Chapter 540: A Beautiful Misunderstanding

Curse Corridor.

This was the new residential area Lan Qingyou had found for the Witch Race.

This was also the reason why Lan Qingyou wasn't afraid of someone coming to find trouble with them after they were exposed.

One must know that the flow of time here in the Curse Corridor was very bizarre.

The saying 'one day apart seems like three autumns' couldn't be more appropriate here.

Although the flow of time wasn't exaggerated to that extent, there was no doubt that it was a very terrifying place for others.

But for the witches who originally already had no concept of time, it was a perfectly suitable place to live.

They didn't need to worry about others running in, and they could live here as they pleased.

It could be said that besides needing to guard against natural disasters like mana turbulence and Mana Tides, there was nothing else to worry too much about.

After all, the older some herbs were, the better their medicinal effects would be.

Even the resources here could be used by them without worrying about someone coming to snatch them.

It could be called the chosen land for the Witch Race.

When Lan Qingyou built the magic array here back then, she felt this place was suitable for their witches.

It was just that at that time, because they were still in a cooperation period with the Supreme Council, and their goal was the Forsaken Territory, she didn't have designs on this place.

But it was different now.

Although Lan Qingyou hadn't openly fallen out with the Supreme Council, anyone could see that because of Isabel's matter and the matter of the Forsaken War, there was a very deep rift between the two.

It was the kind of relationship that was just short of tearing off faces, but would absolutely not tear off faces.

After all, the Supreme Council still owed Lan Qingyou nearly ten years of debt.

And the Supreme Council also needed the Witch Race's combat power as part of their facade.

It could be said that as long as Lan Qingyou didn't declare breaking away from the Supreme Council in public places like the world channel, like some other organizations did, the Supreme Council would absolutely not touch Lan Qingyou's bad luck.

This was probably the so-called 'highest form of alliance'.

"Let's go!"

When the flying city slowly flew from the Rolling Thunder Wilderness to the Curse Corridor, the people from the combat squads immediately carried out a mop-up operation here.

Although the Curse Corridor was a place where time passed rapidly, it didn't mean there was no one here.

Previously, Lan Qingyou had led the Witch Race to build a large-scale magic array here to resist this kind of curse, thereby turning this place into the Supreme Council's granary.

But now, this place would highly likely become the Witch Race's herb field.

After all, compared to food, which could be planted anywhere, planting cash crops like herbs could yield greater returns.

Of course, besides this, there was also an Adventurer City right next to the large magic array.

Although it was indeed much more deserted compared to other cities, it had everything it should have, whether it was restaurants, taverns, the Adventurer's Guild, or a teleportation array.

This was a battle destined to be unknown to anyone except those councilors of the Supreme Council.

This wasn't to say that the witches had launched another sudden attack on this place, thus making it unknown to anyone.

Quite the opposite.

After the flying city arrived in the sky above the city and released the witches, the people here immediately went up to meet them.

Upon learning that they were here to occupy the place, the branch head of the Adventurer's Guild reported to his superiors, waved his hand, and had everyone teleport away.

The process was so smooth that it didn't look like an occupation, but more like a handover.

It made the witches a bit flustered and at a loss for what to do.

Later, Lan Qingyou learned from Chu Yuan that the reason it was like this was entirely because the Speaker had already given a heads-up.

No matter which piece of land the witches took a fancy to, as long as it was controlled by the Supreme Council, they could take it freely.

And the Speaker, who had guessed that the Witch Race might come to the Curse Corridor, had even earlier made the people here pack their valuables and run away.

Those left behind were completely just waiting for their arrival to facilitate the handover.

As for why he guessed it, then we have to talk about Sophia, this 'Commander of the Witch Legion'.

In fact, as early as she learned that the flying city appeared in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness, she directly teleported to an area next to the Rolling Thunder Wilderness and then rode her unicorn-like familiar into the wilderness.

Although the flying city didn't stay in the Rolling Thunder Wilderness for long.

Relying on her Demon Eye, Sophia very barely managed to capture the flying city rushing out of the mushroom cloud.

From this, a tracking operation lasting more than a month, nearly two months, began.

Compared to Eureka flying in the sky, Sophia running on the ground had a much harder time.

Over mountains and across waters.

Fortunately, after tracking for a few days and analyzing the direction of the flying city's movement, she also roughly knew which direction the flying city was flying towards.

Only at this time could she feel relieved enough to take a nap first.

After waking up, following this direction to search, she could basically find it.

Just like this, when she reached the area right before the Curse Corridor, Sophia already roughly knew the destination of the flying city.

After all, she was also present at the scene when the magic array was built.

Therefore, Durandal issued such an order.

In order to stabilize the Witch Race, this powerful 'ally', the council didn't even 'take back' the Forsaken Territory.

Anyway, it wasn't like there weren't races with two pieces of land as autonomous territories.

Of course, not being able to take it back was also one of the reasons.

After roughly knowing that the Tower Witch was going to move house, the Supreme Council had sent people to the Forsaken Territory to investigate.

They found that not only had the Forsaken Territory not become desolate because of the Witch Race's departure, but it had instead become even more lively because of the merchant Shang Chuan's management.

So the councilors who wanted a piece of the pie found Shang Chuan, wanting to split some benefits from him.

As a result...

Shang Chuan had a witch beside him as a bodyguard!

After this news was passed back, this matter was left unsettled.

Are you kidding me? A ruthless person who uses a witch as a bodyguard—how could they dare to provoke him?

Rather, having a witch as a bodyguard was something extremely magical in itself, alright?

With the pride of the witches, it was basically an impossible thing. But this impossible thing actually happened!

Then there must definitely be a problem here!

And a big problem at that!

So...

This witch must definitely have been sent by the Tower Witch to protect Shang Chuan!

No matter who encountered this kind of thing at this time, they would definitely think this way, right?

What moving house? In the end, wasn't it because she was reluctant to part with the resources here and found a merchant to act as an agent?

This Tower Witch is really crafty!

That's right, a beautiful misunderstanding often brings about good results.

The councilors' own mental gymnastics saved Lan Qingyou and Shang Chuan a lot of trouble.

But at the same time, it also saved themselves a lot of trouble.

In a sense, it could be considered a win-win.