Forbidden Magic Book!

"Hmm... where am I?"

Ye Yang groggily opened his eyes. What greeted him was a clear blue sky, and what reached his ears was the crashing of waves.

He lived in the mountains. Where would an ocean come from?

Full of confusion, he got up, only to discover that he had been lying on a wooden bed, with darkness all around him.

"I remember... I was clearly cleaning the ancestral house. How did I suddenly end up here?"

Just then, a voice devoid of emotion suddenly rang out in his mind.

"Master, you're awake?"

Ye Yang frowned and asked calmly, "Who are you?"

Having suddenly appeared in a place like this, he had already prepared himself for the worst, so he did not seem flustered.

The voice rang out again. "Greetings, Master. I am the Forbidden Magic Book, an item that will help you become a god."

"The Forbidden Magic Book?"

Ye Yang frowned again. Suddenly recalling the black book he had taken from the bookcase while cleaning his rented home, he asked in a low voice, "Are you that black book?"

"Yes. It seems you remember now, Master."

"How are you speaking inside my head? And what do you mean by helping me become a god? Where is this place, anyway?"

"To answer your questions, Master, you inadvertently activated me, so I merged with you and am currently inside your mind. As for helping you become a god, I mean that literally. In addition, having detected that Earth was in an age of declining magic, which would hinder your path to godhood, I took it upon myself to break through the barrier of space and time and bring you to this parallel world."

"So you're saying I'm no longer on Earth?"

"Yes, Master."

"Can I go back?"

"Not for the time being."

Hearing this, Ye Yang took a deep breath and calmed himself.

He had no particularly strong ties to Earth. He simply found it a little hard to accept suddenly arriving in another world.

But if he could not go back, he could only go with the flow.

He had always been a calm person.

After a long while, he spoke again. "What sort of parallel world is this? And tell me what functions you have."

After all, this was an item that claimed it would help him become a god. Surely it had to have some powerful functions?

The Forbidden Magic Book's cold voice rang out again. "Master, these are memories I gathered from the minds of some humans in this world when I arrived here. Would you like me to transfer them to you?"

"Go ahead."

Ye Yang spoke calmly. The instant his words fell, a stream of unfamiliar memories suddenly surged into his mind. The sheer volume of information made his head ache with pressure, but fortunately, the pain ended after only a few seconds.

He closed his eyes and carefully digested those unfamiliar memories.

But with every bit of memory he absorbed, his astonishment grew.

This... was actually the world of One Piece!

Gol D. Roger turning himself in... the Pirate King's treasure... the Great Pirate Era... the World Government...

Every one of those familiar terms told him that this was the world of the anime he had been following all along-One Piece.

After digesting those memories, Ye Yang opened his eyes, a smile tugging at his lips.

To think I would end up in such an interesting world.

In this world, the strong could shatter the heavens with a wave of their hands and smash the earth with a punch. Powers that defied human understanding on Earth were commonplace here.

Even though this world treated human lives as worthless, he still could not help feeling a little excited.

Every man dreamed of becoming strong, and he... was no exception!

"Since the Forbidden Magic Book has given me the good fortune to come to this world, then let me roam it to my heart's content!"

"Master, may I introduce my functions?"

The Forbidden Magic Book's voice rang out again, interrupting the bold vow in his heart.

Ye Yang smiled faintly. "Of course."

"I am called the Forbidden Magic Book, and I have only one function: unsealing!"

"Unsealing? What does that mean?"

"Imprisoned within the Forbidden Magic Book are countless forbidden figures from myriad worlds. As long as you obtain a sufficient amount of rule power, you can unseal these figures to serve you. You may also extract one ability from each figure you unseal."

"There are two methods of unsealing. The first is to unseal the figure himself, removing all restraints imprisoning him so that he regains his freedom and can appear. He will also obey all your instructions."

"The second is to unseal a figure's abilities. You may choose to unseal a figure's abilities and merge them into yourself for your own use. However, if you do so, that figure will disappear and will be unable to appear in reality."

Hearing this, Ye Yang's brow relaxed. "I more or less understand. Then what is this rule power you mentioned?"

The Forbidden Magic Book said, "Rule power is the fundamental power that sustains a world. Every world has this power, existing within it in either intangible or tangible form... After investigation, the rule power of this world resides in items known as Devil Fruits."

"Devil Fruits, huh..."

Ye Yang murmured softly. After thinking it over, he did not find it all that surprising.

After all, Devil Fruits were things that granted people special powers when eaten, and no one had ever known how they formed. If they were manifestations of rule power, that would make sense.

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