A Sweetener from the Lord God

"Lord God, return me!!!"

The World Consciousness was still intent on fighting him, even bringing out the Demon Tree—the source of Devil Fruits and a Seventh Star Level existence. What could Gu Sheng do? If he couldn't win, he had to run.

Fortunately, he had completed his mission long ago. He could leave whenever he wanted. Surely the World Consciousness couldn't snatch him away from the Lord God.

But then something infuriating happened: the Lord God trapped him and wouldn't let him leave.

The Lord God had been trying to conquer the One Piece world for ages. It had long had its eye on the place, but the World Consciousness's extreme reactions had foiled it time and again.

Ordinary World Consciousnesses, even those of high-level worlds like the Douluo World, generally didn't reject foreign power outright. That didn't mean they did nothing about foreign energy, only that they handled it differently.

Most worlds chose to absorb it gently, integrating it to strengthen their own nature. But that played right into the Lord God's hands, giving it a chance to seize control of the entire world.

The One Piece world was different. The Lord God had discovered it long ago, but its first attempt ended with every Reincarnator wiped out. The power it sent in wasn't absorbed; it was utterly annihilated. Several later attempts ended the same way, costing the Lord God dearly.

The reason was the World Consciousness's bullheaded refusal to tolerate even a trace of foreign power in the One Piece world. It rejected that power even when it could have absorbed it and grown stronger, choosing instead to expend its own power at the source to annihilate the intruder completely.

This left the Lord God with nothing. It had spent an unknown amount of source power without establishing