Building a Magic Circuit

In Jiangbei City’s Xingfu apartment building, the doorway of the seventeenth floor had been cordoned off with police tape. From time to time, curious neighbors from upstairs and downstairs would try to peer inside to check the situation, but without exception, they were all driven away by the police officers on duty.

The residents living on the same floor had all left the scene after the security personnel arrived.

The security officers who arrived on the scene were professionally trained and could eat their meals even at a murder scene.

But this time, after seeing the scene, they all felt their scalps tingle.

A strong smell of blood filled the entire living room. The surrounding walls were covered with messy scratches, while the female head placed in the middle of the living room wore a serene smile, as if she had simply drifted off into a deep sleep.

“Captain Li, we’ve searched the entire house. We haven’t seen any other parts of the deceased.”

Forcing himself not to look at the head displayed in the living room, Officer Li reported to Captain Li, who was smoking and observing the living room.

Captain Li was a man in his forties. Years of being on the move had tanned his skin dark, and his face, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, still had some unshaven stubble.

If Su Ran were present, she would have recognized this Captain Li as one of the people who had hurried past her at the police station entrance.

“Thanks for your hard work. Want one?”

Hearing his subordinate’s report, Li Shanhai took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and offered one.

“No thanks. I need to get some fresh air in a bit.”

Officer Li took a deep breath, but after smelling the pungent odor of blood, he forcefully stopped himself.

Li Shanhai waved his hand, and Officer Li temporarily left the scene. He himself stared at the living room with a furrowed brow.

‘Did you not search the other areas of the room?’

‘…no magic essence reaction, no witnesses, and it doesn’t look like a vampire’s M.O. It seems like just an ordinary murder and dismemberment case, but why does the scene look so bizarre?’

Having such a vicious case occur in his jurisdiction gave Li Shanhai a massive headache.

If there were a magic essence reaction or traces of vampires at the scene, he could hand it over to the Blood Hunters to investigate. But with no such evidence at the current crime scene, he had no strong reason to pass off the case. For now, it could only be investigated by his security officers.

After leaving Sakura Cafe, Su Ran made a trip to the bank to deposit part of the cash Feng Wei had given her.

Upon returning to her own apartment, Su Ran, who was about to take off her little dress, suddenly realized that after going out for so long, there was still something she hadn’t bought.

Due to the magic array on the witch outfit, Su Ran had been wearing this dress ever since she changed out of the white nightgown.

And the dress very thoughtfully came with its own support and holy light, so she didn’t have to worry about the soft marshmallows bouncing around chaotically.

It wasn’t until now, after taking off the dress, that Su Ran discovered she was still wearing a very out-of-place pair of boxer shorts.

‘There’s nothing to be done. I’ll just have to buy them next time I go out.’

Faced with this situation, Su Ran could only comfort herself with a sense of helplessness.

‘I really just forgot, it’s definitely not because I was unwilling to buy them.’

After becoming a girl, there were many daily necessities she needed to purchase anew.

But for the past few days, Su Ran had been immersed in meditating and absorbing magic essence. It seemed she would just have to wait until her next outing to buy them.

As of now, the amount of magic essence in Su Ran’s body had already reached the standard for Sequence One. All that was left was to construct the magic essence circuit, and she could officially enter the sequence.

‘Wait, once I drink the coffee again, I’ll be able to accept Sequence One missions, and then I won’t need to be a maid!’

Thinking of the generous rewards for Sequence One missions, Su Ran couldn’t help but fantasize for a moment about herself traversing the Witch Game, constantly improving her strength, and driving out the vampires one by one, leaving none behind.

[Pulls obtained: 290/300]

Su Ran’s fantasy didn’t last long. It was only after she poured her money into the “Witch’s Meditation Technique” gacha pool to fish for the technique that she soberly realized a certain fact about herself.

Her watery, bright eyes had now become even more vacant than before. She placed her right hand on the ten-pull button and pressed it.

Su Ran’s entire screen, after a flash of golden light, was immediately followed by a streak of red light.

[Congratulations, Host, for obtaining “Witch’s Meditation Technique” (Part 1)]

[Congratulations, Host, for reaching three hundred pulls. You have received a mysterious reward: Soul Vessel – Ring of Pride (Damaged).]

Receiving two rewards at once could be considered a slight compensation for the gloom of hitting the pity rate.

After getting the Witch’s Meditation Technique and the Ring of Pride, Su Ran immediately took them out of her inventory to examine them closely.

The Witch’s Meditation Technique given by the system this time was different from the previous Magic Essence Circuit Compendium.

After all, it was something obtained through paying to pull, so even the material of the meditation technique was much more sincere than the compendium.

Su Ran turned her attention to the other reward. According to the system’s description, the Ring of Pride was a damaged version of a Soul Vessel.

To be honest, she still didn’t know what a Soul Vessel was. However, judging from the replica Soul Vessel in the Shadow Witch’s hand, the so-called Soul Vessel must have many powerful functions.

Then, a damaged version of a Soul Vessel should be even more powerful than a replica.

Su Ran examined the material of the ring; it was not gold.

The spot where a gem should be embedded was empty, which was probably why the Soul Vessel was judged to be damaged.

[Ring of Pride (Damaged): Can increase the recovery speed of magic essence based on the wearer’s total magic essence amount.]

Seeing the system’s description of the ring, Su Ran was astonished.

This was a precious percentage-based recovery, which would increase her recovery speed as her magic essence increased.

Of course, in terms of effect, it was slightly inferior to the replica Soul Vessel in the Shadow Witch’s hand.

But Su Ran was already content. The Soul Vessel in her hand was not yet complete. She imagined that once the ring was complete, there would be more special abilities waiting to be unlocked.

Slipping the ring onto her hand, Su Ran opened the Witch’s Meditation Technique she had pulled, preparing to study it carefully and see how this meditation technique differed from the one Isa used.

After deconstructing the Witch’s Meditation Technique and comparing it with the one she learned from Isa, Su Ran found that the Witch’s Meditation Technique had a more detailed understanding of magic essence. In comparison, under normal circumstances, the Witch’s Meditation Technique was more efficient at mobilizing magic essence.

But what was strange was that the Witch’s Meditation Technique also did not mention how to construct a magic essence circuit or how to use psychological perception, leaving Su Ran in a complete fog.

Fortunately, the meditation technique Isa had learned before contained knowledge on how to construct a magic essence circuit, so Su Ran was not completely in the dark.

At the very least, Su Ran had the most basic knowledge for constructing a magic essence circuit. Since the Witch’s Meditation Technique did not have any special descriptions about the circuit, Su Ran began to try and construct her own.

If she succeeded, she would step into Sequence One and officially become a superhuman.