Three weeks had passed.
The elves that Yeonseo accepted managed to terraform the desert dungeon, which was once Yeonseo’s, into greenery in less than two weeks. This dungeon, originally a desert, was renamed the [Elf’s Great Forest].
Originally, the elves could not use spirit magic without the Mother World Tree’s blessing.
However, in the previous world, the World Tree of the elves was burned by Yujin. Following the event where Olgania was saved by the Witch of the Dead, Shia, the fake World Tree that had held the spirits was completely destroyed.
Thus, the blessings and spirits of the Great Forest returned wholly to the elves.
Due to the release of the spirits, the Nugeo River Green and Green, also known as the Spirit Nuke, came into being as a ridiculous weapon, which was ultimately a result of a snowball effect.
Weapons and technology that cause widespread disaster typically draw on mana, holy power, and aura to bring forth the result of “destruction.”
Since it leads to destruction, the fuel consumed combusts right there, but even though the elf’s Spirit Nuke is powered by spirits, it does not deplete them.
As long as there is life, spirits can dwell anywhere and be born from anywhere.
Thanks to this, the spirits that had been used in the Spirit Nuke that Small Olga impulsively detonated returned to the elves after about four days.
Anyway, once all the spirits used in the Spirit Nuke returned, the elves accelerated the terraforming of the desert.
The way the elves terraformed was far more arduous and strenuous than expected.
“Sisters! Please snap off those vine lines over there!”
“Got it, measuring.”
“Ah, that doesn’t match!”
“Speak nicely, will you?!”
Initially, they would measure the length with the hard and high-tensile vines from the Great Forest instead of a measuring tape, and they would draft a simple blueprint.
Then they would align the horizontal edges of the vines, fixing the vines they would use as a frame to the ground and securing them with arrows. Once the alignment was correct, they would plant a water spirit there to create a solid foundation in the desert sand.
For reference, starting from the moment they began the greening terraforming design required meticulous work, so the elves wore as little clothing as possible.
Thanks to this, the elves didn’t wear any underwear to avoid accidentally touching the spirits and disturbing their nerves while working, and they wore tight-fitting outfits to minimize contact with each other to avoid getting too hot in this already scorching desert dungeon.
Even though there was a natural air conditioner with water, ice, and wind spirits always enveloping the area, they couldn’t escape the body heat generated from strenuous labor.
“This land has four water spirits, one earth spirit, and one fire spirit.”
“Huh, why are you adding a fire spirit? It’s already hot enough here…”
“We need to put in the fire spirit now to evaporate the water later. Otherwise, the ground will all collapse.”
“Is that really true?”
“Hey, is this your first time terraforming the Great Forest?”
“Yes…”
“Sigh. Let me tell you. I couldn’t use spirits either, and all I did was dig up the earth with the sisters, and in the middle of it, those squat dwarf bastards popped up creating chaos.”
“Wow, sister. You sound just like Olgania.”
Repeating the work of planting spirits according to the blueprint about dozens of times, the dead sand slowly started to come alive, about the size of a large soccer field.
However, the resistance from the spirits was incredibly fierce.
The spirits basically listen well to the elves and are obedient, but they are pure and innocent like children, which means that if a spirit suddenly gets tired of this task, they could ruin the whole construction in no time.
As much as a single spirit could destroy something that had taken a long time to construct, the elves needed to firmly fix the extra spirits by transporting them with sand and wind and fervently praying that this land, air, wind, and the moisture in the atmosphere would appeal to the spirits.
“Then, Ririsia Senpai! Please make it happen! O-negai shimasu!”
“….Can you please stop calling me senpai?”
Of course, the one in charge of that work was Ririsia.
She was the Witch of the Dark Star. Even though she now felt no hunger and had become human, the essence of her once being a saint had not vanished.
With the elves making her the team leader and senior, Ririsia was diligently praying, marking, and branding the spirits today as well, facilitating the terraforming work.
“Yes! Ha-it! I refuse! This is… reality…!!”
