The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

How come Chapter 133 is even worse?
Ais believed Moran's words.

For the next week, she practiced her cooking magic whenever she had a spare moment.

And Moran... Moran prepares herself three super lavish meals every day.

Each dish is served in small portions, but there is a wide variety of options.

Without wasting any resources, the training amount for cooking magic was slightly increased.

Her cooking magic level rose rapidly. Before a week was even over, her maximum magic output exceeded 2%, breaking through the apprentice level and reaching the beginner level.

With her total magic power of 1650 mana, she can manipulate 33 mana of magic power at a time to control the kitchen utensils and cook.

According to the textbook, this amount of magic output is enough to control the cooking utensils in half of the kitchen.

Many high-level gourmet witches only have a little over twice the magical output of this cooking spell.

Moran's rank itself isn't much different; she's already a high-level witch. The only difference is that her cooking magic level is much lower.

Controlling one kitchen utensil at a time is no longer a problem for her, and she has practiced quite a few dishes.

It's time to try controlling multiple kitchen utensils at once for cooking.

She started practicing by controlling the knife to cut vegetables while keeping the cutting board still.

Then practice tossing the wok while stir-frying; letting the dish float to the side of the wok while scooping the food with a spatula...

At this point, she couldn't concentrate on cooking while doing other things at the same time.

The level of concentration required to perform cooking magic has increased.

However, Moran is already very familiar with it. With more practice, he will become more familiar with it and his focus will gradually decrease.

Her original cooking magic already gave her enough focus to multitask, but she didn't rush the process in order to solidify her foundation.

Now it's just that controlling the cleaver while reading a book has become controlling the cleaver while cutting the board, so the increase in difficulty isn't significant.

Moran quickly mastered the technique, progressing to the point where she could control the cleaver and cutting board while reading a book.

Her cooking speed has increased, and she's more efficient at cooking. With more time, she can also clean and polish the kitchen utensils.

Ais practiced relentlessly for a week, and every day she could see the green in her progress bar slightly moving forward, with the number on the progress bar jumping up by 0.01%.

I have to say, it's really fulfilling. The more I practice, the more energetic I get, and I don't feel tired at all.

She used to enjoy the magic of cooking, the process of turning ingredients into delicious food, and the pleasure of eating it.

Now we need to add one more thing: the growth of the progress bar!

Sometimes when the progress bar doesn't move, she knows that her learning is not going well, she's not making progress, and she needs to adjust her approach.

However... even though she was just a little short of Moran, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't turn the progress bar red.

She couldn't resist and went to ask Moran about her progress again.

"What? You've reached the beginner level? How much magic power do you have?"

"Around 2.5%, but actually we don't need that much; our focus hasn't caught up yet," Moran said.

The difference between a high-level witch's 2% and a trainee witch's 2% is enormous.

Ais was stunned: "How come it's even further off now?"

She just reached 1.9%.

Thanks to this progress bar, she meticulously calculated her magic power output percentage, a process that took her over an hour. "Moran, you haven't been practicing cooking magic like crazy this week, have you?" Ais asked.

Moran held up her finger, making a little finger joint: "I've increased the practice time by just a little bit! It's just that I made a few more different dishes for each meal. Don't worry, there's no waste, and I reduced the amount of food."

"Is this a question of whether it's wasteful or not?" Ais's vision went black; she realized where the difference lay.

She had so much meat in her dorm room that it was almost overflowing. It was all the product of practicing cooking magic, and she had to ask Vasita to help her eat the excess every day so that it wouldn't go to waste.

Later, when she couldn't take carrying the food anymore, she simply practiced her cooking magic at the ingredient collection area, and Vasita went there to eat for her.

But all her practice was focused on a few of the same dishes, the ones she was best at, and she simply didn't have the time or energy to learn more.

Vasita was so tired of the food that she started using her phagocytic stomach to process the leftovers.

But what about Moran? She's cooked countless different dishes.

Yes, putting aside magic, just in terms of cooking skills, she's far inferior to Moran.

Moran wants to learn cooking magic; besides magic, she also wants to learn cooking.

With such a large gap, it's not surprising.

Ais suddenly felt that her hopes of surpassing Moran in cooking magic were slim.

"Keep it up! I feel like I've hit a plateau lately; the difficulty of manipulating multiple kitchen utensils at once is increasing exponentially," Moran said.

Ai Si: “…”

I wasn't comforted, thank you!

Her weakness wasn't in being unable to multitask, but rather that even though her magic level was close to beginner, her own rank was only apprentice. Her total magic power was low, and her output of 2% was just a small amount, not enough to control two kitchen utensils at once.

She silently walked to the other little witches and said earnestly, "I'm no match for you. Moran's cooking magic is unmatched among us. It's up to you all!"

The other little witches: "..."

Alba, who is skilled in light magic but whose Light spell is only at the apprentice level, and Cheryl, who is skilled in fire magic but whose Fire spell is only at the apprentice level, can we rely on them?

I heard that besides housework magic, Moran's only other magic skill, levitation, is still at the apprentice level!

“No, everyone starts from the same point in other magic. You specialize in what you’re good at. Aren’t you confident that you can surpass Moran, who has learned so many magics at the same time?” Ais asked.

“Who says we can’t? Just because we can’t surpass them this year doesn’t mean we can’t surpass them next year, and just because we can’t surpass them next year doesn’t mean we can’t surpass them in the future!” Cheryl said defiantly.

Her monthly exam scores are getting closer and closer to Moran's, so why can't they be the same in magic?
"Moran, are there any time limits for the gacha rewards?" Cheryl asked her.

"No! It's always valid," Moran said. "Even after we graduate and we're no longer together, the reward will still be given to you through witch magic!"

The little witches: "!!!"

They refused to believe it. They had all entered the school together. If they couldn't compare to Moran in overall strength, how could they be inferior to her in a single type of magic?
Vasita and Sylph: "ψ(*｀ー)ψ"

Moran is aiming for all-around development! They can't afford to be too bad!

Moran: "!!!"

Oh no, little witches, you need to get serious!
She needs to work even harder!

Other little witches have progress bars to motivate them to study, but she doesn't.

Her progress bar is the little witches chasing after her!
One of her motivations for relentlessly rolling was to prevent the little witches' progress bars from turning red.

(End of this chapter)