Breaking Free and Calling for Reinforcements

After reading the diary, not only had the three of them failed to find an answer to this bizarre incident, their heads were instead filled with even more questions.

However, several things were now clear. This town had apparently once been a highly advanced technological city belonging to a vast nation, but a sudden upheaval had caused it to be shrouded in an unexpected fog and destroyed.

From the scattered details in the diary, this world appeared to be inextricably linked to Ocean Dream World. Sacrificers were likewise an extraordinary path in this world, and the diary mentioned things such as the ocean, the Grand Line, and the Celestial Dragons. In Wu Pifu's memories, they seemed to be related to Haki, but he could not remember clearly. It was obviously connected to his original twenty-first-century personality.

When Wu Pifu told Xu Shilan and Yamadai about his vague memories, Xu Shilan fell into thought.

"...Perhaps we've been thinking in the wrong direction."

Xu Shilan pointed at the diary. "Setting aside the connection to Ocean Dream World you mentioned, even some of the things recorded in this diary are astonishing. First, it mentions that this nation had Ascendant Bodies, right?"

Wu Pifu and Yamadai both froze, then nodded at the same time. Xu Shilan continued, "Since it mentions a nation, there must have been other nations. For example, after the Unified Human Government was established—no, even during the Azure Organization era—no one called Azure or the Unified Human Government a nation anymore. They only called it the government, because humanity no longer had national divisions. That means the world where the diary's owner lived definitely had other nations, and probably quite a few of them. Yet just one of those nations had Ascendant Bodies. Think about how terrifying that level of strength