The dull, monotonous voyage called for something to pass the time.
After the mast ship left Twin Island and headed toward the open sea, Jaya kept reading that ancient history book.
In less than half a day, she had finished the entire book.
With nothing better to do, Maud took the book from Jaya and began reading it.
Compared to the book's descriptions of the passage of time and the changes in various things, Maud was more interested in the story about the so-called giant who wielded an axe.
He had split Twin Island in half with a single axe strike?
Not horizontally, but vertically.
The book did not specify how deep the cleft reached.
When they had landed on Spring Child Island, Maud's attention had been drawn mostly to that enormous Yin-Yang tree, so he had not paid much attention to the cliffs along the shore.
Now that he thought about it carefully, those coastal cliffs really were as smooth as tofu, matching the book's description.
Still, if not for this history book, Maud would never have made that connection.
Much less would he have thought that Twin Island's alternating spring and winter climates had actually been created by an axe strike from that nameless giant.
To those who understood the strength of top-tier powerhouses well enough, splitting an island in two was not particularly astonishing.
But splitting open half of a winter island perpetually battered by wind and snow and creating a trace of "life" within it with a single axe was somewhat too absurd.
That was the part Maud found most fascinating.
Unfortunately, several sections of writing had been smeared out in this excerpt.
By referring to the surrounding text, he could barely make out that the obscured sections corresponded to the number of years ago when