Chapter 246: The Witches Keeping an Eye on the Forum…

Chapter 246: The Witches Keeping an Eye on the Forum…

A personally modified magic, the one that best matched her own mental fluctuations and mana nature, was something others simply couldn’t use. After all, there were no two identical things in the world… Oh, cough, in the Otherworld, such things did exist. But personal magic was clearly more independent.

Irene thought. It had been a long time since she last directly interacted with the outside world. Going out was only possible recently after obtaining the Alchemical Avatar. There was no chance her unique magic could have leaked out. She quickly thought of a possibility – That Dragon!

The only one who could have come into contact with the magic spells she had researched herself was Zheng Yichen. It wasn’t just the ones he had directly seen; her magic notes also recorded many magic spells she had studied. Although none were particularly special – the special ones she wouldn’t have carelessly left around for Zheng Yichen to see.

She flipped through one of her notebooks and tried the message function in the Magic Weapon Summoning Book again. That was it. This was the magic she had once improvised and modified on a whim. The reason for this modification was during that period when Irene had too much research; writing was too time-consuming. To save time, she specially researched this magic. The trouble of writing was quickly solved after she developed and refined this spell.

Writing? She didn’t need that. With just a slight thought, she could leave over a hundred characters, whereas writing them directly would take several minutes or even longer.

“…” Her eyes moved. The eyes of this Alchemical Avatar, named ‘Patchouli’ by Zheng Yichen, lost their luster. Irene shifted her main focus to her true body. She walked over to where Zheng Yichen’s Projection was placed, picked it up, and gave it a slight stimulation. The Projection suddenly fluctuated violently, looking as if it were about to disperse.

But the next moment, Irene used some method to stabilize it again. Such stimulation was enough to make Zheng Yichen notice the anomaly here.

Inside the inn, Zheng Yichen rubbed his head. He felt it the moment the idle Projection was on the verge of dispersing. Strangely, the Projection left with Irene soon returned to normal. This made Zheng Yichen suspect that maybe she had nothing better to do and was conducting some dangerous experiment with his Projection?

He decided to go check. Muttering to himself, Zheng Yichen quickly shifted his attention to that idle Projection. He saw Irene looking at him calmly with her gaze. It was still that room with the soft chair. “Uh, what’s up?”

“This.” Irene showed the Magic Weapon Summoning Book in front of Zheng Yichen. Zheng Yichen was slightly stunned, then his mouth twitched. Damn, he forgot about this. The magic was obtained from Irene. Wouldn’t she notice if he directly used it? He had only been thinking about how to add this function before and overlooked this detail. “Ahem, it’s a long story…”

“Then make it short.” Irene continued to look at Zheng Yichen calmly.

“… I used your modified Image Retention Spell.”

“That’s not the answer I want.”

“Alright, actually I know… Fine, I am one of the Creators of the Magic Weapon Summoning Book.” Zheng Yichen’s mouth twitched slightly as he said helplessly. Indeed, anything was most likely to be leaked through technical aspects. The key was that Zheng Yichen didn’t possess the ability for perfect technology; Irene was the real technical expert.

“I see. Call me when making Magic Arms again.”

Irene wasn’t interested in the functions of the Magic Weapon Summoning Book. Those functions were easy to achieve with enough imagination. The principles could be accomplished using the core of an Alchemical Puppet; it wasn’t anything particularly rare. What mattered were the Magic Weapon Summoning Book’s involvement and the special effects she couldn’t achieve herself!

Those special effects were caused by Zheng Yichen’s abilities and couldn’t be imitated. However, Magic Arms were something she was interested in. As for magic that could be researched, Irene had already studied most of it. Now she was more keen on developing new magic. The combination of Magic Arms and magic – new types of magic – was what she had been researching recently. But the information she obtained was all studied from completed Magic Arms.

She hadn’t seen the actual creation process. Even if she could guess that the creation process might be ‘simple,’ whether it was simple or not didn’t matter. Once she knew the structure of some special magic, it would appear ‘very simple’ before her. What Irene wanted was the information revealed during the creation process. Through that information, even without Zheng Yichen’s abilities, she could imitate similar characteristics to the greatest extent.

