If one didn't know better, one might say that a computer would be able to fully solve the issue of information. But a computer would be extremely inefficient in this regard – it doesn't have the many sensors any witch has naturally. It would be a huge cost to build a computer that could have them all, but the cost could also advance a witch to the next level, meaning she would have once again stronger sensors.
In the end, the best thing witches thought of were items that store a lot of knowledge and make it easier to browse through the knowledge, any single witch will then have to use her own judgement to decide what to do with the knowledge.
"Fortunately, this necklace also has an encyclopaedia, and additionally to that, it even has strong sensors to scan the properties of different plants without harming them, which is helpful on a new planet. It seems that time witches are the strongest in pharmacy, followed by rituals and then alchemy.
But this is also understandable, after all, time witches have spells and rituals to enhance the passage of time for plants, making botanic a lot easier, while their extensive lifespan and age enables them to read a lot and have a great amount of theoretical knowledge, if you combine this with the possibility of practicing for a long time, time witches might truly be the second best pharmacists.
As for the best… naturally it is the nature witches. But after all, time witches aren't ones that are strong in any single category, except their long time, they don't excel in anything. But the longer a time which lives, the stronger she gets. So what if she's not the best at alchemy? Give her a thousand years and she'll be better than anyone else that still lives. As for the better ones? Well, they died already.
It could be said that time witches are the epitome of elderly, no matter how much a younger person tries, it is extremely difficult for them to surpass their elders, and if they truly work hard, they will likely pass away before.
I don't know what to say, I never thought that this would be my future, I want to say that I am very young and can't be called an elder… but since my soul age is ten thousand years old, I don't even know if there is any human alive that is older than me. The only thing I can imagine is that there are some mutated monsters or foreign races that are older than me."
As the woman browsed the knowledge in her head, she sighed. Finally, she looked at the way of harnessing spiritual power as a witch.
This can be said to be extremely difficult, much more so than wizards. Instead of magic circles, witches place seals upon their souls to advance. The seals are rituals they practiced very hard and made the one time rituals a permanent mark of their soul.
It can be said that the ancestors of witches worked hard to remove a big disadvantage of seals and even created a huge advantage. The disadvantage was that in the past, in exchange of placing a seal, the witch would be restricted in spells that have anything in relation to the ritual. What a joke, rituals are extensive and some even use many different affinities, the witches that sealed these rituals would suffer the greatest.
This was fortunately removed, but to make this happen, rituals in general have become more specific and huge rituals that extend to many facets can't be sealed, it can be said to be an upper limit, but specific rituals are many times better, these extensive rituals can still be practiced, you just can't seal them into your soul.
As for the advantage, it is that unlike wizards who need to create the magical circle to have the power of that stage, witches will get power beyond the number of seals. The reason for this is that without the help of power, witches would never be able to create strong seals, nor gather the materials for the rituals.
So, for example, any mortal with the inheritance of witches and the ability to absorb spiritual power into her soul is able to step into the first level of awakened apprentice – without creating a seal. The seal would be created at the peak of the first stage, and then the awakened apprentice would become an apprentice witch.
Because of this, witches will be weaker in the first few stages. After all, in comparison to the apprentice witch, the second circle wizard has more spells and two circles, while the witch only has one seal.
But later on, when there are many people of lesser strength and fewer of higher strength, witches will naturally be superior. After all, a six-seal witch will have the power of the seventh stage, but seventh stage wizards are extremely rare outside. The seventh seal of witches is also extremely difficult to form, naturally they are rarer.
And the biggest advantage is the ninth seal – after that seal, naturally they can't form more, but after forming this seal, they will be stronger than any ninth circle wizard. At first the newly advanced witch will be comparable, but as they grow stronger and solidify their strength, only those that were superior to others in their level can be compared to these witches.
Finally, when these witches advanced fully and strengthened themselves, it is much easier for them to advance to the illusory higher stage. Witches can be said to be snowballs that become stronger with each step they take.
"The requirements to advance and create the seals are three: first, you need to have enough affinity power of your element. Most witches have reached this already for the first three seals without needing to do something to enhance it… not to mention me. The time affinity advances with each mortal life I passed.
With my ten thousand years, I have already lived through a hundred mortal lifetimes, my affinity is already at the highest and I won't need to worry about this point no matter which stage it is… there isn't any possibility to enhance my affinity anymore, so all the spells of the time affinity that require one to have lived a certain amount of time will be the strongest in my hands."