The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 58 Senior's Cooking Magic

Lilith sat on a chair by the stove, wand in hand, and focused intently on cooking with her magic.

First, wash the ingredients, then cut the vegetables.

When washing vegetables, wash only one vegetable at a time, and let the vegetables sit for a while before turning the tap on and off.

Chop the vegetables one by one.

When moving ingredients, the kitchen knife is not moved.

When you start cooking, which is when you're using the spatula, you can't add seasonings.

If you add seasonings, you can't use the spatula.

I pan-fried four steaks, four servings of mashed potatoes, a pot of tomato soup, and baked a small basket of bread. It took me more than two hours.

It's like there's an invisible one-armed person cooking in the kitchen.

At least you have two hands when you cook for yourself, and you can even multitask occasionally!

“Now I understand why my mother never uses cooking magic when making bread and soup…” Sylph said, “Looking at it this way, even apprentice-level cooking magic is not as fast as cooking by yourself!”

"You can understand it that way! But you can only improve by practicing more! Sometimes using cooking magic instead of your hands can save a little effort, and you don't have to be so close to smell the cooking fumes. You can't eat if you smell them."

Lilith said, "Moran, do you know how to practice cooking magic now?"

Moran nodded: "It probably starts with getting you to wash a vegetable yourself!"

Every food witch is a culinary master; this statement can only be said forwards, not backwards.

Food witches are all culinary masters, but culinary masters are still a long way from being food witches.

“That’s right!” Lilith was relieved to see that she understood. “You must be hungry! Let’s eat!”

"This is really tough! Even cooking magic is so hard to learn... I thought I'd soon be able to eat whatever I want thanks to cooking magic!"

Vasida ate the meat heartily while sighing with emotion.

Moran isn't the only one who misunderstands cooking magic.

"Don't be so discouraged, we are witches!"
Many witches, no matter how hard they try, will be unable to learn magic they are not good at due to limitations in their talent.

But we witches can learn anything we want, not just magic! That's already a huge advantage.

Furthermore, witches are destined to break through to the peak level and have long lifespans. As long as we master the learning methods, we will have plenty of time to slowly learn what we want to learn.

Lilith comforted them.

"Senior is right! Just study hard and you'll master it someday!"

Moran has learned from her mistakes and decided to start over, practicing cooking magic again.

When she was watching her senior cook, she even summoned the Book of Witches and made notes on the page where the book "Learn Cooking Magic from Zero" was located.

“Um, Moran, I was just about to ask, what is that book of yours that looks a bit like the Book of Cards, with purple gems…” Vasita asked.

“It’s my new book of witches,” Moran said. “So you spent the whole day yesterday making this?” Sylph asked in surprise.

"Yeah! I spent the whole day in the castle, and it was past midnight when I got back to the dorm. Oh, and thank you for taking my clothes in," Moran said.

"Wow! You've read that fast! You've already finished all fifteen volumes of 'The Birth of a Beautiful Cover'?" Vasita asked incredulously. "You didn't stay up all night reading on Friday night again, did you? You really need to get some rest!"

“No!” Moran said, “You don’t need to read the whole book, ‘The Birth of a Beautiful Cover.’ Just pick a cover design you like and follow the steps.”

I selected several designs based on the appearance of the Book of Cards, and after reading the production instructions, I designed and completed the work in one day.

"Of course, the fact that it was so fast is also due to my past life experiences."

"Really? I don't need to read the whole thing?" Vasita was also tempted: "I'll scribble a few more blank sheets of paper tonight, and I'll go copy the whole set of books back to read tomorrow!"

“Let’s do it together!” Sylph said.

If she doesn't need to study all fifteen books before she can make a nice cover, then she'd like to get a beautiful witch's book as soon as possible.

Three months before the end of first grade, Lilith, who had been hurriedly updating her Book of Witches after accidentally seeing the author's message on the title page of the first volume of "The Birth of a Beautiful Cover," ate her meal silently, not daring to make a sound.

After a while, seeing that the topic of the witch's book was getting more and more heated and was about to affect her, she quickly changed the subject:
"How was Friday's wand-making class? Did you rework your wand over the weekend?"

“Yes! I had to change the wood of the staff three times before I was barely satisfied!” Vasita said.

“I also changed two of my canes,” Sylph said.

“Haha! Just as I thought! Ms. Amisa is really going to extreme lengths to give us more practice in wand making! We only had to redo our wands back then,” Lilith said.

Vasita shook her head: "It wasn't Ms. Amisa who asked us to do it. It was mainly because after seeing the wand Moran made, we all wanted to make the wand more beautiful and aesthetically pleasing."

"Wait, beautiful? Aesthetically pleasing?" Lilith grew increasingly confused. "Wasn't your first wand the wrong size and awkward to use?"

Has Ms. Amisa changed her ways? Which generation of little witches hasn't been tricked by her?

“No!” Sylph thought of something and said, “Senior, you mean the Dean deliberately didn’t tell us what the branches we prepared were for? Moran figured that out a long time ago. We just brought whatever we could find to the alchemy classroom.”

"..." Lilith was incredibly envious: "Moran, how did you find out?"

“I happened to be reading the book ‘Wands and Wands’ on Thursday night,” Moran said.

“You guys are really lucky!” Lilith said dryly.
"By the way, Moran, I didn't notice before, what kind of wand do you have? How come other little witches are willing to redo their wands?"

Moran pulled his wand out of his school robe pocket: "I just did some minor work on the wand."

Vasita joined in the fun, pulling out her wand: "Senior Lilith, look at mine, how's the polishing?"

“Mine is only half-polished; the handle is still the original shape, so it won’t slip out of your hand easily.” Sylph took out her wand.

"..." Lilith silently put the wand from her waist into her school robe pocket.

She's a senior? Does she deserve it?

Just now, she felt incredibly ashamed thinking about how she had brazenly displayed her cooking magic in front of her junior classmates, holding her primitive tree branch wand!
She remembered whether there was a copy of "The Birth of a Beautiful Magic Wand" in the library in the second grade.
I'll go and copy it down tomorrow!

(End of this chapter)