Third update today: Chapter 1017!
Xu Kun stared blankly. "Artificial... Evil... Fruit Project?"
"That's right! All trial takers from the various races captured by the Asura Race were taken to a secret laboratory they had set up in the shadows. If not for Lord Tianyan's ability to see through all things and locate that place, even if we wanted to rescue them, we would have been powerless to do so!"
"The Evil Fruit, also known as the evil fruit, was an artificial creation developed by the Asura Race through special means. Trial takers of every race who consumed an Evil Fruit had a certain chance of gaining that fruit's ability!"
Huh?
Xu Kun was stunned. "The Asura Race can actually create artificial fruits? That's terrifying. But if these artificial fruits can also grant the consumer fruit abilities, why call them Evil?"
Kuzan clenched his fists beside him and said gravely, "Because unlike normal Devil Fruits, trial takers who consume Evil Fruits do not have a one hundred percent chance of gaining fruit abilities. The process is also unimaginably painful. Fewer than one in ten survive, and among those survivors, fewer than one in ten successfully gain fruit abilities!"
Xu Kun froze. "So among a hundred trial takers who eat Evil Fruits, only one survives?"
Kuzan nodded, his eyes filled with grief.
"Ninety percent of the test subjects die in agony. Of the ten percent who survive, only one percent can obtain fruit abilities after enduring the ultimate pain. As for the other nine percent, though they do not die, the price of failing to gain fruit abilities is becoming walking corpses!"
"Because their talents disappear under the influence of the Evil Fruit!"
Xu Kun's breathing caught. Looking at it this way, this project truly was inhuman.
Kuzan's painful memories