There's no grass and water in this place because of the salt damage.



　The word "pioneering" conjures up a positive image, but if you unravel the history, there have been many failures.
　I think it's dangerous to aim at cultivation and greening of land just because the soil is there.

However, we also have a very serious situation...

　The Bitar Chief's brother Bijur, who had brought a large number of desert elves with him, began to explain to us the reality of the desert elves.

'The mobile city has a weakness.

We can't feed more people than we have the capacity to, can we?

'Great Chief Katoo is quick to talk. We have lost our longevity now, unlike the High Elves, but in return we will increase just as much as the humans. Otherwise, of course, our species would be destroyed.

　The problem of where to send the surplus population has arisen, but in the Great Desert, almost all of the land except for the desert and the sea is inhabited by humans.
　There is no place for the growing population to settle, so they are forced to move to distant places for trade.

'We don't have to count them as a population while they're doing business there or sailing back and forth through the desert,'

That's a close call, right?

'It is. We've found a few uninhabited oases between the Polar South Sea and the poles, and we've already moved them in, but it's not enough at all. Most importantly....

An oasis can die suddenly.

'Master Lalabelle is right. The Oasis is afraid of this.

　When an oasis dies, the inhabitants who lived there die at worst.
　It is because they cannot move to another oasis so easily.
　After all, most of the other oases could not afford it either.

"Therefore, we will ask Grand Chief Katoo for permission to settle.

That's all well and good, but the problem is salt damage control and water availability.

As for the salt damage, it's not a problem as we have acquired the skills in the process of reactivating our mobile city and farming inside. I hope the Great Chief Katoo will sell all sorts of useful farming equipment, fertilizer, seeds and seedlings.

　So as payment for the land, you're going to buy a lot of different goods in large quantities until the development and greening of the land is finished.

As for the river, there are traces of the river, which should be restored by restoring the water holding capacity of the mountains. It will take some time as we need to plant trees in the mountains, but in the meantime, let's buy water.

Okay. All right.

　We can't develop vast tracts of land in our current state.
　We'd rather earn money from the sale of our land and develop our giant Gori Town.

Hey, Chief Bidur. "Hey, Chief Bidur, why don't you desert elves just move to Gori-san Town? It would be easier for you.

Aisha-sama, although our goals are the same, we are still separate species, human and desert elf. In order to get along with you, I think a certain amount of distance is necessary.

That's true. Irresponsible talk of friendship is just as bad.

　Maybe it's because we live in a tough world, but I think both Mr. Bijur and Aisha have a realistic side to them.
　I liked their honesty, though.

'Other than Goliath Town, the mobile cities are desert elves and Goliath Town is human. It's a big place, so it will be a mix of humans and desert elves. I think that's the most realistic way to go about it.

That would be good.

　Thus, Mr. Bijur and other tribesmen sent out people to take charge of the development of the land that had been cleared of sand, and they were put in charge of it.

'A machine for ploughing the land? 'I see that Lord Catu has the same one.'

The principles and dynamics are different, though.

　The desert elves, as expected of a technological power that had rebooted the mobile city, used shovels and cultivators that were powered by magic power.
　However, these things were precious and few in number.
　So, he was able to secure a small cultivator that ran on cassette gas through 'online shopping', and when he sold it, he was very happy to use it.
　After sprinkling a potion that removes the salt from the land, the soil is dug up, planted, planted, and cultivated with fields.
　While they were building the house, they also sold a lot of tents and camping equipment because they were living in the field.
　Not to mention gardening supplies and farm equipment.
　They seemed to have spent a lot of money on them, and I could see that the desert elves were serious about it.

''It's quite a big tree, isn't it?''

This is the seedling of the World Tree, which I pulled out a long time ago just before it died.

Is this a sapling?

　It should already be more than thirty meters tall, but Mr. Bizzur explained that it was still a sapling.

''Originally, the World Tree was cared for and protected by the High Elves. When this Great Desert was covered in desert and they disappeared, the World Tree died, leaving its seeds behind.

The ancestors of the desert elves who obtained it kept the seeds separate for each tribe and began to cultivate them when they got a mobile city.

''Over the course of a few hundred years, it has only grown so far!

Does the World Tree take a long time to grow?

　A world tree is a very large tree in a fantasy-style story, and it must have had leaves and other powers.
　There's no guarantee that the World Tree in this world is the same, though.

'We have plenty of time, but we just don't have enough fertilizer. The World Tree can easily live for hundreds of millions of years, but the reason it grows so slowly is because it is completely undernourished. Once it grows, the world tree does not need that much nutrition. If it's not in a desert, it can continue to live even if the environment is a little worse, and the land on which the World Tree grows is enriched by the World Tree's influence.

　The best way to restore this salt-damaged land is to let the World Tree grow large here.

'Nutrition?'

Each tribe will have to bring in its own fertilizer and other supplies. We have to grow medicinal plants and crops, so we don't get a lot of them.

　Still, Mr. Bjur told me that if we nourish and grow the world tree with nutrients, we can mitigate the salt damage.

'So let's put out some fertilizer here too.

Are you sure?　Isn't Gori Town still not on the right track with agriculture?

It's easier to do things once you've grown the world tree.

　I purchased a large amount of fertilizer through 'online shopping'.
　Lalabelle and the others spread the fertilizer and water to the roots of the world tree, and the tree grew rapidly, as if the lack of nutrients in the soil was resolved.

I guess no matter how much fertilizer and water I give it, too much of it doesn't cause the roots to rot.

I suppose it's necessary sustenance.

　We didn't know what kind of fertilizer to use, so we decided to buy various kinds of fertilizers and spread them in a blend.
　I bought various kinds of fertilizers and spread them at a frightening pace, but the World Tree kept getting bigger and bigger, and its momentum was unstoppable.

''Is it already over a hundred meters tall?''

　We've already spent billions of Eidolcs on fertilizer alone, but how far should we spread this?
　I asked Bijur, who was mobilizing the desert elves to lead the fertilizer and watering efforts.

'The World Tree?　As I recall, I've heard it's light and about a kilo high. It's also reasonably thick. Do you know the Great Chief Katoo?　The branches of the World Tree are so large that they wouldn't freak out in a major earthquake, so the High Elves lived on top of the World Tree.

　Something like that description in a Japanese fantasy-style story.

I'm sure everyone will want to live here. To us desert elves, the High Elves are a lost dream.

　Living on top of the World Tree........
　On Earth, would it be like living in a super high-rise luxury apartment?
　I'm not sure I'm too expensive....

'It's going to take some time. Put down a bunch of fertilizer and we'll be on our way.

"Leave it to us. Grand Chief Katoo.

　After clearing the sand, we returned to Gori-san Town.
　We worked in three shifts to spread the fertilizer and water that I had left behind in large quantities on the World Tree, and by the time the World Tree was finally over a kilometer tall and could be seen from the castle in Gori-san Town, a week had passed.

'Hahaha, the World Tree is back after all these years.......we did it!

'Mr. Bijoule, I think you should go to bed. You've got great circles under your eyes.

'I've been up all night for a week, you know. I'm going to go to bed right away...

Mr. Bijoule!

"Master Taro, Master Bijoule is asleep.

Well, that's what happens when you don't sleep for a week...

　He must have been looking forward to the return of the World Tree.
　He should have left the task of directing the work to someone else, but he stayed awake for a week, and just after making sure that the tree would not grow any more, he collapsed in front of us and fell asleep.
　Mr. Bizzur did not wake up for three days.