Chapter 51: The Witch's Wand

Chapter 51: The Witch's Stick

But how did she make the Character Card?

She understood the methods of racial differentiation, the weight of magical power, and the grading of magic.

But while she knew the magic grades, she didn't know the names of all the spells!

Magic levels are calculated based on the highest percentage of mana one can mobilize to cast a spell.

But if she didn't know the names of the spells, how could the magic levels be displayed?

Logically speaking, since the Character Card had gaps in its knowledge, it shouldn't have been able to produce them.

And yet, it had.

If Moran didn't know for certain that the functions she wrote down would be presented without any reduction in quality, she would have suspected that this batch of Character Cards was substandard.

The {Character Card} indeed had the ability to display magic and its corresponding levels, but she truly did not know the names of all the spells.

Where exactly was the problem? Why was it able to do this?

Moran began to peel back the layers to find the cause.

Aside from the knowledge she possessed, the abilities she held could also serve as resources for card making—such as magic or talents.

Since it wasn't something she *knew*, it must be something she *could do*.

She hadn't even formally learned any magic yet; the Golden Pen Technique and the Witch's Book were witch magic—she only had the right to use them, they weren't truly her own abilities.

Looking at it this way, it became obvious: it was because of her talent manifestation—the Book of Cards.

That's right, the Book of Cards had the ability to read her thoughts to create cards.

Was the Character Card relying on reading the user's thoughts to derive the corresponding spell names?

Many spells have different names; the names in a user's mind are indeed more appropriate.

Moran tried thinking: "Change Golden Pen Technique to Contract Magic!"

In the next instant, "Golden Pen Technique" on the Character Card actually turned into "Contract Magic"!

It really did change according to the user's thoughts and cognition!

She changed the name back, but her heart could not calm down.

As the creator of these cards, she had only just now come to fully understand the {Character Card}.

The pride she felt from her consecutive successes in card making vanished instantly.

"I cannot create things that I do not understand the principles of, nor things I cannot do."

Moran repeated these words firmly in her mind, then closed the Book of Cards.

What she lacked was never inspiration for card making, but the knowledge and magical abilities required to support the process.

She could not allow herself to be immersed in the success of card making while forgetting the most fundamental things.

Using the magic of the Witch's Book, Moran summoned her own Witch's Book.

Guessing that tomorrow's class would involve learning how to make wands, she flipped to the book titled *Wands, Wands* and began to read calmly.

"*Wands, Wands*, originally titled *The Witch's Stick*, comes from an anonymous witch. It is a popular science historical storybook with low reading difficulty, suitable for young witches who lack understanding of wands..."

"The Witch's Stick?" Moran looked at the first paragraph of the preface, feeling a bit puzzled, but it also piqued her interest.

She read more than half of it in one breath.

The book said that long ago, witches did not understand their own abilities.

They believed their special powers were related to the phenomena that erupted during their initial awakening.

Those who erupted with flames upon awakening were Red Witches;

Those who produced flowing water were Blue Witches;

Those around whom plants grew rapidly were Green Witches;

And so on, there were also Cyan Witches, Purple Witches, Orange Witches, White Witches, Black Witches, and more.

Newly awakened witches could not control their abilities freely.

They often manifested abnormalities in inappropriate settings.

In that era when angels and demons shared the human territories of the Valen Continent, within the human kingdoms, only the priests and knights of the Angelic Church and the priests and warriors of the Demonic Church possessed magical abilities.

If any non-church personnel displayed special abilities, they would be considered god-betrayers and subjected to judgment.

Witches who could not control their abilities were frequent guests on the pyre.

Countless witches were executed after accidentally exposing themselves.

There was a witch named Selma who, during her execution by fire, had a burst of magical power that burned to death the priest and villagers judging her.

To escape the pursuit of the Temple, she hid in a remote, primordial forest.

The forest was teeming with snakes, insects, rats, and ants, which Selma drove away by tapping them with a wooden stick.

One day, she suddenly discovered that the wild, untamable flame ability within her body became gentle and controllable when she held the wooden stick, though its destructive power was less than before.

Furthermore, only that specific wooden stick she had used for a very long time had this effect.

She could even use the stick to produce small flames to light fires, and when she was thirsty, she could use the stick to produce fresh water.

It seemed that while holding the stick, she possessed not only flame abilities but also abilities related to water, plants, wind, and more.

This wooden stick was the world's first wand.

Later, she encountered a reclusive Green Witch in the forest and told her about her discovery.

The Green Witch also fashioned a stick following her example and carried it every day; one day, her stick also gained the same abilities as Selma's.

The news gradually spread among witches everywhere, and they all began to raise their own "sticks," using them to master their abilities.

It was also at this time that witches realized the phenomena during their initial awakening only represented their most proficient abilities, not their entire range of power.

From then on, the survival capabilities of witches increased greatly.

Later, witches discovered "Magical Infusion."

A witch who was a former temple chef's apprentice combined magical infusion with a priest's scepter and gave "The Witch's Stick" a new name—"Wand."

From then on, "The Witch's Stick" became known as the "Wand."

Through continuous experimentation, witches mastered faster methods of making wands.

That is, by selecting a fresh branch or stick that looked pleasing and suited to one's heart, and using magical infusion on it, it would become a witch's spellcasting companion—a wand.

When Moran read this far, she knew that the fresh branches Ms. Amisha asked them to prepare were definitely for making wands!

After the first wands appeared, the witches' research into them never ceased.

Once humans discovered that the belief in angels granting divine arts and trading with demons for power was merely a scam, and that humans themselves had the ability to master supernatural powers through learning, casters who believed in knowledge appeared among humans; they called themselves Mages.

Mages believed that as long as they acquired the corresponding knowledge, they could master the corresponding abilities.

Some witches thought they were the same kind as mages and attempted to contact them, only to invite new dangers.

The witches' extraordinary magical abilities, which relied on a special method of spellcasting that did not depend on knowledge, were exposed.

They went from being frequent guests on the Temple's pyres to being targets of the mages' hunt.

In the dungeons of many Mage Towers, witches were imprisoned, and all kinds of inhumane research were performed on them, all for the sake of uncovering the secret of the witches' talent.

(End of Chapter)