Chapter 592: You Have a Contact Channel With a Black Witch!?

With this basin of cold water poured down, the originally rapidly refreshing messages on the world channel paused for a moment.

Right.

Before, everyone was only focused on the pleasant surprise and completely forgot about this matter.

Other things were easier to say; anyway, people fighting people was just like that, either you die or I live.

But encountering natural phenomena like mana turbulence and Mana Tides, apart from Shelters, only Adventurer Cities had the function of a 'safe haven'.

In other places, it was basically waiting for death.

Of course, after research, that kind of Heavy Magic Zone with thick mana actually worked too, but how many Heavy Magic Zones were there on this continent?

So in the end, it seemed they could enclose land everywhere, but in reality, the optional places were very few.

"What should we do then?"

It seemed they were already turning to whatever doctor they could find in desperation.

"What else can we do? Find a way to look for witches; right now, only they can set up defensive magic arrays."

"Right, right, right, how could I forget these people."

"It's indeed better this way. Then the question comes, should we look for White Witches or Black Witches?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? For this kind of matter regarding magic arrays, of course we look for Black Witches."

"Black Witches..."

...

In an instant, everyone realized that things weren't as simple as they imagined.

Those were Black Witches!

Ever since the Forsaken War broke out last time, apart from those chasing war criminals all over the continent, the rest of the Black Witches had all gone to reside on that flying city island.

How could finding them be easy...

"There is news saying that previously, the Black Witches wildly purchased herbs from those merchants, acquiring at least tens of thousands of tons so far. To the extent that the prices of all herbs have climbed by ten to twenty percent."

Speaking of Black Witches, someone immediately thought of this matter.

After all, this was something that happened just a second ago.

Although the merchants didn't say much due to confidentiality obligations.

But anyone with a discerning eye, especially those herb gatherers or planters, were very clear that shipping out goods so rapidly definitely meant someone was purchasing in large quantities. With a slight investigation, there would always be small merchants who loosened their tongues for immediate benefits.

"Black Witches purchasing herbs? What are they going to do?"

"What to do? Can't you see it yet? This f*cking means hoarding goods and planning to make a huge profit."

"Indeed. Under the current situation, whether voluntary or involuntary, combat commands in various places are increasing. Under these circumstances, consumables like potions will definitely make money."

"Damn it, did these guys know about the Supreme Council's decision early on?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? Even before the Supreme Council was established, the Tower Witch was cooperating with them, and even the Tower Witch herself is in an organization established by a certain council member. Getting intelligence a step ahead is very normal, right?"

"Normal my ass! These damned Black Witches are simply driving up prices! Right now, just an ordinary herb like Star Grass has already risen by nearly 30%. Are they not going to let ordinary Alchemists live?"

Although Alchemist was a life skill that anyone could learn and use.

But compared to others, Witches innately possessed knowledge and a success rate bonus in this aspect. Therefore, the potions brewed by ordinary Alchemists naturally weren't as attractive to others as those brewed by witches.

This resulted in the potions of ordinary Alchemists having to line up behind the witches'.

Only when they truly couldn't buy a witch's potion would they choose to buy the potions brewed by ordinary Alchemists.

Although in terms of price, potions with equivalent recovery doses on this side were definitely cheaper.

After all, the witches' potions were more convenient to use and took shorter time.

"If you don't buy, there are plenty of people who will buy; dying early and reincarnating early is also good."

So even if spoken to like this, the person who was complaining just now couldn't refute anything.

Whoever dies, I won't die.

As for telling me not to buy, that was even more impossible.

However, just as everyone was discussing that it was somewhat inappropriate for the Witch Race to hoard goods like this, different voices appeared on the world channel again.

"No, it's not just the Black Witches, the White Witches are also purchasing, it's just that what they are purchasing aren't herbs but monster corpses."

"What's more, several major races like the Demonfolk, Forest Elves, etc. are all purchasing different things."

"When you guys put it like this, it makes me think, aren't these all part of the five major races? Aren't they all races established by the members of that Tarot Manor organization?"

"To put it bluntly, it's still information asymmetry, right? What's the difference between them and those stock gods?"

"So envious. I also wish I could get this intelligence earlier."

"No need to be envious, even if you get the intelligence, you might not be able to make money. Let me tell you, industry insiders made a statistic; the Gold Coins the Black Witches spent purchasing herbs this time amounted to as much as eight hundred thousand."

"And this is only a rough statistic. I heard there are also some witches acting like retail investors purchasing herbs from small merchants, those are even more impossible to count."

"Wait! You said how much?"

"Over eight hundred thousand Gold Coins! How the f*ck did they get this?"

"Did the mint make that many Gold Coins?"

"Truly terrifying, how many missions would one have to take without eating or drinking to achieve this effect?"

Upon hearing that the Black Witches actually spent so much money, everyone was shocked.

One must know that an adventurer only needed two Gold Coins a month even if they were slightly extravagant.

Taking out over eight hundred thousand Gold Coins at once, anyone would be frightened.

Some people even started to doubt whether the mint had made that many Gold Coins.

After all, the production of the mint was also extremely limited.

Even if the mint printed money for the Black Witches every day, it definitely wouldn't be able to satisfy such a massive amount.

So no fool would think that the Witch Race had acquired the mint.

"What other witches rely on to make their fortune is various potions, pills, as well as Golems and Magic Scrolls. The wealth accumulated by an entire race is definitely a lot."

"That's true, and those little inventions are truly very practical."

"Even now, I still miss the Magic Scrolls made by the Black Witches."

"What's there to miss, aren't they still available for purchase now."

"You don't understand, what I'm talking about is the initial kind of Magic Scroll that allowed one to directly learn magic, not the current functional Magic Scrolls."

"What! There was such a thing!?"

"There was. It's just that later on, for some unknown reason, they weren't sold anymore. After a period of time and a huge price drop, we discovered that they were all adjusted to the current single-use functional scrolls."

"Tsk tsk, directly able to learn magic? That's truly convenient ah!"

"Is this true?"

"It's true. I have a friend who is a Black Witch, she said that now every Black Witch basically has a dozen or twenty magics on them for self-defense, to avoid the situation of being ambushed by people like before."

"Wait, you have a contact channel with a Black Witch!?"