Sequence Ascension (4K)

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A member of God’s Guard was sent flying by immense force, slammed into the wall, and instantly lost consciousness.

Bai Cangshu was like an unstoppable beast. Without slowing his stride, he charged straight into the temple. The spears wielded by the God’s Guard members he encountered could not strike him at all; instead, he grabbed them one by one and smashed them into the walls.

Still, the ordinary people of the One Piece World were undeniably quite tenacious. Along the way, fewer than half of those he had encountered had actually died.

Very soon, Bai Cangshu reached the central area of the temple. He did not encounter the final priest, Ōgami of the Forest. Instead, he saw someone bound by golden chains in a corner of the temple.

Bellamy, a pirate with a bounty of fifty-five million Beli and the power of the Paramecia-type Spring-Spring Fruit.

Tap, tap.

The footsteps Bai Cangshu deliberately made woke Bellamy. Looking at this familiar fiend, Bellamy remembered that it was this man who had forced him to flee and spread news of Eldorado, leading to his capture by that lightning monster.

Bellamy glared furiously at Bai Cangshu, but he was in terrible condition. Large patches of his skin had been charred black, and he could only weakly let the other man seize him by the throat and lift him up.

Bai Cangshu felt the muscles in Bellamy’s neck. Frankly speaking, Bellamy’s strength was fairly decent, but his technique was extremely crude.

"Bellamy, you have one sentence to make me spare your life."

The icy killing intent jolted Bellamy into a clearer state of mind. He did not understand why this man had broken into the temple, nor why he wanted to kill him. What benefit could this possibly bring him…

There were too many things he could not comprehend. Yet, as their eyes met, the indifference and chilling killing intent in those eyes made his mouth open and close several times without uttering any threats.

He had a powerful intuition that if he said any pointless tough words, the other man absolutely would not give him a second chance to speak.

"I… I know something about Emerald City…"

Bai Cangshu had already been prepared to crush him. For Reincarnators, Plot Characters had one universal form of value: they might produce drops after being killed.

But Bellamy had indeed offered information that surprised Bai Cangshu.

Emerald City… That name had indeed appeared in the original work. Bellamy had placed it alongside Eldorado and the Great Treasure One Piece, believing them all to be fictional stories.

But now, Eldorado had truly appeared, and Whitebeard had confirmed in the original work that One Piece really existed. Bellamy mentioning Emerald City at this moment made Bai Cangshu temporarily unwilling to kill him.

"Emerald City? You intend to use such an illusory legend to buy your life?!"

Bai Cangshu tightened his right hand, and Bellamy immediately felt as though his spine were about to split apart. He struggled desperately.

"No, I got a sea chart. It has a mark for Emerald City on it. I originally thought it was fake, but Eldorado has appeared, so maybe… no, Emerald City must be real too!"

"Where is the sea chart?"

Bai Cangshu calculated the time in his mind. Then he suddenly pulled hard, snapping the golden chain behind Bellamy’s neck. Bai Cangshu directly held the chain and led Bellamy farther inside.

Bellamy knew that his terms gave him a chance to live, so he struggled to keep up, continuously saying,

"I hid the sea chart somewhere in Mock Town. As long as you get me out alive and set me free, I’ll give you the sea chart…"

You have triggered the hidden side quest: Legend of the Emerald City

Quest Description: You have learned of one of the most precious treasures of the sea, Emerald City. Fulfill Bellamy's conditions and obtain the mysterious sea chart.

Quest Objective: Ensure Bellamy survives and reaches Mock Town.

Quest Reward: Treasure Map: Legend of the Emerald City (Extremely Rare)

Bai Cangshu had not expected Bellamy to possess something of such value, so he temporarily dismissed the thought of killing him.

Holding the golden chain in his hand like a hunter truly leading a hyena, he reached the deepest part of the temple.

Under the illumination of the lights, this place gleamed brilliantly. It was now entirely made of gold. Bai Cangshu guessed that this place was already close to Eldorado.

Moreover, there was not a single guard nearby. The atmosphere was somewhat strange. Bai Cangshu continued onward and finally saw Vergo, who had lost his right arm. His lower body had been sealed in gold, embedding him in a golden wall.

His upper body remained reinforced with Armament Haki, but his face was twisted. His mouth had split open beyond the limits of an ordinary human, and new eyes had opened on both of his cheeks.

