It had been a few hours since Zaydas created Little Garden.
Soon, he intended to remove the barrier surrounding Little Garden. He could have done something to make the barrier permanent, or at least continue even if he were no longer in that dimension, but he didn't think it was necessary.
Although he hadn't planned exactly what he was going to do regarding this dimension, he had some ideas, and those included the existence of Little Garden.
Grayfia, who was touching the trunk of Little Garden with her hand, suddenly said, "This tree you created is amazing."
Hearing her words, Shuna and the other girls stopped to look.
"I agree. I've never seen anything like it," Shizue commented.
"Even in the underworld, I've never seen anything like this~" Ravel sighed in admiration.
"Zaydas-san, how were you able to create something like this?" Asia asked, her eyes shining with innocence and curiosity.
"Thanks to my agriculture skill that evolved into: [Demeter, God of Agriculture] when I became the God of Twilight." He didn't hide it.
"Oh right, Zaydas-san is a God~" Asia lightly hit her head with her closed fist while sticking out her tongue.
Reaching out and touching her head, she looked at Zaydas with curious eyes, wondering why he did that.
Just smiling, he ruffled her hair a little and withdrew his hand.
Confused, she brought both hands to her head, but it was clear she didn't dislike the familiar touch.
"Girls, are you sure you want to stay here with me?" Zaydas asked.
"Yes." Both Asia and the others nodded.
Giving a helpless smile, he said, "Well, do as you please. But I'm warning you. I won't be doing anything interesting to watch. I'll just be creating an artificial island around Little Garden and other boring things, like making mountains, volcanoes, etc."
"That you call boring?" Grayfia rolled her eyes at him.
"Sounds quite interesting to me~" Shuna had that calm smile and perfect posture as she spoke.
Asia didn't say anything, just nodded in agreement.
Shizue remained silent with a calm smile but showed no desire to leave.
"In that case, do as you wish." Zaydas gave in.
"Yes." Shuna was the first to reply.
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Just as Zaydas had said, what he began doing was creating the ground they stood on. First, he melted the ice he had created, then, using Geokinesis through 'Odin', he created an earth floor.
Beneath the oceans, he started creating a two-kilometer-thick layer of earth below the water up to the base of Little Garden's trunk.
After forming a layer around Little Garden, he brought his hands together and created a thousand clones.
In an instant, they spread out and began expanding the land around Little Garden.
"And Zaydas-sama said it was going to be boring to watch~" Flying alongside the girls, Shuna laughed softly.
"Mm, and this is just the beginning," Shizue commented.
Yes, maybe this is the most 'boring' part to watch.
And it would be especially interesting to see him creating volcanoes, as well as planting trees, etc.
Not to mention, now with a thousand clones, the land expansion was happening incredibly fast.
"How big does he intend to make this?" Ravel murmured softly, asking no one in particular.
"I believe the entire area he previously called the 'Calm Belt'." Grayfia gave her opinion.
And she wasn't wrong. Zaydas' intention really was that.
Of course, when he says occupy the Calm Belt, it's only the part that separates West Blue and the New World. If he were to occupy the entire Calm Belt line, it would take much longer to expand the land.
By the way, with this, the navy won't be able to simply pass through there by ship.
But, it would also make the travel between the New World and West Blue easier.
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While Zaydas' clones did all the hard work, without anyone noticing, he had already left and was now standing in front of an island in West Blue.
"Oraha."
The island that was once well known as Oraha, mainly thanks to its scholarly archaeologists who lived on this island, had now become an island abandoned by "God."
Everything was dead. Not even a blade of grass grew in that place.
In the center of the island, there was a large thick tree trunk that must have been burned.
'Justice, huh…'
Zaydas looked at it and smiled ironically.
Why was he there?
Did Zaydas simply want to see the island where Nico Robin was born and which was destroyed by the navy?
The answer to that was to test something.
If it works, great. If not, oh well.
