Diana, the Witch of Knowledge

David, the Magician and Guild Master of the Adventurers' Guild, understood the situation immediately upon seeing the discussion.

Lan Qingyou had mentioned earlier that Susie was with her, so Lan Qingyou must have said something to convince Susie, the Witch of Poison, to finally decide to resign.

Guild Master David: "I see. There's no problem with your resignation, of course, but what about the Adventurers' Guild?"

Knowing he couldn't make her stay, David didn't even try to persuade her. Instead, he asked a very practical question.

After all, the current branches of the Adventurers' Guild were essentially established within the shelters of their respective regional branch presidents.

If a branch president resigned, the Adventurers' Guild would naturally need to relocate. They couldn't exactly continue occupying someone else's shelter.

Indeed.

Ever since the appearance of 'management-style' shelters like Gu Xiaobei's Delight Restaurant, David had seen the possibility of establishing the Adventurers' Guild.

Building an adventurers' guild was far more complex than just having identification cards, currency, and a bounty system.

The most important aspect, the physical place of business, ultimately had to be realized through a shelter.

Of course, what surprised David most was the large-scale magic circle Lan Qingyou had later developed, which allowed a single Adventurers' Guild to become the core area of an entire city.

As a result, the Supreme Council had given full support to the branch presidents when their shelters were being upgraded from Level 4 to Level 5, or Level 5 to Level 6.

Now that Susie was resigning and leaving, the Supreme Council's investment clearly required an explanation.

Golden Support Susie: "It can keep being used here. I'm going to be out for a while anyway, and this place was upgraded using materials provided by the Supreme Council."

Susie had naturally anticipated this question and had her answer ready.

Seeing how reasonable Susie was being without making things difficult for him, David said nothing more.

However, her mention of going out... could it be that there were instructions from the Tower?

If that was the case, his own clansmen were indeed the most reliable.

So, after bidding Susie farewell, David summoned his Man-Demon assistant to take over her duties.

Of course.

Although the assistant was taking over the duties, the shelter itself still belonged to Susie. It was essentially being 'leased' to the Adventurers' Guild, so Susie did not grant the Man-Demon access to certain private areas.

...

That evening, the other three witches—who had been out on missions, patrolling, or brewing medicine—all returned to the Adventurers' Guild.

The reason for their return was that Susie had something to discuss with them.

In truth, if Susie hadn't called them back via her friends list, they certainly wouldn't have appeared in her shelter right now.

Or rather, this place was originally the base camp for the four of them.

It was only later, with the Adventurers' Guild project, that the shelter had been subdivided.

"In other words, you think that Soul Siphon skill would be helpful to us witches, so you want us to level up together?"

One witch stood behind the sofa, leaning forward with her elbows propped on the backrest as she asked.

"You could say that,"

Susie, sitting behind the office desk, nodded in confirmation.

"I heard in the hall when I got back that the Clan Leader visited the Golden Plains. Don't tell me you made this judgment because you got some inside information from her?"

The witch sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed, an open book in her hands, asked a very crucial question.

Witches, first and foremost, were mostly top students.

Or rather, with the exception of the lucky viewers Lan Qingyou had randomly selected on the world channel, the rest of the witches had been carefully chosen by the Supreme Council from among academic overachievers.

Therefore, there were quite a few clever people within the Witch race.

The moment the Origin Witch arrived, the Witch of Poison talked about leveling up. It would be truly ridiculous if there were no connection between the two.

"There is indeed a connection."

Susie nodded. She then proceeded to explain the details of the Soul Siphon skill, the Soul Crystals, and the skill's special effectiveness against the 'undying and indestructible' attribute. Only then did the three women understand Susie's true intent.

From that perspective, the Soul Siphon skill was indeed very necessary.

Putting alchemy aside, the special effectiveness against the 'undying and indestructible' attribute alone was enough for them to take it seriously.

After all, the Witch race was inherently an ageless race.

One would remain exactly as they were the moment they drank the potion, and it could even have a slight rejuvenating effect.

Under such circumstances, the witches naturally took matters related to this very seriously.

Not to mention the existence of 'undying and indestructible' beings, which was even more terrifying than being 'ageless.'

"I'm not against leveling up, nor am I against resigning, but the problem is how do we level up? Through dungeons?"

The mature woman on the sofa asked.

"There are currently five low-level dungeons discovered in the Golden Plains that are suitable for us. As long as we don't clear the entire dungeons, they are more than enough for us to cycle through for leveling."

As the former president of the Adventurers' Guild, Susie was very familiar with the dungeons in the Golden Plains.

"The lowest level among the top ten on the level leaderboard is currently Level 17. That means we need to gain four levels to catch up, and we have to maintain that until the beginning of next month..."

"Just doing that isn't very secure or stable... perhaps we could try another way?"

"What do you mean by that...?"

"I mean, since our goal is the skill, why not start directly with the skill itself? You have to realize that there are only so many slots for the monthly ranking, but the number of witches is not small."

"Basically all witches know alchemy. Even if a few don't like it, they will definitely need to use this skill or the crystals in other areas."

Clap!

The mature witch uncrossed her legs and closed her book.

She then tapped the surface of the coffee table with a slender index finger and looked at Susie seriously.

"In that case, if we could learn it just like we learn alchemical knowledge, wouldn't that save the witches a lot of trouble?"

"Diana, are you talking about creating magic knowledge scrolls?"

"Exactly."

The mature witch nodded.

The mature witch was named Diana, known to others as the 【Witch of Knowledge】. Her ability was to turn magic into one-time-use scrolls for others to use.

However, both the materials and the cost were significant, which was why Susie was the first to object upon hearing her plan.

"No, that's too dangerous. Besides, we don't have enough materials to create the scrolls."

"That might have been true before, but haven't we established a connection with the Witch of the Tower now?"

Diana smiled.

While it seemed like the witches made a lot of money producing potions, they were actually just working for the Supreme Council. What they could truly keep for themselves was not much at all.