The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 361 The Strange Sky
Moran planned to stay here for a while while the materials were plentiful, so as to improve his alchemical magic skills.

But she didn't expect the rain to last so long.

It's been raining for a week straight and hasn't stopped yet.

Water has already reached the tent entrance.

The weather was a bit strange. Moran was engrossed in making magical items and didn't want to face the unknown dangers.

We're already considering whether to return to the rocky area, or even further into the jungle to set up camp.

Before leaving, I habitually used divination to check my fortune in this area, and the result showed that it was slightly auspicious.

The last time she drew a minor lucky charm, Moran got a precious magical pet named Zizi.

Once again, the divination yielded a minor positive result. Without hesitation, Moran decided to face the challenge head-on and remain in the heavy rain.

However, it's not safe to stay here now. If the rain keeps falling like this, it won't be long before this place is flooded.

She packed up the tent card, took Zizi on a broomstick, and set off again to a slightly higher spot nearby.

They also caught a lightning falcon in the rain and brought it back for questioning.

Although it was a magical beast, its intelligence was still not very high, and the telepathic spell only elicited some vague responses.

All I know is that this rain will probably last for a long time.

Moran then used the Tracing Technique to probe the Lightning Falcon's memories and learned that this grassland would rain like this every once in a while, until most of the grassland was flooded.

Then the water slowly dried up and disappeared, turning back into the grassland she had seen before, and then it rained again.

The specific reason is unknown.

This lightning falcon only remembers experiencing rain three times, but each time the rain lasted longer, flooded more areas, and was followed by longer intervals between rain showers.

After releasing the lightning falcon, Moran fell into deep thought: "This is so strange. There was so much rain that it could have flooded the entire grassland, so how could it turn back into a grassland? Shouldn't this place have been a giant lake long ago?"

At first, she thought it was a rare landform and climate like the Purple Night Grassland or the Green Grassland.

But no matter how hard she tried to recall, she couldn't find any region with such a strange climate.

The sky was not as dense with water elemental energy as it was on a grassy night.

It doesn't seem like rainwater brought about by the convergence of water elemental forces; it seems more like naturally occurring rainwater.

Moran couldn't find an answer right away, so he could only wait and see.

Anyway, the divination method has never been wrong. As long as you follow it, good things will definitely happen in the end.

Having thought this through, she stopped pondering it and went back to her study to craft magical items.

They waited until the puddles in the grassland outside turned into small islands in rivers and lakes, and the surface area and the underwater area were directly swapped.

She went from being unfamiliar with crafting intermediate-level magical items to becoming proficient, and even began to try drawing advanced magical rune combinations.

The rain outside finally stopped.

During this time, rainwater flooded the tent entrance several times, and Moran moved the tent several times before finally settling on its current location.

This used to be the largest hillside in the vicinity, but now it has become an isolated island in the middle of the lake.

Just a few steps from the tent door is water, so Zizi has nowhere to go to play.

After the rain stopped, Moran and Zizi came out of the tent.

She finally realized something was wrong.

The sunlight on this grassland seemed particularly intense, causing water vapor to evaporate exceptionally quickly. She stood outside the tent, squinting at the sky.

Zizi followed her and looked up, mirroring her movements down to the size of her squinting eyes, and even placing her hand over her eyes to shield her from the light while observing.

The sky was cloudless and a clear, deep blue.

But it was so dazzling that people dared not look directly at it, just as the entire sky, like the sun, emitted a light that was too bright to look at directly.

But the sun is just the sun. In this demiplane of the Witch Academy, there is only a magical sun made of sunstone and a magical moon made of moonstone.

It's impossible for the sky to be as bright as the sun as it is now.

Such a sky reminded Moran of a rare elemental creature—the Cloud Beast.

When the Cloud Beast's body is dry, it transforms into a transparent form that gathers and amplifies sunlight to accelerate the absorption of water vapor.

As it absorbs moisture, the Cloud Beast will slowly transform into the shape of a white cloud.

When the water vapor accumulates to a certain level, it will turn into dark clouds, and eventually turn all the water in it into rain.

The current situation is similar to that of the transparent cloud beast described in the book.

Looking back, when it first started raining, the sky was indeed an endless expanse of dark gray.

At the time, Moran thought it was just dark clouds.

Although the current situation matches the characteristics of the Cloud Beast very well, Moran is still not sure.

The main concern is, if it really is a cloud beast, given the coverage area of ​​that previous rain, how big must this cloud beast be!

That's outrageous! It's said that on the continent of Valen, even a cloud beast the size of a rooftop has become a rare species!
If what's in the sky is truly a cloud beast, then it would truly shock the entire Valencia.

But upon closer reflection, this place is isolated from the world, and apart from the little witch, no one else would come here.

It's possible that a cloud beast could have grown up peacefully and steadily here to reach its current state.

The essence of water element at the core of the Cloud Beast, though not as valuable as the essence of earth, is still a rare water-type treasure.

A single drop of the essence of water can turn a small desert back into an oasis.

Where there is the essence of water, it can continuously absorb the power of water element and gather water vapor.

With this, Moran can truly create a water source card that never runs dry.

It is fundamentally different from cards like the {Perpetual Kettle Card}, which require time or energy to refill.

It is a card that can truly and continuously generate water without any subsequent investment after the card is produced.

Moreover, the essence of water has other wonderful uses.

If used in the potion-making process, only a tiny bit needs to be added each time to elevate the overall potion's effectiveness.

Who could resist getting some?
Moran plans to observe for a while longer to see if the sky will gradually turn white.

If a large area turns white, it can be basically confirmed that it is a Cloud Beast.

After about a week, Moran noticed that the sky was not as blue as before.

There were still no clouds in the sky, but the sky seemed to be covered with a thin layer of white clouds.

No other white cloud is so uniform and has no visible edge.

It should be confirmed that it is undoubtedly a Cloud Beast.

Now that it's confirmed to be a Cloud Beast, the remaining task is to figure out how to obtain the water elemental essence from it.