Chapter 35 – The Purpose was to Cut Trees

「Your lordship! Stop startling me!」

As I tilted my head because of the returning magic, I angered Light Blue for some reason.

I startled you?

「…..oh! My bad.」

The world went blank for a moment because of the purification magic.

I guess anyone would suddenly be startled if I suddenly cast something like that without explaining anything.

I should have informed it first before casting magic.

「I’ll be careful.」

Next time I do the same thing, I’ll explain it properly.

However, I don’t know what kind of phenomenon will happen until I invoke the magic.

How do I explain it in this case?

Should I say “something’s going to happen so watch out”?

「You should really be careful!」

Given how Light Blue is acting, I must have startled it quite a bit.

The one eyes and the fenrirs are also looking at me worriedly.

「I’m sorry. Next time, I’ll tell you that I’m going to do something.」

「Hnn? What? Areh? Do you really understand what I’m saying?」

Light Blue tilts its head at my reply.

What do you mean?

We’ve been talking about the purification magic all this time, right?

「Yeah, about the purification of the world….」

「I know exactly what you mean. Sorry.」

「Ah, since you understand….」

You don’t seem convinced.

Well, maybe you don’t trust me because I often use magic without saying anything.

That should be my fault.

Next time, I’ll be sure to say something first before casting anything.

 

Areh?

Speaking of which, I can’t hear Rope anymore.

Did it check the places that were fixed?

 

Right.

Since it’s Light Blue, it might know something about the shape of this world.

「Light Blue, I have a question.」

「Hnn? A question?」

「Yeah, about the shape of this world. Is this a flat world?」

Light Blue tilted its head after hearing my question. It looks troubled.

「What do you mean is this world flat?」

「Ah, I used purification magic but for some reason, magic power came back.」

「It came back….」

Given Light Blue’s reaction, anyone could tell that it was puzzled.

I guess it’s really unusual.

「The world is supposed to absorb any extra magic power so it shouldn’t come back….alto, the world is supposed to be a sphere. It shouldn’t be possible to create a flat world. Or, it may just be that I don’t know enough about it…..」

Light Blue’s comment made me want to shake my head.

The fact that the world didn’t absorb it means there’s a cause.

Doesn’t this mean that there are other problems besides the magic around the core?

We have to find it out, don’t we?

However, I’m not very good at it so I better stop trying to solve everything at the same time.

Let’s purify the magic around the core first and then, look at the other problems in this world.

If we solve the problems one by one, we will be able to solve them faster.

I hope it’s not a big problem….

「Your lordship, I think it is very weird for magic power to return.」

「Yes, I think so too. However, I’ll think about that later. My current priority is purifying magic power surrounding the core.」

「Understood. I’ll ask others if they know anything.」

「You don’t have to.」

The next time an earthquake occurs, let’s try to purify the magic around the core from the crack.

I don’t know how much magic power is around the core but this is something I have to do.

「Alright. Now that we solved the problem, shall we go home?」

「I guess so. You’ve used so much power. Aren’t you tired?」

Hearing Light Blue worried, I pat its head.

「Thanks for your concern but I’m okay. My magic is bottomless.」

If I use magic power, it will be consumed but magic power will be supplemented soon. While looking at the image sent by the drones, I extend my arms up and stretch to the side.

It looks like it’s going to be okay.

If magic doesn’t leak out at this point, it means I’ve succeeded.

Now, all I have to do is….to look for any other cracks.

Let’s have the drones look for cracks aside from the one showing the crack I’ve repaired.

Looking at the other images, I see that the drones are already moving.

Areh?

Did I even give them an order?

….well, I guess it’s okay.

「Ano….your lordship, the forest clearing…..」

「「Ah」」

I forgot.

The purpose of me coming here was to cut down trees to make a square.

Looking at Light Blue, I guess it forgot about it too.

I look at a distance and pretend I’m confused to cover up.

「Sorry. Ehto, let’s continue cutting down trees.」

「Eh, are you okay? We don’t mind continuing tomorrow.」

I shook my head to the one eye.

I’m not tired.

My magic power has already been restored.

It really came back so fast.

「Let’s cut down trees and make a square now.」

Hearing my words, a one eye runs through the forest.

