Chapter 109 The Flower Goddess is the Creator God; the Creator God is not the Flower Goddess...
"Your Highness, the bakery is finished," Nono reported as she flew onto the terrace.
Shu Xin turned around and saw that the usually calm and reliable older flower fairy had also decorated the collar of her official uniform with grass leaves that looked like a scarf. Shu Xin bit her lip to hold back her laughter.
“The bread workshop is finished too,” Shu Xin turned around and looked down at the flower fairies who were gathering together for a meal. She breathed a sigh of relief. “The Land of Sin now has five bread workshops and three brewing workshops. Next, we need to gather all the manpower and try to process all the acorns into acorn powder and store them before the harvest month arrives.”
"As for the patrol team, Nonori, please tell Pengpeng'an that training should be stopped from now on, and all efforts should be devoted to building the underground mushroom houses. I want to restore as many slaves as possible to civilian status before the harvest month arrives, and their housing must be provided." Shu Xin's tone was firm. "Distribute all the magic wands that were previously crafted as well."
Nono nodded in agreement: "I will convey this to Princess Pengpeng'an."
Looking down at the still unconscious gray bird on the table, Shu Xin remained silent for a moment before speaking, "Arrange for the servants of Flower Castle to hatch all the gray bird's eggs. You can raise the gray bird in the field with the red berry bushes. Once the gray bird starts laying eggs, remember to arrange for people to collect them and take them to the kitchen. Mei Meilin will take care of them. Don't leave too many eggs for the gray bird; the Land of Sin can't afford to raise them right now."
After a moment's hesitation, Nono responded.
Shu Xin noticed his hesitation and asked, "Is there something I didn't notice? It's okay, Nuonuo, just tell me."
Nono finally spoke up, expressing her concerns: "Your Highness, are you really sure it's alright to turn so many slaves into commoners? It won't affect you, will it? Also, commoners have to pay a magic tax..."
Shu Xin couldn't help but smile: "It won't affect me at all, and you don't need to worry about the magic tax. I'm a flower fairy, so don't worry, Nuonuo."
Despite Shu Xin's words, Nuonuo flew away with some apprehension.
Shu Xin thought that when Xi returned, she could ask him to extract some more magic power, whether it was magic condensate or magic gems, and show it to Nuonuo Li so that he wouldn't be as worried as he was now. Then she could just give the magic condensate and magic gems to Peng Peng An for safekeeping, and deduct the magic tax from them after the harvest month was over.
In the past, Shu Xin would have thought of asking the Tree of Life for some magic, but now Shu Xin felt that the magic provided by the Tree of Life could be used in more crucial places—such as strengthening the "protection" that only the Tree of Life can provide.
When Shu Xin learned that the X-ray vision magic was actually a simplified version of the Eye of Lefra, she didn't think too much about it. At most, she thought the river elves were really easy to fool, that a racial magic like the Eye of Lefra could be learned by human mages. However, when the Tree of Life told Shu Xin that as long as Shu Xin agreed, it could share her vision when she used the X-ray vision magic, Shu Xin felt that something was wrong.
Lefra is the creator goddess, and in the legend of the River Elves, it was the creator goddess who created the River Elves. The Tree of Life is a creation of the gods. Now, the super-simplified version of Lefra's Eye of Cognition can provide vision for the Tree of Life. Does this mean that the Tree of Life was also created by the creator goddess?
However, the flower fairies' catchphrases are "Flower Goddess above" and "Flower Goddess protects you." In the flower fairies' understanding, the Creator God and the Flower Goddess are two completely independent deities. The Creator God could never be a deity belonging only to the riverside fairies, but the Flower Goddess is definitely the riverside fairies' own deity, which is very strange!
Yesterday, Shu Xin directly asked the Tree of Life whether the creator god was the goddess of flowers. Unexpectedly, the Tree of Life neither confirmed nor denied it, but instead conveyed the meaning that "the goddess of flowers is the creator god, but the creator god is not the goddess of flowers." This was quite abstract, and the PPT and video animation presented by the Tree of Life this time were also very abstract.
A large point of light appeared in the chaos, followed by seven smaller points of light flying out from it. All the smaller points of light crowded together and merged into a large black dot floating in the chaos. Then the camera zoomed in, revealing that this large black dot was actually seven interconnected continents. The next second, all seven continents crumbled into fragments. The camera zoomed in again, focusing on one of the large fragments that had been shattered. The next second, countless rays of light flickered and intertwined at the edges of the fragments, weaving them back into a complete continent. As the camera zoomed in once more, one of the rays of light fell into the soil, took root, sprouted, and grew into a large tree. And then it ended. The PowerPoint presentation and video animation were finished.
