The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess

Inside the Scroll-making House, many Curse Masters looked towards the leader, Boyleid.

One of the Curse Masters voiced dissatisfaction, "The attitude of this Holy Daughter is too nasty, how can she be a Holy Daughter?"

Others chimed in:

"Exactly, the previous Holy Daughter was powerful, but she was always polite to us."

"Relying on a bit of talent to act so arrogantly, if such a person becomes the Holy Daughter, the Holy Court will fall."

"Master Boyleid, what do you think we should do?"

Boyleid pondered for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Miss Hilia’s attitude is indeed a problem, maybe it’s arrogance stemming from talent, but after all, she developed it, which you cannot deny."

Everyone nodded.

Using Scrolls to draw Magic combination techniques is a brilliant idea, but actually many high-level Scrolls, you could also say, are the result of modifying and merging many low-level spells.

Most spells are like this, naturally so are the Scrolls, three lower-levels form a mid-level, then three mid-levels form a high-level...

Scrolls become increasingly complex, which is why higher-level Scrolls are harder to draw, distinctly different from Arrays.

Arrays only need to be big, bigger, and bigger, the bigger the better.

"However, this is just a third-level Scroll, at most not reaching the fourth level. Everyone here has a high success rate in drawing fourth-level Scrolls, she indeed shouldn’t be so arrogant."

Boyleid paused, then continued, "She ran, we cannot run. Since we have received all the Scroll’s data, we should draw it out and show Ms. Meilina what kind of person she chose."

"That’s right!"

"She’s willful; we shouldn’t be like her."

"Let’s make one first, then go tell Ms. Meilina about the situation."

"Then let’s start!"

"..."

Two days later.

Boyleid, representing the entire Curse Master team, handed their first-drawn Scroll to Meilina.

The initial breakthrough in Scroll-making is the hardest, everything becomes easier afterwards.

Now that they have succeeded, what remains is to increase the success rate.

Boyleid was confident of raising the success rate to over 20%, this is the confidence of a high-level Curse Master.

Meilina took the Scroll from Boyleid, paused in surprise, and asked, "Why is there only one?"

Boyleid replied, "Miss Hilia was unwilling to work with us. After handing over the Scroll’s data, she left. This is the first Scroll we successfully drew. With the first completed, subsequent productions will stabilize."

Meilina nodded, "Well, albeit a bit slow, but since Hilia is unwilling, let’s just leave it. I’ll go and test its effect later... Oh, right, how much did we spend on failures?"

Boyleid said, "It’s being calculated. In the last two days, the cost of materials and blank Scrolls is around 500 Gold Coins."

"500 Gold Coins in cost could make 500 Scrolls for Hilia... Forget it, it’s still progress. I’ll test the Scroll first, and you provide me a report on the cost and efficiency later. Also, there’s only ten days until we launch the full attack, you need to hurry up and produce at least 2000 Scrolls."

"2000 Scrolls? Why so many?" Boyleid exclaimed in surprise.

"Not a lot, Hilia could produce them alone."

"Impossible!"

Meilina thought for a moment, then said, "No, my wording was off. Considering Benovia and her assistance, it’s effectively five people. You have ten people; I’m not asking much, as long as you can match the workload of five people."

"Five people, that explains it, no wonder. Alright, don’t worry, Ms. Meilina, we’ll ensure the task is completed!"

With approximately ten days remaining, aiming for about 200 Scrolls daily, while factoring in failure rates, daily output must exceed that number by a significant margin.

Boyleid frowned.

"Could it be that Hilia hasn’t told us something else?"

He returned to the Scroll-making house, communicated Meilina’s requirements, which instantly sparked a debate.

"That’s too many!"

"No matter how you think about it, it seems impossible."

"Taking failed Scrolls into account, maybe I could manage tenfold, but..."

Boyleid held his hand out to silence them:

"Two thousand in twelve days, we have two days to improve our success rate, and over the remaining ten days, output two hundred daily, twenty per person, this number is still achievable."

Noticing others still wanted to comment, Boyleid said, "MS Meilina mentioned that Hilia only needs four assistants to easily produce, surely you can’t let just five people beat you out, right?"

"What, how is that possible?"

Everyone exchanged puzzled looks.

"Could it be that Ms. Meilina is deliberately pulling our leg?"

"It’s possible."

Boyleid continued, "Anyway, let’s give it a try first."

Everyone began investing their efforts into Scroll drawing.

If Hilia were here, she would surely shake her head.

Because they didn’t listen to her, instead of three people drawing different parts for each, each person was drawing one Scroll, which hadn’t formed a ’production line,’ remaining individual small workshops.

Thus, another two days later.

Boyleid approached Meilina, strongly protesting.

"Ms. Meilina, you’re making it difficult for us. It’s impossible to complete two hundred in a day. It takes 5-10 minutes for each Scroll. Working ten hours a day, at most, we can draw 60-100 Scrolls. A success rate of at least 20% is required to meet a single person’s quota of twenty, but besides me, no one else can achieve a stable 20% success rate."

Meilina was surprised, "What? Only a 20% success rate?"

Boyleid frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Hilia claimed her success rate was over 50%, and if she worked alone, it could reach 90%."

"Absolutely impossible, a 90% success rate could only be achieved by a Magic-guided Machine, but such machines cannot draw Scrolls."

Meilina rubbed her forehead, "It seems you guys don’t like Hilia, strange though, she’s usually very popular."

Boyleid said, "Of course, we’d like her if Miss Hilia were amiable, but she’s too arrogant."

"What? Arrogant?"

Meilina looked bewildered, "Are you sure you’re speaking about Hilia?"

Boyleid was also taken aback, "Who else if not her?"

"I’ll call her over to ask about it. Oh, by the way, the quality of the Scrolls you drew varies too much, some have only half the effect, this won’t do, Hilia’s Scrolls guarantee 100% effect."

Meilina quickly called Hilia over.

"Is there something you need, Ms. Meilina?" Hilia asked, yawning as she approached, with a puzzled look.

Upon noticing Boyleid nearby, she paused, surprised, "Is there an issue with the Scroll-making?"

Boyleid, with a cold face, "There’s no issue, it’s just Ms. Meilina’s requirements are too unreasonable, and I’m protesting."

"Unreasonable requirements?" Hilia’s drowsiness dissipated immediately, and she became spirited, "Could they have asked you to make 4000 Scrolls in ten days? That’s inhumane! I’ll protest to the Holy Master!"

Boyleid: "Uh, not that many, just 2000 in ten days."

"What? Just 2000? Aren’t there 10 of you? Protesting over just 2000? That’s quite pathetic, isn’t it?"

"???"