Pirate World: Restoration

Taking the elevator to the research institute below the Punk Record, Zell also saw other clones of Vegapunk.

No. 1, represents the righteous personality of Sakyamuni.

No. 3, represents the thought of Edison.

No. 4, represents the wisdom of Pythagoras.

No. 5, represents the furious Atlas.

No. 6, represents the desire of York.

Including No. 2, who was met before, representing the evil Lilith, there are exactly 6 clones.

Among the 6 clones, 3 are women, and Zell can only attribute it to Vegapunk's bad taste.

After walking for about half an hour, Zell finally saw the goal of this trip, which is also the technology he cares about most-artificial devil fruit technology.

"It is rumored that the devil fruit contains a devil, has self-awareness, and will find its owner on its own.

I am not sure about the superhuman and natural devil fruits, but I am sure that the animal devil fruit is alive.

By extracting the blood of animal ability users, I found the special bloodline factors, and these bloodline factors are the key to artificial devil fruits."

After Vegapunk finished speaking, the iron door in front of the two opened.

At a glance, more than a dozen culture dishes came into view, each of which contained a devil fruit.

Zel sank his consciousness into the system space and opened the search map. There was no red dot.

It seems that these artificial devil fruits are not recognized by the system.

"Are there any disadvantages of these artificial devil fruits? For example, making people laugh?"

Zel thought of the smille studied by Caesar in the original timeline, which is also an artificial devil fruit, but it has many disadvantages.

The most direct problem is the success rate. Among ten smille fruits, only one person can make a person with ability, and the other nine will become hilarious people who laugh non-stop.

Not only that, even if they are lucky enough to become a user of special abilities, most of them are incomplete.

For example, the body becomes a giraffe head, or the body appears in the mouth of a hippopotamus, and only the stomach can become a lion head and other strange-shaped special abilities.

"Laughing? Why laughing?" Vegapunk asked puzzledly.

"It's a failure, the kind that can't make people become special abilities, but can make people laugh."

"Can it still be called a failure? That's not the same thing as a devil fruit. How could I make that kind of thing?" Vegapunk looked at Zell with a look of looking at a fool.

Zell didn't care about Vegapunk's eyes, but just cursed Caesar, who had died long ago, in his heart. His research level was so poor that he regarded a product that was not even a failure as a normal product.

But it's normal to think about it. Vegapunk is the world's number one scientist. For him, the so-called failure is just a different color.

"So what are the side effects of these devil fruits?"

"Like ordinary ability users, they cannot touch sea water and are afraid of seastone."

"What else?"

"Well... can't awakening be considered a side effect? ​​By the way, the colors of these ability users may be different from the original ones."

Zel: "..."

Can different colors really be considered a side effect?

Compared with the color problem, he is more concerned about the awakening problem.

"Can't awaken?"

"Yes, according to my guess, the so-called awakening is to achieve a state of unity of mind with the devil in the devil fruit, and by using their power, improve the control of ability."

"You mean that the development of devil fruits is actually a process of understanding devils?"

"Yes, at least my brain-brain fruit is like this."

What Vegapunk said aroused Zel's interest. If awakening is to be united with the devil's mind, then is there another level above awakening?

For example... devouring the devil and merging with him.

Thinking of this, Zel temporarily put down the artificial devil fruit and talked to Vegapunk about another level above the awakening of the devil fruit.

"This idea is interesting, but it lacks basis. After all, there has never been such an example in the sea."

Vegapunk's face was solemn, and his brain began to work rapidly.

"No, there is an example!" Zel suddenly thought of a breakthrough.

"What?"

"Im!"

"If the power of the devil fruit is divided into three stages, then the first stage is that the devil's power can be used by oneself, and the second stage is to act on inorganic matter, that is, awakening, then what is the third stage?"

Vegapunk also connected to Zel's brain and said in shock: "Act on living things and affect other people!"

"That's right, the power of the Five Elders was given by Im, so they can live for 800 years and will not die!"

Zel's tone gradually became excited. Although he is now confident that he can touch Im, he is still worried about the unknown.There is still a certain fear.

As long as he knows what Im is, he will be sure to defeat him.

What Zel doesn't know is that if he travels a little later, he can see the second person who can influence others.

The sun god Nika, not only Luffy, but also Bonnie.

As long as you believe in the sun, everyone is Nika, so isn't it a manifestation of influencing living things?

After listening to Zel's analysis, Vegapunk also became interested.

"If you follow this line of thought, animal-type ability users are most likely to achieve the third stage."

Animal-type, among the fantasy beasts, the sun god Nika.

Thinking of this, Zell said, "Dr. Punk, do you know Nika?"

"Sun God Nika?"

"That's right. If I guess correctly, Joy Boy should also be a person with the ability to achieve the third stage, so he can compete with the World Government."

"It's very likely, but I don't know much about these things. Maybe you can go to Clover to find out."

Zel nodded, thinking that he would have to talk to Clover about Joy Boy sometime.

"By the way, Doctor, is there any difference between my bloodline factor and that of ordinary people with abilities?"

Thinking that there is another stage above awakening, Zell was a little worried that his devil fruit could not achieve the third stage. After all, his devil fruit was given by the system, eliminating all side effects.

"Your bloodline factor is very strange, not pure, like a combination of a large group of bloodline factors."

Zel nodded, which was not wrong. His bloodline was indeed a fusion of a large number of different bloodlines.

"But your bloodline factor is surprisingly stable, and the inheritance is very stable, which is why Rorschach and the others have such strong talents."

Zel knew all that Vegapunk said, and he was more curious about whether he could achieve the third stage of the devil fruit.

Zel was of course puzzled after hearing this, and Vegapunk nodded solemnly.

"Of course, after all, you can awaken, so the devil fruit you ate must have a devil in it."