[In the first month of starting your fairy fruit ability training, you focused on sustainability and refinement.]
[You learned to maintain large numbers of chains for hours without mental strain. By minimizing unnecessary metal creation, you improve stamina efficiency.]
[Your chains have become thinner, stronger, and more precise, removing unnecessary bulk in metal. Moreover, you can now operate chains while doing other tasks.]
[In your second month, you focused on range and spatial awareness. Your effective control radius has expanded significantly.]
[Chains could now be controlled beyond direct line of sight, as you have developed spatial sense of where each chains existed.]
[You could now anchor across terrain, water, and air seamlessly. In other words, your chains no longer need solid ground to hold. As long as you willed it, your chains stayed where they were meant to be.]
[In your third month, you felt you were ready to confront other survivors and deal with sea monsters with the Fairy Fruit Alliance.]
[Training in isolation would soon hit a bottleneck and to also compensate for your lack of combat experience, you decided to fight with other fairy fruit users as well as sea monsters.]
[King King and the others welcomed you as not only did they respect you due to your food-type innate talent, but also were convinced by your combat prowess.]
[Because of that, as you trained fairy fruit proficiency and gained combat experience, you discovered that you could now restrain enemies with your chains without exerting strength.]
[Your test subject, or sparring partner at that time, was King King who possessed the Elemental-Type Water Sprite Fruit.]
[Elemental-Type Fairy Fruit Users like King King had the advantage of being intangible to most physical attacks. So far, the Fairy Fruit Alliance only discovered that only opposing elements would deal great damage to Elemental-Type Fairy Fruits, while average damage when using energy-based attacks.]
[At least, that was until your chains wrapped around King King while he was in his elemental water form. Although it couldn't fully bind him, it could still cause slight disruption and sealing, and you felt that your chain fairy fruit was finally starting to show why it was chosen by the Absolute Compass.]
[It might not affect intangible entities yet, you felt that further training might achieve it. Moreover, even with binding King King in his physical form, he mentioned a feeling of weakness and his energy flow restricted even when the chains were loose.]
[When you bound Hybrid-Type Fairy Fruit users, your chains could now suppress them regardless of their physical strength, as you tested with a fairy fruit user who ate the Hybrid-Type Gorilla Fairy Fruit.]
[In your fourth month, things finally became interesting as you finally trained and achieved interaction with the intangible.]
[Your chains could now bind energy attacks active abilities, and even King King in his elemental water form.]
[You discovered that your chains could remain intact even when the metal should technically already fail and break. In other words, metal became less important than intent.]
[You also noticed that you could now decide what your chains hold, making them less objects and more intent and energy.]
[In your fifth month, you felt that your fairy fruit ability was no longer just chains and metal control and creation.]
[You discovered that your chains could now temporarily prevent ability activation, regeneration, and movement intent.]
[In other words, when you used it against King King in one of your spars, just being wrapped with one chain made him no longer able to use his fairy fruit ability. Moreover, he couldn't even muster any power to move as the act or intent of movement was deprived of him.]
[As for how you discovered that it could also stop regeneration, it's due to fighting a hundred-meter-tall sea monster alone which was infamous for its regenerative properties.]
[When you bound it with your chains, the injuries you had inflicted on it couldn't even regenerate.]
[Not only that, enemies removing your chains alone isn't enough as you discovered that your chain's sealing properties would linger for a while.]
[With that much progress, you were looking forward to increasing your power as other fairy fruit users didn't seem to progress as fast as you. Or at least, not anyone you know of, as the fairy fruit users you knew of came from the Fairy Fruit Alliance.]
[Soon enough, several days have passed and it has been 7 months since the Global Ocean Survival started.]
[You trained but felt like you couldn't make any progress, as you seemed to hit a bottleneck.]
[It has already reached more than 6 months since you trained your fairy fruit ability but you still didn't make any more progress aside from the 5th month.]
[Reflecting on that, you soon came to a conclusion, "If I'm not mistaken, I might have to experience a near death situation just like in the novels I've read and animes I've watched."]
["If you think about it, it's quite plausible as a near death experience will induce extreme stress and forces total focus. Survival instinct overrides, hesitation, doubt, and self-preservation limits."]
[As you had become stronger, you also began to perceive the danger below the deep ocean where the method to acquire a new power system laid.]
[Before, you were too weak to perceive it. Now, even with your current power, you felt that while you might be able to snatch that method, the entity guarding it would undoubtedly seriously injure you, if not kill you.]
["It's now or never. If I can win this gamble, not only will I be able to master my fairy fruit ability, but also obtain the method a new power system!"]