A Brand-New Custom Physical Body
In the Laboratory, Vegapunk, Dr. Genus, and Child Emperor were gathered around a large screen, watching something.
This is the footage extracted from Deep Sea King's mind using a machine. Even though Deep Sea King himself has forgotten these things, Vegapunk was still able to extract them from his brain cells.
On the screen was a pitch-black deep sea, like a bottomless trench. At the bottom of the trench, a faint red light emanated, and a strange nest made of flesh and blood was trembling as if breathing.
One by one, the Deep Sea Race, their eyes glazed and their movements stiff, threw various marine life and human corpses into the nest. Soon, those limbs were completely absorbed by the Flesh Hive, and a moment later, it spat out another Deep Sea Race with the same glazed eyes.
"Is this the origin of the Deep Sea Race? Are these guys just Cyborg created by the fusion of humans and marine life?"
Child Emperor frowned, somewhat surprised, and spoke. Vegapunk nodded, a hint of doubt also appearing on his face:
"Is this bizarre Flesh Hive man-made, or naturally formed?"
Furthermore, if this is the origin of the Deep Sea Race, then what about the origins of the Underground Race and the Sky Race?
Speaking of the Underground Race, they emerged from under Saitama's house. However, the area under Saitama's house has already been dug up by the Monster Association. If the Underground Race really has always lived underground, wouldn't they have already encountered the Monster Association underground?
In this situation, it's already a miracle that the subterranean people aren't recruited as underlings by the Monster Association; only someone with a screw loose would dare to invade the surface and rule over humanity.
Judging from this, those underground people are probably not decent creatures either. By this reasoning, the so-called sky people might also be some kind of created thing.
"I never imagined... this is the origin of the Deepsea beings? Dr. Vegapunk, we absolutely cannot let this Mother Nest Monster get away!"
With a hint of excitement on his face, Dr. Genus said to Vegapunk, "This is Monsters's lair with natural modification abilities!" For Dr. Genus, who pursues the path of biological modification, it was like finding a treasure!
Vegapunk was naturally quite envious of this Mother Nest Monster, and he immediately nodded and said:
"Don't worry, I'll go and bring this back right now!"
Although it's not entirely clear where this trench is, by searching through the Deep Sea King's memories and figuring out his route from the trench to the sea, and then working backward, we should be able to find this lair.
The research value of these extremely special Mother Nest Monster is incomparable to that of ordinary Monsters. Putting aside others, the Underground King, the Sky King, and the Deep Sea King are all monsters that can reach the Dragon-level in an adapted environment. Even in an unsuitable environment, they can still maintain the strength to the peak of the Demon-level.
The other ordinary Monsters from the Deep Sea Race, Underground Race, and Sky Race are at least Tiger-level Monsters, and quite a few of them can reach Demon-Level Threat!
The materials needed to create these Monsters are just ordinary humans and animals. In some ways, this is much better than Dr. Genus and Vegapunk's hard work in inducing mutations and breaking Limiter through various methods!
In the pitch-black depths of the sea, clad in armor and using Electromagnetic Ability to push water aside, Vegapunk is searching for that trench.
By unleashing a combination of his Observation Haki and Electromagnetic Ability, Vegapunk quickly made a discovery, arriving at a deep trench where he found the strange Flesh Hive.
"It's right here... Hmm? Something seems off!"
Looking down at the Flesh Hive, Vegapunk frowned. A terrifying aura was rising from the nest, as if some horrific creature was being conceived within.
"This... this is not fun at all... With such a powerful life force, the Deep Sea King is probably just a little brother in front of this Monsters it has spawned!"
Seemingly stimulated by the arrival of outsiders, Vegapunk could clearly sense that the creature being conceived in the Flesh Hive was developing rapidly. Although this development might diminish the power and potential of this newborn Monsters, it was still better than failing to develop and being smashed in the "egg".
However, Vegapunk wasn't the kind of Saiyan who liked to make things harder for himself. Seeing that the Monsters in the Flesh Hive was about to hatch, he immediately abandoned all martial ethics and reached out, condensing an extremely cold aura in his hand.
In the water, his Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability was not very effective. The lightning spread directly throughout the water as soon as it was unleashed, making it impossible to concentrate. His Electromagnetic Ability was also greatly reduced in power because of the water.
On the contrary, abilities belonging to the Chakra system, Water Release techniques and Ice Release techniques, have become much more Ninjutsu. This time, Vegapunk naturally used Ice Release Ninjutsu.
The extreme cold was compressed into an Ice Ball, which was then enveloped by Vegapunk's Electromagnetic Ability. He then launched it directly, striking the Flesh Hive with a bang and freezing it into a large block of ice.
Within the Flesh Hive, the ever-increasing life force abruptly ceased, yet it did not truly dissipate. Instead, it became faintly visible, as if in a deep slumber, clearly frozen by the extreme power of ice.
After that, Vegapunk threw the Flesh Hive directly into his Portable Space, and his whole body shot out of the sea like a rocket, flying towards his lair.
Two weeks later, Vegapunk's underground Laboratory had completely changed.
Vegapunk's Laboratory was originally filled with all sorts of high technology, various instruments, projections appearing in mid-air, and Monsters being immersed in culture tanks... It could be said to have fulfilled all of humanity's imagination of science fiction.
But now, in Vegapunk's Laboratory, the entire ground has turned blood red, and occasionally some metal can be seen, which is also covered by blood-red flesh, with only the edges and corners showing.
The original incubation chamber at the very center has now been transformed into a gigantic, constantly beating, blood-red heart, with numerous blood vessel-like cables connected to it, and a silver-red liquid constantly flowing within it.
