The time for harvesting crops has come.
It seems to be the best yield in the past 10 years.
The faces of all the farmers are bright.
"With this, our advance payment for this year is secure."
"What is an advance payment, young master?"
Shima asked Ryuu about his usual Gokudo terms.
"Oh, I made a mistake. I meant tax revenue."
"I see. Are we not harvesting coffee beans yet?"
"That's about two months from now. I'm looking forward to that too."
The coffee bean processing facility (shed) was also built with the profits from the handcart.
"More importantly, after the harvest is over, we have to clear the forest to expand the coffee field. We plan to do it in Daichi Village and Nidai Village."
"That sounds like a lot of work. I'll work hard too!"
Shima nodded with determination, and Ryuu also felt the need to work hard.
On the day of the forest development work...
"You don't have to chop down each tree. I'll take care of that. The rest of you can handle transporting the trees, pruning the branches, storing them, and leveling the ground after felling the trees."
"Huh? Do we not have to dig out the stumps and roots?"
It seems that the hardest work can be left to the 7-year-old child in front of them.
"Alright, let's get started."
As the villagers watched, Ryuu raised his hand toward the base of the tree and chanted earth magic.
Thud!
With a sound, the soil at the base of the tree rose up, pushing it up from the ground and exposing its roots.
At the moment when the tree was about to fall, Ryuu said, "Storage!"
Then, the tree disappeared into Ryuu's hand as if it were being sucked in.
It was magic storage. The tree itself cannot be stored, but by using earth magic to turn it into an object temporarily, it became possible to recover it.
Immediately after, he turned around and handed the stored tree to the waiting villagers.
Then, he faced forward again and chanted earth magic.
This was repeated over and over again.
At first, the farmers were stunned by the piles of trees stacking up in front of them, but they quickly got to work.
They couldn't just leave it all to Ryuu.
Ryuu silently continued with the work.
Shima was by his side, holding a bottle, waiting.
"Shima-kun."
"Yes, young master!"
Shima handed Ryuu a bottle of water.
It was a magic power recovery potion.
He was still a 7-year-old boy, and his magic power was limited.
It was necessary to replenish it before he collapsed due to magic power exhaustion, so Shima was waiting for him with the bottle.
This magic power recovery potion must cost a lot of money, but it was free.
It was Ryuu's own creation.
He was able to collect a lot of medicinal herbs from the forest every day, but when he sold them directly to the apothecary guild, the price was low because it was usually the job of adventurers.
So, he tried to make it himself, and this was the result.
The taste was terrible, but the effect had been proven.
"Yuck!"
With a face that literally looked like he had eaten a bitter bug, he drank it all and continued chanting earth magic to store the trees.
In no time, the forest was cleared.
The farmers were surprised, happy, and hard at work.
At the same time, Ryuu's belly was full of potions, but...
"The limit of Magic Storage has been reached. With Gokudo's ability Limit Break, the current limit of Magic Storage has been broken. The capacity of Magic Storage has been expanded."
The voice of the world rang in his mind.
"All right! This means that I can do more!"
With his belly bouncing, Ryuu clenched his fist in joy.
He tried putting several trees in Magic Storage instead of just one.
He still didn't feel the limit.
This might have been a considerable expansion!
Ryuu wanted to check the limit, but he was currently working.
So, he took out a few trees from storage at a time and continued with the work.
There were several breaks due to Ryuu's stomach limit, but the forest-clearing work went smoothly.
The rest was up to the farmers.
Ryuu watched the farmers working on the leveling while rubbing his belly, feeling a sense of accomplishment.