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The sound of rapid typing on the keyboard finally stopped. Ryuen finished updating just before midnight on the last day of the month.
"Ah... finally completed the task. It's really not easy to get a perfect attendance award..."
After clicking publish, Ryuen leaned back in his gaming chair to relax.
Thinking that this month he had listened and read over two hundred times, he should be able to get the perfect attendance award!
Thinking of this, Ryuen felt happy. Just as he was thinking about using the manuscript fee next month to enjoy Happy Thursday, his consciousness slowly began to fade...
In the East Blue, on a mysterious small island, the weather was hot, and today's sea breeze was a bit strong and salty.
On a branch of a giant tree with a trunk diameter of over fifty meters in the center of the island, Ryuen slowly woke up as the sea breeze kept blowing.
"Is it daylight yet.."
Ryuen sat cross-legged on the huge branch, rubbed his still sleepy eyes.
"Where is this?"
When Ryuen fully opened his eyes, he realized something was wrong!
"Damn.. why am I on a tree!"
"And, why does this tree look so strange, why is it so big? A primeval forest?"
Ryuen shivered, stood up quickly, his eyes full of disbelief.
He anxiously looked around and found everything around him was so unfamiliar.
After a while, Ryuen finally understood that he had traveled through time...
At this moment, Ryuen's age regressed to ten years old, and his height was only about 1.23 meters.
Looking at his loose short-sleeved hoodie and long pants, a trace of helplessness flashed across Ryuen's face.
"My ....."
Ryuen felt depressed thinking about not being able to eat the fifty yuan Kun on Crazy Thursday.
Sitting on the branch, Ryuen slowly accepted the fact that he had traveled through time, but he was still muttering about the delicious Kun wings.
"What kind of world is this? Such a dense primeval forest, is it ancient times? Or where?"
Looking at the unfamiliar surroundings, Ryuen was full of doubts. He had no memory of this place.
After all, he had read over three thousand novels and spent over five thousand hours reading and had written three novels himself.
He had a deep understanding of time travel, so after confirming that he had really traveled through time, he wasn't too panicked.
"System?"
"Is the system here?"
"Dad?"
...
"No, isn't it said that time travelers are all children of destiny, and they all have their own systems or cheats?"
Ryuen tried several times and checked himself for any special items, but found that he seemed to have no cheats?
He was now sure that he really had no cheats...
"What kind of world is this?"
Ryuen stood up and carefully observed the surroundings.
This was a deserted island, with a volcano-like peak in the center of the island. He was now on a giant towering tree.
The sea breeze was a bit strong, and the weather was a bit stuffy, making Ryuen sweat a lot.
"Grumble~~~"
At this time, Ryuen's stomach started to protest.
Ryuen touched his hungry stomach, looking a bit helpless: "Oh My god..."
Suddenly, Ryuen saw a strange thing on a hidden branch of the tree.
He was stunned.
"Damn!"
"A Devil Fruit, is this the world of One Piece?"
"Hahaha, I knew that travelers would have their own perks!"
"Isn't it here now?"
Ryuen looked at the fruit covered with strange patterns, and his mood improved a lot. The tension he felt just now eased.
He suppressed his excitement and slowly crawled towards the devil fruit.
Ryuen climbed to the branch and hugged the devil fruit tightly, then carefully observed it.
He found that the devil fruit had some flame patterns, and the flames looked like birds.
Something like this?
"Related to fire? But it's not the Flame-Flame Fruit..." Ryuen muttered as he looked at the devil fruit in his arms.
Seeing the flame patterns, Ryuen first thought of the Flame-Flame Fruit, but this was clearly not it.
"Well, fire abilities are not bad, but there should be other abilities. It's better than that fruit even dogs wouldn't eat." After figuring it out, Ryuen directly bit into the devil fruit.
"Yuck~~~"
"So bad! What is this taste..."
After swallowing the first bite with difficulty, Ryuen felt extremely nauseous, and his whole body was covered in goosebumps.
But thinking that the chances of awakening would be higher after eating the whole devil fruit, he steeled himself, pinched his nose, and ate the entire fruit in one go.
"Cough cough cough~~ yuck~~~ so disgusting!"
Ryuen felt like he was going to die from the nausea, and the disgusting taste kept coming back up his throat.
He hugged the tree trunk tightly and took a while to recover.
"Hiss~~~"
"What's going on~~ so painful~~~"
Suddenly, Ryuen felt like all the bones in his body were being shattered, and even his muscles felt like they were being torn apart!
"Ah~~"
"It hurts so much!!!"
Ryuen rolled on the tree trunk in pain and accidentally fell off the tree.
"Ah!!!"
"Help! I just... just transmigated!!!"
With a thud, Ryuen fell heavily to the ground, and a mouthful of blood came out of his throat.
Combined with the unbearable pain in his body, Ryuen fainted.
After passing out, Ryuen's muscles kept wriggling.
An hour later, due to the pain, Ryuen's consciousness was forcibly awakened again.
"I'm not dead?"
"Hiss~~~"
"Why does it still hurt so much, what kind of devil fruit is this!"
"Bird-Bird Fruit, Mythical Type, Phoenix Form?"
Before Ryuen could figure out why he was in so much pain, the small island started shaking violently!
"What's going on... is it an earthquake??"
Ryuen endured the pain in his body, struggled to stand up, but fell to the ground again due to the violent shaking and pain.
Boom~~~
The flame in the middle of the island suddenly started erupting.
The strong underwater pressure forced the magma in the volcano high into the sky!
Seeing this, Ryuen's face turned pale, not knowing if it was from fear or pain.
"What kind of start is this..."