I followed it with my eyes and saw that it was already waving a flag at a distance.

That means we’re going to cut trees up to there…..that’s far.

「Shall we?」

The trees won’t be cut if we just look at it.

Let’s work hard.

 

I cut trees straight to the one eye waving the flag but, there’s a lot!

Now, if we work hard, it should be over soon.

That’s what I’m saying to myself while cutting, and cutting, and cutting….hahaha, we’re halfway there.

Bending over, I look around.

A lot of trees have been cut down in a very large area.

And yet, we’re only halfway there.

I wonder how vast the square they are trying to make….well, it’s a square that is supposed to withstand their training.

And yet, we’re only halfway there.

….no, we’re already halfway there.

Only half left so we should be okay.

The other half will be over in a blink of an eye!

Assumptions are important.

「Finally….」

It wasn’t in a blink of an eye at all.

Simple task is tiring.

Really tiring.

「Thank you for your hard work. Are you okay?」

The one eye’s word of appreciation for my labor stung my heart.

I’ll be rewarded.

「Are you tired? It can’t be helped. Let’s take a break and have some tea and snacks.」

…..the one eyes even said it can’t be helped.

I looked at it a little surprised and it tilted its head.

It’s the one eye that seemed a little off.

Ah right, it said that we’re going to take a break after dealing with the crack, right?

「Where’s the break after fixing the crack?」

「It didn’t seem necessary so I didn’t say anything. I something wrong?」

「…..yeah.」

Thud.

The leader of the one eyes silently taps the head of the weird one eye.

After being surprised by that, the one eye rubs its head.

「I forgot to say to take a break. I’m sorry.」

The glare from the leader makes it a little jumpy.

「….ah, don’t worry about it. Let’s take a break and go home.」

「Yeah, we’ll be ready in a minute.」

Cunning.

The one eye drags another one eye.

It probably got scared of the leader.

「I made these rock dolls….I mean, golem? Well, whatever they are, they are rock dolls, right? I’m beginning to understand that they got expressions on their faces but did they really have such scary eyes?」

I followed one of the one eyes with my gaze and saw it sitting upright.

….cute.

That’s not what I mean.

Should I stop the one eyes?

However, there should be a hierarchy among the one eyes like this world….will they look at me with that gaze one day?

….they have their own rules so I shouldn’t interject.

Yeah, let’s just watch over them.

「Hnn? Fluffy?」

I saw Fluffy sitting down on a tree stump nearby.

When did it get here?

「You finally noticed」

Fluffy’s in its small form, brings its body closer to me.

When I patted it, it made a happy sound.

「Sorry. I was so busy with cutting trees I didn’t pay attention to my surroundings.」

Given the number of trees, I could only concentrate.

That said, little dragons are really cute.

「That’s okay. More than that! Your lordship! You pushed yourself too hard again!」

Pushed?

Well, I sure worked hard cutting down trees.

「Hahaa, I’m fine.」

「This is no laughing matter! I can’t believe you used magic that requires such an enormous amount of magic power! Do you know how surprised we were?」

Magic that requires an enormous amount of magic power?….purification?

「That’s because it’s necessary.」

「I heard about it from Light Blue. However, normally, you could have died if you use that much magic!」

Is that so?

I think I could do it several times in a row given how I sensed it.

Speaking of which, this should be the first time that I cast magic that affects the whole world, right?

I’m only casting magic that affects the forest before.

「Are you listening?」

Fluffy’s face is right in front of mine.

I nodded silently, bending my back a little.

Is it mad?

「Haa, your lordship is really reckless.」

Fluffy says that and Light Blue nods.

I don’t remember doing anything reckless….

「I think I could cast that magic again….about a few dozens of times in a row.」

Considering the speed at which my magic power recovers, it seems that I could cast it more.

Maybe my magic recovery will slow down on the way.

Which means I’m not really sure that I could cast it a few dozens of times in a row.

「Your lordship is really abnormal.」

A wry smile appears on Fluffy’s face while it said that.

I’m not abnormal…..or so I said but my existence begs to differ.

「Don’t get further and further away from the normal we know.」

Oh, is that so?

But I can’t think of anything abnormal about me.

That made me a little agitated.

「Which part of me is abnormal?」

「「Everything」」

………everything.