Ten years.
The seas had gone mad, and the Sky Islands had descended into frenzy once more.
A new order was taking shape. Many people pursued and searched for things that seemed illusory. In a world dominated by technology, everyone knew that even Devil Fruits were, at their core, Lineage Factors-something technology could alter.
Yet more than twenty years ago, before his execution, Roger had told everyone.
God existed in this world, and the City of Heaven, once found only in legends, was real too.
Anyone who reached it could have everything they wanted.
It sounded just like a story children heard on the street.
Did God exist in this world?
And a God who could easily change this world, at that? It was simply too incredible.
Where was God?
According to legend, more than thirty years ago...
The world had once faced destruction. God had saved it and built a City of Heaven using the Holy Land and the Heaven-Reaching Tree.
That was the origin of Devil Fruits, the essence of technology, the beginning that had allowed this world to keep functioning until now.
But God had vanished overnight, and almost no one knew anything about that great battle.
It was as though knowing would destroy the world, so everything about God, and even the beginning of that God War, had become obscure.
Those who had been children more than thirty years ago were now in their forties, let alone the elders who had lived through the disaster. They were now in their twilight years.
And when speaking of the past, what they said most often was that God had saved everyone, sheltering them in an Alternate Space.
It had been as warm as spring there, with room for every living thing in the world. Even a world-destroying catastrophe