The fire touched by the rain subsided, and the ground grew damp. The blue grass of the normal field began to absorb vitality and grow.

The weapons and equipment of the Dryads, which had been in a gruesome state, began to restore rapidly upon contact with the raindrops. The rain was a blessing of life for all plants on the ground.

It was said that fire is not harmed by water, but this wasn’t ordinary water.

These droplets that soaked in as if wearing clothes made of water… yes, they were identical to the liquid of a potion.

The sap of the World Tree. Somehow, I could hear the giggles of my mountain dwarves echoing in my ears.

Instinctively, I seemed to know the source of the sap. Somehow, a hollow laugh escaped me. This is truly a skill that only the Elder and I can use, isn’t it?

The blessing rain, imbued with my soul and the Elder’s power. Only the Dryad’s special power could extinguish the fire.

That power was melting my diamonds and pouring down.

Elder, was your obsession with diamonds truly instinctive?

I used to envy users who used cash to cast buffs during boss fights, but now I don’t need any of that. Could it compare to me using cash to cast skills directly?

The diamonds I can pay for this skill are infinite. If it were an ordinary druid, not me, it would have been a one-time skill that stops after a brief downpour.

The Dryads, coming to their senses amidst the torrential rain, rushed at once toward the weakened fire.

The fire that had consumed the unique-grade entity, which seemed the most formidable, was finished off in an instant through a joint attack, and they began assaulting the final boss, the carriage.

The Dryads did not avoid the lava spewed by the carriage. Even when touched by lava, they were restored by the rain as soon as it hit them. Mesquite even abandoned defense and charged with its lance raised.

Unlike its grandiose entrance, the carriage diminished like a campfire doused with a bucket of water amid the onslaught of attacks.

Spouting blue diamonds onto the charred ground, it disappeared just like that.

A refreshing energy surged from deep within my chest… and in the distance, Daisy’s entire body was enveloped in a white light.

The barrier collapsed and vanished like a curtain dropping.

The arduous raid had come to an end.

***

Daisy wrapped in dazzling light. It was a sacred sight, much like when a fruit-state child bloomed in the orchard.

The red petals holding droplets danced cheerfully in waltz rhythm before vanishing along with the light that expanded their size.

I only closed my eyes for a moment and opened them, yet my field of view had abruptly risen. It was because someone quickly ran over and spun me around in their arms.

With the clear, tinkling laughter, I could identify the owner without even checking.

When you became my Dryad, I held you up like this.

My concentration wavered, and the rain simultaneously stopped. The last droplets leaving the clouds halted in midair without reaching the ground.

Twinkling as it moves lightly with the breeze. The dark clouds retreated, and raindrops sparkled like jewels, catching the light pouring from the open sky. And the smile of the child facing me shone just as brilliantly, like a gem.

The child was once so small, but now her eye level was not far from mine. Yet traces of her youthful appearance lingered here and there, stirring a warm ache in my chest.

Not an adult, but a student, perhaps? The grown-up Daisy boasted about her increased height, saying she could now lift me up as well.

“I’m still shorter than the Druid, but I’ve gotten stronger! I can control fire better now! I’ll keep growing. I’m so glad I can protect the Druid more safely!”

In a place where everything was burnt black, we alone stood in a bright flower field. I was so proud of Daisy, who had grown so much.

Merely looking at her made me smile with pride, and Daisy returned my gaze with a smile brimming with newfound confidence.

“You’ve grown. That’s good to see. I guess I can’t call you a seedling anymore, can I?”

Mesquite, returning from the battle, swung her lance to shake off the ashes and spoke. Elder was looking around with a bitter expression as he took my staff.

He must know what those raindrops are made of.

“With my original abilities, it would have been just a brief mist, not rain…”

He raised his hand and grasped the raindrops shimmering before him. The droplets burst and were absorbed into Elder’s hand.

That act of trying to grasp something that could never be held, combined with his wistfully dampened beautiful face, made him look like a forlorn and pitiful single flower.

