Chapter 873

Over the next week or so, Dorothy's days were quite peaceful.

There were no more accidents or troubles. Her daily routine was just cooking every day, running to the construction site to be a supervisor when she had nothing to do, and then grinding through her daily study and cultivation tasks. When she was tired, she would run to the literary and art troupe to listen to the trainee young ladies sing a little song or dance or something.

Hmm, this little life was, in two words, comfortable.

It's just that good days are always short-lived. Just when the Home Witch was leisurely every day, Night City became busy. There were significantly more pedestrians coming and going on the street—not just witches, but even angels, demons, and dragons, those golden disasters. Of course, as for other alien races like elves, dwarves, and sea folk, they were even more countless.

The grand event of Night City, the Magical Film Festival, was finally about to be held.

This was indeed one of the biggest activities in Night City every year. It would be held quite grandly, and because many stars and even superstars would attend, it could attract so many foreign tourists.

Many fans traveled hard from very far away, some even crossing several worlds to reach the scene. Everyone was quite looking forward to the upcoming Magical Film Festival.

And it wasn't just the fans who were busy; the star witches who signed up for the Magical Film Festival were also quite tired. These days, they had to attend various parties, busy expanding their connections with colleagues of equal status, go in front of the judges to brush up their presence, and also hold meet-and-greets with enthusiastic fans.

In short, everyone was busy flying.

Audrey, while hugging Dorothy's arm, whispered like this.

The little fox had been receiving remedial lessons from the two mothers along with her sister Madeline these past few days, starting to understand and take over the family's inherited business.

So, sorry, Alice.

However, now that the Magical Film Festival had arrived, the two ladies, as the most famous popular superstars in Night City, naturally could not be absent. Therefore, the two sisters finally had time to escape from that hellish remedial lesson and could relax appropriately.

However, vanity is vanity, but she really didn't intend to date anyone so early. The more Audrey liked her, the more Dorothy was afraid.

Although the look full of longing and admiration that this Junior Sister looked at her with made her a little hard to handle.

Perhaps, this is what is called painful yet happy.

Pfft, to be precise, she didn't even have an online relationship, okay? She just casually took care of a child she met online. Anyway, this matter has become unclear.

Although, in fact, being loved by such a beautiful, perfect-bodied, and pure and cute Junior Sister like Audrey is actually a very cool thing. Every time she was looked at by the little fox's pure yet seductive fox eyes full of worship, the Home Witch couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

At this time, Dorothy, Alice, Madeline, and Audrey were walking on the way to the Witch Opera House.

"Senior Sister, there are so many people."

Sigh, ever since the vest of the Crimson Red was dropped, she really didn't know how to face Audrey. This online relationship leading to a Junior Sister is really too fateful.

The Magical Film Festival was held in the Witch Opera House, and only this wonder building had the ability to accommodate the huge passenger flow pouring in from countless worlds.

Just like this, in the Home Witch's leisurely pace, the Magical Film Festival began.

The Home Witch was sandwiched between her sister and Junior Sister at this time, with the two witches each hugging one of her hands, and then these two sisters looked at each other with some small dissatisfaction.

Alright, to be precise, it was Alice staring fiercely at the fox spirit next to her who was trying to snatch her sister, and the little fox was originally socially anxious, and being glared at by the little witch, she became even more afraid and hugged her Senior Sister's hand tighter.

Sigh, my damn vanity, this is the root of human inferiority.

Hmm, Dorothy only felt that her arm was almost completely sunken into that softness, which was very comfortable. As for the other hand held by Alice...

This is a sad story; it hurts a bit.

Hmm, perhaps it was because she hadn't seen her favorite Senior Sister for a long time, Audrey was exceptionally enthusiastic today, and even dared to speak. Although the voice was as small as a mosquito, being able to speak was already a big progress, and Dorothy was very gratified by this.

"Alice, don't bully your Sister Audrey."

It's a pity that people's joys and sorrows are not connected. Anyway, Dorothy was too lazy to deal with those things. She had only been enjoying herself these past few days, completely ignoring any operations or networking, and really didn't have any of the tension that a contestant should have.

