"Repair Uranus, punish Zunesha, and send the remaining giants to rescue the islands of the world."
Thanks to our joint efforts with Joy Boy, the world was spared destruction. The barely repaired Uranus, though not as functional as before, at least prevented it from arbitrarily controlling the world's weather.
Of course, even with this Uranus, there are still a few drawbacks.
That is, although he will not cause chaos in the celestial phenomena of the whole world.
But the largest engineering feat ever maintained by Uranus Calm Belt...
In the seas enveloped by the Calm Belt, the weather becomes increasingly unpredictable as we approach Uranus.
This is precisely the core reason why there are always wondrous celestial phenomena Grand Line and in the New World.
Imu turned to look at Gawain, a rare smile playing on her lips, and asked.
"After saying all this, I hope you don't think I'm being long-winded."
After all, these are just anecdotes that wouldn't happen at sea. Even if we're about to fight each other, if you miss this opportunity, you'll never hear about them again.
"Fine."
Gawain nodded. What Imu was saying was indeed something that had not been recorded in the history of the sea.
Neither the reasons for the world's changes nor the origins of humankind have ever been discussed on the ocean.
Upon receiving Gawain's response, Imu nodded, and then, his mood brightening, continued.
"Since Adam the Sun Tree no longer exists in this world, the overall fate of this world is somewhat unbalanced."
After the calamities brought by Uranus gradually subsided, the world's resources became far fewer than before.
Many dinosaurs that once lived in the sea gradually disappeared during that era, as did many other enormous creatures with equally large appetites.
That's right, I'm mainly talking about giants.
As a massive living organism, having lost large animals as its primary food source, and without the Devil Fruit of Adam to alleviate hunger.
Soon, the giants who had survived the celestial catastrophe of Uranus suffered another massive wave of death.
Intelligent beings are still living beings, and when the environment is harsh enough, even humans will reduce their desire to reproduce in order to weaken their species.
As a result, the giants' fertility decreased, and their average lifespan became shorter. Many members of small groups living away from home died at sea before they could even reach the giants' homeland.
In less than a hundred years, the number of giants, which was already around 10%, has been reduced by nearly 99%.
In the end, the glory of the Giant Kingdom vanished completely, and the giants could only eke out a living in the New World, a place where the celestial phenomena were chaotic but also provided relatively abundant food.
Although humans and giants are always at war, I have always regarded Nika as a friend, even if the one who ate Nika was of a different race, even if I personally killed Nika's host, I cannot rule out the possibility that Nika's spirit was once one of the twenty-one golden spirits of the moon.
Therefore, I did not confirm the decline of the giant race, but instead spent two hundred years researching and creating what I believed to be a giant plant that could replace Adam the Sun Tree.
I thought I could use new plants to make up for the damage that the absence of Adam the Sun Tree had caused to the earthly world.
However, I overestimated myself a bit.
No matter how advanced the technology, all the miracles it can accomplish are far less than what nature truly creates effortlessly.
After creating more than a dozen samples, even though I planted the giant tree that was closest to Adam on an island called Ohara, that tree was still far from reaching Adam's level.
As for Adam's responsibility to harmonize the yin and yang of the world.
That tree was of no help whatsoever.
At this point, I had no choice but to accept the outcome.
Without Adam, the balance of yin and yang on this planet—that is, the land and the sea—is completely disrupted!
Beneath the ocean, enormous Sea King still thrive and reproduce. Their size seems limitless; the largest known Sea King in the world is over 60,000 meters long, or about 60 kilometers!
On the ground, the limit for living organisms is that they can only grow to a height of a few hundred meters.
For five thousand years, there has never been a land animal as enormous as Zunesha.
In my view, the harm caused by this imbalance of yin and yang will last for a long time, until the ocean completely engulfs and devours the whole world in the future.
Therefore, even if Joy Boy cannot accept it, I still decide to lead all the people I can rally to continue suppressing the Fish-Man.
When the power of the ocean grows fully, we on land, and the indigenous people of this world, will one day face nothingness.
Thus, war began again—a war between the entire human race and the Fish-Man and Sea King!
Because Uranus is nearly damaged, even with minimal repairs, it would be difficult to use it again.
Therefore, I commanded their Dark King from Joy Boy.
I used Dark King to shatter countless roots of the Shadow Tree Eve, hoping only to halt the ever-expanding sea.
We desperately lured and strangled the Sea King at sea. In order to suppress the Merfolk race, I not only failed to curb slavery, but even promoted it.
This massacre lasted for over three thousand years, until about fifteen hundred years ago, when people finally... couldn't take it anymore.
Or perhaps, they simply couldn't face the blood on their own hands; how cowardly!
Sixteen hundred years ago, a new generation of D rebuilt the Great Kingdom.
This Great Kingdom still reveres Joy Boy as its god and leader, but this time their people are no longer the giants of the previous era.
The human alliance was completely torn apart. D made his voice heard, spread his middle name, and told the whole world about his will.
He hoped the world would be full of joy, laughter, harmony, and equality.
Especially... that must be full of freedom!
As for me, I could only watch everything happen, because as one of the ancestors of mankind, I still prioritized the survival of mankind and did not care about the internal conflicts among mankind.
Through the efforts of the Kingdom of D, also known as the New Great Kingdom, the Alliance of Nations and the Kingdom of D have reached an agreement: we will maintain harmony, barely sustain our shared needs, and work together to develop the New World while respecting our differences.
At that time, we signed another covenant in Mary Geoise, and we thought this one would last longer than the last.
But... in the end, I still tore up that contract.
As for the reason, the ocean is expanding at an incredibly rapid pace!
