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 will be harvesting using

every swords and sickle was put away. Working alongside

the air 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 as

that no pod touched the

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 was already burning.

wait." she vibrated as

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

that meant for the taste of the final

eat them

her head to the left and nodded slowly. "It is

completed her words when a dozen grubby hands started

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

knights and even some

complained first. She stuck her tongue out as if it was on

slimy though." The Lord mage

that it is sweet." Roland

pods. Some were plain yellow, others had a streak of a different color from bottom to top.

that basis, they were separated. Red ones had the most bitter taste, orange ones were sweet but with a hint of bitterness. The green

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 to see