Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Over The Years
Josh spent 3 years of his life on that uninhabited island and trained his butt off.
There were times when he wanted nothing but to get off the damned island that, he decided to name 'the island of Isolation' due to its lack of people.
There are wild beasts on the island that he could kill and eat, so there was no worries for food and training went as smoothly as possible.
In the first year, he focused on his devil fruit powers and his physical strength and body.
He had to find out everything by himself for his devil fruit in order to use them. He also had to be careful of seawater or he would drown and die, since there was nobody to save him on the island.
The training for his devil fruits went pretty well. He could turn to lightning whenever he wanted. In fact, he made sure that he was lightning all the time. Josh also copied some of the moves that he remembers Enel using and created many more original moves for himself.
Even though there was no physical change that can be seen with the naked eyes, Josh kept himself as lightning 24/7. Only turning himself to normal when he has to touch something or someone(although there aren't any people on the island).
This was his way of making sure that he doesn't get ambushed. Although it isn't a guarantee that he would never get ambushed because it is absolutely possible with seastones, doing this reduces that chance by a lot. Especially if he wanted to sleep peacefully on the island.
Josh remembered that in the anime, logias would rather stay in their normal form and only turn into their element when someone attacks them. This way they could get caught off guard and ambushed.
Josh instead kept himself as lightning and only controlled himself to be normal when he needed to be. That way, anyone who makes the mistake of trying to ambush him will pay dearly. Some of the animals had to find out the hard way.
Next he focused on the Rokushiki. Unlike his devil fruits, he got the information about all 6 moves and how to preform them directly into his brain when he got them from the system. He just needed his body to be strong enough to be able to use them.
That was the reason why Joshua trained his devil fruit powers first. This way, he can also train his body at the same time. And train he did...very rigorously.
The third and final year, he trained his Haki. His progress with Haki made him a little bit dissatisfied.
He could train his Observation Haki by blindfolding himself for the entire year, no matter what he does.
Train his Armament Haki by getting hit constantly during his Observation Haki training.
Train his Conqueror's Haki by pushing out his wills on the beasts for a whole year.
Those were all great ways to train his Haki but they had limits. He was barely able to master them by the time he needed to leave the island, even though he focused all his time on haki for the year without doing anything else and even losing sleep often.
He wanted to be able to train them to the point of being able to see a bit into the future, or not dying from a 10,000 meter fall, or projecting out his will so that it can do physical damage but he needed countless life and death battles and much more time in order to get his haki to that point.
But finally, he felt that he could take on any pirates in Paradise and he was confident that by the time he reached the New World, he would be strong enough to hold his own against most people.. short of the emperors. Let's be honest here.. 3 or 4 years of training wouldn't be realistic enough to beat a Yonko. Take them on...? Maybe, but not defeat.
He didn't do much with the system because he felt that he was already way too overpowered and didn't want to take up more time by training the powers that he could get.
Think about it... he could just do missions and kill beasts the whole time and get all sorts of powers with the system but they would be mediocre at best if Josh did not train them properly. He needed to spend a whole year on just one devil fruit in order to get used to it and master it.
So, as the time to depart from the island came, Josh decided to finally check his status and see how much he has grown since 3 years ago.
"System, show me my status!" Josh demanded, his voice was filled with confidence.
[ Status:
Name: Joshua (Josh)
Physical Strength: 100,000,000
Mental Strength: 200,000,000
(mental strength is required to use haki. The more mental strength one has, the stronger the haki)
Devil Fruit:
Rumble-Rumble(Logia); Lightning Man
Haki:
Observation Haki: Mastered
(Can sense life force and predict enemy attacks)
Armament Haki: Mastered
(Can coat entire body with Hardening)
Conqueror's Haki: Mastered
(Can tame most beasts weaker than oneself and knock out weak willed people)
Rokushiki: All: Mastered
System Points: 8,000,624]
Seeing how much he has grown, Josh felt that all of his suffering and 3 years of seclusion was well worth it. If anybody tries to mess with him, they were all going to pay, no matter how petty! That was the least he could do for himself for his 3 years of torture and self exile.
Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Year One
During the first year of his training, Josh focused on his body and his devil fruit.
"I need to find some shelter first", mused the 17 year old. It was true. He needed a shelter or a base of operation before he can do anything else.
Josh walked around the island. He started with the inner parts as he was more likely to find some sort of cave he could use for shelter.
