Brain nerves, gene modification, physical enhancement, and increasing physical feedback speed.
These were all the projects Shin set for his modification surgery.
He had already completed the simplest project: the brain nerve enhancement.
This seemed the most difficult but was actually the easiest, because merely deciphering the section on brain nerve breakthroughs from the Adjuster human gene map was enough to achieve a high success rate for brain nerve modification.
And this was also a safety measure.
If the modification failed, his main body would fall into a state of brain death, in short, become a vegetable.
But the probability was extremely low.
And even if it failed, the mental seeds implanted in each Prayer would allow him to maintain control.
At worst, he could clone a new body for himself or directly exchange for a cure from the system.
Germa's cloning technology can grow an embryo into a mature soldier within five years.
Accelerating the cultivation process, he could create a clone of himself approximately three years old within half a month.
However, he would never do this unless absolutely necessary.
Before the surgery began, he had made full preparations.
After countless attempts using test subjects, his surgical experience was at a peak.
To ensure everything was foolproof, he also borrowed Tesoro's subordinate, Baccarat, and had her boost the luck of his main body and the Prayers performing the surgery to the extreme.
The results were gratifying.
He succeeded. The enhancement of his brain nerves elevated his consciousness and mental power to a new level.
The withdrawal symptoms had also disappeared.
He even gained enhanced high-level spatial awareness as a result.
In other words, this surgery provided the foundation for him to evolve into an artificial Newtype.
Ending here would have been sufficient, but Shin decided to... do it again.
After all, he couldn't be sure if he would have such a good opportunity and favorable conditions in the next world.
He knew that everything he had built in the One-Piece world so far was largely due to the benefits of this beginner world.
Without a starting Gundam, it would have been difficult for his flesh-and-blood body to thrive in this world.
Gambling isn't a good habit, but sometimes in life, you have to take a gamble... Opportunity knocks only once.
Leaving the One Piece world, he wouldn't find such good experimental conditions for surgery, nor would he find assistance like Baccarat, who could directly increase the success rate.
Everything... to become more perfect!
His main body lay quietly on the operating table.
He wore the helmet of the Ascending Star on his head, and his body was covered in the Poltorto's suit where possible.
Prayer No.3, the most skilled, was the chief surgeon; Prayer No. 6 was the assistant; Prayers No. 8 and 9 were the auxiliaries.
Chief surgeon Three took a deep breath.
Although this wasn't the first time he had performed surgery on himself, it still felt awkward.
A sufficient dose of muscle relaxant was injected into the veins, and Shin on the operating table lost control of his muscles.
The surgical knife was aimed at his chest, making a gentle incision.
Despite the muscle relaxant, pain still transmitted to Shin's brain through his nerves.
Sweat beaded on his forehead, but he gritted his teeth and endured the tormenting pain.
The main body needed to remain conscious so that he could detect his body's reactions immediately and respond in real-time, increasing the success rate.
If it weren't necessary to curb the muscle nerve reflexes that could ruin the surgical precision, he wouldn't have injected himself with the muscle relaxant.
Shin's head was drenched in cold sweat.
He felt the pain inflicted on his chest, unable even to close his eyes.
The chief surgeon Prayer kept watching the surgical incision.
Time passed slowly.
The sharp surgical knife bypassed complex blood vessels, located the pulsating red heart, and injected 4°C cardioplegic solution into the heart vessels.
Simultaneously, assistant Prayer 6 connected the heart vessels to the nearby artificial cardiopulmonary machine.
The heartbeat stopped, replaced by the rhythm of the artificial cardiopulmonary machine.
A strange, numb coldness spread throughout his body, but Shin had to endure the accumulating pain.
Prayer 3 slowly located the cardiac valve area in the right atrium, bypassing all complex, fine blood vessels, and slowly cut an opening.
The sensation of operating on one's own heart is indescribable.
Pain was accompanied by a strange sense of fear.
Shin managed not to go insane in this absurd displacement, thanks to the forced calm brought by the Poltorto's equipment.
Prayer 6 carefully used tweezers to pick up a rice-sized, pale green, solid liquid.
He slowly inserted it into the opened right atrium.
It was a refined Lineage Factor liquid extracted from several diluted Devil Fruit factors.
Upon entering the heart, it would circulate throughout the body with the heartbeat, slowly integrating into the body's genetic structure.
Judge's children were injected with a similar LF enhancement agent.
But unlike their strong indigenous genes, Shin could only use this clever method to slowly allow this fragile body to adapt to the modifications.
After completing this, they slowly stitched the wound, confirmed the heartbeat, disconnected the heart vessels from the artificial cardiopulmonary machine, and stitched the vascular bridge.
