Spring blooms and flowers blossom—the new year's roving merchant trading season.
This year, Dragon Cypress arrived two days early, bringing White Rice and a large team of worker ants to the Rednan Mountain sub-nest.
Excavating and expanding the Starship Rift cave, White Rice reinforced it with earth-stone ability, transforming it into a spacious trading-dedicated mountain cavern.
The mound of dirt that had built up above was over-excavated; in heavy rains, there might be seepage or even collapse.
Dragon Cypress then directed the worker ants to renovate the top of the hill, digging intersecting drainage ditches, strengthened and guided for flood drainage by White Rice's earth-stone ability.
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When Natsumi, Silvergrass, and Red Peach came rushing over with their stone slab wheelcart, rumbling and speeding along, they peered through a gap and were all stunned.
The opposite cave was crammed brimming full with insects.
"Natsumi. Silvergrass. Red Peach."
