Chapter 9: Omniscience and Omnipotence

"Sister, where did you get so much money?"

Alice asked, feeling both shocked and curious.

"Of course, it's what I've saved over so many years. Pocket money, scholarships, and the like. Also, I made some extra money by writing things on the magic web. It just accumulated to this much without me noticing."

Dorothy shrugged. Even though she felt a deep ache in her heart, she naturally couldn't show such embarrassment in front of her sister. So, on the surface, she maintained the look of "Making money? It's easy as pie."

"Ah, this... What kind of things on the magic web are so profitable? Sister, you should bring me along next time."

Alice looked at her own shriveled wallet, then at the identity card in front of her sister, shedding tears of poverty.

"Bring you along? That's fine. Then, after you go back, you should first pass the Spell Studies certificate, and then there's Potions, Alchemy, Advanced Enchanting Theory..."

Dorothy glanced at her sister and rattled off the basic requirements to this overconfident girl.

*Hehehe, my stupid little sister, experience the fear of being dominated by various certifications. *

"Stop, stop, stop! Sister, spare me! Don't recite anymore. I'm also convinced by you "Omniscience" party guys. I'd better stick to my "Omnipotence" path."

The academic failure Alice fruitlessly surrendered. She covered her head with both hands, covering her ears, looking like she wouldn't listen.

To this, Dorothy was also speechless. She looked at her sister with a bit of envy, feeling a bit sour in her heart.

It was as if she *wanted* to walk the path of Omniscience. If it weren't for her talent not allowing it, who wouldn't want to walk the simple and rough path of Omnipotence?

Just as cultivators' goal is to ascend to immortality, the ultimate goal of all creatures in the witch world is only one: to become a god.

This god is naturally not the idol gods worshipped by those sects, nor the primitive gods evolved from world rules. In the eyes of witches, these gods are too weak; they are just fake gods.

The gods that witches pursue are more like creators. He should be omniscient and omnipotent, with one thought creating all things, and one thought destroying the world.

It's just that even as powerful as witches are, they haven't reached this realm yet. However, as a near-god race recognized in the multiverse, witches have achieved some results on this path to godhood.

Being omniscient *and* omnipotent is truly too difficult. Then, why don't we be down-to-earth and try to realize one of them first? The difficulty would drop quite a bit.

Following this simple and plain value, witches evolved the two major mainstream paths today, the so-called "Path of Omniscience" and "Path of Omnipotence."

The Path of Omniscience believes that knowledge is power. Witches on this path advocate mastering the laws of all things in the world through research and study, eventually understanding everything and reaching the realm of omniscience.

As long as the world has no secrets in your eyes, omnipotence will naturally be within reach.

The Path of Omnipotence believes that mana is omnipotent. As the energy for casting magic, mana is the power of miracles. As long as there is enough mana consumption, then any natural law or world rule must give way to you. Theoretically, as long as mana reaches a certain level, a witch can reach the realm of omnipotence and let the world operate according to her will.

As long as the world submits to you, then all things will have no secrets in your eyes.

The two paths actually lead to the same destination. Naturally, there shouldn't be any distinction between high and low. But in reality...

Holding the launch button of a nuclear bomb versus becoming a human-shaped mobile natural disaster—which is cooler naturally goes without saying. Witches on the Path of Omnipotence at the same level are slightly stronger than those on the Path of Omniscience.

It's just that looking at the highest institution in the witch world, the "Council of Sages," one knows which faction is in charge of the witch world now.

There's no way around it. Witches on the Path of Omnipotence are strong, but they are too dependent on talent. The number of top-tier powerhouses is far inferior to the Path of Omniscience. Fighting alone, you are indeed strong, but you are only strong to a limited extent, while the opponent's numerical advantage is overwhelming.

Therefore, the Path of Omniscience is actually the mainstream path in the witch world today. As the saying goes, "The orthodox witch is Omniscience; mages should be learned and talented, knowing a little bit of everything."

Of course, the slogan is shouted like this, but in reality, everyone is sour. Everyone wishes they could jump to the other side. After all, if it weren't for really having no choice, who would be willing to memorize books and study and lose hair in the laboratory every day? It's just that they can't eat by talent like the monsters on the other side.

Dorothy is a member of the "Lemon Group." She, an academic failure in her previous life, was forced to become an academic elite. What kind of sin is this? It's all because as a half-witch, her talent is inherently insufficient.

Don't look at the pile of talents and specialties on her identity card earlier; they look quite powerful, but in fact...

Well, actually, they are quite powerful.

But this is not the point, because those fancy talents and specialties are ultimately just embellishments, side paths. The orthodox path of witches has always been and only has one: stacking mana.

The quality of mana aptitude is the only standard for evaluating whether a witch is truly talented.

After all, mana, this power of miracles, has a very outrageous characteristic: quantitative change will cause qualitative change. After enough mana gathers, it will naturally evolve and refine, becoming purer and more powerful.

For example, a witch with a total mana of 100 needs to consume 10 mana to cast a spell, but a witch with 1000 mana only needs 1 mana to cast it. This is because the mana intensity of the two is completely different.

Not to mention that the amount of mana also affects recovery speed, spell strength, and a series of other effects.

Therefore, those fancy talents and specialties, while they look strong, the standard for whether a witch is truly strong is, after all, the total amount of mana.

And the further you go, the more this is true. For those peak witches, even if the mana difference between two witches is only 1, the strength gap is almost worlds apart.

Whether a witch has talent in mana growth is also quite easy to see. Just look at the innate mana. Generally speaking, the higher the innate mana, the faster the later mana growth.

Alice, as a pure-blooded witch, had an innate mana of 9888, just a little bit away from the "monster" rank of over 10,000. She was a genius among geniuses and naturally had the qualifications to try the Path of Omnipotence.

But Dorothy's innate mana was only 2333, a standard level, equivalent to the average line of 2324 announced in the latest survey of half-witch innate mana. She was truly as ordinary as an ordinary half-witch could be in this regard.

Now she is sixteen years old, and her mana has just barely reached the 10,000 mana required for the Witch Academy's admission standard. You have to know that Alice met this condition when she was half a month old. If it weren't for the fact that the minimum enrollment age for the Witch Academy was three, she could have reported to school when she was half a month old.

*Sigh, comparing people to people, it's enough to make one die of anger. *

Dorothy sighed helplessly at this.

It was just that while envious, she couldn't be called jealous. After all, just as Alice said before, half-witches might not necessarily be inferior to pure-blooded witches. After all, as long as they are witches, they are "forever promising."

Because one of the witch race's characteristics is "unlimited mana growth." There is no such thing as a mana bottleneck, where mana stops growing after reaching a certain amount. As long as the witch is alive, her mana growth never stops.

Of course, the further you go, the slower the growth speed naturally becomes. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been a witch who truly reached the realm of the God of Witches in the nearly 100,000-year history of the witch race.

Therefore, pure-blooded witches with outstanding mana talent just have a faster starting speed. They do grow faster at the beginning, but after a thousand or ten thousand years, everyone is a top-tier witch, and the gap naturally isn't that big.

In short, everyone has a bright future; it's "old promising."

It's just that the premise is that you can live to that late stage.

"Excluding peak witches, the lifespan of an ordinary witch is only about 1,000 years. Where is there so much "promising"?"

Dorothy sighed, her heart still unable to stop feeling a bit sour.

However, she soon had no time to feel sour, because the wand shop owner had returned. ===== CHAPTER 10 =====