Mord: I Am Here to Slay the Dragon

Caesar exhausted all the available materials in one go, ultimately helping Kaido "manufacture" 150 Ancient Zoan users in a short period.

Perhaps it was because dinosaur genes were relatively primitive. Compared to the success rate of consuming ordinary Zoan Artificial Devil Fruits in the past, the success rate of the Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits produced this time was absurdly high.

However.

The available materials had already been exhausted. It would probably take more than three months before the next Ancient Zoan Artificial Devil Fruit was produced.

By then, it would be time for Judge's clone soldiers to come in handy.

Because--

The recently produced Ancient Zoan Artificial Devil Fruits had already filtered through every last remaining member of the Beasts Pirates.

So even if there were still Ancient Zoan Artificial Devil Fruits left over, the Beasts Pirates had no extra candidates to consume them.

The 150 Ancient Zoan users selected in the end could be said to be the strongest fighting force under Kaido at present.

Already skilled in Armament Haki, they had reached an even higher level of attack and defense after gaining Ancient Zoan abilities.

The immediate boost to their offense and defense had given them an extremely high margin for error.

When surrounding Yamato, they could keep their casualty rate very low.

Thus, even if they could not break through Yamato's defenses, they could basically drain her stamina completely as long as the battle dragged on.

Yamato had foreseen this outcome as well. While secretly anxious, she intensified her counterattacks.

However--

This batch of Ancient Zoan users had clearly been carefully selected by Kaido.

Every one of them possessed formidable Armament Haki. Combined with the natural defensive strength of the Ancient Zoans, they were not easy to defeat.

"Damn it... I can't break out..."

Yamato gritted her