Fortunately, the Tree of Life was very open and honest, and after Shu Xin asked about everything she didn't understand, she finally figured out what it meant that "the Flower Goddess is the Creator God, but the Creator God is not the Flower Goddess."
This world was originally just an endless, void sea, that is, chaos; then the Earth Mother Goddess was born from the endless sea, and the Earth Mother Goddess gave birth to seven Creator Gods, which were seven small points of light that flew out from the large point of light; the Creator Gods fulfilled their divine duties and created the world, creating seven continents, which were a group of small points of light that became a large black dot; then, for some unknown reason, all the continents created by the Creator Gods collapsed, and Lefra, as the Creator Goddess, took out her own divine essence and drew divine power to reshape her continents into complete ones, which is how the continents became fragments, and the fragments were then woven together by light; one of the divine essences that was not completely consumed fell onto the reshaped continents and became the Tree of Life, which is the final tree formed by the light.
The power of the Flower Goddess comes from a fragment of the Creator God's divine essence. So it can be said that the Flower Goddess is (a part) of the Creator God, but the Creator God certainly cannot be called the Flower Goddess, because the current Flower Goddess is actually the Tree of Life itself, which is a manifestation of the divine essence fragment.
Because it is a fragment of a god, the Tree of Life is omnipotent; because it is a fragment of the god of the creator god, the Tree of Life possesses the power of creation and can give birth to river elves; and it is precisely because it is a fragment of a god that human magicians frantically attack the river elves, attempting to seize the Tree of Life!
Therefore, the flower fairies' perception and understanding are correct. The Creator God did create the River Fairy, but the Creator God is not the Flower Goddess. The River Fairy's "Flower Goddess," the Tree of Life with its outstretched branches, is indeed "above" in a physical sense. As for "Flower Goddess's protection," it is indeed protection in the true sense. The clothes bestowed by the Tree of Life after the flower fairies prayed to it all have a magical "protective" effect.
As for why the flower fairies and commoners would become slaves after losing their houses and land, the Tree of Life didn't know either. It was too weak. In its perception, the children that were originally under its protection suddenly lost their life force, and the protection it had given them became ineffective as the life force dissipated. It only thought that its own children had died. As long as there is life, it will die after birth. It didn't care. It was only with the help of Shu Xin's clairvoyance magic that it saw that the "dead" children really existed.
The Tree of Life gave Shu Xin a strange feeling: It had consciousness, but it seemed to have no thoughts; it had wisdom, but it seemed to have no intelligence; it had emotions, but it seemed to have no feelings; it could communicate, but it seemed to be unable to communicate.
Now Shu Xin felt that although the Tree of Life was the embodiment of a god, it was still a magical plant in the end. How to put it, although it was very magical, it was still a plant after all.
With the help of the Tree of Life, Shu Xin has figured out what's going on with these gray birds with their incredible flying abilities over the past two days—these gray birds have become alchemical creatures.
When Shu Xin used her X-ray vision magic to share her vision with the Tree of Life, the Tree of Life's vision—or more accurately, its perception—could also be shared with Shu Xin to some extent. In the Tree of Life's perception, the gray bird on the table with its eyes closed had exhausted its soul power, and its life force was gradually weakening.
With the help of the Tree of Life's keen perception, Shu Xin clearly sensed that deep within the gray bird's tiny head and heart, incredibly profound and complex magical runes were taking effect. With Shu Xin's level of magic, she naturally couldn't discern anything, but the Tree of Life told Shu Xin that the power of these runes was completely consistent with the power of the runes within the flower fairy's body at its root.
...That must have been done by a human mage!
Either a human mage was catching birds or other magical creatures across the continent for experiments, and by sheer coincidence, they caught this flock of gray birds from the Kingdom of Ganar; or a human mage had been keeping an eye on the Kingdom of Ganar, and, unable or unwilling to catch the flower fairies, secretly caught this unfortunate flock of gray birds. The gray birds would fly thousands of miles back to their habitat, either because the human mage accidentally let them escape, or because the human mage deliberately let them fly away. To be honest, Shu Xin didn't quite believe it was the former.
If Xi were here, she would probably be able to see more, right? She can only see the most superficial information, and the Tree of Life can only see the most essential existence. We really need someone who can take a middle ground... It's just a pity that we don't know when Xi will be able to come back. Next month is the harvest month, and we don't know if the "warrior" that this guy mentioned can come before the harvest month.
Worried that the magical runes inside these gray birds might have a monitoring or detection function, Shu Xin took out all the gray birds and directly extracted their magic power. In the end, the poor birds completely disappeared from the world. A few drops of magic condensate appeared in front of Shu Xin. She sighed and thought that with this level of destruction, the magical runes should no longer be effective.
Just as the magical cat had devoured another wave of attacking humanoid monsters and grown large enough to take up the entire bed, Xi finally returned.
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