Chapter 232

"You report your itinerary to me every day, and then I'll come to see you."

Chu Yuanqing thought for a moment and asked:

Is this a game of hide-and-seek?

The Pure White Witch asked with honest concern:

"But I'm clumsy, I'm afraid I won't be able to find you."

Charlotte's heart softened at the sound of this, and she couldn't help feeling happy. She drew circles on the water with her fingertips and whispered:

"I told you I'd come find you, and I definitely won't go back on my word. Don't worry, it'll be at most a week after the commercial performance... no, at most three days. I'll definitely be there for you. Only a dog would lie!"

After the Doomsday Diva finished speaking, she covered her face with her hands. Why did she change her mind halfway through? She had originally planned to set a week in the future to tease Xiao Qing and "get revenge" for her bluntness today.

For some reason... I was even more looking forward to this meeting than the other person was.

Charlotte couldn't help but start to doubt that this connection was actually with her teammates. Her head was spinning, and she even began to feel that three days was too long.

Could it be that I've fallen in love with Chu Yuanqing at first sight? But they haven't even met yet!

Chu Yuanqing was unaware of the entanglements on the Saintess's side. After hearing about the three-day timeframe, her cute little face nodded seriously, revealing an expectant smile, and she softly replied:

"Okay, then I'll wait for you."

Charlotte quickly replied:

"Okay, that's all for today."

"Xiao Qing, remember to go to sleep early. Goodnight!"

Subsequently,

The Pure White Witch heard the phone hang up, and her smile deepened. She found Charlotte all the more novel and adorable.

Perhaps because her memories haven't fully returned and she's still a bit green, coupled with the fact that their relationship isn't as familiar as it used to be, Miss Charlotte, who used to be good at teasing and flirting and always had the upper hand, is currently in the stage of being a glass cannon, attacking high paper defenses.

Chu Yuanqing felt that she should cherish the Charlotte she had now.

After all, given the Doomsday Diva's personality, even without regaining her memories, if the two of them became more familiar and closer, their previous conversation would be completely reversed.

But overall, we have made groundbreaking progress today.

Chu Yuanqing was in a good mood. In three or four days at most, she would be able to see Charlotte of this era in person. She wondered what Xiao Shu would think when she met her.

Sigh, if I don't explain it clearly, no matter how imaginative my Little Cotton-padded Jacket is, she'll at most think of Charlotte as her older sister, right?

Chu Yuanqing had a headache. She wanted Xiao Shu to recognize her mother, but she had to meet two prerequisites first.

First, Charlotte's memories have recovered to a certain extent, and she recognizes the Little Cotton-padded Jacket, who is the same age as herself and whom she hasn't seen for 17 years.

Second, I need to confront my Little Cotton-padded Jacket first, at least to explain the matter of correcting the Worldline and make her believe it, so that she can accept that she has a mother who is the same age as me.

Both of these are incredibly difficult, and with over a month left on the trip, I don't know if I can manage to handle both.

Chu Yuanqing was calculating her plan. She couldn't be sure if Charlotte's memories would resurface, just like her Little Idol Liuli hadn't made any significant moves. But she knew she could confront her daughter.

Well, the form in which the problem is laid out is crucial. If we talk about it directly, he'll definitely be seen as "a poor father who's suffering from nervous breakdown and starting to have hysteria due to too much work pressure." So, we need to at least demonstrate some supernatural power.

But...

Now that my Little Cotton-padded Jacket knows about Magical Girl, her thinking might veer off to "a pitiful father who awakened magic due to excessive work pressure and started to have hysteria," so simply showing supernatural power doesn't seem enough.

At this moment,

The Pure White Witch was being a bit dramatic; it seemed she really had no way to get her daughter to believe her.

He can't just appear in both his main body and his clone and tell the other person the truth, can he? How would she communicate normally with her daughter on the show after that? She would definitely be bombarded with insults like "pervert," "scumbag," "pervert," and "middle-aged man who deceived Little Idol's feelings!"

