Chapter 146 – The Difficulty of Sorceress Magic

“A standardized contract template, plus the two Contract Magic spells — the Golden Pen Technique and the Mailbox Technique — are the prerequisites for learning Sorceress Magic.

Attached here are the shared contract and mailbox restriction clause templates that Traci, Anita, and I use, as well as the contracts for the Golden Pen Technique and the Mailbox Technique. I hope they’ll be useful to you.

If you’ve understood everything above, then next, let’s discuss the true difficulty of Sorceress Magic…”

“Ring ring ring~ It’s eight o’clock! If you don’t get to the greenhouse, your Broomstick Grass is going to wither!”

“Ring ring ring~ It’s eight o’clock! If you don’t get to the greenhouse, your Broomstick Grass is going to with—”

The shrill voice that suddenly rang out startled Mo Lan so badly she flinched. She hurriedly slapped the top of the large alarm clock on the edge of her desk, and at last, peace returned to her ears.

This big alarm clock managed to give her a terrible fright every single time it went off.

The previous alarm clock had too pleasant a sound. A few days ago, she’d hit snooze and her mind had remained immersed in her book. By the time she snapped out of it, it was already past ten.

That time, she’d sprinted all the way to the greenhouse, and by the skin of her teeth, managed to Attune her Broomstick Grass before the day was over.

She’d come that close to having to replant her Broomstick Grass from scratch.

Because of that, she’d crafted a new alarm card, deliberately adding a feature that produced a grating sound capable of instantly breaking her concentration.

The effect was excellent. Mo Lan never again found herself desperately sprinting through the Academy at night.

Now she would leisurely rise with her Grimoire floating beside her, set a luminous orb hovering in front of her head, throw on her outer robe, and then head out.

Reading her book as she went, she strolled unhurriedly toward the greenhouse.

By the time she reached the vicinity of the herbology entrance, she had finally finished reading the last few pages of Chapter 3 of Mo Lan.

She closed the Grimoire and gazed out at the fields draped in silver moonlight, letting out a soft breath.

“Much easier than I imagined.”

What Lady Carmela had described as the difficulty of Sorceress Magic was simply understanding one’s own exclusive Mana.

Because only after understanding what you were capable of could you know which portion of your magical abilities to split off and share usage rights with others.

Lady Carmela said that when a Sorceress shared her exclusive magic and obtained Mana in return, it wasn’t just for the convenience of others — it was also to strengthen herself.

So she recommended that everyone thoroughly map out all the capabilities and characteristics of their exclusive Mana, then divide them into multiple spells and sell them separately, preferably in exchange for Mana.

Permanent Mana was preferred, followed by one-time Mana.

This would accelerate the growth of their Mana ceiling and Mana reserves, raise their rank, and give them more Mana to spend on learning magic and further developing their Manifested Gifts.

Understanding exclusive Mana — that is, the Manifested Gift — wasn’t really a difficulty for Mo Lan.

She had basically figured out the Book of Cards’ abilities already, and had long since decided which parts of the Book of Cards she wanted to share.

The ability to design and create cards was the Book of Cards’ core function. She would absolutely keep that in her own hands.

What she planned to share were the finished cards themselves, along with the Book of Cards’ ability to store cards. She even had some preliminary ideas already.

One was Gacha Magic — designed specifically for gambling addicts. Pay permanent Mana to unlock a card pool with corresponding drop rates, then spend one-time Mana to draw cards. The other was Card Album Magic — designed for people who didn’t want to gamble on luck and just wanted specific cards. Pay permanent Mana to unlock a card album of the corresponding tier, then spend one-time Mana to buy the cards they wanted.

The only problem right now was that she hadn’t developed enough cards yet.

Whether for drawing or buying, there weren’t enough cards to fill the pools.

Selling either of these two spells right now would be somewhat premature.

Moreover, Mo Lan felt that her Sorceress Magic wasn’t well-suited to being divided into many separate spells and sold individually, the way the senior Sorceresses did it.

She couldn’t very well make one card into one spell, or one category of cards into one spell, could she?

Splitting things up that way and then selling each card separately just didn’t seem right.

How many different types of cards would she have to split out?

And if people weren’t sure what a card did, would her sales even be any good?

She felt the gacha-and-shop combination approach suited her better.

After all, she knew full well from her past life how wildly popular gacha games had been.

What Mo Lan was considering now was whether to merge these two spells into one.

It was like opening a franchise — should she open a fruit shop and a general store as separate locations, selling goods by category, or open a single department supermarket with different product sections inside?

The former let her charge franchise fees twice, but it also split the customer base.

The latter only charged one franchise fee, but customers were concentrated in one place. Someone who came to buy fruit might pick up other things too, potentially generating higher revenue.

After thinking it over, she decided she couldn’t afford to split the traffic. Her greatest profit didn’t come from selling the Sorceress Magic itself — it came from selling cards.

No matter what, getting people in the door to browse first was the only way to sell more cards.

She drew from the gacha games of her past life for reference! The games themselves were free — anyone could download them, and you could even play a portion for free. But items inside the game cost money. If you refused to spend, well, you’d just have to put up with a rougher experience!

Of course, her Sorceress Magic couldn’t be offered as a free-to-download contract like a game.

But she could lower the contract threshold for her Sorceress Magic while raising the usage thresholds for the internal gacha pools and card shop.

Her Sorceress Magic would probably be the one with the fewest spells in history, but with the highest cumulative charges during the upgrade process.

This actually fit her current situation of not having developed enough cards yet.

She could launch a limited-time beta card pool first and let contractors start drawing. Once she’d researched and developed more cards, she could gradually update the pools and the card shop — just like game updates.

That way, even if the card pools weren’t great or weren’t fully polished at the start, there was no need to worry.

After all, it was a beta version — bugs were to be expected.

Even after full launch, she could still push updates and upgrades from time to time, release new pools, new cards, even hold card events and limited-time pools. Who knows — it might even boost spending!

Mo Lan threw herself into studying everything she could recall from Earth’s memories about gacha game development and pay-to-win monetization strategies. After finishing her Broomstick Grass Attuning and returning to the Dormitory, she finally began designing the content, functions, beta gacha pool, and card shop rules for her Card Magic.

After two grueling days, her first design draft was finally complete!

Mo Lan flicked the parchment with a snap, her eyes brimming with excitement. “This won’t just be a practical spell — it’ll be an entertainment spell! Who doesn’t love pulling cards? And these are real cards that can be manifested and used! It’s absolutely going to be a hit!”