Chapter 138 They will wake up. I swear to the Flower Goddess.
The teleportation hall was a wooden building constructed to the height of a flower fairy. The spacious hall, encompassing the entire teleportation array, appeared extremely tall and wide to the flower fairy, but it was still too small for Pengpeng'an, who had regained her normal size. When Shuxin and Nuonuo flew over, they saw the red-haired elf kneeling on one knee outside the teleportation hall from afar—
Peng Peng An was completely focused on channeling magic power into the teleportation array inside the hall.
As soon as she landed on the ground, Shu Xin saw the teleportation array on the hall floor radiating magical light, indicating that the teleportation array had been successfully activated. She gripped her magic wand, ready to cast healing spells on the flower fairies who had been teleported back.
However, when the magical light dissipated, the flower fairies who appeared in the teleportation circle were completely unharmed, showing no signs of injury whatsoever. They lay peacefully on the floor, and if it weren't for the fact that their magical aura was so weak as to be almost nonexistent, they would have looked as if they were asleep with their eyes closed.
The moment Shu Xin sensed the presence of the flower fairies, her expression instantly turned cold. She had sensed this familiar, unsettling feeling before from those strange gray birds!
The flock of gray birds, with their extraordinary flying abilities, were captured by the merchant Cocona and sent to the Land of Sin. At the time, Shu Xin was actually thinking of raising them to be the mounts of her patrol team. However, she discovered that the gray birds were actually quails from another world. In Shu Xin's original world, these birds could only fly short distances. The gray birds that hatched later did not have very good flying abilities, so Shu Xin gave up the idea.
As for the group of gray birds that were clearly alive but appeared lifeless in the detection magic's field of vision, Shu Xin instructed Nuonuo to put a few in the medical room. However, neither healing nor repair magic worked. After the birds were taken away from the high-level space stone that could store living beings, they weakened at a visible rate.
With the help of the Tree of Life, Shu Xin confirmed that the poor gray birds had been transformed into alchemical creatures by human mages. She then used magic extraction to completely destroy them. Now, the flower fairies appearing in the teleportation array gave Shu Xin the same feeling as those gray birds—
Even though the flower fairies lying in the teleportation array were still breathing steadily and their hearts were still beating, in her perception they were like extremely realistic and exquisite dolls, not living beings at all!
"Your Highness, I'll take them to the medical room," Nono said to Shuxin as she helped the somewhat exhausted Pengpeng'an to her feet.
Shu Xin pursed her lips, but ultimately shook her head: "You should take Peng Peng An to rest first. There's no point in taking them to the medical room."
Nonori and Pengpengan were both taken aback. They exchanged a glance, said nothing more, and quietly left through the entrance of the teleportation hall.
"Brother!" Ananna, who had received the news first from the servants of the Flower Castle, rushed over.
Ananna was on her way to the underground warehouse to get some brown fruit for Memeline when she heard a servant mention the Golden Cloak to the official. As she watched the official rush upstairs as if to find the Flower Fairy, Ananna's heart skipped a beat. Her brother's caravan was called the Golden Cloak Caravan!
After receiving such devastating news from her servant, Ananna had no idea how she had flown there.
Before the arrival of the Flower Fairy, she and her brother struggled on the brink of life and death, relying on each other for survival. After the Flower Fairy came to the Land of Sin, under her protection, they escaped their miserable situation of being on the verge of death at any moment. They went to the magic workshop to forge magic wands together, they went to the bakery to get acorn bread together, they... Ananna could hardly imagine what her life would be like without Ananka's presence.
Not to mention how outstanding her brother is! He has received rewards and praise from the Flower Fairy time and time again. He was the first slave to regain his magical talent, and he was also the first flower fairy to go from slave to commoner. Ananna thinks Ananka is the best brother in the world! They are already living a wonderful life that they never even dreamed of, how can Ananka fall down now!
Ananna nudged the flower fairy lying motionless in the teleportation array, her tears falling onto the golden cloak, spreading into dark spots: "Brother, wake up! Don't scare me, please wake up!"
"Fairy Flower, what happened to Ananka and the others?" A trembling voice came from beside me.
Shu Xin turned her head and saw Lilia, who was covered in sugar powder. The entire flower fairy exuded a sweet smell, as if she had accidentally knocked over a sugar powder jar.
Knowing that today was a day off, Shu Xin understood. It must be that Mei Meilin had invited Lilia to the kitchen to develop new dishes. On weekdays, Mei Meilin would cook according to the recipes given by the Tree of Life. On days off, she liked to invite Lilia to work together to explore new dishes, because Lilia was very good at developing new recipes.
