Chapter 47 The Tree of Life Sprouts and the Flower Fairy Gets Pregnant
After taking a deep breath, Shu Xin calmed her somewhat agitated mood and decided to go for a walk to clear her head before returning to continue her research.
Casting herself a stealth spell, Shu Xin leaped off the terrace. The wind whipped her long hair and antennae backward, and Shu Xin flapped her wings, flying freely back and forth in the canopy of the Tree of Life a few times, feeling much better afterward.
When Shu Xin caught a glimpse of green out of the corner of her eye, she immediately turned around and pounced on it. She saw that the bare branches of the Tree of Life were sprouting tiny buds, which made Shu Xin even happier.
After landing on the ground, Shu Xin thought for a moment and decided to go to the wheat field where the flower fairy slaves lived, hoping to find some inspiration.
On the way to the wheat field, Shu Xin saw two slaves with small bellies among a group of flower fairies who were busy building a magic workshop.
At first, she was happily thinking that she really needed to eat more to gain weight. But then Shu Xin realized something was wrong. How could someone gain weight only in their belly?
Not to mention that the slaves had always been thin-armed and thin-legged, so how did they suddenly develop protruding bellies? And these two were female flower fairies—
Wait, could they be pregnant?!
Shu Xin went back and secretly used a detection spell on the two flower fairy slaves who had small bellies.
It has to be said that having a magic wand now is much more convenient than before. With the help of the magic wand, she can now control the coverage area of the detection spell relatively accurately, instead of casting a super large detection range as before.
In the field of vision of the detection magic, they, like the other flower fairy slaves, were emitting an extremely faint and soft white light. However, if you looked closely, you would soon see that the white light on their bodies was actually brighter.
So Shu Xin examined them more closely, and she almost immediately discovered that the reason these two flower fairies looked brighter than the other flower fairies was because they had a stable light source in their lower abdomen.
...So she really is pregnant!
Could the flower fairy's pregnancy be related to the sprouting of the Tree of Life? Shu Xin suddenly thought of this.
After all, the Tree of Life was created by the creator goddess Lefra to nurture the River Elves, so the survival and prosperity of the River Elves is very likely related to the condition of the Tree of Life.
The Tree of Life, which suffered severe damage, has not yet recovered and is therefore unable to give birth to new Riverside Elves. In fact, it is precisely because of this that Shu Xin suspects that all the existing Flower Fairies and Flower Elves in the Kingdom of Garnar are descendants of modified elves.
However, the king may not necessarily be a modified elf. The information in the Key of Life clearly mentions that the river elf who guarded the core of the Tree of Life survived, and perhaps one of them became the king of Garnar. Then, for some unknown purpose, he established the current bizarre hierarchical system.
The riverside fairies, who were modified by humans, reproduce in the same way as humans. If there is any difference, it is probably that the flower fairies are neither promiscuous nor indecent...
Regardless of whether the flower fairies are slaves, commoners, or nobles, they have no intention of finding mistresses or lovers. Only when their spouse dies will the other party consider finding a new partner.
Furthermore, there is little difference between male and female flower fairies in any aspect. Whether it is magical talent or physical ability, good or bad has nothing to do with gender. As for appearance, the males are handsome in their own way, and the females are pretty in their own way. With everyone being a great beauty, it seems that appearance is not that important...
Within this area alone, two pregnant women could be seen. Shu Xin thought for a moment, then waved her magic wand and released the detection magic again—this time she spread it out over a much larger area.
The detection magic, which covered almost the entire land of sin, allowed Shu Xin to quickly locate the pregnant flower fairy commoner. Compared to the slaves, the pregnant commoner stood out conspicuously in the detection field of vision.
As for the flower fairy slaves, using detection magic is less effective than simply looking with your eyes; their physical changes are very obvious.
Finally, Shu Xin discovered that there were quite a few pregnant flower fairies, a total of fifty-six. Among them, thirty-seven were commoners and nineteen were slaves. The total number of commoners was greater than that of slaves, so the number of pregnant women was also greater.
After counting the number of pregnant women, Shu Xin felt that the flower fairy's pregnancy and the sprouting of the Tree of Life were not really related.
With so many pregnant flower fairies, yet the Tree of Life has only sprouted a tiny bit of green shoot, it doesn't quite add up. Or is the green shoot just a symbol? Does it signify the gestation and birth of new life?
After looking around, Shu Xin was quite surprised to find that none of the other flower fairies working with the pregnant women, whether commoners or slaves, showed any intention of taking care of them. This was unusual for flower fairies, unless these pregnant women were completely in need of care—
These pregnant flower fairies did indeed look to be in very good condition.
The commoner flower fairies, who appear exceptionally bright in the field of vision of detection magic, are completely undetectable to the naked eye. This alone demonstrates that bearing offspring does not bring them any additional negative effects.
As for the flower fairy slaves, if you use detection magic to look at them, they are not very different from other slaves. But if you look at them with the naked eye, apart from their slightly protruding bellies, you can clearly see that they are much taller than other slaves. Even their heads have a thin and dense layer of short stubble.
This is probably a magical characteristic unique to magical life forms, Shu Xin guessed.
After all, in the field of vision of detection magic, the light spot representing the pregnant flower fairy is indeed brighter than that of other flower fairies. In Shu Xin's understanding, this kind of light emitted by a living being should be a symbol of vitality, magic power or life energy. Therefore, for flower fairies, bearing offspring is unlikely to cause them any harm, but will instead bring some kind of benefit to the mother.
Even so, Shu Xin still felt that it was necessary to provide some welfare and protection for expectant mothers. She returned to the Flower Castle and discussed with Nonoli and Pengpengan how to arrange for these pregnant flower fairies, such as whether to reduce their workload and increase their meals.
Both officials looked bewildered at the special arrangement made by the Flower Fairy.
Peng Peng'an couldn't help but ask:
“Your Highness, I will absolutely obey your orders. I just don’t quite understand why you want to lighten their workload—they’re not injured, are they? Only female flower fairies can receive the blessing of the Flower Goddess and give birth to life. Under the Flower Goddess’s protection, their magic becomes more active, their bodies become stronger and healthier, and even their magical talents are temporarily enhanced. In this situation, shouldn’t they be doing more work?”
Nono nodded in agreement and added, "Your Highness, as the harvest month approaches, more and more flower fairies will become pregnant, but we are running low on food."
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