Idle, Absolutely Idle

Over the next stretch of time, construction at the settlement proceeded in an orderly fashion.

Meanwhile, in the sky more than ten thousand kilometers away, Lan Qingyou and Alisa were following the coordinates indicated by the Emerald Tablet.

Perhaps because they had covered quite a lot of ground compared to before,

traveling from remote regions into the heart of the continent,

they had dealt with several more locations over the past few days.

As before, they had driven in Wood Nails made from the World Tree.

And, as before, every location was either Scorched Earth

or a frozen Snow Plains, barren of all vegetation.

In short, not a single place where they had driven in a nail was in good shape.

That alone showed how extraordinary these nails were.

"Phew... Let's call it a day and take a break."

"Mm."

That day, they had pulled out another nail, and at last the two of them could rest.

No...

Rather, Lan Qingyou had suggested they take a break.

After all, these past few days had been spent either traveling, fighting the Abyss Monsters at the coordinates, or removing the nails.

So after another half a month of this, Lan Qingyou had had enough.

She called off the trip.

Honestly.

The Witch Race was certainly intensely curious, and Lan Qingyou and Alisa were no exception.

But the problem was, she had come to this New Continent to satisfy her curiosity,

not to torture herself.

So, now that she had satisfied her curiosity, she had no intention of spending every day exhausted like a dog.

She was doing research, not working like some overworked 996 wage slave.

"What are you writing down?"

At last, the two of them had a day off and were sitting down to rest properly. But Alisa noticed Lan