The massive laboratory gleamed with golden light.
The source of that golden radiance was the walls, which had been infused with pure gold.
The power of temporal delay released by the pure gold slowed the iteration of Lineage Factors within the laboratory.
At the same time, those working in this room enjoyed aging that was slowed hundreds of times over compared to others.
Yet that was not why the many scientists in the institute were cheering in jubilation.
When Vinsmoke Judge raised the test tube in his hand, glowing with a faint golden light, every scientist in the laboratory knew that a great technology capable of overturning the entire world had been born.
As everyone knew, Devil Fruits were treasures of the Pirate World. Any one of them, if eaten by an ordinary person, could grant them extraordinary power beyond that of normal humans.
No one knew where such treasures came from, but whenever one appeared upon the seas, it was inevitably pursued by countless people.
Because it could give an ordinary person an extraordinary life, and the immense power it bestowed was enough to change an entire sea.
Yet these treasures had one deeply frustrating drawback in this world.
That was, an ordinary person could only eat one Devil Fruit in their lifetime. Their powers could not be stacked.
And that meant a person could master, at most, one Devil Fruit ability.
This truth had been proven across the seas with countless lives and rivers of blood.
But throughout history, there had always been greedy fools.
They doubted the truth that Devil Fruits could only be eaten one at a time.
Thus, those lucky people who had already eaten a Devil Fruit often gathered another one and ate it as well, hoping to gain even more supernatural abilities.
But