Chapter 744

Late at night, in the guest room of Audrey's mansion.

Dorothy, having just finished her bath, put on her beloved dragon doll pajamas, then leaped high and crashed heavily onto the soft bed, enjoying the embrace of the mattress and the high-end angel down quilt.

Bast and Fafnir, who were already lying on the bed, were bounced high into the air by their owner's movement.

The little black cat was quite calm about this; the cat's excellent balance allowed her to adjust her body gracefully and land lightly. She even had time to observe her foolish younger sister.

And the young hatchling dragon, despite being able to fly, was a bit timid and became flustered as soon as she was startled. Coupled with her jet-like structure—which differed from the wing-flapping flight of ordinary dragon species—she flapped her wings in a panic to no avail. Finally, when she managed to remember she was a jet-powered dragon, her hurried dragon flame output was a bit too high, and she shot straight toward the ceiling like a red streak.

Fortunately, just as the terrified hatchling dragon was about to test the ceiling strength of the witch building with her face, a soft magic barrier blocked her path. This barrier caught her like a fishing net and then gently bounced her back.

Subsequently, a black figure leaped nimbly, grabbed the back of the little hatchling dragon's neck, landed steadily, and placed her back on the bed.

"Awoo..."

The rescued Fafnir looked at her big sister with teary eyes, her dragon pupils, which should have been majestic and cruel, filled with admiration, saying "Sister is awesome."

As for her sister's worship, Bast proudly tilted her head, looking relaxed. She then walked with an elegant cat gait to the side of her owner, who was lying on the bed, kicking her legs while reading a magic book, curious to see what her owner was doing.

Fafnir also hurriedly ran to the other side of her owner and poked her head out to look at the content of the spellbook in front of her owner.

Although she hadn't been to school, dragons didn't need to go to school in the first place; the knowledge of the dragon race is inherited through bloodline, so she was literate.

On the other hand, Bast on the other side...

The little black cat blinked her eyes, looking completely bewildered.

Well, she was just a magic staff; you can't expect a magic staff to have much culture. She only needed to perfectly execute her owner's will.

"Roar..."

Fafnir on the side seemed to notice her big sister's trouble; she let out a small growl, helping her big sister read the content on her owner's spellbook.

"Meow..."

However, Bast didn't appreciate it. The little black cat felt she had lost face in front of her sister, so she let out a growl and curled into a black cat ball, looking like she wanted to sleep.

But her twitching cat ears betrayed her.

Fortunately, the little hatchling dragon wasn't scared by her sister's tsundere attitude; she happily continued to act as a translator for her sister.

Dorothy didn't pay attention to the interaction between these two little cuties; she was busy surfing the web at high intensity.

"Zero, help me collect all information on the Mana Web regarding The Phantom of the Opera."

She instructed her smart little assistant.

Having stolen some leisure time recently, she had performed a small upgrade on her spellbook. Besides updating some hardware configurations, she also loaded a sub-body of Zero into the spellbook, thereby gaining a Mana Web assistant.

Zero was originally a psychic mechanical body, an artificial intelligence with self-awakened consciousness. Surfing the Mana Web was like a fish in water for her; she could easily help Dorothy collect fragmented information from the Mana Web that would be difficult for Dorothy to find one by one.

However, using Zero just like this was actually a bit of a waste of talent.

Dorothy was planning to collect some high-end materials next and hand-craft a high-end difference engine. When the time came, she would let Zero take charge of that difference engine, and the powerful computing power of her mechanical body could be unleashed. Then, she could help her with more tasks, such as analyzing and calculating spell parameters.

This wasn't difficult; after all, back during the Witch's Night, the Good Sister had already researched a finished difference engine. Although the parameters in dreams generally couldn't be taken as truth, the Witch's Night was not an ordinary dream after all. Dorothy felt that the design drawing only needed a little adjustment and modification to completely craft a finished product.

