The Noon Farm Duchy was one of the nations at the heart of the Prosperous Continent. More than ninety percent of its territory was covered in forest, so it was also known beyond its borders as the Forest Kingdom.
Yet in the Wizarding World, the Noon Farm Duchy was widely recognized as the Land of Fairies. For it was home to the Southern Region's largest gathering place for flower fairies.
Flower fairies were mostly frail, and the vast majority possessed only feeble abilities. Moon Bell Orchid Fairies, for instance, could only use their gifts to brew flower nectar and wine; they might not even be capable of dealing with ordinary humans. Of course, flower fairies being unable to defeat ordinary humans did not mean ordinary humans could find them. Whether through invisibility or illusions, they could easily bewilder common people.
At least, in the eyes of ordinary people, the Noon Farm Duchy held no supernatural power. Even "flower fairies" existed only in storybooks.
Yet in truth, flower fairies had lived in the Noon Farm Duchy for many years.
And Genoa was their largest settlement.
It lay deep within the Long Night Forest in the central part of the Noon Farm Duchy, a water city built upon Gentle Winter Lake.
Because flower fairies were so weak, wizards did not truly covet them. Yet the food, wine, and flower nectar they made were well-loved by wizards. Thus, flower fairies often attached themselves to wizard organizations.
Even Genoa itself had been built by a wizard organization.
That day, a figure suddenly streaked across the skies above Genoa. She was an aristocratic woman dressed in elaborate courtly finery, her red high heels stepping out trails of rainbow light through the air.
With her arrival, a strange fragrance filled the air.
The scent drew a