Chapter 92: Soul Energy, Devil Fruit Acquisition Trial

Sylvanas was somewhat worried about Luode's soul energy.

Whether signing a soul contract or a demon enslavement contract, both consume one's own soul energy; otherwise, a warlock could keep summoning demons nonstop.

Then, by enslaving them, given enough time, one could directly create a demon army.

Luode previously signed a contract with Whitebeard, consuming soul energy that hasn't recovered yet!

In a short time, he probably couldn't sign a second contract, and wasting the opportunity on such a guy would also be somewhat uneconomical.

This guy's ability is merely to help oneself create the Forgotten; it's of no use to Luode at all.

"I can't, but you can! Sylvanas, your soul power right now is extremely strong."

"After eating the Yellow Spring Fruit, boosting your soul is what matters most." Luode said.

"Signing a soul contract, this opportunity is very precious; it must be for sufficient combat strength before Luode would waste his soul energy."

"Now my soul energy is recovering; before it fully recovers, Luode will not conduct a second contract."

"However, I can't, but Sylvanas can; after eating the Soul Fruit, Sylvanas's soul has become much stronger."

"You should know that in the original story, Brook's soul can do many things, even to some extent restraining Big Mom's Soul-Soul Fruit, and if one plays with soul abilities, as an undead creature Sylvanas is naturally more adept."

"If you say that, then it's not impossible."

"After returning to the Azeroth world, I'll prepare some Death Knight transformation materials, then turn it into a Death Knight and enslave him." Sylvanas nodded thoughtfully and said.

"Or we have another option; you have many Dark Rangers loyal to you under your command.

"Pick one from among them, then have him eat this guy's fruit, and that'll do." Luode said.

"That would also work; our Devil Fruit acquisition experiment can almost begin." Sylvanas said.

Luode and Sylvanas nodded at each other, ignored the frantic Moria, left the prison directly, and returned to Kaido's residence on Ghost Island.

The fate of this dead fat guy is only two possibilities: be transformed into a Death Knight slave, or have his fruit ability snatched away with a crisp sound.

"That's how it is, father-in-law; we plan to start the Devil Fruit acquisition experiment." Luode said.

"Hmm, can we actually seize a Devil Fruit? The Yamata no Orochi Fruit of the Black Carbon Giant Snake—I've been eyeing it for a long time." Kaido said.

If Luode and Sylvanas succeed, that would be perfect; then I wouldn't need to bother looking for Blackbeard anymore.

"We don't have much confidence yet; why don't you capture two Animal-type Devil Fruit users for us to test first?" Luode said.

Now, Luode and Sylvanas merely know the principle; we first need to draw out the Devil Fruit's power, then inject it into an ordinary fruit.

But the concrete operation still requires research and experimentation, so Big Brother Kaido, you need to provide us with some materials.

"You idiot kid, even an ordinary Animal-type Devil Fruit is precious; why don't I give you a few artificial Devil Fruit users to test?" Kaido said.

"You damn brat, do you think Devil Fruit users are a dime a dozen? Even Animal-type Devil Fruit users are rare goods."

Kaido's plan is to first use artificial Devil Fruits for the experiment; he has many artificial Devil Fruit users among his subordinates, but using these subordinates for a death experiment.

This is obviously not quite suitable, after all, as the boss, he can't wantonly slaughter his own subordinates for no reason.

You should know that these artificial Animal Devil Fruit users are the backbone of the Beasts Pirates; they're not just any small fry.

Coincidentally, a new batch of artificial Devil Fruits has just been delivered; Kaido plans to find a few previously captured slaves to have them consume the artificial fruits for the experiment.

The next day, sigh, Kaido personally selected a hundred slaves and had them eat the artificial Devil Fruits sent by the Clown.

Of the 100 people, 91 became laughing hysterics, while only nine successfully gained the fruit ability, developing animal traits.

These nine test subjects were soon sent to Luode and Sylvanas's residence.

"According to what we saw that day, we need to first kill the Devil Fruit user, then extract their fruit ability, and inject it into a fruit. The steps are as follows." Luode said.

Now a key problem has arisen: my Life Drain and the Queen's Life Absorption can both absorb power, which can then be injected into a fruit.

That would complete the seizure of the Devil Fruit ability.

