Three months later.
After some time, Hades finally identified the exact abilities of the unknown Devil Fruits the World Government had sent him.
With Zoan Devil Fruits, eating one was enough to reveal its ability. Paramecia fruits required some testing.
As for the Paramecia fruits, recording their basic abilities would suffice for now. Everything else depended on how their powers were developed.
Zoan Devil Fruits were much easier to judge: strong was strong, and weak was weak.
Two of the Devil Fruits surprised Hades.
Zoan, Variant Species, Snake-Snake Fruit: Demon Snake Form.
Zoan, Variant Species, Bug-Bug Fruit: Three-Tailed Emperor Scorpion Form.
The creatures represented by both Devil Fruits belonged to the Variant Species.
As everyone knew, Logia, Paramecia, and Zoan were the three broad categories of Devil Fruits.
Paramecia fruits could be divided into several types according to the nature of their abilities.
Then there were Zoan fruits like the Vampire Fruit and Werewolf Fruit, which could grant people eternal life.
Their special ability to extend a person's lifespan was enough to place them in a separate category: Long-Lived Species.
Variant Species were another such category.
Why were they called Variant Species?
They were powerful, rare creatures that existed in the present age. They had evolved from ordinary living things through successive beneficial mutations.
Each was unusual, found only in a few remote places with harsh environments.
They had evolved again and again to survive those conditions.
This world had far more species and living creatures than Hades's previous world.
What was more, many creatures possessed special abilities. Three simple categories could not encompass them all.
Many Variant Species were no weaker than Ancient Creatures. Some were even stronger.
At God Valley, the Celestial Dragons' collections had held all kinds of strange species no one had ever heard of. Some