"What was he trying to do? Was he planning to create another Alien God?"
The sudden appearance of the Imaginary Tree—or, more precisely, the Subspecies Imaginary Tree—prompted Da Vinci in the projection to say that. She was still carrying out modifications aboard the ship and was not in the control room.
"Though the odds are slim, it is possible," Sherlock Holmes said.
"Perhaps he wanted to become the Lostbelt King himself. No, more likely an Alien God. After everything he did, he could not have been doing it out of boredom," Shen Fei said, voicing his speculation.
Since Shimosa Province, Ashiya Doman seemed to have been researching the Imaginary Tree. At first, Chaldea had not understood what City of Avici Ashes was, but once they entered the Lostbelt and saw the Imaginary Tree, they immediately understood. It was undoubtedly connected to it.
Combined with how he had deliberately destroyed India's Imaginary Tree, how he had not stayed by the Alien God's side despite being an Alien Apostle, how he had instead created a Singularity, and now this Subspecies Imaginary Tree—there was no need to ask. He definitely had his own objective.
Considering the information about the Imaginary Tree obtained from Olympus, it had been cultivated as the Alien God's body. It was entirely possible that Ashiya Doman had cultivated one as a body for himself. This was an opportunity to reach the heavens in a single step. With the magical energy possessed by an Imaginary Tree, if the plan succeeded, Ashiya Doman could become a god. Not many people could refuse the chance to become a god in one step.
Even Shen Fei would hesitate over it now. If it had been the him from the beginning, though, he would not have hesitated in the slightest. As for what Side