The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 132 An Imperfect Progress Bar (Bonus Chapter 3 for End-of-Month Ranking Push ~ Requesting Monthly Tickets, Subscriptions, and Follow-Up Reading)
"How is it? Do you like it? This way, after each magic practice, you can clearly see your progress. Watching the gray progress bar gradually turn green, won't you feel more accomplished and more motivated?" Moran asked.

Vasita and Sylph: "..."

It seems like they'd be more motivated, but why can't they seem happy at all?
They felt like they had been tricked without their knowledge, but they didn't understand why, since Moran hadn't lied to them.

"Unfortunately, this function is not perfect yet! It can't accurately observe what I haven't learned. If you see the progress bar turn red, it means I haven't learned it yet, and the progress bar can't reflect your learning progress," Moran said.

She originally planned to develop this function after she learned all the magic and reached the peak level.

However, it will probably be a long time from now.

Upon hearing what Sylph and Vasita had just said, she suddenly decided to make it for them to play with, hoping to inspire their enthusiasm and motivation to learn magic.

They're all witches, so they have to make use of their unlimited all-elemental magical talents.

Often, it's not that we don't have time, but that we've become complacent. We're far from the time to lie down and enjoy ourselves.

However, because her own magic skills are not yet fully developed, her progress bar is incomplete and has an upper limit.

This upper limit will increase as her magic improves, eliminating the need for a second, complete overhaul.

This feature is achieved through the Card Book's absolute control over all cards, including those that have already been sold.

This also serves as a reminder to Moran herself; from now on, she must work hard to prevent Vasita and Sylph from catching up with her in terms of magic level. The progress bar has turned red.

"If your magic learning progress surpasses yours, the progress bar will turn red; otherwise, it will display gray and green as normal?"

Vasita and Sylph looked at their cards again, and sure enough, they were all gray and green, without a trace of red!
What should I do? I have this urgent feeling that I want to see it turn red!

Even if not all of them turn red, it would be good if one or two of them did!
Their memories aren't as good as Moran's, but that doesn't mean they're all worse at magic than her!
We're all witches, but the difference is too big. It's so heartbreaking!
Moran's innate talent is not like that of Lady Tracy, the Book Witch, which is related to learning and knowledge!

Witches should focus on developing their innate talents? Who said that? Absolutely not!

However... it's better to share happiness than to enjoy it alone.

“Moran, I think this progress bar feature is great! You should just sell this feature to the little witches!” Vasita suggested.

“It’s not perfect yet. It becomes invalid once it exceeds my learning progress. Who would buy it?” Moran said. “If we give it to everyone, the cost would be too high.”

She wanted to sell them too, but could she actually sell them? Wait… “What do you think? If I set up a prize-winning competition for first graders, where whoever’s progress bar on their card turns red can come to me and draw a food card for free, and the imperfect progress bar function is sold at half price for a limited time, would people be willing to buy them?”

“Of course we’re willing!” Vasita and Sylph said without hesitation, “We’ll give you the magic power from the card we just upgraded, and we want to participate in this competition too!”

Hehe! Now that's great, none of them can escape!

This time, Vasita and Sylph were more proactive and enthusiastic than she was, the card seller. After meeting up with the other first-year witches, they took the initiative to help her promote the progress bar feature.

"Display the progress of magic learning?"

"If the magic improves a little, there will be more green?"

"If it turns red, does that mean it has surpassed Moran?"

"A prize-winning competition for first graders? Free card draw when the progress bar turns red?"

Moran nodded and took out the "Blue Star Food Card List" that she had given to the deans before:
"The card draw range is within this area, and they are all finished food cards, specifically finished food cards for the Dean."

After the progress bar turns red for the first time, if it's still red a week later, you can draw again. And right now, upgrading cards is only half price! The features will be gradually improved; once they're fully implemented, you'll be charged according to the level.

The headmaster forbade her from selling ready-made food cards to the little witches, but he didn't say she couldn't use them as rewards!

The rewards are only given to a few little witches, and they can only draw one card each time. This is not enough to affect the little witches' enthusiasm for learning cooking and cooking magic, as they rely entirely on her cards to fill their stomachs.

Now that things have come to this point, what are the little witches still hesitating about?

"One word: Buy!"

In their view, this competition was similar to taking a monthly exam and receiving magic coins as a reward, or even better.

If you don't do well on the monthly exam, there's a workbook penalty. But with this progress bar feature enabled, there are rewards for good performance and no penalties for poor performance!
These are pre-made food cards specially made for the dean! They've never seen any of the dishes depicted on them before!

The little witches, already conquered by the Blue Star gourmet seasoning packets, didn't hesitate at all.

And it's half price right now!

“(*￣︶￣)”

Moran was even happier. Normally, she would sell it for five times the cost, but now even at half price, it was still 2.5 times the cost, so she could still make a profit, and a considerable one at that.

It is ultimately a feature that requires continuous development, and although it relies more on the user's own knowledge, it is not cheap.

As contracts were written, she became the little witches' creditor again, even Sylph had to pay in installments.

All the little witches received a brand new, grayish-green character card.

The other little witches were fine, but Ais was quite frustrated: "What! I practice cooking magic every day and make delicious food every day, how come my progress is still not as good as Moran's?"

She thought she could draw some cards now!

"What percentage of magical power can you output with your cooking magic?" Moran asked.

This stumped Ais; how could she possibly calculate a percentage? "It probably consumes the equivalent of 1 mana of magic power each time!"

Moran: "..."

We already have the workbooks, so why haven't we started on math yet?

What is the total amount?

"60 Mana".

“That’s 1.6% to 1.7%,” Moran said. “I’m at 1.9% now, almost at the beginner level.”

This percentage is the ratio of the maximum magic power output per spell cast to the total magic power.

2% is the standard for the initial level of magic, but there are many other determining factors, such as the accuracy of commands, the concentration required when casting spells, and the degree of contamination of kitchen utensils. All aspects need to be considered.

If you improve these areas a bit more, that would be great. Look at your cooking magic progress bar; it's almost at 100%, and you'll surpass me soon!

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