"Master, what do you want me to do?"
"I want you to do something similar to what you did in Alabasta, so that was a training of sorts. Right now in the workshop, we have several divisions that need cooling. Our current method of cooling is underwater chambers but that is not enough. So I need you to create a cryogenic chamber".
"Cryogenic chamber...?"
She considered herself a very literate person, but that was a term she never heard in her life.
"You could call it a cold chamber then... a room where the temperature is a few dozen degrees below zero, it has several uses, one of them is preservation... but we have more uses for it, I want to use it for cooling purposes. Don't worry... out of the two of you, I see you're the one with the most potential intellectually. I'll be teaching you".
"... thanks master, please teach me plenty".
Veyron turned around to catch a glimpse of her bowing down, pleased.
'I'll turn you into the perfect, most submissive assistant~'.
...
"I'll show you something similar to what I wish for you to replicate".
He took her to a particular room where there were people already working in what looked like protective outfits, when they saw him and Monet they greeted him and sighed when they witnessed her eyes blazed in fear, that had been their first reaction too.
When they entered the chamber, not even half a second went by before a lightning strike impacted their suits.
*CHAAA!!*
*CHAAAA!!!*
*CHAAAA!!!*
*CHAAAA!!!*
They just didn't stop. One after the other, every second lightning strikes would impact against them but they would be completely repelled by the suits, in fact... the lightning strikes would bounce on the suits and end somewhere else, either another person or one of the thousands of dials attached to the walls and ceilings.
It was a massive room, but gigantic lightning strikes were striking across one after the other endlessly. So many at that, that this room didn't need any artificial illumination, the strikes were purplish in colour and incredibly dangerous.
"W-What is this...?"
"This is a secret chamber, it is the energy control centre... it was created by me and all of these lightnings power up not only this facility but the whole Rusukaina. What you see on the wall is a common bouncing dial, it was designed by one of my best scientists, a Shandian called Aisa, he designed it and I developed it. It works by using two terminals, a receiving end and a superfluous end. The receiving end can take any form of energy be it electricity, heat, void, anything... and replicate it into the superfluous end".
"So you have a never-ending flow of lightning strikes".
"Each dial duplicates the amount of lightning strikes that enter into them. This chamber has a limit on how much voltage it can take as the dials produce heat. The whole chamber is sunk inside a bigger underwater one which is constantly boiling despite the flow of water coming from the sea... it has resulted in bigger temperatures around the sea of Rusukaina which is not fit for the animal life... that is one of the reasons why I want to get rid of underwater cooling, the other is that ice cooling is just more effective".
"Master you're a genius... just the leftover energy is enough to power Rusukaina?"
"I'm not, I'm merely replicating what somebody else already did..."
All of this existed already in his previous world. Only... because of the lack of 'magic' it was impossible to be replicated at this scale.
"Even then- what are those?"
She pointed at what the people in suits were harvesting. They were coming in with what looked to be metallic barrels.
"Those are batteries, all the big gadgets we produce work with e-batteries and this is how we charge them. The batteries are dropped here and charged by the continuous barrage of lightning strikes, once they're filled up we remove them and place new ones. A battery casket can be used up to a hundred times until its internal components become unusable due to overcharge".
"..."
Words couldn't describe what she was feeling, no one in this world was actually aware of how developed Rusukaina's infrastructure was, they couldn't even begin to imagine.
'If everyone in the world... was able to access this much energy... would there be hunger?'
"I know what you're thinking... but the creation of more of these rooms could lead to unprecedented results. You can't feel it but I do. The kinetic energy in this room is nearly suffocating. This room exerts an unprecedented amount of pressure on the space itself. I'm afraid of creating a singularity..."
"S-Singularity...?"
"So I don't dare increase its size or make another one unless it is at least a hundred miles apart. A cryogenic chamber would allow me to create one in Shandora and Amazon Lily... and that leads us to your task at hand".
He then led her to the next spot although Monet was reluctant to leave the beauty of that lightning room. Instead, she was taken upstairs to a room that was virtually empty in all forms, however, it did have all of those dials in the walls and ceilings.
"This massive room?"
"That's right. I want you to turn it into a freezing hell. How long is it going to take to lower the temperatures to minus 30 degrees? Once you do it the dials will do their job, but you may need to come often in case there are temperature drops".
"Even if I shroud the whole room in snow for it to fall that much lower… perhaps a few days, master".
"Then go ahead, that's your task. I'll come back here in three days".
"Are you leaving again?"
"I'll be heading to the North Blue just for three days at most. You can have it ready by then right? Once this chamber is done… I'm not stopping".
"I'll do it!"
"Alright, I'm counting on you".
*WHOOOSH!*
He left the room and she spread her arms forth, sending a hush of snow that covered the whole room like a ventisca. She completed her task, even if she had to fuse herself with it.
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'I don't think I need to help Monet in any way, her job is very straightforward. She may be able to reach lower temperatures than Aokiji if I press her enough'.
Veyron walked up to Sugar's room where she was sitting and trying to analyse the toys instead of playing with them with how complex they were built.
"Do you need help?"
"Help with what?"
"Playing with them… like this".
"FIIUSH PUUMM!"
"G-Go away! I'm not a little girl!"
"But you still play with toys though".
"But I can play with them on my own!"
He sighed and looked at her nearly crying self, she was feeling ashamed. One of the primary questions he had regarding her power was the reason why her body had stayed like that of an underage girl despite her being in her thirties. He imagined, just like the materials she used to transform people into toys, this was also a factor of her power she had no control over.
At least not deliberately.
'It may be because of her self-perceived age and some traumas related to it... how can I make her feel more like an adult?'.
He thought about her, he thought about her affliction of toys and an idea came to mind, although it wasn't an idea he was very eager to use. The more he looked at her... the more he thought about using it.
'I must be going mad... but I want to try it'.
"Come to think about it… there are other toys I can use to play with you".
"What are you talking about?"
"Hehe~ it will take me some time to create the remote function though".
"I-It doesn't sound like anything good".
"Let's go, in the meantime we can do something else, follow me".
Veyron took her flying to a secret location on the island... it was precisely the prison where he had gotten the first two prisoners from.
...
"My god? do you need more?"
"I want every single prisoner to be handed to me immediately, you told me before there are more than two hundred".
"B-But the majority of them are awaiting court-"
"No need. I hereby sentence them to ten years of slavery... I'll be taking them with me".
"Yes..."
In front of the words of their god, there was very little they could do... in any case, it was better this way since there would be more empty cells and space that they needed.
The citizens and tourists of Rusukaina were awed to see a crowd of flying individuals across the skies as Veyron took all of them towards the workshop.
"What do you want me to do, master?"
"I want you to turn all of them into toys that I will use for labour. They have to follow our every order. It will be mostly carrying heavy stuff. The majority of the time, when there are extremely heavy things to be lifted and all the cranes are busy, it is me who has to do it... fuck that".
"..."
'Master... can be very selfish sometimes. He just got two hundred guinea pigs'.
When he wanted to achieve something, there were very few moral standards that could stop him.
'I wonder what sort of toys he wants to give me?'.
She had no idea what fate awaited her, for the moment it was better to leave her happy in her own bubble of innocence.
Innocence that would soon be stripped away.