I enlarged my Mana pool to a four-meter radius, but then I realized I had hit a wall and couldn't expand it any further. This was my limit.
I get up, pick up my cheap sword, and walk into the village. It's a village dominated by harpies, an all-female species. They live high up in the trees, building their homes among the branches while erecting other structures like warehouses on the ground.
There are many adventurers here and a small bustling market. People buy monster corpses and cores from the villagers, hoping to resell them at the Guild since most harpies dislike traveling far from their homes. They are also excellent hunters, which is how they manage to sustain themselves, and the terrain of their village alongside their elevated structures makes them difficult to overwhelm with monster hordes.
