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"Building a warship? You mean the Witch Battleship I'm thinking of?"

Senior Mia, who was merely curious at first, was suddenly stunned. She excitedly stood up, both hands pressing on the table, leaning forward with wide, round eyes that looked adorably dazed.

Of course, what shook the homebody witch the most was the sight of Senior Mia's bountiful harvest naturally falling due to her leaning position over the table. Find more chapters on My Virtual Library Empire

Ah, what is blinding my eyes.

"Yeah, building a warship naturally means a Witch Battleship, what about it?"

Dorothy blinked rapidly, storing away the beautiful scene, then scratched her head, not understanding why Senior Mia was so excited.

"What about it? That's the Witch Battleship! The pinnacle of war alchemy in the Witch World. How could you mention it so casually, Little Fairy?"

Senior Mia was once again astonished by the talent of this treasured person she cherished.

"But you're not joking with me, are you? There's no such specialization as warship building, right? Aren't Witch Battleships typically a team effort?"

Having calmed down, the Golden Princess asked with some doubt.

Witch Battleships represent the great achievement of war alchemy in the Witch World, work that can't be completed by a single alchemist but requires the cooperative effort of the entire Witch Alchemy Industrial Chain.

For instance, the warship's power system requires alchemists specialized in the power domain to design and complete, the warship's mana furnace requires alchemists specialized in the energy field, and the warship's weapon system also needs...

In short, building a warship is not a task one person can accomplish alone; it requires the collective effort of alchemists from various disciplines, unless a Sage herself is personally building the warship...

Senior Mia fell silent, it seemed like the Little Fairy was a low-key version of a Sage.

"Right, there wasn't a warship building specialization before, but now there is. Otherwise, why do you think I went to learn so much? It's all for the sake of better building...er, I mean building ships."

Dorothy spread her hands helplessly as she said this.

She used to be quite the slacker in her previous life, so why did she suddenly become an all-around excellent student this time? Was this a distortion of human nature or a decline of morality?

Of course, it was neither. It was purely because interest is the best teacher.

For one thing, magic was indeed more interesting to her than physics, chemistry, and mathematics from her previous life, and she found learning it fun. Secondly, that darn game was just too hard. In order to create those legendary spirit battleship wives by hand, she had to be madly strong and accumulate a certain level of knowledge.

If she didn't read more, the design plans for those warships would be like a Heavenly Book in front of her, utterly incomprehensible.

To be honest, Dorothy really suspected that the convoluted and professional shipbuilding system in "Warship Collection" was designed to force players to spend money. The system was seeming justification for the game company to claim that their game could be played without spending since theoretically, all warships could be built and freeloading was possible.

Whether you could actually build them was up to the players, it wasn't the game company's problem if you couldn't.

Dorothy, who lusted after those enticing warship girls, wanted them all, but being poor, she couldn't afford to spend money, so what else could she do but delve deeply into studying?

To create her wives with her own hands, she studied as hard as she could without dying from it.

Fortunately, in this life, she had a bit of talent in learning. Before starting, she thought it would be tough, but after learning, she just wanted to say it was not as bad as she expected, it wasn't hard at all, and even felt quite easy and enjoyable, to the point of being addictive.

In the end, she learned whatever knowledge was necessary for shipbuilding, learning as she built, and by the time the ship was nearly complete, she had pretty much covered all the bases.

If the entire process were a kind of farming strategy game, then the Witch Battleship would be a high-end late-game technology. To unlock this high-end late-game tech, she had to unlock a series of prerequisite technologies such as Materials Science, Engineering, Magic Studies, War Weaponry Studies, and so on.

So, when Dorothy actually managed to build a warship on her own in the game, she truly felt she knew a little about everything.

And because various warships had different attributes, whether they were Prophecy Reconnaissance Ships or Energy-Evocation Battleships, the more she built, the more she realized she needed to learn, and eventually, she just learned it all.

In fact, Dorothy somewhat misunderstood the game company's intentions. Although they were indeed a bit coercive about microtransactions, they weren't so extreme as to necessitate solo construction of warships.

After all, it wasn't a single-player game but an online one; if you couldn't build it alone, wouldn't you call in a bunch of friends to help? In reality, other freeloading players built warships in a Guild system.

But Dorothy was a lone wolf player with no friends, a rather sad story.

Furthermore, she was a bit of a cleanliness freak; she thought her warship girl wives must be built by her own hands. How could she let others touch her wives? Even close friends were out of the question. It was a matter of principle.