The draw

The card was about the same size as the playing cards from Dunn's previous life, with exquisite patterns tracing its edges. It looked valuable at a glance, clearly at odds with Dunn's current means.

Dunn brought the card before his eyes.

Name: Dunn Campbell

Age: 20

Level: 5

Class: Sailor

Tier: 1

Strength: 11

Agility: 10

Stamina: 12

Charisma: 11

Intelligence: 9

Perception: 11

Willpower: 8

Looking at the information on the card, Dunn was a little speechless. This thing looked very much like the standard cheat granted to transmigrators, except this cheat seemed to be issued to every class holder in this world.

This card was called a Career Card. Once bound to a class holder, it displayed their physical condition as numerical data and could even help them advance.

It was said to have been created tens of thousands of years ago by a powerful legendary wizard, after he developed a legendary spell that connected to the world origin.

As soon as Career Cards appeared, they rapidly swept across the continent. Numerical physical attributes made cultivation easier for class holders, allowing more of them to reach greater heights.

Over the tens of thousands of years since, the world origin had used Career Cards as a basis to develop countless more supernatural classes, making the entire world's supernatural civilization increasingly prosperous.

Dunn stared at the card, lost in thought. An attribute of 10 represented the average for an ordinary person, and each additional point was equivalent to 1.5 times the previous point. For instance, someone with 11 strength was 1.5 times as strong as someone with 10, while someone with 12 was 2.25 times as strong as someone with 10.

Recalling the information in his memories, Dunn found this world's supernatural system strangely familiar. It seemed like a certain famous tabletop game from his previous life, yet also seemed somewhat different.

Still, looking at his mere 8 points of willpower, Dunn finally understood why the original owner of his body had been frightened to death.

Dunn laid the card flat on his palm and concentrated on it as his memories instructed. He vaguely felt something flow out of his body and into the Career Card.

The writing on the Career Card twisted, and a new line appeared.

[Based on your personal characteristics, you may receive one draw every Monday at 00:00.]

[Draws available: 1]

[Would you like to draw?]

"???" Dunn's eyes instantly widened at the unexpected information on the card. A draw?

What was going on? Dunn was certain nothing like this had ever appeared in the original owner's memories.

More precisely, even the supernatural knowledge passed down by the Campbell Family's legendary ancestor contained no description of such a situation.

There was only one related description. The phrase "based on your personal characteristics" appeared only for certain exceptionally gifted individuals or races.

Based on their personal characteristics, these exceptional gifts granted personal feats when their class reached a certain stage.

But Dunn Campbell was undoubtedly not someone with such gifts, and no talent or race had ever produced anything like a draw!

Then this thing should be... my cheat, right? At that thought, Dunn's gaze instantly grew fervent.

After all, with transmigration all the rage these days, a transmigrator without a cheat could hardly get by.

But the next moment, reason regained the upper hand. No, there's another possibility. Some powerful legendary wizard is amusing himself at my expense.

A saying circulated among this world's class holders: when you encountered something completely at odds with your logic and common sense, there was no need for doubt-it must have something to do with wizards.

As the most powerful and mysterious supernatural class in this world, wizards undoubtedly had reputations proportional to the danger they posed.

Powerful wizards were always researching the various secrets of this world.

And in that research, most wizards gave no consideration to the harm they caused other creatures.

Wizards did not act according to mortal notions of good and evil or right and wrong.

As a result, incidents left over from wizard experiments frequently appeared throughout this world, as did unfortunate souls unlucky enough to be chosen as experimental subjects.

And since Career Cards were products of the combination of the world origin and a legendary spell, anyone capable of tampering with them would have to be a legendary wizard at the very least.

But regardless, Dunn had only one choice right now. He concentrated and fed the thought of drawing into the card.

[Drawing...]

[Congratulations! You have drawn a Devil Fruit-the Flame-Flame Fruit.]

[Would you like to extract the Flame-Flame Fruit?]

[Note: The extracted Flame-Flame Fruit will assimilate into a fruit within 10 meters of you.]

The Flame-Flame Fruit??

