Auto Harvest

“Let’s go together, Woody.”

“Yeah, let’s go together.”

Hand in hand with Nadja, I headed toward the outskirts of the village.

If I let too many trees grow densely inside the village, it would become difficult to pass through.

I also didn’t want the villagers tripping on roots sticking out of the ground, so for now I used Tree Planting only on the outer edges of the village.

Thanks to that, besides Simurg-san’s Wind Muscat orchard, small fruit orchards had started to appear.

“All right, for now let’s plant apples and…”

I planted a few apple trees in the apple zone and ate an apple that had fallen to the ground.

Though softened a little by the desert heat, it was still plenty delicious.

But looking around, there were also many apples already rotting away into mush, or even further decayed until nothing remained but seeds and cores.

“Seeing it like this makes it feel like such a waste…”

“If only we could harvest everything. If we could, Aira could use her water magic to keep them chilled…”

My Tree Planting produced fruit once every hour.

Because of that, if I looked away for even a short while, the next fruit would appear, and the ones that had already grown would fall off.

I had been carefully storing them in the Storage Bag, but it was already getting pretty stuffed.

Sure, they turned into seeds, and maybe someday they could sprout into new trees, but it still felt like such a waste.

“—Eh!?”

“Wh-what’s wrong, Woody, looking so shocked? D-don’t tell me you noticed that the oil I’m wearing is different today…”

“My aptitude just gave me advice again for the first time in a while.”

“—O-oh, so that’s what it was! Hahaha… (thud)”

Supporting Nadja, who for some reason looked like she was about to collapse to her knees, I walked toward the vineyard.

And when I finished planting the tenth grapevine, a shining plate of light appeared.

“Tree Planting has reached the required amount. Level up! You have acquired the skills Auto Harvest and Harvest Bag!”

“Auto Harvest and Harvest Bag…?”

Unlike Crossbreeding or Auto Replanting, these were skills whose effects were fairly easy to guess from their names.

And if my guess was correct… then the problems I had been facing until now might be solved all at once.

Excited with anticipation, I immediately tried out the skill.

The first one to use was Auto Harvest.

“Activate—whoaaaaaa!?”

DODODODODODO!!

With incredible force, something came flying at me from every direction.

“Woody, get back—wait, this is fruit!?”

Nadja realized that what she had been about to cut down were actually fruits and stopped her hand.

Meanwhile, with a roar rivaling Aira’s water magic, fruits piled up before me in a towering heap.

Before I knew it, the mountain of fruits had completely filled my field of vision.

It seemed this Auto Harvest skill really did automatically harvest fruit from the trees, just as I had imagined.

In that case, this so-called Harvest Bag must be…