The blood-red heart originally appeared quite fleshy and thick, yet a faint silver-red light still emanated from within, vaguely revealing a humanoid shape resembling a fetus.
With a clatter of footsteps, Vegapunk slowly walked over, looking at the enormous heart before him with a hint of nervousness in his eyes.
It wasn't just Vegapunk; Child Emperor and Dr. Genus also arrived. Under the crimson light, the three scientists' faces alternated between red and white, looking incredibly eerie.
"For the embryo to fully mature, more Monsters are needed, and only Monsters of at least the Demon-level Upper are qualified to serve as nourishment. Only in this way can the strength of the embryo be guaranteed."
With a hint of coldness, Vegapunk uttered these words. Dr. Genus frowned, looking at the embryo in his heart, and said hesitantly:
"They need too much nutrition... Even the Hero Association, where would they get so many Demon-level Monsters?"
"You know, Demon-Level Threat can destroy a city. There probably aren't many Monsters of that level outnumbering S-Class Hero, right?"
"Why not lower the upper limit for the number of embryos? That would significantly reduce the difficulty of cultivation!"
Vegapunk shook his head immediately, refuting Dr. Genus's statement:
"Lowering it any further would be meaningless. It's not that we can't create Dragon-level Monsters, but only those that can ignore Dragon-level Monsters can truly bring about a qualitative change!"
"Hey, hey, hey, isn't creating such a monster a bit too much? Vegapunk, are you really sure you can completely control him? According to your requirements, not even counting the resources needed, its power alone is enough to destroy an entire planet's civilization, isn't it?"
"I'm not even ten years old yet! I don't want to become a mad scientist who destroys the earth!"
Child Emperor blinked and said with a helpless expression.
"Don't worry, I'm absolutely confident about this!"
"Are you absolutely capable of controlling this monster?"
"Of course not. What I mean is that even if things get out of control, I have a foolproof backup plan to bring this monster down!"
"Did you plant a bomb in his brain? Or inject a virus into his heart? Or do you have some kind of weakness in him?"
"Based on your estimated energy level, if this thing were actually manufactured, ordinary control methods would be completely ineffective against it!"
Upon hearing Vegapunk's words, Child Emperor was slightly taken aback and asked a question.
"No, when he's born, I'll invite the Bald Demon King... no, I mean Saitama!"
"If this thing gets out of control, just have Saitama grind it into powder!"
Vegapunk casually revealed his method, leaving Child Emperor and Dr. Genus speechless.
I thought it was some new technology, but it turns out they just went to hire a cheater!
Child Emperor was still a little hesitant. Unlike Dr. Genus, he had never actually witnessed the Caped Baldy Kamui and still had some distrust of the Caped Baldy's strength.
However, seeing that both Dr. Genus and Vegapunk looked like they had the matter settled, he didn't say anything.
Vegapunk looked up again at the embryo growing in his heart. It was not just an embryo, but his very essence!
The Vegapunk we see in the outside world is merely a cloned body created by him, into which he then transferred his soul using a soul compression and transfer method.
As for the real Vegapunk, he is actually the embryo that has been reversed and created in front of us. This embryo was made from Vegapunk's original body.
At this point, Vegapunk's idea became crystal clear: to directly transform his physical body into the strength of a god-level Monsters!
He didn't dare put his own soul into the embryo, as the transformation of Monsters could cause irreversible distortion to the soul. On the contrary, a pure physical body would not be a problem.
Vegapunk couldn't completely suppress this body, preventing it from developing a soul during the Monsters modification process. However, it was still easy to make it congenitally incomplete, resulting in a soul that was extremely fragile and only had some instinctive consciousness.
With his soul transfer technique and the Karma technique he learned from the Otsutsuki Clan, it should be quite easy for him to suppress or even devour the soul generated by this body and return to his original form.
Even if I fail, it's no big deal. The Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Magnet-Magnet Fruit have already been extracted from this body. At worst, I can just eat the Devil Fruit later and turn the clone into the main body. Anyway, my strength won't decrease.
Although Vegapunk originally didn't require too much strength, recently, as Vegapunk researched Space Tunnel, he discovered a huge problem.
It seems that because this world and the Naruto-Pirate World are too far apart, or for other reasons, even if a connecting Space Tunnel is created, there will be interference from forces that are almost like Space Storm.
Breaking through this interference is not easy. Even Vegapunk's Portable Space, which can theoretically withstand 90% of Space Storm, is still in danger of being destroyed if it encounters a super-massive Space Storm.
In this situation, the best approach is naturally to increase one's strength! As long as one's strength is comparable to that of a Space King, a Garou, or even the Psykos-Orochi, one can ignore those Space Storm.
Ultimately, it was just energy in the gaps between spaces, not real spatial fragments, and its destructive power was not yet overwhelming.
"The only problem now... is that we need more nutrients!"
"Perhaps I should tell Saitama to cause some trouble at the Monster Association. Oh, right, I remember there's also the Sky King in this world, isn't there? Obviously, they should also be a species produced by these Mother Nest Monsters. We should go and take over that Mother Nest too!"
As for the underground people's mother nest, Vegapunk suspects that it has already been taken away by the Monster Association. Perhaps that Orochi, or even those Monsters from the Monster Association, are closely related to the underground people's mother nest.
Otherwise, Psykos is just the vice president of the Psychic Association. His research, which is almost a personal hobby, doesn't seem like the kind of thing that could create so many Monsters.
But if a Mother Nest exists, then it makes sense. With a Mother Nest and the help of other mysterious forces besides Psykos herself, it's not impossible for her to create so many Monsters.
However, Vegapunk certainly wouldn't go down into the underground to die. Even if Vegapunk had spatial abilities, he wouldn't dare say he could come and go freely in that place. It's better to leave that to the Caped Baldy.