Chapter 313: Chapter 73: Of course, Fairies Must be Mischievous_2
This would enhance the innate abilities of the fairies without causing a ghastly bodily transformation or affecting their sanity.
The Fairy King, benefiting from his significant status and abundant vitality, seemed to have withstood the detrimental side effects of transformation and enhancement.
But then a question arises.
Why hasn’t the scheme for biochemical enhancement and transformation, which had been launched on a large scale upon returning to the Fairy King Forest, been improved so far? Especially after seeing so many fairies mutate – so much so, that even the Medical Department diagnosed it as a “plague”.
Did the problem lie with the Fairy King, or with the fairy or institution that developed this scheme for the Fairy King?
Link pondered over it.
So did Boss Otis.
“Set off, head straight for the Fairy King’s Court!”
Making a snap decision, Otis gave his orders.
The time Link took to collect and test samples served as a period of rest.
The special operations team immediately resumed their journey.
Once they entered the Fairy King Forest, “Black Cat” Betty released even more Biomimetic Hummingbirds.
Assad also took out a crystal ball-like Second Ring magic tool.
He muttered a brief incantation to activate the magic tool’s function.
Link was surprised.
In the Wizard World, witchcraft had developed over a long period, and wizards no longer needed incantations.
Every wizard, even Wizard Apprentices, cast magic wordlessly and without a wand.
The incantations are only used as activation language for some rune arrays, rune barriers, and special magic tools.
The crystal ball-like Second Ring magic tool, requiring an incantation to activate, must have a powerful and special function.
The dim light from the crystal ball sprinkled uniformly over every member of the special operations team.
After stepping into the Fairy King Forest, any sense of rejection from the forest that Link might have been feeling, vanished in an instant.
Turn enemies into friends?
Impressive!
Link wasn’t sure of the exact function of the crystal ball and spouted off an educated guess.
He then focused his attention on the journey, learning and gaining experience as much as he could.
Deep in the Fairy King Forest, was the location of the Royal Court.
The atmosphere in the palace built of logs had been one of panic for over a “month”.
After being injured, the Supreme King entered a sacred place to sleep and heal his wounds.
After a long discussion behind closed doors, the three princes unveiled an experimental scheme that the Supreme King had been undertaking before he went to battle.
This experiment was said to enhance the innate special powers of all fairy clans.
But the Supreme King fell into a deep sleep before the experiment was finished.
The demons” from the Different World would certainly not let this lie; they would still organize a counterattack.
Therefore, the three princes decided to call upon brave warriors to undertake this high-risk experiment.
The successful ones would stay to continue increasing their strength.
The failures, knowing they were doomed, would bravely charge at the “demons” from the Different World, disrupting their deployment and delaying their attack.
Under the call of the Royal Court, and the pressing threat of the “demons” from the Different World, countless brave fairy warriors stepped forward.
With indomitable spirit and resolute will, they accepted the experiment.
Only one in ten were successful.
Of the initial hundred thousand fairy warriors, less than ten thousand underwent a rather benign transformation and enhancement.
Although their bodies had somewhat mutated, their sanity was intact, and even seemed to have somewhat improved.
But the 90,000 who devolved into deformed warriors could only face certain death bravely while launching their attacks on the “demons” of the Different World.
They hoped that their sacrifice would buy time for the successful ones to develop further.
However, things suddenly took a turn.
The Supreme King remained asleep, and the royal clan’s personal guard was completely annihilated.
The power of the Fairy Royal Family was extremely depleted.
This gave the nobles from various non-rainforest fairy clans a sense that they could topple the Fairy Royal Family’s rule over the fairy world that had lasted for almost a thousand years with just a gentle push.
The deep-seated desire for power and status prompted some of the great nobles, who had long harbored ulterior motives, to take action.
Some formed alliances with each other, some colluded with warriors who were successfully enhanced by the experiment, and some secretly prepared for rebellion.
The flurry of activity intensified the panic in the Royal Court.
The three princes were kept busy trying to respond to probes from the great nobles of different clans.
Until one day, the “Town Device” of the Royal Court sounded a warning. ‘Demons” from the Different World have set foot in the King’s Forest!
The three princes immediately arrived in front of the mirror-shaped “Town Device , intending to observe the invaders’ movements and size.
All they could see was a blur of light and shadowy figures within that light.
Upon closer inspection, the three princes confirmed that there were only seven invaders.
But it was obvious even without giving it much thought.
The intruders who dared to invade the Fairy King Forest with such small numbers were certainly the elite of the elite.
The harsh memory of the fifty thousand strong fairy force attacking a key position defended by only 200 “demons” from the Different World, hoping to support the hundred thousand main forces that were at a disadvantage, and ending up being unable to advance a step after a whole “day”, suddenly flashed across the minds of the three princes.
Especially the eldest prince, who commanded that fifty thousand strong fairy force, shivered at the recall.
It was as if he was back on the battlefield.
At the time when the fifty thousand strong fairy force sang their final lament.
Recalling how the “demons” from the Different World had launched their huge sky fortress that blocked out the sun, dropping explosive spheroids that wiped out the fairy force who were not deterred by death, stepping over the bodies of their own kind, charging again and again, in an instant.