While slime can coexist with each other, they inherently are territorial beings. The number of which they can coexist with each other is dependent on the size of the area they are living in. In open areas like the forest or an open grass field, after their population number hits a certain point of density, the slime will naturally disperse to expand and discover new territories. That’s one of the reasons why we can almost see slime everywhere in the world at the same rate as cats and dogs.

Then, what happens to slimes living in a confined area? They will kill and then consume each other. In exchange for losing reproductive capabilities, slime that has already consumed other slimes will be able to evolve into a higher rank. It is theorized that they do this for the sake of breaking out of the confinement. As long as there’s decent food supply, the higher rank slime will keep several slimes alive to keep reproducing new young slimes while it consumes the older ones. In recent history, the biggest slime recorded was the King Slime which was approximately as big as 65,536 slimes* bundled up together coming out of the Capital’s sewer three decades ago. That’s also the reason why new and or lower-rank adventurers these days are given a mandatory sewer slime extermination quest once every month.

With that established, the trench that I dug to contain outpouring slime from the slime hole was found to be chock-full of slime when I checked it this morning. It was beyond expectation, really. I thought that it was going to be about quarter-full or half-full before I fell asleep, but at this point, casting a thunder spell over a large area to annihilate them once and for all feels like a waste of potential for lasting food stock. And so I decided to expand the slime trench and connected it to the makeshift toilet near the three o’clock hole to make a Northern-style slime trench.

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Northern-style slime trench. It’s the name people in the Empire used to call the trench Northern people used as their slime farm. It also has the double meaning of a long toilet, as Northern people feed their slimes with feces and urine.

After the construction, I harvested about half of the slime from the slime trench to be dried up. I positioned the drying slime in the triangle formation, with the base part following the trench and the tip pointing to the center of the cavern.

Afterwards, I tended the nuts field and noticed several nut patches were beginning to sprout.

O Petani, God of Farming and Agriculture, if you are there and not drunk on cheap rice wines, thank you. But also, please keep the blessing on this field intact. Once again, thank you.