Ars looked at Julio, and allowed him to start.
"You can go ahead and explain what you found."
Julio nodded and spread the map across the central table, on it one could see a lot of new places across the island, where descriptions and information of the zone could be seen.
Julio then started introducing what he found.
"To start with, I would like to apologize again for entering his majesty's home without permission, that was rude of me."
Then he looked at Ars, who responded calmly.
"It's fine this time, just don't do it again."
Hearing that Julio started introducing what he found.
"To start I will present my findings from closest to the furthest away."
He then pointed at the closest location he discovered on the map and continued.
"Here I found vast amounts of clay deposits, from what I saw, I believe it is possible to almost build an entire city with that amount, maybe even more if I didn't find everything."
Ars, nodded having that much clay would be very useful, even if they didn't use it for buildings in general, the possibility of getting several different types of items made in kilns or ceramic ovens was always a good option to have, for example for food storage and decorative pieces, in short they would be able to create ceramic products and sell them inside the kingdom and outside the kingdom.
Then Julio pointed at a new location and continued.
"A little further away, near the mountains, I found heavy amounts of metals on the surface, probably a lot of deposits there too, not just one kind but several different ones, and close to it a very large stone quarry."
Ars was starting to think that in the past the creators of the machines had created this island artificially, for the future inheritor, everything was too convenient on this island, he also knew that there was once some sort of constructions on this island thanks to the small clues remaining like the flat rock ground they found in the past, not too far away from the dome.
Julio's next words mainly confirmed his suspicions.
"And at last, on the far north of the island, large amounts of fruit trees and other sort of plant type foods can be found, there is also some fungus spread here and there and finally there's also some wild animals that could be possible to domesticate."
While Ars couldn't be sure this island was man made with 100% certainty, he was 99% convinced that was the case.
It was not like he didn't know of the absurd machines on the island, and considering all these small conveniences that seemed to be the case. He thought about it, and realized that those ancient people, hundreds of years ago, probably created the island first using GAIA, before transporting and hiding all these machines here.
Julio on the other hand was quite excited, so he commented.
"It's almost like this island exists with the sole purpose of building your majesty kingdom. Besides those places there are a lot of places that can be used for building across the island. There might be more resources that I still haven't found, so I will keep exploring for now if his majesty allows it!"
Ars nodded and said with a warm smile.
"Keep up the good work but don't get yourself in danger."
Julio nodded and left with a smile on his face.
More time passed and now the beginning of canon events were only 5 years away.
Not much had happened during this time, other than training the only events that were worth mentioning was Ars birthday, that was only discovered by Lily when she asked about it.
She asked him about it, during her birthday. The reason why she asked was quite simple, in her head more birthdays meant more birthday cake.
She discovered her birthday was close to his, Ars birthday was only a few weeks before hers, when everyone discovered this they made a scene, saying that as a king his birthday was important for everyone, even if it was only to create a day to make a festival.
Ars accepted their requests, the next year they would make a festival for his birthday.
Besides the birthdays, the other event that was worth mentioning was the birth of Koral's child. Koral named the little girl Moannee Osola, for the next few days Nene went everywhere beaming with happiness, when she saw Rook she would admonish him about not even having an official partner.
She knew Rosar liked him but he was oblivious to it, so she was trying to push them together, Rook and his father only laughed it off for different reasons.
Maon laughed at his wife's serious face, while understanding her intentions, Rook laughed it off because he didn't want to discuss his life with his mother.
After giving birth, a few days later she joyfully consumed her akuma no mi and Ars asked her for a blood drop.
She didn't mind and gave one right away, she also explained how her akuma no mi worked.
At the start she could only create 3 types of potion, injuries healing type, poison type and disease healing type.
To add more she needed to use the ingredients that she knew off, for example if she wanted make a poison based on poison mushrooms, she needed to know what were the mushrooms she needed to make the intended poison, then she would close her eyes and then she could see a huge amount of ingredients, or at least, images of those ingredients, then find the necessary ingredients in there, and then use them to prepare the medicine in her mind, she even could adjust the ratio of ingredients.
When done there would be a new potion added to her potions list.
According to her, after consuming the fruit, she got knowledge of how to create all potions that were created in this world until now, and she could see all the ingredients that existed in the world.
