Potion Success and the Arrival of Danger

Golden Lion cast a gratified glance at Minos, relieved that he had met Minos so early. If he had actually gone through with that idiotic grand plan, his lifelong reputation would have been ruined.

Relying on a group of so-called beasts to destroy the East Blue? Wouldn't Sengoku, Garp, Charlotte Linlin, and Whitebeard have laughed themselves to death? Even if he had just thrown islands at them, it would have been more reliable than that plan.

At the same time that Golden Lion regained his youth, Minos also discovered that his Karma Points had completely surpassed the redemption requirement, even exceeding it by a large margin.

Thinking about it, this was quite normal. After all, Golden Lion, such a Great Pirate, had completely recovered and looked like he could fight for another thirty to fifty years, with the potential to grow even stronger. This was a huge change for the world.

It could be said that if Golden Lion hadn't had so few capable subordinates now, he would already be a new Emperor's Crew. In fact, in terms of one-on-one combat ability, the current Golden Lion could even contend for the title of the world's strongest.

In the original story, after escaping from Impel Down, Golden Lion was defeated by Luffy without accomplishing much. However, the current Golden Lion clearly couldn't go into hiding anymore.

It could be said that when Golden Lion accomplished more great deeds in the future, he would bring even more Karma Points. This was just the beginning.

Although he already had enough Karma Points and the world's backlash was inevitable, Minos was safe in the short term.

Perhaps it was because he was currently on Golden Lion's floating island. Maybe the World Consciousness needed a good entry point. It couldn't just spawn a new Sengoku or Garp on Golden Lion's sky island, could it?

About a few days later. The human-use IQ Potion researched by Judge was finally successfully manufactured. This thing could make ordinary humans grow five to six meters tall, become more violent, and greatly increase their combat power. Fortunately, their intelligence wouldn't be significantly affected, only becoming very emotional.

However, for someone of Minos's level, it didn't have much effect. It could only produce some mid-tier combatants, roughly equivalent to ordinary pirates with bounties in the tens of millions, and it would also affect their future potential.

But even so, this could already be considered a divine medicine. Ordinary humans were not like the protagonists in the manga who could easily increase their strength with a bit of training.

In reality, although the limit of humans in the Pirate world far surpassed Minos's previous life, most people, even if they trained until they died, could only reach a certain level of combat power. Let alone Haki, even mastering Rokushiki was rare.

They were roughly equivalent to pirates with bounties in the millions or low-ranking Marine officers. A dozen well-trained Marines with new firearms could basically kill such individuals with a barrage of gunfire.

This was precisely why, within the Beasts Pirates, even Artificial Devil Fruits, which had only a 1/10 success rate and caused physical deformities, were in short supply.

If mastering Rokushiki and Haki could truly be achieved through diligent training alone, those Beasts Pirates would be crazy to eat Artificial Devil Fruits with such severe side effects.

"Is this the newly completed potion? Has it undergone human trials?" Golden Lion asked, looking at the potion.

"Yes, with this potion, our Golden Lion Pirates will surely be able to rule the entire sea and become the King of the Sea!" Judge said excitedly, his face full of longing.

However, Golden Lion, who had always been quite interested in this, had a rather calm expression on his face at this moment: "It's still too early. This thing can only fill the gap in mid-tier combatants. It doesn't have much effect in truly top-tier battles."

If you really wanted to, creating tens of thousands of berserk soldiers could indeed force even an Emperor to retreat. Emperors weren't immortal and didn't have infinite stamina. Even if they could win after fighting for days and nights, these guys would still suffer severe injuries.

As for the so-called Conqueror's Haki, it also consumed stamina. The wider the range and the stronger the deterrence, the more stamina it consumed. It was fine for ordinary grunts, but for individuals of this strength, the stamina consumed by using Conqueror's Haki to stun them was almost the same as directly beating them to death.

However, as long as those Great Pirates or Marine Admirals didn't charge head-on, these berserk soldiers could do nothing to them. If they played a slow guerilla war, even if you had millions of them, they could be killed off one by one.

Therefore, in the battles of the Pirate world, troop strength was always just an auxiliary. The most reliable factor was always the combat power of the strongest individuals.

Golden Lion, who had suffered a stroke in the past, couldn't think about these issues. The current, normal Golden Lion naturally wouldn't blindly pursue troop numbers anymore.

Although troop strength was also very important, it was no longer the most important.

Of course, for the current impoverished Golden Lion Pirates with only a handful of members, this potion could instantly fill so many mid-tier combat roles, even making their mid-tier combat power far surpass that of other pirate crews. For Golden Lion, this was indeed a cause for celebration.

"With this, we only need to recruit a few more top executive-level figures, and the Flying Pirates can essentially return to their former glory... We can also train Minos. Give that guy another ten years, and he can become a Yonko Commander-level powerhouse."

As Golden Lion was deep in thought, Dr. Indigo walked over with his characteristic slap-slap sound of his shoes.

Upon hearing this sound, Golden Lion felt a throbbing phantom pain in his head. When he had his stroke before, he sometimes found this sound rather amusing, but now it just felt annoying.

However, Dr. Indigo was one of Golden Lion's most trusted confidants, and he couldn't possibly beat him up over such a minor matter. So, he had to endure it.

"Captain, I think we should consider other issues first," Dr. Indigo said, holding a form as he walked over. "We've run out of raw materials for making the potion. Perhaps we should go and procure some."

Potions and IQ Plants were ultimately different things. Besides using IQ Plants as the main ingredient, the potions also required the addition of many other raw materials.

Golden Lion's island naturally had some manufacturing plants. He had consciously sought out many islands that produced raw materials in the past. If it was for potions used by animals, they could barely be self-sufficient.

But manufacturing potions for human use required some new materials, and Golden Lion hadn't paid attention to the origin of these materials when he was moving islands before.

Upon hearing this, Golden Lion nodded. "Alright, give me the list. Sometimes I'll go and search for the islands where these raw materials are located."

At the very moment Golden Lion said this, Minos's danger sense began to blare.

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