Chapter 19: The Daily Life of Three Girls

“I’m telling you, Chabao, Senior Casey is really ruthless when she starts fighting!”

“And then there’s Mentor Carol—why on earth did she suddenly drag me off for some special training? Boohoo, I just want to battle happily! That old lady must be jealous of my youthful, beautiful body!”

“Ah, Estelle won’t be bothered by noise unless the house actually collapses. I’ve been to her room before; the walls are covered in thick soundproofing runes! Even if you throw a party in the living room, she won’t hear a thing!”

Listening to the blonde loli ramble on and on, Jiang Cha had to summon her computing power a bit to figure out what the little girl had been through amid her twisted complaints.

In short, Lina had gone to the battle club earlier and somehow ended up getting mercilessly beaten by Senior Casey and Mentor Carol all afternoon, with threats to continue drilling this little brat tomorrow…

‘Could it be… because of me?’

The girl thought a little nervously.

After all, both that senior and Mentor Carol seemed to pay quite a bit of attention to her?

But the blonde loli was obviously carefree. Just moments ago she was tearfully complaining to the girl, but as soon as she turned away, she happily plopped down on the sofa fiddling with a game console.

“Chabao, Chabao~ let’s play games!”

The game console looked very much like a normal home console from the girl’s common sense, even connecting two controllers.

Not at all like the virtual reality game pods she had imagined.

“Actually, I’d rather read a book?”

The girl tilted her head, not interested in this retro thing, but suddenly the seemingly old-fashioned console projected a virtual screen. Lina, sitting on the sofa, closed her eyes while holding the controller. The next second, an eight-out-of-ten resembling blonde girl, slightly taller than Lina herself, appeared on the screen.

She smiled brightly and waved at her: “Chabao, come on! I’m a game master, I’ll carry you~”

Jiang Cha: “…”

She had underestimated the witches’ technology. No need for game pods—they linked minds directly.

The girl was somewhat intrigued by this kind of far-beyond-common-knowledge tech. Besides, she couldn’t study much knowledge in twenty minutes, so it was better to relax a little.

So she mimicked Lina, sat on the sofa, and picked up the controller.

Suddenly she felt a strange signal requesting to link.

A line of text appeared in her mind.

【Confirm linking to virtual reality?】

‘Confirm.’

Without voicing it aloud, she sent the mental signal, and the next moment she felt herself suddenly inside the game.

The feeling was strange.

It wasn’t like her soul or spirit fully immersing, but rather her perception split into two views. Most of her thought circuits stayed with the resting, eyes-closed main body; she could even distract herself to review and organize knowledge she had just taken. Meanwhile, one of her thirty-four thought circuits was pulled out by her mental power and thrown into the game world.

This game didn’t have career choices, only face customization. Jiang Cha was too lazy to change appearance and named her avatar Qingcha. That’s how she entered the virtual world.

“Hehe, your first time in the game. If the console is linked to another account, your spawn point is set beside that account for friends to play together.”

Lina tossed Jiang Cha a bunch of basic equipment with a smile as she stared blankly at the ruined wasteland scene.

Wearing a big LV1 tag, Jiang Cha glanced at the surrounding monsters, all at least level 50, and Lina’s level 200. She fell silent for a moment.

Looks like this blonde loli was a gaming addict.

“This is a 99% realistic virtual world, but no worries about confusing reality and virtual, Chabao—you must feel the strange perspective, right?”

“Hmm… how is this done?”

“Apparently it’s done through a rare magic, but it’s hardly circulated, so I don’t know the exact principles.”

Lina shrugged, then brightened: “Let’s go! I’ll help you level up!”

The virtual game world was unimaginably vast for Jiang Cha.

From Lina’s explanations, she gradually understood some basic settings.

The game map comprised three star-system-sized areas, each dominated by a faction—basically factions.

In reality, witches’ territorial wars face little resistance, but in the game, opponents are also witches. They have no racial advantages to easily steamroll through.

So they just fiercely compete, making the game’s faction war tech trees even more developed than reality. Some logistics witches even experiment with alchemical products in the game before bringing them to reality.

This led to the game, only a year old, having players with hundreds of levels still cannon fodder, with only elites like Lina at max level 200 with good equipment considered strong.

