Published: August 2, 2025
Today, nine chapters were updated simultaneously.
This is chapter 8.
The next day
I took 15 adventurers dispatched from the Adventurers' Guild and visited the site where we fought the elder treant yesterday.
Today, with their help, we began collecting timber. Except for the portion stored in Reipin’s dimension home, all the wood was temporarily stored in the town and guild warehouses. Later, it would be transported to Gimul by carriage.
The reason was simple. We had taken down too many treants. Even the adventurers who were sent here were surprised at first, but the total number reached over a thousand.
Since more and more kept gathering, we had to keep defeating them one after another. Everyone, including me, swiftly took down those who entered our attack range. Combining all the kills from everyone resulted in this massive extermination.
I began to worry whether the forest would be okay with so many trees cut down as treants. But when I asked the local adventurers, they casually assured me it was fine.
Apparently, the trees in this forest are called "Torigiri" trees. Though their growing locations are limited, they have very strong vitality and grow rapidly. So fast, in fact, that even if cut down at the base, they return to their original state within six months. If seedlings are planted and nurtured, they can grow to a harvestable size for timber within a year.
Therefore, even if cut down like this time, the forest will be restored by next year, and the town’s income won’t be much affected. Moreover, it’s said that people rarely come this deep into the forest to harvest wood.
I accepted this explanation while reminding myself that this was another world.
On Earth, it takes years or even decades to grow trees from seedlings to timber. Here, it’s just half a year. Sometimes Earth’s common sense just doesn’t apply…
"Alright, let’s get started!"
While taking down treants discovered occasionally, the timber collection began.
Asagi and the others gathered the timber in one place, while Reipin and I kept carrying the wood back and forth between the town and the forest, storing it in the dimension home.
With manpower and magical piston transport, the timber collection work was completed around 3 PM. Finally, I sent Ains from my shop to contact the adventurers’ guild in Gimul to prepare for receiving the timber.
With the treant timber situation settled, the adventurers who helped with collection returned to town.
However, we still had one more job to do.
"Alright… the last big one."
It was the disassembly and collection of the elder treant.
The request we received in Gimul was only for treant timber procurement. The elder treant was not included.
In this case, the materials belong to whoever hunts them, but if you ask the Adventurers’ Guild to fell and transport it, the fees are out of your own pocket. However, elder treant wood is top-grade material for mage staffs. It’s said to sell for a high price on the market, so it would be wasteful to discard it. Therefore, we decided to collect this elder treant ourselves. It will be quite a hassle due to its size, though.
"Well, it’s the last job. Let’s get it done quickly."
Wellanna brought out a machete. Our first task was to trim the branches. We climbed a ladder prepared beforehand and started pruning, but the elder treant had grown so large that some branches were out of reach even with the ladder.
So, everyone took charge of the reachable branches, and I handled the ones beyond my reach.
The tools we used were a sturdy rope woven from sticky slime threads and metal slimes transformed into hooks or metal fittings to secure limbs or the body.
First, we made a loop and knot at the rope’s end, had a metal slime cling tightly to it, completing a grappling hook. Swinging it to gain momentum, I aimed and threw it.
The grappling hook flew just as planned, wrapping tightly around a thick and sturdy branch.
I pulled the rope several times—it didn’t budge. The strength seemed solid.
Using the rope, I climbed up and cut one branch at a time with wind cutters from a safe and precise distance. Once no branches were left to cut around one place, we moved to another and repeated.