Rex's breakthrough came as a pleasant surprise to Lind. The others had not made such dramatic progress, but they had done well too, and their futures looked promising.
Time was on Lind's side, after all. He believed that by the time the battle of God Valley came around, the Admiral Candidates and even Admiral-level fighters under his command would surge in number.
These captains, along with the previous batch of elites who had eaten devil fruits, would surely give Lind a tremendous surprise when the time came.
After completing Saiken's mutation, Lind happily returned to his room, planning to enjoy a good rest.
There was no hurry with the remaining captains. He would wait until he had accumulated more uses, which would also give them time to collect devil fruits themselves.
Although Lind thought their chances were slim. Devil fruits were becoming harder and harder to collect, and under the influence of the cold war, most factions were doing everything they could to build up their reserves.
Any fruits that were easy to find had probably already ended up in royal treasuries-or in the mouths of royal heirs and captains of royal guards.
Even Lind's lavish spending was no use. He even suspected that he had too many devil fruits in his possession and had become a target of the world's consciousness.
The intelligence operatives and Spark Project members scattered around the world also struggled to collect high-quality devil fruits.
For now, he could only let these captains seek out their own opportunities. After all, there had always been claims in this world that devil fruits possessed consciousness. Perhaps one of them would resonate with a particular fruit.
Aside from gathering them from elsewhere, Lind was now considering producing devil fruits locally, just as Flower Country and Wano Country did.