"They were exactly identical." Chopper stood beside them with his hands behind his back, his little belly puffed out as he explained to Leo, "Not only had we found the genetic code of Zoan Devil Fruits, but we had also mastered their wavelengths. We could now almost perfectly imitate ordinary Zoan Devil Fruits."
Leo noticed the word "imitate." "So the Devil Fruits we're making still can't be completely identical to natural Devil Fruits for now?"
"Mm." Chopper nodded bashfully, wriggling a little. "Because we discovered that Devil Fruits can evolve. Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits, for instance, evolved from ordinary Devil Fruits."
"Once a Devil Fruit was developed to a certain extent, it could gain certain supernatural abilities and undergo a qualitative leap."
His words startled Leo. "You never mentioned that in the report."
That was right. This was extremely important intelligence. If it was true, then everyone who had eaten a Devil Fruit was a lab rat of the "gods," and they were using humans to carry out some sort of Devil Fruit evolution and advancement.
If Mythical Zoan Devil Fruits came from Zoan Devil Fruits, then from a certain perspective, it could also explain why Logia Fruits had superior and inferior relationships.
Logically speaking, how could elements in nature be ranked above or below one another?
But once the Lava-Lava Fruit became a superior fruit to the Flame-Flame Fruit, and the Ice-Ice Fruit became a superior fruit to the Snow-Snow Fruit, it explained why ice could restrain snow and lava could restrain flame.
Elements that should have had no hierarchy in nature, even elements that had no relation whatsoever, evolved because humanity's understanding of them changed. When someone developed his Devil Fruit to the limit and entered the next stage, his own understanding of the Devil Fruit could have