Chapter 163 is equivalent to a birth certificate; the phantom is alive!
"Meimeilin, are you pregnant too?" Shu Xin asked in surprise.
Shu Xin was standing at the entrance of the Flower Castle's hall, using detection magic to observe the magical state of the Land of Sin. Then she saw Mei Meilin flying towards her carrying a large piece of meat bone. Under the detection magic's vision, the light on Mei Meilin's body was much brighter than that of Lili Lian, who was carrying a large bundle of leafy greens behind her.
Meimeilin also saw the Flower Fairy standing at the gate. After saying good morning, she smiled sweetly with her eyes crinkling: "Yes, I'm pregnant. My husband is also a servant of the Flower Castle, Flower Fairy. Do you remember him? His name is Pepper. He has the talent of illusion magic and used to work as a merchant, bringing back a lot of acorns for the Land of Sin."
Shu Xin certainly remembered Pepper. He had long, grayish-white hair and grayish-brown eyes. When he was a flower fairy, he looked rather gloomy and melancholic. After regaining his fairy form, he looked even more gloomy and handsome. Yet, he had a particularly cheerful and lively personality, very sunny, and always had a bright smile. This contrast made him hard not to be impressed.
Shu Xin never expected that Mei Meilin and Pepper would get together, but she also never expected that Lilia and An Anka would be a couple.
"Pregnant too? Fairy Flower, is anyone else pregnant?" Lillian asked curiously.
Thinking of Peppert, Shu Xin recalled his energetic and sunny smile, and she smiled too: "Harvest month is here, and there are quite a few pregnant commoners and slaves. However, among the servants of Flower Castle, besides Memeline, Lilia is also pregnant."
After the members of the Golden Cloak Caravan regained their elven forms, the Snow Clan soon sent baby snow elephants to the Land of Sin to be raised. With a sufficient number of snow dragon fruits, at Shu Xin's suggestion, the cooks would add some fruit pulp to their meals.
Because the servants of the Flower Castle ate with Shu Xin, their magical energy accumulated very quickly, making them the first lucky ones, besides the Golden Cloak Caravan, to regain their elven forms.
Lilia and Ananna, who were responsible for cooking for the demons in the dungeon, were naturally considered servants of the Flower Castle. Shu Xin knew that after Ananna awoke, Lilia immediately went with him to the Tree of Life to pray for blessings, but the Tree of Life did not drop any blessing leaves. During that time, the servants were all discussing this, so Shu Xin specifically asked the Tree of Life. The answer she received was simple and straightforward—
Lilia and Ananka are not suitable to have children, partly because of their large size difference, and partly because of the large difference in their internal magic concentration.
After Lilia also regained her elven form, she took Ananka to the Tree of Life once again. This time, a blessed leaf fell, and it was a golden leaf that was completely different from the previous ones.
Thinking of this, Shu Xin asked Mei Meilin, and sure enough, when Mei Meilin and Pepper went to the Tree of Life to pray, a golden leaf also fell.
Meimeilin also told Shuxin that she and Lilia had hung the beautiful golden leaf under the eaves of their cottage. Flower fairies in the Land of Sin who wanted to get married were all willing to touch the golden leaf, believing it to be a blessing from the Tree of Life. However, until now, no other flower fairy couple had received the same golden leaf.
In other words, those who received the golden leaves were all river elves who had regained their normal size. Shu Xin seemed to be deep in thought.
She took some time to ask the Tree of Life about the meaning of the golden leaf, and not surprisingly learned that it was also a symbol of the Flower Goddess's blessing. As long as the magic and emotions were sufficient, the Tree of Life could help the couple who possessed the golden leaf to conceive children after it was fully restored.
...By then, the couple's own children will be running all over the place, Shu Xin couldn't help but think to herself.
For the riverside elves now, this golden leaf is more like a birth certificate.
Shu Xin carefully inquired with the Tree of Life and learned that before their race was nearly wiped out, the River Elves were infertile and naturally did not distinguish between genders. Therefore, the reproduction of their race depended entirely on the Tree of Life. Once the Tree of Life was severely damaged and could no longer nurture new life, the River Elves were on the verge of extinction.
Only river elves modified by human mages were given the male and female genders unique to humans, as well as secondary sexual characteristics unique to humans.
However, alchemical life forms also lack the ability to reproduce. Xi had this question when he first met the flower fairy. He had always been very interested in the flower fairy's soul, which, in his words, was "an independent soul nurtured by alchemical life forms." Under normal circumstances, alchemical life forms obviously do not possess a complete personality and an independent soul.
Therefore, the fact that the infertile modified elf could be transformed into a fertile flower fairy must mean that someone did something to achieve this.
Could it have been done by His Majesty the King who founded the Kingdom of Ganar?
Even the Tree of Life couldn't provide images of His Majesty the King, so Shu Xin had no idea what had happened back then.
