028 Experiment

Blackbeard felt really pleased when he saw it. As long as the logia fruit ability user used his devil fruit properly, it's a strong force.

Teach Open his own data panel.

"Role: Marshall·D·Teach"

"Character points: 13,069 points"

"Number of souls: 3"

"Crew Link: Connected to Lafitte"

"Possess fruits: Dark Fruit, Thunder Fruit."

His character points have increased from 8,000 to over 13,000.

When he opens the data panel, he has to use character points to buy a crew link because he's now interested in Avalo Pizzaro's fruit ability.

He has two fruits now, and both fruits have acquired souls. He still needs to assign the remaining soul to the Tremor Tremor Fruit.

Therefore, if he wanted to obtain the ability of the Pizarro Devil Fruit, he had to link up with him using a crew link.

Then he opened the character point on the data panel Shop.

In the character point shop, he can buy crew links, and even buy another soul for another devil fruit power

[System Shop:

Crew Links: 5,000 character points.

Souls: 20,000 character points.]

If he doesn't have the fruit ability he really wants, the best way is to let his subordinates eat the fruit, and then he can use the crew link on them.

He not only gains the fruit's ability but also indirectly controls his subordinates.

When he has enough character points, he naturaly chooses to redeem the crew link without hesitation.

[Successfully redeemed a crew link, deducting 5,000 character points, with 8,069 points remaining.]

After redeeming a crew link in advance, Blackbeard closed the data panel.

...

On the sixth floor, the criminals who wanted to be his crew members were already fighting and killing each other

In the midst of the brawl, Blackbeard saw a criminal with an zoan-type ability—a user of both dog and lion fruits.

Now was the perfect moment for an experiment

A test on the ability to steal devil fruits!

"Doc q prepares for the test we are going to do. "

Blackbeard said with a smile.

Even though he took over Blackbeard's body and didn't inherit the original Blackbeard's memories, in the days spent with Burgess and the crew, he discovered something incredible.

Among them was the cooperation between Blackbeard and Doflamingo.

Before Blackbeard became a Shichibukai, he encountered Doflamingo in the same town where he first met Luffy.

During that time, Luffy defeated Bellamy, and after learning about it, Doflamingo nearly killed Bellamy on the island.

So, on the island at that time, there were the original Blackbeard, Doflamingo, Luffy, and Bellamy.

He wasn't aware of the exact collaboration between the former Blackbeard and Doflamingo, but he knew that Blackbeard had learned a technique from Doflamingo to steal fruit abilities!

"Already prepared"

Doc Q responded, though he didn't appear to take any action.

"Wieehahaha, if what Doflamingo said is true, then I've got to snatch a fruit ability too" 

Burgess chuckled.

"What exactly are you talking about?"

Shiryu, who just joined, doesn't know anything yet.

"You'll find out later" 

Blackbeard smiled slightly. Of course, the fewer people who know about this, the better.

In the One Piece story, he only witnessed Doflamingo's subordinate Caesar using it, but he didn't pay much attention at the time.

At that time, Caesar wanted to kill the slime that contained a lot of poisonous gas on Punk Hazard Island, because the poisonous gas from slime was caused by eating Zoan salamander fruit.

The salamander fruit essentially breathed new life into the poisonous gas. To avoid wasting the salamander fruit, he thoughtfully prepared a basket of apples before dealing with the slimes.

After eliminating the slimes with a significant amount of poisonous gas, salamander fruits rapidly reappeared in his basket of apples!

Similarly, Doc Q had the same setup in his hands. He simply carried a basket of apples, with some of the poisonous ones strategically placed to conceal his intentions!

In the following storyline to seize the Flame-flame Fruit, Burgess wanted to kill Luffy after failing to secure the Flame-flame Fruit.

During that time, he concealed a lot of fruit with a package on his back, adorned with the devil fruit pattern, but it was actually to hide his various fruits within! 

Now Blackbeard was ready to seize this chance to confirm everything.

"Whoever can kill the lion man will become our partner right away" 

Blackbeard declared.

"Fufufufu, I haven't satisfied with my kill yet!" 

Catarina Devon chuckled, glancing at the man and brushing off Blackbeard's words.

Avalo Pizzaro was even more wild and reckless, continuing to killing the criminals around him

In their eyes, it was just a game for entertainment.

"Oh?" 

At that moment, Vasco Shot's gaze fixed on the devil fruit user Blackbeard mentioned.

After he heard it, his figure disappeared in a flash!

Blackbeard eyes were focused. The speed was challenging for him to follow, but all he could perceive was a blur of a phantom swiftly closing in on the Zoan lion power user.

Furthermore, the phantom resembled a drunk Vasco Shot, moving in strange ways.

In a blink, Vasco Shot materialized right in front of the lion fruit user.

The lion fruit user's face twisted in horror, and without hesitation, he launched an attack at Vasco Shot!

Vasco Shot appeared to anticipate the opponent's attack, effortlessly tilting his head to dodge.

He followed up by landing a punch to the lion ability user's chest, infusing it with Armament Haki!

With a loud thud, the lion-powered user was slammed against the wall! 

The corners of Blackbeard's mouth curled slightly.

Avalo Pizaro likely possessed the power of a Logia-type Earth Fruit, while Catarina Devon and Vasco Shot were both skilled martial artists, with Vasco Shot excelling in fighting knowledge and speed.

These are truly valuable crew members.

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TO BE CONTINUE

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