After relaxing for a little bit, he took flight once more, he went to the city to send a message to his queens.
After returning and finding a messenger, he wrote them a letter.
'Don't worry about me, I will spend the night on this side and will return soon, I want to explore the surroundings a bit better.'
He then found a place to have dinner and sleep for the night. The next morning he got up early and quickly took flights once more. This time instead of watching the flora and the fauna he wanted to explore the surrounding themselves.
He started flying over the lakes and mountains, drawing a rough sketch of the area, seen from above. He flew for a while to check if they were on an island or a continent, the result was that he couldn't find the edge of the place, so he assumed they were on a continent, and a big one at that.
He documented several mountains, volcanoes, lakes, rivers and other large landmarks that could be used as references for traveling in the future. One thing What surprised him was that he saw something swimming in the magma in some of the volcanoes. He made a special note warning people of what he saw.
After that he returned to the city and went to talk to the city representative.
"I took this morning to document the surrounding areas, you can have it, so it's easier to find your way somewhere in case you need a way to locate yourself, when exploring the surrounding areas."
The representative eyes showed a strange emotion, they did indeed sometimes need to find the way back home, when they went off and got slightly lost… But that was before the lunarians had come, now if they got lost the lunarians would help. But this would help in the long run so they wouldn't need to call for help so often, but if it could have arrived a bit earlier it would be nice. But he was still grateful.
"Thank you, your majesty."
Ars smiled and apologized.
"I know it's a bit late, I just realized it but it can still help."
The representative nodded but replied calmly.
"I know and we all know, so your majesty doesn't need to worry."
Ars nodded and left back to his queens.
When he arrived he was surprised by Kuina, who was waiting for him in his office, he smiled and joked a bit.
"You missed me so much you waited here for my return? I understand, I am indeed that amazing!"
She laughed a bit and joked back.
"Indeed, I couldn't handle the long separation any longer."
She raised the back of her hand to her forehead, then faked being light headed and dropped on Ars' arms and gave him a kiss.
He smiled and added.
"We could move this to the bedroom if you want."
She smiled but shook her head, and finally explained the reason for her presence in his office.
"Sorry but we have actual business to talk about."
He put on an inquisitive look and replied.
"Did something important happen!?"
She shook her head and finally clarified the reason.
"Kina accumulated enough points to buy whatever she wants, and she wants to talk with you…"
Ars was a bit confused and asked bewildered.
"And why is that a problem!? Pretty sure Fierzy has the points ready for a while!"
Kuina shook her head and made an unexpected request.
"Can you speak with her mother first, she has something to ask you."
Ars nodded and promised her.
"I will, I promise, don't worry."
Ars got to his desk and started working on the documents, and after he was done he requested for one of the maids.
"Can you call a maid to deliver a message?"
The maid that was there nodded, left and in a few seconds came back with a younger maid.
The younger one quickly arrived and declared.
"You majesty, I hear I was called to deliver a mensage!"
The older maid corrected her.
"That's incorrect… You should say, Your Majesty, I hear you need me to complete a task, or something like that."
The young maid nodded understandingly and Ars nodded at her and gave her the letter, then said.
"Deliver it to madam Logi!"
She quickly left, and a few minutes after, Logi arrived, and quickly said.
"Thank you for granting me this audience, your majesty!"
Ars rolled his eyes and answered.
"You know you don't need to make such a request, you could have just come to talk with me directly, and you also don't need all this politeness… Anyway, Kuina said you wanted to speak with me. What do you need?"
She smiled a bit awkwardly and replied a bit embarrassed.
"I don't know how to say this…"
Ars sighed and before she could continue.
"Then don't say it. Nobody is forcing you."
She cleared her throat and started explaining.
"First i would like to know if it's possible that your majesty can recreate bodies?"
Ars shook his head and replied calmly.
"I don't think so."
She nodded a bit sad, then asked again, hopeful.
"Then it's possible to revert a body to a state previous to a certain damage?"
Ars finally realized what she wanted and asked directly.
"You want to undo that day… Right?"
She lowered her head but nodded.
He smiled but shattered her hope, as he explained what he could do.
"Sorry but, I don't think I can do that, I can modify her body to increase potential or even have special abilities but… I don't think I can do that, and if I can I still haven't discovered how…"
She nodded, she understood, then she tried to justify her request.
"I know that with the medicine in this kingdom, she doesn't have any remaining physical reminders but her mental reminder is there and probably will be there forever… I simply wanted…"
Ars interrupted her.
"I know, you don't need to explain, I think anyone who knows about that day will understand without any explanation… But why now?"
She sighed and explained.
"You know how everyone normally goes for the potential upgrade?"
Ars nodded, then she continued.
"We suggested it to her and her answer… was… I want something combat oriented, I don't think that I should have children, after all… She stopped there but everyone knew what she was talking about… So I was trying to help her…"
Ars nodded and replied.
