The Core of Stigmata Alchemy!

"Wow—"

"How did you do that? That's incredible!"

Inside the Academy of Sciences on Punk Hazard Island, Vegapunk clicked his tongue in amazement as he stared at the small piece of gold in President Isaac's palm.

Because only seconds earlier, it had been a stone taken from a fish tank.

"It truly is very, very, very stylish!"

Like President Isaac, Dr. Stylish, the former head of the Empire's Ministry of Science who had just arrived on Sea Star's mainland from the Teigu World, stared in shock at the gold glittering in the light atop the former's hand.

"I saw Dorothea use a transmutation circle drawn on the ground to turn a stone into a Diamond before, but their primary elements were the same. Although it looked miraculous, she should have merely altered its internal structure through some method."

"But turning a carbon element directly into a gold element is rather unbelievable. I remember Dorothea clearly saying that even with alchemy, the mass and elements of the raw material and the transmuted substance had to be identical. Yet yours..."

By the end of his words, Dr. Stylish's face was already full of confusion.

His right hand, which wore the Teigu God's Hand, habitually pushed up the glasses on his nose.

He had previously thought he possessed a certain understanding of alchemy, but the sight before him had completely overturned all of it.

At the same time.

Dr. Misukina Acier of the Materials Research Institute, Vinsmoke Judge, Dr. Tsukimi of the Mechanical Research Institute, Dr. Wolf of the Submarine Research Institute, and over twenty other scientific scholars had gathered around to watch.

Two young men could also be seen joining in the crowd.

They were Buggy, nineteen this year, and twenty-one-year-old Ikoma, both from the Weapons Research Institute.

They had all gathered