A few hours after Zaydas arrived, he noticed some differehis world was more like a typical isekai world, with even two moons instead of one.
There were other things as well, like a rge castle in the distah a nearby civilization. And that wasn't all—there seemed to be an isnd in the sky farther away and another civilization in the distance.
Mier, he returned under Hiraku's surprised gaze, seeing him fly.
But before Hiraku could speak, something happened.
"Woof! Woof!"
The sound of a sharp bark echoed.
'Wolves?'
"Let's go check it out," Zaydas took the lead.
"Sure," Hiraku agreed, following him.
When they got there, they saolves with dark blue fur, light gray details on their ears, and striking red eyes. The two wolves appeared to be injured, given their ragged state.
Zaydas reized them. They were exactly the wolves he remembered seeing at the very beginning of the manga.
Zaydas let Hiraku take charge.
Hiraku noticed this, and with a hoe in hand, he lowered the wooden tool to make way, gesturing with his hand while croug, saying, "e here."
The two wolves obeyed, entering cautiously while seeming fearful as they g Zaydas.
Hiraku brought them to where a rge bear was.
"You eat if you're hungry," Hiraku said generously.
Starving, the two wolves devoured the meat of the massive bear that weighed over a ton.
"Whoa!" Hiraku excimed, stunned. "You two ate all that meat!?"
The male wolf seemed to look at him smugly.
However, he stopped looking at Hiraku when the female wolf started whimpering in pain.
"She's going into bor," Zaydas said.
Suddenly, the female wolf began showing signs of disfort as she was about to give birth to her wolf pups.
"What do you think we should do, Zaydas-san?" Hiraku asked him.
"If possible, let her stay in a sheltered pce so she give birth," Zaydas replied.
"Wolf, not dog?"
"That's your question?" Zaydas pointed out. "And aren't they obviously wolves?"
"To me, they look like dogs..." Hiraku murmured.
"Okay, that's not important right now," Zaydas said.
"Yes, you're right," Hiraku agreed. "About a pce... I made a ste room earlier that I haven't used yet. I let them stay there for now."
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Later, with Hiraku's permission, Zaydas built a simple wooden house for himself.
He even sidered making something more plex but gave up. Not only was it troublesome, but it was also unnecessary.
There was also the option of using CP to create a house, but... Spending something like this was unnecessary. Although he wouldn't regret it, he wasn't about to do something like use CP to create ay in another dimension.
He just wao avoid a troublesome process, but... that was all. As a Devil, it wouldn't be difficult to infiltrate and fe a new record for himself.
"Are you sure you don't want to make it bigger?" Hiraku asked, Zaydas' simple house, a single room measuring 3 by 4 meters.
Despite thinking it was well-built, even using a cy roof created with magic—or perhaps because of that—Hiraku helped, suggesting that more effort could be put into making something rger.
"Yes, I'm fih this for now," Zaydas replied. "If necessary, I always expand it ter."
Hiraku nodded after thinking for a moment. "True."
Ihe only piece of furniture was an improvised wooden bed with a straw mattress.
'I'll try t a mattress from my dimension ter...'
While toug the straw mattress, Zaydas couldn't help but decide he didn't want to tih something like this for long.
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The m, Zaydas woke up early.
When he passed by the small shelter where the wolves were staying, he took a look.
"They were born..." he murmured softly.
The male wolf looked at him cautiously.
Seeing this, he chuckled a little without giving it much thought.
"There's o be afraid; I won't harm you," Zaydas said, aware that the wolf could uand him.
"Woof (thank you)."
Zaydas simply nodded gently a shortly after.
Using telekinesis, Zaydas made a tomato float toward him.
Transf demonic power into water, he washed the tomato before taking a bite. Right after, he began floating slowly, without needing to use his wings.
Throwing the remains of the tomato into his mouth, he began desding toward a stream he had spotted a short distao the west.
'So, Hiraku-san will build an aqueduct from this stream.'
It was a siderable distahinking about it, a smile curved Zaydas' lips.
Landing by the edge of the ke, he used his power of destru to create a shield resembling a thin turtle shell. But he didn't stop there. Using Cryokinesis, he added a thick yer of ice around the thin yer of destructive energy.
At first, the ice barely withstood tact with the destructive power, disiing ihan a sed.
However, after tless attempts and errors, Zaydas mao create a thick yer of iear absolute zero.
The cost, however, was high: it ed his demonic power at a colossal rate.
Finally, he succeeded in making the ice shield, enclosing the thin yer of destructive energy, st for one minute.
The ice's resistance wasn't an issue; on the trary, it brought a surprisingly useful side effect.
The lohe destructive power was tained within the ice barrier, the more devastating it became when released.
Upon esg, the energy annihited everything around it, leaving craters in the ground aroying nearby trees.
During o, Zaydas collided the shield against a stone weighing at least half a ton, precisely when the ice was about to give way.
The result was astounding: the stone was obliterated to the point where it seemed as if it had never existed.
'That result was ued,' Zaydas thought as a smile appeared on his face. 'Let's call this: Ice Shield of Annihition.'
Satisfied with the result, which exceeded his expectations, he tinued creating more "Ice Shields of Annihition." Sooing oouch the ground, he began walkiward, using the shield to push the sand in front of him.
