“Lord Morin, congratulations on finally creating the new Chimera Ant soldiers!”
At the testing ground, after Judge finished testing the combat strength of several Chimera Ants, he congratulated Morin.
After a long period of research, Morin had finally perfectly fused the beast genes of Merveille with the version 2.0 Chimera Ants.
If Morin wanted these soldiers to grow beast ears and tails, he could turn them into beastman Chimera Ants.
Morin could also make their heads take the form of beast heads.
The newly strengthened Chimera Ants had not only inherited Merveille’s ferocity, but even their physiques had become stronger than the version 2.0 models.
Now, even if these Chimera Ants fought Marine colonels who could use Armament Haki, they would not lose.
With this, the soldier ants Morin had envisioned were complete.
Morin still remembered that during the Summit War, Marine Fleet Admiral Sengoku had mobilized various Grand Line branches and gathered one hundred thousand warrant officers.
Once Morin created an army of one hundred thousand Chimera Ants, he would be able to sweep across the Grand Line.
“Judge, are you willing to make some contributions to my research?”
Morin turned his head and looked at Judge, smiling at him.
“What…”
Before Judge could finish speaking, he felt a pain in his chest.
A longsword had already pierced through him.
“Why…?”
Blood surged from Judge’s mouth, and his eyes were filled with confusion.
He had clearly cooperated so much.
Why had Morin still attacked him?
Did Morin not know how precious a scientist like him was?
“Judge, although you appear to have submitted to me on the surface, I know you will never truly submit to a pirate.”
“Your wish is to restore Germa’s glory in the North Blue and make Germa great again.
That wish cannot be realized by joining pirates.”
Morin looked at Judge and spoke all of Judge’s thoughts aloud.
“Don’t deny it.
There’s no point now.”
“My Observation Haki already saw through your heart long ago.”
Looking at the shocked Judge, Morin gave him the answer.
Judge was very good at acting, but he did not know Haki.
He had no idea that before Morin’s Observation Haki, none of his little schemes could be hidden from Morin.
On the surface, Judge was respectful and obedient to Morin, but in secret, he had tried more than once to secretly alter the lineage factors.
Moreover, there had been many research questions he clearly knew the answers to, but he simply refused to say them.
He had felt puzzled each time Morin encountered a problem and somehow figured it out by himself, but that was only because Morin had found the correct answer from his heart.
Since Judge could not be subdued, Morin could only turn him into a Chimera Ant.
Furthermore, according to Morin’s plan, he wanted to turn Judge into a squadron leader-level Chimera Ant in charge of scientific research.
Morin would only provide the Chimera Ant genes, while Judge would be responsible for leading the research team to complete the gestation of Chimera Ants.
That way, Morin could free up his own time and have more time to use for training.
“Shh.
Don’t speak.
I’m going to transform you into a Chimera Ant while you’re still alive!”
Seeing that Judge was unwilling and still wanted to say something, Morin made a shushing gesture at him.
Even if Judge died, Morin could still extract his genes from the corpse.
Morin was simply preparing for future encounters with Devil Fruit users he wanted to transform.
After a Devil Fruit user died, their Devil Fruit would automatically disappear into the sea and randomly reappear somewhere in the world.
Moreover, if Judge completed the Chimera Ant transformation while still alive, he would have a higher chance of awakening his own memories.
Therefore, Morin had to complete Judge’s Chimera Ant transformation while he was still alive.
This was Morin’s first time using a human for experimentation, and this experiment was extremely important to him.
Judge desperately wanted to struggle, but under the intimidation of Morin’s Conqueror’s Haki, he fainted directly.
Morin began the tense operation.
As early as when Morin had prepared to transform Judge, he had already chosen the animal to fuse with him: a golden strange bird with a mane like a lion’s.
This strange bird was the latest species cultivated by Golden Lion.
Not only was it larger than ordinary birds, it could also release one hundred thousand volts of electric attacks.
Judge’s epithet was “Garuda,” and he also used electric attacks.
In Morin’s view, this bird’s genes were a perfect match for Judge.
Morin used his ability to wrap around Judge’s entire body, then began the transformation using Judge’s body as material.
The entire laboratory was incomparably quiet.
Only Morin remained there, constantly working on Judge’s body.
“Success!”
Morin wiped the sweat from his forehead and let out a long breath.
At this moment, Judge was already lying inside one of Germa’s soldier cultivation tanks.
Although no changes could be seen in Judge yet, Morin knew that Judge had already begun transforming into a Chimera Ant.
This was Morin’s first time using a human to create a squadron leader-level Chimera Ant.
Although several accidents had occurred during the process, Morin had finally succeeded.
According to Morin’s estimation, this squadron leader-level Chimera Ant would be born in about one month.
One month passed quickly.
Under Morin’s gaze, Judge suddenly opened his eyes inside the cultivation tank.
The current Judge’s appearance was not much different from before.
The only change on his face was that his sharp black mustache now slanted upward, while the small beard on his protruding chin had become golden bone.
Other than that, there was his figure.
Although the previous Judge had been tall, he had a fat belly.
Now, there was a layer of golden bone armor over his body.
This was his exoskeleton.
Crackle!
Tiny arcs of electricity danced in his hand, and Morin knew that this fusion had been very successful.
“Lord Morin!”
The moment Judge opened his eyes and saw Morin, he spoke respectfully to him.
Even though Judge had been refined into a Chimera Ant, he still retained the ability to speak.
“Come on.
Let’s test your abilities!”
Morin sized up Judge and spoke to him.
Under Morin’s lead, Judge walked out of the laboratory.
“Show me your abilities!”
Morin looked at the empty ground ahead and spoke to Judge.
A golden wing extended from Judge’s back, and he flew into the sky like a bolt of golden lightning.
Then, a javelin made of lightning appeared in his hand.
As the javelin was thrown toward the earth, a violent explosion rang out.
Boom!
Accompanied by the thunderous blast, Morin felt the entire island shake violently.
Golden Lion was also alarmed.
When he arrived at Morin’s side, he saw Judge flying rapidly through the air with lightning wrapped around his entire body.
“You… you transformed Judge into a Chimera Ant?”
Golden Lion’s voice was filled with surprise.
He knew Judge’s aura.
It had not been much stronger than that of an ordinary person.
But now, Judge had not even put on his battle suit, yet his aura was already roughly comparable to that of a Marine vice admiral.
It was worth mentioning that Judge’s current aura was much stronger than the Kunpeng, who was also a squadron leader-level Chimera Ant.