From the Wandenreich's escape to One Piece

Chapter 117 An Accidental Battle of Etwol? Vegapunk's Clone

That's right, Beltz was planning a naval battle at Eit Wall in advance!

After all, in the original work, the great naval battle that Shiki and Roger were preparing for alarmed the Marine Headquarters.

To prevent any contact between these two great pirates, Sengoku and Garp mobilized their entire forces.

Sengoku was specifically keeping an eye on Shiki, while Garp would always check on Roger's movements.

so----

If there were another Battle of Et Vall, the two strongest men in the Navy would be gone!

As long as these two are not around, the Navy Headquarters is just a bunch of chickens and dogs.

Beltz certainly didn't take them seriously.

Wouldn't it be easy to rob Alberu at this time?

"What kind of crazy idea are you coming up with now?"

Shiki raised an eyebrow after hearing Beltz's words.

Beltz then explained his plan, and when he heard that Beltz wanted him to fight Roger in order to lure Garp and Sengoku out of Marine Headquarters, Shiki couldn't help but say, "You're using me as cannon fodder, aren't you?!"

According to Beltz's idea, he obviously wanted to have a decisive battle with Roger, otherwise, it would not attract the attention of the Marine Headquarters if a few people simply went to contact Roger.

But he is not yet ready to go to war with Roger.

"Hey, how can you say that?" Beltz chuckled. "Haven't you always wanted to fight Roger? I'm giving you that chance."

"Once I bring Albert out, I will immediately come to your aid."

"Hehehehe—" Shiki laughed, hands on his hips, "This Alberu probably isn't of much use to you, is it? You just want to hand it over to Vegapunk for research, right? Once the research is finished, you can hand it over to me."

"This can be considered the reward for the upcoming naval battle."

"No problem." Beltz really didn't care much about Alberu. As long as he could get the Lunarians' bloodline factor, he could even mass-produce Lunarians through Vegapunk.

Shiki is too young; he doesn't understand Vegapunk's importance at all, and he's completely unaware of the importance of science and technology.

Moreover, he really doesn't need Alberu. Even if Alberu becomes King, his peak will only be when he fights Zoro under Kaido's command in the future.

They're just low-level officials, nothing more.

Disaster-level officers are impressive, but if Beltz wanted to, he could easily pull out several powerful captain-level figures as helpers, so naturally he wouldn't care about him.

Moreover, his idea wasn't wrong; if nothing unexpected happened, Vegapunk would still be able to create Seraphs.

Seraphim's combat power is much stronger than that of Disaster-level executives; after all, they are the strongest human ever created by Vegapunk.

"Okay, let's discuss this matter further."

Wanting to start a war with Roger isn't something you can just do on a whim; after all, you first need to know where Roger and his men are.

The remnants of the Roger Pirates and the Rocks Pirates were different; they had little interest in fighting for territory and simply wanted to be violent travelers.

Therefore, they have no fixed abode or territory, and in this vast ocean, finding them is not an easy task.

This kind of thing was naturally left to Shiki to do.

He returned to Onigashima and then went to Vegapunk's laboratory.

The red-haired brothers were taken to their room by Rukia and are now sleeping.

Enel was taken away by Shiki's men. Anyway, Enel's personality wasn't suited to be a good person, so he might as well just stay with Shiki and be a pirate.

"Vegapunk".

Beltz pushed open the laboratory door.

This place is completely different from the rugged pirate style outside; it's as if it's a fragment from a time warp, a laboratory from the future that has fallen into this era.

The cold, matte metal walls, countless screens displaying cascading streams of green data, and the air filled with the smell of ozone and some kind of cryogenic liquid.

The various precision instruments here hummed softly, like the breathing of a sleeping giant.

Beltz pushed open the airtight door, and the first thing he saw was a figure from behind. The person was wearing a heavy black tactical helmet with a conspicuous yellow "01" painted on the side.

On the dark blue work jacket, the "Caution" warning sign and the tally mark on the back are exceptionally clear under the cold light.

