Chapter 733 – Zhizhi’s Idea

Chapter 733 – Zhizhi’s Idea

This time, she would be using a limited-time Best Friend Invitation to enter another world. There was no need to complete any world-assigned tasks, no restrictions on how long she could stay, and she could choose to leave the world at any time.

She could also randomly match with a recently deceased local intelligent being who was most compatible with her, inheriting that person’s identity, talents, and emotionless life memories. It was essentially like obtaining a local identity, allowing her to seamlessly blend into the world.

As long as she didn’t do anything harmful to the world and only acquired resources within the scope permitted by the invitation, using a Best Friend Invitation was arguably the safest way to explore another world.

If not for the Best Friend Invitation as a safeguard, Mo Lan wouldn’t necessarily have dared to visit the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins World just yet.

After all, this was a Level Ten world — the same level as the Guru Guru World that Vasida had gone to — where the upper limit for spellcasters’ magical rank was Fifth Rank Peak.

Mo Lan was currently approaching Fifth Rank Peak herself, but the higher the rank, the greater the gap in actual power. In reality, her current total mana was 899,530,000 Mana.

There was still a gap of over a hundred million Mana between her and the upper limit of the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins World. She had already recruited the vast majority of Valen’s spellcasters into the Dawn Society, and her period of rapid mana growth had already passed. Now it was only growing steadily.

This gap wasn’t something she could close anytime soon.

Not to mention that her highest-level magic, Witch Magic, was only at Third Rank Peak.

Going to the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins World, Mo Lan would need to be extremely careful.

Under these circumstances, she’d better make the most of the local identity provided by the Best Friend Invitation, hiding anything on her that didn’t belong to this world. Otherwise, she might attract dangers that she couldn’t handle at her current stage.

She didn’t need to worry about clothes — when the local identity merged, her clothing would change automatically. She just needed to put on a set of ordinary clothes without any magical effects.

All magical items on her person, including her Wand, would need to be temporarily put away. She couldn’t rule out the possibility that people in the other world could see through such things.

Spatial rings and the like would all be temporarily left at home. Personal belongings would be stored in the {Spatial Card}, then the {Spatial Card} would be placed inside the Book of Cards, and finally the Book of Cards would be put away — that was essentially foolproof.

Then there was Zhizhi, and Clack, who had eaten the ghost ship’s heart and was still sleeping in a coffin.

Mo Lan planned to play the local identity given by the Best Friend Invitation perfectly. All magical items were already hidden in the Book of Cards, let alone the two of them.

She called Zhizhi over from the yard where it had been playing:

“This trip isn’t very convenient for bringing you two along. I’ll have to leave the house and Clack in your care. I’ll move Clack’s coffin down to the basement later…”

Zhizhi froze, then frantically waved its hands and shook its head. “No stay home! Go up! Camp! Work!”

It patted its chest as it spoke. “Clack put with me!”

“You mean… you want to go find work at the camp? And keep Clack in your space?” Mo Lan asked in surprise.

Zhizhi nodded. “Work! Make money!”

As its master grew increasingly powerful, the opportunities for it to help in battles had become fewer and fewer. Zhizhi had gradually come to realize the growing gap between itself and its master.

It just didn’t know what else it could do to help.

It wasn’t until it saw Lan Qiqi, the Chong’er Cat working at the Otherworld Archives, and the Archives’ recruitment notice that a vague new plan began to form in its mind.

It hadn’t expected to be separated from its master so soon, and only now did it voice this plan. It didn’t want to stay here, guarding an empty house, spending its master’s money on food and drink.

It wanted to work like Lan Qiqi — to earn money for its master to spend!

Mo Lan shared a mental connection with Zhizhi and instantly understood its thoughts. The little creature’s earnestness melted her heart, and she scooped it up for a thorough round of snuggling.

“Our little Zhizhi has grown up! You know how to earn money to support the family now?”

Zhizhi curled into a ball and let out a small whimper.

“We really don’t need the money!” Mo Lan said helplessly. “But this time I’m going out, and I don’t know how many years it’ll be before I can come back. You’d be all alone at home without any friends you know — that really would be boring.

How about this — I’ll give you access permissions to my personal tent as well. That way, if you get bored at home, you can teleport to my personal tent and go hang out at the Explorer’s Camp.

Finding work or whatever is up to you. How much money you make is secondary — what matters most is that you’re happy, understand?”

Zhizhi nodded, but in its heart it had already secretly decided to go find work at the camp!

Mo Lan could tell from its darting eyes exactly what it was thinking. “Fine! Let’s go to the Otherworld Archives and see if there are any job openings recently!”

“No!” Zhizhi wriggled out of Mo Lan’s arms. “I go myself!”

It then collected the coffin where Clack was sleeping.

When Clack woke up, it would make Clack go find a job too!

They would find jobs on their own, earn lots and lots of mana crystals, buy lots and lots of otherworldly magical materials and magical knowledge, and then give their master a huge surprise!

“…”

At this moment, Mo Lan truly felt like a parent whose child had grown up and wanted to go out and make their own way in the world.

All conflict was prohibited within the Explorer’s Camp — magic couldn’t even be used there — so safety was guaranteed.

It seemed Zhizhi had already been quietly paying attention to the recruitment notices at the Otherworld Archives, and it even knew that she needed otherworldly magical materials and magical knowledge.

What else could Mo Lan do? She could only agree. “Alright! You handle it yourself! But if you come across magical materials or magical knowledge that I don’t already have, you can use Card Magic to withdraw some mana crystals to buy them, then use the {Management Card} to upload and turn them into cards.”

Though she said this, she didn’t hold out much hope.

Because even before she had arrived at the Well of the Sky, the Witch Explorers who possessed {Management Cards} had long since sampled and turned into cards all the more commonly available otherworldly magical materials on the Explorer’s Camp market.

The Card Shop had even added an Explorer-exclusive section, specifically for selling cards related to other worlds.

Truly rare materials never circulated on the market at all. They could basically only be found by going to other worlds in person, and even then there was no guarantee you could bring them back.

The chances of Zhizhi encountering new materials at the Explorer’s Camp were really quite slim.

As for giving the {Management Card} to all Explorers — Mo Lan hadn’t considered that. The deal of submitting a single sample to enjoy a permanent share of profits was generous enough when limited to Witches. Extending that benefit to others was more generosity than she was willing to show.

The Witch Explorers could also help her collect otherworldly magical materials and expand the variety of cards. It would just take some time, that was all. There was absolutely no need to let more Explorers get a piece of the pie.

This was also why Mo Lan wasn’t in a rush to explore the worlds within the Well of the Sky that had posted world missions.