"Who am I? Where am I? What's going on?" Rota looked around at the dense forest surrounding him with confusion, asking himself the three ultimate questions. Wasn't he just at home watching anime?
The situation before him left Rota somewhat bewildered. Had he really caught up with the trending wave of transmigration?
After confirming it multiple times, Rota accepted the fact that he had transmigrated. The peculiar and eerie deep forest around him didn't look like anything that could appear on Earth.
Since he was here, he might as well make peace with it. Rota didn't overthink it. Since he had transmigrated, he just had to accept it.
After all, he was an anime enthusiast who loved watching shows and playing games. The thought of coming to another world was actually a bit exciting.
"Beep~ Myriad Worlds Role-Playing System loading..."
As expected, the system might be late, but it would never be absent. The system had become a standard exclusive item for transmigrators. The name even had a cosplay vibe to it.
After spending some time, Rota figured out the main functions of his system. As the name suggested, the Myriad Worlds Role-Playing System allowed him to draw characters from countless worlds to role-play. When the role-playing degree reached 100%, the host could obtain all the abilities of that character.
This setting made Rota quite excited. After all, if he could personally role-play so many charismatic characters, wouldn't that be an incredibly delightful thing?
Rota calmed himself and summoned the Myriad Worlds Role-Playing System in his mind. Then an option for a starter random draw popped up directly.
He figured this was probably the system's starter benefit. Otherwise, with his small frame, he might be okay on Earth, but in another world, he would definitely be trash with a power level of five.
Rota didn't know who his first starter character would be. He just hoped it wouldn't be too weak.
After taking a deep breath, Rota began the random character draw. Watching characters flash by rapidly, Rota silently prayed in his heart.
Finally, with a flash of light, the character was determined...
"It's actually... kindergarten... no wait, it's actually Uncle Kizaru!"
Rota was very satisfied. First of all, Kizaru's strength was extremely powerful. In One Piece, he always had a carefree attitude during battles. Usually, people like this had deeply hidden strength.
"View status panel."
"Host: Rota
Gender: Male
Age: 20 years old
Template: Kizaru (58 years old)
Imitation degree: 20%
Next character unlock condition: Kizaru imitation degree 100%"
The system was quite generous, giving him 20% imitation degree at the start. Feeling the power surging within his body, he finally had some ability to protect himself.
However, to increase the imitation degree, he would first need to start with clothing. This should increase some imitation degree. But Kizaru's outfit, he had no idea where to get it from. This wouldn't be easy.
"Host, you can use the illusion function that comes with the system."
"Illusion function?"
"Yes. After using the illusion function, it can make the host's appearance identical to the character being imitated, helping the host with the role-play."
Rota suddenly felt that his system was quite considerate. It had even thought of this. It seemed that with the continuous development of transmigration trends, even system functions had become much more user-friendly.
Rota considered himself not particularly handsome, but definitely pleasant to look at. His jet-black flowing hair paired with fair skin, and sharp sword-like eyebrows gave him a spirited feeling.
Of course, these weren't anything outstanding. Rota's only notable feature in his previous world was probably his height of 1.85 meters.
But compared to Kizaru, whom he was about to role-play, Rota's 1.85 meters wasn't much. You have to know that Kizaru's height was a full 3.02 meters!
The main issue was still the age gap. Kizaru was 58 years old, much older compared to Rota, who was only a 20-year-old youngster.
These problems weren't too difficult for Rota, a One Piece enthusiast. Kizaru's personality was still relatively easy to imitate.
Instead of just being happy about it, it was better to take action quickly. Rota immediately used the illusion function.
Rota's appearance underwent a huge change. Soon, the original Rota disappeared, replaced by Kizaru himself.
Black curly hair, paired with a yellow and white striped suit, a circle of beard on his face, wearing sunglasses, draped in a white cape with the word "Justice" printed on it. A living, breathing Kizaru had appeared just like that.
"Really identical. The illusion function is truly powerful."
"Beep, Kizaru imitation degree increased to 40%!"
Just as Rota had predicted, imitating the clothing and appearance could increase a lot of imitation degree.
Now that the imitation degree had reached 40%, Rota felt that his strength compared to when it was at 20% had become more than a level stronger.
"It seems Kizaru's strength is indeed still that unfathomable. Worthy of being a high-tier actor."
With strength, Rota finally wasn't so timid anymore. Sure enough, strength gave people a great sense of security!
Now the most important thing was to figure out what kind of world he had come to. This way, it would be convenient for his subsequent actions.
Rota immediately used Observation Haki to sense the situation in a large area around him. As a result, he discovered many creatures of all kinds, just like a rare beast paradise.
With only this information, he really couldn't determine what world it was. He could only head in one direction first and see. It would be great if he could encounter some humans.
Rota slowly walked in one direction. Because Kizaru always had a lazy appearance and had the title of "Clock-in Admiral," Rota wasn't in much of a hurry. This was behavior consistent with Kizaru himself.
He hadn't walked far when the atmosphere around him suddenly became much heavier. Rota clearly felt that the gravity around him had changed significantly.
In Rota's memory, there were many who could manipulate gravity, but he just didn't know which divine being it was.
"I'll understand once I go take a look!"
Rota walked leisurely toward the direction where gravity had obviously changed. As he went deeper, the gravitational pressure on the surroundings became more and more severe.
"Kowai ne~ (How scary~)"
Rota said Kizaru's classic line, and just this one sentence increased his imitation degree by another 2%.
He hadn't walked far when Rota saw two colossal creatures. They were facing each other, their faces showing strong battle intent.
The one emanating strong gravity was one of the colossal creatures—a gigantic black ape.
Seeing this, Rota had already made a preliminary judgment. The other giant creature was a massive python with bull horns.
The answer was now quite obvious. He must have come to the world of Douluo. The two giant beasts were the Titan Giant Ape and the Azure Oxpython.
"Human, how did you get here!"
While Rota was in a daze, the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Oxpython had already discovered him. The two had changed from confronting each other to glaring at Rota with common enmity.
"Moshi moshi, this is Kizaru!" Rota said unhurriedly.
"Kizaru? What's that, a yellow monkey?" The Titan Giant Ape was very confused.
"Well, you can call this old man Borsalino!" Rota felt that talking about codenames with spirit beasts was somewhat like playing a lute to a cow.
"Borsalino? What a strange name!" The Azure Oxpython's deep voice sounded.
"Can't be helped. This old man's name is just that." Rota spread his hands and said helplessly.
"You human are quite interesting. You dare to venture deep into the Star Dou Forest alone. I don't know if you're overconfident or truly have strength!"
Then the Azure Oxpython lowered its head toward Rota and blew out a huge breath from its nose.
Author's Note: For Douluo, there are anime, manga, and novel references. Don't worry too much about some details, hehe~