The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

In the Dean's lounge beneath the Academy Castle.

The guardian deans of the fifth-grade little witch were having a heated discussion around a monitoring screen.

"We can't let her dig any further! If she keeps digging like this, she'll eventually hit a demiplane's source stone!"

"Yes! If the Earth Source Stone is dug up, the academy's land will suffer a significant reduction in yield!"

"The Earth Source Stone of the Academy gave birth to the Earth Source Fish. Can it carry the Earth Source Stone and travel underground? It's not certain that it will be found!"

"The Earth Source Fish belongs to Lady Carmela. After she went to the Sky Well, the Earth Source Fish fell into a deep sleep. Moran's digging was heading in that direction!"

"But the academy set a rule from the beginning: whatever the little witch obtains during the survival trial can be taken away by them as long as it can be kept in the end. Stopping her now, isn't that a violation of the rule?"

"When the rules were set, we never expected that a little witch would actually keep going for the Earth Source Stone! And all she did was use a fortune-telling spell!"

"Does she know what the Earth Source Stone represents? If she does, that's good; if she doesn't..."

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Unable to reach a conclusion, the guardian deans had no choice but to summon the original entity.

"She probably already knows, but rather than letting her waste a lot of time and then have to give up, it's better to remind her now!"

After Amisha finished speaking, she opened the portal and went inside.

Moran, who was diligently digging a hole, almost sent a {Super Magic Card} flying when she saw the figure suddenly appear in front of her.

After recognizing who it was, she put the card away: "Oh, it's the Dean! What brings you here all of a sudden? Is there any result regarding the physics and chemistry books I submitted to the clan association a while ago?"

"The clan is still confirming the specific value of your books, but there's no problem adding them to the library. The reward will only be given after the value is confirmed."

I didn't come here for this... Hey! Stop digging!

As Amisa was speaking, she saw Moran use another Stone Shatter spell and quickly stopped her.

Moran: "It's alright, please continue. I'll keep digging, it won't affect your conversation. I've been digging so much lately that I can practice my alchemy at the same time. Hehe, I've gotten some fragments of spatial magic gems, I just need to use my peak-level alchemy to combine them into one piece."

Amisha helplessly grasped her hand: "That's why I came here. Stop digging. That thing underground already has an owner. You can't take it away even if you dig it up!"

"Takes someone?" Moran was stunned. "What is it?"

"The Earth's Source Stone, where the Guardian sleeps," Amisha said. "Shall we dig again?"

Moran shook his head repeatedly: "I'm not digging anymore, I'm not digging anymore!"

So, all this is what "great luck" means!

The divination of fortune and misfortune tricked her!
The Earth Source Stone that the Guardian slept in is indeed easy to obtain, and it's a tremendous treasure. If she gets it, combined with the Space Magic Gem, her Card Book might actually be able to create planting space-type cards.

It truly deserves to be called extremely auspicious, even more so than extremely auspicious.

If this were an unclaimed demiplane, she would definitely take the entire Earth Source Stone.

However, the Earth Source Stone beneath the Witch Academy is undoubtedly a crucial item for ensuring the health and prosperity of the academy's demiplane.

What does it matter if she takes it?
A treasure that cannot be taken away and requires time and effort to obtain is hardly auspicious; it's more like a minor misfortune.

"Thank you for coming all this way to remind me!" Moran quickly expressed her gratitude.

If the dean hadn't reminded her, and she had actually dug it up but couldn't take it, she would have wasted a lot of time, which would have been a huge loss. Now, she can only try to think positively and treat it as practice for breaking rocks.

At least they mined a lot of intermediate magic ores, and almost all the intermediate magic ore materials needed for card making were collected.

"You managed to find the traces of the Earth Source Stone and even dug this place; that's quite an achievement. Here, take this as a reward for giving up the Earth Source Stone."

Amisha tossed her a small bottle about the size of a thumb.

Before Moran could even refuse, Ms. Amisa teleported away.

Once she saw what was in the small bottle in her hand, she immediately gripped it tightly.

Refusing is absolutely out of the question!

This is the essence of the earth!

A stone from which the Earth Origin Fish was born can only yield a drop of Earth Origin Essence after hundreds of years of absorbing and exhaling the Earth Origin Qi.

Although it is not as precious as the Earth Source Stone, its effects are similar to those of the Earth Source Stone.

However, the Earth Origin Stone can ensure the continuous life and flourishing of plants in a half-plane.

The essence of the earth can only nourish a small patch of land, temporarily giving it the ability to nurture plants; it is entirely a consumable resource.

If you have enough Earth Essence, you can achieve a similar effect to Earth Stone.

This small bottle contains only about one percent of the total volume, enough to completely revitalize the soil in an area the size of the college dormitory's backyard!
Moran has a book of cards; the limited number and time-limited effects mean that for her, it's just a matter of getting a new card.

She misunderstood the divination method; it's very accurate in its predictions.

She dug in this direction, and it turned out to be very auspicious.

The great fortune refers to this essence of the earth!
At this point, she used the fortune-telling method again on the direction that had previously been predicted to be auspicious, and sure enough, it turned out to be nothing special.

To avoid any unforeseen complications, Moran used the Earth Essence, along with the small bottle containing it, as card-making material for the Book of Cards.

Then, she started designing all sorts of planting space-themed cards.

With the essence of the earth as the source of life for the land, and the power of space as the containment of the land, coupled with the natural light created by her previous life's knowledge of the optical world of Blue Star, and the atmospheric environment simulated by analyzing the composition of Valen's air.

Apart from plants like breadfruit trees that require a special law to grow, most ordinary plants and most magical plants should be able to grow, right?
Moran designed a {Space Farmland Card} that could grow ordinary crops, based on the largest space card that could be produced at present.

It's a space that's about 25 square meters in size and 3 meters high.

The design was indeed successful, but the estimated magic consumption was as high as hundreds of thousands of mana.

Furthermore, the card needs to be replenished with magic every so often in order to maintain its function.

Such a small space card for planting ordinary crops costs so much to make; it would be better to just make crop-type food cards!
Not to mention creating {Space Herb Garden Cards} that can grow magical plants. Magical plants require even more land energy, and the amount of Earth Essence needed to make the cards would be even greater, making the cost even higher.

Looking at it this way, it was a success, but it wasn't worth it at all.

From a cost perspective, it's a very unsuccessful card game.

Even Moran himself was reluctant to squander the card-making energy like this. (End of Chapter)