"Is this the limit?" Adolf sighed as he looked at the five hundred skeleton warriors standing in orderly formation before him.
More than a month had passed since Adolf met Shiki.
Over that month, aside from necessary work and rest, Adolf had made the most of his time, seizing every spare moment to meditate and improve his mental power.
Every night, he exhausted his mental power creating skeleton warriors.
In just one month, he had accumulated a full five hundred skeleton warriors, each with at least a hundred Doriki. They were undoubtedly a force that could not be ignored.
But this was all Adolf could manage for now. Although the skeleton warriors he created required little mana to maintain,
five hundred skeleton warriors were already the limit of what his current mana could sustain, as well as the limit of what his mental power could control.
Once he exceeded that limit, his daily life and training would suffer considerably, and he would also have trouble commanding them.
Unlike the undead in various works of fantasy, which could be considered a special form of life to some extent, the undead Adolf summoned through his Devil Fruit ability were more like puppets without intelligence.
Both their existence and their movements required Adolf's personal control.
The scale the Skeleton Division could reach in the future depended entirely on Adolf's mental power.
"Forget it. I'll just keep lying low," Adolf sighed, muttering to himself.
A month ago, after Shiki, Adolf, and Judge joined forces, they had discussed their operational plans for the North Blue in detail.
In the end, at Adolf's strong urging, they chose to lie low and build up in secret without firing a shot.
They would use Adolf's special position in the North Blue to keep expanding their infiltration of the