Chapter 164

As both Lucas and Law teleported Monet away using Room, She who was outside the lab called her real boss.

Monet wasn't only Caesar's assistant, but also a spy whose job is to watch him since Caesar has the habit of spending the money of his clients and stalling the time to get more refunds. 

The real one behind her was Doflamingo. 

As soon as she was teleported out, she went into her room and took a DenDenMushi to call Doflamingo before reporting him everything, including that Lucas knew Law, and he made a secret commission, which she couldn't say.

"fufufu... who thought that we may find a corrupted fish." 

Upon mentioning Lucas, Doflamingo could remember him as the person who stopped him in the middle of the air and laughed as he didn't expect to meet him here and again.

"What shall we do?"

"Of course, using him."

Doflamingo, as the joker of the underworld, would always appreciate a corrupted Marine.

"Joker, but what if Law is actually working with the marines, that would doom us."

"fufu..., Marines strictly don't make contact with pirates, it is their law. And if they do, they won't try to look obvious. "

Doflamingo said remembering his dead brother who never contacted marines publicly or was shown to walk with them. "He is the one who is using Law to get a benefit. Guys who work for their own benefits are good for me." 

Obviously, if the Marine needed a secret commission with Caesar, then Law is trying to use him for that benefit. 

However, such man would always change his side to the one who offers the most significant benefit. 

"Fernando Lucas, I heard he beat the shit out of dead Crocodile who mysteriously vanished from Impel Down," Doflamingo said.

Though the Celestial Dragons gave Doflamingo a mission to find Crocodile who vanished from Impel Down during Ivankov's prison break, he knew that Crocodile was dead since Vivi had his Devil Fruit.

It was a logic that existed for 800 years.

"However, we need to watch him closely before knowing what he likes and bind him."

"Is there anything I have to do, Joker?" 

Monet could hear Doflamingo murmuring as the snail was copying his facial expression. Her face flinched, thinking that her boss had that idea.

"He is very young, 16 years old. Monet, you are gorgeous, right."

Doflamingo said as he knew that she wasn't a v.i.r.g.i.n and can understand what he trying to say. 

If the navy man is so young, then controlling his D meaning controlling him.

Monet coughed and had a slight blush upon hearing that she was pretty. Being praised would always make her feel good. 

"I want you to guarantee that we get him, understood."

"Mister Joker? Are you sure, he is pretty handsome," Monet said, her face showing the cold expression of an assassin but red cheeks, as she just thought about her mission and was happy that he isn't an ugly old man. If the latter was the case, then she would ask another woman to do it instead of her. 

"Do your best; meanwhile, I'll test him."

"I Understand, Joker." 

Monet then hanged the call and the snail got swallowed by her arm that turned into snow.  

When Law and Lucas left Doctor Caesar's office, Monet was at the door, wearing, not nerdy, but seductive clothes that showed her curves, very huge chest, and pretty face, making her look very charming. 

But Lucas gave her one glance before ignoring her and going away. 

It didn't matter to Monet since Lucas made a commission, then she would see him here again, and the chance would come again. Besides, she took the fact that Lucas ignored her was because he is 16 years old v.i.r.g.i.n and was trying to hide his embarrassment.

'She isn't a bad actor, but the plot is just bad.'

Of course, Lucas knew Monet would report to Doflamingo. That's why he didn't hide his face when he came here. 

Sometimes, not hiding your face is safer than hiding it.

As someone who was in the underworld of earth, Lucas knew how most of the bosses think.  The bad guys aren't lunatics, but men of business that sold their morals. They will always try using their possible enemies if this brings benefits. Of course, they won't hesitate to get rid of the danger.

-x-X-x-

Lucas was now in the south of Hazard Punk, several kilometres away from Caesar's lab. 

In front of him, Law was sitting on a rock and hugging his sword.

Law had many questions in his head, such how is he planning to use Caesar, and what is he planning to do since he revealed his face to Monet who obviously told Doflamingo. 

Despite all these questions, Law knew that Lucas was a man with a plan and wouldn't make a move without assuring its effectiveness, so he decided to start with the first question that bothered him.

"Why did you call me here?" 

"Take my heart out."

"Excuse me." 

Law's face made a bizarre expression as he heard Lucas's weird demand. He couldn't make out any logic from it or does Lucas plan to use his own heart to threat himself.

"Are you deaf,"

"I can't understand you."

"Heart is a vital point. One hit can kill it; if I can hide my heart, then any stab here wouldn't be deadly." 

Lucas made up some logical excuse which Law bought it. 

"Fine, Room." 

Law opened his palm and a faint-blue sphere extended from his palm, wrapping the two of them. This sphere was the power of Op-Op Fruit which make anything within the sphere inside an operation room, and Law can control it. 

Without Lucas moving, Law could take Lucas's heart out, before throwing it back to the owner. 

The heart was inside a visible white cub, once Lucas wants it back, all he has to do is to put his heart on his chest.

"Just store it in a safe place, if someone sat on it, you would die." 

Looking to his heart in his hand beating, Lucas had felt a bit weird. "hehe..." he found it funny. His life is in his palm, literally. 

Suddenly, the heart in his palm vanished. 

"Is this everything," Law asked as he didn't want to question it. Maybe Lucas indeed has a way to hide his heart. Probably he will put it in a chest and bury it. 

"Yes."

"Do whatever you like."

Seeing that Lucas has no need for him, Law went some hundreds meter away and sat on a tree.