Finally, they connected the sternum and stitched the chest closed.
When the last stitch was made, the heart surgery was completed.
But the surgery itself was far from over.
Prayers 8 and 9 brought several intravenous bags of green liquid, connecting them to the arm veins to enhance blood circulation with stabilizers and boost cardiopulmonary function.
Then came the waiting.
The heartbeat frequency seemed much faster than at any other time.
A numb body, a painful chest-but soon, these things didn't matter.
When the blood circulation sent that drop of concentrated Lineage Factor enhancement fluid through the blood vessels to the whole body, he felt intense pain in every part of his body, like every cell was being torn apart!
This pain far exceeded any torment he had ever experienced; it was more agonizing than any torture!
Anesthetics were useless, and he couldn't take them now.
He had to use his developed brain nerves to feel this pain that tore him apart from the inside out.
He opened his mouth, wanting to scream in agony, but the muscle relaxant had completely paralyzed his facial muscles.
Baccarat, wearing a sterile protective suit, was brought into the operating room.
This experienced woman's scalp tingled at the sight.
Who in this world could be so cruel to themselves?
She dutifully applied a luck boost to everyone in the room, especially Shin on the operating table.
His luck was raised to its current maximum limit.
A pale-faced Baccarat escaped the eerie operating room after she was done.
From outside, he could even hear her vomiting.
"You are truly ruthless to yourself." The system sincerely lamented.
Most people would hesitate to even cut themselves with a knife.
A person who is ruthless enough to control other bodies to perform surgery on himself, to cut himself open and endure such torment, is undoubtedly a ruthless person.
Those who are ruthless to themselves can certainly be more ruthless to others.
Moreover, the terrifying part of this surgery wasn't the self-operation, but the subsequent intense pain.
Time passed slowly.
Shin felt his consciousness losing clarity.
Every cell in his body was experiencing continuous tearing pain.
It was much more painful than being sliced a thousand times.
He had tried to give up and end his life more than once.
But it was too late.
Having come this far, there was no turning back.
He could only control his Prayers to reapply muscle relaxants to areas where they were about to wear off.
Just before he fainted, he had them inject mental enhancers into his neck, forcing him to maintain consciousness and control!
In a trance, he suddenly felt like a Witcher undergoing the "Trial of the Grasses," floating and suffering in endless pain, enduring until he surpassed the mundane, or failing and dying completely.
He didn't know how many times the cycle repeated: Baccarat coming in to refresh the buff, muscle relaxants wearing off, injecting muscle relaxants, and then repeating.
Everything in the operating room felt like a dizzying illusion.
Observing everything through the eyes of the Prayers, he felt as if he had lost his identity.
The pain lasted for a long time but eventually subsided.
When all the pain receded, Shin thought he was dead.
His consciousness fell into a daze and trance.
In countless dreams of crossing over, he saw innumerable bizarre scenes, and most often, his family.
After an unknown amount of time...
When he opened his eyes on the operating table, the surrounding Prayers were in their lowest level of autonomous state, having lost his control.
He stared blankly at his palms.
A feeling of rebirth spread from every part of his body.
His muscle strength, reaction speed, and everything else had been further enhanced.
The world looked completely different in his eyes!
"I succeeded, I succeeded!!!"
He clenched his fists and roared with joy.
Reborn, he felt like a superman, an invincible superman!
He punched forward, hearing a blasting sound with every punch.
His running speed was so fast that it completely surpassed human limits!
"Ka~me~ha~me~"
Shin faced the wall, hands clasped together in a flower shape and blasted out a big nothing.
The scene was a bit awkward.
He coughed lightly a few times and pretended nothing happened.
Not yet. The Lineage Factors had successfully embedded themselves into his genetic structure, becoming a superposition state between recessive and dominant genes.
This meant he needed time and certain triggers to activate this part of the LFs, allowing him to truly become a "superhuman" by awakening those abilities.
He scanned the side.
To ensure he didn't awaken some random, useless ability, he had extracted and selected only stable and effective Devil Fruit abilities: the Vampire Fruit factor, the Float-Float Fruit factor, the String-String Fruit factor, the Door-Door Fruit factor, and the Weapon Fruit factor.
To ensure safety, he only selected Zoan and Paramecia type Devil Fruit ability factors.
The elemental transformations involved in Logia were beyond his current understanding and knowledge, and "fantasy" abilities beyond comprehension, like the Hobby-Hobby Fruit, were also excluded.
These five types of Devil Fruit Lineage Factors were hidden within his genetic structure.
