The Black Prince of Pirates

Elus has previously considered how to use artificial Devil Fruits, but Caesar has never had any results. He only has the one created by Vegapunk, and Caesar himself admitted it to Elus. , even with Vegapunk’s experimental data, it would be difficult to replicate Vegapunk’s success.

Because Vegapunk's only success was strictly the product of a fluke. The materials consumed during the period were a bit unbearable even for a behemoth like the World Government. The cost of creating an artificial Devil Fruit can be obtained on the black market. Bought seven or eight devil fruits.

Although it is said that technology can continue to be improved in the later stage, Vegapunk also said that there is not much room for improvement. At most, it can improve the success rate of manufacturing, increase production speed and output, but it is difficult to reduce the cost of consumption. Creating Devil Fruits is inevitable. A corresponding price must be paid.

What Vegapunk can't do, Caesar can't do either.

However, this guy is quite good at doing evil things. At the cost of lowering the quality of the artificial Devil Fruit, he created a mysterious substance called 'sad' as the main material. Not only did he successfully create the artificial Devil Fruit, but he also greatly Reduces the price to be paid.

after all,

The source of the mysterious substance sad is human beings. Caesar extracted this substance from human life using a technology that Elus could not understand and was too lazy to figure out. He also named it a name that means sadness. Eleus sent a large number of pirates and criminals to Caesar to use as raw materials.

There are a large number of pirates and criminals who are not famous. For Elus, these guys are really cheap and affordable raw materials. The most important thing is that there is an endless supply of such raw materials. As long as the sea is still there, The pirates will not disappear.

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On Skadi Island, the snow is falling, the wind is biting, and it is a freezing scenery of ice and snow.

Fortunately, there is heating supply in the research institute, which dispels the biting cold outside. Sitting in the room, you can drink hot coffee and quietly admire the silver-covered world outside the window. Elus enjoys this time very much, and his bedroom is Located on the top floor of the institute.

Every time I come to the institute, when I stay alone in the room, I have a cup of steaming coffee and milk and listen to the howling of the wind and snow outside the window.

It was one of his many pleasures.

but,

Today Elus did not go to the upper level, but went directly to the lower level of the research institute, which is the underground area. This part of the underground space is the real core of the research institute, including experiments on artificial devil fruits and dragon series creatures. The manufacturing of weapons and the production of H2S poison gas are all underground.

There is no trace of dirt on the snow-white walls, and there is no other furniture except a table in the empty room. At this moment, a group of people are gathered around the table, for no other reason than the There are three weird-looking 'apples' on a white porcelain plate with an extra-large turkey.

The three apples are dark green, light pink, and dark yellow. On the outer skin of the fruit, there are wonderful ring-shaped patterns. They look like poisonous mushrooms that contain highly toxic poisonous mushrooms, which are gorgeous and fatally attractive. charm.

"Devil Fruits...so many!"

Her bright red eyes were staring straight at the Devil Fruit on the plate. The maid with long red hair as bright as fire opened her eyes in disbelief, "Your Highness, these...are really demons." Fruit?”

"It's an artificial devil fruit of the animal type."

Eleus corrected.

Yes, all the artificial Devil Fruits here are of the animal type.

The reason for this result is still the blood factor. The manufacturing technology of artificial devil fruits originated from the discovery of the blood factor. When Caesar made these artificial devil fruits, he extracted a large amount of animal genes and mixed them into them, allowing them to These Devil Fruits all turned into animal-type Devil Fruits.

As for the natural system,

no way,

Caesar tried to mix all kinds of strange things into it, including solid substances such as snowflakes, sand, magma, and ice cubes, and also tried to incorporate uncaptured substances such as flames and light... The results were all without exception. All failed.

There's also the Superman type, which is even more fucked up.

I don’t know what kind of raw materials to mix into those strange abilities.

After much research, it turns out that only the animal-type Devil Fruit can be theoretically consistent and can also be produced in reality - this is the conclusion Caesar came to after experiencing hundreds of failures.

"Caesar, are these the first batch of products?"

Eleus asked, pointing to the devil fruit on the plate.

"That's right, Your Highness, these artificial Devil Fruits are all trial products. They will not enter the mass production stage until you take a look at them. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!!!" Caesar smiled happily, and he arrived at Skadi Island soon. It's been a year, and this less than a year is probably the most proud time in his life so far.

There's no annoying Vegapunk telling you what to do here.

As the director of the research institute, as long as Eleus does not show up, he is the highest authority here. Capas, the supervisor left by Eleus, spends about twenty hours a day sleeping and awake. Of the four hours, two were used for meals, and the remaining two never interfered with Caesar's actions.

Here he can do research to his heart's content, and no matter what he asks for, it will be provided to him. Compared with when he stayed in the Naval Science Force before, the various benefits are not bad at all, or even worse. After all, Eleus has only one research talent like Caesar under his command, and does not have any other strong competitors.

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's try now to see if these artificial Devil Fruits are really successful." Elus picked up the dark green artificial Devil Fruits and played with them carefully in his hands while urging Caesar to prepare for the experiment.

Yes,

The creation of these 'apples' on the plate is not a complete success. We still need to find people to take these 'apples' to thoroughly confirm whether these artificial devil fruits are effective. Eleus's memory in his previous life But I clearly remember that the Beast Pirates have a group of warriors who have eaten artificial devil fruits but have no ability to awaken and can only laugh.

Pleasing One, if I remember correctly, is this name.

