Chapter 80: 80. What is the Primary Productive Force?
Our attention returns to Dorothy.
After an uneventful night, Dorothy struggled to get out of bed in the morning.
If it were her in her previous life, she would probably choose to lie in bed until lunch, but in this life, where she had the rare opportunity to start over, she didn't want to waste time like that anymore.
Therefore, in this life, she had been consciously adjusting her daily routine and developing healthy habits.
She wasn't a ruthless person with strong self-control, so she needed to discipline herself through habit, using the power of inertia to drive herself forward relentlessly.
Once such a habit was formed, people would naturally be propelled by past life inertia to adhere to it.
This was a pretty effective way to discipline oneself; the only drawback was that once the habit was broken, it would be extremely difficult to pick it up again. (This is true, don't ask me how I know, because a slacker like me was actually a full-attendance person four years ago, tragic!)
Of course, this fragile method could only work for a while, but it was hard to make it last a lifetime. Fortunately, Dorothy quickly found a way to combat her late-stage laziness, her slacker nature.
We must use laziness to fight laziness.
For example, why do people like to lie in bed?
Of course, it's because it's comfortable to lie in bed, the quilt is super warm, and the new clothes in the wardrobe are cold, and the steps to put on clothes are so troublesome, and getting up and washing up are also...
In summary, who likes trouble? These troublesome things should, of course, be postponed as much as possible until they can no longer be avoided.
However, upon closer thought, this can only be called procrastination. After all, you still have to do all those troublesome things in the end, which means you're just being lazy for nothing.
So, what should a truly lazy person do?
Of course, they should find a way to make those troublesome things no longer troublesome.
If only someone could iron my clothes, dress me, wash me, and let me be served hand and foot every day, then I wouldn't be lying in bed.
Dorothy thought so.
However, even a birth mother probably couldn't be so patient as to raise a useless person. Someone who would serve you to this extent would definitely be a professional nanny coveting your money, and the salary of a nanny dedicated to such an extent...
Forget it, the poor don't deserve it...
So, people are out, but what people can't do, Magic can. Magic is omnipotent, alright.
Thus, while the brief diligence driven by habit hadn't expired, Dorothybegan to diligently study Magic, putting all her effort into thinking about how to use Magic to clear away all the tedious things in her life.
There were naturally a lot of difficulties in this process. Many times, Dorothy thought about giving up her research and just slacking off for a while, but after weighing whether it was worth a temporary slack or a lifetime of slack, she gritted her teeth and persevered.
She believed that once everything in life was simplified, she would definitely be able to defeat laziness.
Hmm, I will fight laziness to the end so that I can be lazy for the rest of my life.
With this belief, Dorothy's life over the years has been spent in an endless spiral of "I'm so tired, I want to slack off," "Shut up, you need to think about why you feel tired, and then figure out how to make yourself less tired," "But even thinking about it is tiring," "Then find a way to make thinking less tiring," and so on.
Fortunately, her talent for inspiration was still very high, so every time she pondered, inspiration would suddenly strike, and then the Magic knowledge that she had memorized but couldn't understand would spontaneously move under the effect of this inspiration. As these pieces of knowledge moved, Dorothy would also gain enlightenment.
So she often sighed, realizing that this was how Magic was played, while writing down the spells she had concocted in her mind.
What was even more absurd was that after trying them out, she was astonished to find that these spells she had concocted actually worked, and not only did they work, but they were quite effective.
This discovery made her feel quite amused.
Dorothy still remembers the first time she created her own Magic in her life, when she was one and a half years old.
At that time, her father, Adam, had not yet met her stepmother Anne, and the father and daughter were wandering in the mortal world, living a miserable life.
At that time, Dorothy didn't understand why her cheap dad took her everywhere. Now that she thinks about it, he was probably avoiding Dragon Mom's pursuit.
And Dorothy, being too young at the time, didn't have much to play with, so she could only idly read her dad's spell book every day.
Demonesses are born with knowledge. Therefore, Adam wasn't too surprised by Dorothy's unusual intelligence at that time.
After all, compared to genius Demoness cubs who could use high-level Magic and blow up their parents right after birth, her daughter's slight abnormality was not strange; she was just a little smarter.
In fact, during that period of wandering, Adam often proactively taught Dorothy various kinds of knowledge, and that Magic book, which was more important than life to a mage, became Little Dorothy's toy.
Dorothy spent half a year learning the common language of Demonesses, and then another year completing the basic mage course (Demoness kindergarten enlightenment textbook) from her father, Adam.
Then, relying on that bit of basic Magic knowledge, she devised the first self-created spell in her life, the "Lazy Person's Dressing Spell," which later became the "Witch's Dressing Spell."
The next day, she came up with the "Lazy Person's Washing Spell."
The third day...
During that period, Dorothy, realizing that creating her own spells was unexpectedly fun, began to update her spells at a speed that would shame a sow, churning out one new spell a day.
Furthermore, in the process of continuously creating spells, the basic spell principles that she had only memorized in her mind were completely digested by her.
Then she started pestering Adam every day to teach her more advanced Magic knowledge, but Adam, who was busy earning money for his daughter's milk powder and diapers, didn't have time to play with her every day. Finally, he had no choice but to buy her a Demoness children's Magic book (Demoness version of a Smart Watch?) and let her learn on her own.
