Master Of None

Chapter 2386: 2386. Too Much

”What’s all this?” Walker had returned with Midnight. They had brought a large amount of herbs they had managed to dig out along with a few monster materials they had come across while they explored the lava fields.

However, it was what he had found when he returned.

The area for processing and spring while also organizing the materials found was overwhelmed. Not just to the point that they were too busy, busy would be a word too small to describe what they had to handle.

The pile of ores in front of the tent was dwarfing the tent. This wasn’t even considering monster bodies, most of which were small forms of golems, and also the general herbs which herbalists were working to store properly so that they would not run out of quality due to not being held properly.

”Good. you’re back. You need to work on this now. There are many people finding large growth of herbs. New veins of ore formed moving and cooling magma. Then I even found that one of the golems directed this way and taken down by five different guard squads had a core with some massive crystals in it.” Su’s face was covered in soot and sweat.

She had also returned to find that this was chaos right now. Not just chaos, but to the point that the people who had been working for the last three days had not stopped for a second.

”Reporting in...” The voice trailed off and showed to Walker that the sheer happiness to see him was enough to prove how overwhelmed they were.

”I can listen and figure out what I can do to help. The herbs and monster materials seem to need the most attention though. They are degrading.” He didn’t speak in a rush and actually felt that slowing the pace might make this more efficient. Pushing for speed would and most likely had already caused some issues.

”Yes sir. The beginning return of groups was slow. After about a day we received significant contributions we attributed to luck. Then there was an added growth when larger groups returned telling us about locations nearby with exceptionally high numbers of everything. One herbalist lead group found what they call the lava burst magnolia grove. Another group of dwarven cave explorers found cooled lava tunnels flawed with pure iron. Then we have the adventurers returning with various monsters all nesting closer than we expected.”

It was a lot for them to handle and that was understandable. Especially since there was a clear example of how this would all need to be handled from this point on.

What they had not taken in to account was that there would be such a burst in growth within this area already. Walker knew that ores and other earth bound materials might be much more common as the lava flowed and as the magma flowed. Yet this prevalent that a literal hill or them had been gathered just after three days?

Then the monsters growing in number should have been a sign that things in the world had progressed even faster. The amount of mana that the monsters needed was larger but that was also more available. Especially since the weaker ancient monsters were hatching from eggs.

Yes there had been some more powerful ancient monsters, but they were fewer and in isolated incidents. They would appear more often as a longer time went on. But right now there were many more smaller monsters that had finally, gotten what they needed to grow. Especially the types of golems in this area.

”That’s a spiked lizard golem. Right now the all around appraisal is telling me that this golem will purposefully find herbs with heart mana so that it can make a strong body and that after some time the seeds will even take root to siphon off the extra mana in its body. It will even grow fire affinity herbs on its back to keep its body solid and not melting.” The reason that Walker pointed this out was very simple.

”It can’t grow itself without many more herbs in general being around. The all around appraisal states that it is limited to the number of herbs within its direct environment. It can easily grow five times this size but this is still very large since it’s a golem that could not survive before the mana flow returned to the world.”

Bluntly saying that the herbs were growing at an incredible rate in the wilderness was the point of this. Walker knew that if there were that many herbs here, then what of the other wilderness areas that had yet to be explored? They would be growing exponentially and giving unseen monsters massive amounts of food to grow and awaken the past bloodlines.

”You are worried that we will have to call for more help and that we might not be able to handle the wilderness if this is the case.” Su knew that the world had changed. They had expected the terrain to become more difficult and even had theories that were spoken about to prepare for contingencies.

This though, meant that as they grew and as the wilderness grew, that those contingency plans were a moot point. They would not be applicable if the wilderness was changing at a faster rate than what Genesis was growing by in the day to day.

”I am saying that we should get these handled and stored away as soon as possible. Also that we are going to slow down and properly store them. Anyone tired needs to rest and the groups returning will be held back to assist with storage in the floating ship since we still have room in there.”

As much as Walker knew that he and Su could store a massive amount with his high spatial storage and her new medallion, that was not the point. The resources gained here needed to be brought through the floating ship. This would prove that the achievement of the ship and the goals had in the entire creation process were valuable. Also that it could in fact function properly to help when there was not anyone able to take all these materials or jobs on by themselves like Walker could.

As this was communicated and Walker began using natural mana to hold the herbs to their quality, the information was sent by communication crystal. It was why Remey found herself stopped from moving to another tent of the crafting event to share knowledge.

She now found herself with a host of different attendants who needed her to act and focus on the herbs that would be coming in massive amounts. Not only would they be focusing on the herbs to be plants and evaluated by the herbalists, some would be going right in to potion prosecution for lower tiers of fire or earth affinity potions.

When she had suddenly been caught up in this, Alma and Gil were also caught up. They were two prominent figures being a hero and a representative of the elves as a whole. But more so, they were brought in since someone needed to split up and focus on the monster materials and also the ores. Three routes that ended different storage and handling.

Ity only took a few moments to get to the magical crystals used to amplify the voice and transmit the notice that the three had led to become one to handle the information they and the other representatives of Genesis had received.

”Hello! I have exceptional news. You should all understand that we are not ending this massive conference of ideas early for negative reasons. I spoke to the Genesis Council representatives present. We have received word from the lava fields that we have an unprecedented situation.” Alma was taking the lead while Remey was standing to the side holding a pile of reports already. The information about what was being sent on the floating ship was too much already.

”When it comes to herbs discovered, ores and other earth bound materials harvested, and monster materials hunted, the floating ship will be full in capacity within the day. This is an amazing proof that the world is growing around us. To manage the cargo coming here, we ask that everyone capable will organize the plans we will utilize now. This area will become a processing area for every item found.”

”Those with appraisal skills will come to the front here and register their names. Those with storage skills and abilities to store these materials will report to Gil. Those with archival skills will meet with Remey. Otherwise, we need others to speak with attendants about how we will transform this area before the floating ship arrives!”

The buzz of conversation overtook the area. The sudden announcement was not negative. Instead, it offered a very high amount of potential experience that anyone could gain from processing these materials. Especially those with appraisal skills who needed a lot of real life hands on time with materials to get to the best of the best.

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