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.

I

made Sigrid chuckle. Nevertheless, she made sure that every swords and sickle was put away. Working alongside Mauve, Roland and

detached from 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

Elsworth was like a factory supervisor, ensuring that no pod touched the ground and no servant

in the in different positions , under each one a fire was already burning. Mauve could not

can’t wait." she vibrated as she nearly ripped off Sigrid’s hand in

the disappointment 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

of the final products, she had no

we do eat them

nodded slowly. "It is

had she completed her words when a dozen grubby hands

or swallow, first peel..." she

Roland, Mauve, the head mage, some knights and even some servants were already chewing as if they were eating

bitter." Mauve complained first. She stuck her tongue out as if

an interesting taste, slimy though."

I think that it is sweet."

differences on the pods. Some were plain yellow, others had a streak of a different

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

met a challenging ingredient. "I guess this means we