The Home Witch stopped her sister's "intimidation" of her Junior Sister.

Alice: "???"

The little witch looked at her sister, whose arm was sinking into soft flesh, with great dissatisfaction, and then her cute little face puffed up like a pufferfish.

Then I'll leave?

She really wanted to say that.

But looking at the Succubus Witch lady next to her who had been waiting for a vacancy to take over...

Hmm, this former President of the Armament Society whom she once respected had now become so seductive. She didn't have any of the capable and decisive style of that Jade-Faced Rakshasa, Cold-Faced Asura. Look at this, walking one step, those fleshy thighs trembling, that big butt twisting, that fat shaking even more abominably than the fox spirit...

Anyway, walking one step, twisting, trembling twice, shaking three times.

No, if I leave, my sister will definitely be eaten clean by this pair of sisters.

A sacred sense of mission to protect her sister suddenly arose in the little witch's heart, so while puffing up her bun face, she refused to let go, and instead hugged even tighter.

Regarding this, Dorothy was also helpless. She had to hold one sister in each hand and be enveloped by the guiding light of the Witch Opera House together with Madeline.

Between closing and opening her eyes, when the Home Witch came back to her senses, she was already on a strange planet. However, looking up, in the center of the starry sky, the Sun and Moon Grand Stage was still clearly visible.

Hmm, then they had already successfully entered the opera house.

Dorothy turned her head to look around again and found that they were currently on a barren planet.

This was a real barren planet. Except for the sand and soil all over the ground, there was really nothing, not a blade of grass.

Anyway, this shouldn't be a habitable planet, completely different from the beautiful planet she was on when she watched the two ladies perform before.

"Uh, could it be that my luck is bad this time, so I randomly ended up in such a barren auditorium?"

The Home Witch thought to herself.

However, after scanning this barren planet with her spiritual power, she found that there were quite a few people on this audience planet besides them.

It's just that the magical auras were quite familiar; they were all acquaintances.

Sure enough, after the four of them waited for a few minutes, dozens of black dots appeared on the distant horizon and quickly approached.

That was a group of witches riding brooms flying over rapidly.

And when everyone approached, it was precisely the members of the literary and art troupe.

Beelzebub brought the trainee young ladies to Dorothy's side, and besides them, there were two other guests.

Dim lights, eye protection, large, medium, small.

Those were two werewolf witches, Hati and Cassandra.

"Uh, Miss Cassandra, why are you here?"

Seeing the two again, Dorothy asked with some surprise.

Logically speaking, the City Lord's Mansion should also be participating in this Magical Film Festival, right? So these two pillars of the Moon Wolf Club are not going to support their own club, but instead ran to the territory of her competitor. What does this mean?

"Young Lady, Mother instructed me before. She told me to be your guide for this Magical Film Festival, so my task this time is to act as your commentator. If there is anything you don't understand at the Magical Film Festival, you can ask me at any time."

Cassandra explained enthusiastically while waving at the Home Witch.

As for Hati beside her.

"I am here to be responsible for security. I feel that if there can still be an accident at this Magical Film Festival, then the probability is that it will be on your side."

The werewolf elder said so.

Dorothy: "."

Looking at the straightforward Hati in front of her, the Home Witch's mouth twitched a little.

I have every reason to suspect that you are being sarcastic to me. You definitely treat me as a jinx, right? Let me tell you, those are all rumors; they cannot be believed.

She really wanted to question the other party loudly, but unfortunately, the words reached her lips, and she had to swallow them back.

After all, this is probably, maybe, possibly really the truth.

This confidence is insufficient.

"Alright, what are we going to do next?"

As a dream of participating in the Magical Film Festival for the first time, plus the fact that she had been a bit addicted to listening to songs in the gentle embrace these past few days, a bit neglecting her ambition, Dorothy didn't even search for a guide on the magic web, and now she was really a bit at a loss.

