Logia-type and Mythical Zoan-type fruits were the rarest and most powerful Devil Fruits.
That was the common understanding.
But in reality, quite a few powerful Paramecia fruits relied on their special properties to make a name for themselves.
Such as the Hollow-Hollow Fruit, the Op-Op Fruit, the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, and the Slow-Slow Fruit...
The properties they possessed could provide value in no way inferior to that of Logia-type and Mythical Zoan-type fruits.
Among these powerful Paramecia fruits, however, the Shadow-Shadow Fruit was not particularly conspicuous.
Many even believed that the Shadow-Shadow Fruit's strength barely reached the passing line, with nothing especially remarkable about it.
But in Maud's eyes,
the Shadow-Shadow Fruit was the Paramecia fruit with the greatest number of properties. Its versatility and functionality were especially outstanding.
But precisely because its versatility and functionality were too exceptional, the Shadow-Shadow Fruit's presence in terms of offensive power seemed somewhat weak.
However,
among the Shadow-Shadow Fruit's many properties, what Maud valued most was its powerful crowd-control ability, which leaned toward support, as well as--
a unique skill whose nature leaned more toward pure offense—Shadows' Gathering Ground.
And after Sabo and Morley joined forces to repel Fujitora, Maud used Shadows' Gathering Ground, absorbing the recovered shadows into his body one by one.
He only stopped after absorbing five hundred shadows.
That was the limit his body could withstand.
As for the remaining prisoners' shadows, Maud did not keep them either. He harvested them directly, converting them into a portion of his strength and helping himself recover a little stamina and Haki.
"The Shadow-Shadow Fruit really is too powerful..."
That was the heartfelt praise Maud voiced after absorbing the five hundred prisoners' shadows into his body.
After absorbing the prisoners' shadows and gaining an explosive increase in strength and speed, he had immediately