“………”
Damn it…
For reference, the red-haired, delusional fallen elf next to Ririsia was named Bribie Milliar.
This elf, who referred to herself as a cute little elf, made insane comments but surprisingly was one of the senior elves with plenty of experience in the Great Forest.
When Shia visited the Great Forest last time, she was too busy fighting Chaos Ants on the front line to run into her.
In any case, for someone who constantly babbled nonsense, Bribie was quite skilled in her work.
Even though her basic physical abilities were impressive, there were times when Ririsia, whose patience had reached its limit, had shoved Bribie headfirst into the desert, and somehow she managed to crawl back to irritate Ririsia’s temper four times already.
Eventually surrendering, Ririsia sighed and prayed to the spirits.
“Father and Son, in the name of starlight, I pray. To the children of all beings, spirits, please stay quietly so I don’t have to do this sort of thing again.”
“Senpai! If you say that, the spirits will get angry!”
“…If you want to avoid being eaten, please stay quietly.”
“Senpai! If the spirits get too upset, our construction today will be ruined!”
“Team leader! The spirit fixing work is completed!”
“Eh…?”
At that moment, an elf far away waving their hands, who had been restricting the spirits’ activity with vines, caught Bribie’s attention.
“What did you do? The spirits aren’t moving at all!”
Usually, to fix the spirits, one would need to pray fervently or throw some Uplata fruits from the Great Forest to win their favor.
However, the spirits had completed their spatial fix, acting as if they were disciplined soldiers responding to Ririsia’s prayer.
Instead of winning the spirits’ favor, instilling the fear of being eaten turned out to be surprisingly effective.
“Indeed, Senpai is incredible!”
“It’s nothing…”
“This person www is so dere-dere www pat pat pat www”
“…I think I’m going insane.”
Once they fixed the spirits arm-in-arm, the foundational ground for the area was complete.
Now, the elves proceeded to laboriously pull the surrounding desert sand to cover the foundation.
Since it required physical effort from the elves to bring the sand, Ririsia, Bribie, and the other elves all diligently transported the sand, pushing and pulling, getting covered in it.
“Ugh…”
“Huh, this is tough.”
“It’d be better to not wear clothes at all. The sand keeps getting inside…”
“Sisters, if you’re feeling uncomfortable, should I wash you off?”
“Thanks. But all I can summon is earth spirits…”
“If you stay for another 30 years, you can be friends with water spirits too.”
“If you have time to chat, hurry up and work.”
“Come on, just let me wash a bit, team leader.”
“That’s one thing, but you probably shouldn’t use the water spirit.”
“Huh, why not?”
“If you get wet, the sand will stick more. It’s better to just blow the sand away with wind if it gets hot.”
“Ugh, you’re right…”
And while the elves were gradually shoveling piles of sand, Ririsia utilized her gigantic tentacles like heavy machinery to move tons of sand all at once.
For elves with an average A-grade hunter’s capabilities, moving sand typically took about an hour. Still, with Ririsia’s tentacles moving a few times, the task was finished in less than 15 minutes.
“Senpai! The arrow supports are ready!”
“…Just do it normally… No, just shoot.”
“Ha-it!”
Thwack, thwack!
Then, once all the sand was moved, they made temporary supports with the elf’s arrows.
The arrows infused with life firmly secured to the ground. Then they laid the highly resilient vines used in the first blueprint again and shot arrows to fix them down.
For reference, only highly skilled elves with over 500 years of experience could shoot arrows at this level.
Even that delusional elf, despite looking a bit off in the head, was crucial in not being dispensable.
“Alright, hurry and get the follow-ups in before it hardens.”
“Ha-it! Senpai!”
“Yes, yes.”
“Going in! Be careful.”
In case the arrows bent, they repeatedly inserted water and fire spirits into the area to reinforce the supports. Then, once again, they planted water spirits, earth spirits, and fire spirits in a 4:1:1 ratio into the ground.
Of course, during this process, if the spirit’s penetration was lower than the blueprint, they would need to use either fists, tentacles, or knives to physically apply pressure to level it out.
And finally, they planted trees.
