Chapter 169 – Gold Coin Card

By the time she finished the farmwork and returned to the Dormitory with ingredients, the sky had gone completely dark.

Mo Lan ate dinner and immediately began writing the Card Magic inheritance book.

The sooner the inheritance book was ready, the sooner Card Magic could be submitted to the Witch Council and the Academy Library.

Mo Lan had read Lady Traci’s 《Book Magic》 and knew exactly how to write a Sorceress Magic inheritance book.

She had practically reverted to the schedule from when she’d been researching Card Magic — each day she only went to the greenhouse once in the evening to Attune the Broomstick Grass and bring back some vegetables.

After burning the midnight oil for several days straight, she not only finished the Card Magic inheritance book but also completed the fourth chapter of 《The Path of the Sorceress》 and transcribed all the business knowledge from Earth that she had stored in her mind, compiling it into a book.

“Finally done!” Mo Lan stopped the Transcription Spell, sorted and categorized all the papers on the desk, then called Lady Amisha.

No. 69 Amisha knew what she’d been working on these past few days and responded quickly: “Turning in the manuscript?”

“Yes! Headmistress, please look it over before sending it to the Witch Council. That way you can also try out some of the business negotiation tips I wrote in there.” Mo Lan enthusiastically recommended.

After reading the book, maybe she could negotiate a higher price!

“Knowledge inheritance books are priced by the Witch Council based on assessed value through discussion. There’s no room for bargaining.”

“Fine!” Mo Lan’s hopes of earning a few extra gold coins were dashed.

“You already have the Energy Storage Card. Once the Energy Storage Card achieves the same status as magic coins, would you ever be short of money?”

Amisha couldn’t understand how Mo Lan could have such an intense desire to make money.

“Headmistress, you don’t understand. Earning money and Mana is just like studying — it’s a pleasure!” Mo Lan said.

What she enjoyed was the feeling of her wealth growing ever larger and her power climbing ever higher.

“But Headmistress, you just reminded me of something! What do you think about me making the Energy Storage Card look like magic coins? No, no, no — I should make an entirely new type of magic coin card! If I add the function of manifesting a physical coin, the cost would be a bit higher.

With a {Magic Coin} card, I wouldn’t need to wait for Energy Storage Cards to be accepted by everyone! And it wouldn’t cause too much disruption to the existing magic coin system.”

Most critically, she could become a money-minting machine ahead of schedule.

Mo Lan was the type to act the moment she had an idea. She summoned the Book of Cards, and in less than a minute, a {Magic Gold Coin Card} appeared in her hand. “The Magic Gold Coin Card works fine, but Purple Gold Coins and Crimson Gold Coins aren’t possible yet! Still, the concept is viable.”

Since the concept was viable, she didn’t mind spending some magic coins. She pulled the coin pouch out of her cabinet and tossed a Purple Gold Coin and a Crimson Gold Coin into the card slots.

The {Magic Violet Gold Coin Card} and {Magic Crimson Gold Coin Card} were both successfully created.

“The production cost doubled!”

No. 69 Amisha: “…”

It only doubled! What could she even say? Right now, all she wanted was to hurry up and bring these books to her main body to study properly.

Over a hundred clone bodies, calculating gacha rates against that card pool over and over, all to earn a bit more Mana so they could live comfortably after their terms ended.

And yet their student couldn’t even wait for Energy Storage Cards to be accepted as currency — she’d gone and created magic coin cards directly, and at such a low cost!

Mo Lan immediately listed the magic coin cards in the card shop.

Every witch who had unlocked Card Magic from that point onward would receive a notification about the new card listings.

Young witch contractor: “{Magic Gold Coin Card} — upon use, produces one witch-edition Magic Gold Coin. 25 Gem Coins each?”

Adult witch contractor: “{Magic Violet Gold Coin Card} — upon use, produces one witch-edition Magic Violet Gold Coin. 2,500 Gem Coins?”

Everyone understood the value of magic coins. Upon seeing the new cards, they all had the same thought: their Gem Coin storage slots weren’t enough!

Free storage only provided ten slots, meaning they could save at most ten Gem Coins — not even enough to buy a single {Magic Gold Coin Card}. Before, they had thought that paying 1 Mana of permanent power — or an equivalent amount of other energy — for 1,000 additional Gem Coin storage slots was expensive and not immediately useful. But now… what a bargain!

When Mo Lan saw her total Mana begin rapidly climbing again, she knew the magic coin cards were a hit.

At this rate, she might actually reach Peak Sorceress-level Mana reserves before graduation.

But Mana alone wasn’t enough — her magic skills had to keep up too, or she wouldn’t be able to put all that power to use!

With that thought, Mo Lan immediately lost interest in everything else. “Headmistress, I’ll stop chatting! I’m going to go study magic!”

With that, she closed her eyes and began reading the inherited knowledge of the Magic Waterbed stored in her mind.

A spell she’d bought for five hundred Mana — she absolutely had to learn it quickly and put it to good use.

Reading from memory was much faster than reading from a book, and before long she had a thorough understanding of how to learn the Magic Waterbed.

Understanding the method was easy, however; actually mastering it was hard.

This spell required extremely high water magic aptitude to master.

The basic method was to summon a mass of water element, then use a specific technique to condense and compress it until the transparent water transformed into a deep azure water elemental essence. Through this process, the water elemental essence would bear your imprint and obey your commands from then on.

When numerous droplets of water elemental essence were combined, the result was the Magic Waterbed.

Each round of condensation and compression made the water elemental essence purer.

Lady Amisha’s description of “nurturing water” was truly apt.

Every single drop of “water” in the Magic Waterbed had been refined through a specific method, condensed multiple times over.

This spell required tremendous accumulation — the more water you nurtured, the larger the waterbed; the longer you nurtured it, the more effective the waterbed became.

And condensing a single drop of water elemental essence the size of a fingernail required as much water as three Dormitory water towers.

It truly was painstaking work. She had no idea how long it would take to accumulate enough water elemental essence for a full waterbed.

With her current Mana capacity, she could only produce one drop of water elemental essence per day.

Any more than that would affect her daily activities and the next day’s natural Mana recovery.

Even though she could only condense one drop of water elemental essence per day, after practicing continuously for a week and accumulating only a quail egg-sized mass of water, Mo Lan still found a use for it.

After injecting a {Vampire Blood Card}, she pressed it against the needle wound to stop the bleeding.

That tiny wound healed instantly.

Compared to the {Vampire Blood Card}, the Magic Waterbed already showed results impressively fast.

Mo Lan was now injecting a {Vampire Blood Card} once every day.

But even after injecting five Apprentice-level Super Speed Vampire Blood Cards, her speed had only improved slightly.

When running to the greenhouse, she could save about eight or nine minutes.

Compared to the blood fusion effect of senior Lilith’s Bloodthirst Needle, the blood fusion spell’s injection of blood from cards still fell a bit short.

All Sorceress Magic was like this — compared to a Sorceress’s own exclusive Mana, the functions and effects were a step below.