"So your experiment has been successful?"

After Beltz entered, he said, "Your clone? I should call him—"

Looking at the tally mark after his name, Beltz said, "Tall?"

"My name is Shakyamuni," said the Righteous Shakyamuni. "That's right, my clone experiment has been successful. Now I have seven of myself, which greatly improves my efficiency!"

"And what about you, the rest?"

Beltz looked left and right, but only saw Buddha.

"The main body is currently repairing them, and I'm the only one working on the normal tasks," Shakyamuni said. "However, my abilities are no different from the main body's."

"I understand that." Beltz thought for a moment, recalling Vegapunk's betrayal as the embodiment of desire in the original work, and then reminded him, "The other clones don't matter, but if you want to separate desire, I advise you not to."

"Hmm?" Shakyamuni frowned almost imperceptibly and said, "Desire—what's wrong?"

"Because desires are hard to control," Beltz said seriously. "Don't you harbor the desire to become a Celestial Dragon?"

Seeing that Shakyamuni was about to say something, Beltz immediately added, "Don't rush to deny it. In fact, everyone has the desire to become a Celestial Dragon, but the biggest difference between us and those beasts is that we can control our desires."

"But if you are someone who completely represents desire, can you really control it?"

Upon hearing this, Shakyamuni fell into deep thought.

He doesn't actually resist the World Government, since the World Government has been promoting the idea that they represent justice for so many years.

But Vegapunk really looked down on the Celestial Dragons.

To be honest, he only really admires the Navy.

It can only be said that the truth of this world is firmly in the hands of propaganda.

"So—you mean, we shouldn't separate our desires?"

"This is just my suggestion. If you think it's okay, I won't stop you," Beltz said. "But I might impose some minor restrictions at the time."

Actually, nothing has changed; this laboratory is now right in his shadow.

The shadow is completely isolated from the outside world. Even if Vegapunk had the ability to analyze his shadow power and run away, Desire could not possibly make such a big move without telling others.

and----

Even if the world government finds out, so what?

Is it possible for them to invade Wano Country?

That's impossible. Unless Im personally intervenes, Beltz really doesn't take the World Government seriously.

He, Shiki, and the future Kozuki Oden—any one of these three could stand on their own.

Even if Kozuki Oden and Shiki weren't on the same page, he still had to take action in resisting the World Government's invasion, right?

The World Government doesn't even dare to force its way into Wano Country, where Kaido is stationed. Would they dare to force their way into Wano Country, where all three of them are present?

"Let me think about it some more."

Shakyamuni also found it difficult to make a decision, mainly because desires were indeed a major obstacle to their experiments.

"Oh, by the way, these are some research materials I brought. See if any of them interest you?"

As he spoke, Beltz took another document out of his pocket.

When he returned to the Unknown Empire, he copied some of Mayuri Kurotsuchi's experimental data from the monitoring room.

Shakyamuni immediately took the document and began to read it carefully.

He was immediately drawn to it, because the research data on the first page was about the superhuman drug!

That's right, it's the superhuman drug that makes people's reaction speed millions of times faster!

If you eat this stuff, you can really become a superman.

Of course, if your body can't handle that kind of super reaction, then you're doomed.

Buddha thought, what if my brain could be enhanced millions of times—

Turtle————

That's something I can't even imagine.

His research efficiency will be further improved, and he will be able to create even more things!

"Where did you get these research materials?" Shakyamuni asked again, his doubts growing. "This person must be a genius no less than myself! Could I meet him?"

"Well—" Beltz coughed, "There should be another opportunity in the future, right?"

There's probably not much of a chance for him to get together with Mayuri Kurotsuchi, since they're complete enemies.

One side is a Shinigami, and the other is a Quincy. Moreover, Mayuri Kurotsuchi is a Shinigami who conducts all sorts of inhumane human experiments on Quincy!

As a Quincy, his bloodline could never reconcile with that of Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the ultimate war criminal.

