The Witch of Social Phobia at Doomsday

"I think I understand why mages in games need wands, staffs, magic books, and the like."

Magic wands and magic swords are very good for frontal combat, but it is somewhat difficult to turn around and defend in time.

Spellcasting items like magic books have very high requirements for the user. Only very powerful people can use them, so this is not a consideration for now.

The staff is different. It can hit people in close combat and release magic in long-range attacks. In terms of defense, there is no problem in deploying a magic barrier behind the body without turning around.

Su Miao thought about it and found a paulownia tree in the magic space.

This paulownia tree is a mutated tree. She plans to use materials from this mutated paulownia tree to make a magic wand.

After all, when refining potions, it is very easy to use the unmutated "Sword of the Sycamore Tree". There is no reason why the mutated sycamore tree cannot be used.

The mynah bird flew silently to the side and watched His Highness Su Miao making the staff with curiosity.

When His Highness Su Miao is concentrating, it will remain absolutely silent unless disturbed.

"This is a nice sycamore branch."

Su Miao found a branch, cut it off with his umbrella sword, and trimmed off the unnecessary twigs.

Then, Su Miao took out some mithril, platinum silver, silver and other materials used to carve magic circles from the magic space.

Inject magic power into the paulownia wood branches, sense the internal structure of the paulownia wood, and determine the basic magic circle suitable for carving on the paulownia wood branches.

"First is the basic magic circuit, then savings, restraint, compression, amplification, acceleration..."

"This mithril should be enough."

Su Miao returned to the villa, took out a piece of paper in front of the fireplace, and began to design the necessary magic circuit.

Because there is very little material like mithril, platinum and silver in the magic space, the less you use, the less you will have. It is unknown when you will need to find them next time, so it is best to make the staff successfully in one go.

After three hours of design, Su Miao took out the "Alchemy" and checked it several times. After making sure there was no problem, she threw a small fireball to melt all the materials such as mithril, platinum silver, and silver.

Then, Su Miao used magic power to control the high-temperature solution and began to carve a magic circle on the branches of the paulownia wood.

Throughout the entire process, Su Miao also needs to constantly inject magic power into the paulownia wood branches to ensure that the paulownia wood branches will not be damaged during the production process.

Finally, after another two hours of hard work, Su Miao succeeded in drawing.

Su Miao held the 166cm long staff, injected magic power into the staff, and the magic barrier was fully deployed!

"Success!"

I went to the hospital during the day and just fell asleep while sitting, so the update is a little late. I will update as scheduled at 6 pm tomorrow.

Chapter 153 Happy New Year!

2023-12-12

Su Miao held the staff in his hand and dispelled the magic barrier.

With a casual move of the staff, the compressed regional magic barrier unfolded and disappeared.

"Is it possible to compress this magic barrier and then stack it up?"

Su Miao thought about it carefully and tried to compress the magic barrier and then stack it up multiple times, but the result of doing so was that the time it took to deploy the magic barrier was slightly extended.

When fighting, others will not wait for you to deploy your magic barrier before launching an attack. Any time delay can be fatal.

Additionally, doing so will cause some issues with connecting to area-of-effect magic barriers.

This is a structural problem of magic.

There is a little mention of it in Potions, but not much.

After all, this is a magic book that teaches you how to make potions, so it's great to mention it at all.

"Continued research is needed."

Su Miao checked the time: "It's already past 1 a.m.? Did I count my New Year's Eve vigil as a success? I haven't even waited for the New Year's Eve countdown..."

She yawned and looked at the paulownia wood staff in her hand with satisfaction.

Anyway, this paulownia wood staff was successfully made, so I’ll consider it the best New Year’s gift for myself!

"Happy New Year!"

"go to bed!"

Su Miao waved to the starling and went back to the bedroom to sleep.

The starling woke up from its nap. It looked at the closed door in confusion, noticed that the flame in the fireplace had grown smaller, and immediately added a piece of wood to the fireplace and returned to its nest to continue sleeping.

Su Miao had a good dream.

In the dream, she was sitting on a staff and flying happily in the sky.

Su Miao didn’t know how long she had been flying, but she always felt something was wrong. Why didn’t anyone set off fireworks to wake her up?

This isn't New Year's Day, so there should be a lot of people setting off fireworks.

Why hasn't anyone set off fireworks yet?

Su Miao curled up in the quilt, thinking in a daze.

About half an hour later, Su Miao opened his eyes, looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar ceiling, turned to look at the window covered with ice flowers, and calmed down.

It's the end of the world.

No matter what, today is the Spring Festival, the first day of the new year, and we must celebrate.

Su Miao got up and dressed, then went to the kitchen first, found candles and incense from the magic space, and lit them up like his grandparents did. Then he took out three small bowls and put some candy, rice, and tea in them.

Grandma said that this is to send the Kitchen God back to heaven on New Year's Day, which can bring good luck to the family.

I hope this new year will bring good luck.

“It’s time to set off the fireworks!”

Su Miao came downstairs excitedly, opened the door, took out a firework and lit it.

Although it is daybreak and the fireworks may not be as beautiful as when they are set off at night, listening to the sound of the explosion will make people feel at ease.

On the first day of the new year, we still have to set off fireworks.

Otherwise it always feels like something is missing.