However, the phantom monsters that came during this Harvest Month confirmed her guess. Wave after wave of undead phantoms were all friendly races that had lent a helping hand to the River Elves in the past. Among them were the Great Horned Deer that had appeared before. In addition to the Treants, Giant Eagles and Unicorns that the Tree of Life had explicitly mentioned, there were also a greater number of Wind Sprites and Water Sprites.
The first to appear were a massive number of wind and water fairies. If it weren't for the initial success of the training between the demons and the patrol team, these small and agile phantoms would have already reached the outer edge of the Tree of Life forest. However, these fairies were not very strong, and despite their countless numbers, they were quickly defeated by the combined efforts of the demons and the patrol team.
In real history, this was probably the case as well. The wind and water fairies who came last harvest month were just the vanguard. The main force of fairies will arrive this harvest month. Unfortunately, the fairies' strength was too weak. Even though they did their best to come and help, they were unable to truly help the river fairies.
...Human mages would exploit the captured river sprites by skinning them alive. If the wind and water sprites had fallen into the hands of humans, they probably wouldn't have fared much better.
Shu Xin asked the flower fairy merchants heading to the Wind Market if there were any wind fairies or water fairies among the alien races entering the Kingdom of Ganar. After receiving an affirmative answer, Shu Xin felt a little better.
It's unclear what the merchants were imagining, but after Shu Xin asked the wind fairies and water fairies, many flower fairies told her that they could recommend some wind fairy and water fairy caravans for cooperation in the Land of Sin. These two fairy races have always been very friendly to flower fairies, and their caravans never miss a single Wind Market. Not only do they bring goods to the Wind Market to sell to the flower fairies at almost cost price, but they also always give the flower fairies many, many free gifts.
To be honest, Shu Xin was a little touched. She readily agreed. She had originally thought that these two fairy races would keep their distance from the river elves because of their previous experiences. She didn't expect that they would be willing to have friendly relations with the river elves. If it weren't for the king's unilateral isolation of the country, these two races would definitely have frequent contact with the river elves. Such allies are simply unimaginably good!
However, Shu Xin felt that the reason why these two fairy races cared so much about the river elves was probably because they were in a similar situation to the snow tribe. After all, fairies are very sensitive to changes in magic power and their demand for magic power is likely to be very high. They obviously realized the importance of the river elves earlier than the snow tribe. It's just a pity that their strength was not enough to save the river elves from the siege of the human race.
Thinking about it this way, the River Elves were quite unlucky. The Snow Clan was strong enough, but they didn't care whether the River Elves lived or died at that time. The two fairy races rushed to the rescue, but they were too weak and could only watch helplessly as the River Elves died and were almost wiped out.
The number of friendly forces that arrived after the wind and water fairies was not large, but their individual combat capabilities were quite formidable. First came a giant eagle, larger than a magic cat, followed by a pair of unicorns that could fly, burrow, and summon wind and rain. Then came three slow-moving but extremely fast-attacking treants, and finally a group of giant stags.
Unlike the undead phantoms of the wind fairies, water fairies, and great antler deer, the giant eagle, unicorn, and treant that appeared earlier, although they also collapsed and disappeared under the siege of the demons and the patrol, Shu Xin could clearly sense that their phantoms were alive—
Shu Xin did not go to the battlefield at that time. She flew to the highest branch of the Tree of Life to observe the battle from afar. However, whether it was the phantom of the giant eagle circling in the sky, the phantom of the unicorn stepping on layers of flowing clouds, or the phantom of the tree person with branches reaching into the clouds, they all cast their gazes in the direction of the Tree of Life before they disappeared. In that instant, Shu Xin felt with absolute certainty that she was looking at them!
Even stronger evidence comes from the magical cat—Daisy devoured the phantoms of wind sprites, water sprites, and great antler deer without discrimination, but she never even opened her mouth to eat the phantoms of giant eagles, unicorns, and tree people.
Even though Shu Xin knew perfectly well that they meant no harm to the river spirits, she still felt a chill run down her spine when she actually looked into the eyes of those phantoms that should have existed in the past.
Is this what magical life in the magical world is like?!
Shu Xin immediately asked the Tree of Life about the lifespan of these three races, and her heart pounded when she received the answer—all three races were long-lived!
Long-lived species are different from long-lived species. Both short-lived and long-lived species are short-lived species because their lifespans are limited, the only difference being the length. However, the lifespan of long-lived species is theoretically infinite!
This means that the giant eagle, unicorn, and treant who personally experienced the annihilation of the river elves still live somewhere on the continent of Lefra.
The phantoms of the harvest month will reappear. So the question is, are they watching the river spirits' condition all along by using the existence of the phantoms, or did they only turn their attention to them this time because they noticed that it was different from the past?
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