Walking around the island, he saw trees around 10-15 meters. They were the stereotypical trees that you would find anywhere else. The land was mostly flat surfaced but one could find a hill here and there.
The animals that he has come across so far are birds, insects, boars, deers, lions, wolves, and he even saw a bear from behind a tree that he was hiding on.
Josh would never admit it but he was scared shitless when he first spotted the pack of lions, wolves and the bear. They were bigger than the Earth's animals but not as big as elephants.
Luckily for him, he was far away enough to not be noticed and he waited quietly for them to pass. Josh was too weak right now to duke it out with them because he hasn't even started his training yet.
When the blonde reached the center of the island, he saw a tree that was significantly bigger and taller than the rest.
This tree was about 25 meters in height and it would take 5 grown men to envelop it with their hands stretched out.
Joshua decided that he could make a shelter on this tree because it seemed to be the safest place on the island.
A blond teenager was comically struggling to climb up a giant tree in the middle of an uninhabited island.
This struggling youth was none other than Josh. Our favorite protagonist had spotted a hole wide enough for him to fit in. This hole was about 5 meters above the ground.
After his intense struggle, Josh finally reached the branch that lead to the natural hole in the tree. It was as if nature herself had blessed Josh to find his shelter so quickly.
Inside the hole was dry and roomy enough for him to lay down and even stretch.
"Perfect! I can use this for shelter. Hopefully, nobody else was using this before me." Josh was right, although it was the perfect shelter, strangely enough, no animals on the island used it for shelter much to Josh's joy.
Our mc ate some of the fruits and berries that he picked up along his trek to find shelter. Fortunately for him, none of them were poisonous. He plopped himself down and went to sleep because the sun was going down.
The following few months, Josh would wake up, exercise his body to the extreme, try using his devil fruit powers, find some food, go back to sleep when the sun went down, and repeat.
This way, none of the animals on the island were a match for a certain 17 year old any longer.
His exercise consists of as much push ups and sit ups as he can, followed by running around the tree until he collapsed.
At first, he could barely do up to 50 sets of each and running for any longer than 15 minutes would leave him gasping for air for a long time.
Much to Josh's joy, his fatigue and exhaustion would disappear after a good night's rest and he could mysteriously do double what he did the day before.
He soon found out that doing push ups, sit ups, and running were taking way too much time so he settled with carrying around tree logs and lugging around boulders.
For his devil fruit, Josh first sat down and concentrated very hard. Soon, he could feel some sort of energy within himself and trying to move it around or bring it out was very taxing and energy draining.
The first time he tried that, he almost collapsed from fatigue.
Josh slowly got used to moving around the energy and bringing it out or even controlling his element from an outside force.
One day, there was a giant thunder storm outside and dark clouds were all that one could see for miles.
This particular storm was bad enough that one might suspect that they were on the grandline.
Josh hurriedly rushed towards his temporary home in fear of catching a cold from the weather.
As he was moving towards his shelter, so was a lightning strike. It struck directly at Josh's head and he freaked out.
After a moment, he found out that not only does the lightning not hurt him, it energized him. He felt that he had this unspoken bond with the lightning and thunder.
When he instinctively raised his hands to the sky and pulled on an imaginary energy, lightning once struck at his position again. That was when he found out that he could direct and control lightning outside of his own source.
As he was mesmerized by the feeling of empowerment from an external source of lightning, a thundercloud drifted down from the heavens and landed near Josh.
"I suddenly feel like Goku from Dragon Ball." Deadpanned Josh. This thundercloud was tangible and he could ride and store things in it.
The blonde experimented with the thundercloud for a few days. Testing the things it could do. He found that it could store things inside it but once there was too many stuff, it would expand and the speed at which it could travel would slow down due to the weight. He could also summon and dismiss it at will.
At one point, Josh shoved as many trees and boulders he could find inside it and after about 50 tons of weight, everything was spat out like a bad dish.
Although the thundercloud was black in color and looked dangerously close to raining down thunder, not to mention ominous, Josh decided to name it the Flying Nimbus.
"I might as well go full in and give it the same name", Josh mused. He figured that he could sit on it and send his lightning through to create a hail of thunder down on his enemies.
Josh spent the rest of the year fighting beasts to gain some semblance to combat experience and continued with his devil fruit and body training along with exploring the rest of the island.
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