The Tree of Knowledge.
An ancient tree, beneath which humans from different eras had once emerged, trying time and again to decipher the answers of the past.
They sought the truth, yet every time they found the truth of history, they would draw close to collapse.
This, too, was one of the Divine Trees.
And after the failure of the Three Ancient Weapons and the collapse of civilization, humanity had chosen the most extreme approach.
Control the tides!
Since they could not freeze the seawater in place or defeat every wave at will, they would control the ocean currents instead.
The appearance of the moon had also made everything that followed fall naturally into place.
The ancient Giants worshipped the sun because, in their time, the arrival of disaster meant eternal night, while the Skypieans lived in the sky yet passed down legends that their ultimate homeland was the moon, because that was where their ancestors had chosen to survive in the end.
The Mink Tribe was affected by the moon, while the Fish-Man Race also needed moonlight and sunlight.
All of this had originated in attempts to imitate and harness the sun's light, to control the sea, and to try to create another home.
Time flew by, and the human world had undergone far too many cycles of destruction and rebuilding.
Those ancient ruins clearly appeared in the same places, yet fewer and fewer people could decipher them.
The stone structures near Fish-Man Island, the stone temple buried in Alabasta.
Who could know exactly when they had been destroyed?
Most of the time, this world was gentle enough, but the terrifying thing was that its rare moments of anger could destroy everything.
"Eight hundred years ago was nothing. The real change happened nine hundred years ago."
"The plan to