Chapter 150 – Energy Storage Cards Go on Sale

“A single Magic Gold Coin requires a witch of Intermediate rank or above to inject 10 Mana into the coin ten consecutive times, just to retain 1 stable Mana within it.

And that’s not even counting the material costs to produce the Magic Gold Coin, or the difficulty of mastering the technique for injecting Mana.”

Mo Lan used what Lady Amisha had previously told her to explain the card’s value to the young witches.

Moreover, after Lady Amisha had purchased Card Magic the previous night, she had mentioned to Mo Lan that Energy Storage Cards had the potential to replace magical currency as the medium of exchange among the Extraordinary. If the Witch Council passed a resolution, they might help her promote Card Magic and Energy Storage Cards among witches in the future.

Compared to the costly magical currency, Energy Storage Cards better served the interests of witches.

This was because Mo Lan had stated that her card pricing for outsiders would be ten times the cost.

It was precisely because Energy Storage Cards might serve as transactional currency like magical coins in the future that Mo Lan had added a 1-Mana version beneath the original 100-Mana Energy Storage Card, to correspond with Magic Gold Coins.

However, since nothing had been finalized yet, she chose not to mention it at this point.

What she had already said was more than enough.

“Do you still think it’s expensive?” Mo Lan asked.

The young witches shook their heads vigorously. “Not expensive at all!”

An Intermediate witch had to inject 10 Mana ten times just to produce a single Magic Gold Coin storing 1 Mana.

An Advanced witch had to inject 1,000 Mana ten times just to produce a single Purple Gold Coin storing 100 Mana.

Ten times 10 added up to 100 Mana; ten times 1,000—wasn’t that 10,000?

Yet a 1-Mana Energy Storage Card, fully charged and not requiring self-charging, cost only 10 Gem Coins—that was just 10 Mana worth of disposable magical power! A 100-Mana Energy Storage Card cost only 1,000 Gem Coins.

Their math might not be great, but they could still figure out which was cheaper—10 Mana versus 100 Mana, or 1,500 Mana versus 10,000 Mana.

Saving up Energy Storage Cards was basically the same as saving up magical currency, wasn’t it? Round it off, and that meant a Purple Gold Coin could essentially be obtained for just 1,500 Mana worth of disposable magical power!

The young witches already treasured Magic Gold Coins dearly, let alone Purple Gold Coins.

Monthly exams were only for first through third years. Fourth years had quarterly exams, and fifth years only had graduation exams.

Even with exam rewards, none of them had ever imagined being able to save up a single Purple Gold Coin before graduation.

But now, saving up an Energy Storage Card—100 Mana equivalent to a Purple Gold Coin—was very much within reach!

And this Card Magic even had the function of converting magical power into Gem Coins for storage!

Thinking about it this way, the earlier you bought Card Magic, the better! The earlier you bought it, the earlier you could start saving up Gem Coins.

How was this any different from saving money? Every young witch knew perfectly well that once they graduated, they would have to fend entirely for themselves! Being without money was absolutely unacceptable!

At this point, they all felt that these 3 Mana of permanent magical power were an absolutely necessary expenditure—not spending it was simply not an option.

In an instant, Mo Lan’s Contract Mailbox was flooded with new contracts.

Previously, she had needed to sign each one manually. Now, with the template contracts submitted by the witches, the mailbox automatically approved and signed them on her behalf.

Before long, every young witch had a Card Magic light screen floating before them.

Even Sylph, despite knowing that Energy Storage Cards couldn’t be used for daily Mana recovery, couldn’t resist the allure of magical currency.

Even though her Mana was a bit tight these days, it wasn’t as if she was completely drained every single day. Occasionally, she still had a little left over.

Meanwhile, Vasida hadn’t even finished reading the Card Magic beginner’s guide yet! She backed out to the card shop’s main interface and scrolled down to look at other cards.

Upon doing so, she discovered that the shop contained not only the cards she already knew about, but also many unfamiliar ones—things like various Earth cuisine Food Cards, plus Washing Machine Cards, Dryer Cards, Alarm Cards, Watch Cards, and more.

However, many of the cards were grayed out, and tapping on them displayed a message saying they couldn’t be purchased.

“Prepared Food Cards, washing machines, dryers, juicers, and such—to avoid interfering with everyone’s magical studies, only young witches aged sixteen and above can purchase those,” Mo Lan explained.

Vasida understood. This was the Headmistress’s decree.

Fortunately, Alarm Cards and Watch Cards were still available for purchase—1 Gem Coin each, not expensive at all. She was about to buy one when Mo Lan said, “You still have one free gacha draw! What if you pull one?”

Vasida thought that was a fair point, so she decided not to rush into buying cards just yet.

The final part of the beginner’s guide for the card shop section pointed to a circular arrow icon: “Tap here to recycle cards at one-tenth of the selling price.”

“Cards can be recycled?” Vasida asked in surprise.

“Of course. If you pull a card you don’t want, you can recycle it, or sell it privately to someone else,” Mo Lan said.

Although the Book of Cards couldn’t convert cards back into card-crafting energy, she could put the cards back into the gacha pool or the shop for resale!

Even if some cards didn’t sell in the shop, the gacha pool could still draw them out, earning her another profit at a cost much lower than crafting them from scratch.

Considering there was still a small risk of inventory buildup, Mo Lan had lowered the recycling price a bit.

After all, she would absolutely never do business at a loss.

The final section of the beginner’s guide covered the card album.

On the card album interface, an arrow popped up from a small purple square, extending into a dialog box:

“Each square represents a card storage slot. Each storage slot can hold up to 99 identical cards. Different cards cannot be placed in the same storage slot.

Initial free storage slots: 10.

For every 1 Mana of permanent magical power spent, 100 additional card storage slots can be unlocked.”

Seeing the same purchase price as the Gem Coin storage cap upgrade, Vasida pressed her lips together and ultimately couldn’t help but say, “I guess I really don’t need to worry about you taking a loss.”

Other Sorceresses charged 5 Mana of permanent magical power for a single Apprentice-level Sorceress Magic, yet Mo Lan only charged 3 Mana.

And Card Magic itself didn’t even have tiered pricing.

Mo Lan had also said this would very likely be her only Sorceress Magic.

Vasida and Sylph had actually thought she was taking a huge loss!

But looking at it now, while Mo Lan’s Card Magic didn’t have tiered fees, there was no shortage of things to pay for within Card Magic itself.

When you added it all up, she probably wasn’t earning any less than other Sorceresses with their Sorceress Magic! After all, the senior Sorceresses only earned permanent magical power. None of them, like Mo Lan, also sold cards within their Sorceress Magic to earn disposable magical power on top of that.

“Only Moira could pull something like this off,” Sylph remarked upon hearing all this. “Even if we wanted to earn disposable magical power, we’d have no way to store it.”

Their Manifested Gifts weren’t like Mo Lan’s—they couldn’t store disposable magical power.

Vasida’s Devouring Stomach could consume disposable magical power, but its devouring capacity had an upper limit too.

Too much disposable magical power, and she had no good way to store it either.