The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 23 Restoring Magic
Seeing Moran resist the sourness and insist on eating, Sylph looked reluctant:

"Senior Lilith! Is it really that hard to speed up the recovery of magic power? Is there no other way besides breadfruit? I heard that human mages can recover magic power through meditation..."

Lilith shook her head: "Whether we are witches or sorceresses, our power comes from our bloodline."

Not only can they not meditate to increase their power like human mages, they also cannot recover through meditation.

Our strength only increases naturally as we grow and use it, and it can only recover naturally with the passage of time and the adjustment of the body.

To speed up this process, we can only rely on external forces.

Potions, magical items, and other magical items can all be used to achieve this.

However, this applies to magical power.

The magic level is too high; the recovery effect of low-level potions and magical items is not as good as our natural recovery!

Even for witches like us who haven't fully matured, we need at least a high-level healing potion to be effective.

As for me, my research focus isn't on potions for now; I haven't been able to make advanced recovery potions yet.

Moreover, I've tried trading high-level potions with older female students, and they're not as good as breadfruit!

Don't let its unappetizing taste fool you; breadfruit is incredibly effective at accelerating energy recovery. Other little witches can keep their magical power constantly replenished just by nibbling on it a couple of times a day.

"It seems I have no choice but to eat this breadfruit." Moran has learned her lesson and will be more careful when using magic in the future.

She felt that this magic was similar to blood, and she couldn't just empty the bottle.

“That’s how it is now, but things might change in the future.” Lilith looked at Vasita, her meaning clear in her eyes.

Based on the manifestation of her talent, her witch magic is most likely to have the effect of accelerating the recovery of magic power.

Vasida suddenly felt a greater weight on her shoulders.

Moran was fine, and Lilith and the others didn't stay long either.

After they left, Moran forced herself to finish the breadfruit.

My magic power hasn't recovered much; I'm so full I could burst.

I'm so full that I can't sleep, and I don't dare to summon the Book of Cards to look at it, so I just went to the yard to pull weeds to aid digestion.

It was already dark outside, but fortunately, with the streetlights and light coming from the dormitory, the situation in the courtyard was still visible.

After fiddling around in the yard for over an hour, Moran felt less full and immediately grabbed some breadfruit to eat.

She ate and worked, worked and ate, busy until dawn. Only after clearing all the weeds in the front yard did she go to bed.

She slept for a few hours, then got up again when the clock struck six in the morning.

I continued eating breadfruit for breakfast.

No matter how many times I eat it, every time I pick it up it feels like I'm heading to battle.

Moran gritted her teeth as she ate: "Is this breadfruit really completely unsuitable for cooking? Or... should I give it a try?"

Just try it!

She refused to believe that with so many years of culinary culture on Earth, they couldn't even concoct a breadfruit!

Moran recalled the methods for removing the sourness from highly acidic fruits from Blue Star Planet, hoping to use them as a reference.

"The most common way to eat sour fruits is to preserve them in sugar to make candied fruit, so that the sweetness can neutralize the sourness."

However, making candied fruit requires boiling, and Lilith said that breadfruit will burst open when heated.

I just don't know how it will turn out after frying. If it's fried too mushy, it won't be able to be made into candied fruit. It would be nice to make it into a fruit puree cake like jujube cake instead.

If all else fails, you can marinate them like plums with salt, sugar, or chili, and then marinate them with soy sauce. This doesn't require heating.

If that doesn't work, you can coat the breadfruit with syrup, just like you would make candied hawthorn skewers, and make candied breadfruit..."

Thanks to the wonderful Chinese cuisine, Moran was suddenly bursting with inspiration.

However, she didn't bring back many seasonings the day before yesterday. There was only a little sugar and salt, which wasn't enough, and she only had three or four breadfruits left.

So she stopped pulling the weeds in the backyard and simply picked up her basket and went outside.

"Moran, are you feeling better today?" Vasita asked when she saw her come out while she was tidying up the backyard.

“Much better!” Moran said.

Vasita saw her carrying a shopping basket: "Going to get groceries?"

“Yes!” Moran said.

"Wait, I'll go with you!"

Vasita's yard is almost done tidying up, but she hasn't been to the food distribution point yet.

I learned two dishes from Mo Lan the day before yesterday; she hasn't practiced them much herself yet.

As Moran passed by the farmland, he glanced inside and saw a familiar figure from behind: "Isn't that Sylph?"

Vasita tiptoed over for a peek: "It looks like it! What's she doing over there?"

"She's probably chatting with Bi'er!" Moran said.

"That green leaf fairy who especially loves listening to stories?" Vasita had heard about it from the other little witches as well.

“Hmm,” Moran said, “Sylph is different from other little witches. She probably genuinely loves fairies, so she doesn’t care that much about the contract…”

"So you're all the same, you just want a free gardener!"

The elusive presence of Bi'er startled Vasida.

"Nice to meet you, little witch! Welcome to the planting area. I'm Bi'er, the intern manager of Farm No. 8!"

"Hello? I'm Vasita." After realizing who it was, Vasita looked at this little fairy who was said to be different from others with some curiosity.

Bier also gave Vasita a few raspberries wrapped in leaves, and then returned to Sylph's side.

Sylph waved to them from afar in the farmland.

Moran and Vasita didn't bother Sylph and Bea any longer and continued on their way to the ingredient collection point.

"Does Bi'er really want to make a pact with the witch? Is she just lying to everyone for the sake of hearing a story?"

Vasita was puzzled: "If it is, then so be it. If it isn't, the witch's contract is already friendly enough to the fairy. Why be so careful?"
The witch's contract is friendly enough to the fairies; she will definitely treat them well.

“Perhaps she’s looking for a witch who doesn’t work out of a contract, who genuinely likes her, and who’s willing to tell her stories!” Moran said.

She couldn't think of any other reason besides that.

"Not for the purpose of a contract?" Vasita shook her head: "It might be possible outside the academy, but inside the academy... it's difficult!"

After all, people are having trouble even to have a proper meal these days. Who would want to go through all that trouble for a fairy who is destined to be just a passerby when they can't even eat properly themselves?
Vasita and Moran shared similar thoughts: fairies were skilled at tending to plants, but they weren't irreplaceable for witches, and otherwise, they weren't particularly adept at it.

Once their tracks are exposed, they won't even have the power to protect themselves; otherwise, the entire tribe wouldn't have sought the witch's protection.

Such a fairy did not possess the qualities that would make a witch go to great lengths to obtain her.

(End of this chapter)