The island hierarchy, a hierarchy of dungeons, has been completed, but time must be set aside to stabilize the creatures that have been invited from outside for some time now and the world tree planted in the center of the island.

Even so, there is no problem in harvesting salt and tropical fruit trees, so people gather from the villages with labor in the open dungeon, work together to make salt and collect fruit.

However, since they are also amateurs who are not salt makers, the production volume is not that large.

Therefore, rather than aiming for self-sufficiency by forcing salt production, we decided to have it insured on a small scale in the unlikely event that the supply from the outside was interrupted.

The creation of the second hierarchy is planned to be a forest-based training hierarchy, but we decided to create it again.

The magic power generated in the dungeon will accumulate in the dungeon core, and the surplus will be released to the outside world.

And now--

Witch, I'll see you soon!

"Yes, that's right. The ruined capital..."

I've been out of the [Forest of Creation Witches] with Tete for a long time.

Spanning the cane and heading westward, it flew over the territory of the former Crista Kingdom, where Stampede had taken place.

"Soon, maybe two years... you've become a demonic realm..."

The monsters released in the dungeon stampede had a large number of regular monsters before the horde of skeletons.

It spread to the people while ravaging the country, and after two years, each of them settled in a comfortable place to live.

The plants and trees are growing more and more!

Now, the cobblestones of the streets connecting the towns of the country also enter the gap and weeds grow in the bow bow, and the maintained streets become rattled, leaving only a painful remnant.

The culture and civilization of people who are really driven by magic easily disappears.

Visit the ruling capital of the old Kingdom of Christa, feeling the remnants of such a rotting country.

The high exterior walls have collapsed everywhere, and there are countless buildings with broken roofs and walls throughout the town.

Back when it was still established as a country, the white castle would have looked faded.

"Witch, it seems that there are monsters living in this town!"Are you going to defeat me? "

I didn't come here to kill a monster for another request, so let's leave it alone.

A bird monster that settles in the King's City is planted in a private house, poking wild fruit trees, and a cat monster that breaks into an indoor space from the walls of a collapsed house and turns it into a bed is taking children to teach rat hunting.

In the sewers that used to undertake the drainage of the King's City, clean water flows, and the slimes take in the moss and grass that grows there and eat it.

Werewolf monsters on the boulevard fly over to the escaping hare.

The threat of monsters becomes stronger the closer they get to the center of the capital, as an ecosystem that seems to be at peace spreads along the outer edge of the capital.

And in the hall in front of the Imperial Castle, King Kimaira, an A-rank monster who had wings on the lion's torso bigger than a cow and slept calmly with the snake's tail shaking.

Since it can be a magical power spot, such as the King's City, it will become the bed of the superior monster if it is not controlled by humans.

A monster ecosystem is being built in the old King's City, with the focus on such a superior monster.

"It seems that the exiled nobleman Wang Hou is trying to reclaim the country, but it's impossible..."

It seems that some people are planning to hire adventurers and recapture the city with the household goods they brought out when they fled Stampede, but it takes a tremendous amount of time to rebuild it by removing monsters from the royal capital that have been destroyed so far.

However, the family possessions that could not be taken out are left in the ruined capital, and adventurers may travel to this expedition across the territory of the former Kingdom of Christa, which has become a monster realm.

If you want to break into the treasury of the Royal Castle, you must get closer to King Kimaira's territory, and if you want to reclaim the Royal Capital, you must defeat the A-rank monster.

Witch... is the treasure of the Royal Castle good?

Hmmm? It's not like we can't defeat King Kimaila... but we're not here to root out the treasure.

Apart from the Imperial Castle, there should be a lot of money left in the old King's City if you look for the aristocratic mansions, merchants' stores, and money left in each family.

Many adventurers have risked their lives to get here in search of such gold and silver treasures.

It would be exciting for us to gather the gold and goods they seek ahead of time.

That's why I'm here to recover something of cultural value that is not too much of a treasure.

"Um... that's where the library is supposed to be."

Oh, it's big!

When you land in front of the library, which is a bit far from the center of King Kimaila, the monsters that dwell there will attack you.

I am the magic of [Wind Cutter], and Tete is knocking down with his magic sword.

After that, I packed the monster's corpse into a magic bag and entered an open library.

If you've been insect repellent or beast avoidance for two years, it'll collapse, right?

The book near the open library entrance is made of parchment.

"Psychokinesis"

The magic of power makes the nearby book float, but it is worn out by insect eating and sunburn.

In the published book, although it will be copied and spread in other countries, it is still a waste, and it goes deep into the library with a sigh.

"Oh, witch." The books in the back are beautiful! "

After all, books of high rare value are hung with the magic of state preservation.

Valuable books, studies, history books, various materials, technical books, references, forbidden books, etc. for the country... Books and historically valuable originals that were not open to the general public were placed in the rooms where the magic behind the library was used.

