The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 397 Mentor Moran
Even alchemy, which Moran considered inferior to witchcraft, contained few impressive alchemical spell structures and blueprints in these books.

The structure of a mage's alchemical spells is equivalent to the combination of a witch's alchemical runes.

Although the alchemical runes of mages are all derived from studying the laws of material transformation and gradually summarizing them into spell structures.

Compared to the witch's exclusive runes that enable material transformation, obtained through the world's favor, these are far inferior.

However, mages outnumbered and were far more skilled than witches in the study and application of runes and spell structures.

There are still many blueprints worth referencing.

When Moran was reading alchemy books at the academy, he saw many witch alchemy diagrams that indicated which magical items the wizards had inspired their designs.

As a result, I haven't seen a single alchemy blueprint for mages that's worth learning.

These are all outdated magical items, such as the spell rune structure diagrams corresponding to the elemental crystal ball for testing elemental affinity and the mental crystal ball for testing mental power.

And it's only up to the advanced version.

Moran sighed in disappointment.

Seeing her like this after a failed meditation, Lilith asked curiously, "What's wrong? Is mage magic difficult?"

“It’s not difficult,” Moran said.

She constructed any magical structure described in the book using her mental power in the short time it took to read it.

Even the structure of advanced magic spells didn't pose any difficulty for Moran.

It's as simple as using mental power to clearly construct a picture in your mind as eating.

"Not difficult? Then why are you sighing?" Lilith felt a pang of sympathy.

What made Moran sigh must be incredibly difficult for them!
“There isn’t a single truly valuable mage spell here,” Moran said. “The spellbooks here only contain powerful single-elemental spells. Witch magic is far more useful.”

Moran showed them the interesting mental and compound magic she had just seen.

The witches were all attracted.

“These spells are amazing! Why don’t we have witch magic like that?” Lilith said.

"So many spellbooks, but not a single one of them—major compound spells, field spells, forgetting spells, or memory reconstruction spells?" Vasita was still somewhat unwilling to give up.

"I've looked at them all. I've constructed every possible spell structure, and there isn't a single one. There aren't even many advanced single-element spells," Moran said.

"Grandma Della said in the letter that these are all the books on magic that she has collected. She originally collected them to donate to the clan library, but since we wanted to learn, she simply made a copy for us first."

It seems we'll have to figure out the spell's structure ourselves after we leave the wilderness.

“Lady Della is the ruling mage leader of the Duchy of Lance, and she has trained three Grand Dukes, yet none of them possess the spell diagrams for these magical arts. It seems that mages are indeed very protective of their knowledge, especially magical knowledge,” Sylph said.

At this point, Lilith, Vasida, and Sylph, who were still unaware of what constructing spell structures meant for mage magic, simply lamented the lack of truly powerful mage magic.

After spending over a week constructing the Sky Meditation Diagram 1, sensing the existence of spiritual power, being able to convert magic into spiritual power, and beginning to understand the mage magic they would use for disguise, they suddenly remembered what Moran had said a few days earlier. Looking at Moran, who had long since put down her mage spellbook and was studying the contractor organization's advancement system, they realized that she hadn't stopped studying existing mage magic because its effects were mediocre, but rather because she had already constructed the spell structures, essentially learning them all, before moving on to other things.

In that short time, they wouldn't even have time to finish reading all these books.

Moreover, after truly understanding it, one realizes that while it's easy to convert magic into mental energy, it's not easy to use the mental energy converted from magic to construct spell structures.

The mental energy converted from magic cannot exist stably in the mind, let alone construct spell structures. It can only be constructed using the mental energy cultivated through meditation. At most, when the mental energy cultivated through meditation is tired and sluggish, the mental energy converted from magic can be used to fill the spell structure and cast spells.

"If one wants to cast advanced mage magic, wouldn't one really need to meditate to the level of advanced mage mental strength?"

Vasita said, "If that's the case, it might take us several years to get to that point."

Based on the time it took them to complete "Sky Meditation Diagram 1", their initial mental strength level was equivalent to that of a decent mage genius.

Although they have a high affinity for elements, even with a high affinity for elements, the spell structure still needs to be constructed!

"How about we stop pretending to be high-level mages and start as mage apprentices instead?"

Sylph pointed to Moran, then to herself, Vasita, and Lilith:

"A genius high-level mage and her three mage apprentices."

Anyway, this is just his public identity. When we develop our contractor informants, we'll eventually reveal his other identity.

“That’s right! I think it’s quite common for mages to bring their apprentices to help with chores among humans. In the ‘Little Witches’ series, every time a villainous mage is mentioned, there’s a large group of mage apprentices helping him with his tasks,” Vasita said.

"And we can also save more mental energy for when we build truly powerful mage spells later." Lilith was also somewhat tempted; her attitude towards mage spells had already changed.

Moran became interested: "Being my apprentice is fine, but first, let me hear you call me your mentor?"

"..." Lilith, Vasita, and Sylph opened their lips slightly, but could not utter a word.

Please, what kind of mentor do witches have?
They only have two honorifics: "Your Excellency" to address senior witches, and "Lady" to address adult witches.

“That won’t do!” Moran shook his head disapprovingly, suppressing a laugh. “How can a mage apprentice address his mentor by his first name?”

Vasita looked down at her naturally clenched fist: "I don't know why, but my fist is hard!"

“Me too…” Sylph said.

Lilith smiled maliciously at Moran, revealing two dangerous fangs: "Mentor Moran (Common language), how about you help the apprentices with their fist problems? (Witch language)"

After saying that, he transformed into a black shadow and pounced over.

Even though Moran never relaxed his fusion of the vampire's rapid movement blood magic, he still couldn't match Lilith's speed.

They were immediately bogged down.

Vasita immediately took over, controlling her hands and feet with an irresistible force.

Then Sylph's fists landed on her, but instead became gentle tickles, specifically targeting Moran's most ticklish spots.