Chapter 456: The Battered Roger Pirates
"That's interesting!"
Hades watched the development of Sound Nest with great satisfaction.
He didn't have many thoughts about cloning technology itself.
Aside from its medical applications, this technology didn't hold much value for him.
After all, it was cloning, not replication.
With such high cloning costs, the need for time to cultivate them, and the risk of losing control, what was the point?
Perhaps cloning technology was important to most factions on the great sea, but for the Kronos Kingdom, which possessed the Royal Military Academy and hundreds of thousands of students, it was quite useless.
His own kingdom still had a large number of talents to cultivate; why would they need a group of clones with limited potential?
This applied even to clones like Zero Garp, who were modeled after top-tier monsters and possessed great potential.
More importantly, Hades was inwardly resistant to clones.
Of course, the Kronos Kingdom didn't currently control this technology, and he wouldn't be shameless enough to steal something from his own son.
Perhaps the Kronos Kingdom might create some clones in the future, but there was no need for it now.
He would just let Sound Nest serve as the experiment subject and see the results.
What he anticipated even more was how much of a stir Sound Nest would cause in the future.
The upper limit of Sound Nest kept rising in Hades's mind as it developed.
Zero Garp was still young now, but what kind of role would he play in the future?
This unknown factor was what excited Hades.
As for Zero Garp, to make him truly feel a sense of belonging, the old method was still needed: have a child.
This was Hades's tried-and-true trump card.
It had worked for the cadres of the Pluto Pirates in the past, and it worked for other talents as well.
In this world, what could make people feel closer than bloodline?
Moreover, as a clone, although he was an independent individual, there would inevitably be a lump in his throat.
If he had a child, it would be different.
With a legacy, a bloodline, wouldn't he then feel a sense of belonging to this unfamiliar world?
Thinking of this, Hades couldn't help but reveal a smile.
There weren't many things that could amuse him anymore.
Rarely, this thought made him feel a little excited.
As for the issue of top-grade nutrient solution, the Kronos Kingdom's internal supply was insufficient to meet demand.
The annual production was limited.
Royal Family Members, the main strength of the kingdom, especially the hidden old guys behind the Royal Palace, all needed it.
Giving a portion to Ignis was already an exception.
Furthermore, he also saw the risks of cloning technology and felt it needed to be restricted to some extent.
Ignis himself thought the same way and understood Hades's intentions.
If something unexpected were to happen.
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Ignis could still suppress one Zero Garp, but two, three, or even more?
Who knew what negative impacts that could cause.
Hades wasn't entirely confident in Ignis's control over Zero Garp, so he planned to put another layer of shackles on Zero Garp.
Family affection, a child, was undoubtedly this shackles.
Besides, Zero Garp already knew about the existence of the Kronos Kingdom.
He didn't plan to let the other "00" off either.
Ignis sending both of them to the Kronos Kingdom also carried this meaning.
Both Hades and Ignis were very cautious in their overall direction.
Development had to be taken step by step.
Sometimes expanding too quickly wasn't a good thing.
Everything had to be within their control.
The entire New World remained generally peaceful.
Small-scale chaos didn't catch his eye.
However, the situation with the Roger Pirates was quite interesting.
For several months, it had been a very painful experience for the Roger Pirates.
The Roger Pirates' Oro Jackson had been severely damaged multiple times, attacked by World Government agents and destroyed by Garp.
This greatly affected the Roger Pirates' voyages.
In just a few months, the Oro Jackson underwent two major repairs and numerous minor repairs.
This made them afraid to dock.
If they docked, the World Government might have prepared bombs to blow up the Oro Jackson.
A pirate ship built primarily from Adam Wood, even facing the explosion of explosives, wouldn't be severely affected, at most suffering minor damage that could be easily repaired.
Moreover, Adam Wood possessed powerful vitality and the ability to self-repair.
Only such a ship could sail the dangerous New World for years, enduring war without being destroyed.
Unfortunately, the bombs the World Government used were not ordinary bombs.
They were specifically designed for ships built with Adam Wood materials like the Oro Jackson.
The explosives contained a special liquid medicine that caused life to wither and decay, causing irreversible damage to the trunk of Adam Wood.
It could turn Adam Wood materials into rotten wood.
This kind of thing was an absolute forbidden medicine in the Giant Kingdom Elbaf.
In the past, it had caused serious damage to Adam Wood.
Fortunately, Adam Wood had strong vitality and recovered after some time.
From then on, anyone who brought this medicine to Elbaf was an enemy of the Giant Tribe.
After all, if this medicine wasn't used against Adam Wood, what else could it be used for?
Facing Garp's pursuit, the Roger Pirates used to play around with Garp in the past, but now they didn't even want to encounter him.
They would run as soon as they saw him, not wanting to touch any bad luck, because Garp was also specifically targeting their Oro Jackson and hitting it hard.
In this situation, the World Government and the Marines widely publicized the news around the world that the Roger Pirates were being pursued to a dead end by Marine Vice Admiral Garp.
There were pictures and evidence, and photos of the Oro Jackson being destroyed were clearly visible.
Garp's prestige was greatly enhanced throughout the world because of this.
Hades was very clear about this point.
To repair the Oro Jackson, the Roger Pirates even made a special trip to Puto Island.
Puto Island was now a famous Shipbuilding Base in the New World and even the world.
Most of the pirate ships in the New World, it could be said, came from Puto Island.
Those rising pirates, especially those who emerged from the Sky Arena, would choose to build their own pirate ship on Puto Island.
There were a large number of orders every year, even including other top-tier pirate crews.
In the New World, it was impossible for the Roger Pirates to travel all the way to Water Seven in the First Half of the Grand Line.
Besides Elbaf, the place with the most Adam Wood lumber in the New World was also Puto Island.
That's why Hades knew about the Roger Pirates' situation.
It seemed the Marines and the World Government planned to relentlessly target the Roger Pirates' ship.
The effect was obvious, but the Roger Pirates wouldn't sit idly by.
The Marines and the World Government had successively taken action against them.
If they didn't react at all and merely fled passively, they wouldn't be the Roger Pirates.
Undoubtedly, the Roger Pirates' counterattack was coming.
The plan of the World Government and the Marines was not wrong, and the effect was very clear.
However, they forgot one point: the Roger Pirates' powerful overall strength, a strength that shocked and greatly intimidated any faction.
Since they decided to take action, they needed to be prepared to face the Roger Pirates.
Of course, it was impossible that they didn't know the Roger Pirates were powerful, but that was the best approach.
The Roger Pirates' actions had touched the World Government's bottom line.
Since they had taken action, the World Government must have prepared countermeasures against the Roger Pirates.
At the very least, according to the intelligence from the Kronos Kingdom, Zephyr and Sengoku of the Marine Headquarters had made moves, and the World Government might also be secretly mobilizing troops.
(end of chapter)