The mere thought of that possibility made the girl feel a pang of heartbreak and sadness. Her eyes drooped in disappointment, her eyelashes fluttered, and her focus began to blur as she stared at the pebble kicked away by her toe.

"Sigh, I'll think about it slowly when I get back to the hotel."

Chu Yuanqing sighed. Her current identity and life trajectory are clearly visible across the entire internet. Even Xiao Shu finds it hard to believe, as it's completely inexplicable.

The night view and evening breeze of Vienna seemed to lose much of their luster after I said goodnight to Charlotte.

Chu Yuanqing didn't linger by the riverbank. She returned to the Sahe Hotel before 11:30. She glanced guiltily at the Little Idol, then subconsciously tiptoed into her own room. Only then did she feel relieved. Without thinking, she unbuttoned her clothes and took them off.

The Pure White Witch didn't hesitate to display the most alluring scenery of late summer to the air. She placed her outer clothes, undergarments, and the short socks she had just taken off into the laundry basket, preparing to put them into the washing machine in the room later. Then, without even putting on slippers, she walked barefoot into the bathroom.

Taking a bath is always a happy thing.

Chu Yuanqing was in a good mood today, so she didn't rush to take a shower. She took off her Lantern Gem, and swan necklace and placed them next to the bathtub. She added bath soap and waited until the tub was full of foam before lazily soaking in the hot water.

Splash, splash.

Some of the pool water overflowed and fell onto the wall.

The girl regained her original appearance with white hair and golden eyes. Her eyelids drooped, and she closed her eyes drowsily, enjoying the warmth of being embraced by hot water. She licked the drowsiness that gradually evaporated with the steam, and hummed the melody of <das beste> softly with a nasal tone, a smile curving her lips.

About five minutes later,

Chu Yuanqing placed the rubber duck that Liuli had given her, and the toy crab that the Golden Haired Doggy had given her, all in the surface of the bathtub. These were things that the two of them had strongly requested her to bring, saying that taking a bath would not be monotonous and that they were the most suitable toys for college students.

Chu Yuanqing was certainly not that naive, but since she had already brought it along, it would be a waste not to use it while taking a bath. She turned on the crab switch and watched it start spinning around and blowing bubbles, poking the poor, innocent little yellow duck next to it with its pincers. She found it quite amusing.

It's worth mentioning that the background music for the crab toy was a cappella recording by Xie Qingxuan herself.

To be honest, there's nowhere to buy these kinds of things at the base, and a big sister like Chen Xiaoxiao, who also works as a part-time life assistant, wouldn't fulfill the contestants' random requests.

So, just like the little yellow duck that Liuli gave him, this thing can only be Xie Qingxuan's personal bath toy.

Since the child was deliberately recording sounds inside, she probably really liked this seemingly silly and cute thing, which explains why the other party strongly insisted on bringing it along.

All I can say is...

The Golden Haired Doggy was surprisingly cute and playful.

Chu Yuanqing watched as the toy crab bullied the little yellow duck that couldn't sing for a while before fairly separating the two little creatures and not allowing them to continue fighting. She took out her phone, which was in a waterproof case, opened the Dreamweave app, and began to explore the magic library.

I looked at some of the information this morning, but I only learned one water dragon technique. I haven't carefully observed the other details yet.

Chu Yuanqing believed that Astrid and the other Witch's understanding of magic would definitely be of some reference value to him, who was only half-baked.

First, the other party acknowledges that magic is a product of idealism and that the essence of Magical Girl originates from wishes. They then cited a series of calculation results monitored by high-precision instruments, which involved humanity's current top-level technology—ether.

The so-called ether is actually the original substance that is reduced to magic after purification.

This substance is difficult even for Witch to refine; it was first discovered in obsidian, the material used in artificial lanterns.

In other words, in the eyes of the authorities, Obsidian is not merely for creating [Witch], but can be considered a strategic resource that determines the future development of humanity, and even its survival.

Ether technology is the official system, while the [Witch] system is merely the most extensive, largest, and most promising branch for saving the world.

The Aether Satellite hanging high in the sky—[Fuxi]—is one of the research findings.

