Chapter 160 – Sylph’s Concerns

Chapter 160 – Sylph’s Concerns

“You already have the Golden Pen Technique—will anyone really buy these?” Carmela asked.

“Your Golden Pen Technique has tier restrictions when used, doesn’t it? A lower-tier contract has limited binding power over a higher-tier contracting party.

If the tier gap is too large, the most it can do is force the violator to return what they gained from the contract—it can’t impose any additional penalties.

But these Contract Documents personally crafted by you with the Pen of Oaths are different. As long as the contract is established, any penalty can be enforced.

The value of Contract Document Cards is clearly much greater!

Moreover, you essentially serve as an impartial third party.

The Contract Documents within the cards are absolutely guaranteed to be free of any linguistic loopholes.

This prevents both parties from tampering with the contract terms when signing via the Golden Pen Technique—demons love pulling that kind of thing.

Why do people use the Golden Pen Technique and Contract Magic in the first place? Isn’t it to ensure absolute fairness and security? Contract Document Cards are the fairest and most secure option! There will absolutely be a market for them.

However, it would be best not to go for a high-volume, low-margin approach with these, since the Golden Pen Technique can serve as a substitute to some extent—only a few very important occasions would require them.

So the gacha prices for this pool need to be set a bit higher. Put ordinary Contract Document Cards in as filler, and make the real draw the Contract Documents that can bind high-tier contractors.

I’d even suggest that Contract Documents capable of binding Peak or above-Peak-level contractors shouldn’t be sold openly in the card shop—put them directly into the gacha pool.

That way, your ordinary Contract Document Cards—the ones the Golden Pen Technique could replace—will also sell… ah, I mean, will also get drawn.

As for the drop rates for the various cards and the gacha prices, I’ll work out a profit-maximizing plan for you based on the pool’s composition.”

Mo Lan added, “But I’ll need you to provide me with some commonly used contract documents from Valen as reference. Otherwise, if I base them on my previous life’s versions, they might not be applicable to Valen’s circumstances.”

“That’s no problem.” Carmela was relieved.

Mo Lan had even figured out how to sell them for maximum profit on her behalf.

She even felt that the extra ten percent of profits she’d conceded was well worth it.

Mo Lan turned to Lady Amisha. “Headmistress, what is your otherworldly Magic like?”

“Hmm… I’ll demonstrate it for you and you’ll see. But it’s a bit cramped here—tomorrow I’ll take you to the Magic Training Grounds and show you there,” Amisha said.

“Sounds good!” Mo Lan said.

“Mine probably isn’t ready yet—I haven’t even fully figured out all the functions of my own Manifested Gift!” Vasida said.

“Same here. I have figured out what my Box of Ten Thousand Seeds does, but I have no clue how to develop Sorceress Magic from it! I’ve also skimmed through Mo Lan’s copy of Mo Lan also read through Mo Lan also glanced through Mo Lan 《The Path of the Sorceress》, but I feel like it doesn’t quite apply to my Box of Ten Thousand Seeds.” Sylph looked somewhat melancholy.

“You’ve figured out what it does? Can you tell us about it?” Mo Lan asked. “Maybe we can help you brainstorm!”

Sylph sighed. “My Box of Ten Thousand Seeds can condense mutant plant seeds when infused with enough Mana.

These seeds are generally from plants I’ve encountered or grown in my daily life.

For example, the first one was the Screaming Wind Chime Flower—I’d raised a pot of those before I enrolled.

Later, giant-eared wheat and lantern tomatoes appeared too—all plants I’d personally cultivated.

These mutant plants can only be grown by me. Other people can’t cultivate them, and if I don’t nourish them with Mana for an extended period, they wither. I think it’s related to my exclusive Mana.

I tried signing a time-limited contract with Bi’er, similar to Sorceress Magic, giving her the ability to cultivate seeds from the Box of Ten Thousand Seeds.

It did work—she was able to cultivate the mutant plants in my place.

But then a new problem emerged. All plants grown from seeds originating from the Box of Ten Thousand Seeds—the seeds they produce in turn lose their mutant properties.

Screaming Wind Chime Flowers revert to ordinary Wind Chime Flowers, and giant-eared wheat becomes ordinary wheat.

Only seeds directly condensed by the Box of Ten Thousand Seeds are mutant plant seeds.

Given this situation, how am I supposed to develop Sorceress Magic? Does every single one of my Sorceress Magic contractors have to keep buying seeds from me?

And would a single seed really cost permanent Mana? No matter how precious it is, who would buy that?

If I sell them for one-time Mana, and too many people buy them, I’d have no way to store all that one-time Mana anyway…”

Sylph truly found every angle she considered to be a dead end.

This was also why her focus had been stuck on this problem all along. She had long since figured out the authority of her exclusive Mana, yet had never been able to develop her Sorceress Magic.

“Why wouldn’t it work?” Mo Lan said. “Your situation is actually even better suited for the gacha pool and card shop than anyone else’s!

I suggest you take the mutant plant seeds produced by your Box of Ten Thousand Seeds and categorize them by function and rarity.

Then for truly precious seeds with unique, irreplaceable uses, create a separate Sorceress Magic for each—learning that Magic would allow the contractor to cultivate only that one type of seed.

For seeds of moderate rarity that aren’t irreplaceable, group several together into one Sorceress Magic—learning the corresponding Magic would let them cultivate that entire group of seeds.

Then I’ll make specialized semi-finished cards, and all you need to do is condense the seeds into the cards. Your cards would become all sorts of mutant seed cards.

Contractors who’ve purchased your Magic can buy your seed cards in the card shop or draw them from the gacha pool.

This way, even if they’re far away from you, they can still obtain mutant plant seeds!

The revenue from card sales will all convert into Gem Coins stored in your management card, and there’s no storage limit on Gem Coins in the management card!

When you want to use them, you can buy Blank Energy Storage Cards, load the Gem Coins in as energy, and absorb them just like Magic Gold Coins.

Whether you want to cast Magic or research your Manifested Gift, it all works.”

Lady Carmela and Lady Amisha both treated Mo Lan’s system merely as an additional income channel—earning a bit of permanent Mana while mainly wanting to accumulate one-time Mana that could be stored and withdrawn at will.

But for Sylph, her seeds actually needed Mo Lan’s Card Magic as a distribution channel even more.

Mo Lan’s profit margin from this arrangement would also be larger.

Beyond the profit share from seed cards, Mo Lan could earn from Energy Storage Cards too!

And for Sylph, being able to store one-time Mana that she previously had no way to preserve, while gaining a new source of income—that was a good thing too.

So Mo Lan not only didn’t find Sylph’s gift difficult to work with, she actually thought it was practically a body born to be sold through distribution channels.

Sylph hadn’t expected that all her concerns would be resolved by Mo Lan in one fell swoop.

“It actually seems like it could work! So all I need to do is use the Box of Ten Thousand Seeds to condense more varieties of seeds, figure out their uses, and then develop the Magic for cultivating the mutant plants?”