Chapter 148 The Production Magic Wand is Infested with Worms
The sunlight shone brightly, casting dappled patterns through the lush foliage. When a gentle breeze blew, the light spots danced and swayed, landing on rows of glass furniture made of cardamom suspended in the shade of the trees. As a result, shimmering, clear light was refracted, creating a mesmerizing and ethereal beauty as light and shadow danced.
These grass-and-fruit glass furniture pieces are the fruits of the labor of the flower fairy slaves during this period.
After numerous experiments confirmed that the flowers of the color-changing bell vine were indeed suitable for the flower fairy slaves to live in, Shu Xin found Nuonuo Li and gave him all the blueprints for the grass fruit glass furniture.
When the number of flower fairy slaves was still small, Shu Xin could personally handle the construction and building of the houses. However, now that the number of flower fairy slaves has reached more than six thousand, if Shu Xin still thinks about doing everything herself, then she is simply out of her mind.
So Shu Xin handed the blueprints to Nonoli, who was in charge of administration. He would organize the flower fairy slaves and arrange for them to polish the models, cast the molds, and independently produce the grass and fruit glass furniture for their own use.
Since making models requires cutting magic and making cardamom glass requires shattering magic, relying solely on Shu Xin to cast spells would be too inefficient. So, she had a brilliant idea and developed a magic wand specifically for casting these two types of magic.
The two officials had very interesting expressions when they saw the Flower Fairy take out a magic wand that could unleash forbidden magic.
Although Shu Xin trusted the flower fairies' character, she wouldn't be overconfident. Therefore, she fixed the effective range and power of the magic. No matter how much or how little magic power was input, the effect of the magic that could be released would always remain unchanged.
Through so much exploration and use, Shu Xin has developed her own understanding of the working logic of magic. She now treats each spell as a formula to apply. Simple and basic magic runes are like numbers, while more complex and advanced magic circles are like fill-in-the-blank questions. Although she can't solve advanced math problems yet, she can still do elementary school problems like two times three equals six and two plus three equals five.
Although Shu Xin understood it this way, she also knew that magic was very idealistic. The same magical runes engraved on magic wands of the same material would produce very different magical effects. This depended entirely on the caster's own qualities. For example, with the same fire rune, if the magic power reserve was shallow and the elemental affinity was insufficient, only a small flame could be lit. But if the magic power reserve was deep, the elemental affinity was strong enough, and the understanding of the laws was profound, creating a sea of fire would be easy.
What Shu Xin is doing now is to eliminate all influencing factors, regardless of the consequences, so that this fire rune can only ignite a small flame. Zero plus zero is still zero, and zero multiplied by zero is also zero. Shu Xin simply and crudely multiplied all other factors by zero—the magic wand that can release cutting and crushing magic is engraved with a magic-blocking circle.
This complex and intricate anti-magic array was something Shu Xin had dug out from Shu Shu Xin's memories. She didn't understand the specific principles behind it, but she knew that this anti-magic array was very useful. By simply changing the position and number of the anti-magic runes, the effective range and intensity of the anti-magic array could be altered.
Although it sounded simple, Shu Xin still spent a lot of time adjusting it to achieve the effect she wanted. After all, she didn't understand the underlying principles, so she used a clumsy method, modifying it little by little and trying it out step by step.
After Nonori and Pompon tried the Fairy-customized forbidden magic wand, their expressions softened considerably, so the wand workshop began mass-producing these production-type magic wands.
It was with the help of the production magic wand that the flower fairy slaves were able to quickly and efficiently create one set of grass fruit glass furniture after another.
The air-drying of the cardamom glass furniture also takes a certain amount of time. During this period, Shu Xin was not idle. She began to promote the growth of the color-changing wind chime vine.
Considering that this bellflower vine would become a gathering place for flower fairy slaves, she chose a treehouse closest to the Flower Castle as the host for the bellflower vine.
After communicating with the flower fairy slave who was the owner of the treehouse, the flower fairy waved her magic wand and caused a large number of wind chime flowers to grow on the small tree of life.
Perhaps influenced by the magic of the flower fairy, the flowers of the bell vine are light purple. The vines that twine around the branches bloom with hundreds and thousands of small, bell-shaped light purple flowers, completely dyeing the green canopy purple. The flower-covered vines hang down densely from the branches, and at a glance, the purple flowers seem to flow like a waterfall. Although it is just a tree full of flowers, it looks like a sea of flowers, like mist and smoke, like a dream and an illusion.
Shu Xin was also amazed. Even if the color-changing bell vine wasn't a magical plant, it still had great ornamental value.
Thinking that more flower fairy slaves would be brought to the Land of Sin, Shu Xin asked the owners of several nearby treehouses. With their consent, she induced the growth of several more color-changing wind chime vines, which truly added an incredibly dreamlike landscape to the Land of Sin.
