Chapter 9: 9. Omniscience and Omnipotence

Chapter 9: 9. Omniscience and Omnipotence

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"Sister, where did you get all this money?"

Alice asked with a mix of shock and curiosity.

"Of course I've saved up over the years, pocket money, scholarships and the like, and I've written some stuff on the Magic Network for a little extra cash. Before I knew it, it all added up to this much."

Dorothy shrugged her shoulders, and even though she felt the pinch financially, she couldn't appear so pathetic in front of her sister. So, on the surface, she maintained a "money-making? Just gotta have hands" attitude.

"Ah, what on the Magic Network makes that much money? Sister, you've got to take me with you next time."

Alice looked at her own shriveled wallet and then at the Identity Card in front of her sister, leaving behind her poor tears.

"Take you with me? Sure, but after you go back, you'll have to get your Spell Studies certificate first, and then there's Potion Studies, Alchemy, Advanced Enchantment Theory..."

Dorothy glanced at her sister from the corner of her eye, then dropped the basic requirements on this overconfident little sister.

Hehehe, my foolish sister, prepare to experience the horror of being dominated by various certifications.

"Stop, stop, stop, sister, have mercy on me, stop with all that, I'm done with you Omniscient Party folks. I'll stick to my Path of Omnipotence."

Underachiever Alice promptly surrendered. She clasped her head in her hands and covered her ears, acting like she wouldn't listen.

Dorothy was speechless. She looked at her sister with a tinge of envy, feeling somewhat sour inside.

It sounded like she wanted to take the Path of Omniscience, but if talent had allowed, who wouldn't want to take the straightforward and rough Path of Omnipotence?

Just as the goal of Cultivators is to ascend to immortality, the ultimate goal for all beings in the Witch World is the same: to become Deities.

These Deities are certainly not the idols worshiped by religious sects, nor are they the Primordial Gods evolved from some world rules. To the Witches, these deities are too weak, merely Pseudo Gods.

The Deities that Witches strive for are more like the creators themselves, supposed to be Omniscient and Omnipotent, where one thought can create everything and one thought can destroy the world.

Despite their strength, even Witches have not yet reached this realm. However, as a race nearly godlike within the Multiverse, Witches have made some progress on this path to Ascend to Godhood.

Take the same Magic Spell, for instance. A witch with a Total Magical Power of 100 Mana might need to consume 10 Mana to cast it, while a witch with 1000 Mana might only need 1 Mana to do so, due to the stark difference in the intensity of their Magic Power.

Not to mention that the amount of Magic Power also affects recovery Speed, strength of Spells, and other effects.

Thus, those flashy talents and specialties may look strong, but in the end, the standard that determines a witch's true strength is still the Total Magical Power.

And the higher the level, the more this is the case. For Peak Witches, even if there's only a 1 Mana difference in Magic Power between two witches, the gap in their strength could be massive.

It's quite easy to see if a witch has a talent for Magical Power growth—just look at her Innate Magical Power. Generally, the higher the Innate Magical Power, the faster the Magical Power growth in the latter stages.

As a pureblood witch, little sister Alice starts with an Innate Magical Power of 9888 Mana, just a bit shy of the scary territory of monsters with Innate Magical Power over ten thousand, making her a genius among geniuses. She naturally has the qualifications to try the Path of Omnipotence.

On the other hand, Dorothy's Innate Magical Power is only 2333 Mana, a perfectly average figure, equivalent to the average baseline of 2324 Mana recently published in a survey of half-witch Innate Magical Power. In this regard, she is honestly just a painfully ordinary half-witch.

Now at sixteen years old, Dorothy has barely reached the admission requirement of 10k Mana for Witch Academy. Alice fulfilled this condition when she was only half a month old. If it weren't for the academy's minimum admission age of three years, she could have been enrolling in school at just half a month old.

Ah, to compare oneself to others can be torturous.

Dorothy let out a helpless sigh.

But envy aside, she wasn't exactly jealous or anything, because as Alice said before, it's not necessarily true that half-witches are inferior to pureblood witches. After all, as long as you're a witch, the future always holds promise.

One of the race traits of witches is the unrestricted growth of Magical Power. The concept of a Magic Power bottleneck or that Magic Power can't increase after a certain amount simply doesn't exist for witches. As long as a witch is alive, her Magic Power growth never stops.

Of course, the later the stage, the slower the growth rate inevitably becomes. Otherwise, in nearly a hundred thousand years of the witch race's history, there wouldn't still be a lack of a true God of Witches who had reached the Omnipotent Realm.

So in fact, the pureblood witches with outstanding Magic Talent are merely off to a faster start. They do grow faster at the beginning, but after a thousand years or ten thousand years, once everyone becomes a Peak Witch, the differences aren't that grand after all.

In short, everyone has a bright future, always full of promise.

Of course, that's assuming you can survive long enough to reach that grand late stage.

"Aside from Peak Witches, an average witch only has a lifespan of around 1000 years. Where's all that future to look forward to, huh."

Dorothy sighed again, still unable to suppress a bit of sourness in her heart.

But soon, she had no time to feel sour, for the Magic Wand Store owner had returned.