The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 138 Magic is Mind (Bonus Chapter 5 for End-of-Month Ranking Push ~ Requesting Monthly Tickets, Subscriptions, and Follow-Up)
Moran's first potion-making class turned out to be her last.

The next day, when she went to the castle for her theory class in the morning, she brought a large lunchbox with her.

This lunchbox also comes with the {Mobile Kitchen Card}.

It contained the dishes she made that morning, including meat, vegetables, and fruit. She could just heat it up for lunch.

Unable to retract the lunchbox containing the food into the {Mobile Kitchen Card}, she used levitation magic to float all the way to the castle.

After finishing their theory classes in the morning, the other first-year witches went down the mountain to their dormitories to rest before going to the greenhouse for their classes.

Moran took the pass given to her by the dean and went straight to the college library.

The library is located in the very center of the castle, spanning six floors, with the top floor filled with rare, illustrated books.

From "The Witch's Potions Handbook" to "The Witch's Cooking Handbook," "The Potions Gathering and Planting Handbook," "The Witch's Alchemy Handbook," "The Witch's Sewing Handbook," "The Witch's Magic Handbook," "The Valen Biological Handbook," "The Valen Travel Handbook," and so on.

It contains knowledge about all aspects of a witch's life.

Each set of books contains anywhere from a few dozen to over a hundred volumes.

Moreover, each volume is not a standard copy that fits perfectly onto a single sheet of paper; it is much thicker than the standard copy, and there is no fixed copying method in the book.

The editors are all witches, including Tracy.

So much! And we can't just copy it all down. I doubt any little witch but her could finish reading it all during the school year.

Even if you watch it all, you can't possibly remember it all, let alone learn it.

No wonder these books ended up gathering dust here, failing to serve their intended purpose!

Moran found the "Witch's Potions Handbook" that Ms. Amissa had mentioned, took out the first volume, and sat down on a nearby sofa to read it.

Upon opening the book, the first thing you see is the basic potion recipe.

Insect-repelling potions, weed-repelling potions, and recovery potions were listed in the top three, and the text explanations were similar to what she had seen in "Common Magical Plants and Basic Potion Making".

Moran quickly skipped over the text explanation, and then came the pictures that Ms. Amisa had mentioned.

The image, about the size of a photograph, is in color and silent. It shows the process of making a weed-removing potion, from extracting the essence of magical plants to cooling and bottling the potion.

They used the same small brass crucible and long-handled spoon they used in class.

Moreover, it is shown from a first-person perspective, with the projector fixed to the forehead, and occasionally a few strands of silver hair can be seen fluttering from the edge of the projector.

Compared to watching Ms. Amisa's demonstration in class, the perspective from the pictures is actually clearer.

You can even clearly see what the extracted magical plant essence looks like.

After the picture ends, it will automatically start playing again.

It can't be fast-forwarded, paused, or rewound like a video.

However, this didn't have much of an impact on Moran; she remembered it after seeing it only once.

After memorizing it, she felt that she not only knew the steps to make the weed-removing potion, but also had a clearer understanding of the instructions for extracting the potion.

Unfortunately, I don't have any magic potions to try.

She started looking at the pictures one by one, just like watching a video, and memorized the text in the book along with the corresponding instructional pictures.

When I get hungry, I take out my lunchbox and eat. After I'm full, I continue watching.

She didn't leave the castle until the castle bells rang six times, at six o'clock in the evening, before reluctantly putting down her book and departing.

After descending the mountain, I couldn't go straight back to the dormitory. I hadn't yet inoculated the broom grass today, so I went to Greenhouse No. 1 to inoculate it. After that, I went to the Potions classroom. Lately, there have been Potions classes every day, and the fairies pick the magical plants they need and put them in the classroom.

Putting aside everything else, the ingredients for weed-removing potions, insect-removing potions, and recovery potions are all available here.

She watched the instructional videos for all three potions today, and Moran tried to brew them herself.

Just as expected, the refining process went very smoothly.

Because of her more perfect perspective, she knew more details about the refining process, making it even smoother than when she refined the recovery potion in class yesterday.

In the Dean's lounge, beneath the Academy Castle.

Amisha in black robes sat with Amisha No. 69, looking at the protective light screen that Amisha No. 69 had erected. On the screen was Moran, who was refining a magic potion.

Upon seeing this, she commented, "It seems that this learning method is really suitable for her."

"So you're not letting her attend classes anymore?" asked No. 69.

“No, that’s not it. Just reading books isn’t enough; you also need to practice! Some classes still need to be attended!” said Amisha in the black robe. “But I’ll have it much easier! She can be half a teaching assistant for me! Consider it a way for her to get used to things in advance!”

“Have you forgotten? Once Potions class is over, the first-years will only have Sewing class. Then, Number 102 and Number 103 will have an easy time, and you'll be teaching a new batch of freshmen again!” Number 69 said.

"..." Amisha in black robes: "Why do you have to bring up the sore spot? But I wonder if there will be another witch in the next one! The world consciousness has been very fond of us witches lately! So many witches have been born in a row."

"Hopefully!"

*
Moran returned to her dormitory and finished dinner at 11 p.m., leaving her with two more hours to read.

For books like magic, picture books are more efficient to read, so right now she wanted to find a miscellaneous book to read.

While flipping through the books in the Book of Witches that I had copied from the first-year library, I came across a book called "Unsolved Mysteries of Witches," which piqued my interest, so I opened it and started reading.

My eyes lingered on a line of text as I scanned the table of contents:

"Unsolved Mysteries of Witches, Part 12: Why Do Items Infected by Magic Have Different Temperaments?"

She glanced at the page number and turned to this chapter.

"A witch's long-term exposure to and use of an object may cause it to develop sentience, but before that, different objects have different temperaments, and similar objects tend to have similar temperaments. The reason for this remains inconclusive..."

Moran: "Dean No. 69, isn't this still unresolved? But when Dean No. 101 talked about the differences between the big hoe and the temperament of plants, he spoke as if it were the truth?"

And she actually believed it.

"You'll find out at the end of this book."

The dean's voice came from the air.

Moran quickly flipped to the end of the chapter: "Unsolved mysteries have no definitive conclusions; how to interpret them is the freedom of every witch."

"???"

"So it was all a story you made up, Dean? Are you even reliable at all?!"

Moran really thought that Big Hoe's bad temper was because he was too tired from doing physical labor!
“Freedom!” Amisha said.

"..." Moran said helplessly, "Then can I also say that the big hoe has a bad temper because it is inherently stubborn?"

“That’s your freedom! Anyway, no matter how you interpret it, that’s just how it is. There’s no reason why many things don’t exist. Magic is idealistic, and so is magical power,” Amisha said.

It's the last day of the month! Let's go!