Bang!
With an audible crack from the neck, a head grew out of it.
Even an awakened Nika Form could not kill Saint Saturn outright with this ability of his.
Shane had certainly wanted to use his Vampire Form and the Dark-Dark Fruit to steal his life force and suppress his Devil Fruit powers.
Unfortunately, they had not awakened. Although Saint Saturn had neglected his training, his foundations remained, and both his Haki and Devil Fruit had reached advanced awakening.
At this level, the role Devil Fruits could play diminished.
However, Shane had also noticed that two Devil Fruits were the most unusual of them all.
The first was Nika. Even if it could not kill Saint Saturn immediately, it could alter his physique, perhaps even flatten him into a pancake.
The second was the Dark-Dark Fruit. Saint Saturn had been suppressed by it back at God Valley, and while its suppressive effect was stronger against ability users, that did not mean it had no effect on ordinary people.
As it happened, Shane had both.
Although these two Devil Fruits were the hardest to awaken, Shane had been training with them for a long time. Apart from his original three Devil Fruits, they were currently the ones he had developed the furthest and spent the longest developing.
The original three Devil Fruits had the advantage of time.
Munch-Munch, Black Dragon, and Paw-Paw.
Two Devil Fruits had already awakened. Apart from those, Nika was the sole legacy from eight hundred years ago, a Perfect Devil Fruit made by the previous era's Vegapunk.
It had been trapped in the desert and thus could not roam the world, but Shane had always wondered whether this thing might be the Demon Compass's handiwork.
It had even come with an ancient robot giant. After all,