After two months of renovations, the former Xing 8 Castle—now Lanica City—had undergone enormous changes.
The castle's original footprint had not expanded, but countless branches and leaves overhead, under the constant guidance of the Great Fairy and Halcala, had completely formed a living plant dome.
Beneath the dome, several hundred treehouses dotted the spaces between the trunks, making the entire castle resemble a towering wooden building. Above the dome, Magic Beast Egg shells were embedded among the foliage, with Magic Plant shoots growing inside them, safe from having their sunlight blocked by the towering trees.
On the afternoon of the twenty-first, Neracheri, the High-Rank Centaur bishop of the Mother Goddess, arrived atop Lanica City's dome to look around, accompanied by the Centaur Girl Kaiyi and the elf Druid Vivian.
"I never imagined you'd place Magic Plants at the tops of the trees to grow!" The centaur leaped back and forth between the thicker trunks, his agile movements utterly unhindered by the terrain.
"These were Lord Halcala's suggestion. She also gave me several Magic Beast Egg shells she'd treasured for a long time," Vivian explained. "Archbishop, I'd also like to buy some seeds from you. What the market sells is still far from complete."
"Of course." Neracheri nodded. "But have you never considered opening a market in Lanica City itself?"
"No. After all, this place is already a kilometer deep into the Great Forest. We originally only wanted to shelter those Elf-descendants wandering through the Hindukush. We hadn't even figured out how the city would develop in the future. It was Lord Landen who suggested growing Magic Plants while capturing nearby dragon-type Magic Beasts to sell to the Imperial Capital."
"It truly hasn't been easy!" Neracheri sighed.
Lanica City had developed from Xing 8 Castle. After Landen swept across the entire