The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 225 Metal Magic
From that day on, a trend of advanced learning and ending courses early swept through the witch academy.

Moran, on the other hand, maintained her previous study routine.

I freed up my time from Monday to Friday mornings to attend video lessons on alchemy theory.

Not content with finishing the 54 lessons for second grade, she also asked Ms. Amisa to copy the 54 alchemy theory lessons for third grade in advance.

As for the videos for elective language courses such as Imperial, Angelic, and Demonic languages, Moran listened to them during magic classes on Monday through Thursday afternoons, or while cooking and eating.

Moran wouldn't ask the questions he encountered in the video lessons in the corresponding classes. Instead, he would compile them up and ask Ms. Amisha for answers during the magic Q&A class on Friday afternoons.

Moran would only look at magic books or picture books on the weekend.

I haven't spent much more time reading books, but I'm making rapid progress with the video lessons.

Before the first month of the second academic year was even over, Moran had already watched all the teaching videos for the second-year theory courses.

He even watched the teaching videos for the alchemy theory course ahead of time, including those for third-year students.

There are no final exams for elective courses, and students are responsible for their own learning progress. However, even without exams, Moran is confident in her learning outcomes.

This way, the mornings from Monday to Friday are completely free, and with the weekend, all the time can be spent reading magic books and picture books.

Even with more free time, Moran remains very busy.

It wasn't that she didn't want to rest, but rather that she needed to learn as much magic as possible.

Some spells may have similar functions and can be substituted for each other in certain situations.

Building your own combat system and protecting yourself doesn't require learning and mastering all magic.

When you learn a lot of magic but never get to use it, the smartest thing to do, given your limited time and energy, is to make some trade-offs.

But Moran is different; every spell she learns elevates the card-making function of the Book of Cards to a new level.

The combination of magic and the Book of Cards creates an effect that is more than just the sum of its parts.

For example, after learning the Clear Spring spell and the Flame spell, she can not only create Spring Eye cards that produce clear spring water when energy is put in, and pollution-free fire seeds that produce flames when energy is put in, but also kettle cards that automatically boil water, and even boiling water magic cards that cause damage.

The higher the magic level of her Clear Spring and Flame spells, the lower the production cost and energy consumption of Spring Eye Cards, Kettle Cards, and Boiling Water Magic Cards.

Therefore, none of these magic spells can be abandoned.

Senior Lilith's way of developing her talent manifested was by injecting the blood of various magical races into the Bloodthirsty Needle, then analyzing and purifying it with magical power.

Vasita's ability to develop her innate abilities is to allow her Devouring Stomach to digest all sorts of things.

Sylph develops her innate abilities by cultivating various plants and then filling the Myriad Seeds Box with magic to condense corresponding mutated plant seeds.

Moran, on the other hand, develops her innate talent by constantly learning and improving the card-making ability of the Book of Cards.

Only when card-making skills improve can one use magic as a material to create all sorts of magical cards.

Magical knowledge and non-magical knowledge are both within Moran's scope of study.

As for non-magical knowledge, she has a vast amount of Earth's memories to support her; as for magical knowledge, she has to learn it step by step on her own.

With more time spent reading, Moran's reading speed also increased.

Moran finished reading the two beginner-level and five elementary-level books of the "Golden Witch Magic Book" in a short time. As for other books on metal magic, whether they were theoretical, magical, or applied, Moran was also reading them at a rate of one or even two books a day.

After going through all the books about metal magic in the second-year library, she had basically mastered the theoretical knowledge, learning strategies, and application methods of metal magic.

There will never again be the joke of mistakenly believing that the Golden Bird Technique's Golden Bird is just a ball of energy and trying to use it to practice magic.

With a solid foundation, it's time to try out the gold-based magic I saw in the picture book "The Witch's Magic Handbook".

Moran specifically set aside the entire Saturday to test those spells.

Currently, the witch clan possesses fewer than twenty types of metal-based magic in total.

Based on function, there are three types of attack techniques: Golden Arrow Technique, Golden Knife Technique, and Golden Hammer Technique.

It corresponds to three types of damage: piercing, slashing, and blunt.

There are two types of defensive techniques: Golden Shield and Golden Armor.

One focuses on immediate defense, while the other focuses on persistent defense.

All of the Gold Witches' main combat systems are built upon these five spells.

Although there are only five spells, each witch uses them differently, each with its own unique characteristics.

This stems from the flexibility of witchcraft.

Human mages use their mental power to inscribe spell models in their mental sea, leveraging elemental power to cast spells. The spell model acts as a lever, but it also limits the effectiveness of the magic. To change it, the spell model must be changed.

However, spell models are not easy to depict, and each one requires ample research and preparation. Therefore, mages have many types of magic, but their effects are extremely limited.

Witches' magic, on the contrary, is less varied but highly flexible.

Witches use their will and intellect to direct their magical power into corresponding elemental forces to cast spells.

Willpower and thought are much easier to change than spell models.

To achieve the same effect as a sorcerer's spell, a witch's spell would require many spell models, or many spells.

For example, with the Golden Arrow spell, if the witch has a good enough talent for metal magic and studies the spell well, the shape, size, color, number, and trajectory of the golden elemental arrows she condenses can be changed at will.

It could be as fine as a hair or as thick as a giant tree; it could be a single arrow or a rain of arrows; it could be shot in a straight line or change course at any moment, or even track automatically.

The bolder the idea, the bolder the arrow.

The most accurate description of this magic is not that it condenses a golden arrow, but rather that it condenses a sharp-pointed arrow-shaped golden elemental force with the ability to pierce armor.

The Golden Knife Technique is a knife-shaped application of golden elemental power. The Golden Hammer Technique, on the other hand, is not necessarily hammer-shaped, but rather a heavy and massive mass of golden elemental power.

If the mage's magic is changed, these changes will all require a new spell model to be implemented.

Of course, it is also very difficult for a witch to control the form of magic at will.

Leaving aside innate talents, there is still much to learn and develop.

For example, in the "Gold Witch's Magic Book," one of the suggestions for learning gold magic is that witches specializing in gold magic should read more and learn more about the substances composed of gold elemental power, as well as the tools made from these substances through secondary processing.

(End of this chapter)