One Piece: Farming from the Rocks Era

"With this ability, combined with the life return secret you developed, you should be able to gain strength that matches your status as a guard!"

Linde patiently told Raditz about the bright future.

"I, Raditz, swear to protect the boss until my death!" Raditz shouted excitedly after hearing Lind's words.

"Very well, I believe you won't let me down."

"Cooperate with me later and guide the energy of the devil fruit in your body to participate in the mutation."

As he spoke, Lind stretched out his right hand, placed it in front of Raditz's forehead, and released a golden light.

Soon, the light faded, revealing a shocked Raditz.

"Boss, I feel like I've become much stronger, and I found that my devil fruit ability seems to have disappeared, or it has turned into energy and integrated into new abilities."

Lind appeared calm on the surface, but inside he was in turmoil.

I have never tried to mutate a devil fruit user before, it was just a sudden idea.

I wonder if the devil fruit can be turned into nutrients to supply my own mutation energy and enhance the mutation effect.

I didn’t expect it to work, but I don’t know what the specific effect will be.

Did this devil fruit completely disappear, or was it reborn? Or is it still in Raditz's body, but the power has disappeared?

Can I use this method of my monthly mutation and normal mutation to turn the devil fruit into nutrients?

Lind shook his head and decided to try them one by one.

Looking at the excited Raditz in front of him, Lind smiled.

"Let's try out our transformation abilities first and see how much stronger we can become."

"Yes, boss." Raditz said with some excitement. After hearing Lind's words, he immediately began to try out his new abilities.

"Hah!" As Raditz shouted, golden light burst out from his body and his hair also turned golden.

The hair was added by Lind out of sentimentality. As for the circle of golden light, I don't know if it is a transformation special effect or a life-returning special effect for Raditz.

Regardless of its intensity, this special effect is really good. Looking at Raditz whose hair turned golden, Lind smiled.

Next, let’s take a look at Raditz’s strength.

"How is it? How much can the combat effectiveness be improved?" Lind asked.

"Five times, Boss. I feel like my strength and speed have increased by more than three times, and my combat effectiveness has increased by at least five times."

"I think after I transform, I can beat ten of my pre-transformation selves." Raditz said excitedly. The powerful strength contained in his body now made him a little obsessed.

Hearing Raditz's answer, Lind nodded with satisfaction.

This kind of simple enhancement has a terrifying effect on the improvement of strength. Raditz can probably reach the admiral level easily.

The mutation can be said to be perfect. Although it is a copycat of the Youth Monkey version of the Speedy Saiyan, it is still a Speedy Saiyan. In this world, it is a complete supermodel.

"Do you think we can continue developing it?" Lind continued to ask.

Raditz shook his head. "No, Boss. This is the limit now."

Lind nodded, and had a guess in his mind, perhaps the devil fruit in Raditz's body was really just pure nourishment.

Lind's mutant energy absorbed something from the devil fruit, making the mutation effect much stronger.

However, the origin of the Devil Fruit should not have changed, so Raditz's mutation is still a simple mutation, with basically no room for subsequent development and no unlimited potential of the Devil Fruit.

All that remains is to continue experimenting and verify your hypothesis.

See if Raditz is now controlled by seastone and sea water.

Then the whole world searches for the Meganeura fruit to see if it can be reborn.

If they can be reborn, then the devil fruits will become nutrients that can be harvested sustainably, and now they can use the devil fruits to continuously strengthen the mutant abilities acquired by their subordinates.

Later on, maybe I could extract nutrients directly from the devil fruit and use it myself.

Chapter 101: Speculations about Mutated Fruits

The subsequent seawater experiments and seastone experiments went very smoothly and Raditz was not affected.

This devil fruit seems to have really disappeared, but it is difficult to verify whether it can be reborn.

Up to now, the scientists under Lind have not developed the technology to capture the Devil Fruit, so they can only search slowly to see if they can find it.

Lind also tried to put the Devil Fruit user and the fruit in the same enclosed space wrapped in seastone like in some fan fictions, and then kill the Devil Fruit user.

But unfortunately the effect is not very good and is basically useless because the base number is small. If it succeeds occasionally, I don’t know whether it is the effect of the enclosed space or I am simply randomly reborn in the room.

Come to think of it, if it were really that easy, after Kaido took control of Wano Country and exported a large amount of seastone, the World Government, which was not short of seastone, could easily master this technology.

Based on what Vegapunk said in the original work, the birth of devil fruits was due to human imagination and desire, and combined with the rebirth rules of the devil fruits in the Flower Kingdom and Wano Kingdom.

Lind feels that in order to control the rebirth of the devil fruit, an anchor of faith is required.

Or you can use the Dark-Dark Fruit, a fruit that can manipulate the "fantasy factor" in the devil fruit, and allow the "fantasy factor" in the devil fruit to be reborn on the corresponding fruit according to your needs.

The same is true for the Swallow-Swallow Fruit in the original work and Lind's mutated fruit, which have the ability to manipulate the "fantasy factor", but their specialization is different from that of the Dark-Dark Fruit.

The Swallow-Swallow Fruit can directly analyze and control the core of the "fantasy factor" of the corresponding devil fruit and use the corresponding abilities.

Lind's mutant fruit can absorb the "fantasy energy" absorbed by the core of the "fantasy factor" from the outside world, and use it to enhance the mutation effect.