"I understand, but I don't think her problem is physical… Until she accepts that she is perfectly fine and a bad day does not define us, there is little we can do to help her… I just hope she realizes it sooner than later."
Ars cleared his throat and rerouted the conversation.
"And your other children are doing fine?"
She smiled and nodded, then she said.
"They are in school right now, they mainly forgot about that day but sometimes they still have nightmares."
I nodded and she got up, then said.
"Thank you, your majesty, for making time for me."
Ars smiled politely and replied.
"It was my pleasure."
She left and I invited her daughter now.
Kina didn't take long to arrive, once she arrived, we started talking immediately about what she wanted from the points. Ars looked at her and started explaining what kind of powers she could choose.
"Well, to start with you can have a mixture of elemental abilities and an animal transformation, and maybe something else. Right now, you can choose mainly between fire and ice, almost any animal you can think of and some strange abilities I will recommend based on your choices."
She nodded and replied.
"I already knew of the animal transformations, so I already thought of one… A jaguar. The elemental ability I don't know, I would prefer if you suggest what you think it's better, but i think for now I would prefer ice, and then accumulate more points and get thunder and wind if possible so i could create storms, like your majesty can do… Maybe some other elements too… But haven't thought about them yet…"
Ars nodded and stated what kind of extra ability would fit into those choices. Then he started.
"To start with you can use the ability to gigantify, which is always good to increase your size and strength. Another I can recommend and fits your preferences is the ability to create super sharp air projectiles. And I think ice is perfectly fine."
She thought about it and replied quickly.
"I would prefer the gigantification ability."
I nodded and started to prepare, it didn't take long to confirm her choices on the machine, and then bring her into his laboratory.
The first thing he did was give her a confidentiality agreement, that guaranteed that she didn't talk about what she saw. He thought about using the second one with the injections but even for just one ability she would be screaming on the floor for a good few hours, with 3 it was pretty much a dead sentence considering there wasn't a machine to make sure you survived.
Ars exited the laboratory and went back to train. The next few days were peaceful, Ars increased the difficulty of his training a bit more, spent time working on documents and small amounts of revenue, because of the previously huge increase in people, right now he could only afford to pay for 4 months with all the money. This was even with the sales from the ships, and more bounties being collected. And he didn't have all the money in the safe, so he needed a good big sale or to collect a big bounty, to expand his financial freedom.
Ars started thinking about it seriously, and decided that the best way might be a big bounty, yeah they would probably sell the 3 ships worth of wine at a premium price, considering how good it was, but even then, at most they would get between 100 million berries and 150 million. It would definitely help but it was still too close for comfort. Maybe in a few years, the accumulated amount from the sales would be enough, but for now it wouldn't be.
So he started looking at bounties in the new world, bounties large enough, but that didn't belong to any of the emperor crews… And such pirates were quite rare. So he started researching.
After a few hours of research he got 3 candidates.
The Mercury pirates, with a total bounty of 1.2 billion berries, and a captain worth 350 million berries. They were quite destructive and arrived at the new world almost a year ago and didn't join any party.
The great chain pirates, with a total bounty of 700 million berries, and a captain worth 180 million berries. They were clearly associated with slavers and Doflamingo.
And finally the super super handsome pirates, with a total bounty of 1.8 billion berries, and a captain worth 250 million berries. And unlike the name of the crew, they weren't either handsome inside or outside, they committed crimes non stop, and most of the bounty was literally from their cruelty, and little to do with their strength. The handsome part was due to the captain's obsession with the word.
Ars was inclined to get the last group, with the first group as a backup plan, he was a bit inclined to leave the great chain pirates alone for now because he didn't know if Kaido would help Doflamingo, if he didn't. They were mainly easy prey, if he did things might get complicated. There was also the second reason, the low bounty… If he got them all at most he would receive 700 million, which was a lot but compared to the other two, it came short.
Ars if given the choice wanted them all, but one would suffice, with two being ideal.
He started preparing himself for the hunting trip. While he was preparing himself, Mina, Otojoō, Gluppy and Pecillia approached him.
Otojoō quickly questioned him to confirm his trip, which obviously was the reason for them to be here.
"Your majesty, I heard you are going to the new world?"
Ars nodded and she continued.
"In that case, can we take a ride to Sabaody? I am not sure if your majesty was intending on going there, but all of us would like to go, and since it isn't too far we thought your majesty wouldn't mind helping."
Ars thought about it and saw no problem with it, so he nodded, and they all left excitedly, making their own plans for the trip.
Ars was doing his last preparations for take off tomorrow. The last thing he needed to do was to talk with the queens and Rook.
He quickly went to Rook and told him directly.
"I will be going after a large bounty to get more money for the kingdom, if something happens while I'm not here, work with Kuina to hang on until I return."
He nodded, and Ars left, deciding he would tell his queens during dinner, so he could tell them all together.