“If it can make rain… just how much diamond do you have?”

Elder asked in a deeply sunken voice. If you try to know, you get hurt. Your mind will get hurt.

The word ‘how much’ doesn’t fit. It can’t be counted by numbers. It’s infinite. Because it’s infinite diamonds. The dwarves must have been working hard after so long.

“You’ve turned this area into a sanctuary. For a while, even if fire reappears nearby, it won’t dare come near.”

“I’ve never seen such power before. If the Elder Flower I met in the past had this kind of immense power, he would have boasted to me about it. That dryad always wanted to constantly show off how noble and great he was, as haughty as his attitude.”

As the hectic battle ended, the dryads returning to their druid spoke in weary voices.

They carefully cupped the raindrops floating around them in their hands, examining them, or lightly poked them with their fingers.

“The water has already dried up. What a shame. I really liked that moist feeling. The flower branches on my wings bloomed vibrantly. It felt like I had returned to the World Tree. This is a power that even Siedling would struggle to match with all its might. Are you sure the druid is okay?”

“That person… the druid… isn’t he going to collapse? This is no different from thousands of potions… pouring down from the sky…. He must have consumed… a life force… to replace the sap….”

Mallow, who had been frozen in place as if the floating raindrops around were bombs he dared not bump into, spoke.

This was in stark contrast to Kadon, who opened his mouth wide and ran around like a dog toward every raindrop in sight. Belladonna, hearing Mallow’s words, approached.

“I don’t have healing powers, but I can detect abnormalities or pain in the body faster than anyone. If it’s not too forward, would you let me take a look? A recovery-type dryad probably can’t refill a depleted druid’s life force. If the situation is serious…”

“I’m fine. I’m perfectly okay.”

I’m really fine. I leveled up like crazy, so all my fatigue is gone. The only thing I consumed was diamonds. And even what I used up has probably already been replenished by now by the dwarves who hit max level.

But Belladonna looked utterly unconvinced by my answer.

Daisy was the only one who took my words at face value. As if saying it’s all good since I’m fine, she hugged me and swayed her body back and forth like a flower trembling in the wind.

“That can’t be. This is beyond what the power of a grafted dryad alone can pull off. Let Belladonna handle it. There’s no need to be scared. She’s different from her Mother’s notorious reputation.”

I said I’m fine, so who are you to butt in? Who said I was scared? Do I look like some kid avoiding the hospital because I don’t want a shot? Of course, I hate shots, but still.

“It’s not like I consumed any life force. And the rain that fell wasn’t like sap either. Actually, it might have been sap, right? Mesquite said diamonds are crystallized sap spewed out through the World Tree’s transpiration.”

“Did you just… say diamonds?”

Belladonna repeated the question, and Mallow, who overheard this, hunched his shoulders even more to dodge the raindrops. And the Elder let out a very deep sigh, looking like he was being forced to face a reality he didn’t want to confront.

[Master! Look at this!]

[Master! Are you going to use more diamonds?]

They’re like ghosts. How did they so eerily catch that word ‘diamonds’ I said? My Siri sometimes can’t even understand me.

Do these dwarves have a bug planted next to my mouth? I knew this would happen, so I’d been trying hard to avoid saying the word ‘diamonds.’

I looked at my phone and saw the dwarfs pushing the Stonehenge mode window aside, grunting with effort. As if it was just an obstruction. Wait, can you even move system windows around like that?

The game screen of <Infinite Diamond> took its place, wiggling in from the side.

The diamond cart I hadn’t seen in a while… looked a bit different somehow. It felt like looking at an illegally modified car.

That cart was unfamiliar to me. A massive faucet was planted squarely in the center of the cart. Beneath it, a giant rubber hose was connected, leading from where it headed to my underground diamond vault.

[Master! We’re ready!]

[Master! Do it again like before!]

[Master! You demanded so many diamonds at once that you tipped the cart over! Now you can take lots of diamonds without tipping it!]

