Chapter 170 Divine Gifts: The Division of Functional Areas
With everyone's wisdom and efforts, the layout plan of the Land of Sin was quickly drawn up. It was then presented using illusion magic, and various adjustments were made to the details. When the final draft was completed, there were less than two months left before the harvest month.
Shu Xin hesitated for a moment, but decided to rebuild the Land of Sin before the harvest month arrived. At present, there are not many functional areas, and most of the buildings that need to be moved are miniature buildings that are compatible with the size of flower fairies. They can be moved directly using large-area transfer magic, so the workload of modification is not too large. However, if it comes to the later stage, it will definitely not be so easy to change the layout.
Furthermore, the riverside elves are currently divided into flower fairies, commoners, and slaves, but in the future, their body size will definitely be restored to that of normal elves. The Sinful Land already has a population of over 10,000, and more flower fairies will migrate there in the future. In Shu Xin's plan, the Sinful Land should be able to accommodate at least 20,000 people.
The Kingdom of Ganar is truly vast and sparsely populated. Shu Xin felt that the Land of Sin was probably already the largest city in the kingdom.
Under normal circumstances, intelligence and information about the Land of Sin should have already been placed on the king's desk, but the king has not taken any action. Either the king is unaware of the specific situation—Shu Xin doesn't quite believe it—or the king has other plans.
The patrolmen who were supposed to come to collect taxes after the harvest month have not yet appeared. Shu Xin is more inclined to believe that the king, like those immortal beings, is secretly assessing her and the Land of Sin. But no matter what comes, whether it is a raging storm or a torrential downpour, Shu Xin has made full preparations.
Standing on the terrace on the fifth floor of the Flower Castle, overlooking the thriving land of sin, Shu Xin had only one thought in her mind: Let the storm rage on!
When Nuonuo came to the terrace to find Shuxin, she saw the tall and steady figure of the flower fairy. The bright sunlight poured down from the high sky, making her already radiant figure even more dazzling.
Although it wasn't explicitly stated, Nono had long realized that the flower fairy who called herself Shuxin could be Shushuxin, but Shushuxin could not be Shuxin.
Blood ties and lineage remained firmly established, but the soul resonance that existed between blood relatives made Nonori sense something unusual the first time he saw the Flower Fairy. The Flower Fairy's subsequent actions repeatedly confirmed his suspicions.
As the older sister of a flower fairy, she might feel unfamiliar with her younger brother who was born after her, but she would never feel unfamiliar with magic.
...The mother's prophetic magic came true. Shu Xinxin was banished from the magic tree by the king and died in the land of sin.
Could the soul that appeared inside the sister's body be a demon from the demon realm, skilled at possessing the bodies of living beings?
Besides the legend of the seven-colored flower, another version of the origin of the river spirits is widely circulated among the flower fairies:
The creator goddess Lefra left her divine kingdom and walked on the newly born earth. From her footprints flowed the first stream between heaven and earth, and beside the magical waters grew the first plant between heaven and earth. But when Lefra was about to return to her divine kingdom, she saw the beautiful flowers blooming on the riverbank, about to wither. So, out of compassion, Lefra bestowed new life upon the flowers and left her shadow to watch over these beautiful creatures. Thus, the river spirits were born, and Lefra's shadow became the flower goddess who protects the river spirits.
The Creator God granted the riverside flowers new life to prolong their beauty because He loved their fleeting nature. Therefore, the riverside spirits would never harm their own kind, nor could they harm themselves. Suicide was an unforgivable sin of blasphemy.
The only crime that could enrage the king and lead him to exile a royal flower fairy to a land of sin is the latter. And the fulfilled prophecy reveals that Shushuxin successfully killed herself.
Under Shu Xin's rule, the land of sin quickly became rich and prosperous. She was clearly not a demon. And like demons, those who could possess the bodies of other beings without being rejected by the laws were also divine beings from other worlds.
The gods select heroic spirits from other worlds to be sent to their believers' communities. These heroic spirits are called God-given. God-given people either possess wisdom or power, and they always lead their communities onto a better path. Obviously, Shu Xin is a heroic spirit from another world.
The sinful body could not contain the spirit of the hero, but the divine gift descended upon the sister, which meant that the Flower Goddess had forgiven Shu Shuxin. Nuonuo believed that after he died, he would definitely see his sister in the Flower Goddess's kingdom, and he would definitely reunite with his family.
All the flower fairies have heard the saying: "As long as there are flowers blooming on the riverbank, the river fairies who are not meant to die will not die."
But now this sentence sounds more like a ballad that has lost its melody. The wheat fields on both sides of the Garnar River bloom every year, but countless flower fairies have died in the disaster before the harvest month, and countless more flower fairies have died in the attack of the monsters from the outer continent during the harvest month.
