We are done here!

After we absorbed the whole sky island into our rule, we renamed them into Elysium kingdom. The cities can still be named as Shandora, Skypiea and whatever. But the Skypieans and Shandians are both now Elysians.

They can honor their roots, but they have to proclaim themselves as Elysians first, and then they can say they are from the tribe of Shandians/Skypieans.

By making them proclaim themselves as Elysians repeatedly, we are instilling that they are all part of the new kingdom and neither is worth more than the other. Though it was a pain to instill it into them…

…

"So? How do ya like the sights? I'm more used to building underground cities, but this was fun as well!" Durin smiles as he leads us.

My group is walking down the streets in awe of the quickly rebuilding Shandora city, be it stone, wood, clouds or whatever else- it all combined into magnificent architecture under Durins lead.

The other Strawhats are either bargaining for dials, gold, dial machines, weapons etc.

"Durin, there are more dwarves under you who know this stuff, right?" Vivi asks.

"Yes, girly! Thousands, with each committed to their own craft!" Durin smiles proudly.

"Do you think we could hire a few of them to help with Alabasta? I still wish for most of the buildings to stay the same, but one or two cities would be great to have this architecture. You also probably would have better ideas to redo some builds to be better. I heard you are very great with fortresses." Vivi asks with a smiling face.

"Aye! As long as they have free reign in their own place and get supplies, they would work. Pay would be up to them, but I think the best one would be the Freljord milk liquor." Durin shifts his gaze to Braum.

"Hahahaha! Of course! We can trade as well! But I would like to ask for more feed and a big building for all my cows. Agatha isn't as young anymore and would be great if she could take a rest in a warm place." Braum laughs.

"Hold your horses, guys! I still need to fully learn the fixed portal creation. It's not so easy as I need to carve the runes and find items which produce mana to support the portal." I sigh while holding hands with Annie.

Aisa has kept circling around me for the last few days as if she is protecting me from something, while also staying wary of me. Marianne just giggles looking at her.

'Do I want to bother asking what is going on or…? Nah, just leave it.' I decided to save some brainpower and not meddle into kids logic.

"So you are planning to make the portals connect to everywhere?" Mikita asks.

"Can you tell us the places where you will connect to and how do you plan to overlook it?" Janna asks, since she doesn't want too many trouble makers over here. She already has Wyper on her hands, why would she want more?

"For now, I am planning to connect Elysium, Alabasta, Drum kingdom, Middle-earth's Khazad-Dum, Braum's new village in the Freljord and in Hephs place in Orario." I count the places I already want to connect.

"Huh? Why do you want to connect to the Drum kingdom as well?" Mikita is confused, since there is nothing much going on there.

"Well, one of the best doctors in the world is living there. Though she is hard to handle, it never hurts to have someone besides Chopper to take care of something instant healing from Siren, Sona and Janna can't do much about. Plus, even if the people would be hesitant, they would be glad if they can have some development." I explain.

"That's a good choice, daddy. But how do you plan to have this all regulated? Some spies from other factions might want to sneak through and cause chaos." Robin comments.

"Hina is hesitant about that as well. There are still too little enforcers to patrol the cities, even more so for portals like that." Hina agrees.

"Well I was thinking about creating a hub. Down in the lower white sea of Elysium, we can make the Elysians build an island. The portals will all be there connecting to everywhere else. Sona will booby trap the surroundings with her iron cloud strings while some trained elite troops from the Elysians will take care of the security." Lynx

"I'm fine with that, but why in Elysium and down there?" Sona

"Because the portals will be on the island and they will all only allow people and carts to pass through. So if they want to pass over to go to the upper parts of Elysium, they will need to wait for a trade ship that will operate between here and down there. Some more security will be at Heaven's gate to inspect the cargo and documents that we will issue. I also advise that other places have the place constructed away from an easy defendable place." Lynx

"That is a well thought out plan. But what about larger cargos, that would be hard to transport on land? Like building materials or giant caravans. That would slow down the speed and make it overburdened." Heph gives her input.

