Everyone at the table stared intently at Maud.
After spending so much time together, they knew that Maud could always come up with wild ideas about Devil Fruit abilities that surpassed their understanding.
Luo and Brook, who had benefited the most, truly admired Maud's boundless imagination.
Otherwise, how could Maud have developed the Shadow-Shadow Fruit—which so many people criticized as being too weak—to a level that shook the entire world?
So when Maud seemed to have some thoughts about the Float-Float Fruit, even Luo and Brook, who already possessed abilities of their own, grew interested.
Maud pinched the fruit by its stem and lifted it up, lowering his gaze to the cloud-shaped ripples beneath the skin.
Paramecia, Zoan, and Logia-type.
Of the three types, Maud was more interested in Paramecia abilities.
Because,
Compared with the tough bodies of Zoan abilities and the destructive power of Logia-type abilities, Paramecia abilities alone were more compatible with the power system of Hunter's World.
And Maud's most direct impression of the Float-Float Fruit was exactly that—it floated and hung in midair.
Golden Lion had created the Flying Fleet that once shook the seas more than twenty years ago precisely by relying on those two traits.
Unfortunately, times had changed.
If he simply followed the old path without actively changing, the result would only be the same as the Flying Fleet that Golden Lion had reassembled: a crushing defeat above Marineford.
But ultimately, it was also because Golden Lion had insisted on wasting twenty years on that so-called IQ Plant.
In Maud's view, if Golden Lion had been willing to spend a little thought on the Flying Fleet, he would not have allowed Kizaru alone to destroy all the flying ships.
At that time, the Flying Fleet also lacked autonomous power and independent maneuverability.
Therefore,