That was also Dorothy's first spellbook in her life, and now her spellbook has been continuously strengthened and upgraded based on that, although it has long been magically modified beyond recognition.
To be honest, that children's spellbook was pretty useless. Although it had the function of connecting to the Magic Web, it was locked in 'teenager mode'. Dorothy couldn't see the exciting world of adult Demonesses at all, only being able to enter a few children's enlightenment forums and the like.
How could Dorothy, who considered herself an adult, be content with hanging out with a bunch of real little kids every day? So, she immediately went to the only all-ages facility that broken book could connect to—the Magic Web Library.
When Dorothy first entered the Magic Web Library, she was as excited as a mouse falling into a rice bin, but she quickly discovered in despairthat this broken library offered no way out for freeloaders; there wasn't a single free book, all books required payment.
Fortunately, what they charged wasn't Witch Gold, but a virtual currency called Library Points, which relieved the young Doro. After all, she wouldn't have to ask her dad for money, and besides, her dad was always poor. She wondered how a high-level mage like him could be so down and out; weren't mages generally quite wealthy?
However, as an adult in thought, Dorothy wasn't the type to just reach out to her parents. She figured she could be self-reliant.
And looking at the Magic Web Library's rules, as long as new spells were uploaded, one could receive point feedback, and if someone later purchased your spell, the points from the sale would also belong to the creator.
Seeing this, Dorothy breathed a sigh of relief.
What are we waiting for? The one thing I'm not short of is self-created spells.
So, Dorothy immediately registered an account named "Forest Witch" in the Magic Web Library and uploaded her 'Lazy Series' spells, rebranded as the 'Witch Series', in one go.
Although at the time she thought no one would buy the spells created by a one-year-old Little Witch, she felt her spells were too simple and crude, like doodles by a kindergarten child.
And creating spells was clearly so simple; even a one-and-a-half-year-old Little Witch like me could do it, so adult Demonesses couldn't possibly be unable to, right?
They definitely had better spells and wouldn't need to buy hers.
Therefore, after Dorothy received the reward points for uploading new spells, she excitedly went to look for any magic books she could afford to learn from. She felt she urgently needed to recharge.
It had become increasingly difficult to create new spells these past few days. There was no other way; even great inspiration needed knowledge reserves as nourishment, otherwise, a clever woman cannot cook without rice.
And when Dorothy finished devouring the newly purchased magic books, and then, carrying a batch of newly conceived small spells, prepared to continue freeloading at the library, she was astonished to find that the points under her account had exploded.
And upon closer inspection, her previously uploaded 'Lazy Spells' had climbed onto the bestseller list.
Dorothy was shocked at the time. She felt that this world must have gone crazy, otherwise, why would so many people be so bored as to rush to buy the scribbled work of a one-and-a-half-year-old Little Witch?
Then she curiously went to look at the buyer reviews below.
The first few comments were quite normal, just as Dorothy had imagined before; the adult Demonesses were very disdainful of it.
"Who's so bored they're doing these trick-level 0-ring spells? And the effect is so useless."
"Honestly, it is useless. Getting dressed and washing up, isn't that something you can do with your hands? Do you need magic for that?"
"Who would spend precious points buying this thing?"
"Only idiots with too much money would buy it."
...
However, these normal comments didn't last long, and soon things started to go awry.
"Sorry, great one, I take back what I said yesterday. Witch teacher, you are a god. This is the most practical spell I've ever seen in my life."
"A waste salutes the great one. My perspective was too narrow. I never imagined that not having to lift a finger for things you could do with your hands could be so satisfying."
"Great one, update quickly, take my points!"
"Yes, I'm that idiot with too much money. Great one, I want more."
"Recommended by a friend, I declare that a new annual divine spell has been born."
"If the Witch teacher isn't on this year's annual divine spell ranking, then I'm not watching."
...
Watching the public opinion reverse so completely, Dorothy understood once again.
So, it's not just me who's lazy, it's this whole world.
It was also from that day that Forest Witch initiated the Magic Web massacre, and the new generation of academic kings was born.
However, over the years, not all the spells she created were life spells born out of laziness.
Now, thinking about how she was about to start her second real battle in life, Dorothy sighed. She opened her spellbook, revealing a series of spells that, although also uploaded to the Magic Web Library, had never been sold publicly.
The Fairy Duel King Series.
This was a series of spells derived from the inspiration accumulated over her many years of Magic Net Duel experience.
Although not numerous, each one was her trump card for dominating the Magic Net Duel arena.
As for why this series wasn't for sale?
Tsk, her rampant kills in Magic Net Duels relied entirely on this exclusive secret technique. Selling it would be like exposing her weakness, wouldn't it?
If she were to sell it, she would have to wait until she researched the Duel King 2.0 version.
"Sigh, I clearly just want to be a Research Witch in peace. These fighting and killing spells really hurt the peace, but there's no other way. For the assessment, for the rank points, today I, the Magic Net DuelKing, the Philosophical Fairy, am going to re-emerge."
Dorothy sighed, thinking this in her heart. Today, she would probably have to shed a layer of her disguise.
...The scumbag Demoness laments...
3600 words, this is really not short now. Wuwuwu, not only is Shenhe a zombie, my Xiao is also a zombie. Today Qiqi went from never having a direct hit to one life, the child is dumbfounded. Now I'm really out of money.