One Piece: Hashirama Template

"Should we wait for him to bring Princess Vivi back?" Robin asked.

"Yes. This is my home turf. As long as we fight in the desert, I cannot be defeated."

Crocodile nodded and said in a deep voice, "Go and inform all the Senior Agents. Tell them to drop their current missions and come to Alabasta at once. It's time to initiate 'Operation Utopia'."

The so-called Operation Utopia involved continuously using Dance Powder in the royal capital to cause a drought and incite public anger.

Then, Mr. 2 would use his Paramecia-type Clone-Clone Fruit to impersonate the king or other members of the royal family and attack civilians, pushing the public's fury to its peak. This would give the rebel army a sufficient reason to overthrow the Nefertari family's regime, ensuring they wouldn't be purged by the World Government afterward.

Baroque Works would secretly aid the rebel army, allowing them to successfully overthrow the Nefertari family and secretly take control of the superpower that was the Kingdom of Alabasta.

Of course, the Senior Agents only knew this much.

In reality, the true purpose of "Operation Utopia" was to seize the Poneglyph that the Nefertari family had guarded for generations, which might record the location of one of the three Ancient Weapons, Pluton.

The people's anger had already reached its limit for this stage. Yuba, the city of oases, had long since become a dried-up city.

Once the public outrage reached a new level, the rebel army would launch its final offensive.

To implement this plan, Mr. 2's fruit ability was essential.

Seeing that Crocodile was, as she had predicted, preparing to bring his plan to usurp the country to its finale, Robin smiled and nodded. "I understand, Boss."

After walking out of the office, Robin's expression instantly turned serious.

Just as she thought, the appearance of "The Impaler" Link posed no fundamental threat to Crocodile.

If they were to fight elsewhere, the Logia-type Forest-Forest Fruit might be able to fight the Logia-type Sand-Sand Fruit to a standstill.

But to start a war in the Kingdom of Alabasta, the moment "The Impaler" Link set foot on this island, he would be at an absolute disadvantage.

At this, Robin couldn't help but think to herself, It seems I'll have to take the initiative to contact him and tell him about Crocodile's weakness to water.

Although she was the vice president of Baroque Works and one of the main culprits in the plot to usurp the country, Robin was still, in essence, a good person.

If it weren't for the fact that she would be killed if she didn't join, and that she did need to get to the Poneglyph guarded by the Nefertari family, Robin would never have cooperated with Crocodile.

Even after joining Crocodile, Robin had her own secret plans and a bottom line.

She would absolutely not let Crocodile usurp the throne of the Alabasta Kingdom, nor would she let him obtain one of the three Ancient Weapons, Pluton.

Therefore, for the past few years, Robin had preserved the evidence of Crocodile purchasing Dance Powder and plotting to take over the country.

Once she finished reading the Poneglyph, she would hand this evidence over to the Nefertari family, allowing the World Government to formally intervene.

If the Nefertari family's Poneglyph truly recorded the location of an Ancient Weapon and not the history of the Void Century, then Robin would rather die than tell Crocodile its location.

Now, an unexpected butterfly had wandered onto the chessboard, giving Robin a glimmer of hope.

Perhaps... after reading the Poneglyph, she could both avoid death and ensure Crocodile's plan failed.

That hope was Link.

Link had no idea that he was now on Robin's radar.

At this moment, he was sitting on the ship's rail, fishing.

He appeared to be fishing, but he was actually reviewing his upcoming plans, looking for any loopholes or areas that needed improvement.

From time to time, Link would summon a virtual panel that only he could see.

[Host: Link]

[Inheritance Template: Hashirama Senju]

[Unlock Progress: 20.85% (+)]

[Experience: 5.15%]

By wiping out the Arlong Pirates and four other pirate crews, Link's experience had risen from zero to 5.15%.

Just by dealing with a few dozen fish-men, along with four pirate captains and their officers, he had gained as much as participating in a dozen kingdom wars.

This gain immediately made Link dismiss the idea of adventuring on unfamiliar routes.

Hunting on routes he didn't know, unless his luck was incredible, the pirate crews he encountered would likely be on the same level as the four from the island of dawn.

To match the experience provided by the Arlong Pirates, he would have to wipe out an unknown number of such crews.

After this comparison, Link had a clear goal.

He needed to hunt the formidable characters and factions from the original story.

Baroque Works was one of the major powers in the first half of the Grand Line. In the original story, their opponents were the Straw Hat Pirates, the protagonist crew. If any other Supernova pirate crew had gone head-to-head with Baroque Works, they would have been annihilated.

Besides Crocodile, a Warlord of the Sea, every Senior Agent in Baroque Works was a Devil Fruit user with strength worthy of a bounty in the tens of millions.

If he killed them all, Link would definitely gain a wealth of experience.

Link wanted to conduct an experiment to see if the system had a loophole.

For this reason, Link didn't use his experience to unlock the template, choosing to save it instead.

He needed to know if, after his stored experience exceeded 10%, enemies on the level of the Arlong Pirates would still provide him with experience.

If they no longer provided it, then the only use for stored experience would be to use it to boost his spiritual and physical energy when he was exhausted, allowing his Chakra to recover quickly.

But if they continued to provide it, then Link had found a loophole to exploit.

As long as he didn't use the experience to unlock the template and didn't raise the Hashirama Senju template's progress to 30%, then enemies on the level of the Arlong Pirates would continue to provide experience.

Link could save up 70% of the experience first, and then unlock the Hashirama Senju template to 100% all at once.

By then, wouldn't he be instantly invincible?