Otaku Witch-Chapter 505 - 410. Shipped out_2

The crude array could only help the angler form the fishing line and hook, but whether it could maintain all this depended on the witch's control over her Magic Power.

The underwater currents were turbulent, and the ever-changing environment invisibly increased the difficulty of maintaining the Magic Silk Thread. A moment of carelessness might snap the line or lose the hook.

Moreover, simply maintaining control wasn't enough. After all, you still had to fish. In the process of hooking and reeling in the fish, you needed to wrestle with it. If, during this struggle, you lost focus and failed to control your Magic Power properly, the line would collapse in an instant, and the fish, hard won on the hook, would be lost for nothing.

Therefore, if you truly wanted to catch a fish, decent Magic Power control was essential. And the higher the Level of the fish, the more difficult it would be to reel in. If you really wanted to catch those high-Level fish, you would have to work hard to improve your Magic Power control.

It must be said, this was indeed a good training method, effective and fun. It was much better than what Dorothy did back in the day when she deliberately practiced with a Basic Magic Staff, although the homebody witch's Magic Power control was actually due to cheats, not just training.

"Hmm, Audrey, you should really fish more, it's a good practice for your Puppet Thread manipulation."

Dorothy comfortably maintained the fishing line and then turned to look at her junior, saying so.

"Senior sister, you really noticed, huh? For us Puppet Masters, fishing is indeed a great training method. It was my second aunt who took me fishing originally. I caught a fish on my very first day, no Air Force needed."

Hearing her senior sister's words, Little Fox's ears twitched, and she wore a triumphant expression.

"Hmm, besides Puppet Masters, Summoners should fish often too. I was wondering why the arrays around this fishing site looked so familiar; it turns out they're a variant of the Random Summoning Array."

Dorothy then looked down at the dock below her feet and smiled as she spoke.

She had almost completely grasped the so-called principle of fishing, even feeling an Inspiration, which gave her a bold idea.

"Hmm, a fixed fishing site is a bit troublesome. Maybe later I could try simplifying it to a mobile fishing site, or better yet, refine it into a Fishing Spell. After all, with so many anglers out there, this Spell could potentially have a broad market, likely sell well, and then rake in quite a few Library Points."

The Witch of the Forest quietly thought so to herself.

"Uh, Summoning Series?"

Hearing this, Little Fox, who had been quite proud up until then, suddenly found herself speechless. This broached her knowledge blind spot; she wasn't unfamiliar with the Summoning School, but the only Summoning Spell she knew well was the Familiar Contract.

Dorothy didn't bother with her confused junior and, having discovered the secrets of fishing, simply started some experiments of her own.

Hmm, if you think about it, the essence of Summoning is really just a form of fishing.

Fishing involves casting bait to lure the greedy fish to bite, then capturing it, while the process of Summoning is quite similar.

Don't be fooled by the variety of bizarre Summoning Spells in the Witch World; though they appear multifaceted, these Spells don't really differ fundamentally except for their targets.

Early Summoners didn't have as many specific targets to choose from as now. Back then, Summoners were much like anglers, projecting their Strength into the Spirit World and using its timeless and unpredictable nature to randomly lure creatures from another world.

Hmm, it's all about whether the creature is willing to take the bait. If any Otherworld creature took a liking to their power, it would be drawn by the Witches' Strength, and that would be considered a successful Summoning. Once both sides signed a contract, directed Summoning could then be conducted.

What those ancient Summoners could Summon really depended on chance, and as this chance increased over generations, Summoners organized and categorized their contracted creatures' Summoning preferences, thus forming the current elaborate system capable of Summoning nearly anything.

So, it's fair to say that the Summoning School originated from fishing.

Dorothy had studied the Summoning School a bit, but she had always learned ready-made Summoning Spells and had never created a completely new Summoning Spell herself.

Hmm, well, it's not impossible; after all, she now had an entire Moon Rabbit Tribe under her, which could serve as a basis for devising a Moon Rabbit Summoning Spell.

However, it was clear that the Moon Rabbit Summoning Spell couldn't simply be posted for sale on the Magic Network since the Moon Rabbits were her private Servant Army. If they turned from a private army into a mercenary force, her guise as the Witch of the Forest would quickly fall away.

The birth of the Summoning School originated from the act of fishing, and now the Witch World's version of fishing seemed to integrate some basic knowledge from the Summoning School—a true Reincarnation indeed.

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But now the question arises: if I use some of the Summoner's techniques while fishing, what will I ultimately catch?

Dorothy was curious.

In that moment, with a thought, her will traveled along the Magic Silk Thread into the water, connecting to the fishing hook that had landed who knows where after hitting the water, and to the bait on the hook that continued to struggle.