The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 218: The magic of cocoa.

The letter was set aside as the content had come to an end and an unexpected guest had arrived to help with the harvesting. It was the Lord mage.

"Did you follow me back?" Sigrid asked.

"I heard you were harvesting this cocoa without me. I rushed over as quickly as possible, I flew on the back of my phoenix to get here." He tickled the head of a small fiery bird that was sitting on his right side shoulder.

Another reason for the Lord mage to visit was that he loved the green house. The enchanted glass had been imbued with sun stones that provided warmth to the trees. The earth smelled sweet and the environment was flourishing green and yellow.

Inside the green house it was summer, outside of it winter. As a man that loved the sun more than the snow, this was the best place for him to be at this time of the year.

"You know that you can just build green houses on the mage estate, right?" Sigrid asked the Lord mage.

"I know." he answered. He sounded rather distracted already so she let him be. He could be considered free labor. After harvesting the cocoa, if the taste was right, she could get him to grow more trees for her on the mage estate.

Roland handed her a sickle. "My love, lets get started."

Right on cue at the end of his words, knights poured into the glasshouse with their swords ready to work. The way they were gripping them, it seemed as if they were about to engage an enemy. Their aura was charged, they were ready to slaughter.

It made Sigrid wary for her fruits. She could just picture a knight belling loudly, "yaaaah" and slicing a fruit in half.

you all for volunteering but I

she made sure that every swords and sickle was put away. Working alongside Mauve, Roland and the head mage, they waved

their stems. They floated down gently or quickly, depending on how mage energy each mage was using. The cocoa pods went into baskets that servants were changing switching out rapidly as

a factory supervisor, ensuring that no pod touched

that exercise, they all moved to the tent that had been set up in the courtyard. Giant cauldrons had been placed in the in different positions , under each one a fire

wait." she vibrated as she nearly ripped off Sigrid’s hand

of the knights that were willing to slice the pods open. To everyone but Sigrid, it was the first time they were seeing cocoa beans. These had been grown using magic so they were enchanted which actually made them

taste of the final products, she had

do eat them like

nodded slowly. "It is not the final product

she completed her words when a dozen

chew or swallow, first peel..." she yelled

mage, some knights and even some servants

Mauve complained first. She stuck her tongue

interesting taste, slimy though." The

I think that it is sweet."

different for everyone. She observed the untouched fruits and saw differences on the pods. Some were plain yellow, others had a streak of a

bitter taste, orange ones were sweet but with a hint of bitterness. The green ones were sweet but slimy and the purple ones were a little bit

in her eyes the way it did when she met a challenging ingredient. "I guess this means we must cook them in different batches and carry out different experiments