Healing After Sweeping Spirits with an Almighty Skill - Chapter 55

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Episode 55
Episode 55: One Hundred Spirits Who Love Me to Pieces
I headed toward the Blacksmith to craft an Iron Door, sending out a Telepathic Communication to the Noum.
‘Noum at the Blacksmith—assemble.’
It was the wireless communication function that had emerged when the Watchtower reached Level 3. It was born from using an old relic called a Walkie-Talkie as material, and I’d decided to call it Telepathic Communication.
Several Noum who heard my message came galloping from all directions of the Spirit Territory—thud-thud-thud. They were Noum who had done the Blacksmith work several times and now handled it with semi-professional competence.
During normal work hours, like the other Noum, they mined in the Mine, worked the Herb Field, tended the Spirit Forest, or managed the grounds, but when I summoned them, they assembled.
Through spirit perception, I could see that one of them had been refining the newly expanded area beyond the City Wall from this Territory’s evolution.
“This time we’re making an Iron Door.”
[Ooh?]
“Just make it large and thick, whatever form it takes—thick enough to qualify as Reinforcement Construction.”
[Ooh!]
The supervising Noum nodded and bolted toward the furnace first.
He was after one of the Salamanders lounging nearby—the one whose century-old flames burned most suitable for today’s work.
I’d entrusted the Iron Door to them, so now it was time to head to the Workroom. I needed to craft a Fishing Rod and a Washboard.
‘All spirits with spare hands—assemble. …No, wait! Cancel that! Just the ten closest ones come!’
At the surge of spirits rushing toward me all at once, I started and amended my Telepathic Communication. The disappointed spirits then turned and scattered.
Most of the spirits gathered in the Workroom were Sylphs. It made sense—they could fly fastest.
“I’m thinking of making a Washboard and Fishing Rod. But they can’t be ordinary. They won’t qualify as Reinforcement Construction otherwise.”
[Ooh! A Washboard! Since living beings constantly produce filth and waste from their bodies, it’s absolutely necessary for washing garments, which are essential to cover that flesh!]
“…”
[If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better if creatures just went around without clothes altogether? Wash the body, wash the clothes—doing the same work twice. Why not go naked for a few thousand years and evolve fur instead? Wouldn’t that be better?]
The noisy, chattering one was an intermediate-level Sylph who’d joined the Spirit Territory a few days ago. Privately, I called her the Talkative Sylph.
“Personally, I was thinking of carving stone into a round Washboard shaped like a hamster wheel. If we half-submerge it in water, wouldn’t it be convenient for the Undines to use as well?”
[What a splendid idea! But what is this hamster wheel? Is it a type of cockroach?]
I tapped the Notebook connected to one side of the Workroom and showed them a video of a hamster wheel.
[How utterly adorable!]
“Right. Thanks for the appreciation. And for the Fishing Rod, I was thinking—what if we scale it up and build an actual fishing area?”
At my words, the only Undine in the room raised her hand eagerly and asked a question.
[What about a net?]
“A net’s good too. But the main focus for now is the Fishing Rod.”
[Oh. Ohhh?]
[What if we launched a boat and set multiple Fishing Rods on top of it?]
“That’s also a solid idea, isn’t it?”
The brainstorming with the spirits continued from there.
* * *
A few hours later, the two-item DIY set was complete.
First, the Iron Door.
Just as I’d ordered, it was spectacularly large and obscenely thick. It was so heavy that I had to draw on my power just to lift it barely off the ground.
Level 3 Storage Construction commencing.
Next came the Washboard.
The Noum had put effort into this one too. They’d carved a massive boulder like the wheel of a water mill, creating a “Circular Rotating Washboard.”
The Undines, who graciously handled all our laundry, were thrilled with this primitive washing machine.
‘Next is the Fishing Rod.’
Based on the brainstorming, we’d decided to install a small Ferry Dock at the Water Source. As the Territory kept growing, there might come a day when we’d actually float a boat—I wanted to build the dock ahead of time.
‘And set the handmade Fishing Rod right at the end.’
As I was about to retrieve timber from the Storage for materials, Pung Ho-gi asked.
[Why not use trees from the Forest?]
“Trees from the Spirit Forest?”
The trees in the Spirit Forest had already grown to my height. Like the Herb Field, the growth rate here was extraordinary.
To put it with exaggeration, they grew as fast as bamboo shoots.
“Good idea. Let’s cut some down then.”
I took a saw from the Storage and headed toward the Spirit Forest. It was time to try out the various tools I’d bought just in case.
Screee-screee-screee—
But when I arrived at the Spirit Forest, several trees were already lying on the ground, already cut.
[Jeong Ryong! Will this much be enough? Should we cut more?]
[Huh? What’s that in your hand?]
[Oh, that’s called a saw. Do you not know? It’s what humans typically use when felling trees.]
Whoooosh—!
The Wind Blades raised by the Sylphs cleanly severed the tree trunk.
I gazed quietly at the saw in my hands.
“Hmph.”