Of course, it looks very crude at present. The existence of [Fuxi] is nothing more than a project that forcibly combines existing technology with ether and imitates the Staff of God, so that the official has a Damocles' Sword to deal with the Calamity Beasts.

In terms of power, it's not many times stronger than conventional kinetic weapons; it can only be used to specifically target troublesome enemies like Nightmares that are immune to physical attacks and only susceptible to mind-based magic.

Chu Yuanqing continued reading the section on magic. Astrid believed that, limited by human common sense, cognition, knowledge, and imagination, even magic born from idealism has limitations and can be roughly categorized through quantification.

Currently, they can be roughly divided into six categories: elements, spirit, concepts, rules, spacetime, and life.

However, the spells that a [Witch] can learn are limited, and this limitation depends on the nature of the magic, that is, the [Flower Bloom] stage.

Simply put, choosing the Soul Flower and Flower Language signifies that the desire has begun to take shape, the power of the mind has officially determined its direction, the infinite possibilities have officially ended, and the magic of the quantum state has been oriented into a single property.

This property will officially determine what kind of magic a [Witch] can learn.

Astrid notes here that, to date, no [Witch] can fit into all categories; the vast majority are limited to one type, and 90% are elemental.

Being able to learn 2-3 types of [Witch] is already one in a million, and there probably haven't been many in the last ten years.

Well, aside from showing sincerity, this is the core reason why she was so generous in letting Chu Yuanqing tour all the numerous spells. She wanted to use this opportunity to measure how many types of spells this [Lighthouse] could learn, and further determine his specific talent.

Chu Yuanqing glanced at the last page of the magic classification notes, then turned to look at the moonlight-like magic power in her palm. Sometimes it was tinged with inner fire, transforming into a fiery red-black flame; other times it emitted a soft glow, fading into a sacred, pure white. She murmured in realization:

"Only the aether restored from the disintegration of magic can be used with all types of spells."

"Does that ether refer to the pure white authority?"

Volume 1: 222. The Holy Judgment Ten Strokes, Xie Qingxuan's Blessing, and a Second-Grade Red Wine. (6K)

In the bathroom,

Suppressing her suspicions, Chu Yuanqing perused the magic library to the end, memorizing several of the most profound and complex spells. She beckoned to the Lantern Gem on the sink, and the little creature bounced back into her palm, happily spinning around a few times.

According to the information in the library, the fairies in the Lantern Gem, beings like violets, are one of the proofs of the Magical Girl's superior talent. They are projections of the host's soul, crystallizations of desires, and natural partners who can assist in the use of magic.

Chu Yuanqing's soul realm plummeted to rock bottom, and her spiritual domain became mottled and incomplete. She used to be able to use the power of a mortal to unleash sword energy that could cut through tsunamis, and she could also use a little magic power to create a nuclear explosion, with an energy consumption ratio that was unbelievably high.

Therefore, while the micro-management she displayed during the midday battle against the Calamity Beasts was impressive to Dreamweave and others, she herself considered it clumsy and had absolutely nothing to do with elegance or coolness.

The same is true now.

If Chu Yuanqing wanted to test the compatibility of magic power in one go, it would involve magic with extremely complex structures. In her current state, she would need the active assistance of the Lantern Gem.

The Pure White Witch held the magic of silver light in her hands. The light floated and spun like water droplets, blending with the shapes in her memory according to her will. It flowed smoothly along the trajectory of the spell, turning into strands of soft light that swirled in her palm.

--Low-level spell: Bright Light Spell.

This is magic used for lighting, and it corresponds to the elemental system.

Chu Yuanqing continued to push the boundaries. She was learning a system of spells, with the Bright Light Spell being its foundation. By continuously refining and optimizing it, she could transform the magical structure and evolve it into more advanced magic.

Thus, the radiance in his palm grew ever brighter, transforming into wandering flames that vaguely resembled divine realms and angels. It was enough to resonate from the depths of one's spirit, yet it was confined to the area around the bath by the output of magic, making it look like a small concert held in heaven.

