Otaku Witch

Chapter 259: 232. Miscellaneous Matters about Brick Moving

"My King, how can you personally move bricks? This kind of task should be left to us."

As Dorothy hummed a song and selected magic-resistant bricks from the ruins one by one, this voice suddenly rang in her ears.

The homebody witch turned around and saw Miss Moon Rabbit, who had apparently arrived beside her at some point, causing her a bit of surprise.

"Sidwell, what brought you here? Don’t you need to be overseeing things over there?"

Dorothy asked.

Logically, the Moon Rabbit Race should be busy planning and establishing the Moon Worship Cult right now. At such a critical moment, Sidwell, as the Queen of the Moon, should have been too occupied to leave.

However, Miss Moon Rabbit’s expression stiffened.

How could she answer this? She couldn’t possibly admit that the High Priest and the Knight Commander found her, as the queen, to be a hindrance in managing affairs, fearing she would make things worse, so they sent her away to serve the king.

Today, she had come alone because even the sisters Ellie and Liz, who usually stayed close to her, had been conscripted to do work.

In other words, in the eyes of the High Priest and the Knight Commander, those sisters were far more useful than her, a queen who was good for nothing but fighting.

It was rather disheartening, wasn’t it? Was her noble status as the Queen of the Moon not worth any respect? So, everyone had their uses except for her?

Thinking of this, Sidwell felt cold with anger, but she knew she couldn’t reveal the real reason to the king.

So...

"With the High Priest and the Knight Commander in charge of the tribe, I, as the king’s servant, naturally need to attend to the king’s side."

Miss Moon Rabbit said, her face stern, trying to sound utterly serious.

She even used her Martial Arts Skills to control her blushing caused by lying, making her face return to its normal color. She cared more about her face than her ears, and her long rabbit ears turned a soft pink. Thankfully, the white fur on her ears masked them, and unless someone came close and pushed aside the fur, she wouldn’t be caught out on her lie.

Dorothy: "..."

If Sidwell hadn’t used her Martial Arts Skills to suppress the blood rush, Dorothy might not have thought much of it. But with that movement, Dorothy immediately noticed something was off. After all, although Miss Moon Rabbit had also developed a Martial Soul, she was still miles away from Dorothy’s level.

Oh, I see. She was considered a nuisance.

With these thoughts, the homebody witch had an epiphany, but she still tried hard not to laugh. She then pulled a piece of rebar from the rubble nearby, transformed it into a rabbit-eared steel safety helmet with Alchemy, and handed it over.

"Alright then, you can help me move the bricks. It’s fairly strenuous work, though. I just hope you won’t complain about being tired later."

Miss Moon Rabbit took the helmet and put it on, delighted to find that the rabbit ears on this safety helmet matched her own perfectly, causing her no discomfort at all.

Well, it just goes to show how amazing the king is with Alchemy.

After feeling a bit of inward admiration, Sidwell rolled up her sleeves, ready to work. As for the previous reminder from the king, she didn’t take it too seriously.

After all, how hard could moving a few bricks be? Could it really be tiring? As a Moonlit Lionheart Rabbit, she was on par with the Calamity Race in terms of physical strength.

If you’d asked her before, she might have held on to some of her Knight of the Moon pride and found brick-moving demeaning, not befitting of a warrior. But now, she was completely convinced by the king’s abilities. Since the king was moving bricks herself, what was there for her to be picky about?

Sidwell surreptitiously observed the witch covered in dirt, with bare arms and even filthy with grime. Thinking back to yesterday’s majestic and divine Lord Moon God who could create with a wave of his hand, if it weren’t for the contract linking them, she would never believe that these two were the same person.

This king really had no concerns about maintaining a public image.

Miss Moon Rabbit thought to herself.

