Chapter 396: Pirate Crew Upgrade and Ability Points

"I am willing."

With Lady Xia Li's agreement, several system prompts quickly appeared before Lin Yu's eyes.

【Ding! Xia Li has joined the Pirate Crew, automatically...】

【Ding! The Pirate Crew meets the upgrade requirements, upgrading in progress...】

【Ding! Pirate Crew upgrade successful, becoming a Level 5 Pirate Crew, now unlocking more positions and special positions...】

【Ding! New Pirate Crew functions unlocked...】

【Ding! Additional ship binding slots unlocked, current ship binding slots: 3/4】

【Ding...】

Seeing the prompts before his eyes, Lin Yu couldn't help but laugh.

Finally a Level 5 Pirate Crew!!!

Lin Yu stood up, carried Lady Xia Li to her bed, and smiled:

"Come, I will teach you what Nuo's Method is."

Afterwards, he cupped Lady Xia Li's cold and beautiful face and kissed her.

A few minutes later, he whispered something in the other's ear.

The next second, Lady Xia Li's face instantly turned red, and she resisted extremely.

However, after seeing Lin Yu's half-smiling, half-serious gaze, she obediently submitted, closing her eyes and slowly groping.

Afterwards, she seemed to have grabbed something...

One hour later.

Having eaten the wrong thing, Xia Li had a stomach ache and went to the bathroom in the bedroom.

Meanwhile, Lin Yu lay on the bed, carefully studying the upgraded Pirate Crew system.

【Level 5 Pirate Crew: Can recruit 20 combatants, 4 chefs, 4 navigators, 1 helmsman..., 8 special posts, totaling 45 crew members】

【After recruiting 45 crew members, if the total bounty on the ship reaches 5 billion, it can upgrade to a Level 6 Pirate Crew, unlocking more crew positions and obtaining special rewards】

Seeing that he still needed to recruit nine more crew members to continue upgrading, Lin Yu felt quite troubled.

There were fewer and fewer plot beauties; if he wanted to continue upgrading quickly in the future, he would probably have to think of a way early on.

The plot crew members he could recruit not only had to have names in the original work but also needed a certain amount of screen time; merely appearing on screen was not enough for recruitment (Note 1).

For example, regarding the beautiful mermaids at the Mermaid Cafe, he could only recruit Lady Xia Li, Camie, and Ishilly.

Ishilly was the cute mermaid girl who held Sanji in her arms to avoid the search by the three princes of Long Gong, which caused Sanji to spray nose blood wildly and almost die.

It was precisely because of this screen time that she could become a plot crew member and be recruited by Lin Yu.

As for the beautiful mermaid Karian with green hair, although she also had contact with Sanji, because the scenes were too few, she was not recognized by the system, which made Lin Yu quite regretful.

After continuing to study the system for a while, Lin Yu discovered that the number of ships he could bind had increased from three to four.

In this way, he might be able to set his sights on the huge Noah Ark on Fish-Man Island.

The Noah Ark was an ancient giant ship built by the residents of Fish-Man Island hundreds of years ago, its volume equivalent to half the size of Fish-Man Island, and its manufacturing technology remains a mystery to this day.

It also holds the titles of "Vow Ship" and "Ship with an Unfinished Mission."

In Lin Yu's opinion, the size of this Noah Ark was several times larger than his current Thriller Bark.

Furthermore, since the Noah Ark concerned the agreement between Joy Boy and the ancient mermaid Princess, Lin Yu had to get his hands on it no matter what and personally unravel the related secrets.

And besides being able to bind new ships.

This Pirate Crew upgrade also granted Lin Yu a new system ability.

That was: Ability Points.

Ability Points were an expanded ability of Lin Yu's Ability Specialization Training Room.

Crew members who, through training in the Ability Specialization Training Room, raised a certain ability of theirs by one star rank, could feedback 1 corresponding Ability Point to Lin Yu.

For example, if Nami trained her Devil Fruit ability for one hour in the specialization room, then Lin Yu would obtain one point of Devil Fruit Ability Points, namely Devil Points.

And as long as Lin Yu obtained enough Devil Points, he could directly choose to awaken one Devil Fruit ability of his own or another crew member, of course excluding his system fruit.

The consumption cost of Devil Points depended on the value of that Devil Fruit in the eyes of the system; the higher the value, the higher the Devil Points required for awakening, and vice versa.

Of course, if Lin Yu obtained Swordsmanship Ability Points, he could also spend a certain amount of Swordsmanship Points to raise his own or his crew members' swordsmanship ability by one star, with higher star ranks costing more.

Other abilities such as Body Techniques, Staff Techniques, and the three types of Haki were all the same.

In this way, Lin Yu could choose the training methods for his crew members according to his own needs, thereby rapidly enhancing a certain special ability of himself or his crew members.

So this ability was like adding wings to a tiger for Lin Yu, capable of further greatly accelerating the improvement of his and his women's strength.

After Lin Yu finished understanding the abilities after the Pirate Crew upgrade, Lady Xia Li had already come out of the bathroom, obediently lying beside him, holding his arm.

To prevent Lin Yu from really taking action against Fish-Man Island, Lady Xia Li could only do her utmost to serve the other party well; after all, she could not escape the other party's palm in the future.

Holding the Xia Li-brand pillow in his arms and kneading it, Lin Yu spoke:

"I need you to help me persuade Camie and Ishilly to follow me as well."

If Lady Xia Li acted as the persuader, Camie and Ishilly should be able to follow him very easily.

Hearing that Lin Yu would not even spare Camie and Ishilly, Lady Xia Li spoke with a pale face: "Can't you spare them... I will do anything you want..."

Sacrificing herself was acceptable, but if it involved dragging others in, Lady Xia Li began to find it unacceptable.

Lin Yu shrugged indifferently and deliberately threatened: "Then I'll choose other mermaids, ten of them."

Lady Xia Li bit her lip tightly, and finally used a Den Den Mushi to call Camie and Ishilly up, then took them to another room to persuade the two.

Out of trust in Lady Xia Li, although Camie and Ishilly were frightened pale by Lin Yu's feat of slaughtering Impel Down, they were still willing to agree to follow him for the sake of Fish-Man Island.

Bringing Camie and Ishilly to Lin Yu's side, Lady Xia Li gritted her teeth and said:

"I have done everything you asked, you better keep your word."

If Lin Yu dared to go back on his word and do something to Fish-Man Island, Lady Xia Li would not let him go even as a ghost.

Seeing Kemi and Ishili trembling with extreme fear before him, Lin Yu spoke with a smile:

"Of course, because I never intended to do anything to Fish-Man Island from the start."

Upon hearing this, Lady Xia Li, Kemi, and Ishili were instantly stunned.

"What did you say?"