--High-level spell: Holy Flame Protection.

This is a magic that combines the functions of purifying evil spirits, physical defense, physical attack, and invigorating the spirit; it corresponds to the elemental and mental magic systems.

Chu Yuanqing continued to increase her magical output, pouring all the magic power in her body into the spell, including the 1.5 lamps stored in the Paper Crane Can. The surrounding light and color phenomena silently roared, as if creating Vacuum Domain in a very small area.

Those fiery streams divided this area, reflecting different scenes of heaven, making the space above the bathroom like a shattered mirror, each piece like asphalt under the blazing sun, distorting the view and filling it with an extremely intense radiance.

Chu Yuanqing tried her best to control the scale of this magic, otherwise the entire hotel floor would probably be within its range of destruction. She snapped her fingers and, before the magic power was completely exhausted, canceled the spell's activation. She then had the lantern absorb all the remaining magic power before she breathed a sigh of relief.

--Forbidden Spell o Holy Judgment Ten Strokes.

--Compatibility requirements: Elements, Spirit, Time and Space.

This is already the most advanced magic in the library. According to Astrid's notes, it requires at least the magical power of the [Chuan] realm to fully unleash it. Its complete effect is to divide the local spacetime into ten realms, releasing holy light comparable to a nuclear explosion within them at all times.

It is worth mentioning that the annotations indicate that the main inspiration for the series of spells, such as Bright Light, Holy Flame Protection, and Holy Judgment Ten Strokes, all comes from a forbidden area.

Because it requires three elements of magical adaptation and also involves the relatively rare spacetime element, it is currently in the experimental stage of theoretical refinement, and it is unknown whether it can be released.

So, she was probably the first [Witch] to construct this thing.

Chu Yuanqing wearily submerged her head in the water, making childish gurgling sounds as she savored the lantern's transformation of her wishes into magic, allowing it to refill her soul and the warmth of the Paper Crane Can. She thought to herself:

"The Holy Judgment Ten Strokes have many flaws; ultimately, it remains only a theory. Normally, even if all the elements are combined, it cannot be used."

Chu Yuanqing was able to use it not because she was a magical genius, but because this product, which included angels, hymns, and heavenly effects, was clearly an imitation of the Disaster God she had previously defeated.

--[Old Testament].

Chu Yuanqing already possessed His authority, and not long ago he even defeated Him again in the illusion of the Sea of Truth. With a detailed reference system, it was naturally a very easy thing to reproduce a power similar to His in the form of magic.

She realized this when she was in the library; otherwise, she wouldn't have performed such a high-risk operation in the bathroom, even if it was to avoid hurting the rubber duck and toy crab.

Chu Yuanqing's magic was replenished. She poked her wet little head out, glistening water droplets falling from her eyelashes. The golden light in her eyes was tinged with a hazy mist. She shook her head vigorously to clear her mind and murmured:

"Continue testing."

Subsequently,

The Pure White Witch then tried other spells.

Life-related healing spells, as the name suggests, are used to heal injuries.

These conceptual, fantastical substances are used to create high-strength materials that do not exist in reality, greatly assisting the official research into ether technology.

The function of a rule-based Mortal Realm Barrier is to set up a range of areas. Within the area, the [Witch] and the Calamity Beasts will be isolated, as if they have entered Pocket Dimension that covers reality. No matter how they fight, as long as their magic power is not exhausted, they will not actually harm the surrounding buildings and people.

Well, this is probably one of the magic spells that the official developers most want to popularize, but unfortunately there aren't many that adapt to magic power rules.

Chu Yuanqing looked at the collapsing spell structure again, nodded slightly, and whispered as expected:

"They all failed."

This was to be expected. If her magic was the primordial substance called ether, it would have been discovered by Dreamweave long ago and attracted greater attention.

Of course, it's impossible to match all categories at once.

Chu Yuanqing suspected that the Pure White Authority was equivalent to direct control of the Ether because she had the authority to freely choose the Soul Flower during the [Flower Bloom] stage.