The sky was blue, the grass was pixelated, the ocean was infinite, and the sun was square.
Setting aside the ravings of a lunatic, anyone familiar with this kind of world would immediately think of the classic pixelated sandbox game: Minecraft.
Right in front of his matchbox-like dirt house, Zenith had dug out a four-block infinite water source. He was currently squatting by the edge, fishing out of sheer boredom.
The puddle was crystal clear, without a single speck of dust. Yet, thanks to Minecraft's mechanics, he could infinitely fish up actual fish—or even treasure—from it.
Accompanied by a burst of particle effects, a round, yellow pufferfish leaped out of the water. Zenith's expression didn't change in the slightest.
It had been two years! Two whole years since he accidentally transmigrated into the Minecraft Overworld and gained the exact same inventory, traits, and crafting system as a player character!
If he was filled with novelty and excitement when he first arrived, his primary emotion now was just pure numbness.
In this world of infinite respawns, Zenith had spent a few months completing the game's main progression. He had a full set of enchanted Netherite armor, defeated the Ender Dragon, liberated the End, and farmed several chests full of Nether Stars...
But he quickly grew tired of it. Humans were social creatures, after all. The only peers he could find in this world were those shameless, big-nosed villagers who only knew how to make weird grunting noises and tried to scam him by trading one piece of coal for sixty-four emeralds.
The only thing keeping Zenith sane was the multiplayer mode, which had been perpetually stuck on the status: [Scanning for games on your local network].
This line of text had been blinking for two years, making Zenith seriously doubt if there were actually any other game worlds on this so-called local network.
Opening the interface out of habit to quickly skim it, Zenith was just about to casually close it when he suddenly froze.
The text [Scanning for games on your local network] was still there, but right below it, a colorful, selectable option had miraculously appeared!
[Multiplayer Server Detected:]
[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.]
Zenith instantly dropped his fishing rod. He sprang to his feet and reached out to click the option without a single shred of hesitation.
He was incredibly familiar with this multiplayer server. The JoJo series, Stand users, and those "Ora Ora" battle maniacs!
If this multiplayer server meant he could transmigrate into the JoJo universe, that would be absolutely perfect. A world with a modern setting! A world with people—actual people he could communicate with!!
With a crisp click, a surge of information flooded Zenith's mind. Joining the server indeed meant entering the JoJo universe. The so-called scanning for games was actually locating the coordinates of different worlds within the void.
However, crossing worlds wasn't as simple as just clicking a button. Zenith had to actively build a portal. It used the exact same frame structure as a Nether portal, but the material was replaced with gold blocks.
*Why gold? Is it because of the Golden Spirit?*
Zenith's thoughts drifted for a split second before he quickly snapped back to reality.
Gold was everywhere in the caves of the Minecraft Overworld. Inside Zenith's dirt matchbox house, he had over a dozen chests stuffed to the brim with gold blocks.
He swiftly built the portal and ignited it with a flint and steel. Golden particle effects materialized, accompanied by a grand, divine hum.
The teleportation channel was complete. He only needed to stand in the portal's light curtain for three seconds to reach the other world.
But before that, Zenith had to prepare the supplies and equipment he'd need for the journey.
Having taken the time to build the portal, he had calmed down a bit.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was a Japanese anime. While the world wasn't necessarily a complete death trap, it certainly had nothing to do with the word safe.
Vampires, zombies, gangsters, ambitious schemers, and evil Stand users.
To prevent himself from dying and instantly respawning back here, a Shulker Box fully loaded with twenty-seven Totems of Undying was an absolute must.
A stack of Enchanted Golden Apples and two stacks of regular Golden Apples for recovery items.
A fully enchanted set of Netherite armor. For weapons, a god-tier bow with Infinity, Flame, and Punch, a Trident with Channeling, plus his standard Netherite sword.
*Hmm, TNT can boost my destructive power. I'll bring two stacks. Food, water, building blocks for towering up... Oh right, and money.*
Using hard currency like gold would be more than enough. A single gold block weighed a whopping nineteen tons. Zenith's gold reserves were vast enough to easily crash the economy of any world on the gold standard.
After spending half the day picking and choosing until his inventory was stuffed to the brim, Zenith finally stepped into the portal. The world barrier began to warp. In a daze, he felt as if countless stars were flying past him. By the time he regained his senses, he was already standing in an unfamiliar place.
Behind him stood the golden portal. Zenith mined it to reclaim the blocks, then took a deep breath of the modern world's air.
A series of notification chimes rang out. After a quick inspection, Zenith soon discovered many new items in his crafting menu.
"This system can actually load mods? Well, I guess that makes sense. It already came with functional mods like JEI item management and a health indicator, so it's not surprising it can load other mods too."
The new mods would generate new ores and materials in unexplored chunks of the Minecraft Overworld, and the new items would grant Zenith new powers.
But that would have to wait until he returned to the Overworld. It definitely wasn't something to worry about right now, having just set foot in a new world.
His rigid brain started working again as Zenith carefully recalled the plot of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Even though the targeted world specifically mentioned the Stardust Crusaders season, the timelines of every JoJo part were actually interconnected.
Zenith could totally choose to follow the timeline and beat his way from Dio all the way to Father Pucci—assuming he could win, of course.
"I wonder how far the plot has progressed. It'd be a massive shame not to crash the main cast's party in such a classic world."
Looking around, rows of traditional Japanese buildings caught his eye. The beginning of the Stardust Crusaders story took place in 1987 Japan.
The story started with the third JoJo, Jotaro Kujo, voluntarily locking himself in a holding cell. In other words, if he had entered right at the beginning of the plot, could he find the protagonist just by rummaging through the nearby police stations?
Zenith scratched his chin, suddenly realizing two very important problems.
First, he only remembered that the early story happened in Japan before they traveled across Asia to Cairo, Egypt. But he had absolutely no memory of which Japanese city Jotaro lived in at the start.
Second, he didn't speak Japanese.
*Uh, the pre-installed base mods include dynamic translation, right? They have to, right? Please, I'm begging here!*
Zenith mentally prayed to every god he could think of. Being in a Japanese anime world without knowing Japanese, a superhero world without knowing English, or a fantasy novel world without knowing the otherworldly language...
*God, just thinking about it is terrifying. Before I transmigrated, I hadn't even passed my basic college English exam!*