Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton

In Demon Valley, a half-demon child with two devil horns on his head, rode on his hobby horse and whipped around a bamboo whip. Running noisily past, he shouted loudly: “Die, vile destroyer of fields, Lord Ange will destroy you!”

The child, playing the part of the destroyer of fields, screamed and burst into laughter, running off in all directions.

Seeing this scene, wrinkles of laughter spread across Green Wood’s face. He shook his head with satisfaction and started breaking the stalk of the Fire Sunflower in his hand.

This was a magic plant similar to the sunflower. It grew in environments filled with fire elements. The colossal flower could concentrate a large amount of fire elements and grow white seeds.

And what was its use? Well, eating too many would make one prone to internal heat and laxative effects. When practicing Fire Magic, munching on these seeds could speed up the recovery rate and they tasted pretty good.

Although it could not be compared to the Fire Dragon Fruit which improved Elemental Affinity, it was tasty and cheap, which was why it had many buyers.

Hence, Demon Valley was now cultivating this crop on a large scale, selling them to the Master Plane to earn money, and using the money to buy food, forming an economic cycle.

The barren lands of Demon Valley could no longer support the increasing population with the crops they produced. They had to rely on Ange for aid from time to time, which was unhealthy.

Every place needed to be productive to sustain operation. Otherwise, in the case of an unexpected event, the trouble would be considerable, like the incident that occurred in Witch City a few years ago.

Don’t think an unexpected event wouldn’t occur. The Undead King could disappear, what could be more unexpected than that?

It was reasonable for Ange to farm the land. But the farther he had to go to farm, the less frequently Ange visited Demon Valley. Consequently, Demon Valley needed to be more self-reliant.

However, none of these were problems for Green Wood. Compared to the life ruled by demons a few years ago, life now was like Heaven. He was already too happy, and if he were to die now, he would have no regrets.

He had food to eat, three meals a day, with a different menu every time.

This was something unimaginable. In the Demon Valley of the past, he was a slave, and it was a big deal if he could eat one meal a day.

Even then, he seldom had the opportunity to eat his fill. Only during the busy farming season would the demons allow them to eat their fill. Otherwise, everyone would have no energy to work.

As for the taste of food, Green Wood didn’t care in the past and was grateful that he had food to eat.

Now that he had tasted good food, every time he looked back on the food of the old days, he would almost vomit. He really didn’t know how he had managed to eat that stuff.

He had a place to live. The residences in Demon Valley were all caves dug out of the mountain wall. The hardened ground was clean and sanitary. Before, they froze to death without windproof doors and breathable windows during cold weather.

Now, they not only had doors and windows, but also heaters. They could pick up a few hot rocks from the ground fire and keep warm all night.

However, due to the existence of the ground fire, the weather in Demon Valley could freeze people to death for only a few short days. Therefore, whether to heat the stove or not didn’t matter. Having doors and windows was enough.

He had a job. His primary job now was taking care of children. Green Wood was already over forty years old, an age at which a human should be at his prime.

Unfortunately, judging by his appearance, no one would believe he was so young. Negris had initially thought he was an old human.

Being malnourished since childhood had resulted in a dreadful physical development, bad teeth due to calcium deficiency, a hunched figure and fragile bones.

Nothing else could be remedied. The calcium deficiency was irreversible. Once the enamel and height were set, even Ange could only possibly help him regrow by using the Goddess of Beauty Fist.

So he couldn’t do heavy work, but looking after kids was fine. Green Wood particularly liked this job. Watching the lively children shouting and jumping around made him feel a few years younger.

Having food to eat, a place to live, and a job to do, Green Wood felt that his life had never been so happy. So, he devotedly thanked Ange, who brought this happy life to him.

In his spare time, he would look up at the magnificent place in the sky. According to Lady Lisa, that was the Immortal Divine Kingdom, the shrine of Lord Ange, and the final resting place of souls.

If Negris hadn’t objected, Lisa would even have wanted to bring over the whole set-up of the Church of Light, to trick everyone into striving to contribute, so their souls could return to the Divine Country after death and enjoy eternal peace.

Unfortunately, Negris was against it, so Lisa brought out a trump card—eternal life.

Eternal life and youth, wouldn’t that be more attractive than having their souls return to the Divine Country? And the example was right in front of everyone. There was the living Luther by Ange’s side.

Everyone sought to retain their consciousness after death by devoutly contributing. If one were to become a mindless zombie or skeleton after death, it would mean they weren’t devout enough.

So most believers were very devout.

Green Wood was the same. From time to time, he looked up at the sky… Huh? Where was the Immortal Divine Kingdom?

The Holy Kingdom that had been suspended in the sky and almost visible from the entire Resting Abyss, had disappeared without him noticing.

…

In the Master Plane, Ange turned off the Heavenly Stairs and then said: “I, it seems, have summoned the Holy Kingdom here.”

“Wh…what do you mean?” Negris asked with great trepidation.

“The Holy Kingdom has been summoned by me.” Ange swung the Staff of Heaven in his hand, and with a wave, a row of fireballs shot out.

“Can…can you send it back?” Negris asked, swallowing hard.

Ange shook his head.

At that moment, boom! The entire earth and sky started shaking, as if something heavy had hit them. The sky started flickering with a rainbow of colors, a phenomenon that occurred when space became unstable.

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