They shouldn’t be fully-grown trees.
It was necessary to plant young saplings so that the spirits would root in the land where they were implanted, allowing the spirits to move between the substrate and upper layers, creating a sustainable environment.
After accelerating the saplings’ growth and confirming the stabilization of the substrate, a basic forest the size of a soccer field was formed.
“Hey!!! What’s going on with the greenery?!”
And at that moment, an elf who had been working on the opposite side arrived quickly, riding the wind spirits.
This elf was in charge of electrical and plumbing duties for the houses in the Great Forest.
“Oh, sister, you’ve arrived! We just finished terraforming this area.”
“No way, shit…! We need to be doing the plumbing and wiring here, but if you terraform the entire patch, what are we supposed to do?!”
“Ah…”
“Huh? Aah? Are you really doing this? Get that royal sister over here!”
With the sudden uproar, Ririsia sighed, tossed her towel aside, and approached the noisy elf.
“It’s me, you little shit.”
“Uh… Ririsia, the team leader…”
“……..Ugh…”
Now harmless, but the malice from her days as the Witch of the Dark Star lingered. Looking down with her shadowy eyes, the elf who had come to complain seemed unsure and struggled to speak.
“Uh, um… um! If you stare at me like that, do you think I’m scared? Just because you’re the team leader is that all it takes?!”
“Be quiet and just tell me what’s going on.”
“Um, I… I need to do the plumbing and wiring for each house! But if you finish terraforming this whole plot already, then what am I supposed to do! It’s already hard enough to dig through the sand with the earth spirit, how the hell am I supposed to get through land that’s already been greened?!”
“Why not just use it as farmland?”
“Do you think farms don’t require plumbing? Even if we use it as farmland, we still need to lay down pipes!”
“Then what? You want me to just dig a long hole in the ground like an ant hill?”
“That would work, but do you think it’s as easy as it sounds? Digging with an earth spirit in soil that has already absorbed other spirits is incredibly difficult…”
Kaboom!
As if fed up, the tentacles wriggling from Ririsia’s waist aggressively burrowed into the completed land.
The tentacles had impressive physical power, and since they were also coated with her holy power, they dug into the land as easily as if stabbing into melted butter, leaving a deep, large hole in no time.
“Just do that. Cover it up yourself.”
“…Ah, yes… yes…”
Ririsia, looking tired, yawned as she collapsed carelessly into the shade.
“Fuck, this is exhausting…”
“Senpai, you must be tired. It’s almost snack time.”
“Snack? Then we can call it a day for our morning work.”
“Ha-it, Senpai!”
“Sisters! Work is done!”
“Yari Kiri!”
“Yari Kiri!!”
“But what does Yari Kiri mean?”
“Bribie said it was a term used by humans on construction sites. It’s something they say when they finish a day’s work.”
“Wow…”
“Sounds nice.”
“Yari Kiri!”
That’s Japanese, damn it.
No, it probably doesn’t matter to you all.
Ririsia sighed and wiped her face with a towel.
‘Now that I think about it, it’s been… years since I worked up a sweat…’
A few hundred… No, maybe about a thousand years…
I’ve lost track, so I’m not sure.
Even on the first day, Ririsia questioned whether it was okay for her, who once was the Witch of the Dark Star and harbored numerous sins and karmas, to exist so peacefully.
Is it alright for me to be here?
Shouldn’t I just commit suicide right away?
Is it truly okay for me to live like this?
However, all those negative thoughts vanished as she spent every day laboring for over 12 hours as the lead of the elf’s greening terraforming efforts powered by Yeonseo’s high-performance tentacle harvesting machine.
Yeah, for now, I shouldn’t think too complicated.
“It’s snack time!”
Then, from afar, Elanar, who was in charge of distributing food along with a few other elves, approached with huge leaves covering their trays to prevent dust.
After such intensive labor, the food would surely taste amazing…
“Today’s menu is vegan specials from the Nut Tree House sisters!”
“Hey, you little shits!!!!”
And then Ririsia flipped the tray over.
