In fact, before coming to North Blue, Ezekiel had already sent Leviathan first to follow Germa. Although Germa did not use mobile phones, the countries they attacked did. With thorough investigation, it was easy to find out what they were doing and where they were.
Germa had no idea what a terrifying beast was following them.
Leviathan is the most powerful of all the Sea Kings Ezekiel had encountered. There are only a few creatures that can compare to it, and even the combat strength of any of the Four Emperors cannot inflict significant and effective damage on it.
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Palace of Alabasta.
Hancock's long, slender legs were fiercely stomping on the floor, almost breaking the hard blue stone slabs. She was talking on the phone with Zephyr.
"Hancock! You are an Admiral and must obey, why aren't you bringing me back?!" Zephyr's angry voice came through.
"Old dog! I'm here with His Majesty, why do you need to be here?" Hancock proudly said into the receiver.
"Don't call me an old dog! I am your Marshal! I demand respect! Don't bother His Majesty the King! Bring me back immediately!" - Zephyr felt that without his control, everything was going astray. Smoker and Tashigi enjoyed the waves and battles, Hancock liked the King, so his subordinates were a bit out of sorts.
Beep! Beep! The dial tone buzzed in Zephyr's ears; Hancock had decisively hung up.
"Sheep!!!" roared the Marshal.
On the other side, Hancock hung up and immediately looked at Ezekiel with a smile on her face and said:
"Your Majesty, it seems old Zephyr is asking for a year-long vacation!"
Jinbei wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Who would believe you? Zephyr asking for a year's vacation?!! We just heard your phone conversation!"
"Hancock," Ezekiel said helplessly, "you are an Admiral of the Royal Fleet; you can no longer act on your whims. You must follow Marshal Zephyr's instructions; he won't give useless orders."
Hancock quickly nodded, her eyes filled with stars.
"If it's your request, I will work diligently to fulfill it!"
This quick change caught Ezekiel off guard…
But all this time he was thinking about Germa's cloning technology. Is it necessary to clone a hand for Zephyr?
The basis of cloning technology is the duplication of a living organism. The technology of the Lineage Factor was discovered by Vegapunk. Based on this technology, three different directions were developed.
One of them is cloning, another is the artificial devil fruit SMILE, and the third is modified humans.
But the most powerful aspect is the Pacifista technology, developed by Vegapunk. Using this technology, Vegapunk can endow a cyborg with abilities similar to devil fruits.
What is even more frightening is that, essentially, it's not a technique of granting a devil fruit ability but a technique of duplicating a devil fruit ability to produce thousands of cyborgs with this ability in batches. The only weakness is that the robots receiving a power similar to a devil fruit are much less powerful than the original power holder.
Unfortunately, such terrifying technology is used by the World Government. It can be said that this is an ultra-weakened version of the fruit uploading capability via Ezekiel's mobile phone ability.
The difference is that Ezekiel can copy 100% of the power, while the cyborg only has a weakened ability similar to a devil fruit. Additionally, Ezekiel can endow living people with a devil fruit ability, whereas Vegapunk's technology is only applicable to cyborgs.
Vegapunk, such a great scientist, was recruited by the World Government. Ezekiel truly felt sorry.
The cloning technology requires a five-year cultivation cycle, and Judge has not studied the technology of separately cultivating body parts.
This requires diligent study and work to achieve results. As a King, Ezekiel does not have time for this. Someone needs to be found who will take responsibility.
The reason it takes five years to grow a clone is actually related to the level of soul development. The body is cultivated quickly, it doesn't even require two months, but it must have a certain human consciousness. This takes a full five years.
Only after uploading Judge's knowledge did Ezekiel realize that these clones couldn't actually possess the same human-like thinking as normal people. They could only be said to have humanoid consciousness.
"Then let's first study body enhancement techniques," Ezekiel thought for a moment and ordered to call the five members of the Germa Royal Family.
He decided to have an honest conversation with the King of this country... about the world.
Well, this is a very important matter.
When Judge and Reiju were brought to the Palace of Alabasta in handcuffs, Hancock was already furious because Zephyr had returned to Erum.
Reiju is more interested in the King than afraid, but Judge is quite the opposite. Due to what he has seen and heard before, he has no desire to confront Ezekiel... He is ambitious enough but not foolish; otherwise, he wouldn't have actively cooperated with Big Mom in the original manga. Apparently, he's capable of realizing the chasm between power levels.
Germa is still hardly a country, with a population of non-cloned individuals not exceeding a thousand people out of a total population in the hundreds of thousands, which greatly exceeds Ezekiel's initial estimate.
Moreover, in this country, where almost all the people are soldiers, there is no production or economic development at all, and it can only engage in wars. It's a too problematic country. After obtaining cloning technology, Ezekiel actually didn't want to bother with Germa's development. He simply wanted to move further into the New World and play by his own rules there. But, upon learning that cloning technology has some production potential, he changed his mind.
Unlike devil fruit abilities and Haki in terms of power, knowledge-based abilities like cloning technology can be studied and improved by the user after uploading, but this improvement is limited by the user's intellect and knowledge.
"Your Majesty Judge, although you have destroyed many of my holdings in North Blue, if you pay sufficient compensation and fines, it will not be unforgivable. In addition, Alabasta has decided to hire a member of the Germa Royal Family to become a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. What do you say to that? Ezekiel stared at the only rational person in this family, Reiju. After all, she comes from a family of scientists and is no stranger to cloning.
And essentially, the Vinsmoke family has no real ability to object.