Frontier Lord Starts Out With a Population of 0

― ― ― Senai and Aihan in the southern wilderness

Senai rode Shiya, Aihan rode Guri, Ayma rode Ayeshia, and the three Shep clans were escorted to ride on their horses... A group of such combinations traveled a little further from the rock salt deposits in the wilderness.

Finish your meal early in the morning, head to the wilderness, do a little research, and return to Irku Village.

If I could stay somewhere, I would be able to investigate for a little longer, but it's still difficult for the young Senai, so I can't help it, so I'll continue to investigate every day little by little... step by step.

The purpose of such an investigation by the Sennais is to find a suitable land for the river to flow through.

The development of the creek begun by Sanato of the Dong people without any help, which led to the reclamation of the wilderness which he thought could not be advanced in a manner close to coincidence... but the water volume of the creek can never be said to be large, and even if the Dong people did the maintenance, there is a limit.

There is a story that the river should flow to a place as effective as possible if there is a limit... Senai and the two of them who are familiar with the plants and the power of the earth will be able to identify it... It is a pleasure for them to have more forests and nature, and the two of them who agreed to investigate with a full smile will go through the wilderness with a pleasant smile that can't be beaten by anything of that time.

Looking at the earth, looking at the soil, looking at the wind, looking at the flow of magic...

From time to time, I stopped my legs and rested my horses, and I prayed that the contents of the leather bag that the Shep family hung in the saddle... while giving water for horses, mixed with dead grass and vegetables, rock salt and sugar, I sowed strong seeds for drying and sprouted with a little water...

And as she went through the wilderness again and looked around...... as she proceeded with the investigation, Aima, who had had a much more difficult face during the previous investigation, raised her voice.

"... why aren't there any creatures in this wilderness...?"

The plants, too, but with so much land, we should be able to create a proper ecology...? "

And Aima said, "Isn't it because the ground is curly? When she returned, Aima shook her head to the left and right, and then continued to say more words.

"My birthplace is more hot and thirsty than here, and the ground is sandy, but even so, little bugs and lizards still live in the dryness of the night... we caught them and used them as daily food."

There was a wilderness like this a little further away from my hometown, but it was small and few in number, but there were trees and grasses growing properly, there were animals gathering there, there were birds, and naturally there were insects, and there were no insects here at all, so what was going on...?

Before I did the detailed investigation, I thought it was the effect of the rock salt deposits, but there is a lot of distance from the deposits here... If there is no sign of it so far, it is not because it is such a land or such a feeling, do you say that you feel some other force... I think there is a possibility that something is interfering with it like a meadow, right? "

With the Shep clan tilting their necks at Aima's words, Senai and Aihan took it seriously... and began to explore with their thoughts what possibilities there might be.

Senai and Aihan are foresters who have mastered the magic of the plants that make the forest, and they continue to receive knowledge from their parents to protect and nurture the forest.

With the addition of the teachings from Amma, a Gentile-born native of the desert, the teachings from Ben and Maya, who had accumulated only a few years of wisdom, and the cutting-edge scholarship that Hubert had studied in the capital of the kingdom... Senai and the others, who had learned honestly with the interest born with them, were acquiring considerable wisdom.

Any part of the experience that is not enough because it is young, the wisdom is not alarmed, and Aima quietly watches the situation of the two while herself circling the thought... and Senai and Aihan use the thought as a word to derive the answer of the two.

"Hmm, I don't think I'm interrupting anything like the meadow. I don't know what it's like."

But maybe it's just a little bit, maybe it's just a little bit, maybe it's just a little bit, maybe it's just a little bit cute here.

We might be able to do this, but I don't think so.

"What have the Moorites done to us?"

"Of course, it could be the same thing as the meadow."

"It might be the same, but it's probably different... maybe I'm trying to get out of here, maybe I'm losing all of it, and I don't want anyone to come that far."

"The knife buried in the rock salt deposit must have been the same reason."

"...... I'm glad you're here." Why is that? "

And so, such a conversation was held on horseback, and she leaned her neck like the Shep clans... the moment Aima tried to call out to them, the horses' legs stopped flashing at the same time, and the sleigh from the shade of the small rock in front of her and the large lizard appeared.

The scales covering the whole body are thick, with sharp and powerful thorns, and the colors are brown and familiar with the sight of the wilderness... It doesn't seem to be a monster because it's not full of anger.

Looking at such a lizard, Aima was small and surprised that there were animals in the wilderness, and the lizard slowly opened its mouth...... With a voice that resounded thickly, she uttered a word of surprise.

"I guess that's right, the forest daughters."

... and I'll ask, are you the only ones? "

That's pretty much right.

In response to such words, Senai and the others suspected that the lizard in front of them was a species of Maiamodoki.

It seems that most of the words we uttered earlier were not wrong. It seems that something created this situation in the wilderness in the same way as the grassland.

There is something similar to the presence of a lizard in the meadow, and it seems that Mae Mokki was using it. Perhaps this lizard is using its presence.....

The lizard in front of you is not related to the foresters, nor is it a kind of beastman... If you hear the conversation earlier and say, "That's about right," that's probably the case.

Is that the only person the lizard asked me to use? So... Senai and the others heard the word "only people" when they met Narvant before. Senai and the others knew that the word "only people" was a person without magic power, Diaz.

When Senai and the others were told that they were only using Diaz, it was true for Senai and the others who were coming to investigate for Diaz and the village of Irk... they nodded nervously towards the lizard.

"I see... I see. You're finally back."

If that's the case, then that's all we need... We're not as nice as the grasslands, so we can't afford to have a loved one... but thanks to that, we can protect this land without any problems, and we can return it to only one person.

If so, it wouldn't have been in vain... "

Young users, if you want to pull the river, you can do it here, but if you go further, the groundwater may spring out.

... as promised in the past, you can use the water to build a forest and protect only people... "

Then the lizard returned... Senai, Aihan, Aima, the Shep clan, and even the horses tilted their necks and looked at them like they were satisfied with something with their eyes down.

Immediately after that, the wind blew and the sand wrapped around it, and when Senai and the others closed their eyes unexpectedly, the lizard disappeared in an instant... The remaining Senai and the others had a chunky expression on their faces.

For a while, Senai and the others were stunned, but this was the second time they had encountered such an existence, and they didn't have any doubts just because they knew how powerful it was, they just gained certainty.

You can draw a river here, or you can dig a well in the words of a lizard.

Then Senai and the others finished the investigation earlier than usual and let the horses run faster than usual... and returned to Irku Village to convey the information and certainty they had gained.