Farming Life in Another World

Machio Hiraku spent his last decade dying slowly of an illness he was too tired to keep treating, and the god he meets at the gate offers him a second life on three small conditions: pick a profession, pick a location, pick what he wants. Hiraku picks farmer, a quiet valley off the trade routes, and an enchanted hand-tool that will work no matter how rocky the soil is. The series is the village he accidentally builds around his farm — high elves, half-dragons, a refugee succubus, a goblin tribe in need of a treaty — and the small daily satisfaction of being healthy enough to chop wood.