All players start and cap at the same level; it’s rare for one to take on hundreds. The high realism also makes it a training ground for witches to hone combat skills.

Though there’s still some gap with reality, the effect is decent.

But it also means frontline combat witches often log in to relax after rest. With so many pros, big players crashing also happens more.

“Once a big combat witch got killed in-game by a witch with over 3000 magic power in real life and came for revenge—that was hilarious.”

The blonde loli smirked maliciously.

Such an incident would be super embarrassing for the vengeful big witch in real life.

Witches care a lot about face.

Maybe because newbies level fast, and Lina had precise low-health finishing techniques, the girl quickly leveled up despite experience penalties.

Soon she reached level 50.

Compared to hard grinding, it felt more like a picnic.

The difference between 99% and 100% realism was noticeable, as even witches hadn’t fully comprehended all real-world rules, especially miracle power (magic power).

As she leveled, Jiang Cha’s in-game magic power increased, and she felt the subtle difference.

Real magic power is miracle power—omnipotent. A desperate witch can unleash ten times her usual combat power.

No one knows the principle—it’s almost mystical—but witches can do it, and many magic-using species across multiverses can as well.

But game magic power is just energy to cast spells.

The game also simplified casting—spell models contain knowledge infection, and casting forbidden spells in-game is like murder to ordinary witches.

In summary, although useful for training, this high-tech VR game is really just a game for witch society.

Jiang Cha quickly lost interest—compared to gaming, she preferred traveling in real life.

“Jiang Cha-chan, Lina-chan, dinner’s ready!”

Just as the girl was thinking how to politely tell Lina she didn’t like games, she suddenly heard He Qin’s mom calling.

Before she could speak, the blonde loli suddenly disappeared from the game, and in reality, Lina pounced on He Qin: “So fragrant! Qinbao, will you marry me? I want to eat your cooking forever!”

Jiang Cha: “…”

“Stop fooling around, wash your hands.”

He Qin gently but teasingly tapped Lina’s head, not bothered—she was used to Lina’s sweet talk.

“Jiang Cha-chan too.”

Seeing the girl open her eyes, He Qin repeated.

“Hi~” *2

Then the two witches obediently went to wash hands like children being scolded.

He Qin’s cooking was quite good.

Though the ingredients helped a lot, Jiang Cha had eaten many witch-world ingredients before. The Aislinn Witch Academy was wealthy; the cafeteria used very good ingredients, but compared to He Qin, the magic doll’s cooking was poor.

Not that it was bad—just every dish tasted the same, with no variation or novelty.

Witches hated sameness.

That’s why they loved handmade dishes, personalized staffs, and hunting for homemade magical items—like buying crafts from artisans.

Is that better than mass production?

Not necessarily.

But definitely more interesting.

“I’m full.”

“Me too!”

Though He Qin looked very Japanese—like a Yamato Nadeshiko—she was essentially a Chinese witch and wouldn’t make prayer gestures at the table.

Instead, Jiang Cha and Lina wolfed down their food like kids, then obediently reported they were done and went to the sofa—to lie down and rest.

“Help me clean up!”

He Qin called out, a bit annoyed.

Witches liked cooking but hated cleaning tables.

But Lina pretended not to hear and quickly logged back into the virtual game. Jiang Cha…

Jiang Cha raised a hand slightly; a precise magical force floated out, creating thirteen spell models simultaneously in midair. Each spell model released a gentle force that lifted the dishes one by one, wobbling as they floated into the kitchen’s multifunctional dishwasher.

She charged the dishwasher with magic to start it.

Then another spell summoned water, and in a blink, the table was spotless.

Throughout, the lazy, cat-like girl lying on the sofa with half-closed eyes only moved her fingers slightly, looking like she did nothing.

He Qin: “…”

She had underestimated Jiang Cha’s abnormal skill.

If Lina had been here, she would’ve smashed all the plates!

Levitation (Force Magic Tier 2) isn’t a simple spell! Though tier two, the spell model is far more complex than a fireball.

Especially since Jiang Cha controlled thirteen levitations at once, precisely balancing magic power and the weight of each dish.

Many senior witches might not manage that.

This wasn’t just fine-tuned magic control; the computing power to achieve this would take a supercomputer more than ten seconds!

‘Jiang Cha-chan really is…’

He Qin sighed a little, helpless.