It would take a while but, in the future she would have most of the potions ready to create with just a thought in exchange for some stamina. And most surprisingly it was a logia.
After a lot of training, Ars could now control his transformations to the same degree of a normal zoan user could at the start, and the rest of his abilities mastery also went up enough to use them properly without incidents.
Ars had also read most of the martial arts books and was now working on learning new techniques and creating a few new ones too.
One other thing he achieved from training was, now he could pull the ship around the entire island with little difficulties, and now he was starting to increase the suit restraint level one more and keeping this training up.
Ars speculated that by next year, if things went on like this he would reach around the same level of physical strength as an admiral.
Ars also knew that his new world was basically done, but he decided to wait a bit longer until he had more people in his current kingdom, to start building the rest of his kingdom there.
Today the revolutionary that had come to deliver the martial manuals and requested to buy a new ship, came back with the materials, apparently he had been delayed by his duties.
When he arrived Tom came to inform Ars about it, then along with Oak and a group of men, they started working on the ship straight away.
Ars was thinking that it was time to expand the amount of people living on his kingdom, with the food production and the food gotten from the food area that Julio had found, they now had surplus of food, and it was the ideal time to expand, he talked with Nene, and his closest city members and they all agreed.
Ars decided this time he would go. He talked with Rook.
"This time I will go get new citizens, I will leave you in charge of the defense of the kingdom. And can you gather a group of sailors to come with me on the trip."
Rook replied seriously.
"Understood your majesty, I will not disappoint. And I will get the soldiers ready as fast as possible. "
Ars nodded and went to find Elia, when he met her she was cleaning his house along with her sisters, she noticed him and asked.
"Your majesty, do you need something from us?"
He nodded and commented.
"You know, you don't need to call me your majesty, after all you are already recognized by everyone, as one of the future queens."
He then with a warm smile explained his purpose.
"I'm here to inform you of my incoming trip to acquire new citizens, while I'm gone you will be acting as the queen, and will be responsible for solving the kingdom's necessities."
She was going to interrupt but he stopped her with a finger on her lips.
"Don't worry, I left everything in order and normally there isn't too much to do for now. If something you can't solve happens, you can await my return, and I will solve it then. If it is an emergency you can ask for help from who you think would be your best help in that situation."
She agreed very reluctantly, then he looked at the other 2 and said calmly.
"One of you will come along for the trip, choose between yourselves and get ready to depart, await the rest of the people going by dock 1."
They nodded and said excitedly.
"Yes your majesty!"
Ars then went towards the medical center to request a medical assistant to come along on the trip.
When he arrived Koral was playing with her daughter, giggling like a little girl, along with the grandparents.
He laughed and Koral smiled back, on the other hand her parents went red, feeling like they had been caught in an embarrassing situation.
Ars then joked lightly with Koral.
"I know you need extra help but I'm gonna kidnap one of your medical assistants, for this next trip I hope you don't mind. And please, even if you giggle like a little girl don't act like one while I'm gone."
Koral laughed and joked back.
"Ho no what will i do, the horrors… But you're free to take them from the childish me, save them from me. You can be sure I'm sure complaining to my dad about you calling me a little girl…You big bully…"
Ars and Koral looked at each other and laughed, finally he left with a smile on his face after looking at her parents' faces, who were very embarrassed.
Ars went to prepare for the trip himself, and half an hour later he went to wait for the rest of the people who would accompany him by dock 1.
Another half hour later, everyone started arriving and boarding the ship, they departed towards a troubled kingdom, on the way to that kingdom they sought pirates to hunt. They didn't find many but they managed to find 1 pirate crew.
The pirate captain kept boasting about his bounty of 7.000.000 berries trying to intimidate Ars, before the fight started, but once it did, it was over almost as fast.
Ars was undecided if they were lucky they found someone with a bounty or unlucky they only found one with such a low bounty.
He also started thinking if the pirates they had killed before had bounties.
He looked at one of the soldiers and said.
"When we arrive at the kingdom, you will go to the marine base to exchange the bounty. You can take 3 other soldiers with you, just to avoid problems."
The soldier nodded and saluted.
"Yes Sir!!"
Then both Ars and the soldier went back to do what they were doing before.