I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

The cups and plates shattered from the vibration.

Only what was in front of Figo remained.

"You are too arrogant, King of Qinghai."

Kuris stood up and said, "Do you think that out of the hundred Four-Lamp Kings in the starry sky, only 16 are recognized as the strongest? If we stretch the timeline to 3200 years, there are thousands of Four-Lamp Kings born in the starry sky. Do you know why only Rilen Torvor lit the fifth lamp and is called the strongest?"

“I know,” Figo said. “Because lighting the second lamp is ten times more difficult than lighting the first, the third lamp is ten times more difficult than lighting the second, the fourth lamp is ten times more difficult than the third, and then the fifth lamp suddenly jumps to a hundred times more difficult.”

从数据上看，就是从1、12、123、1234的规律，忽然来了一个跳跃，100%点燃第五盏灯火，需要的是600、500、400、300万的能力，再加要点的第五盏100万！

"Therefore, among the kings who lit the fourth lamp, there is a huge difference in power between them, and the top 16 are exceptionally powerful."

Know? That makes sense. As one of the 13 kings of the Starry Sky Gazette, you shouldn't be unaware of this information. So why did you dare...? A strange look finally flashed across the face beneath Kuris's mask. He said, "The Starry Sky Gazette will not offend the captain for your sake. Your arrogance will bring annihilation to Qinghai."

"Really? Annihilation?" Figo put down his chopsticks, stood up, and laughed. "Now it's my turn to ask you a question. Eleven years ago, I already lit the fourth lamp. So guess what I've been doing for the past eleven years?"

11 years ago... what does that mean?

“I’m working hard to cultivate myself and catch up with those 16,” Figo explained to him.

Chase after them? Impossible!

"Don't believe me? Then let's try it."

Kuris felt a chill run down his spine and waved his hands.

"The Curse of Powerlessness!"

"The Curse of Slowing Down!"

"A curse of bad luck!"

A halo of light spread outwards.

In an instant, Curse's Curse-Curse Fruit was used to its fullest extent, and various negative status effects were entangled on Figo, but Figo's movement speed still exceeded the limit that Curse could withstand!

Just like the bullets of the Eighth God General.

No, how could this be?!

don't want!!

Beneath his mask, a look of horror crossed his face. As the Plague Pirates' executives gasped in disbelief, Figo's fist slammed into Kures's cheek!

The mask shattered instantly, and an old face bleeding from all seven orifices was slammed to the ground!

The destructive power was transmitted.

Ares's castle airship ultimately could not escape the fate of exploding. Amidst the rumbling sound, the ammunition depot, fuel depot, and Uniqlo all exploded in mid-air with Figo's punch!

From a distance, the exploding flames were as dazzling as the sun, making it seem as if a second sun had appeared on Pistols, its brilliant sunlight shining down on the earth.

Kures and the Plague Pirates' officers were all swallowed up by the sun's radiance.

And Figo stands at the center of the sun.

Chapter 218 The Origin of the Experimental Team

[Prisoner: Balbuena]

[Rank: UR8]

[Status: Detained]

Crime Index: 6003

[Participation rate in the arrest: 100%]

[Optional Benefits: Devil Fruit Development, Mind Network, Teaching, Manipulation, Currency Printing, Planetary Governance, Physical Fitness]

[Characters and events...]

Lying on the ground, his face covered in blood, Kuris was bound by heavy chains. He struggled and reached out to Figo, his old face full of pleading: "No, don't kill me, please, please..."

Then he fell into a coma.

Meanwhile, on the collapsed mountainside, Ares' other officers lay sprawled on the ground, unconscious.

The six officers that Ares valued most, four of whom were UR7 and two were UR8, were comparable in strength to the other six members of Beelzebub, excluding Yana. However, the current Figo was completely different from the one 14 years ago.

Six people, couldn't last three minutes!

“Barbuena…Kuris is an alias?” Figo frowned as he looked at the unconscious angel elder before him.

A crime index of 6003 broke the record he had ever seen, while the other five only had a score of one or two thousand. Of course, if Ares could be captured, this record might be broken even further.

Beside him, Odak's glasses were shattered from the explosion of the airship. He said with difficulty, "You had planned to do this all along?"

“Well, don’t you know? Our Qinghai Navy prides itself on justice.” Figo pointed to the green mist above that was shutting out the clean air and said, “If you don’t see it, fine, but if you do, you have to mind your own business. Besides, they’ve always been hostile to me and have even threatened Qinghai repeatedly.”

"...When Ares returns and finds out you've wiped out his airship and all his men, he'll go completely insane."

"Go ahead and be crazy. I'll just tell him that the Eighth Divine General made an agreement with me to cooperate. Wouldn't he go even crazier and then fight me to the death?"

This guy isn't afraid at all; he's even worried that Ares isn't angry enough, worried that... Ares will escape? Are the 16 strongest people in the Star Space really going to become 17?

Or is it still 16 people?

