Chapter 107 Are You Willing to Believe Me? Removing the Shackles
"Your Highness!"
In a daze, Shu Xin suddenly heard someone shout in great fear, and it sounded like Peng Peng An's voice?
It wasn't until the thick, soft vines steadily supported her back and waist, and a magical protective shield radiating waves of magical energy enveloped her, that Shu Xin belatedly realized that she seemed to have stumbled and almost fallen.
Relaxing her mind, Shu Xin pressed all her weight onto the sturdy vines, which made her feel a little better. She could still vaguely see the densely packed chains of runes wrapped around the heart of the seed. It has to be said that the image was really too impactful, especially since she could see every single magical rune clearly, yet she couldn't recognize any of them. This feeling was just too daunting!
After carefully examining her body, aside from the weakness in her limbs due to excessive magic consumption and the faint pain in her eyes after overusing the X-ray vision magic, Shu Xin felt no other discomfort. She let out a long breath: "I'm fine, I'm fine."
Just as she was about to say something more, Shu Xin suddenly realized that the world in front of her was flat and blurry. She blinked hard, but still couldn't see anything clearly. After a moment of silence, Shu Xin finally spoke up: "It seems there's something wrong. I can't see things very clearly right now..."
Fortunately, this blurred vision did not last long; within a few minutes, Shuxin's vision returned to normal.
Looking at the flower fairies whose faces were full of worry and even a little panicked, Shu Xin said apologetically, "I'm sorry to have made you all worry... But I've made a very important discovery. An Anka, would you be willing to become a merchant in the Land of Sin and travel for the Land of Sin?"
The flower fairy slave in the yellow cloak stared wide-eyed, then pointed blankly at himself: "Me? Flower Fairy?"
Shu Xin nodded. She had a deep impression of An Anka. This was a flower fairy who had succeeded in refining magic crystals on his first attempt. She hadn't expected that under the vision of the magic, the luster on his body would be comparable to that of a commoner. An Anka was the flower fairy slave who had shown Shu Xin the structure of the flower fairy's heart.
“Of course I’m willing! Fairy Flower!” Receiving a positive reply, Ananka was both overjoyed and disappointed. He clenched his fists and lowered his eyes. “I’m sorry, Fairy Flower, I don’t have the talent for mental magic. I’m just a slave… The Magic Tree won’t acknowledge me…”
“The Magic Tree will acknowledge you,” the Flower Fairy said gently. “Will you believe me, Ananka?”
Ananka replied without hesitation, "I will always believe in you, Fairy Flower!"
Even if he doesn't believe in himself, he will believe in the Flower Fairy!
Following the Flower Fairy, Ananka arrived at the Magic Tree with a bewildered expression. He saw the same bewildered look on the faces of the two nobles. Not only the two nobles, but all the other flower fairies were also bewildered. The Flower Fairy had also called on the other flower fairies. All the flower fairies who were originally in the hall of the Flower Castle had come with the Flower Fairy, but now no one knew what the Flower Fairy was going to do.
"I hope that everyone can start today, from this moment on, and remember the true name of the magic tree. It is not an ordinary magic plant; it is our mother tree, the tree of life. There are all kinds of magic trees in this world, but we, the riverside elves, have only one tree of life," the flower fairy said solemnly.
Then she turned around, facing the towering tree that seemed to support the entire sky, raised her magic wand, and whispered in the glow of magic, "Tree of Life, please help me to break the shackles on Ananka!"
Shackles? What shackles? Ananka, flying not far behind the Flower Fairy, clearly heard her words. He couldn't help but look down at his hands and feet; he was perfectly fine, without any shackles on him.
Crack. Ananka hadn't heard any sound, but he could clearly hear the sound of something breaking.
A gentle breeze brushed against his cheek, and Ananka suddenly felt his body lighten like never before. He had never felt so light before, as if he had been carrying something heavy!
The Flower Fairy put down her magic wand, turned around, and looked at her with a smile: "Ananka, you are no longer a slave, you are free."
Ananka's eyes widened in increasing confusion. What did it mean that he was no longer a slave? Realizing something, he suddenly turned around and looked at the flower fairies gathered behind him.
The flower fairy commoners who were once very tall in his eyes now looked to be of ordinary height and build. They were looking over with shocked expressions. Gathered not far away were the flower fairy slaves who had gone to the Flower Castle with Ananka. His friends, who were once so familiar with him, now looked incredibly small. Moreover, because of the distance, Ananka could not even see their expressions clearly.
