Moria's behavior before and after was too different, but it must be based on the highest achievement. Anyway, S-Bat's performance was very good. Even without his Devil Fruit ability, he could still deal with several CP0 attacks!
Vegapunk's hardware for Seraphim too tough. It comes with insane defense and recovery power right out of the box. Combined with Kizaru's Laser Beam, it can attack and defend, and fight both at long range and in close combat. Even without the added benefit of Devil Fruit power, it is definitely a weapon of war!
Vegapunk provided Devil Fruit abilities to all those who didn't have them, and those who were originally Paramecia were simply copied and used. Only Crocodile, who Logia, needed to choose a more suitable Paramecia ability for his Seraphim!
Looking at the teenage Crocodile, Vic knew that some of the rumors were unbelievable. He really wasn't a woman, not even from childhood to adulthood, and S-Crocodile's ability was actually the Paramecia Gold-Gold Fruit!
Given the cooperative relationship between Dragon and the Gild Tesoro, obtaining his Lineage Factor would be quite easy. It's likely that Vegapunk gave the Seraphim S-Crocodile such an ability because he saw the Gold-Gold Fruit most Logia a Logia-type power!
Of course! S-Crocodile did not disappoint with this ability. It was just as powerful as Logia when used. Apart from not being able to transform into an element, it was not much different from Logia abilities!
Furthermore, given the Seraphim's innate abilities, whether they can transform into elements doesn't seem to be very important. Do they need to transform into elements to avoid attacks? Can't they just take the hits head-on?
If you can't withstand an attack, even if you can transform into an element, it's not very meaningful. That means the enemy is too powerful, and even if you can truly transform into an element, it won't be of any use.
After observing for a moment, Vic realized that the Seraphim for the sake of fighting, rather than with the intention of defeating or killing the enemy!
Looking at the Revolutionary Army members who had been watching from the sidelines, Vic guessed that the purpose of this battle was to teach the Seraphim more combat skills and quick thinking, feeding them with real combat experience.
Just as AI needs a lot of learning to grow faster, the Seraphim's brain has this function. Although this method is still not as good as the on-the-spot performance of a combat genius, the lower limit is high enough that at least the Seraphim's response will not be wrong!
Just like playing chess with AI against chess masters, apart from a few top players who can beat AI, everyone else will struggle to win no matter how hard they try, because AI learns and has collected all the combos and brilliant moves that have ever appeared on the market.
With each move, the AI can deduce multiple possible solutions leading to the end, all of which can win against you. If your next move is not among the AI's proposed solutions, it will continue to deduce other solutions based on that, and this happens every single time!
If your moves cannot break out of the usual patterns and routines, then you are not far from losing. Only top players can innovate and make brilliant moves that have never been made before, catching the AI off guard!
The same Seraphim. The more battles he experiences, the fewer mistakes he makes in battle, gradually reaching a peak that most people cannot reach, a peak that only battle geniuses can tread upon!
Vic used to improve his combat thinking and reduce his error rate through actual combat, but he no longer needed to do so later on!
Because the Speed-Speed Fruit's power accelerates his thought processes, he possesses an almost AI-like ability to deduce and analyze during battle!
When the enemy launches a single attack, he can immediately devise multiple countermeasures, and he will continue to analyze and deduce each countermeasure until he arrives at the final move that will defeat the enemy!
Every time they exchanged blows, several combos that would defeat the enemy would immediately appear in his mind!
Many people possess this level of analytical and deductive ability; given time, they can analyze and deduce, and even devise more countermeasures.
Even those with less skill can roughly deduce the answer by writing or drawing on paper.
But that's in battle. Every second of pause could mean certain death, killing you multiple times. In a life-or-death struggle, there's not much time for analysis and prediction!
Only true combat geniuses, or those with exceptional adaptability, can make the right decisions and strategize how to defeat their opponents in a very short time.
Therefore, only AI can deduce multiple countermeasures in a very short time. This is the fundamental reason why AI is superior to the human brain—it simply uses speed to overcome slowness!
Therefore, it's not an exaggeration to say that Vic is a humanoid AI. His thinking speed is comparable to that of an AI. So, given enough time, what an AI can do, a human can also do, and even do better. It all depends on whether you give him enough time!
"This... this! Is all of this real? Such a horrifying event actually happened 800 years ago!"
No wonder the World Government wanted to erase that history, no wonder the Celestial Dragons didn't treat us like human beings—they were a different race!
Those beastly acts are simply their nature! Our resistance is all the more meaningful now!
Dragon finally snapped out of his disbelief; what Vic showed him shattered his worldview!
He never imagined that the World Government and the Celestial Dragons ' predecessors were actually despicable invaders who not only wanted to rule them from a high position, but also to erase history and sever their lineage, plunder the local wealth for their own enjoyment, treat the local lives like livestock to be taken and plundered at will, and still expect them to be grateful and respect them!
More than 800 years have passed since then. If Joy Boy hadn't left behind his Ark Maxim, who would know the cruel truth of this world? Dragon felt a chill run down his spine just thinking about it. This was a plan to enslave their bodies and minds and exterminate their race!
"I don't know if it's true or not, but this is what Joy Boy left in Laugh Tale. Whether it's real or fake, you'll have to judge for yourselves!"
If the World Government truly hasn't done anything wrong, then why did they erase that history? Why did they prohibit the study of Ancient Script? What are they hiding? What are they afraid of?
Vic doesn't know if the information Joy Boy left behind is true; there's really no way to verify that for now.
It's estimated that only when they find Kozuki Toki, who traveled across the river of time 800 years ago to reach this era, will they know the Celestial Dragons ' true identities!
However, Kozuki Toki died at Kaido's hands long ago, and Kozuki Oden left no trace of him, so we can only make our own judgment!
Given the numerous benefits Vic received from Joy Boy, and the World Government's guilty conscience, Vic is definitely on Joy Boy's side!
Actually, it wouldn't be too difficult for Vic to verify this; he just needs to follow Joy Boy's path and seek verification in the universe.
However, with a major battle imminent, he had no choice but to stay. It was because of this that he believed Joy Boy's words even more. The reputation of the Celestial Dragons' ancestors in the universe was too easy to verify, and Joy Boy would not tell such an easily exposed lie!
" Mr. Vic! Is Imu that Im sitting on the Empty Throne in Pangaea Castle? How can he live so long? Is it some kind of legendary Perennial Youth Operation?"
After his initial shock, Sabo recalled his encounter in Pangaea Castle —the man who sat high on the Empty Throne, the powerful figure who called himself Mu and had the Five Elders as his servants. Such a person could only Imu, the one mentioned in Joy Boy's message!