Chopper blushed and fidgeted bashfully in the elevator after receiving a flurry of high praise from Leo.
Listening closely to the reports given to him by Ivankov and Trafalgar Law, Leo nodded with a solemn expression.
Obviously, even though the Revolutionary Army had cracked the secret of Zoan Devil Fruits, it did not mean they possessed the capability to directly manufacture Zoan Devil Fruits on a massive scale—as for Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits, they could not even dream of such a thing.
That was a secret bound up with Logia fruits.
This was very likely the highest secret of the gods overturned by the Celestial Dragons or even the Celestial Dragons themselves.
If this secret were unlocked, the impact would probably be no less than humanity mastering controllable nuclear fusion.
In the face of such power, everything else had to step aside.
Their elevator descended all the way, stopping only when they reached the middle section of the mountain.
The advantages of the mid-mountain location went without saying; whether coming from the outside, below, or above, a massive amount of time and engineering effort was required.
Unless one possessed the abilities of the Stone-Stone Fruit or the Push-Push Fruit, breaching this place remained exceedingly difficult.
In addition, the Revolutionary Army had several layers of insurance. Apart from the elevators plunging deep into the mountain, there was the ability of Trafalgar Law. His power could cover most of the research base, and with a simple Room and Shambles, he could teleport intruders straight outside the research base. On the sheer, unsupportive exterior of the mountain, unless one could fly, anyone who came would be completely doomed.
Even if they did not die from the fall, by the time they climbed all the way back up, the high-end combat forces inside the