Two days later, Ka'z finally descended from the secret chamber to inspect the progress of the settlement for himself. His body had recovered considerably from the five days of cultivation, although the breakthrough into the Silver Core Realm had left him with a strange awareness of his own body that he was still learning to control.
As he stepped out from the cave entrance, he immediately noticed how different the clearing looked compared to the last time he had seen it. What had once been a dense section of forest was now an enormous open field, with the felled trees neatly arranged in several piles and the ground cleared of roots, bushes and other obstacles.
The sheer amount of land they had managed to prepare surprised even him. There was enough space for more than a hundred homes, several larger structures, farms, livestock pens and plenty of room between them for the settlement to expand naturally as the population increased.
