Devil Fruit Experiment
With a snap, Caesar's expression stiffened slightly as he touched the Collar around his neck.
"Alright, since you've been hoping to come back to my side, then I'll accept you as my assistant again!"
"By the way, the Collar around your neck is actually just a backup plan. The real control method is through the Collar, which integrates Nanobots into your body. These Nanobots can even assimilate your own elementalization ability and transform it into a gas elemental body. So even Logia elementalization cannot get rid of it."
"As for the effects... haven't you been researching poison gas? Nanobots can constantly transform their own form and reverse-decompose your gas, which means they'll completely break you down!"
Upon hearing this, Caesar's mouth dropped open, his face contorted in a comical expression:
Aba aba aba...
Vegapunk smiled and looked at Caesar: "I believe that you, who are most loyal to me, will not refuse this kind of surveillance, right?"
Charlotte Smoothie and Katakuri stepped forward simultaneously, standing to Vegapunk's left and right, their eyes fixed on Caesar. Caesar swallowed hard. To die or to be a dog? For Caesar, this was not a choice that required any thought.
"Lord Vegapunk! Thank you for your reward. I will definitely work harder in the future!"
Caesar's performance once again refreshed everyone's understanding of his shamelessness. Even Vegapunk showed a bit of helplessness, suddenly feeling that having such a subordinate was too embarrassing. What should he do?
Fortunately, Vegapunk ultimately did not choose to cut this shameful thing down with a single blow, but instead allowed him to stand behind him before asking about the situation of the Research Base.
"Bring me all the data on this base. The World Government is quite wealthy; they have many instruments that even my Dream Star doesn't have. Since we're here, we can't leave empty-handed!"
"Yes, yes, I understand! Sir, please come with me!"
Although there were many naval personnel stationed at this naval Research Base, it was obviously meaningless against Vegapunk and his group. Vegapunk simply used electromagnetic waves to distort their figures and then used his electromagnetic wave ability to hypnotize them. The ordinary naval personnel ignored them completely.
Even though Vegapunk moved many large instruments directly, the Navy did not notice at all.
Only the commander of this base, a Rear Admiral who had Awakening Dual-Color Haki, seemed to have noticed something, but by the time he realized it, it was too late. Caesar, the Research Base, and many of the most advanced instruments had already disappeared.
Worst of all, before leaving, Vegapunk opened a large poison gas canister created by Caesar. The pale purple gas began to slowly spread. Faced with this situation, ordinary marines had no way to resist and ultimately had no choice but to retreat completely, abandoning the island.
Caesar's poison gas was somewhat unique in that it had an extremely long duration of effect. Without interference, it could take several years for an island shrouded in the gas to fully recover, and the restoration of ecological balance would take even longer. Its effects were comparable to those of nuclear radiation.
For the navy, Punk Hazard has essentially lost its function as Marine Base, and it is unlikely that it will be reused in the future.
In Dream Star, Caesar and Queen looked at each other, but instead of feeling a sense of shared fate, they seemed to dislike each other.
As top scientists in the Pirate World, it can be said that Caesar, Queen, and Judge are all incredibly arrogant.
Faced with an overpowered opponent like Vegapunk, the three of them were helpless and could only flee in a sorry state. However, to some extent, their mere escape, rather than complete submission, also demonstrated their arrogance.
In this situation, when faced with colleagues of similar skill levels, all three felt that they were the most capable researchers, so naturally, their relationship with each other couldn't be very good.
"Get along well, you two!"
Vegapunk smiled at his two assistants and said something that startled them, causing them to immediately put their arms around each other.
"Of course, Lord Vegapunk, please rest assured!!"
"That's right, that's right. I've known Caesar for a long time. If the two of us team up, we'll definitely be top-notch experimental assistants!"
Vegapunk walked over with a smile, and then Caesar and Queen exchanged a glance, immediately withdrew their hands, and each turned their heads away with an Inazuma.
Ignoring his subordinates' ulterior motives, Vegapunk was content as long as they completed their mission. Now, Vegapunk prepared to examine his spoils of war: the Devil Fruit User of the Donquixote Family.
"The power of Paramecia Devil Fruit is almost entirely based on the power of the mind... but this is actually closer to the essence of Devil Fruit! The crystallization of the spirit of wishes!"
Zoan Devil Fruit can be created through research on bloodline factors, or genes, although their potential may differ from that of real Devil Fruit, preventing them from reaching the Awakening stage.
But apart from that, even the Zoan Devil Fruit of the Fantasy Species are no different in power from artificial Devil Fruit.
While it's impossible to fully acquire Logia Devil Fruit through Lineage Factor modifications, simply possessing a certain level of Logia ability isn't difficult. In the original work, Vegapunk was able to add the Glint-Glint Fruit ability to the modified Kuma. For the current Vegapunk, aside from elementalization, all other Logia abilities are no challenge for him.
Of course, the modified Logia lacks potential and its power is definitely weaker than that of a true Logia Devil Fruit.
But Vegapunk was completely baffled by the strange and unusual abilities of the Paramecia.
Some simple Paramecia can be copied using the power of Lineage Factor. For the more complex Paramecia Devil Fruit, Vegapunk could only follow the method in the original work, directly extracting blood from the Devil Fruit User to modify the Lineage Factor, and then allowing others to possess them through human modification.
In essence, it can only be considered a transplant of abilities, rather than a true replication of the original Devil Fruit ability. Once the transplanted part is separated from the original body, the so-called artificial ability user will be reduced to its original form.
In the end, all he got from his research was a flawed Artificial Soul-Soul Fruit. Kozuki Hiyori was lucky; otherwise, she would have gone mad or died long ago.