"Let's do the first step first, see if we can suck out their fruit ability." Sylvanas said. Luode nodded, and the two quickly began the experiment, first picking out the first unlucky guy, then directly cutting his throat, after which Luode used Life Drain.

But unfortunately, the warlock's Life Drain skill seems only able to absorb living things.

And for someone already dead, nothing can be sucked out; Luode's Life Drain skill directly declared failure.

Next is testing the Queen's Life Absorption, an exclusive ability of the banshee, after the second unlucky guy was killed.

Sylvanas activated her ability, but unfortunately, what was sucked out this time was soul, not fruit ability.

"Our procedure must have gone wrong; there's a key point we messed up—you absorb life force, while I absorb soul and life, but none of these are fruit ability." Looking at the two dead test subjects, Sylvanas frowned and said.

"So what do you mean! Could it be that our two plans have just failed like this?" Luode said.

"No! We both have consumed Devil Fruits before, so we know what that Devil Fruit power is; this time, when we cast spells, we'll act together, not absorbing their life energy or anything else, but absorbing the fruit ability." Sylvanas said.

Luode nodded, and soon the two conducted a third experiment, another unlucky guy was killed.

Then this time Luode and the Queen simultaneously cast spells, using their internal Devil Fruit energy as a guide, beginning to absorb another kind of power besides life and soul.

This time both clearly felt a different energy, completely distinct from life energy, something of soul energy being drawn out.

But unfortunately, the two aren't very skilled; this time they only absorbed half of the special energy before failing.

"In theory it's feasible, but we two aren't very skilled; if we add effort and increase the pull, once a Devil Fruit user dies too long, their fruit ability will dissipate." Luode said.

After a genuine Devil Fruit user dies, their ability quickly leaves the body and is reborn as a new Devil Fruit, but an artificial Devil Fruit should simply dissipate.

Sylvanas nodded, and the two began another round of experiments; in the fourth trial, the fruit ability was absorbed more than half.

The fifth trial absorbed seventy percent; the sixth trial, with Sylvanas and Luode cooperating, finally extracted a complete fruit energy, but before it could be injected into a fruit, this energy dissipated.

"That Blackbeard guy holds a fruit in one hand and performs fruit ability absorption with the other.

"This shows the dissipation speed of Devil Fruit ability is extremely fast; soon we'll absorb energy while simultaneously holding a fruit, then inject the power into it." Luode said.

In the eighth experiment, the two simultaneously gripped a fruit and then activated the absorption ability.

This time the two's experiment succeeded; that fruit quickly changed, becoming an artificial Devil Fruit.

"Just solidify the technique a bit more; we happen to have one last test subject." Luode said.

"Your ninth experiment, using the same method, Sylvanas and Luode successfully extracted the fruit energy."

After the experiment succeeded, Luode and Xi'er Na Si were both somewhat tired, and they had their subordinates come in to clear away these experimental subjects a bit.

The two went straight to sleep and rested a bit, and only the next morning did they bring the two artificially produced Devil Fruits to Kaido.

"Hahaha, I never expected you two to actually succeed—what a huge surprise!" Kaido looked at the two Devil Fruits that had been re-extracted, extremely excited.

I never imagined these two guys could actually succeed in taking the Devil Fruit's power—great, Black Carbon Great Snake, it's time for you to die.

"As of now, we can achieve 100% success, but this is merely an experiment with the artificial Devil Fruit."

"If possible, you'd better capture a genuine Devil Fruit user to run an experiment." Luode said.

Or we should first capture a genuine Devil Fruit user and run the experiment again!

"No problem, I'll have my men go capture a few Devil Fruit users and bring them back."

Recently, among the Supernovas, there is an ancient species, a Dragon Fruit Dragon Dragon Fruit, and an Ancient Dragon ability user.

After he came to the New World, he indicated he wanted to side with me, so it was perfect to have someone bring him back as well." Kaido said.

This time, among the Worst Generation, there are many promising rookie pirates; that Fallen Navy Rear Admiral X Drake is exactly Kaido's favorite ability user.

"You mean X Drake, one of this year's Supernovas, right?" Luode asked.

This guy isn't just any pirate; he's a navy spy sent specifically after you, but that's perfect—the experimental material just walked right in!

(End of chapter)