Chapter 65 – Mobile Kitchen

Seeing the young witches discussing so enthusiastically, Mo Lan couldn’t help but say:

“If I could make a card that records Lady Amisha’s voice during lectures, would you want one?”

A recording card could be made using knowledge from Earth alone—it would be easy for her.

The young witches shook their heads in alarm. “No no no! We don’t need that!”

They had no desire for every future class to end like today’s, with a summary assignment of twenty-odd questions waiting for them after the bell.

Better to ask fewer questions, let the Headmistress speak more slowly, and focus on taking notes during class.

“Alright then!” Mo Lan didn’t push the matter.

If no young witches wanted one, there was no need to make it.

As they approached the Culinary Magic classroom, the young witches fell silent in unison.

Lady Amisha had arrived before them.

The class bell rang just as they entered the room.

“The rest of you, continue working on black bread!”

“Moira, Iris—I want you to start by attuning every utensil on the workstation that you can pick up.”

“That way you’ll have much better control over them,” Amisha said.

Mo Lan didn’t rush to begin. Instead, she asked first: “Headmistress! In the future, whenever we switch to new tools, do we always have to attune them first?”

“That’s right,” Amisha said. “Culinary Magic can only be used with full control in a kitchen you’re familiar with.”

“I understand!” Mo Lan said.

Just like a wand—the longer you attuned something you used regularly, the more naturally it responded.

She had no intention of having to re-attune an entire set of kitchen tools every time she changed locations before she could cook with Culinary Magic.

Nor did she want to lug around a mountain of pots and pans wherever she went.

So she summoned the Book of Cards.

After a flurry of operations, a new card appeared in the slot.

{Mobile Kitchen Card}

【Function: Can materialize a complete set of kitchen equipment. Includes workstation, storage cabinet, arcane stove, arcane oven, pots, knives, tableware, and more. All items possess enhanced durability. Individual items can be taken out separately or in groups, and returned to the card after use. All items stored in the card retain their state from last use. The user may freely change the color and pattern design of all items within the card.】

On the card’s face was a bright, immaculate open kitchen.

The cost of creating this card was far higher than Mo Lan had expected—it consumed a full 100 Mana.

Beyond the arcane stove, the arcane oven, and the function that preserved items’ states when stored, the biggest Mana drain was actually the card’s storage function itself.

The Mobile Kitchen Card contained so many different things that laying them all out would take up considerable space.

But she had been depositing her surplus Mana into the Book of Cards every day, and the Mana earned from selling cards was stored in there too.

By now, she had accumulated several thousand Mana.

A hundred Mana was nothing to her.

It was well worth it to have a familiar set of kitchen tools she could use indefinitely.

Mo Lan took out the {Mobile Kitchen Card} and approached Lady Amisha.

“Headmistress, could you remove my workstation? I’d like to use my own kitchen equipment.”

Amisha saw the function information on her card and waved her hand, moving the workstation from Mo Lan’s station away.

The young witches of this class were truly blessed!

Mo Lan tapped the card, and the entire kitchen materialized where her workstation had been.

The cabinets and tableware all bore pale purple and gold arabesque scrollwork patterns for easy identification.

The massive structure appearing out of nowhere startled the other young witches. But once they learned it had been conjured from a card, only one thought remained: “I want one!”

This kitchen was several times more luxurious than what they currently used—and several times better than the dormitory kitchens too!

Iris immediately understood the convenience of a card-based kitchen and sidled over to ask: “Moira, are you selling these?”

“Yes! It’s just that the creation cost is rather high, so the price will be a bit steep—500 Mana in lump-sum magical power,” Mo Lan said.

She wasn’t short on energy for making cards. In a few days, once the installment payments from the young witches all came through, the Book of Cards would have enough energy to produce nearly seventy {Mobile Kitchen Cards}.

Her own daily Mana consumption was low these days, and she could still save three to four hundred Mana each day!

But 500 Mana was genuinely expensive for the young witches. Even as lump-sum Mana paid in installments that wouldn’t interfere with their daily studies, it would take months to pay off.

Iris did the math. Five hundred Mana—paying back 6 Mana per day, principal and interest combined, would take a hundred days to clear.

At 2 Mana per day, it would take a thousand days.

Far too long.

She still hadn’t finished paying off the Mana she owed for the {Status Card}. Every day at midnight, 2 Mana would vanish.

“If you think that’s too expensive, there’s also the {Portable Utensil Card} option. It includes all the utensils from the Mobile Kitchen Card, and it only costs 100 Mana in lump-sum magical power.”

Mo Lan offered another choice.

This was an alternative design she had experimented with while designing the kitchen card—a stripped-down version.

In truth, it would be sufficient for the young witches to practice Culinary Magic.

“No!” Iris shook her head. “I’m buying the {Mobile Kitchen Card}! Six Mana in lump-sum magical power per day, installments over a hundred days.”

She was someone dedicated to becoming a Culinary Witch. If she had a durable, portable kitchen from the very start of learning Culinary Magic, it would be tremendously helpful for her progress.

Without Mo Lan’s cards, she would face the predicament of frequently changing kitchens, until she could save up enough money like her mother to buy a spatial item and carry her own utensils wherever she went.

Ordinary shrinking magic couldn’t shrink magical items—magical stoves, magical ovens, and the like simply couldn’t be carried with shrinking spells.

Better to solve the problem from the start. Where she shouldn’t cut corners, she wouldn’t.

“You’re sure?” Mo Lan asked again.

“Yes!” Iris said decisively.

Mo Lan wrote up the contract and handed it to her.

The contract was formed, and the card was created.

Iris also asked Lady Amisha to remove her original workstation, then materialized her own mobile kitchen.

Every item bore a candy pattern—and upon closer inspection, it was her signature meat candy.

Two luxurious kitchens now stood at the front of the classroom, drawing envious looks from the young witches.

But they were still locked in battle with black bread and hadn’t yet earned the right to study Culinary Magic, so there was no need to prepare kitchen cards just yet.

Mo Lan and Iris focused on attuning every item in their mobile kitchens—not just the utensils.

They shared an understanding: this kitchen card would accompany them for a long time. It wasn’t merely a temporary study tool. The more thoroughly they attuned everything now, the easier Culinary Magic would be in the future.

The refined, high-quality utensils were inherently more difficult to attune than the original wooden ones.

By the time class ended, their progress was only middling.

But even Lady Amisha hadn’t urged them to hurry.