The devil fruit without the support of "fantasy energy" can only return to a certain special dimension, continuously accumulate "fantasy energy", and then be reborn.

At the same time, this is also the reason why Lind’s mutation cannot be further developed. After all, there is no core, only the energy that came with the original mutation.

There are both disadvantages and advantages. The disadvantage is that the potential is limited and cannot be further developed.

The advantage is that this mutated ability belongs entirely to oneself, and not to the core of the original devil fruit, or the "soul in the devil fruit" as mentioned in the original work.

This makes the mutation hereditary. Thinking of this, Lind suddenly felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.

Will the many mutated orcs in the Kunpeng team directly develop into a new race? Or will they directly become reproductively isolated from ordinary humans?

When you think about it this way, it seems that this kind of control over mutant abilities may not necessarily be a good thing.

Now we have to work harder to develop biotechnology. We can't let our subordinates die out due to our negligence.

In addition to the mutant fruit itself, Lind gained the ability of directed mutation after the last sacrifice, which might not be the luck that Lind imagined.

Instead, Lind used this opportunity to control part of the "fantasy energy" of the Oran Sea, thereby providing a source of energy for the mutant fruit to satisfy Lind's imagination.

Perhaps it is because these energies come from Lind, and Lind has a strong control over them, so they can mutate according to Lind's imagination.

Linde felt a little excited when he thought about this. If his guess was correct, then the mutant fruit might have the ability comparable to that of the devil fruit tree that no one knew whether it existed or not.

It is not an exaggeration to call it the little devil fruit tree.

However, these are just guesses after all, and they are just guesses about the operating mechanism. Linde has no idea about the specific principles and details, and is also a little confused about the future development direction.

All I can say is that it is worthy of being a devil fruit comparable to the devil fruit tree, and the difficulty of developing it is indeed ridiculously great.

Putting the matter of the mutant fruit aside, Lind sent Raditz back to the large training ground and went straight to the laboratory.

Although Raditz is no longer restrained by sea water, it still needs to be verified whether the devil fruit has disappeared and whether Lind has mastered the technology to peel off the devil fruit.

The method is simple, which is to have the patrol team capture an evil pirate with a devil fruit, and then have Lind use his monthly mutation ability to mutate it.

After the devil fruit in his body disappears like Raditz's devil fruit, feed him a new devil fruit and see if he will die.

If not, then Lind has mastered half of the devil fruit peeling technique. Although he cannot obtain the peeled devil fruit, he can at least peel the devil fruit.

Early cadres like Liana no longer need to worry about their potential. The only problem is the high cost and waste.

But who can blame Linde for his wealth? Those powerful devil fruits are rare, but ordinary animal-type devil fruits are too easy to obtain.

Now Linde can basically purchase several every month.

Compared with the future Age of Discovery, the number of pirates in this era is relatively small.

Humans on the sea are not so eager for the power of devil fruits, and there are still many people willing to sell those ordinary animal-type devil fruits.

After all, there are too many ordinary animal-type devil fruits. Considering the species diversity on Earth, there are still millions of them.

There are only tens of thousands of them that can be found. Without the huge number of pirates in the Great Pirate Era who explore islands everywhere and eat devil fruits, it is still easy for Lind to acquire them.

At least for the earliest batch of cadres like Allison, Lind felt that wasting an ordinary animal-type devil fruit was no big deal.

And it's not a complete waste. You can still use the original devil fruit in your body to mutate into a good ability.

However, before finding a new powerful devil fruit, Lind does not plan to replace those early cadres.

After all, the monthly mutation, even if it is strengthened a little, is nothing compared to the original devil fruit with unlimited potential.

By the time he finds the right devil fruit, Lind may have already mastered the devil fruit capture technology. At that time, he can directly start the nesting doll mode and strengthen himself infinitely.

Of course, it's just a thought. Linde feels that his stripping technology may conflict with future capture technology.

After all, according to his own guess, he had already digested the "fantasy energy" originally brought by the fruit, and the devil fruit needed to recover before it could be reborn.

After arriving at the laboratory, Lind immediately began the experiment.

Because the scientific research team under Lind has been studying devil fruits, the pirates under Lind have always had the habit of capturing devil fruit users and sending them to the laboratory.

The laboratory has never lacked experimental materials. After Lind made some arrangements, a cadre brought a strong pirate into Lind's laboratory.

Chapter 102 Breakthrough in Devil Fruit Stripping Technology

"You go out first and leave him to me." Lind said to the cadre, then used his telekinesis to control the pirate and let him cooperate with him in the experiment.

After the officer left, Lind smiled at the frightened pirate in front of him and said:

"Don't worry, you should have heard of my reputation. I don't have the habit of killing people. If you cooperate well, maybe this will be an opportunity for you."

Lind unconsciously started to make promises, and the pirate on the opposite side nodded. It seemed that the reputation that Lind had worked so hard to build had paid off.

"Next, I will give you a new ability. This ability can eliminate the weakness of the devil fruit ability user who is afraid of sea water and seastone."

"All you need to do is cooperate with me and channel the energy of the devil fruit into the abilities I give you. Do you understand?"

The pirate on the opposite side nodded to show his understanding. The pirates in this world were indeed very naive and believed Lind's words easily. They believed that Lind was really going to try to help him eliminate the weakness of the devil fruit.

"Very well, be ready to cooperate with me."

Lind said as he placed his right hand on top of the pirate's head and began to unleash his mutant abilities.