Chapter 514: [Mirage System]

Elwell shrugged.

She didn't quite understand why this man was in such high spirits.

But as a Witch, even if she hadn't received any orders, she had an obligation to supervise him.

Especially regarding taxes.

After all, this was the income of the entire Witch Clan.

To be more precise, this income would all be put into the collective warehouse of the Witches.

Whenever someone had a need, they could withdraw from it.

This naturally included herself.

Although she wasn't the research type, sometimes she still needed to commission others to do things.

So, whether it was Elwell or the Witches who hadn't left the Forsaken Territory, in a sense, they were all supervisors.

Shang Chuan was naturally very clear about this as well, but it didn't matter.

Anyway, he was a person who believed harmony breeds wealth, and had never thought about defaulting on debts or cooking the books to cheat money.

So it was the same whether there was someone watching over him or not.

Joking aside.

Money could never be fully earned.

Being able to realize one's ideals was the most important thing.

With such conditions, why insist on owing the Witches a debt? Isn't it good to be alive?

...

Another seven days passed.

Setting aside exactly how Shang Chuan operated after arriving at the Forsaken Territory.

At Emerald Ridge, after Lan Qingyou and Vivian made their final adjustments, the biomechanical machine resembling an octopus in front of them gradually began to turn transparent, and finally disappeared directly on the spot.

However, both Lan Qingyou and Vivian knew clearly that the thing was still there, but was invisible due to the activation of Illusion Magic.

Of course.

This invisibility was relative.

Although Vivian's eyes couldn't see it, Lan Qingyou's eyes could see it clearly.

It was just that what she saw clearly wasn't the machine itself, but the appraisal window that popped up.

All invisibility, Illusion Magic, and the like had nowhere to hide in front of Lan Qingyou anyway, just like having no clothes on.

But she didn't care. What she wanted to see was whether this Illusion Magic itself could deceive Demon Eyes.

It seemed it could deceive them now, but only a little bit.

As long as it wasn't an appraisal-type Demon Eye, it could deceive it, but appraisal-type Demon Eyes probably wouldn't be fooled.

This could be considered a shortcoming, but being able to achieve this much now was already the limit.

After all, this octopus was already version 3.0.

Otherwise, what did you think they were doing for a week?

Version 1.0 was completed on the first day, but the results were not ideal, so they slowly began upgrading.

But it didn't matter. They would just leave it like this for now.

They would slowly improve it along with the aircraft and the Flying City later.

Anyway, there weren't many Witches with appraisal-type Demon Eyes either.

As far as she knew, besides that Sophia from before, they all lived inside the Flying City.

As for the White Witches' side, it wasn't clear. She should go say hello another day; that would be safer.

But this would only be for this period of time.

After a while, when they ascended to an altitude of 500 meters or even 800 meters, there would be no issue of whether it could be seen or not.

Even if it could be seen, it would be useless if they couldn't reach it.

To put it bluntly, it was just an emergency measure.

"Tsk, tsk. This biological magic technology is really convenient."

After succeeding, Vivian picked up the octopus from the ground and teased.

"I told you it wasn't bad."

Lan Qingyou, standing to the side, had a face full of pride.

Although the biological magic technology wasn't invented by her, being able to learn it and put it to use in such a short time was undoubtedly enough for her to be slightly proud.

Anyway, the people around wouldn't say anything.

Of course, the premise was that the species 'human' existed around.

"It really isn't bad."

Vivian nodded.

Other than hearing about guys like this tentacle type in stories, she really didn't expect to make one herself someday.

"Want it?"

"I want it."

"But I can't give it to you."

"I knew it."

Vivian's mouth twitched.

Joint development was of course joint development.

But Lan Qingyou had always been in charge of this biological technology aspect, and she acted as if she was terrified of a leak.

From then on, she knew Lan Qingyou wouldn't sell this technology to her.

So she was just saying it.

Anyway, it was like that: it would be best to get it, but it didn't matter if she couldn't.

After all, this technology wasn't a core technology the Vampire Race absolutely needed.

Moreover, the reason she collaborated with Lan Qingyou wasn't for this kind of thing. There was another crucial reason.

After experiencing a civil war, the number of people active in the entire region had dropped to its lowest point.

One had to know that it wasn't just those Vampires who died in this civil war.

There were also the Transmigrators gathered by the various clans waiting to evolve.

So under the severe shortage of personnel, what Vivian was thinking about now was how to blockade Emerald Ridge.

To make this place a region exclusively for Vampires and 'People of the Night'.

As for other external communications, everything would go through the Teleportation Arrays.

Even for commerce, it would be the same.

After all, right next to Emerald Ridge, the Werewolf clan and the Demon Hunter clan were eyeing them covetously.

Now could be said to be the weakest time for the entire Vampire Race.

At least before recovering their vitality, she didn't want anything else to happen.

And this Illusion Magic machine was her trump card.

Whether it was Werewolves or Demon Hunters, they were both relatively weak against Illusion Magic. This was discovered when they were ambushed before.

As long as she could install these things on the necessary passages into Emerald Ridge, then the defending personnel would only need to attack from the shadows.

After a few probing attempts, she believed those guys would know to back off and wouldn't come to harass them again.

This way, Vivian could also buy enough time to recover their vitality.

As for how to recover their vitality, that was of course by using the blood of Ancient Monsters to make evolution items.

Although Lan Qingyou had been here for over half a month and hadn't seen what the Ancient Monster in Vivian's hands looked like.

But just as she wouldn't give the other party biological technology, the other party wouldn't reveal the details of the Ancient Monster in her hands.

Both sides stopped at a reasonable point and absolutely did not delve deeper.

Of course, the Illusion Mist Vampires could also pull themselves together again through resurrection.

But Vampire resurrection also required time.

And what Vivian lacked the most right now was time.

Although evolution was an instantaneous matter, forming combat power was another matter entirely.

"By the way."

Vivian suddenly handed the octopus in her hand to Lan Qingyou.

"What?"

"Since the research and development is completed, we should at least give this octopus a nice-sounding name. We can't just keep calling it octopus, octopus."

"You make sense. So what should we name it?"

"I don't know. We were only focused on research before and didn't consider this aspect at all."

"It's more like we never even thought about it."

Suddenly having to name a thing, both Lan Qingyou and Vivian fell into a bitter struggle.

After all, both were terrible at naming.

Thus, in a flash of inspiration, Lan Qingyou thought of a pretty good name.

"Let's just call it the Mirage System."