Marvel World

"Because what just poured over your head was the Spring of Drowned Man. Naturally, you wouldn’t turn into a man." Yota let go and spoke to Ranma.

"What? The Spring of Drowned Man?" Ranma cried out in surprise, only to see Yota’s figure flash as he vanished before his eyes.

Having obtained a great deal of traversal energy, Yota naturally had no intention of staying here. Although the world of Ranma, this comedic martial arts anime, contained quite a few strange and unusual things, its level was still too low. Yota had no plans to linger here.

At most, if he thought of it later, he could come back here to hunt for treasures.

Yota resumed his journey through worlds, and this time, his luck finally seemed to turn around. He had arrived in a world powerful enough.

"It’d be more accurate to say it’s absurdly powerful!" Yota twitched at the corner of his mouth as he looked at the map of the United States in his hand. He had obtained it from a roadside newsstand using genjutsu.

"Star City, Metropolis, Coast City, Gotham… Which DC World is this?"

In DC World, no matter which version it was, its combat power only came in two categories: strong and even stronger.

Even in the simplest TV or movie worlds, their top-tier combatants were beyond anything Pirate World or Naruto could compare to. If it was one of the comic worlds, then it was even more ridiculously powerful.

More importantly, this world had never been one where justice was guaranteed to defeat evil. On the contrary, in the vast majority of parallel worlds, evil gaining the upper hand and ruling the world was a common sight.

Not to mention that even in the main universe, having everyone wiped out and then rebooting everything was nothing unusual.

"At least there aren’t the four vendors of the Warp, who specialize in corruption, depravity, and toying with people’s hearts… Besides, this world’s main plots are basically all on Earth, and there are plenty of treasures too. I’ll stay here and see how things go."

Of course, the most important thing was…

Yota reached out and took out a turtle, looking at the strange glow flickering across its body. "More parallel worlds means more worlds I can visit!"

"Even if I can’t stay in this world anymore, I can just pack up and run. This thing is way faster at escaping."

In fact, only worlds with parallel universes could make use of Karasuki. Thinking of the DC World, which contained an entire parallel universe, it might be dangerous, but its value was certainly no small matter either.

"So for now, I should settle things like my identity and residence first!"

If this had been when he had first traversed worlds, then even with Genin-level Chakra and the Three-Body Technique, he would probably have found it difficult to get by in this modern metropolis overflowing with black technology.

After all, he had no real identity. More importantly, he did not understand English, and it would likely have taken him a long time to integrate into this place.

But now, the problem was much simpler. With the Biological Chip in hand, he could use the vast majority of languages on Earth.

Most importantly, he already possessed genjutsu. As long as he manipulated people along the way, getting himself an identity and some money would be effortless.

By evening, he had moved into the most luxurious hotel in the city, and his identification documents were already being processed.

A few days later, Metropolis.

"Superman…" Yota thought to himself, but did not dare say it aloud.

Although the normal Superman was rather simple-minded and generally did not use his super hearing to monitor the entire world, Yota could not be sure that he had arrived in the normal main DC universe.

Besides, even a normal Superman would react if someone mentioned his name in the city. Otherwise, why did Metropolis have the tradition of calling Superman whenever there was danger?

And he came whenever called, hundreds of times faster than hailing a ride.

Along the way, Yota saw several police officers leaning against their patrol cars and eating donuts. They were not even carrying weapons, completely different from police in other cities.

That was easy enough to understand. Damn it, now even if a kitten got stuck in a tree, Superman would come rescue it. Other than sitting around eating donuts, what use did these cops have?

Robbery? Rape? Murder? Please, crimes like that simply did not exist in Metropolis anymore. After all, the moment a victim shouted Superman’s name, a burly man in a red cape would appear before the criminal at several thousand times the speed of sound. The success rate was practically 0%. Criminals were not idiots, so naturally they would not keep doing something so pointless.

As a result, these police officers had become idle as well.

"No wonder that bald Luthor keeps opposing Superman. Though most of it is because of his own jealousy, his belief that Superman will hinder humanity’s progress does make a lot of sense."

"If Superman stays in Metropolis for a few decades, the profession of police officer might disappear from Metropolis altogether!"

As he thought, Yota also gathered information.

"There was already a Kryptonian invasion some time ago? The battle between Superman and the Alien leveled several blocks of Metropolis?"

"That should have been General Zod’s storyline, right? What plot comes next?"

"This seems a bit like the movie universe. If that’s the case, the remaining plot should be Doomsday."

Hmm… Yota suddenly felt that Metropolis was somewhat unsafe and began considering whether he should move away.

Doomsday was a monster that could not be hammered to death or smashed apart. After dying and reviving, it would become even stronger and gain immunity to whatever had killed it before!

Fine, setting aside those absurd abilities, its strength alone being above Superman’s was enough to beat Yota flat.

Even though Yota had fused with a large number of Devil Fruits and possessed the ultimate technique of Elementalization, which should theoretically make him immune to physical attacks, after leaving Pirate World, Elementalization had changed from a passive ability into an active one.

In other words, in Pirate World, no matter how fast your reactions were, they could never be faster than Elementalization. But in other worlds, if your reaction was even a little too slow, you would already have been hit before you could transform.

As for people like Superman and Doomsday, leaving aside the monstrous figures from their peak periods, their absolute lower limit for reaction speed had to be above a thousand times the speed of sound.

In other words, his body would be blasted away by a punch before it could transform into an element, let alone rely on passive Elementalization.

No, considering the physical strength of this world’s first-rate Super Heroes and Super Criminals, one punch would probably scatter Yota all over the sky!

Movies had to account for special effects, and comics had to maintain character balance, so the aftereffects of battles between those so-called Super Heroes and Super Criminals did not seem particularly great, and the damage they caused appeared limited.

But in reality, a monster on Doomsday’s level should at least fight like a certain bald caped hero from One-Punch Man. The recoil from its attacks alone could trigger earthquakes of magnitude seven or eight, while the mere shockwaves could nearly blow an entire city apart.