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  "A monster? You call me that if you want!" Arthur yawned, scratg his ears.

  "Where are the blueprints for Maxim?"

  He sed his surroundings. He found a box on a high ptform in front of the temple. It was made of gold, the rarest material on Birka.

  "Zzzzt!"

  He eled electricity into his hand, drawing the golden box to him with eleagic force.

  "Crack!"

  The box opened. Inside was a thick stack of blueprints. Arthur flipped through them, his eyes shining.

  "Hahaha, my Ark blueprints."

  Even though he couldn't uand the blueprints, he could make out some of the pos, like the power source.

  "With the Rumble-Rumble Fruit in hand and the blueprints for Maxim, it's time to leave this barren nd of Birka." Arthur was feeling reflective.

  He recalled his careful pnning, his five-year wait, and the year spent searg for the Rumble-Rumble Fruit. Now, everything was in his grasp.

  "The sea is where a man belongs, the pce where my journey begins—Birka, farewell!!" Arthur murmured.

  Electric arcs danced around him, crag. He stomped his foot, breaking through the temple roof, and soared into the sky, flying towards Angel Isnd at high speed.

  The blue lightning was dazzling in the night sky, startling the guards who had e after hearing the otion.

  They could only bow doray, shouting "God of Thunder!"

  Enel hid behind a cloud house, staring bnkly at the departing figure. He felt like he had lost something important.

  ...

  Arthur flew at low altitude, the speed of lightning making him practically invisible on the surface of the sea. Only a faint blue light could be seen before it vanished again.

  "Long-distance flight really drains stamina. Maintaining high speed doubles the drain!" He silently assessed his stamina ption.

  Even though it was draining, Arthur didn't worry too much. He khe limits of his currerically-enhanced body.

  "At this point, if I were ba the Blue Sea, I could probably be sidered a big-shot pirate with a bounty of over 300 million Belly—Maybe even higher," Arthur thought, feeling a surge of fidence.

  The fruit, which had made him gamble with his life, had increased his power to a terrifying degree. It was defihe fastest way to gain power among all the Devil Fruits.

  He was gd he had taken the gamble.

  Flying at high speed, he silently calcuted the route he had taken to Birka over a year ago. Maintaining this speed, he estimated it would take about half an hour to reagel Isnd.

  Lightning could travel at nearly the speed of light, but Arthur's body couldn't hahat kind of speed, even after being elementalized into lightning.

  If he forced it, his body would likely colpse. He figured the current Marine Vice Admiral—Kizaru, probably had the same problem.

  Speed was useless if the body couldn't keep up. The reflexes couldn't keep up.

  Arthur slightly reduced his speed to serve stamina, in case he upon arriving at Angel Isnd.

  "Whoosh!!"

  Not long after he slowed down, a Sea King, looking like a cross between a fish and a snake, suddenly targeted him, mistaking him for a flying lightbulb. It opes massive jaws, trying to intercept him.

  "Foolish!"

  Arthur's Observation Haki had already detected the Sea King. He didn't even bother to turn around. A bolt of lightning shot out and struck the Sea King directly in its open maw.

  "BOOOMMMMM!!"

  The 150-foot-long, snake-like Sea King with a fish's head was instantly pierced through, the areas where the lightning strustantly turning to charcoal as it fell into the water.

  A few seds ter, he left the dead Sea King far behind, tinuing his unwavering advaowards Angel Isnd.

  As he further developed his Rumble-Rumble Fruit powers and tio train his Observation Haki, bining the Fruit's power with his Haki, his dete range had reached six miles in the past month.

  This meant that as long as he had his Observation Haki active, he could clearly perceive everything that happened within a six-mile radius.

  Of course, he wouldn't be unaware of a little water current.

  So, iure—when he sailed the uable Grand Line and the New World, he could act as his own navigator by sensing the dire of the wind and the flow of the currents.

  "Right now, my Observation Haki bined with the electric field is growing rapidly. It won't be long, maybe a year or two, before my dete range covers the entire Sky Isnd. The future top spot for Observation Haki—I'll gdly accept it! Haha."

  Arthur was feeling fantastic. Others trained painstakingly for decades, hoping to make a name for themselves one day.

  However, some people could grow stronger just by sleeping.

  That was the difference—

  There was truly no fairness in the world. Sometimes, a little bit of luck could surpass a lifetime of effort.

  Arthur had awakened his Observation Haki just over a year ago, But after eating the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, it had increased—a hundredfold.

  It was enough to make most people on the Grand Line jealous.

  ...

  M arrived. Sunlight pierced through the clouds, shining on Upper Yard.

  Ihe respleemple!

  "So, you're saying that the entrao Angel Isnd has been sealed off, that you've searched every er of Angel Isnd for over a year, and you still haven't found the 'madman' who killed my people?"

  The current God of Sky Isnd, Gan Fall, wore a silver helmet and armor. He held a knight's nce. He sat calmly ohrone, his beard slightly white.

  "Please five us, God!" The captain of the God's Militia, Mley, k on one knee, filled with trepidation.

  "That madman likely has only two paths. One is to go deep into the White-White Sea, searg for other existing cloud isnds. The other is—to seek refuge with the damned Shandians. It's even possible that the killer is a Shandian."

  "It 't be the Shandians. If it were them, how could they have bypassed us, bypassed Angel Isnd, and killed Amazon, Abel, and Urouge?" Gan Fall's eyes fshed with wisdom.

  "Then..." Mley buried his head even lower—ashamed that he had spent aire year and still hadn't found the culprit.

  "Increase patrols. Assign some of the God's Militia to iigate this matter. We must find this madman who desecrated the wings of my Skypiean people and subject him to Cloud Drifting!" Gan Fall waved his hand, giving the order.

  "Assign the God's Militia? But what about the Shandians..." Mley was taken aback.

  "You don't o worry about that. Step down!"

  "Yes!"

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