She was quite proficient in this area.

“Want an alias?” Zheng Yichen asked before leaving.

“Too high-profile. No need.” Irene shook her head and refused. Although the message function in the Magic Weapon Summoning Book was quite novel, allowing a large number of Magic Weapon Summoners to communicate without time lag – such communication involved at least thousands of people at a time – if done with magic… the consumption wouldn’t be comparable to just one or two High-tier Magic spells.

But using the Magic Weapon Summoning Book for such communication was almost consumption-free. Achieving this wasn’t through some complicated method; it was just that no one had thought of it before. Now that Irene knew the principle, if she wanted, she could completely create a platform identical to the communication method Zheng Yichen made.

The slightly troublesome part was the continuous mana supply. Zheng Yichen’s Magic Weapon Summoning Book could disregard various existing mana types, completely assimilating them into one. This avoided the rejection reactions caused by mixing large amounts of different mana. Without solving this, even if others created a corresponding ‘Server,’ the end result would be that Server directly exploding.

Moreover, designing a ‘Contract’ wasn’t something just anyone could do. Overall, it seemed quite simple, but not many could actually do it; it required significant cost.

Server… Hmm, this was her understanding based on the ‘Chinese’ she learned from Zheng Yichen. That knowledge included the concept of a server. Viewing the Magic Weapon Summoning Book as a server wasn’t wrong at all.

Irene thought for a moment and directly consumed extra mana to create a pinned post. This pinning was also explained below on the updated page. As the name implied, the posted thread wouldn’t be pushed down by newly appearing threads. Others would need to consume more mana to suppress this thread if they wanted to surpass it. For this pinned-type thread, there was a ten percent mana decay every seven days. After decaying to the extreme, the pinning wouldn’t disappear but would revert to the standard of a normal pinned thread, easily suppressed by others.

Otherwise, to make some threads appear higher up, they needed to be hot comments…

Irene had no intention of brushing for hot comments. She had her own purpose for consuming extra mana to create this pinned post. Since such a platform existed, it was good to use it. In the past, all her research was conducted alone. Even though she encountered few difficulties relying on her extensive knowledge, it didn’t mean her inspiration was infinite.

Even though ordinary Spellcasters were far inferior to her in mastery of magic, some unique ideas could inspire her. Even a tiny bit – Irene could greatly amplify it.

This pinned post was a dedicated magic discussion thread. She additionally restricted the conditions for posting: one must have sufficient magical attainments. Those who chatted idly, posted irrelevant content, or pretended to understand would be directly banned from posting, and their messages would be deleted. As for how she could do this?

Because this post was created by her, because she additionally consumed mana to manage this post belonging to her… Confidentiality?

After learning about the relationship between the Magic Weapon Summoning Book and Zheng Yichen, she wasn’t worried about that.

As soon as Irene’s new pinned post appeared, it attracted the attention of many Magic Weapon Summoners! This pinned post was second only to the one posted by the ‘Administrator’; it belonged to the topmost layer. Newly appearing posts or those hot comment posts couldn’t push it down. Moreover, it was a dedicated magic discussion thread – posted by: Seven Luminaries Magus…

Regarding the rules in this thread, Irene also explained them clearly. Of course, some people tried defiantly, and then their irrelevant posts were deleted at lightning speed… and they were directly banned from re-entering this thread, just as warned.

Magic Weapon Summoning Book Forum ID? Irene couldn’t be bothered to think of one and directly used a special nickname Zheng Yichen had given that Alchemical Avatar of hers. As for the meaning, having learned Chinese, she still knew it. So using this was quite suitable, lest Zheng Yichen mistake her for someone else.

Actually, when Zheng Yichen saw this posting ID, he knew who it was. Apart from Irene, who else would think of this ID? Uh… So, after seeing this ID, Zheng Yichen pondered whether he should first remove that Administrator name and change it to something more distinctive?

