Marvel: Sign-In System – Starting with the Glint-Glint Fruit

Reacher and the others had been seriously injured, but their self-healing was extremely fast.

On the first day, all the shattered bones in their bodies had repaired themselves and become tougher and thicker. By the second day, their damaged organs had fully recovered, and they were able to get out of bed.

However, according to the Medical Department's rather strict rules, they were only allowed to leave after two more days of observation.

Those five days had been fairly unpleasant for Reacher and the other super soldiers.

The healing process itself was somewhat painful, a tingling, itchy sensation that was hard to endure. However, the soldiers' wills were tough enough that this minor problem was bearable.

It was not so bad that they could not sleep.

What was truly difficult was that going even one day without training made their whole bodies feel uncomfortable.

Ever since they had been injected with the serum and started training, they had never stopped for a single day, rain or shine.

They were not afraid of how terrifying the training intensity was. After getting used to it, what they feared instead was slacking off.

Training could be addictive as well.

Especially with their heightened senses, they could clearly hear their companions shouting during training, which only made that urge stronger.

Fortunately, even though they couldn't move freely during those five days, reading and studying helped divert most of their energy.

The moment he got out of bed, Reacher immediately went back to training.

But once he started, he quickly realized something—

the training weights he had used five days ago now felt unexpectedly light.

After testing themselves through training, everyone reached the same conclusion: following recovery from their severe injuries, their physical capabilities had surged significantly.

For the Astartes soldiers under Reacher's command, overall strength had previously ranged between seventy-five to eighty tons, with Reacher himself peaking at eighty-three tons.

The female soldiers, such as Neagley, were slightly weaker, typically falling within the seventy to seventy-five ton range.

They could withstand gravity training at fifteen to twenty times normal gravity.

But now, the physical strength of the Astartes soldiers had already broken past ninety tons on average, with Reacher reaching the highest level—over one hundred tons.

The female soldiers had also risen above eighty-five tons, with Neagley being the strongest at around ninety-three tons.

Afterward, the base used professional equipment to verify the results, confirming the figures with an error margin of less than half a ton.

This rate of progress left the other soldiers from the two warbands extremely envious.

Unfortunately, they hadn't been the ones sent to San Juan for that mission back then.

Of course, the fastest progression did not belong to Reacher and the others, but to Natasha.

Because she had successfully awakened Haki.

Boom!!

Inside the Mirror Dimension, along with a terrifying roar, two fists, one large and one small, locked together in a deadlock amid the exploding shockwave. Both fists were covered in a dark, glossy layer.

A terrifying blast of air swept in every direction, and a large section of the earth caved in.

The entire island shook violently.

Natasha gritted her teeth and forcibly held back Matthew's punch.

During the stalemate, however, her Haki shattered because it was not condensed enough. In the end, her whole body flew backward like a cannonball, smashing through quite a few things along the way. A long trench was carved into the ground, throwing dust and sand into the sky.

Only after sliding for several dozen meters did she slowly come to a stop.

Natasha lay in the dirt, within a dense forest, arms spread as she looked at the sunlight falling through the gaps in the leaves above and onto her face. Her chest rose and fell as she gasped heavily for breath.

Right now, every muscle in her body ached.

If she could, she really wanted to lie there and sleep for a while.

However, the ground beneath her back seemed to come alive, shifting and sliding beneath her.

She braced herself against it and sat up. Then, lifting her head slightly, she saw a hand extended toward her.

It was Matthew.

She took his hand and used it to stand.

"Huff… Armament Haki has finally awakened." Natasha let out a breath, a wide smile appearing on her exquisite face.

Was awakening difficult?

It was difficult. After all, she had been beaten by Matthew at high intensity every day, all day long. Every punch and every kick in particular carried the impact of Armament Haki, and that impact brought pain that sank deep into her bones.

She also could not fully accept treatment from Needy's Heal-Heal Fruit. She had to rely on herself, sensing Armament Haki through the impact and through the pain.

The seed of Haki had slowly been merging into her body.

And finally, on this day, it had awakened.

Only after awakening Haki did Natasha truly understand the strength of Armament Haki.

Before this, every time she had exchanged blows with Matthew, fist against flesh, she had no power to resist at all. As long as his fist met hers, she would inevitably be sent flying just like before.

Yet the instant she awakened Haki, she had actually been able to hold him in a stalemate.

That difference was terrifyingly vast.

"Congratulations, Natasha. But you have only just awakened Haki. Your Haki is not condensed enough yet, and the amount is not large enough. You'll need to keep tempering it."

Natasha was happy, and Matthew was equally happy.

Natasha's successful awakening of Haki meant that the previous conjecture had been correct.

In this universe, aside from Matthew himself, who had fused with Big Mom's Iron Balloon physique, no one else should have been able to possess Haki.

It was something unique.

But Matthew had combined it with magic, turning Haki energy into a seed and integrating it into another person's body.

Haki was like a guide, leading the operating pattern and allowing Natasha to understand and simulate Haki's operating code.

Together with Matthew's continuous Haki strikes, this was what finally allowed Natasha to awaken Haki successfully.

In essence, Natasha's awakened Haki was somewhat different from Matthew's Haki. Hers could be considered a replicated version, a Marvel version of Haki.

Its effects were more or less the same.

Both were manifestations of will, born from the combination of will and life energy.

In fact, it was not only Armament Haki. Yesterday, Natasha had already awakened Observation Haki.

That, on the other hand, had surprised Matthew a little.

After all, the operating logic of Observation Haki and Armament Haki was different.

Armament Haki was a kind of materialized energy, while Observation Haki leaned more toward an extension of will and spirit.

Matthew had originally researched a method for awakening Observation Haki as well.

He had planned to give it to Natasha after she awakened Armament Haki, but unexpectedly, she had awakened Armament Haki first.

The fact that Natasha had awakened Observation Haki ahead of schedule was an unexpected delight.

Natasha herself was a top-tier spy.

Since childhood, she had been trained to possess elite observation, memory, analytical ability, counter-tracking ability, prediction, and many other skills far beyond ordinary people.

Although these skills were acquired through training, they also showed that her development and use of her brain exceeded that of ordinary people by quite a bit.

Later, after being injected with the serum and undergoing constant training, every step of improvement in her physique did not make her forget these skills.

Instead, it allowed her sensory abilities to be continuously strengthened and used to a level beyond many Astartes soldiers. This was where the Raven Warband was superior to the Astartes soldiers. Only a monster like Reacher could compare.

Focus and concentration were both prerequisites for Observation Haki.

That was why, among the Six Powers, her progress in training Paper Art (Kami-e was a full major level above the Astartes.

Matthew, who was proficient in the Six Powers, had long known that the more proficient one became in Paper Art and Iron Body, the more beneficial it would be for awakening Haki.

After Matthew created the Armament Haki seed, the threshold for awakening had already been opened.

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