Chapter 34: The Genius Is Actually Myself

This duel, which everyone had been looking forward to, ended in a way that caught people off guard. Everything happened too fast; from the end of the countdown to the end of the match, it hadn't even been five seconds, so when the huge and illusory words "Match Over" appeared above the arena, everyone hadn't reacted for a while.

What the hell? What happened? What did I just watch?

However, these three adults quickly came to their senses. Annie and Adam both had a flash of surprise in their eyes; they had always been able to guess that Dorothy wasn't simple, after all, they had watched this child grow up, but even they hadn't expected this girl to be powerful to this extent.

And Yufillia was shocked and overjoyed. That fortune teller back then really hadn't cheated her; this daughter's talent far exceeded her expectations.

"Actually, besides the dragon's core talent, Dragon Breath, this child also has additional talents for time and space?"

Even though this was her own biological daughter, the dragon witch still gasped, feeling it was a bit unbelievable.

After all, since when did high-level talents become so worthless?

The witch's talent inheritance mechanism had always been jokingly referred to as a lottery in the womb, and in fact, it was indeed a type of lottery.

All the talents and specialty abilities of both parents were gathered together to form a huge ability card pool, and what the child needed to do was to randomly draw a few abilities from this card pool to inherit as talents.

As for the number of card draws, this was determined according to the aptitude of the witch cub. The better the aptitude of the witch cub, the more card draws, and vice versa.

Normally, the card draw count for most witch cubs was around 3-6 times.

This sounded like it wasn't few, but if you looked at the total number of abilities in the card pool, it was very uncomfortable.

According to the latest research in witch talent genetics, the witch talent inheritance pool didn't seem to be just a second-generation pool, but a third-generation pool. This might not just relate to the witch parents' generation, but might also relate to the recessive genes of both parents' sides. That is to say, the talents and specialties of the grandparents and maternal grandparents also had to be thrown into this card pool to be calculated.

And so, the card pool combined by the talents and specialties of six adult witches appeared very huge, with the total number of abilities possibly exceeding 200.

And among these 200-plus abilities, the truly powerful talents and abilities might not be many, with only a very few types.

After all, the higher the evolution of a powerful talent specialty, the higher the mana required. Where would normal witches have so much mana to squander? They could only choose a few core high-level abilities to evolve, and other abilities would just be made do with, choosing some mid-to-low-level abilities with high cost-performance ratios as much as possible.

And this led to the uneven quality and mixed bag of this huge card pool.

Therefore, using the card pool of the currently popular Mana Web card-drawing game as a metaphor, it was a huge turntable divided into more than 200 parts, with fewer than 5 SSRs, fewer than 10 SRs, and the rest all Rs and Ns, and then you could only spin it 3-6 times.

So, what percentage do you think you have of drawing a premium ability?

Perhaps you might think this card pool is quite conscientious, and the shipment probability is not low, but the problem is, is such a premium card pool something an ordinary witch family can provide?

SSR-level talent specialties are not so easily condensed. An ordinary Great Witch generally only has one or two talents and specialties that can be rated as SSR. This requires both husband and wife, and even grandparents and maternal grandparents, to all be Great Witches, and perhaps then they can barely piece together the luxurious card pool of the example above.

And considering the high degree of overlap in core abilities between witch family children and parents, an ordinary Great Witch family actually has a high probability of not being able to piece together 5 SSRs.

But in the entire Witch World, the number of Great Witches is less than five percent of the total population, belonging to high-end rare talents.

Therefore, the ability pool of truly ordinary witch couples might not have a single SSR, and it would be good enough to have a few SR abilities for the child to try their luck.

Of course, relatively speaking, the pool that Peak Witch couples can provide might be even more luxurious, but the problem is, where are Peak Witches so common? Not counting those ancient witches who have retired and lived in seclusion, just the Peak Witches active in modern times worldwide add up to less than 200, and among these less than 200 Peak Witches, how many couples can there be?

It's like one mountain cannot hold two tigers; there are many friends or deadly enemies among Peak Witches, but there really aren't many who are couples.

Or is it that someone can force Peak Witches to be dragged over to breed like animals? This is probably fearing that they won't die fast enough.

