Chapter 92: Even if their disguise is removed, they might be slave traders.
Cocona quickly smiled and greeted, "Good afternoon, Zhi!"
Your Excellency the Consul?!
With a thud, the slave trader who was flying in the air fell to the ground.
As soon as Shu Xin entered the conference room, she heard the flower fairy merchant's enthusiastic greeting. She couldn't help but smile and was about to reply with a "Good afternoon" when she saw the flower fairy, who had been hovering in mid-air, suddenly fall down.
Shu Xin quickly drew her magic wand and cast a healing spell. Holding the wand, she hurried over: "What's wrong? Are you alright?"
The sharp pain in her head jolted Cocona awake, but before she could even fly off the floor clutching her head, a gentle magical light shone down from above, instantly dispelling the piercing pain. Then, a gentle, noble voice, like divine music, descended from above. Cocona looked up and once again saw the radiant, magnificent, and sacred figure of the Flower Fairy—
Is she dreaming?
Kokona squeezed her eyes shut, then opened them again. Before her stood the radiant, holy, and noble flower fairy once more—
Why can't she wake up!
Staring blankly, Kokona had no idea how to react. The next second, she saw the flower fairy reach out her hands to her with concern. Kokona wanted to jump up and say she was alright, wanted to fly up and say she was fine, but the truth was that she was limp and motionless, and was gently placed on the table by the flower fairy in her hands.
Lying back on the conference table, Kokona stared dizzily at the high, distant ceiling. The patterns on the ceiling were so intricate that even the best illusionist couldn't replicate them. No wonder she was the Flower Fairy—the Flower Fairy…the Flower Fairy?!
Kokona finally came to her senses. She sat up with a start, looked around, but saw nothing.
She hurriedly flew up and spun around several times rather impolitely, only to find that she was the only flower fairy in the empty hall, with no sign of the radiant figure of the Flower Fairy.
Cocoa thought to herself that she must have been too tired lately, dreaming in broad daylight, even dreaming that she was being held in the hands of a flower fairy. "You can dream about anything," she thought to herself, chuckling to herself as she wiped the sweat from her brow. She wondered why she was sweating so much; was it because of what she'd been eating lately? The sweat was sticky.
Looking down, Kokona froze. How did her hands get covered in blood?!
Suddenly, an extremely strong and rich fragrance wafted over. Cocoa looked up and saw the flower fairy with radiant wings once again.
Seeing that the flower fairy merchant was not in a good state, Shu Xin quickly went to get some acorn wine. When she entered the meeting room, she saw that the flower fairy merchant had already taken flight again and seemed to be much clearer-headed. Shu Xin breathed a sigh of relief: "Are you feeling better? Come and have some acorn wine—I mean, magic potion."
Seeing the flower fairy merchant covered in blood, Shu Xin cast a cleansing spell on him and handed him a wooden bowl filled with acorn wine: "Drink some magic potion to replenish your magic power."
The magical light faded, and Cocona looked down. The sticky blood on her hands had vanished without a trace. Then she looked up again, and there stood a flower fairy with long, shimmering white-purple hair, looking at her with worry. The strong, exotic fragrance emanating from her breath constantly reminded Cocona of this—
She wasn't dreaming!
Trying her best to calm down, Cocona reached out and accepted the potion from the Flower Fairy. She opened her mouth, trying to express her gratitude and respect, but found that she couldn't utter a single word. After a pause, Cocona gave up and lowered her head, gulping down the potion in one go.
The potion, with its strong, almost pungent aroma, actually tasted refreshing and sweet. The magic it contained was incredibly abundant and gentle. After just one sip, Cocona felt a warm sensation spreading from her fingertips to the strands of her hair.
Clutching the wooden bowl, Cocona finally came to her senses from the shock of meeting the Flower Fairy. It was then that she remembered her purpose in coming to the Land of Sin. Taking a deep breath, Cocona looked up at the Flower Fairy, who had a concerned expression: "Governor—no, Flower Fairy, I, I kept my promise and brought a sufficient number of slaves!"
Shu Xin only realized then that she hadn't made any disguise and had just come to see the flower fairy merchant!
I didn't expect that her disguise would be exposed so suddenly after only a few days. But she only revealed her identity to the flower fairy merchant, so there shouldn't be any problem, right?
Shu Xin knew in her heart that she couldn't keep up the pretense forever. She didn't agree with the current system in the Kingdom of Ganar, and the king probably didn't approve of the policies she implemented in the Land of Sin either. Besides, she was already a dead man to the king, and sooner or later she would clash with him. She had thought it through. Before that happened, she would try to survive as long as possible and develop stealthily. If she couldn't survive, she would try to take down the king in one fell swoop. Anyway, she had already gained this life for free. Given the nature of the flower fairies, even if they were all made savages, it would be better than living under the current strict hierarchical slave system!
The flower fairy merchant, who introduced herself as Cocona and even took off her cloak to reveal her true form to the flower fairy, not only made up for the number of slaves she owed, but also said that she would contact other slave merchants as soon as possible to send more flower fairy slaves to the land of sin.
Shu Xin was astonished when she saw the flower fairy merchant remove his cloak. The blue cloak specially made by the Tree of Life could not only conceal one's appearance, but also alter one's gender! The slave merchant wearing the blue cloak looked like a middle-aged male flower fairy, but after removing the cloak, Cocona was a real young female flower fairy!
Shu Xin asked Keke Na, somewhat curiously, how she became a slave trader. The young flower fairy with long reddish-brown hair and golden-green eyes told the flower fairy that all flower fairy traders could be slave traders.
Flower fairies with relevant magical talents, after becoming merchants, will be summoned by the Magic Tree, also known as the Tree of Life, in the dead of night, for a period of time, ranging from a year to a few months. No flower fairy will refuse the call of the Magic Tree. Therefore, when they come to the Magic Tree, ordinary merchants will receive a blue cloak bestowed by the Magic Tree—a cloak symbolizing their status as slave merchants.
The moment the flower fairy merchant receives the blue cloak, he/she will know that because he/she is exceptionally good at business, the magic tree has bestowed upon him/her this blue cloak, which signifies that he/she is qualified to save his/her kind. Although it is not clear why the magic tree refers to trading slaves as "saving one's kind," the flower fairy merchants understand that they can become slave traders after receiving the blue cloak.
This blue cloak has extremely special properties. Unless the owner puts it on, no flower fairy other than the owner can see it. Similarly, even if someone puts on the blue cloak and decides to become a slave trader, no flower fairy will be able to identify him or her. The merchants all believe that this is the magic tree's regard for and protection of slave traders.
That's why Cocona said that all merchants could be slave traders. As long as they put on the blue cloak, they could conduct slave transactions. Even slave traders who had been cooperating for many years would not know each other's true identities. Once they took off the blue cloak, they could do other business as usual, and no one could tell whether their partner was also secretly engaged in slave trading like themselves.
Shu Xin couldn't see the blue cloak that Cocona had taken off. Even if Cocona held the blue cloak up in her hand to show it to Shu Xin, Shu Xin still couldn't see anything. It has to be said that the Tree of Life's move was truly ingenious!
After seeing off Cocona, who had put on her cloak again, and handing over the newly arrived slaves to Nonori and Pengpengan for reception and arrangements, Shuxin landed under the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life defined the slave trade as "saving one's own kind," which made Shuxin very concerned.
She closed her eyes, calmed her mind, and began to pray to the Tree of Life—
Please tell me, Tree of Life, I want to know the origin and purpose of the Blue Cloak.
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