"Where exactly is this world? It feels like my power is being suppressed?"
Having traveled through many worlds again, Shin sensed the suppression this world imposed on him and muttered.
This was an Earth-like world, seemingly in the 80s or 90s, as computers and the internet didn't seem very popular.
Walking on the street, Shin slightly waved his hand, as if countless rules and gravity from the void were pulling at his physical body, suppressing his strength to an extremely low level.
Or, more accurately, what was suppressing him wasn't his inherent power, but his external destructive capability. A punch that could originally shatter a planet could now probably only shatter a basketball court at most.
Of course, this suppression wasn't that severe for Shin, mainly because he could feel that as long as he exerted seventy to eighty percent of his strength, the suppressing force would reach its limit. If he went all out, he could definitely break free from this suppression.
If this were Shin before he ate the Super chakra fruit, let alone breaking through this suppression, he wasn't even sure if he could sense it.
Looking around, Shin's super senses immediately began collecting information about this world.
A moment later, a smile appeared on Shin's lips: "This world... is actually Saint Seiya?"
The Saint Seiya world is also a world with layered settings in its later stages.
Initially, the combat power of the Saint Seiya was just that. Although they could be called superhumans, they were only capable of punching at supersonic speeds and having bodies that could withstand tanks.
Later, perhaps because Saint Seiya's author, Masami Kurumada, didn't do well in middle school physics, or perhaps he just wanted to make the Gold Saints cool and powerful, he created the Light Speed Punch setting.
This setting completely changed everything, but unfortunately, Masami Kurumada's manga skills were clearly not as great as his boasting ability. Logically, the power of a Light Speed Punch should at least be equivalent to Saitama's Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon or a peak Garou's punch that changes the entire Earth's terrain.
However, in the hands of the Gold Saints, the power of a Light Speed Punch could at most destroy a building, which in no way aligns with the power of light speed.
To fill the plot holes and supplement the settings, some authors who continued Saint Seiya had to begrudgingly clean up Masami Kurumada's mess. For example, Earth was set up with a barrier that greatly reduced all destructive power, and so on... Because of this setting, the strength of other Saint Seiya also greatly increased. Eventually, even reserve level Saint Seiya could directly dismantle nuclear reactors, and any Bronze Saint could easily withstand nuclear bombs.
Of course, no matter how much they set it, ordinary Bronze and Silver Saints definitely couldn't defeat the regular comic book Superman. At least a Gold Saint level, possessing means to destroy atoms, might truly be able to fight Superman, and even then, the chances of winning would be almost zero.
As for Shin, a super-evolved Superman, he probably has a seventy to eighty percent chance of defeating the entire Olympian Pantheon by himself.
The source of power in the Saint Seiya world is the Cosmo, which simulates the Big Bang. The theory is that all life, matter, and energy originate from the initial Big Bang. Therefore, by tracing back to the source, one can ignite their own Cosmo by mastering the ability to simulate this Big Bang power.
—Needless to say, Shin, who is not from the Saint Seiya world at all, certainly doesn't have such a thing as Cosmo in his body. He feels that if he were to truly trace back to the Big Bang era, the greatest possibility is that he would be directly blown into the universe, rather than comprehending any Cosmo.
The levels of Cosmo are divided by senses, such as the Sixth Sense, Seventh Sense, and so on. —In Masami Kurumada's original era, there was no such setting. After all, humans cannot lack the five senses. Do you still need to cultivate it? The Sixth Sense only refers to intuition.
Therefore, initially, there were only divisions like igniting the Cosmo — strengthening the Cosmo — Seventh Sense — Eighth Sense, and so on, and the Eighth Sense was more akin to a state of enlightenment, with little boost to combat power.
However, with later supplementary settings, Cosmo levels like the Five Senses and Six Senses also appeared, and the combat power gap between each sensory realm was greatly widened. Divisions like God Cloth Cosmo were also established.
Of course, Shin didn't really care about any of this. He figured he wouldn't be going down the path of Cosmo for now.
Not to mention whether the Gulp-Gulp Fruit's body modification could allow him to possess something as idealistic as Cosmo, just the Saint Seiya's cultivation path, which requires the tenacious vitality of the Five Bronze Saints and the fighting will to fight to the death to progress, has nothing to do with Shin—he hasn't even awakened Conqueror's Haki!
Speaking of which, he could now blow up the entire One Piece World with a sneeze, and Armament Haki could easily cover the entire planet of the One Piece World, yet Haoshoku remained nowhere in sight, truly deserving a tear of sympathy.
But there was nothing he could do. By nature, he had no thoughts of becoming a king, dominating, or having an unyielding will. On the contrary, besides his extremely strong imagination, he was the kind of person who would absolutely not fight to the death for anything. In everything he did, he would first consider whether he had the means to protect himself, and he would absolutely not do anything that was too dangerous.
With this personality, wanting to cultivate the hot-blooded, kingly cultivation method of Cosmo? He would probably just be a mere grunt even if he trained until he died.
Of course, besides Cosmo, this world also had other cool things that Shin envied, which were the so-called cloths.
A smile appeared on his face. Shin had just used his super senses to perceive the current time period—in fact, he didn't even need super senses. He just needed to buy a newspaper and he would see the headline on the front page: The Galaxian Wars Tournament will be held in three days!
The Galaxian Wars Tournament was the first battle at the beginning of Saint Seiya, an internal conflict between Bronze Saints, where the Five Bronze Saints fought five weaker Bronze Saints—roughly equivalent to a battle between novices.
Shin naturally had no interest in watching the Galaxian Wars Tournament. Since he wasn't planning to learn about Cosmo, he didn't want to have any interaction with these people for now.
If, because of him, these Saint Seiya failed to win the Holy War, and the world ended up being submerged by seawater or turned into an eternal night, that wouldn't be good.
His powerful Super Vision looked towards the distant Jamir, which was where he wanted to go to learn.
There, lived the descendants of the Mu people, the current Aries Gold Saint, and most importantly, his identity—the cloth repairer, Mu.
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