From Zaydas' hands, runes began to emerge.
This time, tens of thousands of runes, and all of them created a shield of runes that surrounded the entire island.
In moments, a pure white light came out of Zaydas' hands, activating the runes, reinforcing the barrier that began to rise.
The barrier took on the appearance of a semi-transparent dome.
Before Zaydas' eyes, he began to use the power of time and rewind.
The reversal began, and he saw the temporal change happening within that destroyed island.
At first, the changes were minimal, but when it reached 9 years of reversal, the change became clearer.
Everything was still destroyed, but as the months rolled back, the cost of the power being used also increased.
What he saw next made him blink and then smile.
Souls. Maybe that's the right term.
Hitting the barrier, he saw a large number of souls.
Opening a gap, the souls entered the barrier.
Soon, he saw moments in which men, women, and children were killed, rewinding, going back to the point when they hadn't been killed yet, and the 'souls' he had allowed to enter the barrier merged with their bodies.
'Sometimes I scare myself…'
Seeing the people who were revived one by one, Zaydas joked a bit seriously.
Of course, it was only possible because the corpses were 'buried' on that island.
Nico Robin, for example, did not return. What he brought back in time was everything that had been on the island.
Even the great tree returned to its lively state.
'16% of my power was consumed...'
It may seem little, but for the amount of power he currently has, and for a single island to require that amount of power to rewind 10 years in time... It shows how difficult and costly it really was.
Not to mention that he also spent 10 AP to stabilize the process.
But, that wasn't the most important thing right now.
There's no point in reviving Oraha and just letting it remain there.
With his Psychic power, Zaydas began to make the island float without removing the barrier.
Even after everyone on that island had been revived, he still kept the barrier up while camouflaging the outside scenery.
"DOM! DOM! DOM!"
"SPLASH! SPLASH!"
Loud sounds of the island being lifted, along with the sound of water being stirred, were heard by Zaydas, but didn't reach the ears of the island's inhabitants.
When the island was finally completely out of the water, he simply teleported with the island.
In the blink of an eye, he was already very close to Little Garden.
Obviously, his appearance with a floating island was noticed.
In fact, the girls' shocked expressions were almost funny.
Smiling and waving, Zaydas began lowering the island and fusing it with a piece of land that had been expanded in the Southeast.
When the island was placed on the sea, his clones quickly took action and 'welded' the island, fusing it with the expanded land.
'That was easy.' He thought: 'Should I get more islands to fuse with the land around Little Garden?'
He didn't dismiss the idea, but for now, he would leave it as is.
Maybe it really was a good idea to do that, especially for those who seek protection.
Finishing the expansion, Zaydas descended to the ground.
When he touched the ground with his hands, sinking them into the earth, his power flowed.
Instantly, grass, flowers, and trees began to sprout and grow at great speed.
From a simple patch of dirt, Grayfia and the girls were shocked by what they saw.
"Shion-san will want to see this..." Ravel murmured while recording everything.
They even saw a waterfall being created, a mound of earth that soon formed a mountain, magma that was enclosed and created a volcano, and freshwater lakes.
All of that was happening right before their eyes.
"This is what he calls boring to watch?" Shuna remarked ironically.
"I'm more interested in seeing what he considers entertaining to watch." Shizue commented with a small smile.
That, they had to agree on 100%.
"Maybe this is the mindset of a God?" Asia murmured.
On that, none of them knew what to say.
From his shadow, Maylon, Shadow, and Jade appeared.
Maylon grew into her 'Pegasus' form and began running freely.
Shadow and Jade did the same, and the three seemed to be racing.
Zaydas simply smiled as he removed his hands from the earth.
Creating a pair of red feathered wings, he floated. Crossing his arms, he nodded with satisfaction at the scene he had created.
Meanwhile, the clones he had made earlier began to dissipate, and all the feedback returned, along with the power he had shared with them.
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