After mimicking Suhogi’s sound once, I carefully set the saw away in the Storage. I had a feeling that thing would be sold off on the secondhand market soon enough.
“First I need to set wooden stakes as pillars in the water.”
[Our turn!]
[Leave it to us!]
The moment I tossed several wooden stakes—their ends singed by Salamander’s flames—into the water, the two Undines sprang to life, manipulating them and driving them deep into the bottom.
Over the firmly planted stakes, I laid logs horizontally first. After securing them with large nails forged by the Noum, I stacked more logs vertically, fitting them tightly together.
“Good. It’s finished.”
With that, the Ferry Dock was complete.
Once I set up a few Fishing Rods made from branches and Mana Plastic String, the preparations for building the Water Source were done.
LV.5 Water Source construction is beginning.
I could only hope the Reinforcement Construction would trigger properly.
* * *
While waiting for the two buildings to finish constructing, I descended into the underground.
Thrum-thrum.
At the heart of the Underground Section, a massive one-ton engine breathed with life.
[Underground Section]
Command Bridge 0
This place was no longer merely an engine room—it had become the Command Bridge for the entire Spirit Territory.
‘Level zero, huh.’
Since the engine was built in such a specialized manner, its leveling method seemed different from the usual process.
‘But why a Command Bridge of all things?’
A Command Bridge was traditionally a command tower positioned where one could see all directions. Being underground, shouldn’t it be called a control room, like a submarine’s?
‘…or so I thought at first.’
I stepped closer to the engine and placed my hand on its surface.
Thump-thump.
Closing my eyes, I focused on that vibration—rhythmic as a heartbeat. Then a vision unfolded before me.
A Wasteland filled with Cutting Wind and towers rising endlessly. A 360-degree panorama encircling the Spirit Territory.
‘That’s why Command Bridge.’
When I entered Resonance State with the engine, I could see all four directions of the Spirit Territory without blind spots.
The benefits of this Resonance State didn’t end there. Orders given while in this state remained valid even after Resonance broke.
Commands like making the Waystation move, or extending a bridge whenever someone tried to climb up or down.
‘Not bad for blowing my entire bank account.’
What’s a supercar compared to this?
My supercar is ridiculously huge with plenty of storage, boasts 360-degree surround view, and obeys commands perfectly. Even though it drained nearly all my savings, I’d welcome such extravagance a hundred times over.
The most amazing part was that these functions were merely a taste of what’s to come.
‘The fact that the Command Bridge registered as a building means this thing can be upgraded someday.’
I couldn’t help but anticipate how this Command Bridge would evolve in the future.
* * *
LV. 3 Storage construction has been completed.
Materials made in the facilities of the Spirit Domain were used for this construction.
LV. 3 Storage construction is being reinforced. LV. 4 Storage construction has been completed.
Since evolving into a Spirit Territory, the Reinforcement Construction notifications felt somewhat more refined.
The Storage, now level 4, had easily doubled in size compared to level 2. The iron doors the Noum had worked so hard to forge hung securely in place, needless to say.
‘Speaking of which, the third delivery is coming up soon.’
The time was approaching to refill my account, which had ballooned into a sinkhole in the process of building the Mana Core Engine.
LV. 5 Water Source construction has been completed.
Materials and facilities from the Spirit Domain were used for this construction.
LV. 5 Water Source construction is being reinforced. LV. 7 Water Source construction has been completed.
The Water Source’s Reinforcement Construction jumped two levels. The use of trees from the Spirit Forest seemed to be the positive factor.
‘I’ll have to make good use of that from now on.’
Standing before the Water Source with anticipation, I noticed it hadn’t visibly changed.
“Ah.”
It was a while later that I discovered a small canal running beneath the City Wall. After crossing the wall with Sylph’s help, a massive pond had appeared beyond it.
‘This is actually a bit larger than the Water Source inside the wall.’
The Water Source had easily doubled in size.
But its middle was bisected by the City Wall, as if cleaved by a sword.
[Ah, my waist got cut.]
[Uuu…!]
To Undine and the others, it was a melancholy sight, but to me it looked like no loss at all.
If I kept expanding the Water Source, eventually everything within the City Wall would become a pond, and everything beyond it would turn into a lake.
‘We can use the pond inside as a living Water Source for ourselves, and the lake outside for other purposes.’
So the real problem wasn’t the Water Source. It was the Herb Field.
The Herb Field would eventually expand to a scale that crossed the City Wall too. Like the Water Source, it might end up split in half, existing simultaneously on both sides of the wall.
‘That’s terrible from a labor efficiency standpoint.’
Whether sowing or watering or harvesting, having a massive City Wall cutting through the middle of the field would be nothing but a nightmare.
‘Should I have the spirits move the field? But can you even move an Herb Field? And come to think of it, is an Herb Field even a building in the first place?’
I was brooding over this when it happened.
Ping.
A notification window materialized before my eyes.
Evolution of the Spirit Domain has been detected. Access privileges to the Treasure Vault increase by one level.
It was a notification that might just be the answer to countless problems of mine.

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