NOVEL NEXT Chapter 83: Vegapunk
The Future Country Baldimore.
Located in the first half of the Grand Line, on Karakuri Island.
It is known as the "Nation Where Geniuses Are Born," and also called the Country of the Future.
The island is shrouded in dark clouds and snowfall all year round. The frigid weather causes thick ice layers to form around the island, serving as a natural barrier.
To reach this place, aside from a monthly transport ship and the occasional visiting warship...
Only special icebreaker ships can make the journey.
These harsh conditions provided the perfect convenience for a certain organization composed of geniuses and madmen...
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The edge of the Future Country Baldimore — the sealed forest of mechanical animals.
This place is known as a dangerous forbidden zone.
The entire forest is filled with mechanically modified animals created by the "genius" Vegapunk.
They harbor deep hostility toward outsiders.
And deep within the forest, surrounded on all sides, stands a massive steel complex.
That is where the "genius" Vegapunk lives and conducts his daily research.
What no one knows is...
This man, considered the kingdom's hope by the public...
Is also the leader of an organization studying forbidden knowledge.
The head of "MADS."
The name "MADS" implies madness and was founded by Vegapunk himself.
Secretly gathering the world's most brilliant scientists, they jointly researched projects classified as forbidden by the World Government.
Members of the organization included:
Vinsmoke Judge — the future king of the Germa Kingdom.
Queen the Plague — one of the All-Stars of the Beasts Pirates.
And Caesar Clown — a deranged and cruel scientist.
This team, made up of geniuses and madmen, studied weapons, biology, bloodlines, Devil Fruits — everything in the world.
They sought to use science to reach the domain of gods.
And they had already begun to form the blueprint of that divine domain.
It was called the "Lineage Factor" — the design blueprint of life itself.
If nothing had gone wrong...
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Thirteen kilometers from the edge of the sealed forest of mechanical animals.
Late at night, two figures — one tall and one short — appeared.
They looked down at the dark, silent village below, twisted smiles spreading across their faces.
It was none other than the young Queen and the eight-year-old Caesar Clown.
Obsessed with bacteria and microbiology, the two had gone mad after the team led by Vegapunk and Vinsmoke Judge made a breakthrough in their research.
Both hailed as geniuses — how could they stand to see their own work stagnate?
Especially with their inherently vile personalities — both Queen and Caesar.
Their madness could no longer be satisfied by experimenting on animals.
They often snuck out to hunt the residents of nearby villages and towns.
Because the island was perpetually covered in snowstorms, disappearances were common.
No one looked too deeply into it, assuming the missing people had simply been buried somewhere by the heavy snow.
But after the two learned from Vegapunk...
About that so-called "Lineage Factor" — the blueprint of life...
They could no longer suppress the madness in their hearts.
Test subjects weren't enough. They needed people! People!! People!!!
And so came the scene from before.
In just one night, two-thirds of the village's population vanished.
No one knew where they had gone.
But that didn't stop the remaining villagers from reporting it to the kingdom and the Navy.
The crazed pair never considered the consequences of their actions.
It was just like Orochimaru crazily kidnapping people in Konoha to conduct human experiments...
Given that this was already a highly technologically advanced nation...
And with such a large number of disappearances, it was hard not to suspect human experimentation.
The kingdom was the first to send personnel to investigate, but they found nothing.
The Navy branch in Baldimore reported it to Marine Headquarters.
And the Headquarters, upon receiving word of possible human experiments — a forbidden act — immediately reported it to the government.
After many days of investigation and deep probing by the World Government's CP organization...
They finally uncovered the illegal research team "MADS," which operated with the aim of studying forbidden knowledge.
And the paper Vegapunk had written — on the Lineage Factor...
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