"Uh"

Cassandra was also speechless for a moment upon hearing this. She didn't know whether to be angry because of this Young Lady's contempt for the Magical Film Festival, or to sigh at this guy's boldness and calmness.

She covered her head, but finally explained.

"The rules of the Magical Film Festival are actually quite simple, and they are similar every year; there are no big changes."

"It's nothing more than each contestant having a stage world. You need to build this stage world into your magical film world, and then display your magical film work in this world."

"Next, the audience will pass by your world on this comet. If you can decorate the stage world beautifully enough, you can attract more audience members to stay and come here to watch the film."

"If your work can also move the audience, then you can get the audience's votes."

"The final award of the Magical Film Festival depends on the final vote count of your work."

"Of course, besides ordinary audience votes, there are also some special votes, but these special votes are in the hands of more special audience members, such as judges and judging panels, or some superstar celebrities."

"These special votes might be worth many ordinary audience votes, so you must pay attention to receiving those big shots with special votes. If you can get their recognition and get special votes, your magical film will have a greater probability of winning an award."

"Hmm, the rules are about like this. Is there anything else you don't understand?"

The werewolf young lady finished speaking in one breath and asked like this.

Regarding this, Dorothy naturally shook her head.

These rules are quite simple and clear; there is nothing to be confused about.

However, thinking carefully, there are still quite a few pitfalls hidden under these simple rules.

For example, the number of votes in the hands of the audience is limited. If the vote is given to you, naturally there is no vote to give to her. So, how to attract the audience's attention faster and more is the key.

And this depends on whether you have the ability to dress up and decorate this barren barren star world to be attractive enough, just like the movie posters and trailers of the previous life.

Only if the posters and trailers are good enough will you have the possibility of making people want to watch.

Of course, besides trailers, enough traffic and such are also necessary. And if it is changed to the rules of this Magical Film Festival now, then I don't know if the position of each contestant's stage world will affect the traffic.

At that moment, she directly asked her question.

And regarding this, Cassandra nodded appreciatively.

"As expected of you, Young Lady, you grasped the point at once."

After the werewolf young lady praised, she started to explain again.

"The position of this stage world is naturally very important. Did you see that Sun and Moon Grand Stage? With the grand stage as the center, the closer to the grand stage, the better the position of the stage world."

"Although all audience members randomly appear on the comets at the edge of the theater at the beginning, generally, few audience members have the patience to start shopping from the edge stage. The main force goes straight to the grand stage. After all, the stage ranking of each magical film society is never random."

"Before the Magical Film Festival begins, your entries have actually already gone through the preliminary review of the judging panel. The seats of your stage world are ranked according to the preliminary review ranking. The higher the preliminary review ranking, the closer the allocated stage world is to the grand stage."

After listening to Cassandra's explanation, Dorothy also nodded knowingly. Then she turned her head to check the position of the stage world where the Home of Witches was located.

Hmm, unexpectedly quite good.

If the stars of the entire Witch Opera House are divided into ten rings with the grand stage as the center, then the position where the Home of Witches is now is about the fourth ring.

"Young Lady, it seems that the judging panel is quite satisfied with your entry. The fourth ring is almost the best position that a newcomer society can be allocated."

The werewolf witch also noticed Dorothy's movement and said so quickly. She was afraid that this Young Lady would feel that she was looked down upon by the judging panel. This person really cannot be offended casually. Don't find a reason to send the entire Night City to the Inquisition one day.

"Generally, only veteran societies can enter within the third ring. Those are old players who have won awards in the past, and the quality is guaranteed. As for newcomers, usually even if the work is good, they won't directly enter the top three rings. So the fourth ring is actually the best a new society can have."

"And those old audience members who often participate in the Magical Film Festival also know this point. Therefore, some audience members who like to dig for newcomers will specifically look at the fourth ring. The traffic here is not small. Even if it is not as good as the first three rings, it is not much worse."

And seeing Cassandra explaining in such a hurry, Dorothy was speechless again.

Is she such a narrow-minded person?

However, laughing to death, decorating the stage world? Isn't this a coincidence? I am a civil engineering major.

The Home Witch is on the right track.