It was actually a Devil Fruit!

An enormous sense of delight instantly hit Dunn. The prize was actually a specialty from One Piece, a famous anime from his previous life-a Devil Fruit, hailed as a treasure of the sea.

Although it was only the Flame-Flame Fruit, jokingly called something even a dog wouldn't eat, there was no question about the tremendous power a Devil Fruit could provide, especially after transmigrating into such a dangerous supernatural world.

Gaining the power to protect himself mattered most, even if eating a Devil Fruit would leave him unable to swim.

Overjoyed, Dunn immediately prepared to find a fruit and extract the Flame-Flame Fruit, securing some power to protect himself in this dangerous world first.

From what he could see, he could now be almost certain that this draw was his cheat.

After all, Devil Fruits did not exist in this world, and Dunn had only just transmigrated here. Even if a legendary wizard had set his sights on him, he could not possibly produce something like a Devil Fruit so quickly.

So he could essentially rule out this being some legendary wizard's experiment.

Wait, legendary wizards... The thought of legendary wizards instantly brought Dunn back to his senses.

Given the properties of Devil Fruits, they would undoubtedly rank among the greatest treasures even in this world with its flourishing supernatural civilization.

And a person could only eat one Devil Fruit. If he obtained multiple Devil Fruits, Dunn could not possibly keep them all sitting around gathering dust. He would certainly use them to develop subordinates.

When that happened, people would inevitably learn of the Devil Fruits' existence.

Treasures like these would inevitably attract the interest of wizards. Researchers who liked tracing everything to its source would not mind using legendary divination to investigate the origins of treasures that had abruptly appeared in this world.

So, at the very least, Dunn could not eat this first Devil Fruit. He would even have to avoid any connection to himself as much as possible when extracting it.

If he extracted it aboard this ship, those legendary wizards would not mind hauling everyone aboard onto dissection tables and slicing them up.

As for whether the legendary wizards could discover that the Devil Fruits came from the card, Dunn could only leave that to fate. But he absolutely would not allow himself to die from his own stupidity.

At the very least, unless he faced a life-or-death crisis, deciding what to do with this Flame-Flame Fruit would have to wait until after a few more draws.

If he drew more Devil Fruits, then no matter what, this first one would have to be secretly released into circulation.

Dunn was now somewhat glad he had drawn the Flame-Flame Fruit. If he had drawn the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, the Glint-Glint Fruit, or even a Mythical Zoan, the pain of parting with it might have made him vomit blood on the spot.

After declining to extract it, Dunn watched the writing on the card change, and his pupils instantly trembled.

[Based on your personal characteristics, you may choose one of the following talents as your personal talent.]

[1. Iron Balloon: Your constitution increases to 20, and you gain the personal feat, Iron Balloon.]

[2. Monstrous Strength: Your strength increases to 20, and every subsequent tier advancement increases your strength by 5.]

[3. Mind Reader: Your perception increases to 20, and you gain the personal feat, Mind Reader.]

[4. Immortality: Your constitution increases to 20, and you gain the personal feat, Immortality.]

[5. Aberrant: Your constitution increases to 20, and you gain the personal feat, Aberrant.]

[6. Voice of All Things: Your perception increases to 20, and you gain the personal feat, Voice of All Things.]

[7. Will of D.: Your willpower increases to 20. After changing to a specific class, each tier advancement increases your willpower by 5.]

[8. Sea King: Your perception increases to 20, and you gain the personal feat, Sea King.]

The talents filled the card in dense rows. The Career Card even thoughtfully provided a scrolling function.

Looking at these talents, Dunn could now be certain that the cheat he had brought with him was connected to the world of One Piece. After all, every one of these talents came from the familiar great figures of that world.

Then the draw would certainly yield more Devil Fruits, too. As the first one he had drawn, the Flame-Flame Fruit undoubtedly could not remain in his hands.

Although this was the Flame-Flame Fruit that supposedly even a dog wouldn't eat, Dunn still could not help bleeding inside at the thought of throwing a Logia Devil Fruit out into the world.