Saentu was clearly even more excited.
He came here every single day.
The Devil Fruit clearly had yet to ripen. It was only the size of a cherry.
Yet it had grown to that size overnight. It might take only a week to become a fully formed Devil Fruit.
They had truly succeeded in creating a god, and a miracle had appeared before their eyes.
Hades could "see" even more clearly that the tiny Devil Fruit was slowly "growing."
This was further proof that their method of creating Devil Fruits was sound.
Perhaps the number of Devil Fruits in the world increased at regular intervals.
Devil Fruits were, by their very nature, conceptual powers.
The appearance of something new signified the birth of a new concept.
At the same time, it would spur the formation of a Devil Fruit.
It needed time—or rather, a sufficiently established concept and enough people who knew about it.
From the moment the concept of Io had been created and woven into mythology, it had taken only a little over a decade for this Devil Fruit to come into being.
After all, that concept had reached a full five hundred million people. The Kronos Kingdom's homeland alone had a population of one hundred and fifty million.
Meanwhile, the Pluton Sea had continually attracted people from across the New World over the years, coupled with the kingdom's management and development of its islands.
Each island had an average population of two hundred thousand, not even counting large islands such as Paros Island.
Once the population grew, the pace of development was bound to accelerate considerably.
There were also the even broader waters to the north, west, and east of the Kronos Kingdom.
Of course, the reach was still primarily within the Kronos Kingdom.
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