"Hmm... I'd better clear all this stuff away first."
Now that she had made a magic item she was satisfied with, the "defective products" scattered across the floor were no longer useful.
So Lan Qingyou called in the Household Magic Puppets.
They cleared all the defective products into a warehouse.
This warehouse was different from the finished-goods warehouses and the Material Warehouse.
It was essentially a junk room, a warehouse dedicated to storing these defective products.
There was no helping it.
Easygoing as Lan Qingyou was,
she was also self-aware.
She knew her research often ran into all sorts of problems.
So, unlike other witches, she did not put her defective products in the shops along the street for people to take freely.
Instead, she tossed them straight into the scrap warehouse.
This had also led to a rather interesting phenomenon.
Within the entire High Tower Shelter,
the largest area was neither the Library nor the Herb Gardens where rare medicinal herbs grew.
It was this scrap warehouse dedicated to storing defective products.
There was no helping it.
Lan Qingyou simply loved experimenting too much.
Once she started an experiment, new ideas were bound to crop up.
Then she would produce preliminary versions—"defective products" that failed to meet her standards.
For instance, sometimes she noticed that she still had meteorites in her Cards.
Then, on a whim, she would make crucibles.
Although a single meteorite could make quite a few crucibles,
after distributing some to the factories,
she still tossed the remaining dozen or so into the warehouse.
Likewise, whenever she saw lower-grade materials she might never have a use for, she could not resist using them up.
The result was prototype Magic Puppets.
The reason Lan Qingyou called these Magic Puppets "prototypes"
was simply that they were different from