"From today on, this land will support no idlers, much less anyone who refuses to pull their weight!"
With that, the Water God and Evergreen left.
They became two streaks of light and flew toward the heart of the Sahara Desert.
There, they would put their new rules to the test.
A vast basin lay surrounded by jagged black mountains, like an enormous natural bowl.
It was the lowest and driest place in the entire desert.
The Water God and Evergreen landed at its center.
"This is the place." Evergreen looked around. Years of relentless sun had cracked the ground beneath his feet and hardened it like iron.
The Water God said nothing. He merely raised the Ice Abyss Staff.
This time, he did not summon a change in the skies or create a torrential waterfall.
He drove the end of the staff deep into the cracked earth beneath his feet.
Hummm—
Deep-blue Divine Might surged down the staff and burrowed into the earth like a dragon come to life.
The ground began to tremble.
At first, the shaking was faint. Soon, the entire basin heaved violently, as though an ancient beast were waking beneath it.
Great cracks spread across the black mountains around the basin, and loose stones tumbled down.
The Water God's expression was grave as he poured in his Divine Might without holding back.
His target was not the surface, but the deep groundwater veins thousands of meters below.
He was not creating water from nothing. He was using his Divine Might to force the countless small water veins hidden deep beneath the land to converge, forming an immense underground lake directly below the basin!
"Evergreen, now!" the Water God growled.
Evergreen was already ready.
He opened the Sacred Codex of Reincarnation. Pale-green Life Divine Might poured