The pirates sat and forgot, and they really believed the nine truths and one lie.

Plague Quinn is a madman who likes body transformation. His obsession with animal bodies makes him give up the path of complete mechanization of the body and take another path of physical ascension besides Victor.

Caesar Clown, his former colleague, also worked for the Beasts Pirates for a period of time, developing artificial devil fruits similar to blind boxes, causing some unlucky guys in the Beasts Pirates to suffer.

The animal-type legion that Kaido pursues is only half-baked in strength under the perfunctory management of Caesar Clown. The Beasts Pirates will sooner or later realize the seriousness of the matter by setting a trap for one of the Four Emperors' groups.

As the only scientist in the Beasts Pirates, Quinn knows that the path of artificial devil fruits is not a long-term solution. During an excavation of ancient ruins, he came into contact with an ancient experiment called the Ascension Ceremony.

He began to prepare for human experiments as if he had found a treasure. During the process, many innocent races became the failed experimental subjects of the evil scientists. Judging from the actual results, Thunder Rat Admiral Kennen was also a failure.

A yellow-skinned mouse that can discharge electricity, a user of the Thunder Fruit who calls himself a god, and a special fur-skinned tribe (Yordles) who follow the Beasts Pirates, all three were locked up together for an ascension experiment.

Although this ascension experiment failed, it left Quinn with valuable experimental data, allowing him to develop a simplified version of the ascension experiment in the future, minimizing the side effects as much as possible while retaining the essence of the animal system.

"Most of the crew members of the Beast Pirates have completed the Ascension Test in the past year. Low-level Ascenders are called Beast Soldiers, and those who have reached the level of the Flying Six are called Special Beast Soldiers. If they rise to the level of disaster-level powerhouses, they will be at the level of Beast God Generals."

This was all Caesar Courant knew about roughly what the beast soldiers, special beast soldiers, and beast generals were capable of, but the fat guy Quinn did not reveal to him.

It is an indisputable fact that the most basic beast soldier is much stronger than the most basic artificial devil fruit user. With such terrifying individual soldier quality, ordinary forces dare not easily approach the scope of Wano Country.

Vegapunk turned his gaze towards the sleeping Admiral Thunder Rat. He could only have the most basic sympathy for this ill-fated experimental subject. As for how to separate the other two creatures in Kenan's body, the strongest scientist on the sea was also helpless.

"But I also got something unexpected from Kenan. When I did a comprehensive check on him, I found that he had a fourth consciousness in his mind. I guess it came from the nature fruit."

Then Caesar Crown cleared out all the idlers around him. He wanted to discuss this issue with Vegapunk alone. If the devil fruit is proved from a scientific point of view, it is not a dead object and has its own independent will.

The man had a very bold hypothesis. It might not be the user who chooses the devil fruit, but the devil fruit that chooses the user by its own will. The power of the fruit is hated by the Mother Sea. There must be a deeper meaning in this.

"If a devil fruit could one day take over the body of a person with special abilities and the devil could live in place of his former master, I think this might have already happened on the sea."

Caesar Courant had only peeked into a corner of the unknown territory, and he was eager to show off in front of Vegapunk, but he didn't know that after he said this, the big-tongued old man's face turned gloomy.

"This is a topic that neither you nor I can touch. If outsiders knew that you were researching this, it would bring disaster upon you. I'm not kidding."

The image of Satan Saint flashed through Vegapunk's mind. He had developed the second generation of Seraphim together with this Five Elders for a long time, and he always felt that there was a sense of incongruity in him. The extreme animality suppressed his humanity, and the old man was scared just thinking about it.

After realizing the seriousness of the matter, Vegapunk immediately stopped his research on the devil fruit. The old man knew enough secrets, and he didn't want to leave the world prematurely before developing the Anti-Life Equation.

"Putting aside whether the devil fruit has consciousness or not, from the various samples I have collected, some people with special abilities have a very good match for their devil fruit, and vice versa. My devil fruit match is not high."

Caesar Clown is a natural-type Gas Fruit user, but his combat capability is far behind other natural-type fruits. He uses the Gas Fruit so wastefully, which is unique in this ocean.

Fortunately, he does not rely on the power of the devil fruit to make a living. His scientific level represents everything. The gas fruit can really save a lot of time when doing some airless scientific experiments.

There are several people in the navy who have more than 80% of the abilities that match their own devil fruits, including the three admirals Akainu, Aokiji and Kizaru.

As for the Heavenly Dragon Fruit in the body of Dragon Admiral Wendy, the matching degree was infinitely close to 90%. When Caesar Courant measured this result, he thought his machine was broken. Such a strong matching degree was really incredible.

However, this can also explain from another perspective why Wendy was able to unleash the power of a full-length devil fruit shortly after eating the mythical beast devil fruit. She directly skipped the process of training her own devil fruit.

Caesar Kulang was quite certain that people like Admiral Wendy, whose devil fruits were highly compatible with his own, were definitely not uncommon in the sea. This brought us back to the previous topic, whether devil fruits really have self-awareness.

Vegapunk was finally unable to bear the provocation. He could only express his unique insights and told Caesar Courant not to continue to make blind guesses in dangerous areas. Some things should never be touched.

"It's actually the difference between a king and a mount. For example, Wendy is her own king, and the Dragon Fruit is her mount. However, some weaklings reverse this order, with the Devil Fruit user becoming the king and the ability user becoming the mount. There is an essential difference between the two states."

After the Devil Fruit takes over the body, although it can bring huge benefits in the short term, in the long run it will overdraw the potential of the ability user and weaken the upper limit of the ability user's use of the Devil Fruit.

Only when the user becomes his own king can he bring the devil fruit mount under his butt to the strongest level of the same period, and the fruit can develop higher levels of potential.

"It seems that I am destined to be a mount. According to your theory, if I want to become a king, I must either step back to the realm of the ego or reach the realm of the superego. There is no second option in between. However, most people in the world remain at the ego stage."

The king and the mount complement each other. Wendy and Elsa have entered the realm of the ego and superego respectively, and both have become Devil Fruit Queens who can firmly suppress their mounts and exert the power of their own Devil Fruits to the maximum effect.

There is a better example on Cake Island.