The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 38 Character Cards - Apprentice (Please subscribe! Please vote!)
The card is entirely black with a purple-gold border.

The back of the card features a purple-haired witch with her eyes closed, a large gilded book floating in front of her, and several cards floating on top of the book.

It uses a rather ornate comic book style.

The upper half of the front of the card is a square frame containing a realistic oil painting style illustration of the Book of Cards.

Below the box is the card information.

The entire card, except for the pattern within the square on the front, uses a deep purple brushstroke with gold powder on all other parts, including the patterns, text, and the image of the purple-haired witch.

Exquisite and gorgeous, it's clearly not an ordinary item.

Moran excitedly waved the card at the air: "Dean! I did it!"

This time, Ms. Amisa did not respond to her.

Moran didn't take it to heart.

She still has plenty of magic power, so she can try making other cards.

Now that she has the {Book of Cards}, she doesn't have to rush to infuse magic. She can design the card effects first, see how much magic is needed, and then decide whether to make them, which is much safer than before.

She hasn't completely given up on the card-making inspiration that previously guided her to improve her abilities.

The suggestion for "Current Difficulty 1" reminded her when she was making the previous card.

Reducing the expected functions of cards or setting a limit on card functions can save energy consumption.

She hadn't set a limit on the functionality before.

It's easy to verify this; she created a new card design.

It only takes 1 Mana to test the energy consumption.

[Card Design: Untitled Card 2]

—【Estimated Consumption: Infinite Mana Magic】

—【Expected Appearance: Appearance Template 1】

—【Expected Function: Guiding the Improvement of One's Own Capabilities】

Just as she expected, if there is no limit to the function, there is also no limit to the energy consumed.

No wonder Lady Tracy's witch book magic and Carmela's golden pen magic are both divided into levels.

It's probably also to limit consumption!

Moran has reworked the function of this card.

[Card Design: Untitled Card 2]

—【Estimated consumption: 10 Mana】

—【Expected Appearance: Appearance Template 1】

—【Expected Functionality: After binding, it can display the user's name, race, strength rank, magic power, spell name, and spell level. It can monitor the status of trainee-level users at its highest level. Subsequent energy consumption can increase the card monitoring limit, up to a maximum of peak level.】

Moran was relieved when she saw the consumption figures.

It's because there's no upper limit set.

Now I can start making it without any worries.

Soon, a new card appeared in the card slot.

{Character Card - Apprentice Level - Unbound}
[Once bound, it cannot be unbound. Bind now?]

A text box appeared on the card.

Moran chose yes.

[The card's strength exceeds its usage limit, making it unbindable. You can infuse the card with 100 Mana to upgrade its usage limit to the basic level.]

Moran could afford 100 mana, so she infused the card with 100 mana of magic.

{Character Cards - Beginner}
[The card's strength exceeds its usage limit, making it unbindable. You can infuse the card with 500 Mana to upgrade its usage limit to intermediate.]

Five hundred manas. Moran gritted her teeth and paid!
{Character Card - Intermediate - Moran}()
Her image appeared on the card.

Below is her information: [Name: Moran]

Race: Witch/Sorceress

[Level: Intermediate]

[Magic Power: 195/989 Mana]

[Magic: Golden Pen (Apprentice), Witch's Book (Apprentice)]

"It's done!" Moran was visibly delighted.

The fact that her magical power is displayed in real time is already very useful.

This is much more accurate than observing the brightness of the energy halo.

Moran remembered that during the previous talent test, she was given 998 Mana Magic Power.

By signing the Witch Contracts for Golden Pen Technique (Apprentice) and Witch's Book (Apprentice), and paying 10 Mana for the maximum magic power, the remaining maximum magic power should be 988.

The card currently shows a maximum magic power of 989, so there's only one possibility: her maximum magic power has increased by 1 point in the last few days.

The section on magic does not include magical contamination, which is only considered a technique for using magic.

The Golden Pen Technique and the Witch's Book were prominently listed, with their magic levels also displayed.

However... if the magic level can be displayed, can the magic learning progress also be displayed?

If every spell had a progress bar, wouldn't learning it be incredibly motivating?
Those skill proficiency panels and cheat codes from the novels of my past life were practically essential for hardcore gamers and bookworms.

Could she mold the {character card} into that kind of existence?
Moran acted immediately, using the {Book of Cards} card to redesign the function of the character cards.

The expected features include an added "ability progress" display, which increases the card production cost of {Character Card - Apprentice} from 10 Mana to 50 Mana.

Moran tried to create new character cards in the card slot.

However, it was discovered that even after sufficient magic power was added, the expected functionality was still only 50% complete.

A problem has arisen.

[Current Challenge: Unclear distinction between magical progress levels. It is recommended to supplement relevant knowledge and clarify the distinction between the progress levels of all spells at the Apprentice level.]

This is similar to the issue of magic power grading.

The problem is that she herself doesn't understand the differences in the learning progress of various spells within the apprentice level.

Unbeknownst to her, the cards created based on her will could not quantify the progress of her magic practice!
This problem is not as easy to solve as the problem of magical power.

As far as Moran knew, apprentice, beginner, intermediate, and advanced were the only distinctions between magic levels.

Further refinement lacks mature theoretical support.

In this way, if she wants the {character card} to display her magic learning progress, she will have to learn various spells herself and experience a more detailed classification system.

Moran hasn't formally learned a single spell yet, so there's still a long way to go before he can reach that level; it's not something that can be done in a short time.

She quietly saved this design in her card-making history, and she could probably give it a try when she broke through to the beginner level in all magic types.

The card that had not yet fully coalesced in the slot dissipated, and soft white light flowed into the purple gem above the slot.

The stored energy field on the card {Book of Cards} has also changed; it's no longer zero.

[Stored Energy: 50 Mana Magic]

Moran then realized that the gem could store the energy needed to create cards.

She pressed her finger directly onto the gem and carefully channeled her magic into it.

This time, there wasn't a suction force strong enough to make her lose control immediately.

Releasing my fingers, the stored energy changed from 50 mana to 51 mana.

Her magic power was also depleted, leaving her with only 143 points.

It seems I can slowly store the magic power into the amethyst and save it for making cards later.

With little magic left and classes tomorrow, Moran had to temporarily halt his card-making research.

(End of this chapter)