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After speaking, the True Creator looked at the Outer Deity, who had not changed at all since a day earlier, and asked:
"Where have you been all this time?"
"I wandered around here a few times. I didn't disturb your interactions with your believers, and just came to take a look at this Old Earth City."
Edward spoke lightly, his gaze sweeping over the old, faded remains of the city below. The perfectly preserved buildings were as exquisite as delicate models, like the ruins of a civilization within his own Kingdom of God, stirring an urge in him.
Like a collector who had spotted his favorite kind of artifact, this sole remaining Old Earth City, preserved as completely as possible while fully displaying the erosion of time, was the perfect souvenir.
"Don't even think about it." The True Creator saw through the Outer Deity's thoughts.
"Then you shouldn't have made such a mess when you fought back then."
Edward reluctantly turned his gaze away from the Old Earth City, unable to keep himself from muttering, "Your Earth has precious few things left from the past. This is the best-preserved part from before the destruction. For anything else, I'd have to dig around on the seabed."
"The seabed." The True Creator frowned slightly. "Those drilling platforms..."
"They're called the 'Deep Sea Giant Wells' in maritime legends," Edward teased. "Plenty of pirates have seen them, but they say there's some inexplicable attraction within them, so some people believe there might be Beyonder Items hidden in the wells."
The True Creator snorted. He turned and walked along the top of the rift toward the far end of the Old Earth City.
"Isn't what's inside them just the Chaos Sea?"
"A sefirah that occupies the Earth's core and contaminates petroleum. It clearly symbolizes