count as evidence. The Marines can't act on their own."
Vice Admiral Tsuru frowned in frustration and sighed.
She had already contacted World Government officials, requesting Crocodile's removal from the Seven Warlords.
But the response was rejection—insufficient evidence.
She was even ordered not to act against a Marine ally unless absolutely necessary.
Despicable.
"Sengoku, are you really going to stay silent?"
Vice Admiral Tsuru could feel Sengoku's internal pressure reaching a tipping point. He wanted to act—perhaps even recklessly—but something still held him back.
She raised her eyes,
her gaze falling on the Game Merchant, and suddenly it all became clear.
The family token!
The Marines had the power—Marine Headquarters could rival even the World Government.
But they were like generals without supplies.
If the World Government ever cut off their logistics, the massive naval force would collapse.
That was how they were controlled.
But if they became a player-bound game family like Alabasta, all those problems would vanish.
At that point, the Marines' loyalty would no longer lie with the World Government—
but with the Marine Headquarters Family!
Vice Admiral Tsuru looked up, suppressing the turmoil in her heart. She spoke with a calm tone, "Mr. Fang Yi, is it possible to sell one of those family tokens to the Marines?"
"Rule-based game items like family tokens, resurrection coins, New World tickets, discount coupons, outfits, enhancement scrolls, gemstones, and the like..."
Fang Yi looked at her with interest. As expected of a high-level Marine strategist—her mind worked fast.
He explained, "They're not for sale in the Game House. They can only be obtained by hunting corrupted creatures."
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