“Afterwards, you will go out to purchase fruits and seeds for the Land of Sin, Ananka. I will arrange for a patrol team and a Windwing Eagle to go out with you, but the closer we get to the Harvest Month, the more dangerous it will be outside. Are you really prepared?” the Flower Fairy asked. “You are a free citizen now, and you have the right to refuse, Ananka.”
Even with the blue cloak, slave traders are not absolutely safe. They don't wear the blue cloak when conducting business normally. There are always flower fairies who encounter sudden natural disasters and lose their lives before they can take out the blue cloak. Not to mention flower fairies who have just become merchants and haven't yet found their own safe trade routes.
After clearly seeing the rings of runic chains binding the flower fairy's heart, Shu Xin wondered how to remove the dense runes. However, Shu Xin was well aware of her limitations. With her understanding and mastery of magic, she could imitate magic, but asking her to remove the runes suppressing the flower fairy's heart was simply wishful thinking.
Xi might have a solution, or he might not, but regardless of whether he has a solution or not, he's not around right now. Then Shu Xin thought of the Tree of Life—as a divine creation, the Tree of Life must have a solution. But then the problem arose: the Tree of Life couldn't sense the existence of the flower fairy slave. What could they do?
As a result, the Tree of Life responded to Shu Xin, telling her that the X-ray vision magic she was using was actually a simplified version of the Eye of Lefra, modified by humans. As long as Shu Xin allowed it, the Tree of Life could borrow her vision and share her field of vision when she used the X-ray vision magic.
Although the sudden appearance of the Tree of Life startled Shu Xin, and the brief message it conveyed contained a wealth of information, it was undeniably the best solution at the moment. Shu Xin immediately packed up and led the flower fairies to the Tree of Life.
The effect was also quite perfect. The Tree of Life truly lived up to its reputation as a creation of the gods. Shu Xin did not feel the slightest fluctuation of magic power. Before she even blinked, An Anka's size had grown from the size of a mung bean to the size of a palm!
Worried that Ananka had accepted the mission to travel as a merchant because of her status as a slave, Shuxin asked again.
Ananka snapped out of her daze and exclaimed, "I do, Flower Fairy!"
The Flower Fairy really turned him from a slave into a free man?!
Ananka didn't even know how he got back. When he stood in front of the Mushroom House and looked at the door that was so small that he could never get in, he came to his senses—he had really gone from a slave to a commoner!
This is absolutely fantastic news! But it's also true that he can't go home...
"Good afternoon, Your Excellency! May I ask—" Ananna called out as the small, round window opened, but when she peered out and saw the flower fairy standing in the well in front of the mushroom house, she fell silent.
After a long while, Ananna finally found her voice: "By the Goddess of Flowers! Brother! Is that you, brother! Is that yellow cloak yours, brother?!"
The little flower fairy slave flew away from the window, and soon she pushed open the door and flew out.
After circling her now-grown brother several times, Ananna finally hovered directly in front of him: "By the Goddess of Flowers! Brother! The Flower Fairy has truly transformed you from a slave into a commoner!"
Ananka also remembered the words the nobleman had loudly proclaimed to the slaves when he gave him this yellow cloak. At that time, he said that he would be free after working for a year. Now, before the harvest season has even arrived, the Flower Fairy has directly granted him the status of a commoner because she wants him to go out to do business!
After telling her sister the reason, Ananka heard Ananna deliberately complain loudly: "Brother! Saying that will only arouse jealousy! Just doing business for the Flower Fairy and you can become a free person? By the Flower Goddess's grace, what slave would dare to dream such a beautiful dream!"
Ananka scratched his face a little embarrassedly: "That's not what I meant..." He quickly changed the subject, "Are you the only one at home? Where did everyone else go?"
Ananna put her hands on her hips: "Of course we're going to collect flower petals on our day off! Didn't we already agree that I'd stay home and wait for you to come back so we could collect flower petals together? Even though you're a commoner now, you still have to collect flower petals for me! The house is so big now, we need to collect lots and lots of flower petals to cover the floor."
Suddenly remembering something, Ananna pounced on Ananka's ear, clinging to his pointed ears and refusing to let go: "Brother, brother! How can you do business for the Flower Fairy by yourself alone! We need more flower fairies! We flower fairy slaves are all very willing to go out and do business for the Flower Fairy, brother! Did you hear me, brother, brother!"
Ananka wanted to cover her ears: "I heard it, I heard it, I heard it!"
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Author's Note: Ananka: I heard it with both ears!
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