Chapter 50: Energy Storage Card?

Chapter 50: Energy Storage Card?

"Breadfruit juice is so difficult to squeeze; lower-grade little witches would hardly think to turn it into juice. But if they had a juicer, there's no guarantee they wouldn't try it with the most easily obtainable breadfruit..." Sylph said.

At the very least, if she had obtained a juicer, she would definitely have tested it with breadfruit first.

Moran understood this logic, but it didn't stop her from confirming once more

"Headmistress, Headmistress, can I sell the juicer card to the lower-grade little witches?"

Lilith, Vasida, and Sylph: "???"

Ms. Amisha, who was watching Moran: "No!"

"Fine! It looks like I'll have to slowly find fourth or fifth-year seniors to sell to in order to recoup my costs," Moran conceded.

"Wait, Moran, is this how you usually summon the Headmistress?" This was the first time Lilith had seen a little witch use the Headmistress like this.

"The Headmistress is secretly observing our movements anyway, so why not just ask her directly if there's something on your mind? It's not like she'll answer every question, but there's no harm in asking!" Moran said.

Lilith and the other two actually felt she made a good point, and they all expressed, "Lesson learned!"

"Let me tell you... I suspect there is a hidden place in the academy where one hundred and forty-eight Ms. Amishas are crouching. One Ms. Amisha watches over one little witch to prevent accidents. Otherwise, why does the Headmistress always appear just in time?" Moran said with great seriousness.

"Really?" Sylph's ear tips perked up in shock. "One hundred and forty-eight Ms. Amishas?"

"That's too exaggerated!" Lilith thought it was unlikely. "What kind of magic can create one hundred and forty-eight clones? And maintain them constantly?"

"If you want to know if it's true, why not just ask the Headmistress?"

Vasida was very good at applying what she learned: "Headmistress, Headmistress, is it true? Do you really have one hundred and forty-eight clones?"

"..."

An indescribable silence followed.

"See! I told you the Headmistress isn't willing to answer every question," Moran said, shrugging her shoulders.

Otherwise, she would have only suspected it.

"Alright, alright, let's set aside teasing—I mean, asking the Headmistress for now."

Lilith was afraid the Headmistress would jump out and give them a beating.

The academy had no rule stating the Headmistress couldn't hit little witches!

She changed the subject

"Moran!

You could be researching all sorts of cards, but instead, you research a card that is so easily replaced, and you've invested so much into it.

I think the energy accumulation effect of your automatic juicer is quite good. Why not research a card specifically for energy storage instead!

If you have excess energy, you can charge it into the card, and when you want to use it, you just take it out."

Moran thought about it carefully: "That's true!"

Since her own Book of Cards used the amethyst to store energy, she hadn't thought of making such a card.

The juicer card was destined to have low sales among the little witches.

Currently, she was spending more than she was earning; if she could barely break even in the future, that would be good enough.

But a magic storage card was different!

Not every little witch was like them, worrying about insufficient mana all day just to research talent manifestations.

If the excess magical power they had every day could be stored, wouldn't their purchasing power increase once they saved up?

They would be much more generous when buying cards then.

Rounding it up, wouldn't she earn even more?

"I need to study this card carefully..."

Seeing Moran fall into deep thought, Lilith gave Vasida and Sylph a look, and the three little witches stood up together

"You keep researching, we're off! We'll wait for your good news!"

"Mm! Okay!"

After her companions left, Moran remembered she still hadn't designed the spatial card!

However, this time she had learned her lesson and asked the Headmistress first if she could sell it

"Headmistress, can I sell a spatial storage card?"

"Not before the fourth year!"

It seemed it overlapped with some kind of magical ability that all little witches were required to learn.

Fine, Moran gave up completely. The spatial card might not even break even, so she would focus on researching the energy storage card for now!

Once she had surplus mana, making a spatial card for her own convenience shouldn't be a problem.

"A card for storing magic... its function is to store and retrieve magic? No, no, no, not all little witches are witches; it should also have a magic conversion function.

What should it look like? A simple card seems to consume the least mana."

Moran began editing the card's functions and appearance.

[Card Design: Energy Storage Card]

[Estimated Consumption: Infinite Mana]

[Estimated Appearance: Appearance Template 1]

[Estimated Function: The user can convert their own energy into mana through the energy storage card for storage, or convert the mana within the card into any form of energy to be absorbed into the body for use. Maximum storage capacity is 10 Mana.]

"Huh?"

Seeing the estimated consumption, Moran froze: "Why is it infinite mana again? Where did it go wrong?"

The storage capacity was clearly only 10 Mana!

She loaded the card design into a slot to check the difficulties.

[Current Difficulty 1: Severe shortage of card-making energy. Suggestion: Supplement card-making energy, reduce the estimated functions of the card, or set a limit on the card's functions.]

[Current Difficulty 2: Lack of knowledge regarding the absorption of unowned energy into the body for use. Suggestion: Supplement relevant knowledge.]

Seeing "Difficulty 2," Moran had an epiphany.

Speaking of which, even the mana charged into the amethyst of her Book of Cards could not be re-absorbed into her body for use; it could only be used for card making.

The Golden Pen Contract could directly turn someone else's mana into her own, but she did not understand the principle behind the Golden Pen Contract.

Her Golden Pen technique was merely the usage rights obtained from the contracted witch, Carmella; it wasn't truly her own ability.

That must be why she couldn't produce such an effect out of thin air when making cards!

Right now, she could probably only make an energy storage card that stores mana to be used for card-making consumption.

But where would other little witches get that much card-making consumption?

Perhaps in the future, once the variety of cards she produced increased, such a specialized energy storage card would become meaningful to other little witches.

Low significance meant low prices! She would lose money!

Unless she could make the mana in the card turn back into energy that all witches could manipulate and use.

Holding onto a shred of hope, Moran modified "can convert the mana in the card into any form of energy to be absorbed into the body for use" to "can convert the mana in the card into any form of energy to be used directly for spellcasting." She tried again, but it still showed insufficient energy and a lack of knowledge regarding using stored energy for spellcasting.

She truly could only make energy storage cards for card-making purposes, where the stored energy could not be reused by the witch.

Moran suddenly realized

"If I don't know any magic and don't understand any magical knowledge, does that mean I won't be able to make any magical cards with special effects?"

Including spatial cards—perhaps she could use the Book of Cards to create a spatial card that could store cards, but without knowing any spatial magic, she wouldn't be able to make storage-type spatial cards either!

She had even designed a simple storage-type card, and the result was exactly as she had feared.