For Dragon, the Mirror-Mirror Fruit and the Warp-Warp Fruit have similar effects. The Mirror-Mirror Fruit grants the ability to travel long distances without Awakening, but this ability is easily exposed and targeted.
It might have miraculous effects at first, but it will definitely leak out over time. Then the country that wants to liberate it will order all the mirrors in its territory to be smashed, making a surprise attack impossible.
However, the Warp-Warp Fruit is different. Even without Awakening it, it can pass through any object except living things. A country can exist without mirrors, but it can't exist without houses and city walls, right? Using the Warp-Warp Fruit a surprise attack is impossible to defend against. Even if you know in advance, it's useless!
Furthermore, this ability can even be used to carry out assassinations the Beheader strikes by attaching oneself to buildings and walls. The only drawback is that before the ability Awakening, the troops need to land in the liberated country to make full use of it. So each has its advantages and disadvantages.
After much deliberation, Vic decided to give the Warp-Warp Fruit to Dragon, Mirror-Mirror Fruit to Ban's intelligence organization, or even to Ban himself.
When liberating a country, it is usually led by a few high-ranking cadres, but the real effort is put in by a large number of low-ranking soldiers. The high-ranking cadres are responsible for dealing with the country's high-end combat forces.
This is how the Revolutionary Army always did things, according to Koala's recollections. Sabo was always at the forefront, handling sieges and assaults, for which he was reprimanded by Koala more than once.
So landing isn't a big problem; it's something that can be done without the Warp-Warp Fruit. It's impossible that having this Devil Fruit would prevent it from being done. The problem lies in conquering territory, so the Warp-Warp Fruit is more suitable for the Revolutionary Army.
Ban's situation is different. He only needs to gather intelligence and rarely uses the Mirror-Mirror Fruit to travel between mirrors, thus ensuring his safety and maintaining secrecy.
He only needed to move the mirrors corresponding to the Mirror World in the rooms of the people he was focusing on and place them together, and he could easily monitor information about many people, just like sitting in front of a monitor and watching surveillance from multiple locations.
Why was Big Mom's intelligence gathering ability so strong in the original work? It's inseparable from Brulee's Mirror-Mirror Fruit ability. Even though Brulee was alone, there were many Totto Land in Whole Cake Island, and so many loyal Homies. They could be stationed in the Mirror World for a long time, each keeping an eye on one mirror. How could their intelligence gathering ability not be strong?
Therefore, Vic left the Mirror-Mirror Fruit to Ban, intending to build Ban's intelligence network into one second only to the World Government, capable of finding information that even the World Government couldn't obtain.
The World Government relies on a vast number of agents around the world for its intelligence, but some powerful individuals can perfectly evade those agents; their Observation Haki is no joke.
However, the Mirror-Mirror Fruit can detect information about these powerful individuals without them even noticing, something that even Observation Haki struggles to detect unless Observation Haki is exceptionally strong. Therefore, in terms of information about powerful individuals, the Mirror-Mirror Fruit's ability surpasses that of the World Government.
Dragon happily accepted the small box from Vic. He had no idea that Vic had stolen this Devil Fruit, and not just this one. He thought Vic had spent a lot of money to buy it, and he felt a little embarrassed that Vic had spent so much money on it again.
Therefore, he didn't ask about the people he was going to meet next. If he knew that Vic had three Devil Fruit, he would probably ask for them all. The Revolutionary Army is lacking these auxiliary Devil Fruit abilities.
Vic could guess this, so he let him leave in advance. He didn't mention the auction house robbery yet, because even if he found out later, it would be too late. The fruits had already been distributed, or even digested and excreted.
Besides, after this Dragon, Dragon was too embarrassed to ask Vic for it back. Vic had indeed given him the Warp-Warp Fruit he had photographed, regardless of how he obtained it. Asking again would be considered greedy. He could play the victim and act pitiful when they were together, but it would be pointless to bring it up after they parted ways.
Dragon had assumed that after paying for and Warp-Warp Fruit, Vic would leave Sabaody Archipelago with him. He was already waiting for Vic on the ship. However, he didn't expect Vic to take him to meet someone else. So, after the two met up and exchanged a few words, they headed towards Area 50. He was also very curious about who Vic was going to meet.
Vic felt that he was only a small leg, and even with the Revolutionary Army supporting him, he was still somewhat underdeveloped. Relying on Rebecca and the others to rob pirates for money was really a stretch.
The Gild Tesoro was definitely a true powerhouse, possessing over 20% of the world's wealth within a few years. This was exactly the kind of powerhouse the Revolutionary Army needed.
Of course, Tesoro isn't the true Gild Tesoro yet, nor does he have the wealth he'll later accumulate, but his future is definitely promising. Right now, he's a pretty good guy, as evidenced by how he spends money without even batting an eye today.
Furthermore, Tesoro also had the qualifications to become a staunch supporter of the Revolutionary Army. His beloved girlfriend Stella was captured and enslaved, and he tried every means to get all the money he could, but Stella was still bought by the Celestial Dragons!
He tried to resist, but in the end, he also became a slave of the Celestial Dragons, and his girlfriend Stella was even tortured to death by Celestial Dragons. Who could understand the complex feelings of heartache, humiliation, despair, resentment, and hatred he experienced?
The Celestial Dragons ' power was simply too great. Even after he ate the Gold-Gold Fruit and possessed 20% of the world's wealth, he was still powerless against those beasts and devils. He could only deceive himself and numb himself into believing that he could crush the Celestial Dragons with money!
It wasn't that he didn't want to seek revenge against the Celestial Dragons and the World Government; it was simply that he lacked the power and influence to do so. If Vic were to act as a go-between and connect him with the Revolutionary Army, would he have any reason to refuse?
The Revolutionary Army doesn't need him to do anything else, just provide money. Isn't making money exactly what he's good at? And it's all money from nobles and pirates anyway.
Even if Tesoro still harbors reservations and fears about the Celestial Dragons, and is hesitant to cooperate with the Revolutionary Army, he still has Fisher Tiger, the great benefactor who saved the Celestial Dragons' slaves, under Vic command. Shouldn't he acknowledge Fisher Tiger's life-saving grace?
Fisher Tiger can act as the middleman, handling all financial transactions between Tesoro and the Revolutionary Army. Tesoro can simply pretend he knows nothing else. His benefactor wants money, and he's giving him money to repay a debt of gratitude—it's perfectly reasonable, and no one can say anything about it. Does he expect his benefactor to ask where the money went?
So when Vic saw Tesoro at the auction, he was already planning to have the two get to know each other better!
In the original work, apart from a few capable cadres, the Revolutionary Army had a mixed bag of soldiers, both in quality and number. They were capable of liberating one or two countries, but if they wanted to liberate more countries, they would have to wait in line.
By the time Luffy Awakening his Nika Form, they can only carry out revolutions in five countries at the same time, and the Revolutionary Army can only play a guiding and auxiliary role. The vast majority of the liberated soldiers are the original rebels of those countries.
This level of revolutionary force is definitely not enough. Once he unites with others to overthrow the Celestial Dragons and the World Government, the Revolutionary Army simply won't be able to cover so many Affiliated Nation, and many of the fruits of the revolution will be stolen!
What Vic wants is for the Revolutionary Army to have enough power to control and revolutionize all countries that want to support the World Government while they are in a standoff with the Celestial Dragons and the World Government!