According to Sengoku’s original plan, he had wanted Morin to fight the other pirate rookies on the sea.
He had even considered recruiting Morin as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
But Morin had not followed his script.
After Morin was given a bounty, he neither recruited soldiers nor appeared on any of the seven routes.
Instead, he played the lurker.
He hid himself directly on the sea.
Even though his name had already resounded throughout the first half of the Grand Line, he continued secretly creating his Chimera Ant army in the dark.
Sengoku had also secretly ordered the various Marine branches to investigate Morin’s whereabouts, but Morin seemed to have vanished from the sea.
So Morin had actually been ten thousand meters up in the sky.
No wonder there had been no trace of him on the sea.
Sengoku had guessed Morin’s purpose.
Morin himself could create soldiers even stronger than Germa’s clone soldiers.
He was not after that.
Aside from that, the only other thing was lineage factor technology.
Lineage factor technology was also known as the “blueprint of life.” Could Morin be trying to fuse lineage factors into his Chimera Ants?
The moment Sengoku thought of Morin having that kind of foresight, he felt a headache coming on.
If a pirate was merely powerful, there was nothing to fear.
Back then, the “World Destroyer” Byrnndi World had relied on his More-More Fruit to become a pirate on the same level as Roger and Whitebeard.
And what had happened in the end?
The World Government had only sent out a few spies, and his pirate crew had collapsed.
The current Byrnndi World was still frozen in Impel Down.
Morin clearly already possessed the strength to dominate the sea, yet he was still carefully and cautiously laying out his plans.
A guy like this had to be eliminated as quickly as possible.
Once he completed his arrangements, perhaps he would become the next Pirate Emperor.
Sengoku only hoped Judge would show some backbone and refuse to cooperate with Morin’s research.
But was reality truly as Sengoku expected?
After the Vinsmoke Family was captured, Morin merely confiscated their transformation devices.
Their freedom was not restricted.
Judge had originally thought he would be placed in some laboratory, but he never expected that the place where Morin met him would be Germa’s library.
Morin also did not ask Judge to cooperate with any research.
He only asked Judge some questions about the books.
Judge did not know what Morin intended to do, but he still answered.
Afterward, he discovered an extremely terrifying fact.
Every question Morin asked became more and more professional.
This meant Morin had already mastered the knowledge in those books.
In less than three days, Morin not only finished reading all of Germa’s research materials related to lineage factors, he had even completely mastered them.
Judge had been in the scientific research field for so long, yet aside from Vegapunk, who was five hundred years ahead of the world, he had never seen anyone with such terrifying learning ability.
If Judge had not seen Morin’s wanted poster before, he would have even suspected that Morin was also a scientist.
“That’s enough for today, Judge.”
Morin closed the book and spoke to Judge.
“I will take my leave, Lord Morin!”
Judge respectfully bowed to Morin, then slowly withdrew from the library.
“It’s time to start the new plan.”
Watching Judge’s figure disappear from the library, a glint flashed through Morin’s eyes.
The book Morin had asked Judge about just now was the last book in the library.
Judge’s notes had already been completely absorbed by Morin.
Morin had also inspected Judge’s laboratory.
After mastering the knowledge of lineage factors, Morin could also understand what Germa had been researching.
The direction of Judge’s research was controlling the stability of lineage factors.
In other words, he purposefully implanted certain specific lineage factors into clone soldiers, thereby strengthening the clone soldiers in certain aspects.
Morin arrived at the cultivation area for Germa soldiers.
The densely packed tanks here were all filled with Germa’s future soldiers.
Unfortunately, these soldiers would no longer fight for Germa.
Morin came to one cultivation tank.
Inside this tank was not a Germa soldier, but a hybrid of a Chimera Ant and a human.
Its appearance looked human, but there were two ant-like antennae on top of its head, and a layer of armor clung closely to the surface of its body.
This was the Chimera Ant 2.0 that Morin had created using his own ability and the super soldier lineage factors stored by Judge.
For this Chimera Ant, Morin had specifically strengthened its speed.
There were also others specifically strengthened in power, neural reflexes, and other aspects.
Morin used the knowledge he had learned over the past few days to specially strengthen the Chimera Ants, then hatched them using Germa’s nutrient fluid.
It could be said that this new version of Chimera Ants was entirely built on technology.
Click.
As the nutrient fluid in the cultivation tanks drained away, all five Chimera Ants completed their gestation.
“Are these the Chimera Ants you created using Germa’s technology?
Aren’t they already no different from humans?”
After Morin brought out these Chimera Ants, Golden Lion looked at them in surprise.
The Chimera Ants made from wild beasts and Sea Kings before had all been bizarre monsters of all kinds.
Just one glance at those Chimera Ants would have been enough to make a child cry.
But the newly created Chimera Ants were different.
These Chimera Ants looked like soldiers wearing armor.
If they covered the parts that differed from humans with cloaks, there would be no difference between them and humans at all.
“These are Chimera Ants created using human genes.
Now, I can already control the general appearance of Chimera Ants.”
Morin looked at these results and spoke to Golden Lion.
“How is this possible?
Did he master lineage factor technology in just three days?”
Standing beside Golden Lion, Judge watched this scene.
Although he remained as still as a background board, stormy waves had already risen in his heart.
The scene of Morin asking him for advice for the first time was still vivid in his mind.
The questions Morin had asked back then were so basic that even someone entering a laboratory for the first time would not ask them.
Only after seeing these clone soldiers whose appearances had completely changed did Judge realize that Morin had truly mastered lineage factor technology.
But it had only been three days.
Not only had he mastered everything in Judge’s materials, he had even produced results.
Judge secretly tested them, but these newly created soldiers did not obey his commands at all.
That meant Morin had already improved the lineage factors Judge had reserved inside the clone soldiers.
“These are only test products.
Their combat strength hasn’t been tested yet.”
“Only if their combat strength passes will my experiment be considered successful.”
Under Morin’s command, five Chimera Ants were rushing toward this place.
These five Chimera Ants each had advantages in power, speed, and other aspects.
“Go.
Kill the enemies in the forest ahead.”
Just as the previous Chimera Ants were about to arrive, Morin gave the order to the Chimera Ants behind him.
In that instant, the five Chimera Ants shot into the forest from five different directions.
A slaughter between Chimera Ants began on this small island.