Spirit’s Paradise Chapter 17

I kept thinking about the future while watching Bell and Rain playing in the fountain. Besides raising my level, what should I do with my remaining time?

“Yuuta, the fountain is finally completed so why are you making such a difficult face?”

“No, since I managed to secure water and food I was thinking what should I do next. Hunting monsters is more efficient at night, so waking up at late morning to prolong my time at night might be good, but what should I do during the daytime?”

“Since you are going to have to prepare an environment for living, how about you rework on the things that you feel dissatisfied about.”

Hmm, dissatisfied? The most things I’m dissatisfied with is the variety of food, but this is something that I can’t do anything about. I also want to make a bath, but boiling water will need to use a lot of precious materials that I get, and I can use cleaning magic, so it’s not something that I necessarily need to make.

“Hey Sylphy, since we have abundant water, if we use that to water the ground, make fields and have the spirit of the forest to come, won’t we be able to make plants grow at once?”

“……I think that will be difficult, it’s true that the spirit of the forest can make plants grow at once, but I heard that there should be a lot of nutrition in the soil. If you can’t improve the quality of soil even planting normal things won’t be possible.”

“I see, improving the soil is not something easy to achieve.”

“Well since I’m not a spirit of soil, I don’t understand the specific details, but rich soil should contain different factors of nature. Just adding water to soil won’t be enough.”

Rich soil, I heard that agriculture work start from making fields first.

“Can’t the spirit of soil make the soil richer?”

“Ufufu, if they can do that then there wouldn’t be a Land of Death. Spirits can only assist with the flow of nature, we are not gods.”

I see, so we can’t just use spirit power to make everything work. Hmmm, lack of nutrition? Maybe I can break the bones of skeletons for calcium……I’d hate having fields that are only filled with bones.

I don’t know why but I heard that you can use ash as fertilizer, and I also heard that in the past people used small fishes as fertilizer to make fields. Should I use the marine products?

But if I use it just like that they will only be rotten, so should I dry them first then crush them perfectly? I should try that since I have nothing to do. I also need to wash the seaweed and dry them since they are plants too…… That sounds good.

“Sylphy, in my world they dry small fish and use them as fertilizer for the fields. Will it make up for the nutrition that is missing here? And if it went well, can you call the spirit of soil for me?”

“Using small fish as fertilizer for the fields? I’m not sure since I don’t know about that, but if you make something like that then I don’t mind calling them for you.”

Then should I try it? Small fish and seaweed, if I dry and spread them to the field after crushing them, then something might change.

“Okay, I will try it, since this is an experiment I will make a small field about 5 meters.”

“Ufufu, that’s good, do your best, but that will be tomorrow, it will be getting dark soon.”

With Sylphys words, I looked at the sky and saw that the sun had begun to go down already. The time I spent making the fountain seems to have passed quickly.

For now, I should eat seafood and go for leveling up. Bell and Rain are eating happily but Sylphy said that she had enough and is only watching us. I need to increase the number of dishes that I can make so we all can happily eat together.

The results of my resent level up.

Names Morizono Yuuta
Level 18
Stamina C
Magical Power D
Power D
Intelligence C
Dexterity B
Luck B

Unique Skills
Language Comprehension
Cultivating Tools

Skills
Life Magic

 

For the past few days my level has increased by six. The rate of leveling up is becoming slower, and when I told Sylphy about that she said we can just attack the nest of zombies and skeletons. There will be strong monsters so I can level up quickly…..I’m scared.

My level had risen by six and my stamina increased by one rank. I want to believe that my magical power is also rising……I wonder how that is?

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Is it morning? Since the sunlight doesn’t enter the bedroom, I can’t tell the time. I raised my body from bed, ohh, the pain feels much better than before.

Sand is falling from my back, but the bed of sand is much better than rock. The disadvantage of sand falling is acceptable.

After I applied cleaning magic on my self all the sand fell, and I removed the rock that closed the bedroom off and headed to the kitchen. A bright light was shining through the window.

……..I should eat steamed fish today. I sat on the rock bench and took out the steamed fish.

“Yuu–ta, good morning.”

“Queue”

“ah, Bell, Rain, good morning, do you want to eat breakfast?”

“Eat–”

“Queue”

 

I put steamed fish in front of Bell and Rain. Bell is using the fork awkwardly to eat while Rain just eats the fish whole in one gulp. Rain aside, should I teach Bell how to eat properly? Since no one can see her maybe I should leave her to do as she wants, hmm, what should I do?

