Chapter 203 An orderly rescue, both sides are tense.
Shu Xin remained silent for a moment, then crouched down and used her fingertips to pick up powder and draw a freezing rune. She then directly channeled magic power into it, and the magic rune was activated almost instantly, with a chill quickly spreading throughout the underground cave.
This must be magic powder, right?!
Shu Xin couldn't help but ask the Tree of Life: "What exactly is magic powder?"
Any powdered magical material that does not possess any magical effects but can stabilize magic power to the maximum extent and conduct magic power with the highest efficiency can be called magic powder—this is how the Tree of Life explained to Shu Xin.
So the magic powder in the recipe actually serves to stabilize the magic?
But what does this have to do with the flower fairy's fever? Shu Xin couldn't figure it out at all. Getting sick and suddenly catching fire, and even burning her arm into magic powder, was just too abstract!
Worried about the potential chain reaction of using restoration magic now, Shu Xin hesitated for a moment. She didn't restore the poor flower fairy's lost arm, nor did she disturb the elven servants who were going into the underground cave to feed the patients water. She returned to the surface.
The elven servants were still organizing the disaster victims to move into the large treehouses, while the demons began distributing food to the flower fairies who were still in line.
The flower fairies who were receiving the moss water cakes from the demons were very nervous. They had never encountered a race with such a huge size and such ferocious magical energy before.
In the eyes of the flower fairies, the elves were already quite tall, but when the elves appeared next to these behemoths, they all seemed rather petite. Not to mention the hands that stretched out, carrying huge piles of food; every finger was taller and stronger than the flower fairies themselves, and most of those fingers even had long, sharp nails that looked like they were highly poisonous.
No flower fairy was unaware that they would be easily killed by their opponent.
But not a single flower fairy escaped from the line. Whether it was the emptiness and hollowness of hunger that almost overwhelmed their minds, or the thirst that burned like flames in every corner of their bodies, all of these heavily suppressed the fear rising in their hearts. One after another, the flower fairies flew over, their hands trembling, and grabbed at the stacks of golden, sweet-smelling soft cakes without hesitation.
In fact, the demons distributing moss water cakes to the disaster victims were even more nervous than the flower fairies. They were all on high alert, their arms stiff and motionless. Only after all the moss water cakes had been taken did they dare to carefully withdraw their hands, afraid of accidentally bumping into the flower fairies flying in the air. The little creatures' faint breaths made their hearts pound—
If any flower fairies are injured or killed, they will surely die!
Shu Xin glanced at the orderly rescue scene under the Tree of Life, flew over and gave Xi a kiss on the cheek to show her approval, and then hurriedly left.
The disaster victims outside the white wall have been initially settled, and Shu Xin now needs to check the situation inside the territory.
She initially considered catching a gray bird outside the sunshade to bring to the potion workshop for Nanaja to study. However, there was already a diseased Qiqike in the Land of Sin, and bringing back the strange gray bird, which was the source of infection, would be too risky. After considering the possible consequences, Shu Xin decisively gave up the idea.
The problem is that there aren't enough people available to specifically watch over the flock of gray birds right now. However, if they want to continue spreading the fever, they won't leave on their own. In other words, there's no need to worry about them running away. As long as they don't continue to have contact with the flower fairies, that's fine. So Shu Xin simply entrusted the task of watching over the gray birds to the Tree of Life.
After circling the Land of Sin under the cover of invisibility magic, Shu Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief; everything inside the white walls was normal!
Relieved, Shu Xin prepared to go find Nana Jia to check on the progress of the magic potion's creation.
On her way to the potion workshop, she also pressed the Tree of Life for details about the relationship between magic powder and the flower fairy fever, which gave her some clues about this rapidly spreading epidemic.
"Magic powder" is actually a general term. Regardless of the magical materials or methods used, as long as the final magical material meets the definition of magic powder, it can be called magic powder. Therefore, the grayish-white powder that grain crops have had all their magic extracted from is magic powder, and the grayish-red powder that the flower fairy's arm, whose magic has been completely burned away by a new type of fever, is also magic powder.
Wheat, carefully cultivated by the shepherd and imbued with magic, can be a magical material. Similarly, flower fairies, being magical beings themselves and also imbued with magic, can naturally also be magical materials.
Flower fairies are magical beings, but also mutated alchemical beings. They are descendants of modified elves, who were once controlled by human mages. The layers of runic chains binding the flower fairies' hearts must be related to this control. In addition, the group of gray birds that had been turned into alchemical creatures were the work of human mages. The strange gray birds outside the sunshade were obviously also deliberately placed there by human mages. Shu Xin couldn't help but suspect that the outbreak and spread of this fever was caused by human mages using the runic chains in the flower fairies' bodies.
The answer was practically written right next to the question—not a single elf who broke free of the rune chains contracted the disease!
The human mages' decision to release the fever-spreading gray birds into the Land of Sin, rather than into other territories of the Kingdom of Ganar, reveals quite a bit of information:
It's possible that Xi and the others' activities in human territory aroused the vigilance of human mages, who then used magic to find the river elves behind the demons. However, Shu Xin felt that this possibility was not very high. After all, the demons had a very bad reputation, and if the river elves were found to be colluding with the demons, the human side would not be so calm.
It's more likely that the flock of gray birds leaked the anomaly of the Sinful Land, which is why the human mage accurately deployed the source of infection, probably to nip the problem in the bud. However, the information this mastermind could obtain was quite limited; clearly, they didn't know that some flower fairies had broken free from the rune's bindings and reverted to their original forms.
If we could figure out the specific transmission method of this fever, it would be great. This would also allow us to observe the extent to which human mages have mastered the runic chains within the flower fairies' bodies. However, the most important thing is to develop a magical potion to save the flower fairies' lives—time is of the essence now!
Shu Xin increased her flying speed, but when she arrived at the underground potion workshop, she found it empty; neither Nana Jia nor her magical cat assistant were there.
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Author's Note: Finished writing! I'll correct any typos during the day. Now I'm going to sleep quickly; I have to go to work at 8 AM. [Falls into bed immediately]
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