"Well, you could make special areas for large quantities of cargo. A bunch of inspectors will check it over and when it's over, you will be able to notify me. I will come over at that time and make a portal towards their destination for minimal transportation. I will be able to make big portals soon with the experience share I have with my other mages here." Lynx

"Yes! That ring is so fun! I can now make the meteor fissure just by creating two portals through which I fall continuously until I open it over my target! Hahahaha, shield has come from smashing board into squishing board!" Braum laughs since he also has mana and is playing with the ring.

"... Who did you sploosh?" Conis gives a weird gaze.

"No one! … Yet! Hahahaha!!!" Braum laughs again.

"Bwahaha, if ya need a target come with me to target some elves~ Bwahahaha!!!" Durin starts to laugh with him.

"My lord! Please do something!" Conis gives me a pleading look, since she doesn't wanna see the result of that.

"Just leave them. They are joking and won't go killing mindlessly since they are good guys. At most he will use that move on someone strong, who won't become meat paste from that." I explain with a smirk.

"My lord!!!" Conis looks at me with teary eyes, because she now imagined it.

"But seriously~ You all are calling me so many things by now. Lynx, hubby, daddy, master and my lord~" I grin at the girls playfully.

"You forgot darling~" Vivi hugs my arm and adds playfully.

"Hey! Leave him for the others as well!" Tashigi pouts.

"Hina thinks you are all crazy! ... Is he really that good?" Hina asks sceptically.

"YES!" Was an immediate united answer from the ones who experienced it while the others just pouted.

Hina opens her mouth, but doesn't know what to say.

"No cutting in line! I was with master before you!" Siren proclaims to Hina.

"WHAT?! No! Hina… Didn't plan that at all!!!" Hina is shocked from being automatically considered his, even when there is nothing going on and she hates my guts.

"I won't be tricked!!!" Siren proclaims.

"... Hina gives up on your sanity…" Hina facepalms.

"Anyway, how is the training of the Elysian troops?" I ask Hina, Tashigi and Sona.

"We are beating them into shape. The Skypiean tribe members are more organized and listen to orders more, but the Shandian tribe members are stronger individually, but they are more solo players and are wild. Also, none of the heavenly warriors joined so the power leans more towards the Shandians." Sona explains.

"For now they are getting along well because they fear having 'personal' training with captain Sona." Tashigi explains with a giggle.

I look at Sona and she just grins in return.

'Yea, no one will mess around with this sadist as their punisher.' I chuckle to myself.

"Hina also saw that there are more Skypiean tribe members than the Shandians in the recruitment." Hina sighs and collects herself from Sirens accusations.

"Easy then. Make the Skypiean members more support focused. Maybe have for each Shandian a few Skypieans. The first will be the main fighter while the latter will support him/her. Make their pay the same so there won't be any complaints about discrimination. If the Shandians complain about the pay when they are the main fighters, tell them that they only fight and there aren't many emergencies yet, while the Skypieans do paperwork and other things. If they want more, they should do other things or train and become elites. Those will have a pass between portals to help other areas." Lynx

"Hina agrees. Do you still need Hina for anything or can Hina leave?" Hina asks.

"Hm, so the break is over. Sure, you can go. I still have only one thing to do with Heph." Lynx

"Huh? With me?" Heph tilts her head.

"Of course! You haven't updated my status since I summoned you in Little garden!" Lynx

"... Oh, I totally forgot. You want to level up?" Heph asks.

"If I have maxed out my stats, then yes. If not, then I will grind a bit more." Lynx

"Fine, then let's go somewhere private, so no one can see your status." Heph

…

We arrive at the empty Queen's quarters in Big Jack. It's still empty since we prioritized the construction of the city over this being decked out with furniture besides a bed, table and some chairs.

I lie down on the bed and await for Heph. She comes closer, pricks her finger to draw out blood and starts to write in holy script. Each letter glows on my back until she finishes, then the scriptures start to fuse and move around until the script becomes fixed in other letters but it all looks like it's inked on my back.

"I can translate it, but basically, you reached S-999 in every stat. You want me to level you up?" Heph.

"Yes, level me up." Lynx

She starts to write to raise my level and at that moment something appears.

