The pinnacle of pirates begins with deceiving fate!

This is... divide and conquer!

Chapter 79 The Key Moment

As we approached Bergabank's research lab, a heavy alloy door blocked the passageway like a guillotine.

The raised image on the door panel reveals the face of a man with an M-shaped hairline.

"I don't care what your purpose is, just leave! There's nothing here that you want!"

“Dr. Bergabank…”

John pushed aside the one-eyed figure blocking his way, walked to the alloy door, and removed his helmet to reveal his true face.

"You're my target!"

"Me? What do you want me to do?" In the video, Bergabank frowned in confusion.

Many forces in the world are aware of his existence and know that he is short of research funding. They can get him to help them research things that are not too outrageous simply by spending money.

If he doesn't have the money, forcing him won't work; research requires funding!

Materials, equipment, venues, labor, and so on—all of these require money!

"justice!"

John uttered a word that embarrassed even himself, but when dealing with an idealist like Begabank, one must talk to him about ideals.

It's pointless to tell Begabank how cruel the world is; the best approach is to go along with him and appease him.

"Justice? Are you with the World Government?"

When the word "justice" is mentioned, Bergabank immediately thinks of those guys who shout about justice all the time.

My guard was on high alert.

He knew perfectly well from Stussy everything that had happened in the Valley of the Gods.

The Navy and the World Government, those guys who always preach justice, committed such inhumane acts on that island!

"No, I'm a pirate, a survivor of the God Valley Incident..."

John made no attempt to hide anything and revealed his identity completely.

After all, when Begabank modifies him in the future, he has no idea whether there will be any bugs in those things, which is outside his area of ​​knowledge.

Just like in the future, Begabank left a backdoor in the pacifists' highest authority, which Satan was completely unaware of.

They didn't even understand how a backdoor could have been left open under such close surveillance and with a Begabank clone acting as a spy.

Therefore, rather than sowing seeds of potential problems that could create rifts in the relationship, it's better to be honest with each other from the start.

Since Begabank has the upper hand in knowledge, he will turn the tables on him by controlling people's hearts!

It's impossible for a person to excel in everything, but there should at least be one skill that you can be truly outstanding in!

"Begabank, I ask you to help me bring lasting peace to this miserable world!"

With that final, heartfelt invitation, the 28-year-old Begabank, now brimming with youthful vigor, was moved.

"Come in, Captain John."

The projection disappeared, and the heavy alloy door slowly rose, revealing the spacious research room inside.

Vegapunk sat at the instrument table, his chair turned to face John, who was standing in the passageway.

Just call me John.

John strode forward, and the armor covering his body slid off his body like a film of water, revealing a black trench coat.

In psychological terms, this represents letting down one's guard and unconditionally trusting the other person.

Seeing John approaching, Begabank, who wasn't very good at socializing, went straight to the point:

"John, what exactly do you need me to do?"

"Doctor, I'd like to tell you another true story..."

John gave an irrelevant answer, embellishing the story of what had happened to Dragon in the Kingdom of Felosei.

In the story, the rebels are so fearless, yet so weak.

Even the loftiest ideals need to be realized through effort.

"You mean, you want me to help you become stronger?"

Under John's patient guidance, Begabank finally understood what he meant.

John nodded.

"That's right. The Celestial Dragons rule the world by force. If we want to make the world a better place, we can't just rely on ideals. We also need the power to resist all of this!"

"I want you to continue your in-depth research along the 'blueprint of life' and create a body for me that is in no way inferior to any superior bloodline, and may even surpass them!"

"I also want you to start with the bloodline factors of Devil Fruit users to create artificial Devil Fruits and a special blood, Green Blood, that can give non-Devil Fruit users Devil Fruit powers!"

"besides……"

John talked at length about the things Vegapunk could create in the future, which was a way of setting goals for him in advance and avoiding detours.

After all, science is about finding the truth through endless trial and error.

"and many more!"

Before John could finish speaking, Vegapunk raised his hand to interrupt him, frowning as he looked him up and down.

"Do you recognize ancient scripts? Have you seen historical texts?"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because some of the things you're talking about are recorded in the official history books, products left over from the blank century."

"Uh……"

John was speechless.

As far as he knew, the main historical texts were nothing more than a record of some ridiculous and absurd events that occurred between twenty kings and a great kingdom during the Void Century.

And information and whereabouts of the ancient weapons Uranus, Hades, and Poseidon.

Among all this information, even ancient weapons were... not very useful to him!

Destroy a country with a single blow?

He's now fully committed and capable of creating a massive "Lei Ying".

He himself is a walking super weapon!

However, the fact that Bergabank created "green blood" is indeed related to his reverse engineering of ancient technology.

Is it...

Is Im able to use multiple Devil Fruit abilities because his body contains a mixture of various green blood types?

John felt as if he had grasped something important. He lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and looked at Begabank after calming himself down.

"Doctor, you probably don't recognize ancient scripts, right? How do you know that these things existed in ancient times?"

“I have a friend, Dr. Clover of Ohara, and he told me this.”

A hint of nostalgia flashed in Begabank's eyes as he mentioned the friend he had only known for a short time.

Those were the very few people who could be on the same wavelength as him and have a good conversation.

"If I find more historical texts and assign you someone who understands ancient writing, wouldn't you be able to implement my idea even faster?"

"Of course! This is a great help to me!"

"I understand."

John's mind conjured up faces of scholars who knew ancient writing systems.

But first, he ruled out clover.

That guy is not only flamboyant and has been targeted by the World Government, but he's also incredibly stubborn and doesn't know how to be tactful at all.

Besides, Nico Robin hasn't been born yet, and he can't wait that long.

That leaves the final choice: Nico Olvia!

Robin's mother!

Going back in time, the God Valley incident occurred 38 years before Robin was 28, which is ten years before she was born.

It has been almost half a year since the God Valley incident, and Robin will not be born for about nine years.

At this stage, Olbia should be in his teens!

Chapter 80 Money, money, money, life and death are intertwined!

Robin was only eight years old when Ohara was destroyed by the Buster Call.

She already knew ancient characters by then.

Now that Euler is at least a teenager, he should be able to recognize ancient characters, right?

In addition...

Why did Robin take his mother's surname?

Later, Olvia was also a dangerous person targeted by the World Government. Even if Robin wanted to hide her identity like "Portgas," she should have used her father's surname.

The reason for not using the father's surname is that there is simply no father's surname to use.

Moreover, Olbia is not like Lingling, a woman who abandoned her father and kept her son.

A reasonable guess is that Robin is a clone of Olvia?!

Alternatively, it could involve extracting lineage factors and then cultivating embryos to create something closer to a normal person than a clone.

It's also possible that Olvia implanted her own bloodline factor into her body and then gave birth to Robin.

As for the purpose, it was to realize that he had been targeted by the World Government and to leave behind a spark that could decipher the ancient script.

"Hiss!" John thought about it and it became more and more outrageous. He couldn't help but take a deep drag on his cigarette.