The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Although Moran couldn't wait to go back and figure out how to make magical candies that could lure angels, he still had to collect the sap of the Radiant Wood tonight.

Moreover, everyone agreed that they would start collecting from the sacred cemetery tonight.

"Yay! Time to go home!" Saint Song Lily of the Valley, carrying her flowerpot, skipped away from the doorway.

After chatting about gossip, the witches, who had been admiring the new novels that had arrived at the tea restaurant, also closed their books and got up.

"It's time!" Garona said.

The Holy City, and indeed many parts of the entire Sacred Mountain Range, are so brightly lit at night that it is impossible to tell whether it is day or night by the brightness of the environment, due to the omnipresent light elemental power.

Especially in the Holy City, where in other places you can at least see a dark sky at night that is different from the daytime sky, all you can see when you look up in the Holy City is the Heavenly Mountain that emits a white light.

However, even a light-element plant like the Holy Song Lily of the Valley can still sense the presence of dark elements that arise at night.

When the lily of the valley finishes its workday, it means night has fallen, and it's time to collect the sap from the radiant wood.

The witches, brooms in hand, walked out of the tea restaurant and flew into the sky side by side.

The hermits looked at the vibrant colors sweeping across the sky as if they were looking at lost lambs.

"It's so ugly! How could there be such an ugly color?"

"Alas! The Holy Radiance Trees in the city are going to suffer again. Why don't they understand? Excessive desires only lead to ruin. Only by embracing the light will one know what true happiness is! Money is just an external thing! It's really not right to harm the Holy Radiance Trees for this!"

"Yes! I used to think that you can't do without money. But after embracing the light, I realized that the light will not let its supporters fall into darkness. Whenever I don't have money to buy bread, as long as I pray to the light, the light will give me enough money to fill my stomach."

"Stubborn and foolish witch!"

"But there's one witch who's different. I believe that with her leadership, the remaining witches will soon become our companions!"

"Who? Oh! It's that beautiful blonde witch!"

“That would be wonderful! If one day, the witches flying in the sky were all beautiful white and shimmering gold, I would see them as a beautiful light, not as ugly ribbons as they are now.”

……

The witches were no longer surprised by the strange looks the hermits gave them.

Garona, who was leading the group, even deliberately lowered their brooms: "Fly lower! Let the hermits see our witch version of a rainbow!"

The witches: "Yay!"

Moran, the only one dressed in a white witch's robe: "..."

No wonder they're all wearing bright, solid-colored clothes today; they're playing the rainbow!
After making a high-profile tour of the city, the "rainbows" finally landed in the sacred cemetery.

The Sacred Cemetery is the cemetery for the hermits of the Holy City; it is a public place that anyone can visit.

The cemetery was filled with Sacred Glow trees, but the trunks of these trees were clearly not as translucent and shimmering as the Sacred Glow trees outside. In Bella's words, they looked "tired with insufficient sap."

Although the hermits say that the Holy City's Holy Radiance Tree suffers once a month because of the witches, in reality, the witches collect the Holy Radiance Tree's sap in a controlled manner, which is not only harmless to the Holy Radiance Tree but also beneficial to it.

Each Holy Light Tree can only be harvested once a year, and after each harvest, the witches will nourish the Holy Light Tree with spells that are beneficial to plants, such as Tree Friend, Fertile Soil, and Abundance.

It can be said that the Holy Light Trees growing so well along the roadside in the Holy City are not only due to the abundant light elemental energy and the suitable environment for their growth, but also greatly influenced by the witches' sustainable harvesting and nurturing efforts.

On each of the sacred trees in the cemetery, a honey vine climbs.

The tiny roots beneath the leaves of the Honeylight Vine take hold of the trunk of the Holy Radiance Tree, drawing nutrients from it.

“This is the oldest Holy Radiance Tree in the cemetery. The owner of the grave next to it was the designer of the Stairway to Light. He died during the construction of the Stairway to Light. This tree and the Holy Radiance Trees on both sides of the Stairway to Light were planted at the same time,” Garona said, pointing to the largest Holy Radiance Tree in the cemetery.

“But it looks much shorter than the Holy Light Trees on either side of the Stairway of Light,” Agnes said. “Is it because of these Honeylight Vines?”

“It should be right,” Evelyn said.

“These honey vines must have been planted specifically for harvesting honey fruits,” Moran said. “Under this tree, there are also milkweed and sugar frosting moss, and over there is a clump of crisp sugarcane. The milky sap of milkweed has a caramel flavor when heated, the spores of sugar frosting moss taste as sweet as cotton candy, and the stems of crisp sugarcane are full of luminous syrup. So many plants that can produce sugar can’t be a coincidence.”

“Just ask the Holy Radiance Tree!” Garona used Tree Friendship on the largest and most spiritually powerful Holy Radiance Tree. In exchange, the Holy Radiance Tree needed to answer one question for her.

The Holy Radiance Tree from within the Gate of Heaven, like the Fairies of Light and Shadow, also carries the risk of being the eyes and ears of the angels, so Garona asked, "What about the fruit of the Honeylight Vine?"

“They were all picked by Lu Wen,” Sheng Huimu replied.

“Garona, where does Luwen live? I want to go find him and see if I can get some Honeylight Fruit. Otherwise, I’ll have to go to the Sacred Mountains to find candy materials, or use gem coins to exchange for resource cards at the Dawn Academy,” Moran said.

She's now a witch preparing to open a candy store, and it's perfectly reasonable for her to be looking for ingredients to prepare the candy.

This was the method she had discussed with the witches beforehand—to contact Ruven.

“You go ahead, we won’t go. The best time to collect the sap of the Holy Radiance Tree is tonight, and we don’t want to waste our time on those annoying hermits,” Garona said.

“Don’t say that, Garona. The hermits and we just have different beliefs. We should respect other people’s beliefs,” Moran said, reciting his prepared remarks.

"Anyway, we're not going. Going would only cause you trouble. Those hermits have always looked down on us," Garona said with disgust.

Before Moran could say anything more, Evelyn stopped her: "Moran, you go by yourself. Lu Wen lives in that white house deep in the cemetery. Today we'll be collecting the sap of the Holy Radiance Wood here in the cemetery. Call us if you need anything."

“Alright!” Moran sighed and walked alone into the depths of the cemetery.

After the other witches finished their scenes, it was her turn to perform alone.

Deep in the cemetery.

The little fairy, bathed in a soft glow, whispered something in Lu Wen's ear, and Lu Wen frowned:
"What? Those annoying witches are back again? Didn't they already abandon the Sacred Radiance Tree in the cemetery? No, I have to go check on them, lest they destroy the Honeylight Vine!" (End of Chapter)