"You got some development abilities… I don't think even a level 5 adventurer in Orario could do to you anything by now." Heph sighs but still smiles proudly a little.

'I should bring this guy to Orario once. At least Loki will shut up about the sword princess for once.' Heph

"So, which one is it? Or do I have multiple?" Lynx

"You have multiple available, so choose one. Blacksmith, Summoner, Curser, Gigolo and Backstab." Heph

"..." Silence descends to the room from the last three.

"Excuse me… WHAT?! How am I a gigolo?! I don't do it for money! And what do all these even do?!" Lynx

"Blacksmith allows you to add special abilities to your items." Heph

"OI!!! Give me that!!!" Durin yells.

"Summoner allows you to easily interact, borrow and share the abilities between you and your summons. Also makes your summoning abilities stronger." Heph

"Hahahaha! Lynx! You wanna try combining our meteor fissure's? I bet we can make it even more powerful!" Braum laughs excitedly.

"Curser allows you to create and develop curses on your gear easily." Heph

"DON'T PICK THAT! YA WANT TA CREATE A WEAPON FOR WORLD DESTRUCTION FROM THAT BATON?!" Durin screams at me.

"I don't plan to… An the last two?" Lynx

"Gigolo allows you to get a more favorable opinion from girls and have easier time crawling into their hearts and panties. Also makes the women 'feel' more." Heph

The women in the room start to stare at me dangerously.

"Backstab makes your attacks from behind more powerful and make more damage." Heph

"Like the Thousand years of death isn't painful enough!!! Imagine it combined with the backstab!!!" Mikita has a flashback of all the backstabs she has seen and the fates of the receivers.

"... Give me the Summoner development ability. Though I want to upgrade the baton or the Thousand years of death for fun, I want to be known as the Deal demon, not the Ass demon…" I shiver at that nickname.

"Alright… And it's done." Heph nods but also sighs in relief from me not picking the other options besides blacksmith.

A boost of power flows over me from having my stats upgraded from I-0 to S-999 and then also a level up. I try out my body and grin in satisfaction.

"Wow! Can I get stronger like that as well?" Annie looks curious.

"Yea! I wanna have that blacksmith ability!" Durin

"I want to become stronger too!" Aisa

"Me too! I wanna see what I can get!" Annie chuckles.

"Wait wait!" Heph tries to calm down everybody, but then she feels my hand on her shoulders.

"Don't worry, if you have problems with anyone in Orario in the future, just tell us and we will steamroll them~" I say with a smile.

"... Fine! You won't give up no matter what I say!" Heph throws her arms in the air in defeat.

*Heph proceeds to make us all part of her familia and later also includes the rest of the Strawhats that aren't present. But that also marked the time when everyone will start getting trashed by Lynx to build up their endurance on top of training the observation haki he promised. But that's a story for another time~*

…

"Alright, do you have everything ready?" Nami yells over the ship at the shore of Shandora.

"Yes! Food is all stacked!" Sanji

"We have a ton of dials to play with!" Usopp says while he, Durin and Heph are playing around with a pile of dials.

"Gold?" Nami looks at me.

"All saved in Alabasta vaults or on the Maxim." I answer simply.

"Good enough! … Wait?! Maxim?!" Nami looks at me weirdly.

With a smile I send a thought to Janna.

*Brrrrrrrr!! Thump thump thump!!! GRRRRR!!!!*

Grinding sounds out with a small earthquake causing everyone to panic.

"LYYYYYNXXX!!! WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!" Nami screams at me.

"I did nothing, but Janna did."

*FROOOOOOM!!!*

A bit away from the city in the forest a colossal thing bursts out of the ground shocking everyone present.

The giant ship Maxim flies out but this one doesn't have an ugly face, but a ton of birds carved in the front face. On the stern is the floating Janna with multiple lightning arcs flashing around her.

With a wave of her hand, a giant black lightning ball started to form and then shot the concentrated lightning into the air, causing a massive bang.

"..." Everyone is stunned by the spectacle with some exceptions.

Nami having berry signs instead of her eyes because she sees the gold, Luffy, Usopp, Chopper and Buggs are all shiny eyed and then there is someone who is loud.