It was possible he would awaken one, all, or, through genetic redundancy, awaken a different ability that was more suitable for him.
It was like the X-gene.
A child born from strong parents might have a bizarre ability, and vice versa.
Lineage Factors certainly don't have as many variations as the X-gene, but regardless, the possibility exists.
He was the first person to undergo this type of experiment.
There were no reference subjects.
But no matter what, he had succeeded now.
Just his physical body alone had been strengthened to the level of a Marine Captain.
He now had the foundation to learn the Six Powers (Rokushiki), which are impossible for ordinary people to master.
"Would you mind if the company purchased the copyright for this surgery?"
The system suddenly appeared, sounding somewhat impressed.
"The company is interested in the technological application of your modification surgery. We can pay you a copyright fee to incorporate the surgery into the C-rank Mysterious items technology options. How about it?"
"Of course... no problem." Shin nodded and chuckled.
"I thought you would just take my work without saying anything."
"We are a legitimate company, not a strong-arming light ball. We only operate within the rules and regulations. You exploit loopholes, and we fill the gaps. When you make a contribution, the company naturally rewards and penalizes."
The system said calmly.
Subsequently, Shin received an extra 1,000 rating points.
"1,000 rating points..." Shin frowned.
"Did you take nine-tenths of it again?"
"No, copyright acquisition fees are not subject to deduction."
"Then why is it so little?" Shin frowned.
His current E-rank contract allows for a maximum product price of 500 points, while D-rank has a maximum price of 10,000 points, a twenty-fold increase.
C-rank, B-rank, A-rank, and the highest S-rank all increase exponentially.
1,000 rating points could only buy the lowest grade C-rank items, possibly even less.
This means his 'semi-original' superhuman surgery was ranked lower than the lowest C-rank?
"Aren't you aware of how mature or immature your technology is?" The system sneered, somewhat sarcastically.
"The integration of human gene adjustment from SEED and Lineage Factor modification surgery from the One-Piece world is acceptable; integrating technologies isn't plagiarism. But the success rate of your surgery is terrifyingly low."
"Even in the most optimistic and complete state, the success rate of your surgery yesterday was only 30% at most. If the Lucky-Lucky Fruit user hadn't increased your luck, how much would a surgery with a failure rate of over half be worth?"
"This..." Shin scratched his face and sighed.
The system was right.
This "modification surgery," which he poured most of his energy into, was an unstable semi-finished product.
But regardless, this was a breakthrough from nothing.
After gaining Shin's consent, the relevant content of the modification surgery created by Shin could be seen in the C-rank Mysterious itemss options.
Product Name: Lineage Factor Modification Technology (Unmature Version)
Product Level: C- (Biology · Genetics · Modification Technology Classification)
Product Description: A biotechnology application from the One-Piece series.
This technology is a combination of Germa 66 and Rating Agent Shin's technology.
This technology aims to transform ordinary humans into enhanced superhumans, gaining the qualification to awaken pseudo-Devil Fruit abilities in their genetic structure.
After successful modification, the physical fitness is elevated to at least the level of a Marine Headquarters elite soldier in the One-Piece world, and a set of random, combination-based recessive Lineage Factors is acquired.
Warning: The modification technology from Rating Agent Shin is not fully mature.
This technology has a certain chance of failing to awaken abilities in the subject and a significant chance of outright failure, leading to death by genetic collapse.
The application scope of this product technology is extremely limited, and its applicability is very low.
This is a surgical item from the same series that is severely not recommended for purchase.
Product Price: 1,000 Rating Points
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Shin's lips twitched.
If he saw such a modification surgery, he wouldn't undergo the enhancement even if someone held him down.
It was essentially gambling his life for a future that wasn't even particularly valuable.
"Your current performance in this world has reached the highest standard for promotion to a D-rank Rating Agent."
The system said approvingly.
"You are indeed very suitable for our work. You can now settle and leave this world."
"If I achieve a higher standard, can I be promoted further?" Shin asked softly.
"Of course." The system said cheerfully.
"However, the rating standard for your performance in the beginner rating world will be subjected to a reduction, as this is not your 'true capability.' To advance further in rank, you need to do a lot more."
"You must always remember that the company always pursues 'change'-change to the world, change to everything. In a sense, we don't choose the means for the purpose; we choose the purpose for the means."
"Change... the world?" Shin murmured, squinting.
Changing the world doesn't only mean destruction.
Destroying a tall building into ruins is a form of change, and leaving behind new seeds from the ruins is also a change.
"Of course, I'll stay." Shin smiled gently.
"It's time to harvest the fruits. Why would I leave now?"
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