Therefore, in summary, if a normal little witch is lucky enough to inherit one or two SR talents, she is already a one-in-a-hundred little genius, and if she is lucky enough to inherit one SSR talent, she is directly a one-in-ten-thousand peerless genius. If she is even luckier and not only has an SSR talent but also matches it with a few SR talents, this can make others jealous and call her a monster.

As for two or even more SSR talents? That is directly not acting like a human anymore; this can be directly recorded in the annals of witch talent history.

Yufillia was a monster aptitude back then. Born with 10 talents, she drew cards 10 times, including 1 SSR, 4 SRs, 5 Rs, plus an innate mana value of over 10,000. She caused a sensation in the Dragon Kingdom the moment she was born, enjoying the treatment of being the center of attention. That was why everyone in the family unanimously believed she was the hope for restoring the family, and she could directly take over the position of patriarch just after coming of age, with no blind guy jumping out to say they were unconvinced or anything.

Having good talent means you can do whatever you want.

But now, her daughter is even more excellent than her. This is almost certainly 2 SSR talents, and they are both the kind of premium ones that can be considered the strongest among SSRs. This is ridiculous.

This makes Yufillia unable not to be excited and overjoyed.

No, I can't let this child squander her talent anymore. Although this child's mana aptitude is a bit average, it's not a big problem. Mana, besides natural growth, can also be accelerated by spending money.

Ordinary witch families might not be able to come up with so much money, but the Dragon Witch is not short of money. Yufillia has developed the family for so many years; if there's nothing else, there's plenty of money. As long as Dorothy is filled with heavenly treasures every meal, the daughter's low-mana problem will soon be compensated.

Even if this means of spending money to accelerate can only be used in the early stages, and treasures that can work on witches above the Great Witch level in the later stages are truly rare and have a market but no supply, this is enough. Let's spend money to reach Great Witch first.

Seeming to be able to see her own daughter shining brightly and suppressing the world, Dragon Mom felt particularly spirited at this time. She now wished she could immediately take her daughter home and then start nourishing special training.

Only...

How should she handle the matter of promising her daughter freedom as long as she defeated Sophie Liya? This can't be going back on her word. The relationship between mother and daughter isn't close yet; if she goes back on her word, this child might directly sever the mother-daughter relationship with her.

Yufillia fell into entanglement for a while.

Tsk, it's all the fault of this disgraceful apprentice for being so incompetent. You have 290,000 Mana and still got one-shot by a newcomer with 10,000 Mana. Sophie Liya, aren't you ashamed? After we go back, you are to double your training for the next year.

On the other side, Adam and Annie naturally discovered the terror of Dorothy's talent. The couple looked at each other, and then Annie stood on tiptoe and patted her husband's back comfortingly.

"Don't think about it; you can't afford to raise this child, and neither can I. It's better to give her to her biological mother. Only a Peak Witch can give her the best educational environment and sufficient growth resources."

The petite vampire witch conveyed such a belief, and Adam sighed at this, defaulting to this fact.

And so, in the auditorium, the three adults fell into a mysterious silence. Only Alice, who didn't have enough experience and didn't see anything, started cheering after coming to her senses.

Although she didn't know what happened at all, it looked like her sister had won, and that was enough.

"Wuhu, sister is nb, yyds."

The little witch cheered and jumped using the words she learned from her sister.

It was just that ending the match so quickly, who else was surprised besides the onlookers? In fact, even the two sides of the duel hadn't come to their senses at this time.

In the arena, Dorothy looked around suspiciously, starting to feel if she had been hit by an illusion. But this didn't make sense; she hadn't heard that angels had any illusion talents, and she wasn't a succubus or a fox-person.

So did I really win?

This was even more impossible. The feeling wasn't right. What she hit wasn't an angel witch with 290,000 mana at all; the fragile feeling clearly felt like a newbie witch with about 10,000 mana like her.

So what the hell is going on?

She suspiciously and cautiously scouted the surroundings, not daring to be careless at all. Even the words "Match Over" above her head were treated by her as an illusion to deceive herself.

She was squeezing out her last bit of mana, preparing to cast a spell to break the illusion.

And on the other side, the angel witch Sophie Liya, who had been protected and teleported back to the lounge and had become intact again, also fell into thought.

Who am I? Where am I? What did I do? ===== CHAPTER 35 =====