Before long, the flower fairy slaves moved into the beautiful bellflower and had their own little house.
Shu Xin then deliberately shrunk her size and used a concealment spell to check on their living conditions.
For the flower fairy slaves, the interior of the bellflower house was spacious and airy, with a sweet and fragrant scent. The only drawback was that the crystal furniture made of grass and fruit glass, though exquisite and beautiful, was quite hard. However, they quickly learned a solution from their predecessors. When Shu Xin went to investigate, she saw that some of the glass furniture in the bellflower houses was covered with grass leaves, some with petals, and some even used the bellflower pollen they found on the spot to spread a thick layer on their beds.
The bellflower cottage is lined with gray bird feathers, specifically the inner layer of soft down. The fluffy down, after careful grooming, looks very comfortable!
Shu Xin thought to herself that this was probably the home of the flower fairy slave who was in charge of taking care of the gray bird. Being close to the water tower, she must have gotten the moon first.
When researching using bellflowers to build houses, Shu Xin worried that the bell-like sounds might disturb the flower fairies' rest. However, after careful consideration, she found that bellflowers were perfect for the flower fairy slaves to live in, so she put that aside for the time being. Now, she came to hear how loud the sound was. If it was as loud as noise, then she would have to address the issue.
The bellflowers that fall from the branches no longer make a sound, so Shu Xin didn't hear the peculiar bell-like sound produced by this magical plant. Now, hovering in the sea of flowers, Shu Xin realizes that the sound of each individual bellflower is actually very faint. It's just that the bellflower vines bloom so densely and abundantly that when the wind blows, the numerous bellflowers rise and fall, creating a melodious and light, ethereal bell-like sound.
Shu Xin observed carefully and found the source of the sound—when the wind passed through the calyx of the bellflower, a faint, bell-like sound, as if metal were clashing, came from the bottom of the flower.
Flying into the bellflower, Shu Xin listened intently. The bell-like sound became more pronounced inside the flower, but due to the isolation of the petals, the bell-like sounds from other bellflowers were completely inaudible. In addition, the grass-fruit glass furniture was placed in the middle of the flower, making the faint bell-like sound from the bottom even more distant. At least to Shu Xin, this somewhat distant and ethereal bell-like sound was not noise, but rather had a sleep-inducing effect.
Next, Shu Xin observed the daily condition of the flower fairy slaves more closely and confirmed that they were all in good spirits and looked like they had rested well, which put her mind at ease.
With the housing problem for the flower fairy slaves solved, there's nothing else pressing to deal with in the Land of Sin, so Shu Xin has more time to explore the dungeons more often.
After wandering around for a few days under the cover of invisibility magic and subtly chatting with the demons, Shu Xin realized that she had been too optimistic before.
The hundred or so demons who refused to work because they had bigger fists were indeed taken away by Xi, but this did not mean that the "privileged class" of the dungeon had disappeared. "When the cat's away, the mice will play." Now another group of demons have voluntarily waived their work by fighting. In the few days since Shu Xin came to the dungeon, about three hundred demons have been sleeping soundly in the caves every day, not doing any work!
Yes, there are more than 300 demons who sleep all day and do nothing, which is three times more than before!
Shu Xin was so angry she almost laughed. She turned around and went back to the Flower Castle to start studying the anti-magic bracelet.
She originally planned to wait until Xi returned before starting to make the anti-magic bracelets, so that Xi could distribute them. But now Shu Xin felt that it was unnecessary to go through all that trouble. Since the demons believed that whoever had the strongest fist should be obeyed, then with the support of the Tree of Life, she was definitely the strongest in the entire Land of Sin!
That day, Shu Xin was adjusting the effect of the magic-blocking array on the terrace when Nonoli and Pengpengan suddenly came looking for her.
The two subordinates looked rather grave. Shu Xin was startled and quickly asked, "What happened?"
“Your Highness, the wheat is infested with worms,” Nonori replied.
The fact that they were specifically summoned to report suggests the pest infestation is quite serious. Pengpeng'an's subsequent addition confirmed Shu Xin's guess. The red-haired elf spoke with a very grim expression:
"It's not just the wheat, Your Highness, the fruit trees, clover, reeds, and creeping privet are all infested with insects too. The fields are teeming with flying insects! The wheat fields have the most flying insects! And not just flying insects, but crawling insects too! The wheat is covered in crawling insects!"
Shu Xin took a deep breath, put down the anti-magic bracelet in her hand, and stood up: "Okay, I understand. I'll go check out the wheat field first."
Nono said that the most serious insect infestation was in Jinmimai, so Shuxin went to check on Jinmimai first.
This wheat field is located in what used to be a civilian settlement, with a relatively dense network of irrigation ditches. Under the mist rising from the ditches, the wheat field looks ethereal and otherworldly. However, when Shu Xin went there now, she found that the lush green wheat field she remembered had turned a large patch of yellow!
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