In the One Piece World, at the New Chaldea Base, Ye Uchiha sat in a chair before a table covered with strangely patterned fruits. There were roughly thirty or forty of them, ranging from top-tier Logia and Mythical Zoan fruits to the most ordinary Paramecia and Zoan fruits.
Ye Uchiha had no intention of eating them. Although Devil Fruit powers were formidable, their weaknesses were obvious: seawater, seastone, and Armament Haki could counter them.
Most importantly, they tasted awful—supposedly on par with shit. Ye Uchiha had no taste for such bizarre experiences, so he planned to hand them over to his fledgling scientific team for research. With Vegapunk, the One Piece World’s foremost scientific genius, newly joining their ranks, the combined knowledge of several worlds should be enough to unravel the powers of Devil Fruits.
The vast, magnificent sea was anything but peaceful at the moment. In the days since the World Government had been destroyed and Chaldea had taken its place, the resulting turmoil was easy to imagine. The Four Emperors' pirate crews, deeply entrenched in the New World, the remnants of the World Government, and the Revolutionary Army, seasoned experts at rebellion, had all begun stirring up trouble.
Although Chaldea's foundations and accumulated strength were enough to crush every force in this world, that did not mean it had the manpower to rule the entire world.
After all, every world was simply too vast. Even with its wealth of talent, Chaldea could not bring every world entirely under its rule, so it generally governed their inhabitants through a mixture of direct control and local autonomy.
Administrative teams from the Hundred Schools of Thought in the World of Qin's Moon, ninja combat units from the Ninja World, and magical construction teams from the Shield Hero World continued pouring into