However, both Kisuke Urahara and Aizen are top-tier scientists, so there might indeed be an opportunity for them to meet in the future.

"Oh, right, that bloodstain I gave you before—" Beltz thought of Yhwach's blood again, and asked, "How is it? Can it be replicated?"

If we could also extract Yhwach's bloodline factors and then replicate them —

Actually, this is quite abnormal. One Yhwach is already enough to make people suffer. What would happen if there were two Yhwachs?

After all, they are born children of war, needing constant warfare and the constant devouring of souls to sustain themselves.

Upon hearing this, Shakyamuni shook his head and said, "It's very difficult. That blood is different from everyone I've ever seen before. I've used all sorts of instruments, but let alone extracting the bloodline factor, even analyzing its properties is extremely difficult."

"Whose blood was that?"

Vegapunk was also very curious, as he had never seen blood like this before.

"What I want to say—"

Beltz wasn't disappointed by this; he simply replied, "Perhaps, they are fragments left behind by 'God' in the world."

"God?" Shakyamuni asked in surprise, "Does God really exist in this world?"

"Perhaps it really does exist," Beltz sighed. "Alright, I brought you a lot of funding this time, enough for your research over the next few years."

Then, Beltz generously took out all the gold treasure hidden in the shadows.

Other pirates set sail to fight for wealth, but he has no use for wealth and might as well use it to make money.

"You can research whatever you want, as long as you don't miss out on what I need."

Upon seeing this large sum of gold, Vegapunk exclaimed in shock, "Did you rob the Celestial Dragons' treasury?"

Although Beltz had previously said he was rich, he was still surprised to see so much gold.

But that's also why he liked working for Beltz; that guy was really rich!

He felt that even if he joined the World Government, he wouldn't receive this much financial support.

Most importantly, Beltz doesn't focus all his energy on weapons research; he spends most of his time researching whatever he wants!

"Don't worry, I'll definitely make it even better for you!"

"How's the Azure Dragon Fruit going?" Beltz asked when he heard Vegapunk say that. He had previously given Vegapunk his own bloodline factor, hoping that he could create another Azure Dragon Fruit.

After all, the Azure Dragon Fruit is really powerful. In the original work, he created another one, so what's wrong with creating another one here?

His illusory clones also need the Azure Dragon Fruit to increase their stats!

"Give me another year. I promise I can manufacture it after a year!"

A year?

The timing is just right.

Once Albert is brought back, his clone will begin to be created.

The illusory clones were created using Aaroniero's brain fluid, the Azure Dragon Fruit, the Gluttony Fruit, and Lunaria's bloodline factors.

The Death God clones were created using Blackbeard's bloodline factor, the Op-Op Fruit, the Lunaria bloodline factor, and Mayuri Kurotsuchi's artificial Death God technology.

Thinking about it this way, I just hope that the black-bearded bloodline factor doesn't affect the appearance of my Grim Reaper clone.

While it's hard to say in the world of One Piece, in the world of Bleach, appearance is also an important criterion for judging combat strength!

Well, while Blackbeard is a bit ugly, his mother Alice is quite a beauty.

Beltz suddenly thought of a rather frightening place.

If his clone ended up looking like Blackbeard, he really wouldn't be able to stand it.

etc----

Perhaps this Grim Reaper clone could really be designed as a female clone.

Beltz frowned slightly, feeling that his plan could be further refined.

Since we need to establish various balances, we also need to consider the balance between Yin and Yang.

"In her two alter egos, there is indeed a need for someone to act as the yin force."

In that case, it seems there's no need to worry about the Grim Reaper's clone growing into a black pig.

As for his own body—

He was ready to take a gamble.

He would wait a year to see how Vegapunk's analysis of Yhwach's blood would go.

If he could extract some useful information, he decided to modify his own entity as well!

Of course, he wasn't in a hurry to modify the main body.

Because he was also somewhat worried that Yhwach would notice him.

Therefore, he can modify the main body at the very end, when the clone and the main body are about to merge!

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