Is there a small amount of money to be made... and can the desert sand be used as a material for concrete and building materials or something like that?
　They don't take my money and I don't need sand, so I keep dumping the sand in the trash.

'You've spread out a lot of dirt,'

　Miu Miu was impressed with the exposed soil.
　He said it was because it was something he rarely got to see.

''But it's really only a small part of it, isn't it?

　We did our best to clear a few hundred meters square of sand, but if you look in the distance, the desert stretches to the horizon.
　I could see how serious the desertification of this world was.

Mr. Taro, there are parts that are already covered with sand.

This is....

　Even if we moved the sand out of one section, we had dug down dozens of meters and the sand would soon be coming in.
　When the wind blows, more new sand should flow in.

This is going to take some time.

　I was planning to plow the soil in its current state with a small tiller, add gardening soil and fertilizer, and plant saplings to make it a green space, but that's impossible because a lot of sand will soon flow into it.
　The saplings I planted would be buried in the sand.

If Gori-san town is not connected to the desert, sand drifters can't sail out, so it's a bad idea to remove too much sand from the area.

That's part of it.

　Currently, the main industry of Gori Town, with a population of a little over a thousand people, was earning Eidolk by killing sand beasts.
　Thanks to the golimachos, they could see in detail who hunted how many sand beasts and how much money they made, so they could look at the catalogs in the newly set up shops and buy their goods.
　There was no tax on the Eidolk earned from killing sand beasts, but the profits from the sale of goods were a substitute for taxes, and from this they paid the salaries of the people who farmed the agricultural plots, the shopkeepers, and others who were not suited to fight the sand beasts that supported the mobile city.
　Taxes were much lower than in the Kingdom of Burt because the cost of governing was not as high thanks to the goldmaster.
　Is it also because the only shop that is there is a public enterprise?
　The residents can't see the 'online shopping' screen, so Myu and I use a computer and printer to create a product catalog, and then we place it in the store, and each of us buys items within our balance to make ends meet.

　From time to time, merchants will come from other mobile cities, but we don't have anything to sell other than what we can get through online shopping.
　In the end, they had to buy from me via online shopping, which was also profitable.
　Even if we are able to grow crops in the future, we will still be consuming this stuff ourselves.
　The desert elves wouldn't even bother to come all the way to Gori-san Town to buy the grains and vegetables they could grow themselves.
　This would take years to pay off, since farming starts with soil preparation.
　We provide farm equipment, fertilizer, seeds and seedlings purchased through 'online shopping', but it's not going to take a long time.
　Rather, there were more desert elves who saw these farm implements, seeds, etc. that they use and wanted to sell us this one.
　Particularly popular were the improved fruit plants.
　This is because they have been bred for higher yields and better taste.
　However, they require more fertilizer and are more difficult to cultivate due to pest control.
　Despite this, though, the fruit seeds and seedlings sold very well.

It's not that hard to remove the sand, but you have to decide where to remove it.

Yes. Oh, here's a map of the area. Mr. Golimachu gave it to me.

　That gorilla, I wasn't so sure about it at first, but he's very good at what he does.

"We are at the northeast end of the Far South Sea. This is where Miss Marilyn's temple used to be.

　It's just the area that gets the most pressure from the north and northeast to the Kingdom of Burt.
　Right now, though, Shipland and Old Town and the rest of the vast desert is a barrier, so it's safe.

The desert elves have anchored their stronghold mobile cities in the north-central to northwest of the Polar South Sea, or from the southeast to the southwest across the ocean. You have the poles further south.

I see.

　The poles are, on Earth, at the North and South Poles, which is where adventurers often go.
　Is there a difference between Earth's poles, which are cold, and the poles of the Great Desert, which are hot and deserted?

'Assuming the Kingdom of Burt is a cautionary tale, isn't there a danger of other countries invading from the other side of the poles?

　If the Great Desert is a planet, it seems likely that other countries will attack from the other side of the pole to the sea.

''The 'back continent'?　I don't think it's possible.

The 'back continent'?

　That's the first time I've heard the name of the place.

The Great Desert is full of deserts, so there's no concept of a continent across the ocean like in ancient times. There are several countries below the Kingdom of Bart around the Central Sea, but on the other side of where we live, there isn't even a country, and even if there was, it's said that each of the small countries and small lords are likely to live in small oases scattered around.