He thought about it but couldn’t come up with anything suitable for the moment. He would just keep using this for now and change it later when he thought of something appropriate. Changing his own name didn’t cost anything. Mana expenditure? So many people provided mana to the Magic Weapon Summoning Book continuously all day; why should he worry?

Irene’s absolutely pinned thread soon gained some new messages. They weren’t irrelevant posts but ones with real substance. However, there weren’t many messages, just over ten. Several of them had hidden their ID names, and the messages posted were about magic-related questions that weren’t too special.

After all, this forum message function was appearing for the first time; it was too novel. So regarding magic questions, they still had reservations for now. Therefore, most of these messages were somewhat tentative. As for real discussions, they would likely only appear after some time.

“Hmm… Such a thread is actually pretty good too.” Zheng Yichen rubbed his chin and muttered. With more discussion content inside, if he encountered some magic-related problems in the future, he could also look here to see if they could be solved. That was good. As for those hidden messages?

Others couldn’t see them, but could Zheng Yichen not see them?

“…” Irene looked at the messages in the thread and replied almost without thinking. Those magic-related questions seemed difficult for the askers, but for her, they were simply elementary problems like a few plus a few.

However, Irene certainly wouldn’t keep replying like this for long. She only did so now because there were few people. With more people, she wouldn’t bother replying to each one; she would just pick a few randomly. She would leave the rest for those following this thread to reply. For some low-level questions, other powerful Spellcasters could answer them too.

What she really wanted was the fame of this thread. Then occasionally, she would post some ‘difficult problems’ she thought of, making the many Mages following this thread rack their brains… As for those who thought of something and chose to keep it to themselves?

That didn’t exist. Irene had ways to make them obediently speak out. The simplest method was to provide solutions.

Irene’s straightforward, high-quality replies instantly increased the thread’s attention even more. After some unlucky individuals’ experiences, those who intended to post irrelevant content for testing completely gave up on the idea. What if they acted foolishly and couldn’t enter this seemingly impressive thread again? That would be a huge loss!

“Huh? What’s this?” Zheng Yichen had just exited Irene’s thread when he saw the second pinned post, located below Irene’s… Well, that was normal. A single strand of Irene’s hair contained vast mana. If she wanted to dominate the top spot on the Magic Weapon Summoning Book Forum page, others probably couldn’t compete. As for fighting fiercely out of pride… Zheng Yichen would be the happiest.

Those powerful beings wouldn’t be brainless to that extent. As for more pinned posts in the future? No problem; just categorize those pinned posts into a collective pinned ‘page’ under the top ten pinned posts. The Magic Weapon Summoning Book had plenty of blank pages; you couldn’t finish flipping through them even if you tried.

The second thread was also a discussion thread. Poster: Fate Witch?

“!? Damn, this woman…” Zheng Yichen twitched the corner of his mouth. Using her own title directly was indeed quite in line with Dan Marina’s style. Her special identity made it unnecessary for her to hide much regarding her identity. After all, too many people knew her when she worked for the Sanctuary Church.

Compared to the ID Irene used, anyone who had slightly contacted certain circles knew who the Fate Witch was.

So although this thread appeared slightly later than Irene’s, its attention quickly surpassed Irene’s thread. As for it being a fake Fate Witch, anyone with a brain wouldn’t do that. Offending others was one thing; offending the Fate Witch, and she might have some way to find you directly. What should you do then?

Beg for mercy? Even begging for mercy might lead to severe trouble.

Exiting Dan Marina’s thread, Zheng Yichen was stunned to see the third pinned post. Poster: Loli?!

Speaking of which, the Otherworld didn’t have the word “loli.” There were similar adjectives, but not this one. So apart from Irene, the only one who knew this term was Loris. Now that this ID appeared, it couldn’t be Irene; it must be Loris. This thread didn’t specify its purpose; it was just blank. The condition set was that everyone was forbidden from posting except Zheng Yichen… It seemed like it was left specifically to reserve a spot. Soon, this thread forbidding everyone from posting became the second.

So just how bored were these Witches? Competing for parking spots one after another? Would there be a fourth? Muttering, Zheng Yichen saw the newly appeared fourth pinned post… Also from a Witch, one he knew!