Bellamy’s expression changed drastically when he saw him. He had seen this Marine before. The man had previously fought his way into the temple and possessed formidable strength, but he had ultimately been captured by Enel. Bellamy had never expected him to become neither human nor ghost.

Bai Cangshu frowned. It was obvious that the thing within the pyramid had affected Vergo. But why would Enel do this?

He walked farther ahead and entered a golden corridor around two hundred meters long. Then his expression changed.

Within this corridor, every ten meters or so, there was a "person" like Vergo bound into the golden walls. Without exception, every one of them had undergone horrifying mutations. The closer they were to the end of the corridor, the more severe their mutations became.

And the towering Heavenly Yaksha, Doflamingo, was imprisoned at the innermost end of the corridor.

The once-proud Donquixote Doflamingo had completely turned into a ferocious monster. All the hair on his head had fallen out, dense red scales had grown over his flesh, and if not for the iconic Flamingo Haori on his upper body, Bai Cangshu would not have recognized him.

Bellamy had clearly recognized Doflamingo as well. He found it difficult to believe. Once upon a time, Doflamingo had been Bellamy’s image of a true Great Pirate.

Fierce, cruel, powerful, with an enormous force under his command.

Doflamingo had fulfilled every fantasy Bellamy had held about an overlord of the seas.

But now, even such a figure had completely transformed into a monster, endlessly twisting his body at the end of the corridor.

Bai Cangshu understood. Enel was conducting tests…

He was testing the range over which the monsters inside the pyramid could corrupt others, as well as the intensity of that corruption.

And Vergo and Doflamingo, captured this time, had both mastered the power of Haki. Enel had used them to test whether Haki could resist the corruption.

The result was negative. Doflamingo, who possessed all Three Types of Haki, had been placed in the nearest position and completely corrupted. Vergo, farther away, had suffered partial corruption.

Ignoring Bellamy’s resistance, Bai Cangshu directly picked him up and walked into the corridor.

"Guts… Guts… You’ve appeared again…"

The moment Bai Cangshu entered the corridor, the voice appeared once more.

Bai Cangshu did not respond and continued forward.

Bellamy immediately felt unwell. He clutched his forehead, feeling a needle-like pain in his head.

"Guts… Don’t kill me… Have you forgotten? We once fought Griffith together. We searched for traces of the God Hand together…"

"You can’t forget!"

"You said Roland was your friend. You said… even if you truly became the new king, you would not forget your friends… Guts…"

The voice became increasingly intense, increasingly distorted.

You have suffered corruption from the Netherworld. A mental check is in progress...

Check passed. You are immune to this corruption.

Prompts continuously appeared in the space before Bai Cangshu. The frequency of the corruption grew higher and higher. Bellamy was already beginning to lose consciousness, and was now being dragged along entirely by Bai Cangshu’s strength.

Bai Cangshu’s mental attribute had likewise reached its limit. The benefit of his balanced attribute development was that he had no weaknesses. At this moment, his resistance to this kind of abnormal corruption was also quite high.

"Guts, you were wrong… This is all your fault…"

"If I hadn’t wanted to pull you out of that miserable world… I would never have entered that kind of hell. I would never have caught that bastard’s attention…"

"No, when it comes down to it, the captain was just messed up in the head… Talking about saving everyone… Then why doesn’t he come save me?!"

Bzzzz!

As the unknown existence let out a shrill roar, a powerful impact began to emerge. Bai Cangshu found that the world before his eyes had begun to blur and distort. He blinked, but the blur and distortion remained.

Bai Cangshu shook his head, unable to tell whether this phenomenon truly existed or was a hallucination caused by mental corruption.

The danger this fellow posed rose once more in Bai Cangshu’s mind.

"Run… run…"

Bellamy spoke, his voice becoming slurred. Bai Cangshu looked down and saw that Bellamy’s tongue was beginning to grow abnormally inside his mouth. Clearly, even a pirate of Bellamy’s level had been corrupted after merely approaching within a few dozen meters and staying for such a short time.

He stopped, lifted Bellamy up, turned around, and quickly left.

As though it had heard Bai Cangshu departing, the voice suddenly became even more urgent, almost like weeping.

"Luffy… are you going to… abandon me again…?"

At that moment, Bai Cangshu’s pupils contracted. He gathered energy in his hand and fired a Dodon Ray at both Doflamingo’s and Vergo’s heads.

Both their heads were blasted apart, but Doflamingo’s body rapidly began to proliferate in a bizarre manner, and he started howling.

You have killed Vergo. You have gained 2500 Dimensional Points.