Actually, Sidwell was no stranger to hardship. After all, she wasn’t the type who grew up in luxury. Thanks to her mother’s script for her life, her childhood was fraught with adversities. It was because she had experienced so much hardship that she strove to climb higher, aspiring to be the Knight of the Moon, to leave her impoverished past behind.

So now, she had become the Queen of the Moon, yet she still had to move bricks on a construction site. The feeling was truly indescribable.

However, this was also her first time moving bricks. After all, with the advanced level of technology in the Moon Rabbit World, such low-skill labor-intensive work had long been replaced by mechanical bionic people.

"My queen, shall I go back and gather a group of bionic people to help?"

Sidwell looked up at the ruins strewn about the sky island and offered a suggestion.

Although it was a small sky island, it was the size of a gigantic manor. To clear such a large area by just two people was indeed inefficient.

"Hehe, these bricks can’t be moved by bionic people, otherwise, I would have used puppets to move them. You’ll understand once you start,"

Dorothy shook her head with a bit of helplessness.

The reason this lazy witch was moving them herself was not only because she was indeed motivated to build her own house, but also because these materials truly didn’t allow for cutting corners.

The ruins on the ground were all made of high-level anti-magic materials. Anything containing magic power would disrupt its flow upon contact with these materials. Therefore, puppets that relied on magic control couldn’t touch them, and since the bionic people of the Moon Rabbit World also ran on mana, they would be useless here.

These materials had to be moved manually. Even a witch moving bricks would find her magic power operation affected. The efficiency of body-strengthening magic would be reduced to almost nothing, and much like ordinary humans, it would come down to physical strength.

Indeed, Dorothy had heard that wealthy people liked to use demon-breaking material to make exercise equipment, but as someone poor, she couldn’t afford such luxury goods. But wasn’t this the perfect opportunity to exercise?

It really was a good opportunity. She had long envied the Armed Society folks and their specialty of ’Thousand Hammering and Hundred Refining,’ but as someone with high body attributes, it was generally hard to push her body to the limit. Yet now, with these demon-breaking materials scattered everywhere, she thought that once all these bricks were moved, although ’Thousand Hammering’ was out of the question, the most basic ’Hundred Refining’ seemed achievable.

Indeed, just before Sidwell arrived, she had already exhausted her body three times, achieving three limit breakthroughs. This gave Dorothy the thrill of leveling up in a game; the more bricks she moved, the more addictive it became, and she just couldn’t stop.

But this truly was exhausting, even for her, the Dragon Witch, and she didn’t know if the Miss Moon Rabbit could handle it.

"Go for it, I believe in you, you can do it."

She patted the shoulders of the clueless, adorable Moon Rabbit and then ran off with a stack of bricks piled high. (Well, I think there ought to be a mention of Shen He carrying the Fleeting Life Stone here.) Read latest stories on Freewebnovel

To maximize the training effect, she deliberately chose the edge of the sky island as the place to stack bricks, just to walk a few extra steps.

There it was, there it was; the feeling of new strength surging.

Awesome, a fourth limit breakthrough, moving bricks truly was wonderful.

Feeling the resurgence of strength in her body at its limit, the Homebody Witch felt like she could see the letters "lv.up" above her head, igniting her fighting spirit.

Meanwhile, Sidwell, seeing the queen effortlessly carrying away the little mountain of hundreds of bricks, became even more convinced that these bricks should be easy to move.

This was her first chance to show off in front of the queen, and she was determined to do an excellent job.

Thinking this, Miss Moon Rabbit casually flicked a finger to lift a piece of the broken brick off the ground.

Only...

Embarrassing, she couldn’t lift it.

Feeling the heaviness at her fingertips, Sidwell gasped in shock.

What kind of bricks were these? Even solid iron bricks wouldn’t be this heavy. What kind of cursed material was this, and my magic power...

Finding her magic power, which usually flowed as smoothly as a sports car, suddenly become as clunky as an old tractor, Miss Moon Rabbit realized something was amiss.

...Miss Moon Rabbit in horror...