With that, he strode toward the elevator, and the giant bear that had eaten the Munch-Munch Fruit followed him.
Carol followed the hurried Vegapunk.
They entered the elevator, which stopped after going up two floors.
After passing verification, they entered the laboratory.
Rows of tanks filled with nutrient fluid stood inside.
They contained large amounts of flesh and many corpses.
The flesh consisted of cells or extracts from various rare races.
As for the corpses...
Many of the faces were familiar...
Weevil, Mihawk, Boa Hancock, and others, for instance...
By now, all of them had undergone mechanical modification and become robots.
Although Boa Hancock's modifications were complete and she could undo the petrification of the soldiers at the G-8 branch, the time was not yet right...
There was no way to explain it...
As for Weevil, known as Whitebeard II, he had been thoroughly dead when he arrived, so none of his abilities remained. But after his immensely powerful body was modified...
He could take an incredible beating... and was also a formidable fighting force.
Over here.
Vegapunk led Carol to the corpse of Dracule Mihawk, the "Navy Hunter."
After his great battle with Bullet, Mihawk had lost his left arm, and all his ribs had been shattered. Fortunately, his head was intact.
During the modifications, Vegapunk had reforged his skeleton using memory metal synthesized through the Munch-Munch Fruit's ability, then transplanted it into Mihawk's corpse.
With half his skeleton made of metal and the memories retained in his head, he had been transformed into a highly intelligent Great Swordsman robot.
He possessed eighty percent of the original "Navy Hunter" Dracule Mihawk's combat strength, and that could still increase.
As his intelligence continued to analyze, integrate, and learn in the future, his strength would keep recovering, perhaps even reaching greater