Chapter 4: Witch City and Identity Card

"It's been a long time since I've been to the city. It's really quite lively."

The sisters landed at the port of the massive floating city named Haiyuecheng. After stuffing their flying brooms into the space bags hanging at their waists, Dorothy looked at the bustling scene around her and sighed.

Powerful animals rarely have the habit of living in groups; they always possess a certain sense of territory to a greater or lesser extent. Witches are the same.

Therefore, even though her dear stepmother was at an upper-middle level among witches, the sky island their family lived on was in the suburbs far from the city, not in the city center.

In her stepmother's words, "A fierce tiger never fears walking alone; only lambs gather in groups under the wings of the strong to seek shelter."

The living habits of witches are indeed like this. Most witches' sky islands are floating in the suburbs of the city, while those living in the city are more often the subordinates or servant races of those witches.

Dorothy, who had been home for a long time, hadn't seen so many people for a long time. For a moment, she felt quite curious and looked with interest at this magical city, which was very different from the cities in her memories of her previous life.

First, naturally, were the pedestrians. Unlike her previous life where the streets were full of humans—at most with different skin colors—the races in this world could be described as diverse: giants, elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, and even tiny fairies with wings the size of fingers could be seen on this street.

Besides these humanoid races, there were many non-human but highly intelligent alien races. For example, at a snack stall not far away, a pig was protesting why there was pork in its meal, crying so bitterly. However, Dorothy looked at the pig's red, swollen eyes and vaguely read three words from its gaze:

*Must pay compensation. *

Such a dispute also attracted the attention of passersby. Among the onlookers, a manticore and a three-headed dog seemed eager to try something, but soon the city's law enforcement team arrived on brooms. They took away the pig that was still shouting that it was wronged, and the onlookers dispersed quickly when they saw there was no more drama to watch.

"Let's go, Sister. The witch specialty store is this way. Let's take the teleportation channel."

Seeing there was no more drama, the sisters turned and walked toward the city center, with Alice leading the way.

The transportation system of witch cities is quite diverse. The most common is naturally the flying broom that fills the streets, followed by more high-end and comfortable flying magic carpets, magical beast carriages, and other means of transport. These are a bit like the private cars in Dorothy's previous life. They are much more expensive than the cheap and easy-to-use brooms, and maintenance is a bit troublesome, but they are quite prestigious to drive out.

It's just that the city center generally has a "no-fly zone" order. Only locals with flight permits can fly freely. The sisters are not from the city center, although they could easily get flight permits due to their witch status. However, Dorothy is too lazy to move and hasn't gone to the city hall to register and handle it to this day, as she hasn't left home more than a few times in the past year.

Alice does have a flight permit, but the cute younger sister naturally wouldn't abandon her silly sister. The sisters had to take public transportation in the city.

Although there are systems equivalent to buses from her previous life in witch city public transportation, that stuff is actually a bit "petty-bourgeois"—expensive and slow, and the cost-performance ratio is really not high. Generally, only those who are bored and have money to burn or tourist groups who want to go sightseeing around the city would take them. The most popular and widespread public transportation is actually the teleportation channel.

Dorothy cast her gaze toward a bronze gate standing by the road not far away. Well, actually, that gate is just a decoration. What's truly useful is the thing under the door frame that looks like an energy vortex; that is the entrance to the teleportation channel.

"Beep, Witch Card. Welcome to Haiyuecheng. It is a great honor to serve the respected Witch Lady."

Alice ran to the bronze gate, took out a card, and swiped it on the door frame. Immediately, one eye and half a mouth grew on the two door panels of the bronze gate, and those two half-mouths opened and closed, spitting out flattering sounds.

Dorothy was already used to this. After all, in this world, witches are the largest noble class, and they are licked by other races wherever they go.

She also calmly took out her identity card and swiped it on the door frame.

This kind of card is actually the ID card of the witch world. Every witch gets one after birth. The identity card is issued by the official organization of witches, the Witch Council. The card is permanently set with a high-level appraisal spell, which will faithfully detect and record the various data of the bound witch and update it in real-time on the card face.

Hmm, it's pretty much similar to the character information bar in a game.

Besides this, the identity card also has various uses like a bus card or bank card. Anyway, it's quite convenient.

Dorothy glanced at her identity card. Immediately, magical patterns unfolded on this card, which was originally the size of a bank card. These meaningless patterns that no one could understand were compiled through a special program and finally projected a virtual information panel in her field of vision.

First in sight was a headshot of her, and below the photo were some basic information.

【True Name: Dorothy *******】

【Age: 16】

【Race: Half-Witch (Human Hybrid)】

【Rank: Elite Witch】

【Talent: Diligence Makes Up for Clumsiness (SR), ***** (SSR), Otherworldly Soul (SSR)】

【Specialty: Mana Control (SSR), Multiple Thinking (SSR), ****** (SSR)】

【Skills: ***** (SSR), New Era Wizard 6th Edition General Spell Manual (R), Self-Created Witch Series Spells (SR)...】

【Total Mana: 10,000 Mana】

And next to that headshot was a hexagonal attribute growth panel.

【Strength: A】

【Speed: A】

【Physique: A】

【Spirit: S】

【Inspiration: S】

【Precision: S】

Dorothy nodded with satisfaction. Her sixteen years of hard training hadn't been in vain. Look at this luxurious data.

It was just that when her gaze swept over the asterisks used for shielding on the identity card, her originally satisfied mood suddenly sank, and she felt a bit bored.

Those were all things she had chosen to shield herself. After all, this part of her power came from her cheap mother who was overly free-spirited. Since she chose to abandon her and her father back then, Dorothy couldn't be bothered to pay attention to this part of the talent inherited from her.

*Out of sight, out of mind. *

"Sister, let me see, let me see how you've grown!"

On the side, Alice's head suddenly poked over. She seemed to be preparing to peek at her sister's identity card information. It was a pity that identity cards all had information locks; only the person themselves or someone who had obtained their consent could see it. The little girl could only peek at nothing.

"What's there to see? Your sister is just a lagging half-witch, not as luxurious as your attributes. Let's go, let's go."

Dorothy silently put away her identity card. She rubbed her sister's head and, ignoring the flattery of the bronze gate, walked into the teleportation entrance that looked like an energy vortex.

"Ah, Sister, wait for me!"

One step out, after a flash of darkness and light, a brand-new scene appeared before the sisters.

However...

"Ugh..."

Just after walking out of the teleportation channel, Dorothy skillfully found a trash can on the side of the road and began to "vomit rainbows."

"Sister, are you okay? Your teleportation motion sickness still hasn't gotten better?"

Alice also skillfully took water and paper towels from her bag and handed them to her useless sister, her eyes filled with pity.

*Sigh, in a world where teleportation gates are everywhere, being motion sick from teleportation is truly pitiful. *

"I don't want to either. Who told me I have a space-time sensitive constitution? It'll be fine after I master some space-time magic later."

Dorothy argued unconvinced.

"Yes, yes, Sister, I believe you."

Alice brushed her off. ===== CHAPTER 5 =====