Even if I used the restored Uranus to create vast desert landscapes in many major countries around the world, I still couldn't stop the sea from expanding.
In just a few hundred years of recuperation, the Fish-Man Kingdom has grown to a level that frightens me, and the Fish-Man's ultimate weapon, Poseidon, is a thorn in my side.
Over those centuries, every island in the world shrank by at least two-thirds due to rising sea levels, the global population plummeted again, productivity declined again, and conflicts between people intensified once more.
Even so, D remained optimistic. He could see people's birth, aging, sickness, and death, but he believed that was normal. As long as people remained free and happy, even if humanity were to face extinction one day, it would be fine as long as the last human could remain happy.
This attitude is something I absolutely cannot allow; I will never allow that kind of future to befall humanity.
Therefore, I gathered the past twenty-one lunar royal families and decided to completely change everything!
Of course, in the end there were only twenty members of the royal family, because D was already standing against me.
We have maintained peace before, but this time, the reason I have gathered the royal family is to sever all ties with them!
In order to ensure the survival of humanity, after gathering all the royal families, I proposed for the first time a plan to completely rule all mankind.
Only by achieving complete and comprehensive domination over all humanity can I prevent things like D from happening again.
At the same time, we will unilaterally tear up the agreement signed 1,500 years ago.
At the same time, I took out the clothes we used to wear.
That's right, it's exactly the bubble headgear you see now, worn by every Celestial Dragon.
Those garments were originally our spacesuits, designed to protect us in both underwater and vacuum environments.
The reason I did that was because, in addition to the grand goal of unifying all of humanity and suppressing and eradicating other races around the world.
I also proposed a terrifying plan that I had to accept.
Adam, the sun tree, has vanished, and Eve shadow tree, cannot be destroyed for the time being. The ocean is destined to occupy every corner of the globe, and the only space we can live in the future, besides the largest Red Line, is the underwater world.
Since this future is destined to happen, why should I lead humanity to prolong its existence in the struggle against nature?
Why can't I speed up the arrival of the future?
As long as I lead the royal family to prepare for the future, our enemies will naturally disappear when the sea completely engulfs the world.
When that time comes, those of us who have made preparations in advance will naturally become the ultimate rulers of this world...
At this point, Imu pursed her lips, a dangerous glint flashing in her eyes.
"That's right, this is my ultimate plan. Rather than yearning to conquer the world, we should destroy it completely. When the world falls back into ignorance, we will naturally become its masters."
Although a few members of the royal family disagreed with the plan, in the end, the majority of the royal family chose to accept it.
And so, I truly ushered in our great era!
While I was seeking solutions, people like Joy Boy were not idle either.
They, too, are constantly searching for ways to save the world.
Shortly after I presented my proposal, surprisingly, Joy Boy also offered his idea.
Before we could even reach a consensus and launch our plan, Joy Boy was the first to invite us to Laugh Tale.
As Nika, he understood the significance of Laugh Tale even more; that island was the very island where we humans first landed when we crossed the moon.
Since we arrived in this world 50,000 years ago, we have regrouped on Laugh Tale every so often and, with the blood of every member of our royal family, activated our spaceships on Laugh Tale.
That aircraft is not only our spaceship, but also part of the Devil Fruit Tree and one of the keys to Uranus's activation.
Only through the continuous activation of the bloodlines of the twenty-one royal families can the Devil Fruit Tree and Uranus continue to function.
Therefore, Gawain, even if you want to kill me, try to leave a seed in every family.
Of course, I don't care if you kill all the Celestial Dragon in Mary Geoise, because we already have royal genes on our aircraft in Laugh Tale, and we can just clone one using Uranus.
Just like your Gawain Family, the tradition of passing down the lineage through a single son has been broken countless times. Do you know how many of your ancestors I cloned?
Even you, you are my cloned child.
Because the previous generation of your family all died in a foolish shipwreck, and they didn't even leave any descendants.
I went to Laugh Tale six years ago and created you on our spaceship!
It was I who placed your family's genes into my egg, and then personally nurtured it in my womb!
I brought you back to Mary Geoise, and it is because of my kinship with the next generation that you possess the strength you have now—the ability to challenge me after only a little over three years of training—that even surprises me!
Looking back now, when I first brought you back to Mary Geoise, you were probably in a vulnerable phase during your rapid growth.
So now you understand why you're the special one? In the eyes of the Five Elders' descendants, you are my child, the child I personally conceived and born from my womb.
If you hadn't inherited Joy Boy's will to bring so-called freedom and equality to the sea, then you would have been the best candidate for the Five Elders, and in my eyes, the best choice to inherit the future.
After all, I'm almost there now.
Nine hundred years ago on Laugh Tale, Joy Boy proposed to break up the Red Line.
He was like a child, wanting to use himself as the spring of a slingshot, Eve as the slingshot, and Fish-Man Island as the projectile, to shatter the Red Line in one fell swoop and restore the world's ocean currents to the state they were in 30,000 years ago.
Next, he would liberate Zunesha, allowing Zunesha and the Sea King to drag countless islands together and create a new so-called giant continent.
I despise such foolish thinking. No matter how despicable and painful the future may be, we should not turn back the clock of history.
I killed Nika again, but I'm used to it by now, haha.
After that, I began my journey to unify humanity. Obviously, I only succeeded halfway. Human nature is too complex, and the world is too vast, making unification an unimaginable feat.
However, my goal is not just to rule them; what I'm really doing is actually only two things.
One thing: to indulge and push the seas up, while suppressing the Fish-Man- men, until the whole world was submerged.
On the other hand, what if the Fish-Man really become too powerful to control?
Then I'll cut Eve down and see if the world can regain its balance without Eve!