This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 1053 - 487 Nameless Fairy

Chapter 1053: Chapter 487 Nameless Fairy

Mu You’s attack was already prepared when unexpectedly a voice suddenly called for him to stop, and the reason given was something he couldn’t ignore.

Left with no choice, Mu You selected ’halt attack’.

[You canceled the Small Fireball Technique and teleported backward, creating some distance between you and the two caterpillars.]

[After retreating to a safe area, you finally turned around and saw, not far under a small tree, a fairy girl only the size of a palm. She was hiding most of her body behind the tree, carefully peeking out at you.]

[This fairy had long aqua blue hair, green pupils, and wore a white hat on her head. She was dressed in a blue and white dress, with a pair of wide butterfly-like wings on her back. The centers of the wings were white, while the edges had a wavy sky-blue pattern. She looked very much like a butterfly hovering in mid-air.]

[Despite the attractive colors, you noticed that the fairy girl’s face and body were smeared with a lot of dust and stains. Her once pristine and beautiful wings were also covered with scars and gaps, greatly diminishing their beauty.]

[The two caterpillars you had shaken off were roaring and once again advancing towards you.]

["There’s no time, if you don’t mind, please use my pollen..." The fairy girl took a transparent bottle off her body and tossed it to you.]

[You caught the mini bottle subconsciously and saw that it contained a small amount of flower powder. However, the powder gave off a rather pungent smell, suggesting it was an ill omen.]

[The fairy girl gestured for you to sprinkle the pollen on yourself. You choose...]

[Trust her, she seems like a good fairy.]

[Decline her offer, such a pungent substance couldn’t possibly be normal.]

Faced with the two options, Mu You directly chose ’trust’, but before doing so, he held the pocket watch in his hand.

[You opened the bottle and sprinkled the pollen all over yourself.]

[As the dust dispersed, you felt enveloped by an odor similar to that of herbal medicine, bitter and biting, making you sneeze repeatedly.]

[You’ve been cursed with ’Bad Luck’: For the next few hours, you will be plagued with misfortune, and it’s best to be cautious with every action you take.]

"It really is poisonous?"

Mu You raised an eyebrow, instinctively considering pressing the pocket watch.

However, following that, new text popped up.

[The two caterpillars rushed to your side but suddenly stopped. After circling and sniffing around you, the hostility in their eyes dissipated. No longer seeing you as an enemy, they bypassed you and crawled away in a different direction...]

"Toxic, but effective..."

Mu You sighed with relief and released his grip on the pocket watch.

[After confirming you were out of danger, you walked toward the fairy girl.]

[You did not notice a small stone by your feet, and you splendidly tripped over it, losing 10 health points.]

Mu You’s eyelid twitched, does the curse take effect this quickly?

A mere 10 points of health wasn’t worth rewinding for, so he simply let his character get up and walk over to the fairy.

["I’m sorry, it’s all because of my Bitter Dust. I’m a useless fairy." Seeing you trip, the fairy girl hurriedly flew over, her face full of apology and eyes brimming with tears.]

[She doesn’t seem too bright, but as a local, you could probably inquire about some things since you’re new here.]

Three options became available: [Ask her name and background], [Inquire about the Bitter Dust], [Inquire about the ’weird’ creatures].

There was no cost to asking questions, so Mu You sequentially selected each one.

[You ask the fairy girl about her background.]

[The fairy girl told you that she used to be a recognized upper-class fairy, whose holy work was constructing Statues of Gods. But because of a mistake during one statue carving, she accidentally chipped off the nose of the statue, angering the deity. She was stripped of her name and most of her powers, reduced to a lower-class fairy, and assigned to work in the garbage dump, spending her days amongst trash.]

[You inquire about the Bitter Dust.]

[The Bitter Garden is a city of flowers with 70% of the area covered in floral fields. Collecting pollen from these flowers is an innate skill of fairies. However, only mid to upper-class fairies can collect sweet pollen, which is then used to make ’Lucky Dust’. The higher the class of the fairy, the stronger the luck-granting effect of the dust they produced.

Lower-class fairies, especially nameless fairies who have erred like her, can only collect bitter pollen, and the dust produced not only lacks any luck enhancement but instead brings misfortune to its user!]

"So, that’s where the bitter pollen comes from..."

Upon finishing, Mu You understood. No wonder the source of the bitter pollen in Bitter Forest was elusive; it turns out that the pollen was the inferior product produced by fairies in the Bitter Garden.

Somehow, this pollen was being transferred to the Bitter Forest where it was absorbed into the bodies of various creatures; hence when creatures in the Bitter Forest were killed, the pollen would consistently drop.]

[You ask about the giant caterpillars from earlier.]

[The girl tells you that those are monsters transformed from the corpses of deceased fairies. In this Bitter Garden, such monsters emerge daily from the corpses of fairies and small animals, with no one knowing how they form or why they appear. All dark creatures are collectively referred to as ’weird’.]

[The ’weird’ wander aimlessly through the Bitter Garden every day, not attacking the garden’s native creatures but will attack outsiders. Moreover, killing one would provoke the frenzied retribution of other ’weird’, until the invaders are destroyed. Thus, there are rumors that ’weird’ are created by the gods as guards to protect the safety of Sky City.]