Chapter 137 – Instructional Motion Pictures

When Amisha heard Mo Lan’s secret to brewing potions, her brow furrowed.

“When it comes to brewing potions, aside from extracting plant essences, every other step is a matter of manual technique. Generally, you just have to be careful and meticulous, brewing batch after batch until you gradually become familiar with the process.

Moira, you have excellent talent in potion-brewing magic, so extracting plant essences is no problem for you. For the other steps, as long as you’ve seen someone else brew, you can quickly and accurately imitate them. Your potion-brewing learning speed should be even faster!

Go to the Second-Year Reading Room— no, go to the Castle Library, sixth floor, and find the collector’s edition of Mo-Pics from 《The Witch’s Complete Potion Comperta》!

《The Witch’s Complete Potion Comperta》 documents every potion recipe currently known to the witch race along with their brewing methods. It’s the most comprehensive set of books on potion brewing.

The Mo-Pic collector’s edition is even more precious— each potion comes with animated Mo-Pics of Sorceress Traci brewing the potion.

The Mo-Pics can’t be transcribed. You can only view the original books in person.

The collector’s edition books can’t be taken out of the library. Whenever you have free time, go to the sixth floor of the Castle Library and look through that set of books. Once you’ve watched all the Mo-Pics, you’ll never have any issues with technique when brewing potions.

As your potion-brewing magic level increases and your extraction ability improves, you’ll be able to directly brew higher-level potions.

You don’t need to attend any more Potions classes from now on. Go watch the Mo-Pics instead! If you have any questions while studying the books, ask your guardian Headmistress directly!

I’ll issue you a pass!”

By now, Amisha’s furrowed brow had completely smoothed out, and her tone had even taken on a note of excitement.

No witch had ever attempted to learn potion brewing this way before!

“If anything like this comes up again in the future, tell me right away! Ordinary study methods don’t really suit you anymore. Starting self-study early might be a better fit for you!”

“(°°)”

Mo Lan had never in her wildest dreams expected that simply imitating Lady Amisha to brew one perfect Apprentice-grade recovery potion would get her graduated from Potions class on the spot.

Vasida and Sylph: “…”

They were already tired of saying they were envious.

“Oh, right! There’s also a Mo-Pic collector’s edition of 《The Complete Comperta of Magical Plant Harvesting and Cultivation》, which contains Mo-Pics on harvesting magical plants.

Actually, forget it! I’ll just issue you a pass for the entire sixth floor! Everything up there is collector’s edition books with Mo-Pics.

Before you graduate, watch through all of them!” Amisha added.

“Headmistress, what exactly are Mo-Pics?” Mo Lan asked the question she had been wanting to ask all along. Were they what she thought they were? They sounded similar to videos from Earth.

“They’re pictures that can move!

When Lady Traci was traveling through other worlds, she brought back a specialty from another world called a Mo-Pic recorder.

It can record a segment of past scenes and store them on specially made Mo-Pic paper.

The Mo-Pic paper is rather troublesome to make, and the materials are hard to find in Valen, so Lady Traci only used it to create some instructional Mo-Pics. Her original intention was to help witches study more effectively on their own.

But since the Mo-Pics have no sound, the young witches who watched them found the learning results rather mediocre. Moreover, the Mo-Pics can’t be copied using the Transcription Spell. Over time, these books with Mo-Pic instruction were placed on the sixth floor of the Castle Library as collector’s items.

Only a few young witches who are self-studying magic go looking for them as supplementary material to the written text, and even then, they can only be viewed within the Academy,” Amisha explained.

“So they’re basically silent videos!” Mo Lan said.

“What do you mean, silent videos?” Amisha asked curiously.

Mo Lan described the various video devices from her previous life.

“That’s pretty much what they are!” Amisha said. “It sounds like the world from your previous life was quite interesting! Earth, was it? If I ever come across it while traveling through other worlds, I absolutely must visit! If I could bring back that video technology, Lady Traci’s original vision might actually become reality!”

Mo Lan lowered her head.

The Earth she had lived on was probably long gone by now.

Unless one day she could find an Earth on another timeline and change its fate of destruction.

She was still so weak now. She had no idea how long it would be before she had the power to save Earth.

She didn’t let these emotions overwhelm her. Raising her head, she said to Lady Amisha, “Headmistress, I actually know how to make video technology. I don’t need to find the same materials as those from Earth either— I can make them using cards.

There’s no need to transcribe the instructional videos into the Grimoire. I can make them directly into instructional video cards that only witches and Sorceresses can use, so the witches’ heritage won’t be leaked.

However, the content for the instructional videos would need to be re-recorded.”

Amisha sounded quite regretful when she heard this. “Lady Traci isn’t in Valen right now, and I don’t know when she’ll return. I’m afraid re-recording won’t be possible for the time being! I can’t leave the Academy at the moment, and I don’t have time to record much of the content either.

When Lady Traci comes back, I’ll tell her! She’ll definitely be very interested!”

Mo Lan nodded. “If recording isn’t possible, once I’ve learned everything myself, I can also directly create instructional video cards with the content already included.”

“That would be even better!” Amisha said. “Lady Traci just left Valen not long ago. Based on past precedent, it’ll be at least a hundred years or so before she returns. By then, you’ll certainly be a Beyond Peak Sorceress, fully qualified to create instructional videos!”

“My cards… do come with a cost, you know!” Mo Lan said pointedly.

“I know! We’ll do it by your rules!” Amisha said irritably. “Instructional videos were originally meant more as study materials for witches after graduation, who mainly rely on books to self-study— to help improve their learning efficiency.

It’s only right for adult witches to pay a price when acquiring resources!”

Mo Lan: “Oh~”

“Oh, what?” Amisha asked.

“I thought the Witch Council would provide instructional videos to witches for free, just like they provide magical book inheritances!” Mo Lan said.

The Council was sometimes too generous.

When it came to knowledge and heritage, the witches seemed to never hoard things for themselves, always willing to share with their companions— though of course, only with fellow witches.

“Other than 《Young Witch’s Primer》, the Council has never given witches another book for free! They only gave every witch the opportunity to read books for free. Those books were all transcribed by you yourselves.

The cost of transcription is borne by you as well!” Amisha said. “The Council shares knowledge, but it doesn’t do charity! The legacies donated by the elder witches are limited and need to be spent carefully.”

Mo Lan’s face was full of surprise. So the Council didn’t just have a generous and magnanimous side— it also had a shrewd and calculating one!

“Furthermore, the Council absolutely supports Sorceresses selling their own Sorceress Magic to earn Mana! That way you can grow faster and protect yourselves sooner,” Amisha said. “The reputation of Sorceresses is too prominent. Before you’ve grown strong enough, you’ll face far more hostility than ordinary witches.”