Development of the Magnetic Sea had fully gotten on track with the influx of hundreds of thousands of people from Tequila Wolf. Lind now turned his attention back to improving his own strength and that of his subordinates.
Over the past two weeks, the spread of Basic Taijutsu had already begun to show results. More than a dozen pirates had broken through their bottlenecks in that time, advancing from Commodore to Rear Admiral and reaching the standard required of officers.
Clearly, with a little more time, their shortage of talent could be effectively resolved.
However, producing top-tier fighters through Basic Taijutsu alone was still relatively difficult. It required sufficient talent and time.
Then there were Devil Fruits. Lind happened to have accumulated quite a few more, so he could afford to hand out another generous round of perks.
The squads under Lind had taken shape early on, with their leaders already appointed, so most of those leaders had missed out on the later perks.
Of the thirteen squad leaders, Rex of the Fourth Squad and the leaders of the Sixth through Thirteenth Squads, including Phil and Kite, all currently had ordinary Zoan Devil Fruits.
Lind had money to spare, after all. Rare fruits were hard to find, but ordinary Zoans were still easy to buy. To improve their strength and potential, nearly all these leaders had eaten one.
Thanks to the increase in potential their Devil Fruits provided, along with their own already decent potential, they had all attained the strength of ordinary Marine Vice Admirals or Elite Vice Admirals.
Unless they ran into outliers like Garp or Zephyr, most of the squad leaders could hold their own against the commanders of those Marine Branch bases.
But for most of them, that was as far as they could go. Perhaps,