Renovating the swamp wasn't easy. Even when the best gnomes and hobgoblins were gathered at the magic cypress tree, they could not make quick progress.
After scouting the terrain, the gnomes and Rino agreed that levelling the entire swamp was too difficult and counter useful. Filling the swamp with artificial platforms would hinder the ecosystem too much, and the least they could do was make bridges and docks for boats to arrive at the stations they needed.
There was a lovely spot for chopping trees that Rino marked out as a tree farm. He wanted to build the sawmill a little further from that plot of land, extended towards the water because it was easier to create a section for wood treatment tanks in the pond than on land.
The gnomes said they would prepare some new wood using the cypress trees in the swamp, and Rino told them to proceed while he figured out how to plant his hundred Water Bell Flowers in the pond within the cypress tree radius.