Before the shield reached its limit, Zaydas heard nearby rustling, followed by a powerful roar that echoed through the forest.
Beyond the tall trees, a colossal bear emerged, rising on its hind legs.
With an imposing presehe creature had dark brown fur, a white band around its neck, and a light brown mahat extended from the top of its head. Around its mouth, the fur was also a lighter shade.
"ROARR!!"
Its glowing red eyes shoh iy as it dispyed a row of sharp teeth, keeping its mouth wide open in a fierce roar.
"How iing... Bear, do you wish to challenge me?" Zaydas asked, wearing a calm smile.
However, no matter how gentle Zaydas appeared, the moment the giant bear looked into his eyes, all its savagery and aggression faded.
Dropping to all fours, the giant bear became so docile that it didn't even dare to make any sudden movements.
For the bear, that gaze caused immeasurable fear...
Under Zaydas' watchful eyes, the giant bear begareating, knog down a few trees in the process.
O realized Zaydas had lost i in it, the giaurned and fled!
...
Simir ses tio occur with other wild animals, but they fled with just one look.
'These animals' instincts aren't bad...'
Zaydas tiraining and w on the aqueduct.
Six hours ter...
"Crack!"
"Boom!"
At the sound of an explosion resembling a grehe impact created a 3-meter-deep crater.
Zaydas, who had stepped back before being affected by the impact, thought: '2 minutes and 18 seds is my record time.'
To make things more iing, he started aiming to break his own record while creating the Ice Shield of Annihition.
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Hiraku woke up and saw that the wolf pups had been born.
He thought Zaydas was still asleep and didn't wake him while tending to his crops.
However, after two hours had passed and Zaydas still hadn't shown up, Hiraku began to worry.
'He's probably just oversleeping,' he thought.
"Oh, you're awake."
Suddenly, Zaydas' voice came from outside the walls made of tree trunks—or, more precisely, from the sky.
When Hiraku saw him, he spoke enviously upon seeing him fly: "Good m, Zaydas-san."
"Mm, good m," Zaydas said. "By the way, I found a stream nearby and started making a water route in this dire."
"Really?" Hiraku was obviously pleased. Rolling up his sleeves, he said, "I'll help!"
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12 days ter...
The wolf pups had grown to the point where they no longer o be nursed.
In these few days, Zaydas had been training while w on the aqueduct.
While he focused oing the route, Hiraku took charge of adjusting the terrain to improve water flow.
Zaydas didn't mind allowing the water to run as he worked, but Hiraku thought it was better to block the water entry until the aqueduct was plete.
"We're almost there," Zaydas said.
In just a few days, he mao expand the creation of the Ice Shield of Annihition to 35 length and 25 width, making it st 5 minutes before the power of destru shattered the id everything around it.
Precisely because of this, Hiraku had to stay at the back, w on improving the aqueduct; otherwise, he would be affected.
A few seds ter, Zaydas, who had created a new shield, noticed rustling in the bushes, and suddenly a hopping rabbit appeared.
Looking at the rabbit with disproportionately rge teeth, Zaydas formed a shard of i the air with his free hand and hurled it toward the white rabbit.
"Bang!"
With a simple shot, even though the shard of ice wasn't rge, it pierced the rabbit's chest, causing instah.
The worst part, perhaps, was the rabbit beginning to transform into a block of ice.
Creating a magic circle with his hand, Zaydas opened his personal dimensional space. He quickly pced the rabbit inside, closing the space afterward.
"That impresses me no matter how many times I see it," Hiraku ented.
Turning to him, Zaydas said, "Yifts aren't bad either. They're quite useful, especially for survival."
"Yes, thanks to them, I've been able to survive for so long," Hiraku agreed.
Although he had no magical power, he made up for it with the special abilities he possessed: [All-Purpose Farming Tool] and [Healthy Body].
Thanks to those two, what should have taken months was being pleted in days.
Of course, if Zaydas weren't simply using this as part of his training, it would've been even faster.
Speaking of Hiraku's special abilities, Zaydas observed the process to replicate them but noticed something. As he gained uanding and his friendship with Hiraku grew, the ce to replicate also increased. Before, it was less than a 50% ce to replicate, but now it had risen to nearly 70%.
However, the cost to replicate was at least 3,500 CP for the Healthy Body and 10,000 for the All-Purpose Farming Tool. Because of this, he didn't want to attempt replig them for now.
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The aqueduct was pleted.
After a long 13 days of work, it was done.
Thanks to this, both his trol over Cryokinesis improved and strengthened, and his mastery of the Power of Destru became more natural.
His biggest problem before when using the Power of Destru was his ck of trol. Something so destructive is difficult to manage and shape.
It ractically two birds with oone.
"Hey, Hiraku-san," Zaydas said as he turo him, "Now that this is done, I'll be leaving for a while."
"I uand," Hiraku said, then asked, "But you will e back, right?"
After spending several days together, Hiraku had bee somewhat reliant on Zaydas as a friend. Having someoo help him and talk to was better than living alone in this forest...
Well, not pletely aloill had the wolves, but it wasn't the same, you know?
"I'll return, but I'll be gone for at least 15 days, at most a month," Zaydas replied.
"I uand." Hiraku was a simple guy and adapted quickly. It's no wonder he had mao live alone in this forest for so long.
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