"YA BASTARD!!! How DARE YA not tell me about a flying mechanical ship?!" Durin grabs my collar and has bloodshot eyes looking at me.

Everyone's gazes focus on him.

"I want such a toy as well!!! The elves would be SOOOOOOOOO jealous!!!" Durin collapses on his knees with tears streaming from his eyes.

"You know that I can portal you there anytime, right?" I ask him stupidly.

"Then throw me up there!!! Nature is calling me!!! And it wants me to fly a giant golden fortress!!!" Durin is jumping all happily.

I stare at him, pick him up and toss him, but not strong enough. As he was about to complain I opened a portal in front of him.

Durin flies through it into the gold wall of the Maxim headfirst.

"You did say for me to throw you on~" I close the portal before he can complain. Turning around, I see the gazes from everyone.

"What? He was overdramatic. I didn't even toss him that hard." I chuckle as I get his cursing over our link.

"Let's just go…" Nami sighs as she facepalms.

Currently on the ship are me, Luffy, Nami, Usopp, Zoro, Sanji, Braum, Mikita, Annie, Heph, Marianne, Chopper, Buggs, Lola, Robin, Lux, Siren, Aisa and Conis with Suu.

The one staying are Sona, Janna, Zala and Durin for researching the ship.

Vivi, Tashigi and Hina will stay here a bit before being unsummoned back to Alabasta.

With Janna's grand firework, we get one last goodbye from the Elysians before we sail off with Pagaya as our guide to cloud end.

Most of us are kinda sad, since this place is really fun, but we had to go.

"This here is Clouds end!" Pagaya

"Alright! So this is where we find our way down, huh?... Do we really have to leave?" Luffy is disappointed.

"I know how you feel. Now that we are finally going down, I sort of hate to leave." Sanji

"Guess, it's a goodbye to this pure white sea too." Zoro

"Well this looks somewhat like heaven in my place so it's kinda boring." Heph comments.

"Sky island was fun. Scary but fun!" Chopper

"You can say that again, doc! That giant ass snake was scary!" Buggs

"Quit your whining! You got to fight people at least!" Lola

"Ah this was a nice vacation, no?" Braum smiles.

"Once we pass through that gate, we take the milky road straight to the blue sea, don't we?" Nami asks.

"I'm just glad we can return easily with Lynx's help!" Luffy smiles.

"It's been great, but this is as far as I go! Take care of yourselves and do help my Conis!" Pagaya wishes us the best while he looks kinda lonely at Conis.

"Goodbye dad! Lynx will bring me occasionally to see you!" Conis waves her hand.

"Take care Pagaya!" Lynx

"Take care, bushy beard!" Annie

"Now, hurry up and push up your sail and hold on the ship tight!" Pagaya runs with us.

"Do as the man says! Looks like we will be very fast!" Usopp

"We are 8 kilometers uo, so it's gotta be a steep slope!! Hurry!!" Nami

Conis tries to say something, but I smile and cover her mouth with a grin making the 'stay silent' gesture.

"Okay captain. Our course to the next island is set!" Nami

"Yeah, that's right! Once we get down from here, another adventure will start!!! Then let's go home to the blue sea!!!" Luffy yells.

"YEAAAAH!!!" Everyone joins the yell.

"Everyone be careful during the drop!" Pagaya

"Drop?" Everyone

The ship sails off the cloud and stays midair for a moment. It's a moment I spawned blue eldritch chains to bind everyone to the ship.

"Shit…" Nami can only say this word before we drop.

"Heso!" Pagaya greets as we drop down.

Conis takes out a flute and blows it. After it a giant octopus jumps out of the cloud grabbing onto the Merry and bloating up into a balloon, to slow our descent.

*CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!!!*

The bell of Shandora rings as a farewell to us, showing the Elysians appreciation of what we have done. Everyone has relaxed from the scare and is enjoying the ringing.

"Hmm, I think it sounded better the time I used Enel to ring it…" I have a thoughtful expression.

"DON'T RUIN THE MOMENT!!!" Nami yells at me.