The artificial devil fruit created by Caesar in the memory of the previous life has such a flaw. Not everyone who eats the fruit can gain abilities. On the contrary, if they do not gain abilities, they will lose their sad emotions and become a monster that can only laugh. .

Of course, the devil fruits created by Caesar now seem to have taken a different route. There are no small humans here in Elus to help cultivate fruit trees that can produce these 'apples'. The three 'apples' in front of them are completely Industrial creation.

So Elus is also curious whether these artificial Devil Fruits still have the same flaws.

For this reason, he issued an order for Caesar to postpone the experiment to verify whether the artificial Devil Fruit was really effective, and waited until he came in person to start the experiment that should have been conducted half a month ago.

Caesar shouted and directed the staff to send another experimental product to this empty room. They were three heavily shackled prisoners, two men and one woman. The older man had a gray beard and was already in his 50s. , the young man is only in his 20s, and the woman No. 3 looks like she is in her thirties.

These three people were originally pirates. They came from different pirate groups. The only thing they had in common was that their pirate groups were destroyed by Elus's attendants, and all the living pirates were escorted to This Skadi Island is used as raw material for the production of sad.

Naturally, their use has now been changed. They no longer need to be used as firewood for the production of sad. Instead, they need to eat the 'apples' that are as bright as poisonous mushrooms.

"Your Highness, start now?"

Caesar asked.

"Are you not ready yet?" Elvus glanced sideways at Caesar, who was floating in the air twenty or thirty centimeters above the ground. "If you don't start quickly, what are you waiting for? Waiting for these three useless people who can't lift their hands. Do you want to eat?”

Caesar could never muster the courage to face Eleus. The two qualities of madness and cowardice had long been engraved in his soul. He would never be able to change this cowardice in his life. Eleus taught him a lesson. After the communication, he did not dare to waste any more time and immediately directed his subordinates to take action.

Devil Fruits were force-fed to three prisoners.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of the fruit, a whole Devil Fruit was forced into the mouths of the prisoners without leaving any residue. After all three Devil Fruits were eaten, the rest of the staff were Si waved his hand and drove him out, leaving Fran and Caesar to closely observe the changes in the prisoners.

Anyway, with Elus' ability, he has nothing to fear even if these prisoners turn into high explosives and explode suddenly. Fran and Caesar can stay for the same reason. They are not afraid of unexpected changes and have enough confidence to cope with everything. accident.

"vomit······"

The prisoners' first reaction was to retching.

The heavy shackles restricted their mobility, but the gags on their mouths were removed, and they could still perform such actions as retching. Judging from their immediate reaction of lowering their heads and retching, these artificial It's hard to say whether Devil Fruits have real 'devil power', but the taste may not be much worse than real Devil Fruits.

Saliva flowed from the corners of the prisoners' mouths, but the Devil Fruits they had eaten were not spit out.

"I curse you, you damn beasts, I curse you to a bad death..." The first person to recover from retching was the only woman among the three, whose eyes were sealed by a blindfold. , the female pirate whose hands and feet were restrained by shackles cursed loudly and uttered as vicious a curse as she could.

but,

The curse didn't last long.

Very suddenly, the expression on her face suddenly changed. The painful mask of anger, despair, and madness seemed to be smoothed away by an invisible hand. The corners of her mouth turned up, outlining a happy expression. of arc.

She laughed.

This female pirate with pretty good looks showed a bright smile.

"Hahaha... What the hell is going on? You, what did you give me to eat?" Her question was so painful and desperate, but the smile on her face was still so bright, both of them There is such a sharp contrast between them.

Naturally, there was no answer to her question.

Just as she smiled and cursed almost to the point of collapse, the other two people also had different changes.

The young man in his 20s also laughed, but the old pirate in his 50s next to him had thick black hair growing on his body, and his two shackled arms stretched until they were longer than his. He stopped when he reached his legs.

"Clang!!!"

The old pirate was very experienced, even though he didn't see what he was eating.

But the indescribably bad taste and physical changes made him guess the answer to Devil Fruit at the first time. Although he didn't know why these people made him eat such a precious thing as Devil Fruit, the instinct of survival made him He immediately tried to use this sudden power.

The thick long arms covered with jet black hair burst out with great strength, and the shackles made of steel were torn apart.

He took off his blindfold, resisted the glare of the light, and vaguely saw three figures standing not far in front of him, so he rushed forward, clenched his fists, waved his long arms, and walked toward the standing Elus in the middle punched out.

"Snapped!"

The old pirate was knocked out and stuck to the snow-white wall like a piece of flying cake.

Elus saved his strength and was not willing to blow up the experimental object with one punch. He only interrupted the old pirate's hands and feet, causing him to lose his mobility.

then,

His green eyes looked at the director of the research institute next to him, "Caesar, please explain, what is the situation now?" Of the three Devil Fruits, only one successfully triggered the power. The other two all failed.

There is too little experimental data to conclude that the success rate of this thing is only one-third.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, it is not the ideal result for Elus!

"This, that... let me think about it..."

Caesar laughed dryly and stuttered about this and that. He really didn't expect that he would fail. His conceited personality made him full of mysterious confidence in himself. Even though he had experienced more than one failure in previous research, His mysterious self-confidence has not been wiped away.

Every time I fail, I will be scared to death, and I will not learn any lessons.

"I don't understand research matters, but for the next experiment... I hope to see a [-]% success rate." Eleus did not hold Caesar accountable. He only had such a usable scientific research talent at his disposal. Even if I have all kinds of problems, I can only hold my nose and endure it.