The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

The wings of red-eyed birds, marinated in the sap of the black-leaf tree, are roasted until crispy and tender, and you'll never get tired of eating them, no matter how many times you eat them.

"Now it's great. When you want to eat it, just take out a {Ingredient Card - Red-eyed Bird Wings} or {Ingredient Card - Ink Leaf Tree Sap} to make it. If you don't have time to marinate it, you can also use {Ingredient Card - Red-eyed Bird Wings Marinated with Ink Leaf Tree Sap}. If you don't want to make it yourself, you can just materialize {Food Card - Roasted Red-eyed Bird Wings} and eat it directly."

Sylph said, "But I still prefer to make things from scratch using cooking magic; they always taste extra delicious."

“Me too. I always feel that the process of waiting for and cooking delicious food increases the happiness that food brings! You can also practice your cooking magic along the way,” Moran said.

"As expected of you! You've almost collected all of Valen's {Food Cards}, and you still haven't relaxed your cooking magic practice!" Sylph exclaimed.

"As it turns out, no magic is useless," Moran said. "If it weren't for the cooking magic, I might not have been able to obtain the memories of the dragons and angels so easily!"

“That’s true,” Sylph said. “Nobody can live without food!”

……

"Alright! Dinner's finished. Shouldn't you take me to see your mutated Tree of Life?" Moran was still thinking about it!

"Alright, alright!" Sylph glanced at the magic clock and then at the magic watch, making sure she had been sitting for more than half an hour, before getting up and taking out the broom.
"I planted it behind the house. It's a bit far to walk there, so I'll ride a broom over!"

Moran also got up, flipped onto his broom, and flew after Sylph toward the back of the house.

Behind the house is a large open space enclosed by a fence, with a tree in the center.

Although the tree had a lush canopy and was surrounded by a denser amount of wood elemental energy and life force than any tree she had ever seen, making it seem extraordinary, it could not hide the fact that it was only a tree seven or eight meters tall and as thick as a person could hug.

It's about the same as the roadside trees that have been growing for decades along Lianlanxing Road.

"This is the mutated Tree of Life? It doesn't even look that big! Is it really necessary to use such a large area to plant it?" Moran asked, puzzled.

When she flew over, she thought this area was a specially planted lawn!
It turned out that this was the tree that was actually planted.

"To be honest, I was wondering about it too!"

Sylph said, "After I brought it back, I marked the spot according to the growth range of the Tree of Life in the Elf Forest. As a result, it grew to this size in a week, and then stopped growing."

If it weren't for the increasing concentration of life force and wood elemental energy around it, and the comfortable and joyful emotions it conveyed to me, I would have thought there was another problem with its cultivation.

At that time, I thought that this mutated tree of life did not actually need much growing space, but only needed to be planted on real land. So I planned to plan the remaining empty space and put other space planting pots there.

To my surprise, when I dug, I found a root system that was thicker than a tree trunk.

It turns out that it needs so much space not for the canopy, but to spread and extend its root system.

I used earth magic to go underground and saw that the area beneath this open space was completely filled with its roots, and even the planting pots in the surrounding space had roots extending out from there.

This is completely different from the Tree of Life in the Elf Forest.

The Tree of Life in the Elf Forest has a root system that matches the size of its trunk and canopy.

"This..." Moran looked at the empty grassland. No wonder there was only grass and nothing else planted here; there was simply no more space underground. But she was even more puzzled: "What kind of inexplicable mutation did it undergo that made it need such a strong root system to nourish such a small tree? Where did all the nutrients absorbed by the roots from the soil go?"

Sylph didn't speak. She controlled her broom to fly to the treetop, leaned out and parted the leaves before turning back to Moran and gesturing, "Come and see!"

Moran also moved closer.

Hidden among the branches and leaves, there was a green oval fruit with faint growth lines on it.

"This is……"

“This is the fruit it bore,” Sylph said. “Just this one. All the nutrients absorbed by the tree roots must have been used for it. It was only the size of a fingernail at first, but now it’s the size of a small ball.”

"The fruit of the Tree of Life... if I remember correctly, is an elf's egg! Elves are born from the Tree of Life." Moran said, "You're not going to hatch an elf from this, are you?!"

Sylph shook her head, pointed to the tree, and said, "It told me that once the fruit peel turns white, I should pick it, take it home to incubate, and then my child will hatch."

"A child?" Moran exclaimed in shock. "Are you sure? Not an elf? Could a little witch possibly grow out of a tree?"

"I'm not entirely sure either. This tree doesn't seem to possess the same level of spirituality as the Tree of Life in the Elf Forest, and the meaning it conveys isn't particularly clear either."

Sylph said:

"I plan to wait until this fruit is bigger and its color starts to turn snow-white, just like the elves hatch their little elves. Then I will pick it and keep it with me, nourish it with my own magic, and see what it can hatch into."

"You must tell me when you get the results!" Moran was extremely curious.

No matter what hatches, there's no doubt that a new life will be born from this fruit.

As expected of a mutated seed from the Tree of Life!
"It takes at least a hundred years for the fruit of life on the tree of life to turn from green to white. But I see that this fruit is growing much faster than the fruit of life. It should turn snow-white in a year at most, and then it can be picked and hatched."

Sylph said, "Weren't you planning to stay in Emerald Plains recently? If you were still here then, I would have just asked you to come and see."

"Alright, alright! This time I'm determined to stay until Lady Carmela and the others return to the wilderness! We should be able to make it!" Moran whispered.

The thought of a new life inside the fruit made her a little afraid of disturbing its growth.

The two gently brushed the leaves back to cover the fruit in the middle, then rode their brooms back to the lawn in front of Sylph's house. They lay on the warm grass blanket, looked at the stars, and talked about their experiences over the past few years.

Not long after we started chatting, {communication card} sent a message.

Vasita and Lilith returned to the wilderness. Halfway there, they saw Moran's {Magic Card - Long-Distance Teleport} and {Magic Card - Fog Barrier Teleport}, bought the cards, and teleported back.

Sylph reported the coordinates of her plantation, and soon the two of them appeared in the sky above the plantation.

After many years, the witches reunited and excitedly rolled around in a ball on the grass. (End of Chapter)