Otaku Witch

Therefore, before your strength level reaches the point where you can forcibly merge opposing attributes like water and fire, it’s best to be more restrained and put aside the bold idea of free evolution. Honestly, it’s better to choose a fixed race template and evolve in order.

As for the construction of a unique "Divine Body," you should consider it only when you have at least reached a peak standard.

Of course, this is aimed at witches from ordinary civilian backgrounds. However, if you’re from an ancient witch family, you have more options since your ancestors have already explored the paths ahead for you.

A witch’s lifetime energy is limited, and can’t withstand many instances of trial and error. If you evolve recklessly and make a mistake, you might have to spend several times the effort later to compensate for that error.

But mistakes like these are not without value. After predecessors’ trial and error, it prevents successors from falling at the same spot again. With generations accumulating experience, eventually, a path to the "Divine Body" will be discovered.

This is what we call inheritance.

Although the ultimate "Divine Body" is unique, successors can’t directly copy the experience of ancestors. But there are many similar experiences on the path of evolution that can be learned.

For example, how to balance the opposing attributes of water and fire. Predecessors might need a lifetime to explore to solve this problem, but successors can easily bypass this hurdle by learning from their achievements.

Clearly, these evolution experiences are core inheritances of major witch families and absolutely won’t be shared. Even though regulations require them to be archived in the Magic Web Library, they certainly won’t make them public.

Thus, witches from ordinary families who want to pursue the path of omnipotence can only fumble through darkness cluelessly. The daring ones might start wildly experimenting with evolution, and either their incredible luck allows them to take off, becoming the starting point of a new witch family, or they fail terribly, leading a life of mediocrity.

While the timid ones can only follow the generic template blindly, which is safe and stable but obviously inefficient. In this process, you will inevitably waste a lot of witch evolution generating a bunch of specialties that you’ll never use.

It’s even worse than mere uselessness; what’s most terrifying is discovering that when you finally have the ability to attempt constructing a "Divine Body," the specialty you need for it is in conflict with some existing ineffective specialty.

This can be intriguing. Either you use great talent to unify the opposing aspects, as if harmonizing fire and water, forging a new path forward, or find a way to abandon that ineffective specialty.

Overall, taking detours becomes frustrating.

Hence, nowadays, hardly any witches from ordinary families pursue the path of omnipotence. After all, while you’re taking detours, witches from noble families are already attempting the construction of "Divine Bodies." The result is that despite having similar excellent talents, you’re always falling behind them. The sense of frustration is unbearable for most people.

Not to mention the disparity in resources between ordinary witches and those from noble families.

The path of omnipotence is extremely costly since specialty evolution can burn through Magic Power for forceful advancement. However, even The Third King doesn’t have enough Magic Power for reckless burning. Normal specialty evolution involves collecting various evolution materials and blending them into specific specialty Magic Potions, which greatly reduce the Magic Power consumption when witches evolve their specialties.

It’s said that some master-crafted Magic Potions can help witches save seventy to eighty percent of Magic Power consumption. But in this case, while Magic Power is saved, your wallet suffers instead.

Of course, for Dorothy, she isn’t much in need of money now, and considering she has some knowledge about Magic Potions, she can make them herself, saving a substantial amount of money.

Moreover, Mother Dragon gave her the Yemengade family’s "Divine Body Secret Technique," a notebook documenting the exploration experiences of Yemengade ancestors on the "Divine Body" path, which will surely help her avoid many detours.

But isn’t this where the uniqueness of the White Night Dragon’s perfect blank slate comes into play?

Treating this as a simple Dragon Transformation Technique indeed makes it a decorative dragon, but viewed as an Evolution Template, it’s the foundation of the Ever-changing.

Once the foundation is laid, evolution can proceed freely, without worrying about conflicting talents or specialties. The template harmonizes opposition automatically, ensuring no detours—it’s the best prototype for a "Divine Body."

As long as Dorothy is willing, she can hold the Rainbow Power in one hand, the Power Energy in another, while breathing Time Breath—a thought that feels exhilarating.

"Hmm, as expected of something made by the Dragon King; it’s definitely a quality product. Turns out I’ve been using it wrong, treating a perfectly good Evolution Template as a mere Dragon Transformation Technique."

Realizing this, Dorothy silently repented to the great Dragon King in her heart.

Though she wasn’t aware she was overthinking, Nidhogg never considered so much; the so-called White Night Dragon was merely a bridal skin fabricated by her against dragon body standards.

The reason why the White Night Dragon serves as the foundation of the Ever-changing is simply that the Dragon King is closest to the omnipotent realm. Her dragon body is infinitely nearing a true Divine Body. As she used herself as a template but omitted the detailed structure of the Divine Body, leaving only a tremendously sturdy foundation from which a White Night Dragon was crafted, it’s no wonder this template is rock solid.

This is a foundation strong enough to support the body of the Dragon King—no specialty opposition can withstand it.

So, it’s not merely any whiteboard legendary dragon; it’s essentially the whiteboard dragon king body—or, say, the Dragon King juveniles.

Hmm, a true Divine Body should be unique, but Nidhogg, due to her preferences, forcibly created a counterpart for her Divine Body.

Of course, even if this template is created, under normal circumstances, no one should be able to evolve it. After all, the juvenile form is still the Dragon King body, and the evolution difficulty is evident; the threshold is not something an ordinary witch can reach. Those strong enough to meet the requirements have definitely long formed their own Divine Body.

But clearly, the Homebody Witch is not an ordinary witch.

"It’s you, White Night Dragon. Let me see your evolution requirements."

Dorothy re-examined the "White Night Dragon Transformation Technique."

[Learning requirements: One who bears a heavenly mandate and is as beautiful as me.]

Hmm, this was the learning requirement noted when choosing this Forbidden Curse, previously assumed by the Homebody Witch to be casting conditions. Now, upon reviewing, she realizes it might be the evolution condition.

"And the ’me’ in the requirement clearly refers to Nidhogg herself."

So, this makes the threshold frighteningly high, demanding the beauty equivalent to the Dragon King and the same heavenly mandate she possesses.

"Well, then it’s fine; quite a simple threshold."

Upon reading, Dorothy lightly nodded in relief.

Though the Dragon King is indeed beautiful, she’s yet a tad short of Dorothy’s Face of God. As for the heavenly mandate, although she doesn’t wield the destiny of the Heavenly Destiny Witch Queen like the Dragon King, check out her Natural Saint status.

To tell the truth, she seems to exceed the requirements by quite a margin, suggesting somewhat her selection of this template is indeed undersized. But unfortunately, she’s way too excellent, so she’ll just make do for now.

"Hmm, next is the evolution formula."

Dorothy adjusted her perspective, once again scrutinizing many times the Forbidden Curse-level Dragon Transformation Technique from an evolution template viewpoint.

Changing perspectives, she immediately discerned many elements previously overlooked during Forbidden Curse Study.

"Hmm, sufficient beauty and the ability to freely wield it, the persona of a Sun God or Moon God, a physique on par with Legendary Dragon Species, adequate dragon beast intuition, and an indomitable spirit...."

Could you seriously be making demands; are you sure you’re not asking for my identity card?

....Dorothy scratching her head....