It been 2 hours since he woke up in this world, that Zack believes to be Fairy Tail itself.
The boy looked at the sun in the sky. By using his knowledge of the 'common sense' by God. He can tell there least between eight or ten hours before the sun begins to settle down.
Zack has no clue, if this is enough time to look for a shelter, and a source of water.
Even so, with wild eatable plants and mushrooms in his arms, Zack wondered within the forest, reading the information God given to him, as he begins to unknowingly hum to himself, as he clearly enjoying himself.
But this humming was soon halted, especially when his eyes noticed something blue, a different shade then blue than the sky above him.
Then it hit him, this must be the water source, or lake in this case, that 'common sense' told him about, the mass of water that he needs to survive.
This brought a bright smile on his lips, as his green eyes flash with excitement, and almost even dropping the 'food' he found, as he begins to run to the lake.
When Zack came to the lake, he was taken back how beautiful it looked, as the sun reflected on the lake, showing many different colours. Of course, he soon snapped out of his state, as he begins to look for a good flat place to camp.
But to his shock, there was some wooden thing near the lake itself, a thing that known as a hut, that the current Zack wouldn't knew of such a term.
The hut looked old, like it been built many years ago, and there also a garden next to the hut, but the overgrown plant life, shows how ruined the garden became.
But lucky for Zack, in his 'common sense', there are information about to grow plants, forage from the wildlife, mending the garden was something he could do, and create another food source for himself.
This brought a smile to the young clueless body, as he walked into the hut.
The hut itself is empty, besides the bed that looked old, and the table and chair. There also a bookshelf but emptied at that.
And seeing the dust here and there, tells how long ago, when someone else claimed this wooden shelter as their own.
Of course, the clueless Zack has no such insight, he wiped the dust from the table with his elbow, before placing all of the 'food' he has foraged from the forest onto the table. Then he did, he noticed besides the table, and the bed itself, lies a flask.
Zack looked at the flask, that also seems to be in his 'common sense', with this single item his chances of survival in this forest has increased severalfold.
Humming something he doesn't understand even to himself. Zack grabbed the flask and begin to walked outside.
The moment he came outside the hut, he placed the flask next to the lake, leaving it, before he returned back to the flask and lake for some reason with dry stones, as he piled them few meters away from the lake.
And once again he disappeared and returned with an arm full of branches. Only to begin to pile the branches into a pile as well but also leaving few aside for some reason.
"What is next… right, dig a hole least 2 feet deep? Do I have to use my hands?" Zack went, clearly reading something within the 'common sense' by God.
As what that is, it is unclear, but all of his actions have a purpose so far.
He looked at the ground, away from the pile of branches, also few meters away from the lake, and nodded to himself, looking at the spot between 2m between the branches and the lake.
Zack places his hand onto the surface of the ground before he closes his eyes, when a idea floated inside his mind.
Focusing on the pitiful amount of Magic Power within him. Zack for the first time in this world, and in his life, used Magic, he used the Magic given by God, the Magic that altered from the Devil Fruit that can destroy even worlds.
He activated his unique Magic, Quake-Quake Magic, and when he did, becoming capable of controlling vibrations themselves, he grabbed a hold of the ground under his hand.
When he did, the ground begin to vibrate, the lake even slightly moved, shivering ever so slightly. And just as the ground and the lake vibrated so slightly, blue like lighting cracks appeared on the ground under Zack's hand.
From the moment the blue cracks appeared, the ground ripped apart, shattered and crushed under a vibrating force, that shattered anything under his hand.
(AN: Whitebeard use of Gekishin/Severe Earthquake, but on a very smaller level. It will be called by something else in this fanfic, since MC wouldn't know who Whitebeard is.)
Before Zack could understand or see what he has done.
Zack fell to his knees, heavily tried, due to the result of draining all of his pitiful Magic Power reserve.
Of course, it wasn't just his Magic Power, but even his masterly of both his Magic Power and Quake-Quake Magic also as poorly as his pitiful amount of Magic Power, also played a part why Zack felt so tried just by using his Magic for the first time.
Of course, like mentioned before, it is very questionable why a body created by God, is so pitiful in Magic Power reserves, was it by mistake, or a different reason all together?
But the result the same as it was before, Zack as clueless as he is, wouldn't knew or doubt that. And just smiles, seeing the shattered 2 feet wide and 3 feet deep shattered hole before him.
Of course, the hole is filled with the waste of the shattered ground. But it will be a lot more easier to remove the leftover ground, then to dig the hole itself with his bare hands.
Zack did nothing until both his Magic Power and stamina has recovered enough for him to move. And when it did, he removed the leftover pieces of the ground from the hole.
While removing the leftover pieces. Zack think back on his Quake-Quake Magic.
Although the clueless boy has no clue what's a Devil Fruit is. He knew the true power of this Magic, is both the manipulation ability to control vibrations themselves, and even turning himself what God calls a Vibrating Human, or a Tremoring Human.
