Chapter 416 – Material Upload

Chapter 416 – Material Upload

To avoid another incident like the Wondrous Pig Hundred-Flavor Sausage, Celia thoroughly studied the gifted Management Card.

She then immediately designed all the exclusive magic, recipes, and knowledge she had obtained from other worlds into cards.

Mo Lan approved her submissions on the spot and let her list them for sale.

Celia still felt it wasn’t enough:

“Moira, can’t you loosen the permissions a bit and let the Management Card also design and create Material Cards? I’m temporarily out of Black-Backed Wonder Pigs, but I still have some other precious materials. Every time I use them up, trying to collect more is extremely difficult and time-consuming.

If I could just spend energy to create the corresponding Material Cards, that would be wonderful.”

“Opening up the creation permissions for Material Cards wouldn’t be a problem, but they can’t receive profit-sharing from sales like those exclusive magic, knowledge, and recipe cards can,” Mo Lan said.

She respected the witches’ intellectual property, which was why she shared profits, but she couldn’t extend that to naturally occurring magical materials.

“No profit-sharing is fine! Just having the permission would be great. If it doesn’t affect your interests, please, please open it up!” Celia pleaded.

“You’d be willing to hand over a material sample to the Management Card for card-making templates without any profit-sharing?” Mo Lan asked in surprise.

She had also considered having all witches, or even all Card Magic covenant holders, become contributors of material samples for her.

But she had never come up with a suitable compensation plan.

Paying just a material fee was too little, while profit-sharing was too much.

She hadn’t expected anyone to willingly provide materials for free.

“Of course I’m willing. This way I won’t have to search everywhere just to collect a small amount of materials I need.

I won’t have to worry about having only one portion of a precious material that’s gone once it’s used up!

Being able to make them into Material Cards is basically the same as having a stable material purchasing channel, isn’t it? I can’t think of a single reason to refuse.

I’d even be willing to pay a certain price to unlock this feature.

Compared to rare materials, disposable Mana is nothing at all — you’ll understand once you go to the Well of the Sky,” Celia said.

With Celia’s insight, Mo Lan finally understood.

Ordinary materials and rare materials were different. Ordinary materials were easy to obtain, while rare materials were difficult. Having a stable way to acquire rare materials was something many people would find invaluable.

Even so, Mo Lan didn’t make this feature paid or free to use.

At least not for witches — there was no need.

She buried herself in the settings for a moment, and soon, a new feature appeared on every witch’s Management Card:

【Material Upload: Upload a material not yet catalogued in the Book of Cards, and you may forever purchase Material Cards made from this material at cost price from the Card Shop. Material Cards made at cost price are bound to the user — for personal use only, non-transferable.】

(Note: This feature is exclusive to witches. Other races must pay to use this feature and may purchase uploaded Material Cards at cost price within a limited validity period.)

“!!!” Celia excitedly shook Mo Lan’s arm and couldn’t help but blow her a kiss. “You’re way too generous!”

“Not at all!” Mo Lan laughed bashfully. After all, once the materials were catalogued, all profits from the Material Cards produced would be hers!

Even if the witch who uploaded the material bought cards at cost, Mo Lan wouldn’t lose out.

Celia couldn’t see through the math, but Lilith had it figured out perfectly. Still, Mo Lan had the ability to earn this Mana, so it was well-deserved.

So she said nothing. Only when they were finally saying goodbye to Celia and preparing to leave did she strongly recommend a book, suggesting that Celia either copy it from their Grimoire on the spot or go to the Witch Council later to transcribe and study it carefully.

“《The Earth Business Compendium》?” Celia looked puzzled. “A book about business? But I barely do any trading!”

“You don’t need to be a merchant to read it! I guarantee you’ll benefit enormously and stop wasting money!” Lilith said.

She even wanted to write a letter to Madam Amisha, asking her to add this book to the required reading list for young witches.

“That impressive? I’ll take a look!” Celia said.

Only then did Lilith relax and bring out the flying carpet. The group climbed aboard, and under the watchful gazes of Celia and Uli, they flew northward.

The moment they left, Celia immediately had Uli return to the bottom of the lake and went back inside to begin secluded study.

Compared to the younger generation, she couldn’t appear too lax or lazy.

She rarely stayed home without moving for two or three whole days.

Three days later, Celia walked out of her house and patted Uli on the head. “Pack up all the fish pond bubbles — we’re making a trip back to the Witch Council!”

Uli, who had just been chewing on a few cans of fermented herring, looked confused. “Didn’t you say you were going into seclusion for at least a month?”

“…” Celia dodged the question. “It’s been too long since I’ve gone out. Four new young Sorceresses appeared in the clan and I didn’t even know. Let me go check the Witch Council first and see if there’s any news! You can’t just study behind closed doors all the time.”

Uli stretched its long neck and turned its head to glance at her.

“Ugh — you’ve been eating fermented herring again?” Celia pretended to be overwhelmed by the smell. “Hurry up and pack the fish pond bubbles. I’ll go inside to get ready, and then we’re heading out!”

Uli: “…”

The more scenery a travel turtle had seen, the smarter it became.

As a travel turtle that had visited many different worlds, it had long noticed that its restless owner still had two little clusters of wind elemental force in her nostrils! She wasn’t even breathing!

But then again, if its owner were truly the type who could hunker down at home for a whole month, she wouldn’t have become its owner in the first place.

A travel turtle and a witch who loved to roam — that was the perfect match.

Uli took a deep breath and drew all the fish pond bubbles to its side, stringing them together with water elemental chains into a long strand, coiling them round and round on top of its shell.

Finally, it surfaced carrying a massive pile of fish pond bubbles along with Celia’s Witch’s home.

Celia mounted her broomstick, scooped up the shrunken Uli, and flew toward Witch’s Town.

Meanwhile, Mo Lan, Lilith, Vasida, and Sylph had already arrived at the border between Emerald Creek Plains and Black Forest.

Directly ahead, upon the clouds, stood a massive boulder several times the height of a person. On it, written in Valen common script, were the words “The Witch’s Wilds” in large characters.

Below the large text were several lines of prominent red warning text: “Non-witches are forbidden from entering. Those who force entry do so at their own risk. Friends who have signed a Wilds Covenant are exempt.”

There was even a template of the Wilds Covenant carved in the corner, along with smaller text explaining how to enter the covenant.

“So this is the Wilds boundary marker?”

Everyone was now riding Mo Lan’s flying carpet. She steered it forward.