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As an alchemist and a guinea pig, her personal belongings have evolved into a storage room, containing all sorts of things.
"What do you need this for?" she asked, puzzled.
Bo Yuxue didn't keep them in suspense, but spoke in a very mysterious tone.
"I heard a legend from other alien witches, a legend about witches, which is said to be related to cat balls as well."
Jiang Kehan and Solita both pricked up their ears curiously. There weren't many legends about witches, and even fewer related to cat balls.
"Legend has it that if food or gem fragments, the size of a grain of rice, fall to the ground and remain there for more than 3 seconds, they will magically disappear. This is known as a witch's ghost story."
Ok?
Jiang Kehan and Solita exchanged glances, both somewhat puzzled, their first reaction being that Bo Yuxue was joking.
How come they've never encountered such trivial matters?
"Don't look at me like that." Seeing the distrustful looks from both of them, Bo Yuxue lightly tapped the coffee table with her toe. "Do you usually leave crumbs when you eat?"
"And this is what someone else told me, but we can give it a try."
Jiang Kehan suspiciously took out a small dried fish, then gently tore it into rice-grain-sized pieces and scattered them on the ground.
All three of them stared intently at the ground, silently counting the numbers.
But when they counted to 3, the debris miraculously disappeared.
Solita's mouth dropped open. She had no idea what was going on, but Jiang Kehan and Bo Yuxue exchanged glances, both incredulous. They seemed to have seen something round flash by.
"That thing that just flashed by, could it have been a cat ball?" Jiang Kehan's lips twitched, and she asked uncertainly.
“It should be, I saw its tail.” Bo Yuxue looked at Jiang Kehan, her tone slightly excited. “Let’s try again!”
Jiang Kehan nodded and proceeded to sprinkle the water on the ground in an orderly fashion.
This time, having made preparations, she truly saw things clearly.
These fragments didn't disappear into thin air; they were swallowed whole by a tiny black kitten!
Bo Yuxue reacted even faster than Jiang Kehan. Just as the cat ball was about to disappear, she grabbed its tail, which made the cat ball glare at her angrily.
"Meow!!!" — "You witch, don't you know the rules? Anything that falls on the ground and isn't yours to keep, belongs to the cats!"
"What is it saying?" Solita only just noticed the cat ball. The difference in the amount of magic power between her and the other two was huge, which also made her physical condition much worse.
"I don't know," Jiang Kehan and Bo Yuxue answered in unison, staring intently at the little cat ball with somewhat strange expressions.
"So that's what it means to be related to cat balls." Jiang Kehan was a little speechless. She originally thought it was just a joke like in her previous life, where food could be eaten again if it fell on the ground within 3 seconds.
Did this actually happen?
The cat puffed up its cheeks and bit the hand that was holding its tail in Bo Yuxue's hand. Then, its tail, which had broken free, swung in the air and surprisingly produced witch's words.
"Idiot, idiot!"
"How dare you bully the cats! Believe me or not, the cats will be staying at your house tomorrow, eating and drinking for free!"
"Wow, cultural meow?" Bo Yuxue looked at the words and then turned to Jiang Kehan with some difficulty. "Is this what you're looking for?"
Jiang Kehan nodded numbly; she truly hadn't expected to find the cultured cat ball in this way.
"Hmph, you know that meow is cultured, why don't you hurry up and give me some dried fish!" Little Meow Ball looked at the bag of dried fish in Jiang Kehan's hand with some drool and poked it hard with its tail.
Jiang Kehan looked at it helplessly and asked with some curiosity.
"I can give it to you, but you have to answer a few questions for me."
"Silly witch, you actually asked Meowball a question." Meowball was a little indifferent, but seeing the dried fish that Jiang Kehan was gently waving in her hand, it gave in.
No catball would ever go against dried fish!
"What's the problem?" it wrote with its tail, then added, somewhat audaciously, "Two dried fish for one problem!"
"Okay, why do you want to eat the things on the ground?" Jiang Kehan poked the little cat ball and asked.
"What did you say? What did you say?" Little Meowball bristled. "What do you mean by eating things from the ground? It's obvious that you didn't want it, so it's what I picked up, meow!"
"This is a high-level harvesting method that only culture cats can have!" it said excitedly.
"Those uncultured, stupid cats just wait for the witch to feed them, but smart cats know how to find their own food!"
"This is just picking up trash." Bo Yuxue found it amusing to see the other person get so worked up and said slyly.
"Meow!" The little cat bared its teeth at her and yelled, "What trash-collecting? There's a contract involved!"
