The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 219 Summoning Magic

Moran was incredibly relieved that he had mistaken the golden bird for a ball of magical energy and hadn't used the curse on it.

Otherwise, I'll be blacklisted by the Golden Bird Clan!

Meanwhile, a question that I thought I knew the answer to has a new answer:

"So the progress bar for the Messenger spell isn't moving no matter how much I practice it. It's not because I haven't sent any messages or the spell isn't complete, but because the Golden Bird isn't magic and can't be leveled up?"

“Of course, Messenger Spell is a summoning spell that involves summoned creatures. The strength of a summoning spell depends on the summoned creature itself and cannot be upgraded,” Amisha said.

In the magic class the other day, seeing that she liked to summon the golden bird, Amisha thought she liked to play with the golden bird!

After all, many summoning witches like to cultivate a bond with their summoned creatures so that when they cast summoning spells to get the creatures' help, the creatures will charge less magic power, offering a slight discount.

Unexpectedly, she wanted to practice her messenger skills more to level up.

It's obvious that they don't know much about summoning magic. Magic picture books mostly focus on spellcasting, with very little theoretical knowledge.

Other little witches follow the established path, learning basic theories first before venturing into magic.

Only Moran could understand picture books at a glance, but she lacked theoretical knowledge. Amisha reminded her:
"First, finish reading the entire 'Apprentice Witch's Magic Book,' then find the basic theory books for each school of magic to read. After you've finished those, try casting spells to level up."

Don't you dare try to practice magic on the Golden Bird Messenger again!

Moran nodded emphatically in agreement.

This week's classes were too packed, and she had to preview the lessons every day, so she didn't have time to finish reading "The Apprentice Witch's Magic Book".

Today is Friday, and the weekend is just around the corner.

She doesn't have to attend the only required theoretical class this week, Basic Mathematics, and she doesn't have to do any homework either.

This is a good opportunity to use the time to brush up on theoretical knowledge.

She doesn't plan to continue the Q&A session right now.

"Dean, I've finished asking my questions, I'll be leaving now!"

Back in her dorm, Moran grabbed some bread and fruit cakes from the cupboard to tide her over, then opened the Book of Witches.

The textbook for the introductory course on all magic systems, "The Apprentice Witch's Magic Book," was originally intended to guide young witches in understanding various schools of magic and to provide them with guidance for their future in-depth study of the corresponding schools of magic.

Aside from the eighteen magic spells used as examples, the book primarily offers theoretical knowledge and methodological guidance.

She squeezed in time to watch it this week, and just finished the part about dark magic.

Originally, we were supposed to watch the healing magic section today in order.

After the healing-type chapters, there are blessing-type and curse-type chapters, followed by summoning-type, spatial-type, mental-type, and necromancy-type chapters.

After what happened in the magic Q&A class, Moran decided to first look at the chapters on summoning to satisfy his curiosity.

When she learned this messenger technique, she didn't even use the Golden Pen technique, nor did she sign any contract with the Golden Bird. The Golden Bird would come out as soon as it called.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have thought that the golden bird didn't look like a living creature, but rather a ball of slightly agile magical energy.

I have no idea what the underlying principles of summoning magic are.

She had initially thought that, like other magic, she had summoned the golden bird so easily because her spellcasting instructions were clear enough.

Now it seems that's not the case.

After burying herself in reading the entire chapter on summoning magic, Moran suddenly realized that the principles of summoning magic were completely different from those of the various branches of elemental magic she had previously learned.

Elemental magic transforms magical power into corresponding elemental forces, then controls them to take various forms to achieve different magical effects.

Each magical effect is a type of elemental magic.

Summoning magic is different.

Its essence is to transform magic into a power of summoning and contracting, thereby contracting with creatures.

The creatures bound by the contract are the summoned creatures.

This contract is different from the contract authority of the witch Carmela; it belongs to the witch's contract magic, originating from the power of summoning and contracts.

Each summoned creature requires the witch to find a contract, and each summoning contract is a summoning spell.

Previously, in the picture book "The Witch's Magical Encyclopedia," Moran only saw three spells related to the summoning system: Messenger, Familiar Summoning, and Ally Summoning.

She wasn't too surprised at the time, since the number of prophetic spells was also small.

Now she understood that the fundamental magic of the summoning system actually only consists of two things—summoning summoned creatures and summoning summoned allies.

This corresponds to two different summoning and contract methods.

The summoned creatures of the summoned creatures are magical pets. They will not leave after the summoning ends, but will follow the witch. When the witch grows, the magical pets can also benefit from her growth and grow together. Driving magical pets does not require additional magical power or magical energy to be converted into energy that is beneficial to the magical pets through summoning magic.

The life of a magical pet is closely tied to its witch master; if the witch dies, the magical pet will also die.

The summoned creatures summoned by allies are allies. They will leave once the summoning ends, and you need to use magic power or mana as a reward to control them.

The witch and her allies have only a transactional relationship; once the transaction is over, she has no further responsibility to the other party.

These two spells can be upgraded by continuously finding summon contracts, but once a corresponding summon is obtained, the strength of the derived summon spell is determined solely by the summon, and the witch can no longer train and upgrade it on her own.

Messenger is a summoning magic derived from ally summoning.

The reason why witches don't need to find the Golden Bird Contract themselves is because the Golden Bird race is very special; they are both a whole and countless small individuals.

It was through the summoning of the witch elders, who combined bloodlines with allies to form an alliance pact with the Golden Bird Clan, that the Messenger Spell was created—an ally summoning magic that naturally possesses summonable creatures.

The Golden Bird was an ally, and their relationship was based on a transaction, which explains why it was angered and refused to respond to the messenger's spell.

If it were a magical pet, even if a witch were to use it to practice magic, the pet wouldn't be able to refuse the witch's orders.

Of course, no witch would do such a thing.

This chapter emphasizes that, regardless of whether one intends to pursue the path of summoning magic, one must be friendly and trustworthy to allies and magical pets.

This makes it easier for witches to travel outside and search for summoned creatures.

Finally, an interesting little story was included.

It is said that if a witch and a human both want to capture a high-level magical beast as a summon, the witch only needs to prove that she is a witch to win against the human.

This stems from the Summoning Witch's reputation for treating allies and summoned creatures.

Some magical beasts, eager to find a master who provides them with food and lodging, will even come to the wilderness specifically to search for the witch's footprints.

(End of this chapter)