A Sleight of Hand

With his experience creating Lucifer, Wang Gao spent the next half month successively creating Android No. 2—Leviathan—and Android No. 3—Samael.

Android No. 2, Leviathan, was a fish-man with blue skin, mainly because his biological implant, the Sea King Armor, was designed for underwater combat.

The Sea King Armor incorporated the genes of the Great Sea Fighter Blue Gorilla, the Stone Crab, and certain Sea Kings.

Android No. 3, Samael, was a man with a full beard, a rugged face, and a fondness for foul-mouthed profanity.

His biological implant was called the Demon King Armor.

The Demon King Armor was created using the genes of many magical beasts from Impel Down's Beast Hell, along with genetically modified Sea King genes.

With three android subordinates, Wang Gao finally no longer needed to handle every matter personally.

Lucifer was responsible for building the intelligence network, Leviathan was responsible for building the fleet, and Samael was stationed on Level 5.5 of Impel Down.

Underground on Camel Island, roughly 150 meters below Sea Level, Leviathan was excavating a submarine base.

With one punch, the ground trembled slightly.

Dozens of cubic meters of rock shattered apart. Countless vines immediately wrapped around the broken stones and dragged them up to be piled on the surface.

After more than a dozen consecutive punches, a Large Area of the Rock Strata shattered again.

Elsewhere.

Within the Undersea Tunnel connecting Camel Island and Impel Down, the main passage stretched for 810 kilometers and had sixteen auxiliary branch tunnels along the way.

These branch tunnels primarily connected to the Underground River and served as Giant Morley's food and water supply routes.

Samael was currently modifying the tunnel. Using Camouflage Rock, he added numerous walls and gates. Once those gates were closed, anyone trapped between them would find escape difficult.

To deal with Devil Fruit users, every gated section had been fitted with a drainage pipe leading to the seabed. If a Devil Fruit user entered, they could simply seal the gates and flood the section.

Even if Giant Morley returned, the Scout Vine Network spread across Camel Island, the Undersea Tunnel, and Impel Down would instantly detect his entry.

As for Dragon, he too was a Devil Fruit user and was likewise restrained by seawater.

Although Wang Gao had no intention of making Level 5.5 of Impel Down or Camel Island his main base, the strategic value of this place was extremely high. Impel Down was a vital institution capable of influencing the state of the world.

The Revolutionary Army had likely sent the Okama King into Impel Down in the future to secretly develop Level 5.5, then seize control of or destroy Impel Down when the time was right.

But now that Wang Gao had arrived and occupied Level 5.5 in advance, he naturally would not give it up easily.

The Devil Fruit abilities possessed by the prisoners in Impel Down alone were resources he could not abandon.

After completing the Undersea Tunnel's modifications, Samael prepared to hunt the prisoners in Impel Down according to Wang Gao's instructions.

Something resembling a tablet grew from his hand. It was a touchscreen Bio-Computer improved from a Den Den Mushi. The Bio-Computer extended a cable and inserted it into one of the Scout Vine Network's vines.

Lucifer, on the other side of the vine network, sensed Samael's data access request and immediately approved it.

Samael entered the vine network's database.

He found the records of Impel Down's prisoners and entered a filter condition: [Devil Fruit users]. There had originally been 573,672 results, but only 1,506 remained after filtering.

Impel Down held around 570,000 prisoners, yet 1,506 of them were Devil Fruit users. The number truly was considerable.

After looking for A moment later, Samael entered another filter condition, viewing only Paramecia and Logia types. The results instantly fell to 233 people.

After excluding the obvious targets in Infinite Hell, the number of targets dropped again to 197.

Samael carefully examined the remaining 197 people. He possessed part of Wang Gao's memories, so he naturally did not share the arrogance of looking down on Paramecia Devil Fruits.

In fact, in Wang Gao's memories, the priority of Paramecia types was higher than that of many Logia types. For instance, Logia fruits such as the Smoke-Smoke Fruit and Swamp-Swamp Fruit might not become particularly powerful even if developed to the awakened stage.

They were inferior to Paramecia types, after all. The possibilities and upper limits of Paramecia types were impossible to estimate.

Hm? There was actually a Devil Fruit ability like this? Samael spotted a rare Devil Fruit ability: the Paramecia-type Kitchenware-Kitchenware Fruit.

This fruit was similar in type to the Arms-Arms Fruit.

Turning to the next entry, he found another Devil Fruit that had not appeared before: the Paramecia-type Dark-Dark Fruit.

Then there was...

The Paramecia-type Mask-Mask Fruit.

The Paramecia-type Phone-Phone Fruit.

The Paramecia-type Spicy-Spicy Fruit.

The Paramecia-type...

The bizarre variety of Paramecia Devil Fruits left Samael dazzled. After thinking for a while, he quickly settled on his first target.

Impel Down.

Level Three, Hunger Hell.

Because he was a Devil Fruit user, Charlie was held alone in a solitary cell. But for a chef, the prolonged hunger of Hunger Hell and the slop that resembled pig feed were simply the cruelest torture.

How long had it been since he was imprisoned in Impel Down?

Charlie seemed to have forgotten. Having completely lost hope for the future, he had become self-destructive. Looking back on the first half of his life, he felt nothing but regret and helplessness.

Did the legendary place where the Four Seas converged truly exist? His thoughts drifted toward that long-cherished dream.

But he did not notice that within the rock wall behind him, Samael was controlling vines and using a specially prepared corrosive solution to rapidly excavate a tunnel.

When the rock strata behind the cell were only about two meters away, Charlie finally sensed that something was wrong. Soft hissing sounds came from the rock strata behind him, growing closer and closer.

Samael, who was digging the tunnel, also saw the change in Charlie's expression through the vine net hidden inside the cell.

Hehe!

Too late!

A chameleon had already slipped into the cell. Two rows of tiny holes opened along its back, slowly releasing a colorless, odorless gas into the air.

Just as Charlie was about to listen more carefully, his eyelids gradually grew heavy, and he lost consciousness.

However, Samael revealed a sinister smile. The chameleon's tail aimed at Charlie's neck, and in an instant, an Anesthetic Bone Needle shot out.

The bone needle sank viciously into Charlie's neck. His eyes widened in shock before his body went limp and collapsed to the side.

Trying to be clever! Samael inwardly mocked the other man for overestimating himself.

He did not rely solely on his eyes to observe. He also possessed exceptionally sharp hearing and smell, infrared thermal imaging, electromagnetic wave scanning, and more.

Charlie had seemed to close his eyes just now, but his heartbeat had accelerated, and his brainwaves had become highly active. That was not how someone unconscious should behave.

So Samael directly made sure to finish him off. The Anesthetic Bone Needles fired by his chameleon could knock out even an unlocked Devil Fruit user for around thirty hours, let alone one restrained by Seastone.

Less than five hours later, only a thin layer remained of the final two meters of rock strata.

Samael did not break through directly. Instead, he drilled a small hole first and had Drought Algae Vine's camouflage leaves cover the opening before corroding away the final thin layer of rock.

Then, a vine extended from his Base Armor and reached Charlie's side, swiftly producing a clone. It was a flesh-and-blood Plant Person with the instinct to eat; even if dissected, it would be impossible to tell real from fake.

Of course, the Clone Plant Person had no intelligence and no Devil Fruit abilities.

At that moment, the Clone Plant Person was covered in a layer of camouflage coloring. Combined with the dimness inside the cell, it would be difficult to notice that there were two people here unless an Observation Haki expert actively investigated.

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