Chapter 166 Functional areas are difficult to divide; as long as there's one decent one...
In the end, Shu Xin decided to take a two-pronged approach; she wanted it all!
Since we don't have enough snow dragon fruit, let's send Xi to the Snow Tribe to exchange for enough snow dragon fruit.
If the Land of Sin has any goods the Snow Clan needs, that would be great. If not, then we'll owe them for now and make up for it later. Anyway, the artificial lake is still there, and the Snow Clan can send their baby snow elephants here to live with them anytime.
Shu Xin no longer intends to fill in the artificial lake. On the one hand, it can be used to grow fluffy flowers, and on the other hand, she feels that the Snow Clan currently only has the Nightingale Tribe, but they will definitely try to revive the tribes of other tribes. At that time, they will definitely need to cultivate new snow elephants, and the artificial lake will come in handy.
Since replicating a large treehouse in the style of a flower castle is impractical, and providing an independent treehouse for every commoner is also impractical, let's compromise and expand the existing treehouses into two- or three-story buildings.
At the same time, Shu Xin also planned to make use of the lake mud discovered by the demons. There were quite a few golden cherry trees planted in the Land of Sin, and there would naturally be plenty of fruit trees after the harvest month. The flower fairies and commoners could completely imitate the cloak workshop and the paper workshop to build houses using lake mud and fruit trees.
However, considering that the commoner flower fairies will definitely have to revert to their normal fairy form in the future, Shu Xin plans to plan a new commoner settlement area so that it can be demolished and rebuilt when the time comes.
Flying directly to a high place, Shu Xin looked down at the sinful land below and began to think about where it would be most appropriate to designate a new civilian settlement.
The landmark magical building in the Land of Sin is naturally the Flower Castle located on the Tree of Life. Starting from this Tree of Life from which the Flower Castle grew, large areas of farmland are scattered in the southwest, southeast, and due south directions. Treehouses growing from smaller Trees of Life are also scattered in these three directions. In the north, apart from the snow-covered snow sheep breeding area, there is only an artificial lake that has been turned into a reed marsh.
The flower fairy slaves' dwellings are concentrated on the color-changing bell vines, which can be said to directly overlap with the treehouse building area. The treehouse building area also overlaps with the farmland. At first glance, it is full of greenery. The flower fairies with long hair and bright eyes fly back and forth among the lush and vibrant trees and fields with magic wands. It is very fairytale-like, very magical, and very much like the Wizard of Oz. However, if you look closely, the division of functional areas is actually quite messy.
The former civilian settlements, along with the various magical workshops that were built, were all located under the Tree of Life, so that they could receive the Tree of Life's protection during the Harvest Month.
However, after the treehouses grew, the original location of the flower fairy commoners' settlement has now become a wheat field of golden honey wheat. However, the various magic workshops and medical rooms are still in their original locations, which actually greatly increases the commuting time of the commoners. Although the hardworking flower fairies do not mind getting up earlier, Shu Xin cannot help but mind this.
The treehouse grew directly from the Tree of Life, and the artificial lake was also created by the Tree of Life itself. It placed the treehouse in the south and the artificial lake in the north, obviously because there is a certain temperature difference between the north and south of the Land of Sin. Naturally, Shu Xin also wanted to divide the new civilian settlement in the south. However, if the current layout is not redivided, she obviously can only arrange the civilian settlement at the end of the farmland, which is the southernmost position.
This made things easier for the flower fairies who came to seek refuge, as they could see firsthand what kind of lives the commoners in the Land of Sin were living. However, this also meant that the commoner settlements were now even further away from the magic workshops...
If you want to completely change the current situation of the Land of Sin, you either have to demolish and rebuild it all, or you have to use large-scale transfer magic. The former is too much of a project, and the latter consumes too much magic power. Neither of them are good ideas. Shu Xin thinks it's better to wait until the magic power situation of the Land of Sin has recovered better and the concentration of magic power in the air has become higher before making a big change to the situation.
She hopes to completely eliminate the phantom monsters of the Harvest Month by then. She wants to build a large plaza around the Tree of Life with the Flower Castle. There is also a Sun Spring under the Tree of Life, which is a natural landscape. After that, she can build residential areas, industrial areas and commercial areas around this large plaza with its own landscape.
Spring has arrived, and the temperature has risen. The caravan has set off again with its goods. This time, Shu Xin has also provided the caravan with additional promotional materials, including acorn wine, dried golden cherries, acorn powder, and a universal auxiliary magic wand. She aims to showcase the strength of the Land of Sin from all angles while also providing some assistance to the relocated flower fairies.
As merchants vigorously promoted the Land of Sin, more flower fairies and commoners left their homes and traveled thousands of miles to the Land of Sin.
Fufuna is such a flower fairy. Unlike other commoners who have families to support, she is all alone. Her parents are both talented in wind magic, but even though they work hard to cultivate the land, the harvest is still not enough to pay the magic tax for the whole family—she also has three older sisters and two younger brothers.
