The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 408 Blood-Replenishing Cake
Moran curiously ate a little, and the taste was actually not much different from ordinary cranberry cake, except that it was slightly less sweet, perhaps due to the influence of the vampire vine flowers.

This level of sweetness is quite good for someone like her who doesn't particularly like sweets.

Just as I swallowed the cake and was about to offer my praise, a faint, sweet, and slightly metallic taste rose in my throat, disappearing in an instant.

If it weren't for the fact that Sylph, Vasita, and even Bea paused slightly after taking a bite of cake, Moran would have almost thought it was his imagination.

However, the fishy-sweet taste didn't affect the overall flavor much; the cake was still delicious.

Only Bi'er couldn't stand the pungent, sweet aftertaste and lost interest in her small piece of cake.

Sylph managed to eat one piece, but then she got a little tired of it.

Moran was a little better; she stopped eating only after she was full.

Only Vasita and Lilith seemed to enjoy it more and were still eating.

"So? Do you like it?" Lilith asked.

"Hmm... it's a cake with a rather peculiar texture. But its blood-replenishing and appetite-stimulating effects are barely noticeable. Potions would be much more effective," Moran said. "For me, what I like most is its sweetness."

“It was alright at first, but the fishy-sweet taste got stronger and stronger after eating it a lot.” Sylph frowned. “I don’t really like that taste.”

“I quite like it!” Vasita said. “This cake not only tastes good, but it also makes me feel fuller than regular cakes.”

"Is it because they added bloodsucking vine flowers?" Moran asked.

A century-old vampire vine, and one that had signed a magical pet contract with a witch, would definitely have different flowers after being strengthened.

"Not entirely. I've eaten the flowers from the small vine, but they didn't taste as good as this cake."

Vasita has eaten quite a few magical plants and magical ores. Although she hasn't yet figured out the detailed rules of how the stomach absorbs food energy, she has made quite a few discoveries.

Food energy can give her a feeling of fullness, but food energy and the magical energy in food are not the same thing.

Enchanted plants and minerals containing energy do indeed give her a stronger feeling of fullness, but delicious ordinary food has the same effect.

The amount of satiety a food provides is not entirely dependent on the magical energy it contains; the food's deliciousness and edibility are also important.

This cranberry blood-nourishing cake seems to contain more energy than the cranberry cake and the blood-sucking vine flower itself, thus giving her a stronger feeling of fullness.

It also gets more energy from the engulfing stomach.

In the end, most of the big cake that Lilith made ended up in Vasita's stomach, and she even praised Lilith's skills: "Your cake is delicious and filling, I love it!"

Lilith seemed to have found a kindred spirit: "Right! I also really like this cake, especially after using the Bloodthirsty Needle to analyze and fuse the blood, it tastes especially comforting."

Unfortunately, in "The Potions Witch's Cookbook," only the Cranberry Health Cake suited my taste; the others were rather lacking.

“Lilith, could I take a look at that cookbook you mentioned? I want to copy it down and learn how to make it; I think it would be perfect for me,” Vasita said.

“Of course!” Lilith tossed the Book of Witches to her.

Moran and Sylph were also intrigued by the strange recipe and joined Vasita in looking at it.

This is a book written by a potion-making witch. Because she had turned all the fertile land around her house into herb fields, she had no extra land to grow vegetables and fruits, nor did she want to turn her herb fields into farmland. Thus, she embarked on the path of using potions as ingredients in cooking.

This book records the entire process of her bringing the magical plants she used to make potions to the dinner table, hence the title "The Potions Witch's Cooking Recipes".

The potion is made by mixing the essence of various magical plants together, and its taste is hard to swallow.

Magical plants aren't much better; each has its own effects and its own strange smell.

However, this potion-making witch, with her knowledge of magical plants, greatly improved the taste defect by understanding how they interacted with each other, while also preserving some of the magical plants' effects.

All the most successful potion ingredient recipes she developed throughout her life are in this book.

"Candy made with dewdrop juice and honey, tea made from big-faced flowers and milk, straws made from hollow vines and juice extracted from sweet vine roots... I really can't imagine what these would taste like together," Sylph said with a strange expression.

"It seems to follow the same cooking approach as the cranberry blood-boosting cake! The food must be very energy-rich." Vasita liked it very much: "I even left some blank pages so I can copy it down."

Moran was somewhat interested in the book, but her book of witches was already full.

I had no choice but to give up for now and wait until she finished reading some books and made room for me before asking my senior to copy the text.

Fortunately, this book is just a rather special cookbook, not something Moran urgently needs right now.

It would be nice to do some research when I'm bored in the future.

After dinner, they left Lilith's tent and headed towards the large mushroom house on the other side.

“Moran, I don’t think your fortune-telling is accurate! I think the senior’s cake is amazing, it should have given a slightly auspicious result,” Vasita said.

“I think that cake is weird; it should be called Little Fierce,” Sylph said.

Bi'er, perched on her shoulder, wrinkled her face and chimed in, "It's awful! It should be a horrible omen!"

"Tonight's divination was originally based on my own interpretation."

For me, Lilith's cranberry blood-boosting cake wasn't particularly delicious or effective; it was just a little bit special, nothing special, so the mediocre result was perfectly fine.

Moran said, "Perhaps this is just a matter of varying tastes!"

"..."

Vasita: "Damn it! It seems I can't even give up on prophecy magic! Other people's prophecies may not be as accurate as my own."

Sylph felt a wave of despair wash over her: "I haven't even checked the mutated plants in my pots yet! I'm going home now!"

Moran watched as the two of them ran back to the tent as if someone was chasing them, and shook her head with a smile.

Remembering that her book of witches was completely full, she didn't waste any more time and hurried back to her tent to read it.

Lilith next door was already in the training room, practicing magic in front of the training doll she had made.

All four tents in the Mushroom House camp were brightly lit, showing no signs of being turned off.

No one used their nighttime rest time for rest; instead, they used it all for studying and self-improvement.