The biggest limitation for Vegapunk in the past was the lack of experimental subjects. Even the World Government could not give Vegapunk unlimited access to certain special Paramecia Devil Fruit User.
Most of the experimental subjects were obtained by Vegapunk from Great Underwater Prison. However, the purpose of the Impel Down was to seal away powerful Devil Fruit User. Therefore, the vast majority of the experimental subjects obtained by Vegapunk were actually Zoan.
Zoan Devil Fruit User are not necessarily weak, but their Devil Fruit abilities have limited potential, and they can't develop many new tricks. Even if they die or something goes wrong, they won't cause much trouble for the World Government.
However, the World Government has never truly provided Vegapunk with those truly powerful Paramecia Devil Fruit, whether they possess incredible abilities, terrifying combat power, or limitless potential. They would rather provide Logia Devil Fruit User than give Vegapunk those truly terrifying Paramecia Devil Fruit.
Some Paramecia Devil Fruit may not significantly enhance combat power, but who knows what kind of effect they could produce in the hands of a mad scientist? After all, Paramecia Devil Fruit are the most unreasonable of all.
But this time, Vegapunk got his hands on top-quality stuff. Among the Devil Fruit User of the Donquixote Family, there has never been a shortage of Devil Fruit with great potential or extraordinary abilities; it's just that those people don't know how to use them.
Arms Fruit, Art Fruit, Hobby-Hobby Fruit, and even Spin-Spin Fruit, Swim-Swim Fruit, Ton-Press Fruit... These fruits either possess terrifying abilities, amazing potential, or have very unique forms of expression, making them all excellent subjects for research.
Therefore, upon returning to Dream Star, Vegapunk immediately abandoned any thoughts of confronting the World Government and devoted himself to researching these Devil Fruit User day and night.
Time flies. A few months later, Vegapunk's research on Paramecia Devil Fruit was only halfway done. However, he made great strides in another area of research.
That's the extraction of Devil Fruit! Extracting Devil Fruit directly from the user's body! And even after that, it can still keep the Devil Fruit User alive!
Extracting Devil Fruit might be difficult for Vegapunk, but such research wouldn't take that long. However, if he could preserve the Devil Fruit Devil Fruit User's life after extraction, or even prevent the Devil Fruit User from suffering any harm, that would be incredibly difficult!
After all, when Devil Fruit is fused with a user, it's a complete fusion from the soul to the genes, and there's almost no good way to separate them.
However, Vegapunk eventually came up with a way to use some kind of inducing ability to make the Devil Fruit think that its host was dead, and then capture it the moment it left the body.
The reason he made such rapid progress was not only because his research itself was advancing by leaps and bounds, but also because he obtained a peculiar Devil Fruit.
Long before knowing most of the plot of the Pirate World, Vegapunk had used this precognition to find some benefits for himself. For example, he had collected blood and hair from Vegapunk Blackbeard a strange body a long time ago.
Furthermore, because Vegapunk commissioned the World Government's intelligence agency to collect Blackbeard's physical data, the World Government also took notice of this strange alien. As a result, Blackbeard has been under the World Government's scrutiny ever since, and the Blackbeard who originally had no bounty now has a bounty of 300 million Berries.
This time, Vegapunk once again thwarted Blackbeard's plans. Through the monitoring of small robots, he attacked and stole the Dark-Dark Fruit from Thatch, the 4th Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, right after he obtained it.
Vegapunk later researched the Dark-Dark Fruit and created a machine specifically designed to attract the fruit's power, which is why his research was able to proceed so quickly.
"Is this machine really safe from any problems?"
A beautiful Oni girl with white hair, horns on her head, and a voluptuous figure, Yamato, secretly swallowed and looked at the coffin-like thing in front of her, and asked.
No wonder Yamato a little horrified. It was not only that it looked like a coffin, but there was also a red, blood-like liquid inside. It didn't look like anything good. If he fell in, would he melt away?
"Don't worry, there won't be any problems! The red liquid in here will only put you into a state of suspended animation. Afterwards, the Devil Fruit Ability Wave Attractor I developed will directly draw out the Artificial Devil Fruit ability within your body!"
"Then you'll be able to eat the real Azure Dragon Fruit!"
Vegapunk waved the Devil Fruit in his hand and spoke to Yamato.
That Devil Fruit has blue dragon scales on it, and the two leaf stalks on it look like dragon horns. It is the most authentic Azure Dragon Fruit!
This is Devil Fruit that Vegapunk extracted from Kaido's body, and the reason he summoned Yamato was naturally to use her for an experiment.
Don't get me wrong, it's not some pointless experiment like replacing Artificial Devil Fruit with a real Devil Fruit. It's an experiment to see if Artificial Devil Fruit and genuine Devil Fruit can be fused together.
What will happen after the fusion? Enhancement? Conflict? No reaction? What changes will occur after consuming this enhanced version of the Devil Fruit?
This is certainly a topic that Vegapunk needs to pay attention to. The Artificial Azure Dragon Fruit and the Azure Dragon Fruit are almost indistinguishable, and theoretically there should be no conflict. Therefore, Vegapunk naturally set his sights on this from the very beginning.
As for Yamato, she is Vegapunk's experimental subject. As a member of the Oni, Yamato has a strong vitality. After being strengthened, her combat power is almost at the level of a top-tier powerhouse. Even if there is a conflict Devil Fruit, it should not take her life at first.
On the bright side, even if problems arise, Vegapunk can still extract the Devil Fruit power from her body and save her life.
To put it bluntly, if someone's tolerance for death is too low and they die too quickly, it would be difficult for Vegapunk to conduct research on them!
Unaware that he had become an excellent experimental Yamato, Yamato made up his mind to cooperate with Vegapunk in the experiment in order to become a real blue dragon instead of a cute pink dragon that was a bit comical.