Chapter 25 Magical materials are really too expensive!
Xi quickly figured out that the round, hemispherical spheres hanging on the wheat leaves were not fruits that had suddenly mutated from the wheat of the Land of Sin, but rather specially made houses bestowed upon the flower fairy slaves by the benevolent flower fairy lord.
The half-succubus glanced at her beautiful, deep blue eyes, a mocking smile appearing on her pretty face that had nothing to do with her innocent aura. Her words were also extremely sarcastic and unpleasant.
"Is this the more important and urgent place where you told me that this invaluable magic would be used?"
Shu Xin nodded readily: "Yes."
Xi rolled her eyes but didn't say anything more. She opened her mouth and yawned loudly, and the next second a fluffy white lamb appeared on the spot.
Watching the little white sheep stroll leisurely toward the Flower Castle, Shu Xin's gaze fell on Peng Peng An behind her.
The red-haired tax official had a stern face as he gazed at the sparse wheat fields in the distance. Each stalk of wheat had a small wooden hemisphere hanging from it, which, under the bright sunlight, looked just like glistening dewdrops rolling on the wheat leaves.
Inside the dew-like hemisphere, tiny flower fairy slaves, as small as mosquitoes, were flying in and out.
"Pengpeng'an," the flower fairy's gentle voice descended from above, "Look, I won the bet, so you can't oppose me anymore, okay?"
The flower fairy widened her ruby-like eyes and cried out to her master in a wronged tone:
“Your Highness! By the Goddess of Flowers, I have never intended to disobey any of your orders or decisions! I am only worried that your wisdom and mercy will be wasted on these lowly slaves who know nothing of gratitude! Look at them, they can’t even grow bitter wheat properly!”
Shu Xin naturally noticed that the bitter wheat grown by the flower fairy slaves was unusually dark in color, but her opinion was exactly the opposite of Peng Peng An's—
When the flower fairy slaves planted the bitter wheat, the land of sin had already released a large-scale purification spell. When the bitter wheat grains were exposed to sunlight, they would automatically absorb the magic power from it. The bitter wheat plants would absorb the magic power contained in the sunlight even more vigorously. Therefore, the bitter wheat planted by the flower fairy slaves did not grow poorly, but rather grew too well.
Perhaps when the harvest month comes, the wheat field belonging to the flower fairy slaves will yield a much better harvest than the bitter wheat field under the Tree of Life.
However, Shu Xin understood Peng Peng'an's feelings. The fact that the red-haired flower fairy would follow her from the rich and wealthy royal territory to this barren wasteland was enough to prove his loyalty. In the mindset and education he had received since childhood, slaves, who were probably incredibly small, were not the same species as commoners and nobles. Naturally, he could not regard these tiny insect-like creatures as his own kind. In his eyes, slaves were just items that could be used and consumed at any time.
However, Shu Xin also believed that when he realized that these slaves also had thoughts and feelings, and that they had the same joys and sorrows as him, and even had intelligence and dexterity far beyond his expectations, he would gradually realize that they were not disposable materials, but living beings just like him.
Of course, this matter needs to be taken slowly, Shu Xin said with a smile, changing the subject:
“Of course I can see your loyalty, Peng Peng An. I have always trusted you deeply. You are my personal officer and my most reliable tax officer. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t know how to prepare the patrol team. Let’s go see what magical materials Xi Du has bought. We need to hurry up and set up the patrol team before the harvest month arrives.”
Xi perfectly completed her task, exchanging all the leaf coins she had taken for magical materials.
Poured out from the cone-shaped leaves of the Tree of Life were straw boxes of various colors and styles. However, considering the size of the flower fairies, these should all be straw boxes. The largest of these straw boxes was larger than Shu Xin's palm, and the smallest was one finger joint wide and two finger joints long.
Large and small straw boxes thudded onto the hall floor, quickly piling up into a small mountain.
Although the small mountain made of straw boxes filled with magical materials only reached Shu Xin's knees, if the Leaf Coins that Xi Dai took away were piled up like this, it would be five times the size of the small mountain it is now.
To ensure that Xi could buy enough magical materials, Shu Xin had him take away all the leaf coins that had been picked. During the time Xi was out shopping, Nonoli and her flower fairy servants had already picked and counted all the leaf coins that had grown on the Tree of Life. The result was that Xi took away more than a third of all the leaf coins.
Shu Xin: Magical materials are so expensive!
She crouched down, carefully picked up the small straw box, opened it, and looked inside at the magical materials. It was completely different from what she had imagined. Instead of rare treasures radiating mysterious magical light, the box contained regular-shaped pieces of ore.
Looking at the murky, dark brown stones, Shu Xin fell silent. It was indeed an area where she had no knowledge. Looking at these black stones, she couldn't imagine how they could be made into a magic wand.
Nonori also saw the black ore in the box, and his eyes lit up: "This is black tungsten crystal!"
The old gentleman, who had never taken the initiative to contact Xi before, spoke in an extremely warm tone: "Your Highness, the attendant you have taken in has quite excellent negotiation skills!"
A personal attendant? Does that mean Xi? If that guy heard this, he'd definitely give her a sour look, Shu Xin thought, but she didn't correct him. Instead, she reached for a black stone and examined it carefully: "Black tungsten crystal? Is this a very precious magical material?"
Nono nodded: "Yes, Your Highness, black tungsten crystal can withstand high-level sharp runes and high-level cutting magic! Black tungsten mine is also very difficult to mine. The veins are all located deep underground. Of the thousand slaves sent down, probably less than a hundred will return to the surface alive."
“It’s not just that,” Peng Peng’an said, flying in from outside with something in his arms. “Your Highness, don’t be fooled by this huge box. It’s all crude ore. It needs to be sent to the magic workshop for secondary, tertiary, and even quaternary refining until it’s finally separated and extracted into real black tungsten crystals before it can be inlaid into the magic wand. This huge box of crude ore will be lucky if it can be refined into five black tungsten crystals!”
Shu Xin felt the heavy straw box in her hands becoming increasingly heavy.
Shuxin closed the lid of the straw box, put it back in its original place, stood up, and stopped looking at the expensive minerals that were destined to shrink greatly—out of sight, out of mind!
She looked at the red-haired flower fairy flying towards her and asked with some anticipation, "How was the effect? Was it as I expected?"
Nono turned to look and noticed that her colleague was covered in dust, and his usually wrinkle-free uniform was now crumpled: "What have you been doing? What are you holding? Is that a clod of dirt? Wait, this color... does the Land of Sin have soil this color?"
The clod of earth that Pengpengan was holding was a strikingly bright white. He smiled broadly and proudly showed it to Nuonoli.
"Of course not in the Land of Sin! Nonori, this is a magical material created by the princess! We can build a magic workshop now!"
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