　Larabell, who continued to show up, told me about the other side of this world.
　Even if you can't grasp most of the self-proclaimed self-proclaimed territory, are the few countries below the Kingdom of Bart that can call themselves countries still better?
　Even more so on the back side of the desert, the distance between the oases is so great that not even a country has been formed.
　Or that there are likely to be small countries in disarray that claim only one oasis.

'Larabell, you know a lot about this.

''However, this is a record brought back by a survey team hundreds of years ago. The countries below the Burt Kingdom have a bit of interaction across the Central Sea. The fact that I heard from Lord Taro before, 'The Chikyuu that Lord Taro was in is round', applies to this world as well, and we've known that for a long time, so we've sent a joint survey team because we're curious about the back continent.

　There were fewer oases and more sand beasts than on this side of the continent, and the survey team had returned more than twenty years after their departure with many sacrifices.
　Larabell had apparently seen the records written by its survivors.

It's a record from a few hundred years ago, after all. Nowadays, the possibility of a great power rising up is.... less likely?

　The environmental conditions are worse than the deserts on this side of the ocean, so it would be difficult to get there without the development of very advanced technology.

''The Polar South Sea is completely devoid of any back continent. The back continent itself is not much of an oasis to begin with, so I don't think we can recommend an army so easily. Besides, the desert elves stationed on the polar side should also be on alert. If anything, Bart's Kingdom is probably the more pressing problem.

　Due to the desert and distance, it should be unlikely that Bart's kingdom would attack this far, but I'm afraid that king is going to be reckless.
　It would be better to be vigilant.

''Gori-san Town is anchored next to the temple by the sea. The desert in the northwestern part of the city is still intact because of the sand drift ships that come and go. In the southeastern part of the desert, there's no problem moving the sand out of the way.

But without water, no matter how many seedlings you plant, they will wither and die. It's too much work to water them.

Mmm.

　Frau pointed this out to me, and I looked at the map again, thoughtfully.

'The Polar South Sea is shaped like a horizontal rectangle,'

　The sea was actually more extensive and large enough to surround the poles, but this size is the limit of the current volume of water.
　This is because even if you use the blessing of the sea spirit, you can't prevent the water in the sea from evaporating.

Gori-san Town is at the northeastern edge of the front line of the anti-Baat Kingdom, and at the southeastern edge is the mobile city of the Bitar Chieftain's Giraffe tribe, which is parallel to a large mountain range on the east side of the sea. Would it be possible for the green space between the sea and the mountain range?

It's not impossible.

　And here Marilyn suddenly called out to me.

The evaporated water from the sea is carried away by the wind in clouds and hits this mountain range, so from now on it will rain from the west side of the range to the sea. So from now on it will rain from the west side of the mountain range to the sea.

　If it rains, it seems that we can plant trees with sand removed.
　Conversely, however, if the sand is not removed, the rains might cause the sand to flow into the sea.

By the way, do mountains have the capacity to retain water?

It's a mountain range in the desert.

I'm going to have to...

　I was to remove a vast area of sand.
　I just keep on throwing the sand in the land between the sea and the mountain range into the 'trash'.
　I wondered what those who run an 'online shopping' business would do with all this sand, no matter how cheap it was?
　Thinking about such things, I dumped the sand into the "trash can" while moving in the sand drift boat.
　The boat wouldn't move where the sand was gone, so we would start at the edge of the area and just dump the sand in order.
　We left the sand beast hunting to everyone else, and we dumped the sand into the "trash can" to expose the ground.
　Naturally, sand beasts appeared, but there were only sand-large lizards around here, and Lalabelle and her team defeated them one by one.

'The soil is hard and ... and ... sour.'

　I licked a little bit of exposed soil to be sure, but it looks like the salt damage is severe as well as desertification.
　At this rate, we won't be able to grow any grass.

What are you going to do about it, Taro?

We'll try to move all the sand and see what happens.

　Aisha asked me, and that's the only way I can answer.
　Because I'm not an expert and I don't know how to recover from salt damage.
　Believing that Marilyn had something to do with it, I continued to throw the sand in the relevant area into the 'trash can'.
　And after a week.

'Oh!　The land without sand!

We desert elves will be able to restore the forest to life!

　I hadn't said anything, but a lot of desert elves had come over and were examining the land I had moved the sand out of, with great emotion.
　It seems they intend to revive the forest....
　Will they be able to succeed?