It's just that these materials were indeed not easy to find. After all, as a purely mechanical computer, the difference engine was limited by physical materials and was difficult to make as compact and convenient as the computers of her previous life. The higher the computing power, the more inevitably huge the difference engine would be; in extreme cases, a single machine could be as big as a mountain or even an entire world.

Of course, those were the physical laws of Dorothy's previous life. In a mind-only world like the Witch World, there were still many ways to solve this problem; after all, witches could directly turn worlds into jewelry to wear on their bodies.

The Home Witch decided to first try to find materials that were lightweight enough. If she really couldn't find them, she might have to find a way to buy a world ball or something and really craft a world-sized difference engine.

But that was really too expensive; the little bit of coffin money she had was nowhere near enough.

Sigh, her initial goal was clearly just to have a floating island. As a result, after having the Witch's Home floating island, she wanted a territory, and now that she had the Dongying Island territory, she wanted a world.

Tsk, human desire, is it really this endless?

If only desires could be made into gears and assembled into a difference engine.

Emmmm...

Such inspiration flashed through the Home Witch's mind like a meteor. She frowned and then carefully wrote it down.

Hmm, this actually seems to have some potential.

However, now is not the time to think about it in detail. In front of Dorothy, on the opened spellbook, the phantom of Zero, the mechanical maid, bowed to her.

"Master, your instructions have been completed. Here are the results, please check, wiping sweat. jpg."

"Mm-hmm, thank you for your hard work."

Dorothy nodded, and after thanking her little assistant, she began to carefully review the information collected by Zero.

This was almost the entire browsing history of that "Phantom of the Opera" netizen from the time they started playing on the Mana Web until now.

In the School of Spirit, there is a special magic called "Echo Profiling." This magic can restore a person's personality traits, mental outlook, and so on, bit by bit, based on the traces they left behind.

This is a very powerful spirit magic. After all, if your personality traits, mental outlook, and so on are all mastered by a witch of the School of Spirit, then your every move and even your inner thoughts are clear and unobstructed in front of her; you are no different from running naked in front of her.

It's just that there aren't many witches who have mastered this magic. Although this magic is only a sixth-ring spell and seems to have a low learning difficulty, it has extremely high requirements for the learner's precision attribute—more precisely, the tightness of the heart, which is attention to detail.

And you also need strong information-gathering capabilities. After all, mastering this magic only means you have a set of cookware, but you can't make a dish with just a pot; you still need to prepare ingredients.

In addition, even if you have the ingredients, the quality of the ingredients, your cooking skills, and other factors will all affect the quality of the final dish, so it's hard to say whether it will taste good in the end.

Hmm, so the upper limit of this magic is extremely high; in the hands of the right person, its effect is no less than a Forbidden Spell, but the lower limit is also extremely low. It's possible that you finally learned it, only to have the pot explode every time.

Of course, this is not a problem for Dorothy. Her precision has always been very high, she has a photographic memory, and she is a champion at surfing the web and chatting in groups, perfectly meeting the learning conditions for this spell.

Moreover, she now has the powerful spiritual power support of the Bodhisattva state, and her computing power has directly upgraded from bird guns to cannons.

Therefore, she just compared the information collected by Zero with her own contact experience with that "Phantom of the Opera," and a complete character profile was created.

"Likes art, but never shows her real face, suspected of having severe social anxiety."

"However, judging from her complete lack of appearance anxiety, she is a great beauty."

"Very lively online, a die-hard fan of the Witch of the Forest."

"Has been playing with puppet shows, but her screenwriting ability is extremely poor."

"The voice is very pleasant, very similar to Lady Nine-Tail's Heavenly Demon Sound."

"Very simple-minded; some of her comments on the Mana Web are as naive as a child who has never been out of the house."

"Judging from her many comments standing up for others, she is a kind and good child."

"Shopping history and browsing records indicate she is not old, estimated to be in her teens."

"Family background is very good, born into an extraordinary family, and the family atmosphere is good."

"Went to the Witch Academy in the last six months, and there has been a significant change in her personality..."

Dorothy added the character settings one by one, and finally, she fell into deep thought while looking at the Audrey model floating in front of her.

