Tree Arrangement

While Ran-san and her group went on another desert journey, I decided to focus this time on raising my Tree Planting level.

Even though I kept making Element Fruits, none of them really seemed like the product, so I decided to take a short break from that.

I slightly reduced the frequency of Auto Harvesting, had the idle folks produce bases for Fruit Tea Resemble, and planted trees as much as possible.

Since the next specialty I was aiming for was wine, I concentrated on planting grapes.

As a result, only the vineyard had grown conspicuously large.

I had arranged the orchards along the outskirts so they wouldn’t encroach on the living area of the village, but planting too many grapes caused them to bulge outward.

If I kept enlarging only the vineyard, even the shape of the village itself might change.

Thinking of the future… maybe I should reserve a separate space just for vineyards?

As I mulled over that and kept planting trees, about a week passed.

Thanks to focusing on planting, my Tree Planting level safely went up.

“Yeah, I’ve gained a new power again. This time it’s called Tree Arrangement.”

“As expected of Woody-sama!”

“Where exactly is Woody headed…?”

Right now, we were in the Wind Muscat orchard, built at Simurg-san’s request.

Position-wise, it was directly behind the large House Tree I lived in.

—This place currently served as Simurg-san’s relaxation space.

When you spoke with him, he was just a pleasant gentleman, but after all, Simurg-san was a Divine Bird.

He was the benefactor—well, benefactor bird—who had turned this place into a Sanctuary, so the villagers revered him like a god.

When they saw him, they wept tears or prostrated themselves… that sort of thing.

Apparently, Simurg-san disliked being treated as a god, and so his appearances in public had steadily decreased.

But wasn’t it wrong to repay such a benefactor by forcing him into such a suffocating life?

Just then, I had gained the Crossbreeding skill and the ability to create Element Fruits.

So since Simurg-san had taken a liking to Wind Muscat, I gifted him the Wind Muscat orchard I had made behind my house.

I told everyone that was Simurg-san’s dwelling, so no one entered recklessly.

Thanks to that, he now seemed to enjoy a comfortable, lazy lifestyle, and lately his demeanor had become much more relaxed than before.

He must have lived constantly on guard as a Divine Bird, so I hoped he could rest peacefully now.

Ah, by the way, with his permission, I was also using this place as my fruit testing ground.

Basically, while making wind-type fruits that he liked, I tested other Element Fruits here too.

Since Element Fruits were too flashy, and it would be a problem if someone carelessly harvested them and caused accidents.

Not to mention many of them could be weaponized, so I couldn’t just let them be seen openly.

“So, what kind of skill is this Tree Arrangement?”

“Of course, I don’t know either. That’s why I’m about to try it now.”

At Aira’s words, I activated the Tree Arrangement skill.

Then, right before my eyes… the three-dimensional map of the entire village suddenly appeared!