Chapter 510 – Future Plans

Chapter 510 – Future Plans

After leaving the city, Zhizhi went to relieve Vasida and took over driving the magic carriage.

Lilith pulled out a map of the Mage Empire and spread it across the middle of the carriage, pointing to a country north of the Duchy of Lance.

“Officially, we came from the Kingdom of Elwiss, so for this trip to the Mage Empire, we should go through the Duchy of Green, right?”

Mo Lan nodded, tracing her finger along a trade road on the map. “We’ll take the southwestern main trade road directly to the Mage Empire Capital, Etheris.”

Etheris was not only the political, economic, and magical center of the Mage Empire — it was also the absolute geographic center.

From Etheris, three main trade roads extended to the northwest, southwest, and southeast, connecting the Mage Empire’s various vassal kingdoms and duchies.

The capital cities of each vassal kingdom and duchy were essentially built along the routes of these three main trade roads.

These three major trade roads had been carved out by mages dispatched by the Mage Empire. The roads were wide and level, and even the magical beasts in the surrounding mountains, forests, and wilderness had been cleared out.

They were the safest and most convenient roads in the entire empire.

Besides these three main trade roads, each vassal state also had secondary trade roads connecting various territorial towns or towns of other nations.

When they had previously come to Lance City, they had taken the secondary trade road from Green Forest Town to Lance City.

Now that they were heading to Etheris, taking the main trade road was naturally the most convenient option.

Lance City happened to be at the southernmost end of the southwestern main trade road.

Heading north, they would pass through Green City, the capital of the Duchy of Green; Horne City, the capital of the Duchy of Horne; and Oran City, the capital of the Kingdom of Oran.

“At the magic carriage’s speed, we have plenty of time to make it to the Imperial Magic Academy’s new year enrollment assembly. Along the way, we can also hold Advanced wild mage experience-sharing meetings in Green City, Horne City, and Oran City, and hand out some Dawn Society Invitations,” Mo Lan said.

“More experience-sharing meetings?!” Sylph still blushed whenever she thought about the one they’d held before. “Besides, if we hold meetings ahead of time and spread the word about the Dawn Society, will the contractors in Lance City still be able to find enough people to invite, pass the trials, or earn contribution points to rank up?”

“This time I’ll be sharing genuine, bona fide experience,” Mo Lan said. “As for the other contractors — if they can’t invite enough people in one place, they’ll just have to figure it out somewhere else!

If the Mage Empire doesn’t have enough spellcasters, isn’t the Yala Empire right next door?

If the Yala Empire’s spellcasters aren’t enough, there’s the Beastmen Court, the great sea monsters and Merfolk, the Dwarven Kingdom in the Durin Volcanic Cluster, the Elves of the Elven Woods, the Angels of Heaven’s Peak, the dragons of Dragon Isle, and even the Land of Chaos — there are always spellcasters to be found.

Even if every spellcaster on the surface has accepted an invitation, there’s still the Underground World, the dark races of the Underdark, and the Demons of the Abyss.

If Witches can travel across the entire Mainland, why can’t other spellcasters do the same?

By the time there truly aren’t any new spellcasters to be found in all of Valen, we’ll surely be powerful enough to walk sideways across the land. We won’t need the secrecy contract or the trial phase as cover anymore. We’ll just take the Dawn Society Trial Invitation off the shelf and list the Dawn Society Invitation directly — simple as that.”

“You’re basically forcing the contractors to go out and do our promotional work for us!” Lilith said.

What was originally their job — traveling across the entire continent to spread the word about magic — had now fallen on every person who had ever seen the Dawn Society Resource Catalog.

“Wait! If there won’t be trials in the future and people can join the Society directly through the Dawn Society Invitation, how will internal rank be upgraded?” Vasida asked. “Does that mean the moment someone joins, their rank goes straight to the highest level?”

“Of course not!” Mo Lan said without hesitation. “If rank upgrades were free, how do you think all those people who painstakingly earned contribution points to rank up would feel?

Naturally, besides inviting new members, we’ll add channels for earning contribution points through accumulated ultra-high spending rebates and exchanging permanent magical energy for contribution points!”

The reason she had sold the complete version of Card Magic to the Witches at the low price of 3 Mana wasn’t because she didn’t want to rake in Mana on a massive scale — it was because she didn’t want to harvest too much of the Witches’ magical power.

Permanent magical energy was always the most important thing to any spellcaster. Once lost, it could never be recovered.

Without surpassing Peak level and reaching the Well of the Sky, many spellcasters with insufficient talent would find their magical energy growth slowing down or even stagnating once they reached a certain stage.

That would mean they could never transcend the lifespan limits of their own race.

Witches were already few in number — naturally, it was best for each and every one of them to live long and prosperous lives.

After digesting Mo Lan’s future plans for the Dawn Society, Vasida felt as though all the strength had been drained from her body. She leaned back against the carriage wall.

“Right now, I genuinely feel like I could go straight back to the Witch’s Wilds and lie flat, just waiting for the human mages to spread magic across the entire continent for me.”

“I won’t lie — same here,” Sylph said.

“Isn’t that a good thing?” Mo Lan said. “If the human mages do their job well enough, we’ll be able to travel the continent in the future at our leisure, openly as Witches, truly with a carefree mindset — no more disguising ourselves as other races.”

Lilith, Vasida, and Sylph thought about that scenario and found themselves growing excited.

Indeed! Playing other races was novel, but it would get tiring over time.

Take right now, for instance — if they didn’t still need to disguise themselves as mages, why would they need to sit in this cramped, bumpy magic carriage? Vasida and Sylph had already added the “broom Transfiguration” function to their broomsticks, yet because of their current identities, they still couldn’t try the feeling of transforming their brooms into flying carpets.

Lilith was especially moved. She turned to Mo Lan and said:

“Listening to you and deconstructing Sorceress Magic, partnering with you to turn the magic contract documents and the materials needed for casting spells into cards and listing them in your Card Shop — that was absolutely the best decision I’ve ever made.

Now that I think about it, I’ve never been poor again since then. Whether it’s Mana or gold coins, it’s all the same.

After graduating and getting unlimited access to the Card Shop, I became rich overnight.

That time not long ago when we were selling magic scrolls at a stall in the Apprentice Square in Lance City was actually my most destitute moment — and even that was an act.”

Lilith thought back to what her life had been like before Mo Lan and the others had even enrolled at the Academy.

That feeling of having to budget her Mana every single day yet still not getting it right, accidentally overspending, and worrying about every aspect of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation — she hadn’t experienced that in a very long time.

She had at least gone through one year of hardship. Vasida and Sylph had practically never been poor from the very start.

“At this rate, by the time the Dawn Society becomes popular across the entire continent, our entire Witch race will be able to prosper.”

After all, Mo Lan had never established any rule against privately trading cards!