After we finished, we left the house, and Sylphy and Dine came.

“Good morning Yuuta”

“Good morning Yuuta-chan”

Ah, getting a good morning greeting from two beautiful girls, I feel happy.

“Sylphy, Dine, good morning.”

“Yuuta, are you going to make the field today?”

“Yes, that’s what I’m planning to do.”

“Ara, Yuuta-chan, you are going to make fields?”

“Yes, and I’m going to use water to some extent, is that okay?”

“Yes, there is an abundance of underground water so it’s okay, also if you are making fields then Onee-chan has some pieces of advice. Do you want to hear them?”

It seems that Dine like the phrase onee-chan. I’m having little troubles on how to react to that.

“Sure, since I’m an amateur at this so I’d appreciate any advice.”

“Mufu, it can’t be helped, then here is Onee-chan’s advice, the Land of Death will suck all the water, so you should dig deep and put rocks below. Also it’s not good to leave the water gather so you should make some hole in the rocks too.”

It’s irritating somehow, but I got some good advice, that is a surprise.

“I didn’t think about that, thank you Dine.”

“You are welcome.”

Now since I’m going to spread fish I’m afraid of the smell, so I should make the field far from the well and the house. I told Bell and Rain who followed me to go and play around and started to work.

5-meters should be enough, and since she said that it needs to be deep so I think 5-meters depth is enough too. I should make extra 50 centimeters for the rock.

I’ll use the magical shovel and start digging a hole. It might take several days to finish it with a normal shovel, but using the magical shovel and the magical bag 20 minutes is enough. Though it’s plain but it’s still a cheat ability.

I put the rocks at the bottom and made a hole in it, this time the hand auger is about 13 centimeters big, this should be enough.

I was going to return the soil but, I think it’s better to do that after I mix it with fertilizer.

When I wanted to get out of the hole, a high wall stood in front of me. It will be easy to make stairs, but it will be more interesting to ask Bell to get me out of here.

“Sylphy, is Bell around?”

“She is playing at the fountain.”

“Can you call her? I want to ask her to get me out of here, is that okay?”

“If its that then you just need to call her while thinking about her. Also this much won’t be hard on her if it’s for a little time.”

If it won’t cause her any strain then it’s good. Hmm summon, let’s try it out.

“Bell, come”

With a ‘Boun’ befitting sound, she suddenly appeared in front of me

“What-?”

She is not surprised at being summoned? She acts normally.

“Bell, I want to get out from here, can you carry me out?”

“Yeah-”

For some reason, she sits in my arms. Oh, I’m floating and my body slowly began to rise, this is so fun, and I got out of the 5-meter hole.

“Thank you, Bell, thanks to you I’m saved”

I started to stroke her head while thanking her.

“Fuwa—”

Ah, she flew away, maybe I stroked her too much.

We are going to the sea, when I told them that Dine said that she will stay here, so with Sylphy, Bell and Rain we headed to the sea.

 

*****

 

“Bell and Rain I want you to catch some small fishes this time”

Bell and Rain are tilting their head, is there a problem?

“Mission-?”

Ah, so Bell and Rain remembered it. Both are looking at me with expressions that expect something, what should I do……Cuu, their innocent gazes are hurting my heart.

“Ah,…. gohon, private Bell, private Rain, I’m giving you a serious mission, you should go and catch small fishes, can you do that?”

“Yes sir”

“Queue”

“Be sure to achieve your mission, now go.”

With that, both of them headed to the sea.

“Yuuta, you are still using that setting?”

“I’m regretting it a little, but I can’t help it, both Bell and Rain seems to like it.”

It seems that I’m really awakening for paternity, and it seems that Sylphy can’t decide if this setting is good or bad. Hmmm, should I maybe teach them how to salute too? But I think that they will forget about it, let’s wait for more and see what will happen.

“I will collect seaweed.”

I searched the beach but there is no driftwood. Maybe it doesn’t drift here unless the sea weather becomes rough. I took off my clothes and remained only with trunks, then entered the sea. Doing this, I’m going to get more sunburns.

I like swimming but getting sunburns every time I do that is painful. I need to find a way to have the spirit of life come here.

Because I’m going to use them as fertilizer so it won’t matter if they are edible or not, so I should collect all. Hmmm, is it possible to use them as fuel if I dry them? I should try that later.

For now, let’s collect seaweed in order to make nutrition for the soil.