In this world where there are disasters caused by monsters and the like, rare books are stored in multiple places as manuscripts, and they are preserved and protected by magic.

Particularly valuable are the books and materials on ancient magical civilizations that cannot be read by modern people and still await decipherment.

I was able to read even the content of a book that modern people cannot read without any problems, due to the translation ability that Lilliel had when I was reincarnated.

"Well, I wonder if the library books are like this."Let's go to the next place. ”

Yes, sir!

We split up and collect various books from the Royal Capital's buildings.

There are a variety of books that people value.

― ― Picture books for children.

― ― Rare ancient books, history books, and academic books for maniacs.

― ― Booklets of theatrical plays, paintings, and satirical drawings.

― ― Fashionable novels.

― ― Magic books and research records that are passed down in a magic gate.

--Banned books that could not be put out on the front and were secretly enclosed.

In addition to the library, the owner of a well-preserved book that was left in a building that he visited somehow understands his thoughts.

Because it is a valuable book for others, but also for us, they are hung with the magic of state preservation, and we continue to collect them.

However, there was also a problem along the way--

"Hmm? Witch ~ There were picture books and novels on the high shelves ~"

"Picture books in such a place?"

Children's picture books are usually within reach of children.

And yet, to say that it was placed in a high place, I wondered if it got in the way, and looked back, and I was surprised to see Tete's book.

"Oh, it's a naked picture book of a woman ~"

"T-t-t-t! What are you looking at!?"

"What? It's an unusual picture book!"

"Tet, don't look!"

Tete's found books were classified as spring paintings and sensual novels.

Tete himself did not know what the book was, so I took it from Tete and looked inside, and it was very rich.

"Wow, that's pretty awesome... and there's even a photo album with magic photographs and transcriptions... wow... the picture of a high-end whore..."

While I was reading the book I picked up from Tete, I had been watching erotic books for the first time in more than half a century since my previous life, and I was shocked and nervous.

"Witch, your face is bright red!"Are you all right? "

"Hon! These books are culture, too."There's no such thing as culture, so let's collect it. ”

I coughed up Tete, who was a bit flushed and worried about me, and stored the spring paintings and sensual novels in a magic bag and collected the books at the site of the royal capital of the former Christa Kingdom.

Then, I found a book that bothered me when I was collecting rough books from the building on the royal site.

"Is this a travel note?"

You'll find a few books like your personal travel and adventure logs, as well as guidebooks created by the countries you travel to.

The owners of this mansion seemed to like to travel because they collected books from various destinations in the past and now.

"--The Great Shrine of the Five Great God Churches, the scenery of the Silver Mountains at the northern tip of the Mubad Empire, the walk of the abandoned ruined city, the dungeon city, the delicious local cuisine of various places, the scenery of the king capitals of various countries with a stack of history......"

"I want to go everywhere once!"

Tete peers into my hand as he reads a book.

I want to go someday.

"But the witch is free!"You can continue on your journey. ”

“If we suddenly go on a journey, Beretta and the others will be worried, so let's go home today.”

Although Tete's proposal was fascinating, he was an ally of the [Witch's Forest of Creation], so he couldn't go on a long trip.

I'll put the travel books I found in a magic bag and return today from the ruined capital of the Old Kingdom of Christa.

Later, after checking the collapse of the Dungeon City, which was the site of the Stampede, he stretched his legs further west to the site of the king's city of the former Drago duchy.

"Wow... you've bought too much grudges."It's become an undead town because of the outbreak of anger. "

"Wow, that feels terrible!"

The ruins of the former Duke of Dragon King, the culprit who induced Stampede by ordering his death inside the dungeon, were so intense that they blocked the sun.

Drawing on the bitterness of the people who were killed alive, Stampede lost their homes, and the negative emotions of those who lost their lives gathered here to become the town of the Undead.

Stampede-born Black Skeleton survives patrolling in the sun, tending towns and killing infiltrated creatures.

The land itself is cursed with so much impatience that even the weeds are dead and strange plants are growing alienated.

"I don't think I'm going to go into the boulder and retrieve the book."Let's give up this time. ”

"Go home early and have a snack."

Whether it's a cleansing magic ritual by the priests or a natural self-purification effect... The clouds of passion that cover this land will clear up in ten or a hundred years... At that time, I decided to come back and search for the book again, and I returned to the [Forest of Creation Witches] with transfer magic.

After that, I visited the land of the destroyed country several times, and I found monsters activated by the influence of magic, ruins of seemingly spatiotemporal drifting objects that suddenly appeared, and newly born dungeons, etc., but I recorded only the places and left most of them alone.

I intend to entrust it to adventurers who seek adventure, waves and treasures, but if it is not explored too much, I will leave it in one corner of my head, such as whether Tete and I will receive it at that time.