Chapter 172 – Advice for Vasida

“Hot dry noodles, river snail rice noodles, anything like that would be great! I’m so sick of those seasoning pack cards!”

Iris said, “Moira, can’t you really increase the drop rate for Food Cards a little?”

Low-grade young witches were prohibited from purchasing prepared Food Cards from the card shop, and she had absolutely no resistance against those fresh delicacies—so all she could do was keep grinding the card pool.

Unfortunately, that card pool had only briefly shown her love once or twice.

Mo Lan felt quite sympathetic, but there was absolutely no way to change the drop rates.

“At the next incoming class’s enrollment ceremony, I’ll release new seasoning pack cards, including the hot dry noodle and river snail rice noodle seasoning packs you mentioned. Stop pulling cards and save up your Gem Coins—wait until then to buy the seasoning pack cards!

Oh, and by then we won’t be able to collect plant-based ingredients from the Ingredient Collection Station anymore, so you should prepare some noodles and rice vermicelli in advance. The new seasoning pack cards are all for noodle-type dishes.”

“Really? Then I’ll plant more sweet potatoes, potatoes, and wheat!” The dark cloud of Iris’s card-pulling misfortune vanished in an instant. Being able to buy some new-flavored seasoning pack cards and processing food herself was far more reliable than pulling cards!

After Mo Lan had soothed Iris, she also took out her Witch Farming Tool Card and directed the farming tools to harvest rice.

She was already very familiar with the farming tools now. She didn’t need to watch them work with full concentration, and could still chat idly with Vasida.

As for Iris, her planting magic hadn’t yet reached the level of proficiency where she could use it while distracted, so she focused on growing ingredients for the new seasoning pack cards.

If the cards arrived and she couldn’t enjoy them because she had no noodles or vermicelli, that would be terrible.

Mo Lan took out a card and materialized two small stools—one for herself and one for Vasida—each sitting facing their own field.

“Moira, during this time I’ve been feeding my Devouring Stomach all sorts of cards with different values.

But no matter how much I research it, my stomach seems to only have the function of digesting items and converting them into Mana.

The higher the energy of the item, the stronger the feeling of fullness, the slower the digestion, and the more Mana it converts. The energy fed back to me that enhances my strength and physical constitution is also greater.

If it’s a living thing, it actually consumes energy from the stomach in reverse to digest it.

The stomach has also been gradually growing through constant digestion, its capacity getting larger and larger. On the bright side, with greater capacity, it’s not as easy to faint from hunger anymore.

With such a singular ability, even if I turn it into Sorceress Magic, it would only be one single type, right? Wouldn’t it be impossible to make various cards and develop a card pool?”

These questions had been troubling her for days. No matter how she tried, she hadn’t been able to discover any other functions of the Devouring Stomach.

Sylph and senior Lilith had already figured out their Sorceress Magic and cards. Only she still had no leads.

“Who says you can’t develop a card pool?” Mo Lan said.

“Vasida, the authority ability of your exclusive Mana is very powerful and rare.

Spellcasters generally have much weaker physical constitutions than those gifted with strength.

We Sorceresses and witches aren’t any different from ordinary humans when it comes to physical fitness.

For spellcasters, being able to use surplus disposable energy to shore up their weaknesses is absolutely a worthwhile trade.

What’s more, it can also restore Mana at low cost. Though the restoration speed isn’t as fast as magic coins, it’s much more cost-effective than recovery potions and similar elixirs.

Your exclusive Mana, whether made into magic or cards, will absolutely never lack for sales.

The only question now is how to split it up and sell it for more Mana.”

Vasida nodded repeatedly. She knew all of this, but how exactly should she split it?

“Your exclusive Mana actually has two core functions: one is digesting energy to replenish energy loss, and the other is using digested energy to enhance physical constitution. Just subdivide along those two functions.” Mo Lan said.

“That won’t work,” Vasida said. “Only when my own energy is in surplus will the energy digested by the Devouring Stomach feed back into my body and enhance my constitution. So these two functions are linked together—first it replenishes energy loss, and only after that’s complete does it enhance physical constitution.”

“Why wouldn’t it work?

One recovery magic that purely replenishes energy loss through eating. One dietary enhancement magic that improves physical constitution through eating when energy is already full. And one devouring magic for processing items.

One type of magic, each distinguished by a different color or style of stomach—it should be doable.

Although our exclusive Mana types are different, the power level of authority is the same.

This is your authority. However you want to divide it, as long as it doesn’t exceed its capabilities, there’s no problem.”

Mo Lan said, “If you don’t believe me, you can test it. For example, eat something small, but control the stomach so that this meal doesn’t replenish any energy loss.”

Vasida was stunned. “I haven’t tried that before!”

She had nothing to eat on hand, so she looked left and right, then directly yanked up a handful of grass and stuffed it into the stomach.

Her hands were so fast that Mo Lan didn’t even have time to stop her.

This devouring magic—she really had made the right call in how to split it. Vasida was already feeding the stomach random things on her own, so she certainly wouldn’t mind the stomach eating whatever strange things came its way.

“It really works!” Vasida said after sensing the changes in the stomach. “The digested energy was swallowed entirely by the stomach itself! It didn’t replenish a single bit of my Mana!”

“See? It can be done,” Mo Lan said. “But by the same logic, if you only sell Sorceress Magic for these three split abilities, it would be a bit of a loss—you’d only earn permanent Mana.

For you, earning disposable Mana should be more important than earning permanent Mana, because you need to consume more energy-rich things. Converting disposable Mana into Gem Coins to purchase Energy Storage Cards should have roughly the same effect for you as devouring magic coins.

In the future after graduation, without Breadfruit and with food not being as plentiful, you could sustain yourself remotely through the disposable Mana you earn…”

Vasida nodded again. “That’s right! That’s what I was thinking too. But what kinds of cards can these three abilities be made into? How should I sell them well?”

“If you turn these three abilities into Sorceress Magic, it will affect the sales of the corresponding cards to some extent.

So my suggestion is to sell the three abilities separately.

Make the energy recovery ability into Sorceress Magic to sell for permanent Mana.

Divide it into tiers based on maximum recovery amount. How many Mana per tier is up to you—the more tiers, the more you earn.

Contractors who buy this magic will find Mana recovery easier, and they’ll also be able to earn more disposable Mana to convert into Gem Coins for purchasing your other cards.

Selling this ability as Sorceress Magic not only earns permanent Mana but also drives disposable Mana revenue from your other products.” Mo Lan said.

Vasida nodded yet again. “What about the dietary enhancement ability? And the item-devouring ability? Why separate them? Actually, it’s not just dietary enhancement—eating other things can enhance you too!”