The Witcher: The Journey to Transcendence from Marvel...

Chapter 357 Three Days Later

Luffy struggled to open his eyes, only to find everything blurry and his head spinning, as if countless bees were buzzing inside.

"Where am I?" he muttered unconsciously, then his memory gradually returned, and his eyes widened suddenly. "I've been captured! Where are Zoro, Sanji, Nami, and the others??"

Luffy was extremely anxious at the moment. His biggest concern was the safety of his companions. As he spoke, he kept looking around, trying to find his companions in this unfamiliar environment.

This is Wes's laboratory, surrounded by all sorts of strange and unusual instruments and equipment, flashing cold lights, exuding a mysterious and dangerous aura.

Luffy is currently trapped in a transparent jar. The jar is made of an extremely sturdy material and is filled with an unknown liquid that immerses his entire body in it.

A ventilator was inserted into his mouth to maintain basic breathing, and his body was covered with a dense network of tubes connected to surrounding instruments. He could clearly feel his blood being slowly drawn out through the tubes, while some unknown substances were being injected into his body through other tubes.

The substance injected was a special material extracted from Seastone that could suppress Devil Fruit users. As a result, Luffy was completely limp and unable to exert any strength. He was like a fish on a chopping board, helplessly trapped in the jar.

Luffy turned his head with difficulty to look around and found that, apart from Franky and Brook, all the other companions were trapped in these transparent jars like him, with their eyes closed and their fates unknown. The scene made Luffy's heart clench.

He was extremely anxious and continued to look around, trying to find his two companions, praying incessantly that nothing had happened to them.

Just then, the laboratory door slowly opened, and Wes walked in, accompanied by footsteps.

He glanced at Luffy, who had already woken up, his face expressionless, and simply said, "You've been asleep for three days."

"Waaaaah~"

When Luffy saw Wes, he became excited and began to struggle desperately, trying to break through the jar to confront Wes. However, the jar was too sturdy, and no matter how hard he tried, it wouldn't budge.

"You want to know the whereabouts of your other two companions?"

Wes seemed to see through Luffy's thoughts, and raised his eyebrows slightly as he asked.

Luffy nodded vigorously, his eyes fixed on Wes, filled with urgency and worry.

Wes walked leisurely to a chair and sat down, crossing his legs. Then, he rested his head on his right hand and said slowly, "Your robot companion is quite interesting."

He paused, looking at Luffy's tense expression, and continued, "I erased his thoughts and consciousness, turning him into a true robot. Now I've transformed him into the leader of the Pacifistas."

Luffy was stunned when he heard this, his face full of disbelief. He couldn't imagine that Franky, who was always full of energy, had all sorts of wonderful ideas, and fought alongside him, would have his consciousness erased.

"As for that skull-haired guy, I killed him. I'm quite interested in the Yomi Yomi no Mi (Revive-Revive Fruit), but what I'm most interested in is the fruit inside you."

Wes continued talking to himself, but Luffy didn't hear a word he said after that. When he heard that Franky's consciousness and thoughts had been erased and that Brook had been killed, he felt his mind go blank and his whole world collapse at that moment.

A mix of emotions—anger, fear, and despair—left him momentarily at a loss, as if he had fallen into an endless abyss of darkness.

Luffy, drawing strength from who-knows-where, suddenly ripped off his mask and syringe, then began to swing his fists recklessly, smashing the jar again and again. Even as the hard jar shattered his fists and blood flowed freely, he showed no sign of stopping. His eyes shone with determination and madness. At that moment, he had only one thought in his mind: to rush out and take revenge on Wes.

Wes didn't stop him, because for Wes, enough samples had been collected. The data and samples he had obtained from Luffy and the others over the past few days were enough to create an even more powerful Seraph. So he just sat there quietly, watching Luffy go berserk, as if he were watching a boring farce.

In his extreme anger and despair, Luffy unintentionally used Conqueror's Haki. The powerful Haki wrapped around his fist, and finally, with a "crash," the jar shattered, and the liquid inside gushed out, washing Luffy out with it. He fell to the ground in a disheveled state.

"Cough~ cough~" Luffy lay on the ground, coughing incessantly. The struggle just now had almost exhausted all his strength. At this moment, he could only weakly support himself on the ground, panting heavily.

"What did you just say?"

Luffy looked up, his eyes bloodshot. He desperately hoped he had misheard. He simply couldn't accept that his companions had suffered such a tragic fate.

"Don't you want to believe it?" Wes said coldly, his legs still crossed, a mocking smile on his face. "I already warned you. It was your stubbornness that killed your companion."

Upon hearing this, Luffy finally snapped, the last thread of his pent-up anger snapping within him. He roared, "I'll kill you!!"

Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!

In this desperate and helpless situation, he once again used the Overlord's Entanglement technique, and a powerful aura erupted from his body, making the air in the entire laboratory heavy.

However, it was all too late; Wes merely glanced at him indifferently.

In an instant, Luffy was as if he were being crushed by an invisible mountain, his entire body pressed to the ground, unable to move. The sliver of resistance that had just ignited was mercilessly extinguished.

"The house game is over. Every world is cruel. Straw Hat Boys, your adventure ends here."

Wes stood up and slowly walked towards Luffy, each step seeming to pound on Luffy's heart, filling him with utter despair.

A few seconds later, Wes reached out and held a phantom in his hand. It was the Mythical Zoan type Nika form of the Human-Human Fruit inside Luffy's body. At this moment, the phantom of this Devil Fruit was constantly crashing and trying to break free from Wes's control.

Zoan-type Devil Fruits possess a certain degree of consciousness; they autonomously choose their hosts. Clearly, Wes's actions did not satisfy it. However, no matter how much it struggled, it was powerless against Wes's overwhelming strength.

(End of this chapter)