After saying that, it suddenly shoved its tail into the ground, and a special document appeared in front of the three people and the cat.
Meowball can pick up anything that the witch has dropped on the ground for more than three seconds, is no larger than a grain of rice, and has clearly stated that she doesn't need it.
—Wald Palace, Alice Sophia
There is also a small supplementary sentence marked with special annotation below.
[Visible only to witches: Don't spoil the cats too much and let them get out of control, it will cause trouble.]
All three were silent.
The name Walter Palace Alice Sophia belongs to only one witch.
She can also be called the only queen of witches.
Chapter 197 Walter Palace - Alice Sophia
Walter Palace Alice Sophia, a witch whose story is somewhat clichéd.
She was born in a small country near the Fran Empire at the end of the Society era, and was a princess who could have enjoyed a peaceful and happy life forever.
Walter Palace was where she used to live, and her family engraved it on their names.
Small countries like these were a characteristic of that era. They were usually led by a great witch who would accompany her little and medium witches to find a piece of land that did not belong to the empire and stop there.
It's less of a nation and more like a community, where people don't have strict class distinctions but rather rely on their own abilities to maintain this "home."
However, there are no small countries anymore. As early as the start of World War II, it was destined that only empires could remain intact in such a frenzied war.
All the small countries were broken up and swept away by the tides of history into different empires.
At that time, she was just over 19 years old.
Unfortunately, the Second World War began amid the turmoil of the nearby French Empire.
From that time onward, Alice Sophia of Wal Palace had to begin her wanderings.
During her wanderings, she witnessed the traces of history, traces stained with the blood of other witches.
They cheered, hiding their sorrow in their hearts, trying to use their sacrifice as ink for writing in the future, to write the picture they longed for.
In this environment, Walter Alice Sophia became the most despised figure in the war—a mercenary.
Mercenaries don't share the same ideologies as others; they're simply trying to survive.
Surrounded by these noble individuals, he appeared dim and insignificant.
But because of this, she was able to objectively observe the other witches' willingness to sacrifice for her, and realize that what they really wanted was simply a future that would put everyone at ease.
What does it mean to feel at ease?
Do you have to bring everyone else into your empire before you can feel at ease?
Walter Palace Alice Sophia, carrying the shadow of her departure, found her own answer.
Race is an inescapable identity, and witches can feel at ease among witches.
Heresy, heresy without any sense of righteousness.
Just like the despised identity of mercenaries in the past, this answer was not accepted by others, and was even regarded as a betrayal by the knights under her command.
They betrayed the beliefs that everyone had held onto from the beginning, such as living to take revenge or rebuilding that former "home".
So, when Alice Sophia of Walter Palace walked toward her own answer, the first lesson she was taught was rebellion.
He was betrayed by his most loyal knight.
Walter Alice Sophia remained calm as she gazed at the knight who, knowing he was no match for her, was still willing to draw his sword and attempt to save her with his own sacrifice, and said this.
"Then draw your sword at me, my knight."
No one knows whether the knight survived in the end, but everyone knows that from that moment on, Walter Alice Sophia never wavered in her answer.
This battle, which embodied the will of both sides, is historically known as the "Noble Rebellion."
After that, abandoned by everyone, Walter Alice Sophia was all alone for a long time.
She was not good at using people, nor was she good at making changes, and seemed to have no connection with wise monarchs.
But she was filled with love.
It is said that after Walter Alice Sophia gained followers through her strength and the changes she brought to reality, someone asked her about it.
Aren't you lonely?
She simply smiled and casually recounted a small incident: "I've always been by the witch's side."
This is Walter Alice Sophia, an utterly incompetent ruler, a tyrant, regarded by her enemies as an unshakeable, icy presence.
That's why, after winning everything, she deliberately fell into an endless hibernation.
It has been said that it is not that witches need a ruler, but that they need Walter Palace Alice Sophia.
And this person was her final opponent.
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That's why Jiang Kehan was speechless when she saw the signature on the contract.
This was the first time she felt that the queen, whose name she had only seen in books, had actually always been there.
She finally understood why Meowball could integrate so harmoniously into the witch community and even have a status completely different from other races.
It turns out that the person behind it all was the Queen.
However, the other party's instructions still made Jiang Kehan look at the little cat ball that had started to show off.
"Hmph, meow!" If it had hands, it would definitely be standing with its hands on its hips, stomping its feet.
"See that? This is perfectly normal, it's not about picking up trash!"