But what concerned Garp even more now was that overwhelming strength, unlike anything he had ever encountered before. He could say with certainty that even in her youth, Charlotte Linlin had never been this formidable.
As an old hand, Monkey D. Garp knew that Haki could continue improving into one's forties or fifties. But for humans who still followed the basic laws of birth, aging, sickness, and death, physical development reached its limit before the age of thirty. Training afterward made major breakthroughs difficult.
Women in particular finished growing earlier, so their physical peak came sooner as well. Very few could surpass the age of twenty-five.
Charlotte Linlin's birthday was in February. By that count, she was nearly forty-five, yet her physique was even more powerful than it had been back then. It truly defied common sense.
For a moment, Monkey D. Garp could not help suspecting that this giant woman truly possessed Giant race blood. But he could never have imagined that Charlotte Linlin had simply never trained diligently before, wasting her unparalleled talent. As a result, she still had some potential left to uncover.
Compared with her body's brute strength, Charlotte Linlin's Haki shocked Monkey D. Garp even more.
Though her application was still somewhat crude, compared with the past, she seemed like a completely different person. What Garp found even more unbelievable was its terrifying intensity, which hardly seemed human!
In Charlotte Linlin's previous strike, both the Armament Haki and the additional Conqueror's Haki coating it were stronger than those of any opponent Garp had ever faced.
Even Whitebeard, another natural-born monster, fell far short of the current Charlotte Linlin if they were compared solely in terms of Haki intensity.
Furthermore, Charlotte Linlin had suddenly entered the battle, leaving Garp no time to fully concentrate his Armament