Although no one would come to pay New Year's greetings, Su Miao still placed some melon seeds, peanuts, and candies on the table, pretending that there was a New Year's atmosphere.

In addition, in such extremely cold weather, it is not suitable to open the door and wait for people to come and wish you a happy new year.

Just as I was thinking this, Sun Rong, Chu Zekai, Guo Yixing and Yu Feng arrived.

"Happy New Year, Your Highness!"

"Happy New Year!"

Su Miao looked at the four people who had arrived. They seemed to have brought some gifts.

Sun Rong said, "Your Highness, this is the gift we prepared for you, the Lu Ban table."

They unfolded an overlapping block of wood and in the blink of an eye it became a sturdy-looking table.

"Thank you."

Su Miao thought for a moment, then took out four cups, threw some brown sugar into each cup, and then threw a small heated water ball into each cup: "Drink it."

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Chu Zekai was the first to step forward, took the cup and drank happily.

Sun Rong, Yu Feng, Guo and his group happily took the cups and started drinking.

I haven't had candy for a long time.

After living here for so long, they have some understanding of His Highness Su Miao's character.

So they drank the water and said goodbye and went back.

Su Miao looked at the Lu Ban table and put it into the magic space so that he could use it when camping in the future.

Although there are many tables in her magic space, if you meet a stranger, it would be a bit strange if the stranger found you using a large table that is obviously from a furniture store in the wild.

But there will be no such problem if you use this Lu Ban table.

"Have a meal!"

Su Miao picked a few fresh tomatoes and a cabbage from the vegetable garden.

Let’s have cabbage and beef hotpot today!

The starling immediately took out its special bowl with an expectant look on its face.

"Happy New Year, Your Highness!"

"Happy New Year!"

……

At the Sihai base, every household began to celebrate the New Year.

Due to the lack of supplies, everyone's celebration became much simpler, and many people started working after the simple celebration.

“They are all hardworking people.”

In the heated conference room, Ice God Cult priest Zhuang Youpeng took off his heavy fur cloak and said with a smile, "Happy New Year, everyone! Everyone, relax a little."

Qiao Xixin sat upright, which was completely different from his usual lazy and honest appearance.

Zheng Meng sat next to Qiao Xixin naturally, waiting for Zhuang Youpeng to speak.

Zhuang Youpeng is a close associate of Lu Wei, the high priestess of the Ice God Cult, and is also the person in charge of seizing control of the Sihai Base.

The three priests he brought were Shi Hongsheng, Fu Jiaxin and Tang Jing, each of them had extraordinary strength.

In fact, Zheng Meng was very curious about how the Ice God Cult could have so many powerful people.

However, Qiao Xixin's position in the Ice God Cult was too special, which led to many people wanting to kill him. This prevented Zheng Meng from staying in the Ice God Cult headquarters for too long, and he had no time to learn more.

Zhuang Youpeng said, "Zheng Meng, Qiao Xixin, you've done a great job recently. The Ice God Cult has successfully established a foothold within the Sihai Base. But can you tell me why it's completely different from what we imagined?"

In the morning, Zhuang Youpeng went to the newly built Ice Temple to check on the believers.

As soon as he entered, wearing a priest's robe, a 1.9-meter-tall, silly-looking man came over and asked, "Master Priest, you didn't embezzle the basket of eggs that was supposed to be given to me, did you?"

A series of question marks popped up in Zhuang Youpeng's mind: "What eggs?"

The foolish man said, "Master Priest, you haven't forgotten, have you? You said that as long as you contribute to the construction of the temple and become a devout follower of the Ice God, you will receive a basket of eggs during the New Year."

Fuck!

Did Zheng Meng and Qiao Xixin ever make such a promise?

Do you know how expensive eggs are now? Even for a priest like him, he would be lucky to have six eggs a month.

Zhuang Youpeng was completely unaware of this, but faced with so many believers, he could only politely reply, "God says, eat vegetarian food and don't kill."

The silly man said, "The teacher taught us that those eggs can't hatch chicks, so eating eggs doesn't count as killing."

Zhuang Youpeng's mouth twitched. He thought the man in front of him was stupid, but he could still reason with him.

This guy is not stupid, he is so stupid that he wants to beat someone up.

Zhuang Youpeng said, "I'll take you to have Communion first."

The silly man was immediately delighted: "The teacher is right. As long as we bring eggs, we will definitely be able to eat communion when we come to the temple on New Year's Day."

"Praise the Ice God, only the Ice God is eternal!"

Zhuang Youpeng suppressed his murderous urge and took the silly man to the restaurant.

Noticing the believers nearby staring at him eagerly, he had no choice but to take them all with him.

When he arrived at the restaurant and saw the believers eating there, Zhuang Youpeng seriously suspected that these believers were not there to provide faith, but were simply there to eat and drink for free. Don’t they even have the basic rituals of taking the Eucharist?

Is this what Qiao Xixin said about the Ice God Cult "gaining a foothold" in the Sihai Base?

Compared with other places, the style is completely different.

This communion mode is one of the cool operations done by Zheng Meng and Qiao Xixin, and there are many more.

Therefore, Zhuang Youpeng felt that he needed to clarify everything they had done here.

Qiao Xixin said: "The Sihai Base is different from other bases. This is a large base that can accommodate at least 8 people, with a maximum of 10 or even people."