Audac's mind was in turmoil. His dim old eyes glanced at Kuris, then he suddenly paused, walked closer and said, "This guy... I think I've seen him before? No, no, it's not him."

"Is it from that experiment?"

Audak shook his head: "No, there were no angels in that team. How could I forget such an obvious feature as angel wings? I probably made a mistake. It just looks a bit like them."

This guy is hiding his name, which is obviously suspicious; racial power can lie.

But not for people and events.

Figo activated the first character event of Curris, and the scene played out in front of him.

……

"This is... I34? Found it!"

Across the street, the black-haired youth looked excitedly at Ares in the distance: "C4 and E86 aren't there? That's enough, finding one is fine!"

This was the young Kuris, whose murmured words easily confirmed to Figo that he was indeed one of the participants in that experiment, and at this moment, he did not have wings on his body.

He secretly followed Ares for a long time until Odaq flew up and stopped Ares, at which point his face darkened.

"That bastard's here too..."

Having confirmed the two's location, he took out a Den Den Mushi from his pocket and excitedly dialed a number, but no one answered.

After a moment of hesitation, he dialed another number.

Still no one answered.

His expression turned uneasy. He concealed his whereabouts and continued to follow Odak and Ares for several days, occasionally making phone calls to Den Den Mushi.

No one answered the phone.

Until one day, he received a newspaper. As he looked at the contents, his hands trembled uncontrollably, and his face was filled with dejection and despair.

"how is this possible?"

"How could this be?!"

"A Celestial Dragon, it must be a Celestial Dragon!"

His back was obscured, so Figo couldn't see the words on the newspaper, but he guessed that it must be news of the Celestial Dragons completely wiping out the experimental team.

Curris, no, back then he was called Balbuena. He was depressed for a while before he gritted his teeth and made up his mind: he wanted revenge!

His strength alone was insufficient, and his talent was also lacking, so he thought of Ares, who had always performed exceptionally well and was considered the most likely to become the progenitor of the powerful demon race.

However, being wanted by the authorities, he dared not show himself to Ares. In the end, he chose to take a huge risk and inject himself with the genes of the angel race by transforming the progenitor of the demon race.

Because his ancestors three generations ago included angels, he is a hybrid of angels who is not overtly angelic.

Struggling desperately amidst genetic collapse, he survived, his appearance changed, and he became another person—Kuris.

Next, they took Ares away from Odac, taught him the Six Star Techniques, and gradually transformed him into one of the Four Emperors.

But this was still far from enough for him.

[Character Event 1 (Activated): In order to take revenge on the Celestial Dragons, Ares needs to become stronger and more insane. During their long time together, Cures discovers that Ares still harbors a small piece of purity in his heart.]

Event requirement: Have Ares kill Odak to complete his spiritual transformation.

He's quite a ruthless person, hiding his true nature for so many years, and he's even ruthless towards himself. Figo's assessment was simply that he was incredibly unlucky.

Whether Ares's killing of Odak could lead to a spiritual transformation is unknown to Figo, but in any case, Kuris could not possibly witness that scene. No wonder he begged for mercy so humbly before falling into a coma. He had planned for a hundred years, only to be killed by his own sudden appearance. He died unjustly.

Figo has activated Character Event Two again.

In this scene, Cures is persuading Ares to establish a rat breeding system and send the Plague Pirates' rats to various parts of the starry sky.

The reason given to Ares was that this was the only way to find Odak, but in reality, that was only a small part of the reason.

[Character Event 2: In order to expose the evil deeds of the Celestial Dragons to the entire starry sky, Cures persuaded Ares to establish a rat breeding system.]

Event Requirement: Have Kures, or Kures's helper, command the rats of the Plague Pirates to reveal to the stars that the Celestial Dragons were behind the massacre of Planet Eisen!

A familiar name came into view.

Figo was suddenly stunned.

Seeing his reaction, Audak, thinking Ares had returned, looked up nervously, but after a long while, realized it wasn't him: "What's wrong?"

"Do you know where that team that kidnapped you back then, the one that conducted the 'experiment to cultivate a powerful demon progenitor,' came from?" Figo asked. "Have you heard from them all these years?"

Odak shook his head: "I've been hiding all these years, and I haven't had a chance to look for them at all. But that team has been silent for so many years, so it's likely that they have been secretly wiped out by the Celestial Dragons."

“It wasn’t necessarily a secret extermination,” Figo said. “Not two years after your incident, another major event occurred in space.”

"The birth of the third progenitor of the demon race, and the slaughter of Planet Eisen in the Western Universe Sea!"

Curis and his team actually originated from Eisen. This news instantly clarified many things for Figo!

The planet from which the team that conducted the 'experiment to create a powerful demon progenitor' originated was wiped out by the third demon progenitor—a truly absurd and ironic situation.

Figo thought to himself, 'Only one piece of the puzzle is missing from uncovering the truth of what happened back then.'

Chapter 219 Black and White

On the mountain road.