"Game over."

Oh my god, is this world so small? Why are all my netizens around me?

The Home Witch was speechless.

The opponent who beat her in the "World of Warships" game back then was Sophie Liya; the perverted netizen who taught her in "Mana Web Duel" was Senior Sister Mia; and now, the child I pushed is my junior sister.

Fate, are you playing with me?

Dorothy couldn't hold it together anymore.

"Damn it, I'm done with this Mana Web."

The Home Witch slammed the spellbook shut, rolled on the bed, and wrapped herself into a caterpillar with the quilt.

"Senior Sister, help me turn off the lights, please."

She glared angrily at the hat Senior Sister who was already laughing her head off, and ordered her like this.

"Hahaha, mm-hmm, okay, I'll turn them off after I laugh a bit more."

Senior Sister Senior Fan Ni was already laughing so hard her tentacles were dancing wildly. Being by Qian Bao's side was truly too funny; this life where there is never a shortage of fun is really great.

"You..."

Dorothy glared at this gloating Senior Sister. If she weren't unable to beat her, she would have torn this person apart long ago.

But now she had to turn around again, face the mattress, and sleep on her stomach, which was a roundabout way of turning off the lights.

Hmm, sleep when you encounter difficulties, and worry about the rest tomorrow.

She thought to herself.

But just as she was getting drowsy and about to fall asleep, the spellbook beside her suddenly vibrated.

"Damn, who is it? Sending messages in the middle of the night without sleeping."

The Home Witch, who had been woken up, was a bit grumpy, but reason allowed her to regain her calm.

During this rest time, generally unimportant messages were automatically set to "Do Not Disturb," and only messages from particularly important, specially followed targets would trigger a notification.

Thus, the caterpillar Dorothy grew hands, opened the spellbook she had just closed not long ago, and saw a somewhat unfamiliar screen name flashing—and it was a message notification under the Witch of the Forest account.

【Harmless Magician: Hey, where are you? Have you arrived at Venus City? When are we going to trade?】

The Home Witch stared at this message for a second before remembering who this person was.

Oh, she had previously ordered an Ancient Dragon-level Radiant Dragon Heart from someone in those boss forums under the identity of the Witch of the Forest; this was a gift she prepared for Senior Sister Mia.

The two had indeed agreed to trade in Venus City.

It's just that Dorothy really didn't expect this boss's efficiency to be so high; she had only just arrived in Venus City, and the other party was already ready to trade.

However, this should be considered a good thing.

【Witch of the Forest: Arrived, arrived. Where are you? We can trade at any time, but you still haven't mentioned the price?】

She hurriedly replied.

An Ancient Dragon-level Radiant Dragon Heart is a rare item. Even in the top-tier circles where bosses gather, Dorothy asked many people before finding one, so she naturally didn't dare to be negligent. The only thing that made her hesitate was that this unfamiliar boss still hadn't mentioned the price, which always made her suspect whether the other party wanted to take the opportunity to rip her off.

【Harmless Magician: The price is negotiable. Let's talk in person. I am here right now.】

【System prompt: Your friend Harmless Magician has sent you a location.】

Tsk, this guy is still being evasive, which made Dorothy almost certain that she would definitely be ripped off this time. However, it's not a big problem; she has plenty of points anyway.

Points can be earned again if they are gone, but who knows when she will find a second Ancient Radiant Dragon Heart if she misses this one? After all, this is a true treasure that even the financial power and influence of the Golden Township couldn't find.

And...

"Senior Sister, stop laughing, it's time to work. I've raised you for a thousand days, now is the time to use you."

The Home Witch clicked on the location navigation, and a phantom separated from her body; it was the avatar of the Fairy King.

The Martial Soul body roughly grabbed the wide witch hat that was still giggling and slapped it onto her head, then opened the window and performed a leap of faith.

Subsequently, a figure with wide dragon wings on its back flashed past the bright full moon.

The Home Witch is attending a late-night meeting.

(End of chapter)