He knew what he just done, was only the basics what this Magic can do. But he lacks the understanding and mastery of both his Magic and Magic Power to fully control this Magic, that he has no clue, that is capable of destroying basically anything in its path, as long its powerful enough.
One might say, as long he has enough Magic Power, and understanding of the Quake-Quake Magic, it is no different to a Planetary or above level Magic system.
There are no limits to this Magic, besides the user, there is no weakness besides it not friendly to allies.
It is truly a Magic that in the purest of sense, pure destruction in any way.
And yet, the clueless boy has no clue what kind of dangerous level Magic he has, a Magic that can destroy cities if it was another Monday. Islands, if they made of paper, and yet, from the universe this power came from.
It wasn't the power of quakes that conquered the seas, but Haki.
Makes one wonder, how powerful Zack can become, in this world, with his altered powers of spirit and destruction.
As Zack regained his strength, not knowing the kind of powers he has, that just limited to himself, how powerfully they can become.
Minutes it took him to remove the remains from the ground in the hole. Zack nodded to himself, seeing the rest of what he has to do, out aloud of course.
"After that… connect the hole and the water source by creating a stream…" Zack went, using a stone that is very pointy, as he digs it into the ground, creating a line between the hole, and the lake.
Zack felt tired as he digs the line 5cm deep stream, as he did, water begin to flow in the stream he has just created, allowing water to flow into this manmade hole.
Of course, if Zack uses the flask, he could fill the hole faster, but the flask will be dirtied by the water from the lake, causing it to be unusable, unless he has a way to clean the flask as well. It better to use this stream method, that might be tiring, but still better than nothing.
Of course, even if there is a small stream connected with the hole and lake. it still will take some time, before the hole will be filled with the lake water.
That is why, during the time when the water fills the hole. Zack begins his next step, that is to create a firepit, by using the branches he has gathered.
He also used some dead leaves, and dried sticks to lit a fire. As the small flame became bigger as it spreads through the branches.
Once the flames shines brightly, Zack for some reason, gathered the dry stones, not the pointy one he used to create the mini stream. And placed these stones around the firepit to… cook them.
One might wonder, why Zack is cooking stones, but there is a reason for that.
And that reason, this is the only way, or so it is stated in the 'common sense' from God, how one will collect clean water from nothing, if you are in the middle of a forest, with nothing but your bare hands.
Of course, as clueless Zack is, he has no clue how it works, he just do what is stated inside his mind.
(AN: Will add it in the end, how it works. It something I remember reading a long time ago, how to collect water from the ground, when you have nothing in hand. A true survival tip)
What he does know, he needed to create a hole with water and dropped heated growing stones in the water itself. And after some time, this water source he created should be drinkable.
This is why, as soon the stones begin to admit steam, and faintly grow, he used two branches like tongs and put them in the hole.
And before long, Zack finally has a source of water to drink from.
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Many might think this was useless, but this time around, I wanted to go more in depth in many things in this fanfic, many things will follow the same as the original fanfic, but some things wouldn't.
After all, MC wouldn't have a System, nor does he have Gravity Magic, or his cheat, Growth Rate. So it is bounded to be different. Of course, if you new reading this, just overlook what I am saying.
Anyway, this is why I wanted to expand this part of the fanfic, showing more of our clueless and foolish protagonist, before he develops into his true personality, like he did in the original fanfic.
I rushed many things in the original fanfic. And this time around, redoing this fanfic, I don't want to rush too much of it. But of course, there will be times when chapters are rush or what is known fast pace. For example, the next chapter is one of these fast pace chapters, since it will be time for our MC do some training in Magic and Spirit Arts, and such.
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For anything interested, that method I used to collect water is real.
I remember reading it in an article, a way to collect clean water, with nothing but your bare hands, no tools.
And you might think, why bother doing so much, why not drink the lake water?
You crazy?
You don't know how dangerous lake water is?
No matter how clean and clear it may be, animals have access to it. They bath it in, sometimes even do their business. That is why you must boil any water source; you are not sure of.
Of course, I am no survivalist.
And I might remember this wrongly, since it been a long time I read the damn thing.
What I remember, dig a hole least 2 feet deep, near a lake, and near your firepit or fire camp. Use dried stones, no wet stones, unless you want them to pop, as you cooked them.
Of course picking up heated stone is a good idea? That is why you use branches or something similar as thongs to lift them in the hole filled with water.
And creating a stream connecting the water source is also needed, not so deep, so you can cover it up.
And before you ask, how that filtered the water, dirt, dirt is the answer. Dirt in the earth acts like a filter believe it or not. Cleansing the animal elements and other elements from the water, while it boils.
Least that how I remember it.
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Anyway, thanks for reading, and I hope you guys enjoying this rewritten version of this fanfic.
And remember, I haven't deleted the old content, if you like, you can read it, the first volume of this remake and the second volume that currently being written follows somewhat closely to first volume, while the second volume of the original fanfic… that a different story.
And I am sorry for any grammar mistakes, you should know by now, grammar and me are like water and oil, we just don't mix.