15 End of the 3rd Month of training.

Shanks's Pov: I woke up from my sleep to the sound of a rooster's cry for the nth time of this month. I sighed while promising myself to hunt that rooster before I leave this island. It's been a productive month and the results were visible for me to see every time I gazed at myself in the ocean. For the entire month, I have been sparring against Rayleigh everyday while enduring the observation haki training which definitely paid off. I can sense emotions very accurately now and my range for observation haki  has had  a crazy increase from its initial range of five kilometers to a now impressive one-hundred kilometers which was a big increase in range  . Heck , even Rayleigh himself was also surprised with the range increase. He said I might have a better talent for observation than I have for armament. That was a shocking statement considering it was easier to master armament haki and its advanced forms than it was to master my observation to its current level. Rayleigh's statement was proven right as i managed to awaken future sight after two-weeks and half of continuous serious fights and dodging arrows. I was more surprised than Raleygh himself as I honestly did not expect for me to awaken it this early but I guess all that pressure and continuous usage in intense battles with Rayleigh were enough stimulation to push me to my limit in its usage. To be fair,Rayeligh did sometimes use advanced conquerors' haki in most of our pressure which upped the pressure and risk for me. This always triggered my observation to the max like crazy as no matter how strong you, don't come out of a conqueror coated unscathed with no damage. Even monsters like kaido and big mom are no exceptions to this even with their seemingly hax-like durability. Heck ,although not as durable as them,even Oden felt it when Roger hit him with that divine departure. Point is,conquerors coating upped the intensity of our clashes to the max ,at least for me. Every time he used it,my observation went haywire. Anyways, for now I'm only able to see four seconds into the future which is honestly good progress. I attribute this to my "Essence of the blank" as that infinite potential seemed to give me a faster rate of growth in almost all aspects. An example would be that it took me one week to get used to and increase my usage of future sight to one more second in one week. Getting a fast increase in emotion sensing also took me less time then i thought it would which was five days. Anyways, aside from better observation,my swordsmanship and strength also increased exponentially. I did saitama's workout which I got pretty used to pretty quickly. It took two days before I completely got used to it.I then doubled it and if I got used to it again , I would continue to double it until the end of the month. I started it on the first day after sparring with Rayleigh with 100 push -ups, 100 sit-ups ,100 squats and a 10 kilometer run. At the end of the month, the workout was turned into 90,000 push-ups,90,000 sit ups,90,000 squats and 100 kilometer run. This had an impressive effect on my body as I grew taller from my previous height of 5 '4 to an impressive 6' 00. I also acquired my own six ,which I had always wanted in my previous life,and my hair grew a little longer.Aside from my height,my strength increased exponentially to the point I can compete with Rayleigh on almost equal footing which intensified our daily spars during the month. My armament haki also got stronger which was always a plus. Talking about, my conqueror's haki grew exponentially to the point I had a harder  time controlling it. I could be relaxing but my body would still unconsciously exhibit an amount that was enough to knock out any target with malicious intent and sometimes targets with none. I realized this when I was walking to the primitive arena one day ready for a sparring session. I was chill and relaxed as I had walked but I started to notice that whenever I came into the vicinity of any animal,malicious or not, they passed out with foam sticking out their mouth. I didn't need to be a scientist to figure out that the conquerors haki was coming from me,eve in it was in mild waves. I had never noticed it when around Rayleigh because he never showed any signs of being affected. I didn't notice even a change in expression nor did he point it out. When I did ask him why he didn't, just looked away while just whistling. I left at that and focused on getting complete control back which was harder for some reason then before. Turns out it was because every time i fought or clashed with Rayleigh in our everyday conquerors suppressing competition,my haki grew more intense and since i never controlled it every time i released it against his in order to have a proper chance of retaliating, i developed an unconscious habit to always use haki without restraint  and my haki control over slowly dipped down as it grew more powerful every time i fought Rayleigh and every time our conqueror's haki clashed in battle of will for dominance and supremacy. When Rayleigh told me my struggle to break this habit , Rayleigh told me not to do it yet and to wait until my conqueror's haki intensity grew to the limit. And now after a whole month, it's gotten to the point that whole squadrons of sea kings and any other animals on the island can't stand my presence for even a second as they pass out the moment I'm in their vicinity. Speaking of conquerors haki, I got two new scars on my left where shanks had his original three scars given to him by Black beared . The scars haven't fully healed even after twenty eight days which just goes to show how dangerous any conqueror's coated attack can be to almost anyone's health.

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