It must have been because Lilia took Ananna to the kitchen of the Flower Castle that the two of them were able to get the news and rush over so quickly.
Shu Xin's voice was somewhat hoarse: "...I don't know exactly what happened."
Lilia let out a bewildered "Ah," her pinkish-blue eyes still fixed on her lover lying in the teleportation circle. She murmured, "We all agreed that when he came back, we would go to the Tree of Life to pray for a wedding..."
The food in the Land of Sin is delicious and plentiful, so there's no need to wait until the harvest month to get pregnant. Lilia has already planned it all out. Once Ananka returns from his business trip, they'll make a trip to the Tree of Life to hold a ceremony, and then they can start preparing to have children. Their new house, which they'll live in after their marriage, has already been built. It's three stories high, and it can accommodate even if they have five or six children a year.
She knew that Ananka had always admired her skill in decorating the house, so she specially collected many beautiful fish scales, cleaned them, and asked other flower fairies to help her steam them repeatedly until there was no smell. She then carefully polished the shapes and neatly pasted them onto the roof on both sides. Under the sunlight, the gradient-colored fish scales shimmered and sparkled, and Ananka would definitely like them very much.
Lilia never imagined that those warm, bright, orange-red eyes, always brimming with smiles, would close before they could even see the beautifully decorated roof she had painstakingly created.
“They will be alright,” the Flower Fairy said. “Don’t worry, they will wake up. I swear to the Flower Goddess.”
Shu Xin brought all eight flower fairies from the Golden Cloak Caravan into the Flower Castle. She specially created a new room and painted it with high-level miniature garden magic to ensure that the concentration of magic in the air was high enough.
"Can you tell anything?" Shu Xin asked Xi beside her.
She had already used her detection magic to check, and under the detection magic's vision, these flower fairies had completely blended into the surrounding scene, no longer radiating the light that symbolized life and vitality.
Under the effect of the X-ray vision magic, they were no longer the bright white little light people. Now, Shu Xin could see the flesh, bones and internal organs of these flower fairies with unparalleled clarity in the X-ray vision magic. It was at this moment that Shu Xin realized that those whose internal structure could be seen by X-ray vision magic were most likely inanimate objects.
Reaching out to pull the dejected flower fairy into his arms, the black-haired demon, still in his youthful appearance, said, "Their condition has become even stranger. I told you before, they are all alchemical beings."
Shu Xin nodded.
Xi continued, "However, they are still different from true alchemical life forms because they all possess completely independent souls. True alchemical life forms only have replaceable and replicable soul cores. To make a simple comparison, true alchemical life forms are like branches that have been cut off and are already dead, but your kin are branches that are still growing and can still bear fruit."
“But they look like they’ve been cut off from the branches,” the black-haired demon described. “They’re not completely dead yet, but as you can see, they’ll soon become dead, withered branches.”
Xi concluded, "They must have been attacked on a spiritual level, and quite severely at that. If you hadn't taken such good care of them, they probably wouldn't have lasted this long; they would probably have turned into withered tree branches by now."
"...I thought there were still several months until the harvest month, so it wouldn't be too dangerous outside," Shu Xin said softly.
She closed her eyes briefly: "Intellectually, I know that only this one caravan has been attacked so far, and the situation isn't as bad as I think. But emotionally, I really want to call all the caravans back. What if... what if something even worse happens?"
"Whatever decision you make, I will always support you, darling," the black-haired devil said softly.
With a forced smile, Shu Xin turned and buried her face in his firm, full chest muscles, muttering a quiet thank you.
In the end, Shu Xin still felt that it would be better to wait until An Anka and the others were awakened and to find out what had happened before adjusting the frequency of the caravan's outings.
According to Xi, if An Anka and the others were branches cut off from the tree, they could still survive as long as the cut branches were tied back to the tree in time!
Although the clairvoyance magic could no longer reveal more information, Shu Xin was certain that their soul-level hearts were still covered in rune chains, and what she had to do was use the power of the Tree of Life to free them from the rune shackles.
This is quite risky without enough magic reserves within the flower fairies, but Shu Xin can provide them with sufficient external magic reserves. She has already communicated with the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Life can sense An Anka and the others' presence, which greatly strengthens Shu Xin's confidence.
Taking out the invitation letter given to her by the Snow Clan Chief, Shu Xin infused it with magic and called out, "Veranika, I need your help. Please provide me with enough Snow Dragon Fruit. I need enough magic to save my people."
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