Lucas was sitting next to the beach, not feeling so different from his heart, not inside his chest.

However, the beat on his chest is still there. He could feel the blood cycle, and his wrist is still beating. His body was function as usual. Lucas felt that he had a remote heart now.

He opened his System and looked to the items in the storage.

There were two hearts; one belongs to the crazy scientist while the other belongs to him.

[Item: The Heart of Fernando Lucas. 

State: 10/10

Eternal Heart: A heart that never age]

Law who was observing Lucas's silently saw a weird-looking fruit in his hand, "Oy, that- a Devil Fruit." 

Lucas made his decision. To become stronger, become as Admirals, and facing stronger opponents, he made the decision to eat this fruit.

Lucas was someone who would never go against a higher challenge without at least have some sort of guarantee that he would overpower his opponents.

Since he was the type which depends on super speed and techniques, More-More fruit was the best Devil Fruit for himself.

Just the speed boost x 100 times that he get it to himself is tempting enough for him without mentioning the other abilities and the potentials to increase these abilities. 

"Okay, to cheat it or not to cheat it."

Remembering how his girls reacted after eating their Devil Fruits, Lucas flinched. He closed his eyes and opened his mouth widely before putting the Fruit inside and swallowing it in one go.

"argh..." 

Lucas's face turned green as he wanted to throw up. 

[Ding, do you want to turn Devil Fruit into XP (y/n)]

Lucas took some time to forget the taste of a Devil Fruit; maybe he should fuse it with his heart directly, but he chose to eat, thinking something may happen. 

After forgetting the taste, Lucas now could pay attention to the notification, surprised. Seems that he can turn Devil Fruits into XP when he eats them.

If he eats Devil Fruits like a madman, then he may gain a lot of experience. 

However, there is one problem, they taste like shit. 

'that's too hard; in my whole life, I never knew how shit taste, but I can tell it's better than, this fruit.'

'Argh, thinking about eating them would make me want to throw up.' 

Lucas put his hand on his lips, feeling the urge to throw up.

'I'll think about that later.' 

It was a hard decision to eat dump because XP, while he can chase people for it. There was a high possibility that his body would refuse the taste after eating more couple Devil Fruits to turn them into XP. But that meant that he had to consider what he eats since the System would consider the potentials to get XP. 

'I hope I won't throw up on the next one...'

Looking to the notification, Lucas chose No. He won't allow the ability to slip from his hand. The ability alone was frightening as it makes the person stronger according to his basic strength. 

[System starting new update 0%...20%....30%....]

Hearing the System's notification, Lucas sat down and waited for it to finish updating. He opened his storage to eat something and refresh his tongue while observing the update process.

The food prepared by the System was always high levelled that put the best cooks in this world to shame. 

Lucas chose to eat Ice-cream while looking at the update window.

[80%...82%..90%]

Whenever the system update, something new would happen.

"hehe."

Seeing Lucas's reaction made Law, who was observing from the side, laugh as he knew what Lucas is passing by was the worst thing about eating a Devil Fruit, which is the taste. 

[Ding, integrating with Devil Fruit More-More]

[Ding, + new category: Devil Fruit Mastery (level 1)

Devil Fruit Mastery: how able are you to use the full abilities of your Devil Fruit.]

(From now and on, Devil Fruit Mastery would be called DFM)

[DFM: More-More level 1 (0/20.000) (active power)

Paramecia Type:

*Increase the speed, the size and the strength of non-living object up to 100 fold.

*Increasing one's speed up to 100 folds,

* can increase one feature in time]

[Possible upgradation starting with level 6 to level 20: affecting living being. Affecting Time-rate, increasing other factors, such one's strength, size, and others such as air pressure, gravity, heat...

...]

[the weakness against seawater and Sea Stone still exists.] 

Devil Fruits were following their name. More More, make Lucas Increasing Man. Devil Fruits abilities follow their name more than they follow the first available usage. Upon reading the notification, Lucas knew that with training, he can learn how to use his fruit effectively to use it on things other than the basics, size, speed and power. Just affecting living beings sound good enough.

Lucas was looking to his storage anxiously, to see that he can extract the Devil Fruit from his heart. 

Looking at his heart [Do you want to extract Devil Fruit from the item.

Good, he relieved now. If he ever fell to the sea, then he can take the fruit out and swim again. 

But again, just with DFM level one of the fruit, Lucas knows that his current fighting prowess increased dramatically.

[Ding, the option of extracting Devil Fruit is available to the host.]

Staring blankly, Lucas took some time to realise what happened.

"Couldn't you tell me that when I had you the first time." 

Upon seeing the new notification, Lucas cursed, as if he had known this earlier, then he would already found a suitable Devil Fruit from the start and wouldn't trouble himself. 

He didn't regret it since he played safe, but he was still pissed off. 

In frustration, Lucas lifted a near rock and threw it to the sea's direction, and accidentally, learned how to activate his power at that moment.

[ more-more: size increase x100]

As the rock flew out of his hand, the size started to increase folds at a rapid rate. 

The rock was 15 cm in length, but in half blink, it became 150 cm, and in another half blink, it became 15 meters, before it hit the sea and continue flying with its original speed and eventually it fell creating a big wave.

[DFM +5 XP]

'Oy, what was that ability,' Law again flinched seeing Lucas's ability.

"Wow. I need to do an experiment." Lucas's face suddenly became like kids' face seeing how a small rock became gigantic and stood up. But now, it seems that he needs to be