Conqueror's Haki

Mark had gotten off the carriage with the help of the clumsy maid, and was now sitting on his bed.

His posture was straight and his attitude was serious, he was finally about to try and unleash whatever this new feeling was.

"I'll try to control the range within my room, can't have anyone getting knocked out by me."

"That'll make it obvious that I have conqueror's haki. "

Mark didn't want to take risks right now, he didn't know what Im's thoughts were on conqueror's haki.

People with King's haki were notoriously hard to tame, who knows if Im will remove his hard gained political position because of that.

"Alright here goes nothing."

*Vooom*

A tremor spread throughout his room with Mark as the centre, a constant shockwave like aura was released from his body.

Looking at the slowly vibrating room, Mark was sure this was indeed conqueror's haki.

"I can somewhat control the range, training nothing but observation haki for a decade has made me very adept at grasping distance."

Mark had just unlocked his king's haki, he didn't have a good control over it, but grasping the distance was still possible because of his strong observation haki.

This was why he was confident in keeping the effects to his room.

"Huff"

Letting out a breath Mark felt the changes within him.

To understand this feeling completely, he decided to keep releasing kings haki for a while longer.

'How long can I release it?'

Mark thought as he steadily kept emitting kings haki, an overbearing aura was constantly covering his entire room.

"I am feeling a bit dizzy."

"This feels like observation haki overuse.. I am losing strenght the more I release it."

"Haki is limited resource after all, I am probably running out of steam while doing this."

Realising this Mark stopped releasing his conqueror's haki and took a deep breath.

He didn't want to push himself too hard too soon.

Luffy had shown in his fight against doflamingo what kind of disastrous things can happen when you overuse your haki and it runs out.

Mark wasn't about that life, he was the type to take things as they come.

"I see, king's haki is way harder to use when compared to observation haki."

"But I am confident I can use it without much trouble."

Throughout the years Mark had read many books about haki, he already knew how to use this particular type of Haki efficiently.

There were a lot of neat tricks he could do with King's haki, but before he does any of that, he wanted to do the thing he was waiting an entire decade for.

*Clap clap*

As soon as Mark clapped his hands, the doors opened and a graceful maid bowed to him.

"Within 10 minutes, I want a steady stream of food to my room."

"Make it meat and vegetables, keep it coming until I ask you to stop."

No questions were asked, the maid bowed again and left the room immediately.

Mark meanwhile took a deep breath and prepared himself for the upcoming ordeal.

"Let's practice run for a bit."

Whispered Mark as his hair began to flow upwards, his spiky hair was moving like it was experiencing wind currents.

But curiously his room was without any direct wind, this odd phenomenon was the result of life return.

"I can perfectly control my hair, this shouldn't be possible, hair has no muscles for it to move, but I know why I can do this, haki."

Only haki was something which was inside every part of his body, it was an easy conclusion to reach.

Mark kept playing with hair for a while longer before he looked at his hand and made a claw shape.

*Wiggle*

Immediately his hand began changing, it was morphing to suit the image he had in mind, taking the shape of a tiger claw.

"Thick curved nails, claw like shape, life return is so damn cool."

Mark smiled and decided to revert his hand back to normal

It too happened automatically, his body obeyed his command without questions.

Make smiled and simply stopped his experiments, because he could feel the maid was back with his food.

Next was going to be a long session.

*knock knock*

"Come in."

Mark elegantly asked the maid to enter.

She pushed the door open and a chef came from behind her while pushing a cart of food.

"Excellent."

"Keep it coming."

Mark praised their efficiency with a nod, the chef in question bowed with pride visible on his face.

He then left the room to prepare more food, other chefs were also preparing their shares, he too needed to go back.

Mark meanwhile removed his upper garments and the maid swiftly kept them in place.

"Alright, I need to build muscles, life return will do that and the raw material will be the food I will consume and quickly digest."

Mark's upper body currently didn't have any visible muscles, he was just a regular man.

He didn't bother to train himself physically because he knew he would do this when the time came.

So now Mark was building everything from scratch.

"Let's begin."

Mark started cutting the steak before him and put it in his mouth, chewing it silently he gulped down the food.

'Life return.'

He willed it to be digested, in a but a few seconds all the food was broken down and absorbed into his body.

'Life return.'

As soon as Mark felt that happen, he willed his body to become stronger.

Yes, his entire body, not just muscles.

Because here's the thing, from the scholar he got to know something important, balance was essential.

"This way my entire body, bone density, muscle mass, nerve response, everything will be upgraded."

*Wiggle*

Mark's body soon wiggled slightly but nothing happened after that, visually at least.

But Mark could feel it, he was indeed getting stronger, better, he was pretty sure his eyes could see a little clearer too.

His observation haki practice had given him the ability to analyse this level of detail.

"Yes, this is the way, it's equivalent to training the entire body with the best efficiency possible."

"Skipping the recovery part and getting to the strengthening part directly."

Mark kept eating, digesting and willed his body to become stronger by the second.

This process was slower than only increasing or decreasing muscle mass, but this was also better overall.

"Keep it coming."

Mark ordered the maid and she gave a signal, one more chef entered the room.

'I am going to keep doing this until my body reaches it's maximum potential.'

Mark thought while chewing his food.

He could already see the faintest signs of muscle were starting to appear on his arms.

And he could feel his body was now much more dense as well, everything was being upgraded, even his brain.

Mark was walking towards a path nobody in this world had walked before, a path made from ingenious use of inherent abilities.

To what extent this will lead Mark to, only time will tell.

A/N

Poll.

Saint Saturn's might be pretty strong, wondering if I should include his fight against Mark, let me know if it's something y'all are interested in.