Turning Point

Inside the Wish-Granting Bar, Miland put down the book he had just finished reading and stretched.

Looking at the mountain of books in front of him, he felt a surge of emotion. He had never imagined that he could read so many books.

From the obscurity of the first book to reading faster and with greater joy as he progressed, his mind seemed to become much sharper. This was something he would never have dared to think about before.

The books before his eyes were all knowledge that Su Yu helped Miland organize, and the content encompassed all sorts of subjects, such as various medical fields, all kinds of navigation knowledge, astronomical knowledge, sea charts, weather, history, Haki, and so on. Anyway, the standout trait was simply being comprehensive. It could be said that at this moment, Miland's knowledge was definitely top-tier in the world, worthy of the title of scholar.

With so much knowledge, for an ordinary person, it was obviously impossible to finish reading it all in the span of a month. Even if one skimmed through it hastily, it would truly just mean looking at the literal words without understanding a single thing. But could Miland be considered an ordinary person? Obviously not!

He was, after all, the dignified Pegasus Saint! You must know that although the combat strength of a Saint was outrageously strong, Saints actually also had to train the power of idealism-namely, the so-called Cosmo. This ethereal kind of thing was simply omnipotent; it could both enhance combat power and significantly boost one's spiritual strength, thinking ability, and so on. When necessary, one could also rely on an idealistic surge to burst forth with strength far exceeding their own. Simply put, it was like an ordinary person shouting, "Explode! My Cosmo!", and the next second they punched out and knocked down the Four Emperors Kaido!

Therefore, Miland's thinking ability had been amplified by the God Cloth, and his IQ instantly went from two digits to three digits. Thus, this pile of books that would make ordinary persons look on with awe was successfully read and digested by Miland within a month.

The foundation of culture had already been replenished, and next was the enhancement of hard strength.

Enhancing strength was very simple: actual combat. Su Yu would create a Phantom, and this Phantom's strength, speed, reflexes, and so on would all happen to be just a notch higher than Miland's. Miland's task was to defeat this Phantom.

This kind of training was actually very arduous, because right from the beginning it was pure beatings. Moreover, the person beating you was superior to you in every way, yet happened to be just that tiny bit stronger. You would feel like you were always just a hair's breadth away from hitting him, but you simply couldn't land a blow no matter what, making it so agonizing that you felt like vomiting blood.

It was simply a double critical strike to both body and spirit.

However, Miland still gritted his teeth and persisted. He knew that Su Yu was doing this for his own good; in this chaotic world, he had to have strength in order to survive!

During this period, Su Yu also enjoyed the joy of a teacher teaching a student-which was... secretly taking unflattering photos of Miland on the side. Every time Miland was knocked to the ground or made some comical movements while trying to evade attacks and failing, Su Yu would flash the camera on the side, recording down this 'wonderful' moment. As for whether Miland felt this was wonderful, that wasn't important...

Just like that, a month's time quietly slipped away.

Over this past month, Miland spent his time in this arduous training (suffering). Su Yu looked at the photos he had captured of Miland training and laughed in amusement.

The training was very arduous, but the effects were exceptionally good. Now, Miland's strength was vastly different from a month ago, but if he wanted to steadily defeat Doflamingo, there was still a bit of a gap.

Doflamingo's String-String Fruit sounded like it was just a trash fruit, but he had developed it into a wondrous array of abilities. Not only was its attack power outrageously strong, but it also had many wildly imaginative clever uses, such as using strings to tie onto clouds to fly, or using strings to control others like puppets, using strings to sew up internal organs or surface wounds, and even string clones. Sure enough, there were only powerful people, not the most powerful fruits.

Just like Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, if someone else ate the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, they might only unleash a single Air Quake, and before even hitting the enemy, they would be shaken to death with shattered internal organs and bleeding from the seven orifices. Yet Whitebeard made the Tremor-Tremor Fruit universally recognized as the strongest Paramecia fruit in the world. That was the gap.

Actually, Doflamingo's puppet strings were still quite restrictive toward Miland, and Su Yu always felt that this move of Doflamingo's somewhat resembled a very famous character in Saint Seiya. That was Griffin Minos, one of the Three Judges of the Underworld under Hades. Minos's signature move was the Cosmic Marionette String, the principle of which was to control opponents using a kind of invisible string. The enemy's body would move involuntarily, and even the movement of a single finger would be subject to Minos's domination. The controlled person completely became Minos's loyal puppet while being powerless themselves, and Minos could arbitrarily torture or even kill opponents through the formless strings.

Thinking of this, Su Yu felt it seemed quite exciting. Pirate Pegasus versus Pirate Griffin; this feeling seemed like a predated duel, and the whole person was about to ignite!

For a month, members of the Whitebeard Pirates searched the world for a Logia Devil Fruit. Heaven rewards the diligent indeed; although Logia fruits were exceptionally rare, they still found one... single fruit.

Yes, only one was found, and the discovery of this Logia fruit was truly purely by chance. At first, it was just a search team that, during their search, temporarily stopped at a small island to rest and regroup. After all, they had been searching for days, running around all over the world, and everyone was exhausted.

Just like that, the group split into two parts: one part stayed behind on the ship to watch it, while the other part went into the forest on the island to find some edible fruits, wild vegetables, and the like. With good luck, maybe they could even find some cute little animals, emmmm.

However, fate was just that wondrous. In the process of searching for food, they accidentally discovered a Logia Devil Fruit!

There was a terrifying large snake guarding that place. That team of pirates had originally intended to use this snake as material for a nighttime barbecue, and they spent nine bulls and two tigers' worth of effort to take down this large snake that was thicker than a person. Just as they were preparing to carry the snake's carcass back, they turned their heads and discovered that on the rock wall, a strangely shaped fruit that looked like a mutated pineapple was growing.

This discovery made the pirates overjoyed. They hurriedly went to pick that fruit and ran back, not even caring about the snake meat barbecue.

Thus, the first Logia fruit was found in such a dramatic fashion, but it seemed as though finding this fruit had exhausted all their luck. For the twenty-plus days of searching afterwards, they didn't even find any ordinary Devil Fruits.

Just as they were flustered, frantic, and feeling somewhat desperate, a turning point finally appeared...