Let’s Do Some Farming

After the great disaster incident, I tried to help with clearing away the rubble.

However, before I could even finish carrying the first log, the principal and vice principal stopped me.

“If you stay here, it causes all sorts of inconveniences!”

“Hurry up and go back to the trash dump, yes indeed! Shoo, shoo, yes indeed!”

Chased away like a stray dog, I figured it wasn’t worth the trouble and went back to my house.

Remembering what I had originally planned to do, I immediately made planters the next morning using leftover Gisu wood.

I set the planters in the yard and took out the Giant Boar Leather Water Flask from my coat pocket.

I poured in pond water I had fetched and placed the green onion roots inside.

“All right, grow strong and come back to life.”

As I spoke to the roots, I realized my body was being wrapped in light.

The new job gained from leveling up was Mana Farmer.

Like Farmer, it was a production job focused on growing crops.

However, unlike a normal farmer, a Mana Farmer used magic during the cultivation process.

In short, it was a magic user specialized in agricultural work, making it a type of magic class as well.

But since few people with magical talent wanted to get their hands dirty with soil, it was an extremely rare job.

In any case, for me right now, it couldn’t have been more perfect.

At that moment, I had been making planters in the yard, but…

The instant I changed jobs, my vision took on new colors.

It felt as though a thin film that had been covering my eyes peeled away, making everything clearer.

More precisely, the grass growing in the yard turned into a vivid, lively green and began to shine as if saying, “Look at me!”

Without thinking, I murmured the names of the grasses.

“Chickweed, trampling grass, triple clover…”

What had once been nothing more than “weeds” were now recognized as individual living things.

“So that’s it. Thanks to Open-Field Cultivation, I can tell different types of grass apart now…!”

Then I noticed a vine plant creeping along the garden fence.

“That is…!”

Drawn toward it, I crouched down and dug into the soil.

When I pulled on the vine, the ground split open with a thud, and a small red root, like a bird’s egg, popped out.

“Just as I thought, a wild sweet potato…! To think such a familiar vegetable was buried so close by…!”

I had believed I was already living fairly self-sufficiently, but it seemed I still had a long way to go.

“But this is the perfect vegetable to start farming with.”

I cut the vine away from the sweet potato growing in the yard.

I wanted to start farming right away using this cutting, but there was still preparation to do.

“Doing farm work barehanded would be rough.”

Muttering to myself, I dashed over to the cart parked beside my house.

I took some Gisu lumber from the cart and pulled out the Giant Boar Large Knife from my pocket.

Using my Wood Crafter skill, I quickly made a tool.

“All right, preparation complete! …Now then, where should I make the field?”

I looked around the surrounding forest.

When I first arrived here, the area had been covered in Gisu trees.

But I had cut them down for lumber, so the view was much more open now.

If I removed the remaining stumps, it would make a perfect clearing, so I decided to create the field right next to my house.

First, I dug up the stumps using the Forest Stone Shovel I had made earlier.

Of course, I didn’t throw them away.

I smashed them apart with the Forest Stone Axe and turned them into firewood.

“You can never have too much firewood!”

And then, at last, it was time for my long-awaited first farming job.

Gripping the Gisu Hoe tightly, I shouted to the sky.

“Enchant Wind!”

I activated the Mana Farmer spell Wind Tilling.

Leaves appeared from nowhere and wrapped around my body like a whirlwind.

I felt a strange power fill my arms and couldn’t help letting out a low “Oh…!”

“Come to think of it, this is actually my first time ever using magic.

Now then, just how effective is it…? Here goes!”

I swung the hoe down toward the ground.

With a satisfying crunch, the blade sank into the soil, and then—

…shuwawawa!

The earth in a one-meter square around me loosened as if bubbling.

“Oh! I can till all that soil in one swing! This is amazing!”

The sensation of the soil through the hoe, and the act of tilling the earth itself.

For me, it was incredibly fresh—and fun.

“I should’ve done this sooner! And this totally counts as crafting too!”

Like a child given a new toy, I eagerly kept digging up the soil.

As if life that had been sleeping until now was awakening, a strong earthy smell rose into the air.

At first, I planned to make a ten-meter-square field and try growing sweet potatoes.

But tilling the soil was so enjoyable that before I realized it, a twenty-meter-square area had become farmland.

Standing in the center of the field, I wiped away a good sweat and looked around.

“This should be more than enough. All right, time to plant the cuttings.”

I stabbed the base of the Sweet Potato Cutting I had kept in my pocket into the soft ground.

Then I spread my arms wide and shouted toward the sun.

“O light…! Become the power that makes new life sprout in this land…!”

I activated the Mana Farmer skill Breath of Light.

My body was enveloped in warm light, which traveled down through the soles of my shoes and spread across the entire field.

The very next moment—

…zomomomomomoooooooooooooooooo!

The thirty-centimeter cutting planted in the ground began to grow at a speed like the earth itself was splitting.

The sight was as if time itself had accelerated, and I almost jumped in surprise.

“S-So fast…!?”

That was only natural.

When I checked my status, my MP was completely empty.

“So this magic keeps working until you stop it… If it used up all 1800 MP, no wonder it grew this big…”

Before I knew it, the sweet potato leaves had burst out of the field and were already spreading into the surrounding forest.