Chapter 66 – Double “Joy”

Amisha only guided the young witches’ learning direction and quality, telling them what to do next at the appropriate time.

Each person’s progress was in their own hands.

For instance, in this class, Vasida’s black bread had earned Lady Amisha’s approval, and she was permitted to begin practicing white bread in the next Culinary Magic lesson.

The moment class ended, Vasida rushed straight to Mo Lan’s side. “One Mobile Kitchen Card, please!”

“Installments or full payment?” If it were anyone else, Mo Lan wouldn’t have even mentioned paying in full.

“Full payment, of course!” Vasida said without hesitation. “But we’ll have to go to Breadfruit Grove to settle up!”

“I’d like to buy one too. I’ll pay 400 Mana today and the rest tomorrow,” Sylph said.

Sorceresses all had excellent magical talent. She wasn’t worried about failing to learn Culinary Magic, but she still needed to prepare a mobile kitchen here.

“Deal!”

Mo Lan signed a contract with Sylph on the spot and handed her the card.

The other young witches only had average talent for Culinary Magic. The odds of them specializing deeply enough to become Culinary Witches were slim.

But even if they weren’t Culinary Witches, they still had to eat. Everyone was willing to prepare a set of utensils here in advance.

Seeing as they’d be practicing cooking in magic class for a long time to come, they might as well pay their magical power to Mo Lan and buy a Portable Utensil Card to keep here ahead of time!

They were still struggling with black bread, but that didn’t stop them from Attuning their utensils outside of class!

At a hundred Mana per card, Mo Lan sold twenty-three utensil cards in one go.

They all chose installment payments—eleven Mana per day, settled in full over ten days.

The energy in Mo Lan’s Book of Cards surged again by a considerable amount.

This method of crafting and selling cards on demand was far more time-efficient and effortless than before.

“Come on, come on! Let’s go to Breadfruit Grove!” Vasida grabbed Mo Lan and took off running toward the grove. All the other young witches had gotten their cards already—she was the only one left.

“You two go ahead. I copied out a storybook, so I’m going to visit Bi’er!” Sylph was still keeping up her daily visits to Bi’er.

Mo Lan followed Vasida and slipped into the grove from the Planting District side.

By now, Vasida knew Breadfruit Grove like the back of her hand. Before long, she’d led Mo Lan to a fruit tree that no young witch had harvested yet.

After picking a large pile of Breadfruit and heaping them together, Vasida dusted off her hands. “That should do it. Let’s sign the contract!”

Mo Lan handed her the prepared contract.

Vasida wrote her name on the contract, and five hundred Mana was instantly drained from her. An intense wave of hunger washed over her.

She hurriedly pulled out her Devouring Stomach and began stuffing the prepared Breadfruit into it.

By the time she’d crammed in all the Breadfruit on the ground, she let out a satisfied burp.

Not only did she not need dinner anymore, but her Mana had fully recovered—she’d even built up a small reserve.

Mo Lan watched with undisguised envy.

Vasida noticed her burning gaze and rubbed her arms uncomfortably. “Moira, don’t look at me like that—you’re scaring me!”

“Once you develop your Sorceress Magic, I’m definitely buying one!” Mo Lan said.

“Didn’t Lilith mention last time that an Energy Storage Card could also solve your Mana shortage problem?” Vasida asked, puzzled.

“My knowledge base isn’t sufficient to support making an Energy Storage Card yet!” Mo Lan sighed.

Only once she figured out how Mana stored in cards could be repurposed for uses beyond card-making would she be able to create a truly useful Energy Storage Card.

“I’ll do my best!” That was all Vasida could say.

“You’ve got this!” Mo Lan patted her on the shoulder.

After returning to the dormitory, Mo Lan stowed all the kitchen utensils and tableware from the dormitory kitchen into the storage room.

From now on, she planned to use everything from the Mobile Kitchen Card for cooking.

The only problem was that the dormitory was too small, and the kitchen cabinets couldn’t be moved, so she couldn’t deploy the entire kitchen from inside the card.

The 《History of Witches》 homework was simpler than yesterday’s, just slightly longer in length.

After finishing her homework, Mo Lan even had time to read a bit more of *What Exactly Is Magic*.

In the next day’s Fundamentals of Magic Theory class, the young witches applied the lessons learned from Monday and Tuesday, dragging out the response time for every single question.

Amisha acted as though she hadn’t noticed at all, patiently answering the young witches’ questions, slowing her speech to give them time to take notes.

Before class ended, she asked, “Has everyone finished asking their questions?”

The young witches shook their heads.

“Then it’s my turn to ask,” Amisha said. “Today’s chapter was mainly about the schools of magic. So, who can tell me how many schools of Witch Magic there are, and what the representative magic of each school is?”

The young witches: “…”

It was over. Here it came again.

Mo Lan actually knew about the schools of Witch Magic—they had been listed out during her Talent assessment—but she didn’t know the specific representative magic of each school either.

So she could only stay silent.

And thus: “Same rules as always. One essay on *The Schools of Witch Magic and Their Representative Spells*. Your reference text is *The Witch Magic Catalog*.”

They thought that would be the end of it, but Lady Amisha wasn’t finished:

“Everyone was very enthusiastic about taking notes today, and the questions were quite dense. Let’s add a summary essay as well! Based on the questions you asked, summarize what you gained from this lesson.”

The young witches, now blessed with two essays, stared at her with looks of stunned resentment that nearly solidified into physical form.

Double “joy” indeed!

The moment Lady Amisha left, Vasida charged up to Mo Lan:

“That card you mentioned that can record sound—can you still make it? Or could you make a card that automatically writes essays?”

It was only Wednesday, and they’d already collected four essays.

It was enough to make anyone who heard weep and anyone who saw shed tears. Surely they wouldn’t spend the entire weekend writing essays!

“I can’t make an auto-essay card, but I can make a recording card.”

Mo Lan designed one in her Book of Cards and calculated the production cost. “A card that can record and store sound, with a cumulative storage duration of twenty-four hours, will cost five Mana. Interested?”

“Yes, yes, yes! I’ll buy one!” Vasida said.

The other young witches, hearing this, snapped awake as if from a dream and swarmed over.

“I want one too!”

“Give me one!”

…

Recording card sales skyrocketed. Every first-year young witch, aside from Mo Lan herself, bought one.

It wasn’t for any other reason—everyone had simply realized that the strategy of dragging out question response times and reducing the number of questions was no longer viable.

Compared to earning two essay assignments from a single class, it was far better to ask as many questions as possible, record the lesson, and then diligently write one summary essay based on the recording after class!

With Lady Amisha, there was probably no such thing as a theory class without homework.

Better to just be honest and pick the easier option.