The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 56 Making the Cover
"One portable furnace, one crucible, ten pounds of molding clay, three pieces of light-colored smooth animal hide, one bucket of dark purple dye, five pounds of gold, ten pounds of brass, and seven purple magic gems..."

Moran checked the list and took out the materials.

After going back and forth several times, I finally prepared all the materials and tools and placed them on my table.

He then buried himself in the production process.

The mold is shaped, brass is melted down, and the cover and inner tube are made.

The animal hides were boiled, bleached, dried, and dyed dark purple. They were then placed on the inner cover of the outer casing and secured.

Then the gold is melted down, a rough shape is made using molds, and then it is hammered, sculpted, carved, and inlaid...

Thanks to the memories of Earth, her creation process went relatively smoothly overall.

The process is complicated and requires patience.

She worked in the alchemy classroom from morning till sunset to turn the blueprints into reality.

A loose-leaf book, octavo size (260mm x 375mm) and inlaid with gold and amethyst, was thus completed.

However, this is still just an ordinary book. If it is to be used as a vessel for witch's magic, it must be contaminated with magic.

Such a large book is more difficult to absorb than the previous animal skin books.

Although the materials used to make the book are of higher quality and stronger, allowing for greater staining intensity, the better the material, the more difficult it is to stain.

It took Mo Lan more than three hours to finish immersing herself in the book.

It's already nine o'clock in the evening.

Moran took out the roll of parchment he had finished dyeing and cut it all to fit the size of this book, cutting out more than a hundred pages.

The apprentice-level witch's book could only hold one hundred pages, so she punched holes in them and attached them to the loose-leaf book.

Finally, the new container was placed inside the witch's book, replacing the original animal skin book, and that was it.

Moran summoned the witch's book again, and what appeared was a beautiful large book.

(Cover image of the book "The Moran Witches" attached)
Moran loved it.

The first page is the index page she prepared, where you can find the page numbers of the included books.

The large octavo book, although still holding a book per page, allows for larger fonts and more content per page, providing a much better reading experience than the palm-sized animal skin books of the past.

The only problem is that this book is a bit heavy. It's fine to read on the table, but it's a bit tiring to pick up.

However, none of this is a problem. You can use the Witch's Book spell to hold the Witch's Book. No matter how you hold it, the angle, or the position, it's effortless.

For example, right now, the Book of Witches is floating in Moran's left hand, naturally open.

With her other hand, she kept taking books off the first-year library shelf and pasting them onto the Book of Witches.

I quickly copied down the books that interested me, leaving only ten blank pages for later use.

After leaving the library, he didn't forget to go to the basement and get two rolls of parchment.

It was already past eleven o'clock when Moran walked out of the academy castle.

On the way down the mountain, only the stars in the sky and the magic lamps by the roadside kept her company.

However, after walking this road for a week, Moran was already quite familiar with it.

She could even read the Book of Witches while walking.

The skill of using a mobile phone while walking, which I had in my past life, still shines in Valencia.

The magic lamp was so bright, which was perfect for her.

At 1:30 a.m., Moran finally entered the dormitory area.

The little witches have all gone to bed; not a single light is on in any of their dormitories.

She walked to the outside of her yard, looked at the fence gate that was almost covered with scraps of paper, and glanced at the dormitory number with a puzzled look.

That's right! It's number 69!
what are these?
Only under the streetlights did she see the words on it.

Take them down one by one and examine them closely.

It turned out that second- and fourth-year students had come to buy character cards from her today, but she wasn't home, so they left a message saying they'd come back tomorrow. Moran sighed, rubbing her forehead, "I thought the older students weren't interested! Turns out they were planning to come back this weekend!"

But why aren't there any fifth-grade girls? I haven't seen any yet, or maybe I don't need any?

Moran went to the backyard to collect the clothes, only to find that the clothesline was empty.

When I got back, I saw that her clothes had been neatly folded and placed in the laundry basket at the entrance of her dormitory.

There was also a note inside.

"It's getting dark, and you're still not back. Here, let me take in your clothes! You're welcome! — Vasita, Sylph"

Moran felt a warmth in her heart.

It was too late, and thinking that the little witch would be coming to buy cards tomorrow, she quickly washed up and went to sleep.

The next day, she didn't even hear the six o'clock bell in the morning; she was woken up by the little witch who came to buy cards.

She didn't even have time to wash up before rushing downstairs to open the door: "Sorry, Senior Sophie, I went to bed a little late last night." "Be careful not to stay up too late, or you'll stunt your growth!" Sophie reminded her.

"I understand, I'll be careful." Moran obediently listened to the advice.

Not growing tall is a big threat to a 13-year-old witch who is only 1.5 meters tall.

"Alright, I saw the flyer at the castle warehouse entrance. Give me one of those cards that shows your magic power level! I can pay for the magic power in one go." Sophie explained her purpose.

"it is good!"

Moran quickly wrote the contract using her golden pen technique and handed it to Senior Sophie.

After the contract was signed and the magic was credited to her account, Moran gave her the card.

"Then I'll leave first!"

After watching her senior ride away on her broom, Moran woke up from her drowsiness and quickly went to wash up, as other seniors were coming to buy cards later.

In one morning, Moran received twenty-nine second-year female students and thirty-one fourth-year female students.

All the magic power I gained was channeled into the Book of Cards.

Throughout the entire witch academy, except for the fifth-year junior witches and the headmistress, all the witches have {character cards}.

After selling the cards, Moran went to her dorm to review the textbooks for the courses she would be taking next week.

The textbooks for the theoretical courses are good; they are packed with knowledge points and full of useful information.

I don't know what to say about Moran's book, "Learn to Cook from Scratch".

This book truly lives up to its name; it's a book for learning from scratch.

The entire book only teaches three dishes: baking bread, making vegetable soup, and frying pork chops.

Everything starts with preparing the ingredients.

The first half of the book consists of recipes for these three dishes, with every step and detail written down.

Only the last tenth of the text discusses cooking magic.

Judging by the thickness of this book, you would never guess that it's just a recipe book that teaches how to make three dishes.

Rather than calling this a textbook of cooking magic, it's more accurate to call it a cooking tutorial.

There's a reason why this book was chosen as a teaching material for cooking magic.

In the words of the book, "Only when you have a thorough understanding of the cooking process can you command those pots, pans, knives and forks."

After skimming through the book, Moran even felt that with her culinary skills and memories of Earth's delicacies, she would definitely have a significant advantage in learning this cooking magic.

It saves you the trouble of learning how to cook.

Isn't it just about going from doing it yourself to directing the pots and pans to do it with your own will?

Moran is familiar with this; isn't magic driven by willpower?

(End of this chapter)