Innate Abilities

Feeling the long-lost power of the Devil Fruit inside his body, Wang Gao focused and sensed every part of himself.

Skin, blood, internal organs, bones...

And the gene chains within his cells. After his soul completely merged with Wang Gao's, the power of their combined souls had increased by roughly 3.73 times compared to Wang Gao alone.

He could calculate the figure of 3.73 times thanks to the fact that his soul had wandered through the Space-Time Dimension for a very long time.

During his wanderings through the Space-Time Dimension, his soul had encountered all kinds of dangers. But crises brought not only danger, but opportunity as well.

To survive, he had tried every possible method. Through desperate, fight-to-the-death attempts amid that despair, he had gained several abilities.

Those abilities were:

Precognitive Super Sensation, similar to Observation Haki's ability to foresee the future. It allowed him to predict roughly ten seconds into the future.

Quantum Computing, a special ability developed from his own Quantum Soul. At present, his soul possessed a computational capacity of sixty-four quantum bits.

Spirit Tempering, temporarily unusable. This ability used relatively stable, low-energy Space-Time Waves within the Space-Time Dimension to strengthen his own Quantum Soul.

Now that his soul had returned to the Material World, Spirit Tempering had lost the environment necessary for its use. Compared to the Space-Time Dimension he had experienced, the intensity of Space-Time Waves in the Material World was like the difference between a pond and an ocean.

At the intensity of this Material World's Space-Time Waves, Spirit Tempering had no effect on his spiritual body whatsoever.

His arrival in this Material World had actually been an accident. At the time, he had encountered an extremely terrifying Space-Time Torrent, and to ensure the safety of its core, his Quantum Soul had exhausted most of its power.

Otherwise, with the strength of his soul, taking over the body of an Ordinary Person would have been more than enough.

The moment he entered this Material World, he had appeared inside Impel Down. His situation had also been extremely dangerous, because as soon as his weakened soul arrived, he sensed an attraction that seemed to be pulling it somewhere.

Looking back now, he could more or less guess that the attraction had likely come from this world's Underworld. If he had not chosen to merge with Wang Gao's soul and stabilize his spiritual body within the physical body again, the result would have been being dragged into the Underworld.

The reason Wang Gao could now see the genes inside his cells was because Precognitive Super Sensation, Quantum Computing, and Observation Haki had fused together.

After the fusion mutation, his Observation Haki had reached an entirely new height. He could foresee thirty seconds into the future, with a maximum coverage radius of roughly thirty-six kilometers and a maximum linear detection distance of roughly two hundred and forty kilometers. This was the enhancement on the macro level.

Then came the microscopic enhancement. He could observe atomic-level particles, and together with his Quantum Computing ability, this was one of his trump cards.

Carefully examining his body's genetic sequences, Wang Gao revealed an understanding smile a moment later. After the Seastone Shackles had been removed, some of the genes in his genetic sequence had been activated—or rather, released from their restrictions.

Moreover, Wang Gao discovered that the expression genes for Devil Fruit abilities were concentrated on the twenty-fourth pair of chromosomes.

Because he lacked samples, he did not know whether humans in this world naturally had twenty-four pairs of chromosomes, or whether they originally had only twenty-three pairs, with Devil Fruit abilities manifesting as the twenty-fourth pair.

This required further study. Ideally, he needed to collect the genes of ordinary people and Devil Fruit users for comparative research.

However, based on some scenes from his memories, Devil Fruit users were not necessarily "pure organisms."

For example, weapons that had eaten Devil Fruits, Brook, the owner of the Revive-Revive Fruit, and Ghost Princess Perona, who could send her soul out of her body.

These examples showed that Devil Fruit abilities did not necessarily need to manifest as genes...

No. Wang Gao narrowed his eyes, as if he had thought of something interesting.

Devil Fruit Wave, the twenty-fourth pair of chromosomes, non-biological carriers of Devil Fruit Waves, souls... Countless torrents of data emerged through Quantum Computing.

More than ten minutes later, Wang Gao opened his eyes and sighed softly. There were still too few samples. It seemed he needed to get out of here as soon as possible.

This world, here I come!

Vegapunk, who possessed technology five hundred years beyond the era; bizarre Devil Fruit abilities; all kinds of ancient creatures and strange species...

Thinking of this, Wang Gao's lips curled upward. He immediately began trying to manipulate the Devil Fruit ability within his body: the Chain-Chain Fruit's power.

The development of a Devil Fruit ability varied from person to person. Since he had no way to replace his Devil Fruit for the time being, deeply developing the Chain-Chain Fruit's ability was the best choice available.

Among Wang Gao's own abilities, the parts that could be used for direct combat were crude Taijutsu, swordsmanship, Armament Haki, and gunmanship that amounted to loading and firing a gun.

The mutated Observation Haki and Quantum Computing leaned toward support. Even though he could directly observe things at the atomic level, without atomic-level control, he still could not maximize the effects of those two abilities.

Now, the Devil Fruit ability was a gateway to atomic-level manipulation.

The ability displayed by the Chain-Chain Fruit in the previous "Wang Gao" had been to release blood and manipulate chains, which was why it had been called the "Chain-Chain Fruit."

In reality, this Devil Fruit should be called the Chain-Chain Fruit, similar to Doflamingo's String-String Fruit.

Paramecia Devil Fruit abilities severely tested a user's intelligence and stored knowledge. An uneducated user could only develop superficial abilities.

Take the former "Wang Gao," for instance. He pierced his palm to release blood, then controlled chains stained with that blood. That way of using it was simply idiotic.

Wouldn't manipulating the gene chains inside his body be better?

That was the price of being uneducated.

With the assistance of Atomic-level Observation Haki and the immense computing power of Quantum Computing, the Chain-Chain Fruit ability inside his body began to take effect.

Compared to external manipulation, the Chain-Chain Fruit was more convenient and efficient when used within the user's body. In particular, his own powerful microscopic perception and immense computing power made controlling his own gene chains with the Chain-Chain Fruit feel as effortless as moving his arms and fingers.

However, he now faced a problem: he had no test subjects. Genetic modification was not something to be done casually.

Although he could change it back, he was currently inside a cell in Hunger Hell. Even if he could precisely control his body, there was no way to replenish the expenditure of stamina and mental energy quickly.

What should he do?

Suppressing the urge to immediately alter his genes, he began considering how to solve the problem of test subjects.

During his deliberation, Wang Gao did not lower his guard. The Pressure Hormone inside his ears rapidly multiplied, raising his hearing by several orders of magnitude.

Pressure Hormone was a core component of animal auditory organs. At this moment, he could hear the faintest sounds several kilometers around him. This was not Observation Haki, but purely biological power.

He used this method to avoid one drawback of Observation Haki: it was easy for others with Observation Haki to notice something unusual.

Pure biological hearing was equivalent to a passive Sonar Monitor. It did not need to actively emit sound waves, so even someone with extremely powerful Observation Haki could not detect that he was being monitored.

This superhuman hearing was not without limits. The user had to possess sufficiently powerful processing capability to analyze and process complex sound sources.

Wang Gao could use this ability only because he relied on his Quantum Computing ability.

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