Otaku Witch

The homebody witch was elated to discover a new, highly efficient learning method for herself.

However, after her excitement passed, feeling the sudden depletion of more than half of her Magic Power, her expression turned as bitter as if she had swallowed a gourd.

Although witchcraft is powerful, the consumption is also high, especially since she was not currently using the primeval Magic Power of a witch, but the degraded Magic Power of a human mage, which led to even higher consumption.

Looking at the witches' consumption rates, a standard level 0 trick consumes 1 Mana, and low-rank magic from levels 1 to 3 consumes between 10 and 1000 Mana, with occasional special magic or unique casting techniques that can break the limit, but those special cases aren't counted.

The consumption of intermediate-level magic from levels 4 to 6 is around 1000 to 10,000 Mana.

Lastly, high-order magic from levels 7 to 9 consumes about 10,000 to 100,000 Mana.

As for forbidden curses, let's not get started, there's no minimum or maximum limit—each forbidden curse is considered a special form of magic, and they need to be analyzed specifically as they don't follow the regular patterns of normal magic.

Of course, all these consumptions are based on the standard, unevolved Magic Power of witches, so they only serve as a reference point. After all, a witch's Primordial Magic Power will undergo a qualitative change as the quantity increases, which in turn upgrades the quality of the Magic Power as well.

One Mana from a Great Witch can be equivalent to 10 or even 100 Mana from a little witch; these also require case-by-case analysis.

Since the inferior Magic Power controlled by human mages is nowhere near as powerful and efficient as the primeval Magic Power of witches, this results in human mages being able to learn witch magic, but often they struggle to bear the high costs associated with it.

After all, a normal human mage's entire Magic Power is only around 1000 Mana, and with the penalty for using degraded Magic Power to cast witch magic, their casting costs are often many times that of witches. By this calculation, they're barely able to dabble in the witches' intermediate-level magic.

In short, witch magic simply isn't suited for humans, nor can they afford to wield it.

Others may not know about Dorothy, but her father Adam, as a mortal mage, is considered a legendary figure in the human world, the peak among human mages, with an astonishing amount of over 20,000 Mana. However, even after utilizing all kinds of spell-casting techniques and material aids, Adam's limit still only just exceeded the 7th level of a witch's magic.

With this, he barely passed an advanced mage qualification in the Witch World, equivalent to a junior high school level there, and now he's working under his stepmother Annie, standardly kept by a wealthy woman as a man living off a woman's fortune.

Even as Annie keeps trying to enhance Adam's Magical Power, hoping he could advance further, it's futile—mortals truly have limitations. Even though witches have no shortage of precious resources, the frail human body can easily suffer from over-nourishment, and forcing the issue could genuinely result in one being nourished to death.

This was so frustrating to Annie that she almost bit Adam in a fit of determination to turn him into a vampire, but Adam stubbornly refused, clinging to his human identity.

The couple argued about this frequently, but in the end, it was usually the stepmother who relented first, which made Dorothy quite envious. She really wanted to learn her father's technique of "don't even try to tell me what to do" and how to firmly eat soft rice.

So now the question arises—Adam has already proven the low ceiling for humans, and what about Dorothy now...

"What's the use of having high Skill Levels if your mana gauge can't keep up? Damn it..."

The homebody witch felt extremely weary, as her entire life had been plagued by the length of the mana gauge, and now even in a game, she still had to suffer this torture.

But there was no helping it, it was the path she had chosen, so what else could she do? No matter how bitter or tiring, she had to press on with tears in her eyes.

Dorothy turned her gaze to Denisha opposite her.

If the God King were to successfully awaken, using her natural authority as the first primeval witch, she could transform others into witches, as that was how the historical Witch Clan came about.

If Dorothy could be transformed, she naturally wouldn't be hindered by her inferior mortal status anymore.

But who could blame her for not being able to take that decisive step and light the fire?

"Sigh, forget it. If the mana gauge isn't sufficient, there's still the option to sacrifice life for power, right?"

The homebody witch turned her attention to another Magic Tome in her hand.

Its title, "Life and Magic Power."

If one were to give the book a more layman-friendly title, it should actually be called "Blood Demon Conversion," which can transform a person's Life Force into Magic Power.

After all, the essence of a mortal mage's Magic Power is degraded Life Magic Power, which is a second-level degraded product of Primordial Magic Power, on the same level as the Moon Rabbits' Moon Magic Power.

Mortal mages accumulate Magic Power daily by collecting their own naturally dissipated Life Force, converting it into Magic Power; beyond that, they also convert the Life Force of other animals and plants into Magic Power through eating and consuming food.

Therefore, this "Life and Magic Power" Witchcraft Secret Technique was conceived. Originally, the book was meant to teach mages how to more efficiently accumulate Magic Power through eating, but if necessary, it can also be used as a drastic measure, burning one's own Life Force to forcefully boost the mana gauge.