You have obtained a Drop Card (Blue).

Without looking back, Bai Cangshu swiftly left the temple. He could still occasionally hear the terrifying sound of gunfire, but the sword light that cleaved through the clouds no longer appeared. He did not know whether the Moon Demon had fled or had already been defeated.

Bai Cangshu brought Bellamy back into hiding in the White District. The little girl Cindy and Olgins had not returned yet. He did not know whether they had taken shelter somewhere.

"Hey, save me. My neck feels so itchy…"

Bellamy weakly begged for help. Bai Cangshu merely glanced at him. Tiny lumps of flesh had begun growing from Bellamy’s neck.

But Bai Cangshu had no time to deal with this minor condition, which would not endanger Bellamy’s life. He rapidly sorted through the intelligence from this operation in his mind.

The one imprisoned in the pyramid called himself Roland. He was a Reincarnator…

But could a Reincarnator actually remain in a mission world for more than two years? How much special currency would the Space’s penalties consume? Could any Reincarnator truly afford that price and survive?

And… Bai Cangshu took out the severed arm. By now, he roughly knew who it might have belonged to. It was actually Luffy’s?!

Bai Cangshu found it hard to believe. Even Luffy after awakening Nika should theoretically not have exceeded this world’s limit by much. How could he produce such an extremely rare material?

Bai Cangshu suddenly recalled a rumor about the Space that the Reincarnator who called himself Professor had once told him in the Demon Slayer World.

"Within the Infinite Dimensional Space, there are not only human Reincarnators from worlds like ours…"

"Legend says that there is an organization in this Space called the Black King Society. It is a gathering of special Reincarnator squads formed by kings who had their entire worlds taken from them. Their only goal… is to kill every Reincarnator who commits evil deeds."

Bai Cangshu carefully reviewed the course of this world’s mission. At the beginning, a Reincarnator had deliberately provoked a battle, only to be wiped out by Enel, leaving Bai Cangshu in the unfavorable position of negative seven points.

The second batch of Reincarnators who entered this world was clearly far stronger than his batch, yet the Space had divided the group battle factions according to batches. While it could not be guaranteed that this batch of Reincarnators was divided into multiple teams that needed to fight among themselves, from this perspective, the Space seemed… insufficiently considerate toward the weakest Reincarnators like himself.

Among the second batch were Strong-tier Reincarnators like Moon Demon and Flame Demon, who had crossed beyond the First Tier and possessed considerable fame in the Space. Then who would the third batch of Reincarnators to enter be?

Bai Cangshu already vaguely had a guess.

He felt bored and irritated by this troublesome mission. He had even less desire to get involved in questions of justice or injustice, or whether Reincarnators and Plot Characters were right or wrong.

"Unpleasant. Very unpleasant…"

Bai Cangshu stood up, radiating a terrifyingly vicious aura. He felt a dreadful urge to release that fellow inside the pyramid and let him corrupt everyone.

But when he saw the food deliberately left on the table, he unusually managed to suppress that impulse and sat back down.

Only now did he have time to inspect the spoils from the earlier battle and the Space prompts.

Karma Points meet the advancement requirements. Sequence has been elevated. Great Sins are beginning to manifest...

Manifestation complete.

Great Sin Reincarnator Ex051, you may now unlock the second-tier Great Sin Sequence and undergo ascension.

Sin of Pride (Synchronization Rate 84%): Ascension requires Heart of pride x1

Sin of Greed (Synchronization Rate 81%): Ascension requires Heart of Greed x1

Sin of Betrayal (Synchronization Rate 77%): Ascension requires Heart of Betrayal x1

Sin of Envy (Synchronization Rate 45%): Ascension requires Heart of Envy x1

Sin of Lust (Synchronization Rate 8%): Synchronization Rate too low. Cannot be unlocked.

Sin of Wrath (Synchronization Rate 53%): Ascension requires Heart of Wrath x1

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(Note: Once an ascension choice has been made, it cannot be reversed. The quality of ascension materials does not affect the success rate of unlocking a Sequence. As long as the Synchronization Rate reaches 100%, consuming 10 Karma Points and the material will complete the Sequence advancement.)

The number of Great Sins that appeared here far exceeded the Seven Deadly Sins usually described, and quite a few of them overlapped. Bai Cangshu looked at the Scarlet Sheen on his right hand, then, under Bellamy’s terrified gaze, formed his right hand into a spearhand and violently plunged it into his own chest.