Chapter 269: Diana, the Knowledge Witch

Seeing the discussion, David, the Magician and head of the Adventurer's Guild, naturally understood the situation.

Lan Qingyou had previously mentioned that Susi was with her. Lan Qingyou must have said something to make Susi, the Poison Witch, so determined to resign.

"I see," David replied. "Resigning is fine, of course, but what about the Adventurer's Guild?"

Knowing he could not convince her to stay, David did not even try. Instead, he asked a highly practical question.

After all, the current branches of the Adventurer's Guild were basically all established within the Shelters of their respective branch presidents.

If a branch president resigned, the Adventurer's Guild would naturally have to relocate. They could hardly occupy someone else's Shelter indefinitely.

Indeed.

Ever since the appearance of Gu Xiaobei's Joy Restaurant—a management-style Shelter—David had seen the potential for establishing the Adventurer's Guild.

After all, building an Adventurer's Guild was definitely not as simple as just issuing Identity Cards, minting currency, and setting up a bounty system.

Of course, what surprised David the most was the massive magic formation Lan Qingyou developed later, which allowed a single Adventurer's Guild to become the core region of an entire city.

Because of this, the Supreme Council had provided their full support whenever the branch presidents upgraded their Shelters from level four to five, or level five to six.

Now that Susi was resigning and leaving, she obviously needed to provide an explanation regarding the Supreme Council's investment.

"Just keep using my place," Susi replied from the Golden Plains. "I'll be heading out soon anyway, and the Supreme Council provided the materials for the upgrades here."

Susi naturally knew this question was coming, so she had prepared her answer well in advance.

Seeing how cooperative Susi was, sparing him any embarrassment, David pressed the matter no further.

However, her mentioning that she would be heading out made him wonder—'Could this be an instruction from the Tower?'

'If that is the case, then relying on my own people is indeed the safest bet.'

Thus, after exchanging pleasantries with Susi, David summoned his Demon Race assistant to take over her duties.

Naturally.

While the assistant was taking over the position, the Shelter itself still belonged to Susi. It was essentially rented out to the Adventurer's Guild, so Susi did not open her private areas to the incoming demon.

......

That evening, the other three witches—who had been out completing quests, patrolling, or brewing Potions—returned to the Adventurer's Guild.

The reason for their return was simple: Susi had called them back.

In truth, had Susi not reached out to them through the friend list, they definitely would not have shown up at her Shelter right now.

Or rather, this place was originally the main headquarters for the four of them.

It was only later, when the Adventurer's Guild project came along, that the Shelter was compartmentalized.

"So, you are saying you think this Soul Siphon skill will be helpful to us witches, and you want us to level up together?"

one of the witches asked, leaning over the back of the sofa and resting her weight on her elbows.

"You could say that,"

Susi admitted, nodding from behind her desk.

"We heard in the lobby on our way back that the Clan Head visited the Golden Plains. Did you get some inside information from her to make this kind of judgment?"

The witch sitting cross-legged on the sofa, holding an open book in her hands, posed a crucial question.

Witches, for the most part, were top-tier scholars.

Aside from the lucky few Lan Qingyou had randomly drawn from the world channel, the rest of the current witches were meticulously selected by the Supreme Council from a pool of academic elites.

Because of this, the Witch Clan boasted quite a few brilliant minds.

The moment the Origin Witch visited, the Poison Witch suddenly declared she wanted to level up. It would be a joke to think the two events were not connected.

"There is indeed a connection."

Susi nodded. She proceeded to explain the details of the Soul Siphon skill, the Soul Crystals, and its specific counter to the Indestructible attribute. Only then did the three women understand Susi's true intentions.

Looking at it this way, acquiring the Soul Siphon skill was absolutely necessary.

Forget about Alchemy; its specific counter to the Indestructible attribute alone was enough to warrant their full attention.

After all, the Witch Clan was an ageless race.

Whatever you looked like when you drank the magic potion was how you would stay forever, and it even had a slight rejuvenating effect.

Under such circumstances, the witches naturally took matters concerning immortality very seriously.

Especially when dealing with something even more terrifying than eternal youth: a truly Indestructible existence.

"I am not against leveling up, nor am I against you resigning. But the problem is, how do we level up? Dungeons?"

the elegant, mature witch on the sofa asked.

"There are currently five low-level dungeons discovered in the Golden Plains that suit us. As long as we do not clear the entire dungeon, it will be completely enough to sustain a leveling loop."

As the former branch president of the Adventurer's Guild, Susi was very familiar with the dungeons on the Golden Plains.

"Right now, the lowest level among the top ten is level 17. That means we need to gain four levels just to catch up, and we have to maintain that rank until the beginning of next month..."

"Relying solely on this is not very safe, nor is it stable... Perhaps we can try another method?"

"What are you implying?"

"I mean, since our goal is the skill, why do we not target the skill directly? You have to realize that the monthly quota for high-ranking spots is limited, but there are quite a few witches."

"Almost all witches know Alchemy. Even the few who do not like it will definitely need to use this skill or the crystals in other fields."

Snap!

The mature witch uncrossed her legs and snapped her book shut.

She tapped her slender index finger against the coffee table in front of her, looking at Susi with a serious expression.

"In this situation, if it could be learned the same way we learn alchemical knowledge, then would the witches not be spared all this trouble?"

"Diana, are you suggesting we create magic knowledge scrolls?"

"Exactly."

The mature witch nodded.

Her name was Diana, widely known by her moniker, the Knowledge Witch. Her unique ability allowed her to craft magic into single-use scrolls for others to learn from.

However, the materials and the cost required were exorbitant. Thus, upon hearing this proposal, Susi immediately objected.

"No, that is far too dangerous. Besides, we do not even have enough materials to make those scrolls."

"That might have been true before, but have we not recently connected with the Tower Witch?"

Diana chuckled softly.

Although brewing Potions as a witch seemed like a lucrative endeavor, in reality, they were just toiling away for the Supreme Council. Very little of the profit actually ended up in their own pockets.