Over the course of three years, the center of the empty wilderness has become lush with Oita.

In the past, forests that were only 100 meters away from the house were expanded to plant trees up to 500 meters.

As long as a certain environment is in place, magical power will generate more magical powers.

Every day I release magical power, and the plants that grow by absorbing it produce more magical power, and the magical concentration in the barrier has become quite dense.

If it's too dark, powerful monsters and dungeons can spontaneously spawn, and if you cut off the barriers that prevent the spill of magic, you'll have the former two dances.

To do so, double-barriers were set up outside of the first 100 metres, with a magic shield outside of the first 100 meters.

Trees were planted and the range was widened while gradually increasing the dark magical power there and making the magical power concentration uniform.

"Oh, it's harder to manage the barrier magic device."

However, although the pillars of the former barrier were removed due to the wider range of the barrier, it was still awkward to turn around the magic guides, which increased to about 80 pieces, to replenish the magic.

Meanwhile, in the first winter, plant growth stagnated, leaving Tet alone to explore the voidless wilderness, and found the remains of an ancient magical civilization buried underground.

The ground surface has been wiped out by a runaway magic experiment, but it seems that there are still facilities underground.

One day I'd like to investigate closely, but found something more important.

From the facility, he found materials of magical engineering of the ancient magical civilization, and recognized the existence of magical tools for controlling and managing magical tools with magical tools.

As a result, he created and installed a control magic device for sending and managing magic at the base with [Creative Magic].

It is ironic that the ancient magical civilization technology that led to the mass extinction of magical power has played a major role in magical power and forest regeneration.

"Okay, this can reduce the frequency of patrols."

The control magic device can grasp the status of each magic device, and can also immediately see information on breakage or malfunction.

It's easier to manage than it used to be, but there's also decay when sending magic.

Previously, it consumed about 20,000 magical powers with 80 stone pillars each with its own magical power, but the centralized management increased the consumed magical power to about 40,000.

However, the magical power lost by the decay was sprayed into the air, helping to increase the magical power concentration, so that the result was not wasted.

"For the time being, forest regeneration can be stopped here at the moment."

Just replenishing the magic of the barrier was consuming 80% of my magic at the time.

`` If the balance of the magical power that expands and replenishes the barrier is broken, I will go back again as before. ''

Now, it is necessary to fill the barrier with the tiny amount of magical power emitted by the grown plants and increase my own magical power.

[Void wilderness] has an area of 2500 square kilometers.

This is only about 0.01% of the total area of the 500 meter forest that I created.

"We need to make forest regeneration more efficient."

"Witch, we have more time. We'll do it leisurely!"

"Yes, Tet, but we have to think of a new way."

Over the last three years, the surrounding environment has begun to settle.

"Mama ~, Tet Onee-chan!

The forest was set in Oita, and the forest was slightly opened up to create a small vegetable garden-like field. The house and the small log house combining wood and stone expanded the room a little.

It is three-year-old Selene who catches butterflies stuck on a vegetable flower by both hands and rushes here with petapeta.

Growing up into a lovely little girl with deep green hair, she's looking forward to her growth now before the forest can be regenerated.

And--

"Ah……"

Because he is a child, he falls and falls.

He had caught a butterfly in his hand, but released his hands to reach the ground immediately, and the butterfly fluttered and jumped over Selene's head and flew somewhere.

"Selene, are you okay?"

"Wow, Mamaaaa!"

"Okay, it hurt, show your hands and knees."

I hold the fallen Serene and calm it.

It seems to have rubbed off the fallen beat, is slightly soiled, and blood is oozing.

I clean such wounds with magic and use healing magic.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts. Yes, it doesn't hurt anymore."

"... Yeah, it doesn't hurt"

"Selene is great. She stopped crying immediately. Selene is a strong child."

"Hey, he was praised by Tet."

I hug Selene and praise Tet.

In such a way, our daily life continues to regenerate the forest, centering on Selene.

Selene recognizes me as her mother and longs for Tet like her sister.

Speaking of height and appearance, I guess I feel like my older sister, but somehow Selene longs for me as her mother.

"Selene's real mother has passed you off to me and died. This is your mother's hair-your hair

Before being attacked in the city of Daryl, she showed her hair cut from her body and explained it, but she didn't know what she was doing, but she still had a birth mother and realized that I was a growing mother. Seems to be.

"What were the moms doing?"

"Yeah? I was trying to plant a new tree today."

"A new tree? I'll help!"

"Well then, I wonder if Selene can help."

With my own magic alone, reforestation seems to have ceased and I take a certain approach.

It is the creation of a new kind of tree by [Creative Magic].

In the past, we decided to plant a tree that could be called a "world tree"-a tree that produces a lot of magical power by applying a convenient herb seed containing a soap component.

Tet digs up the softened ground with a scoop, and Selene plants seeds about the size of walnut I prepared in advance with [Creative Magic], and uses Jolo to dissolve liquid fertilizer in water.

Finally, I send a little more magic to the ground so that I can easily germinate, and plant it evenly throughout the forest.

And in the evening--

"Well, well ..."

"Hey, it's cute"

"Witches are cute and Selene is cute."

"Some day, Selene will grow larger and nest."

After planting tree seeds, tired Selene rests on my back and sleeps.

My height has stopped growing at all-I mean, after three years of raising Selene, I continued to eat [mysterious nuts], and my magical power exceeded 50,000, and at that time, a certain skill was added.

-[Youth].

At the age of 12 she was afraid, she will someday be overtaken by Selene.

In the first place, living alone with me and Tet and Selene is extremely unhealthy as a human society.

"Now, when this world tree germinates, let's consider moving for Selene."

As the world tree germinates and begins to produce magical power as planned, additional features will be added to the magical barrier maintenance tool.

It is an operation maintenance function by absorbing magical power.

I need about 40,000 magical powers to maintain a 500 meter barrier.

In order to supplement it with the magic generated by plants and trees, he planted countless [world trees], which have a large amount of magic production.

If I don't need to manage it every day, I only need to do a regular check of the mage once a year.

Then, in the third year, the seeds of the world tree sprout, and at the stage of the seedlings, the amount of magical power increased by 1500 per day more than originally planned, and the magical power required to maintain the barrier in the planted world tree Could be covered.

In addition, the world tree, which is lush without dying in winter, continues to generate magical power in a stable manner, and the magical power with a high density in the barrier is set to be discharged to a certain density in the empty wilderness.

Having gone away from the center of the empty wilderness, we have no problem, and in the third winter we will move our base from the center of the empty wilderness to the southeastern rim, close to Gard Beastland was.