[Master! Since you could take so many, why didn’t you take them before? Take more!]

…I never expected that being told to use diamonds like water would lead to this. I never expected them to install a faucet. Diamonds on tap.

“The source of the power that fell like rain earlier… is it really diamonds?”

As I stared blankly at my phone, speechless at the dwarfs’ absurd scale, Belladonna asked back with emphasis. Soon after, the other dryads of Siedling also clearly heard this.

What? Didn’t they say diamonds? Why are diamonds coming out here? The dryads, thinking they might have misheard, buzzed with questions and murmurs.

“It must be diamonds. Ah, now that I look closely, the number has dropped a lot. It is diamonds.”

The ten-thousands digit was not 9. Even that, when I tapped the cart, diamonds poured from the faucet into the underground vault, making it 9 again.

The dwarfs pumped, pulling diamonds back up through the rubber hose from the underground vault into the cart, shouting that it wasn’t about that.

They earnestly appealed, saying the problem wasn’t emptying the cart, and they’d draw diamonds directly from the underground vault for me to take. They even pointed at the rubber hose, worried I might miss it.

Try it, try it, baby, one more time. Do it again, again. The dot dwarfs’ eyes seemed to sparkle brightly.

“Th-this… raindrop… is all… the power of diamonds…?”

Of course. It’s a joint project between me and Elder, who sent away tens of thousands of diamonds. Elder shut his eyes tightly, as if he didn’t want to hear more. At my nod of affirmation, Mallow’s face turned as blue as his name.

“My level is… well, in terms of soul limits, I’m inferior to you.”

She pressed her index finger and thumb together to form a circle.

“But this is a lot. A whole lot. How does it feel to get rained on by diamonds? Do you still think I’m pathetic?”

Looking straight into Siblings’s eyes, I spoke each word with emphasis. “Even if I’m a low level, my capital is high level. I’ve grown well on my own and I’m still growing, so stop worrying.”

“This is the first time I’ve seen a Druid with more diamonds than Siblings.”

“Our Siblings even caught fire and took on commissions to gather plenty of diamonds… The power in the recent battle wasn’t something we’d dare call abundant. The rain of life poured down. A Druid artificially brought rain through graft power. Over a wide area, and for a long time.”

Feeling sorry for the Elder who struggled to close his ears, I showed him my phone screen. “Elder kid, look here.” A glance of ‘What’s your point?’ flickered by.

“Don’t you see this? The mountains of diamonds piled on the cart and the dwarves all set to turn on the faucet. To you, this should look like a black card.”

My card is ‘BLACK’, swipe it all endlessly.

“Why the wallet?”

“What, can’t you see? You looked a bit down, so I wanted to show you your favorite thing.”

“It’s just a black screen.”

“What? Can only I see the <Infinite Diamond> window?”

I didn’t expect this. I pressed Elder’s shoulder firmly. He read my intention and bent down with a annoyed face.

“Why?”

I grabbed Elder’s hood… stuffed in the wallet… and shook it.

Shake it. The diamonds intentionally poured out by the dwarves overflowed outside the hood.

“Good work on the graft. This is a gift! Don’t be gloomy about having sprayed it all as rain! I have plenty of diamonds, so tell me if you want some!”

Elder held the heavy hood with both hands and made a bewildered expression. Yet I saw the corners of his mouth twitch upward.

Yeah, laugh. You’re pretty, so you’re even prettier when you smile.

“Take all the diamonds from dealing with that boss. As you can see, I have so many diamonds. Take them all, and let’s each go our separate ways.”

Kadon, seeing what I was doing to Elder, collapsed with a pale face. True to his nature, Elder still coveted the boss rewards and looked at me with longing eyes, even after I gave him so many diamonds.

“Geez, when would you finish picking all those up? While they’re distracted picking up diamonds, let’s head to the 28th Terrarium.”

Before Siblings meddles again and blocks the way.