[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t":3,"chapter-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-52":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Global Survival: The Tower Witch with an E-Rank Talent",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1374347,1818,"Chapter 52: Severe Casualties","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-52",52,"\u003Cp>Shang Chuan worked fast, and Li Huai wasn't far behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their trade requests arrived practically back-to-back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasting no time, Lan Qingyou set Steel Wire Ball down on the desk, accepted Li Huai's stone slabs first, and began laying them out across the floor one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the first floor ran out of space, she moved to the second and third floors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once that was done, she drew alchemy arrays on every slab — a process that ate up a full hour for all one hundred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she set Li Huai's large iron cauldrons on top of the slabs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was where the ability to fly really showed its value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though every room was packed wall-to-wall, hovering in the air meant Lan Qingyou's movements were neither slowed nor muddled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weigh the herbs, add water, ignite, stir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This night was destined to be sleepless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just for Lan Qingyou, but for everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Xiaobei sat in her Level 3 shelter — which she'd decorated with considerable ethnic flair — with nothing to do but grit her teeth and wait it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, she couldn't sit still any longer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After tossing a piece of lumber that added a measly 1 energy point into the core, she opened her friends list and found Li Huai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Xiaobei: \"Got any meat over there? I want volcanic beast meat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huai: \"What for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Xiaobei: \"Making a late-night snack for Boss Lan Qingyou.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Huai knew perfectly well about the relationship between the two — Gu Xiaobei had been introduced by Lan Qingyou, after all. So without another word, he went and butchered the volcanic beast he'd killed that very day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sent over not just the meat but the organs and bones as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Gu Xiaobei got to work on Lan Qingyou's midnight meal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As lone wolves, the three of them experienced something resembling teamwork for the first time that night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't feel half bad, actually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if given the choice, they'd really rather not experience it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One scare like this was more than enough — a few more and they'd lose their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou, meanwhile, worked through the entire night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At one point she dashed up to the third floor to inject fresh mana into the core, lest the shield's energy run dry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't until dawn broke outside and a golden glow began radiating from cauldron after cauldron of finished potions that she finally, barely, stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was exhausted. She was drowsy. She desperately wanted to sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not yet — once the potions cooled and settled, she still had to trade them away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slumped over the Magic Desk, her head buzzing, her eyes slightly unfocused, Lan Qingyou listlessly kneaded Steel Wire Ball's soft body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One night. 105 cauldrons. 41,000 vials of potion. She was starting to think she might actually be superhuman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt a lot like frantically finishing homework on the last day of summer break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except the intensity was orders of magnitude higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on her earlier math, one person needed 8,666 vials — roughly 21-plus cauldrons — to last three days. But since over a dozen hours had already passed, the actual requirement was lower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, it was lower for those whose shelters hadn't been destroyed yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seriously though, what was up with the intensity of this Mana Tide?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was absolutely not something that a bunch of newcomers who'd been in this world for barely a month should have to endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grumbling internally, Lan Qingyou lifted her heavy eyelids and glanced at the regional channel's population counter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twelve hours had passed. The channel that had once shown over nine thousand people now displayed just over three thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Severe casualties.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A quick scan of the regional channel's chat confirmed as much — it was wall-to-wall profanity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though most of the rage was directed at a single person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xin Tianle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Xin Tianle, you goddamn bastard! I'll haunt you even as a ghost!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That son of a bitch made off with ALL our materials! So much for 'weathering the storm together!'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should've known better than to trust a Xinluo rat!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's over. Without materials, we're dead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone — if you see that dog Xin Tianle, avenge our two hundred souls!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?! Xin Tianle's actually Xinluo?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's there even to say about this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nothing to say. Just sit back and watch the show.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahahahaha, I told you Xin Tianle was shady, but did any of you listen? You all lined up to get scammed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm actually curious how his Level 3 shelter fit several hundred people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can answer that — I've been there. He linked five Level 3 shelters together in a chain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Scary. Xin Tianle actually invited me once. Thank god I didn't fall for his crap.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, you know — Xinluo folk. Everyone already knows what to expect, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bravo! I give Xin Tianle's play a perfect score.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I used to think District 666's dynamic duo of villainy was complete — Lan Qingyou looting burning houses and Shang Chuan fishing in troubled waters. Turns out there was a hidden tiger lurking in the shadows all along. Color me impressed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing all this, Lan Qingyou smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew of Xin Tianle. In the Villain Valley of District 666, the man was normal enough to be abnormal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Mana Turbulence, when people started banding together, he'd begun steadily absorbing those looking for a group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, most were just petty thieves and small-time crooks, but en masse they represented considerable strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rumor had it that under their collective effort, his shelter had been the second to reach Level 3.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That tidbit alone had drawn in quite a crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though looking at things now, that rumor had probably been planted by Xin Tianle himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brutal. A single man had wiped out over two hundred people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>District 666 really did breed exceptional talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why were they calling her a \"house-looter?\" Her potion prices had always reflected equivalent exchange!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lan Qingyou didn't understand. Lan Qingyou was hurt. Lan Qingyou blocked the commenter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knew perfectly well that even with the block, those people would still buy her potions through Shang Chuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Shang Chuan was a merchant — and the worst kind: a middleman who skimmed off the top.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His prices had always followed black market rates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, there was a decent chance Shang Chuan was the one pulling the strings behind the black market itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone going through him was hemorrhaging resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she was more than happy to watch that kind of person bleed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After about an hour, once the cauldrons had cooled and the contents had properly settled, Lan Qingyou squeezed out the dregs, left a small amount of dregs-water in each pot, and then sent the whole lot to Shang Chuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, only after setting aside 21 cauldrons' worth for herself to survive the remaining days of the Mana Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hundred cauldrons had been her absolute limit — any more and even if she could produce them, the shelter simply wouldn't hold them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How Shang Chuan chose to distribute the potions was his business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She'd already notified Gu Xiaobei and Li Huai ahead of time, so no doubt they'd already coordinated with Shang Chuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing all of that, she surveyed the floor littered with shattered stone and shook her head with a weary sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These disposable alchemy array pedestals would have to wait until after she'd slept to be cleaned up.\u003C\u002Fp>",1243,"2026-06-05T21:58:31.955Z",1,"novelbin.me","7b37f03cc2db6648564feb6ee90ffc72237ff938e7c77c60ffd7babdced43d45","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-53","global-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-chapter-51",965,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fglobal-survival-the-tower-witch-with-an-e-rank-t-cover.jpg"]