So, during the last harvest month, her mother and three older sisters joined the patrol team, and then they died in an attack by monsters from the outer continent. After receiving the news, her father fell ill with a fever, and before she could buy any magic potions, he could no longer open his eyes. Like her parents before her, she worked hard in the fields, trying to support her two younger brothers, but what arrived even before the harvest month was a storm.
She and her brothers were separated in the storm. She tried her best to use her innate magic. After losing an eye and an arm, Fufuna survived. However, when she returned to her hometown, she could not find her two brothers at the ruins of her family's hut.
The wheat in the field has been harvested, and now Fufuna only needs to pay her magic tax. She sits in the wheat field, which is covered with grayish-white powder, feeling lost and confused.
But life had to go on. Fufuna sowed the wheat seeds she had set aside in advance in the fields and watered them every day with a bucket. Even though the wheat sprouted before she had a chance to water all the land, she didn't feel happy. Even though the wheat was infested with wheat weevils not long after it sprouted, she had to catch the weevils every day. Her fingers were covered with weevil bites, but she didn't feel sad.
She was all alone, with only one hand left, and there were too many wheatworms for her to catch.
As Fufuna flew above the wheat field, staring blankly at the swarms of wheat weevils, thinking of nothing and wanting to do nothing, a caravan from the Land of Sin entered the city called Garnar.
The flower fairies prefer to call Ganael City the Royal City. The Royal City has the best apothecary in the entire Kingdom of Ganael, but this caravan from the Land of Sin brought two magical potions that even the best apothecary could not replicate.
One was a magic restorer called Acorn Wine, and the other was an insecticide specifically for killing wheat weevils. Fufuna didn't intend to buy either of them, but a kind neighbor came to the field to remind her, so she went along to take a look at these two relatively inexpensive magic potions.
These merchants from the far north even tried to persuade the common people of the royal city to relocate to the land of sin.
The magic potions they sell are only cheap; the royal city also has magic recovery potions and insecticides. Dried fruit is nothing special; many flower fairies with fire magic talent can make dried fruit. As for acorn powder, it's laughable—who would use powder made from bitter and astringent acorns to make soup? The magic wands look exquisitely crafted and of excellent quality, but commoners aren't patrol members; what use would they have for them?
The commoners left after buying some acorn wine and insecticide, paying little attention to the merchants' words. Fufuna didn't buy acorn wine or insecticide, but she didn't leave either; she stayed.
The flower fairy's last remaining gray-blue eye stared at the magic wands the merchants had taken out: "Can even a commoner obtain a magic wand as long as they go to the Land of Sin?"
The merchants nodded and told her that there were several types of magic wands in the Land of Sin. Apart from custom-made magic wands, which required her to provide the magic materials and charge a certain processing fee, all other magic wands were distributed free of charge. As for the patrol team members, they could only get high-level magic wands.
Even the patrol members of the royal city only get their hands on low-quality magic wands with no grade whatsoever.
Fufuna knew her idea was pointless, but she couldn't help thinking that if her mother and sisters had gotten a better magic wand, they might have survived the attack by the outer continent monsters during the Harvest Month.
Their magical talents are so good that they can cast low-level spells without using magic wands. If they could use high-level magic wands, they would definitely be able to cast high-level spells.
If Mom and her sisters had come back alive, Dad wouldn't have died of a fever. If Mom, Dad, and her sisters were still alive, they could have protected her two younger brothers even in the event of a typhoon. The whole family would still be together, instead of her being all alone now.
All you need is a decent magic wand!
A caravan from the Land of Sin gave this low-grade magic staff to Fufuna. The day after the caravan left, Fufuna, having carefully collected her family's belongings, ignored her neighbors' advice and, clutching the magic staff tightly, embarked on her journey to the Land of Sin.
Fufuna had no idea how long it would take to travel from the capital city at the southernmost tip of the Kingdom of Ganar to the land of sin at the northernmost tip of the Kingdom of Ganar. Without thinking about anything, she quietly flew into the distance, facing the rising sun.
Besides giving her a magic wand, the generous merchants also gave her a lot of dried fruit and acorn powder. Worried that she would have trouble starting a fire in the wild, they also gave her a flint. Fufuna flew for a whole day. Before it got dark, she found a place to land, took out a soup bowl from her spatial stone, added acorn powder, and then lit the flint.
The boiling acorn soup emitted the unique aroma of acorns. After the soup cooled down a bit, Fufuna lowered her head and took a sip—the soup made from powder ground from bitter acorns was surprisingly neither bitter nor astringent.
Fufuna took another piece of dried fruit to eat, and then noticed that in the dim light of dusk, the dried fruit in her hand emitted a soft, pale golden glow.
After staring blankly at the glowing dried fruit for a while, the flower fairy, who hadn't shed a tear since receiving news of her mother and sisters' passing, suddenly burst into tears.
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