Are all these flower fairies damned river spirits? Or are wheat flowers not considered flowers, and flower fairies not considered river spirits?
Nono didn't know the true meaning of those words, but every day when he woke up he was extremely grateful for the protection of the Flower Goddess. The Flower Goddess had forgiven his sister, and his sister's body carried the God-giver. The God-giver then brought about a miraculous change to the Land of Sin. Since the God-giver came to the Land of Sin, no flower fairy on this land has died!
"Nonori? Is something the matter?"
The fairy's voice came from ahead. Nono came back to his senses and met those gentle and peaceful light purple eyes. He smiled slightly: "Yes, Your Highness, Lord Blue Horn has a new idea for the establishment of the teleportation array. She is already adjusting the illusion. I would like to trouble you to go and see the effect after the adjustment."
The flower fairy nodded: "Okay, let's go take a look first."
On the evening of the fifth working day, all the flower fairy slaves, whether in the Wind Chime Flower Cottage, the commoner residential area, or the treehouse, received a notification from the patrol team members—
For the next two days, the Flower Fairy wants to change the current layout of the Land of Sin, so everyone will need to go to the dungeon. You don't need to worry about food and sleep. During the day, a cook will guide the demons to cook for you. At night, you can rest in the pre-opened communal cave. As compensation, all the flower fairies will receive a cup of acorn wine.
The flower fairies had no objections, so after all the flower fairies went to the dungeon, Shuxin and Lanjiao began the great transformation of the Land of Sin—
The city of the Land of Sin is shaped like a disc on the city layout plan. At the center of the disc is the landmark magical plant, the Tree of Life. The first thing to be built is the central plaza that surrounds the Tree of Life. The other five functional areas are arranged radially around the central plaza: agricultural area, industrial area, commercial area, residential area, and cultural and educational area.
The area is still divided into north and south sections. The agricultural area spans both sides, and the snow sheep breeding area, which was originally covered in ice and snow, has been incorporated into the agricultural breeding area. After the central square was built, the snow sheep breeding area was moved to the northernmost part, while the gray bird breeding area was moved to the southern part of the original snow sheep breeding area.
On either side of the agricultural and aquaculture area to the due north are the reed marshes and artificial lake in the northeast, which have been assigned to the cultural and educational area, and the industrial area in the northwest. Currently, all the magic workshops in the Land of Sin have been moved to the industrial area and are divided into two parts according to the size of the workshops, all of which are neatly arranged.
Adjacent to the industrial area is the residential area in the southwest, which includes all the elf treehouses that grew from the small Tree of Life, the color-changing wind chime vine containing countless wind chime houses, and the commoner's settlement where the flower fairies who have recently moved to the land of sin live.
Next to the residential area is an agricultural area covering the south and southeast, and all farmland is classified into this agricultural planting area.
The open space between the agricultural area and the cultural and educational area where the artificial lake is located is reserved for a commercial area.
Shu Xin waved her staff, continuously casting teleportation spells to move treehouses, farmlands, workshops, and so on to their respective functional areas. The layout of the Sinful Land gradually became clear. The next step was to renovate the internal structures of each functional area, a task that would require the assistance of the all-powerful Tree of Life.
He created a treehouse in the snow sheep breeding area and the gray bird breeding area respectively, as a rest place for the staff of the agricultural breeding area. Shuxin and Lanjiao not only flew in and engraved the miniature garden magic to ensure the temperature was suitable, but also drew a heating magic circle in the gray bird breeding area.
Then, the artificial lake with reeds in the cultural and educational area was expanded and deepened, creating a larger island in the middle of the lake. A large treehouse was built on the second island to serve as a teaching building for the flower fairies. Shuxin and Lanjiao moved all kinds of teaching equipment from the Flower Castle over there.
The flat terrain of the industrial park was transformed into small hills and large depressions. Small magic workshops were placed on the hills, and water was collected in the deepest part of the depression to form a small artificial lake. Large magic workshops were placed along the lake. Shuxin and Lanjiao ripened many golden cherry trees between the workshops, which can be used as beautifying green plants as well as streetlights.
The residential area is scattered with the treehouses that Shu Xin moved here all at once, according to the lighting conditions. Each treehouse has a small open space in front and behind it. In the center of the forest formed by the treehouses, a hillside and artificial lake similar to the industrial area are created. The civilian settlement is placed on the gentle hillside. The large open space by the artificial lake is left for the demons to build houses on the ground or dig underground caves. Shu Xin and Lan Jiao continue to ripen the golden cherry trees in the residential area.
Finally, the artificial irrigation ditches that crisscross the different crop fields in the agricultural planting area are widened horizontally and deepened vertically, thus completing the work on the Tree of Life.
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Author's Note: I felt this chapter was a bit dry...
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