"These five vials, please give me the injections afterwards. Don't hold back, I'm counting on you!" Sig entrusted this important task to the steady-handed Beckman.
Beckman accepted five test tubes, while Sig kept one.
They were now on Worlinderge Island, a very remote island. It was not small in size, but its shape was long and narrow, like a canyon. The overall elevation was not low, the terrain was mainly sand and gravel, with sparse vegetation and a harsh climate.
This small island itself doesn't even have a magnetic field, so it's not protected by the "relatively stable climate of most islands".
Using a place like this as a base camp...
Anyone who didn't know better would think they were Revolutionary Army!
They were currently in an underground structure. Judging from its size, some parts were remnants from the past, while others were excavated by Red-Hair and his crew. Sig guessed that Shanks probably discovered this place while searching for treasure.
When the weather is nice, the banquet is held outdoors; when the weather is bad, it's held underground.
However, Sig and Beckman's place is not a banquet hall, and it is usually not frequented by anyone; it is a rather confidential location.
Without hesitation, Sig plunged the syringe, still attached to the test tube, into his arm and injected the entire vial of Seastone liquid...
Although Beckman didn't know what it felt like for Devil Fruit ability user to come into contact with Seastone, the sheer stickiness alone was enough to make him feel uncomfortable.
Sig let out a muffled groan, and then purple veins began to spread throughout his body, starting from the injected arm...
At the same time, Sig was also staring at Beckman, as if to remind him that it was time to begin.
"Um... if you're just asking for leave... well, if he dies, it doesn't count as me harming my comrade." Beckman clicked his tongue, deeply realizing how ruthless Sig was to him.
Beckman emerged from the secret room and immediately saw Shanks —right outside was Shanks' bedroom!
To demonstrate his determination to "protect" Sig, Shanks said that for the next month, he wouldn't even go to parties and had even prepared a chamber pot...
Sig previously said it would take at most a month!
"Why is there so little sound?" Shanks looked worriedly behind Beckman.
At first, Sig could still be heard crying out in pain, but now he is completely silent.
"He's probably nearing his end," Beckman thought. He figured that someone without Devil Fruit ability would be dead by now.
All six vials of liquid Seastone were injected into Sig's body.
Even when Sig was at Vegapunk's research institute, he had never been injected with such a large dose—one injection would have allowed Sig to gradually adapt to the liquid Seastone in his body, but his power would have been sealed!
However, now, with six times the dosage, and... Sig trying his best to stay conscious, still in the prison of consciousness, attempting to make the fruit Devil completely lose consciousness!
At this moment, not only the Fruit Devil who had been "shepherded," but even the Prison Demon and Thunder-Thunder Demon who had already submitted were filled with resentment—"Do you have a grudge against yourself? Or against us?"
Gradually, under Sig's deliberate guidance, the liquid Seastone flowed into the "prison" in Sig's consciousness in a conscious form, as if to submerge the entire prison!
Even Sig couldn't have completely hypnotized the Devil Fruit Devil and rendered them unconscious. However, after their consciousnesses came into contact with the consciousnesses formed from liquid Seastone, they were all completely sealed away...
This was Sig had anticipated; when his true self was imprisoned in the research institute, the Prison Demon and the Thunder-Thunder Demon were completely asleep in this way.
Sig has now increased the dosage because there is a second step – to "drain" them.
Two weeks later, Sig finally... used the liquid Seastone in his consciousness to create Seastone, or rather, completely sealed Seastone boxes!
That's right, Sig didn't intend to expel them...
Because what would happen was something Sig couldn't predict; it was only Sig's last resort!
Before this, Sig planned to use his "Dreamwalker" ability to completely isolate these fruit Devil within his consciousness; perhaps... it would also have an expulsive effect.
On the twenty-first day that Shanks stayed in the bedroom, Sig finally died.
Just as Shanks realized something was wrong and rushed over to check, he found that Sig was already dead...
If Shanks hadn't heard Sig mention that they had to wait a month, they probably would already be preparing for the funeral!
On the twenty-second day, Shanks breathed a slight sigh of relief. Although the body was cold, it showed no signs of decay. It seemed... it might really not be dead after all?
On the twenty-fifth day, mushrooms began to grow all over Sig's body—two large ones, six medium ones, as well as small ones and even smaller ones... more than a hundred kinds in total, and the number was still increasing.
Shanks:...
On the twenty-eighth day, Shanks was pleasantly surprised to find that Sig's body was starting to function again, and all the mushrooms on his body... were being absorbed back into his body?
Shanks always felt that Sig's body seemed... too abnormal!
Sig breathed a sigh of relief. His previous plan had almost failed. It hadn't gone smoothly at first. Otherwise, a month was just the longest expected period. Sig had placed a hypnotic reflex on his body that didn't require his consciousness. That was, once a month was up, his Sig and blood would automatically expel the Seastone Factor without Sig conscious involvement.
Fortunately, with only two days left, Sig, through Caesar's research on artificial Seastone, came up with a solution—separation!
Just like Caesar's artificial Zoan Devil Fruit, which causes people to grow extra animal parts to avoid losing control, Sig ultimately used liquid Seastone to force the Devil Fruit ability out of his body, but not completely separate it—the specific form of which was the "Demon Mushroom" that Sig had created before.
Because Sig possesses far too many Devil Fruit abilities—not just the two fused with his own and the six Grazing, but many more—the incomplete Devil Fruit ability that Sig "learned" using the White Tower's power are all within the scope of the ritual's requirement to "expel" them!
Those Unshadowed seek this kind of purity.
When it was completely expelled, Sig finally breathed a sigh of relief—because the "expulsion" method used was only a temporary separation, so it could be reabsorbed back into the body in a short time...
Before this, Sig had also experienced his own "pure" body, which should be the key that the "Unshadowed" ritual was meant to guide!
Shanks didn't notice that the last mushroom growing on Sig was different from the others...
Because those mushrooms symbolize "Seastone Factor"...