On the Abandoned Mountains, a witch stood with her eyes closed, making the same gestures as Lan Qingyou.
Snow piled atop her wide hat and shoulders, and even her eyelashes were frosted over, but she remained unmoved.
Beside her, the milky-white mana droplets that had already filled the channels flowed toward the distance along the pre-dug grooves.
In the Abandoned Sea, another witch was doing the same.
On the seabed beside her, in addition to the pipes of the magic circle, there was an object that looked like a giant seashell.
This was her shelter.
From now on, she would live under the sea as a stationed witch to protect and maintain this hundred-meter magic circle.
The snowy mountains and the seabed.
These two locations—one high and one low, one north and one south—could be said to be the most extreme points of the entire large-scale protection magic circle, as well as two of its most important and fragile nodes.
Originally, Lan Qingyou had wanted to bypass them, but to maintain topographical diversity, and because there were research projects within the witch group related to snowy mountains and oceans, she had entrusted these two places to them.
And now.
If one were to fly to an altitude of hundreds or thousands of meters, they would be shocked to find that the entire Abandoned Land, even in the dead of night, was illuminated brightly by the light of over a hundred magic circles beginning to operate.
Even the wild mana turbulence currently erupting seemed utterly eclipsed by this radiance.
Those most affected by this were likely the transmigrators within the Abandoned Land.
The light was so blindingly bright that they couldn't even look at it directly.
No wonder...
No wonder the Witch of the Tower had to close her eyes when activating this magic.
They had previously thought it was some kind of prayer, which would indeed require a sense of pious ritual.
But now it seemed she had only closed her eyes because she didn't want to be blinded by the glare, which would have affected the spell's casting.
Within the light, a phantom of a giant magic circle shot from the ground straight into the high heavens.
No one knew how high this phantom flew.
After all, everyone was currently keeping their eyes shut to prevent being blinded by the light.
The phantom automatically dissipated after reaching a certain height.
Rumble—
As the light dimmed slightly, the entire earth began to shake.
It was back; it was all coming back.
If they remembered correctly, a similar scene had occurred when the purple magic circles flew out of the Witch's Forest, hadn't it?
The natives of District 666 thought to themselves with their eyes squeezed shut.
But they weren't afraid.
Although they didn't know what the Witch of the Tower was up to this time, if nothing went wrong, the ground should stabilize after this shaking, right?
After all, she was the Witch of the Tower!
Could anything she created be bad?
Hoo—
When the light completely vanished and the rivers of stars in the sky disappeared, Lan Qingyou finally opened her eyes slowly. She let out a long sigh of relief and then took out a bottle of juice, taking several large gulps.
That incantation really wasn't something an ordinary person could recite.
Even for her, reciting that long string of incantations had nearly drained her mana points.
No, to be more precise, they should have been drained long ago.
It was only because the surrounding mana concentration was so high that her passive, which normally only recovered one mana point per minute, had directly increased to recovering a hundred points per minute.
This felt a bit strange to Lan Qingyou, but now was not the time to think about such things.
After resting for a moment, Lan Qingyou immediately took out her cards to contact the members of the witch group to ensure there were no mistakes.
"Clan Leader, was it a success?"
Seeing that everything seemed to have ended, Diana opened her eyes and led the witch group's managers to Lan Qingyou's side, asking with a face full of anxiety.
This anxiety was both for the confirmation of the project and out of concern for Lan Qingyou's health.
A magic of this scale, which had even manifested something like a galaxy, was definitely not something easy to handle.
Thus, Diana was quite worried about Lan Qingyou's well-being.
"It's a success. News has come from the other side as well; the magic circle is operating perfectly."
Lan Qingyou turned her head and gave everyone a very bright smile.
This was out of genuine happiness.
Was she kidding?
This time, she had completed the design, production, and operation of a giant magic circle and an inlaid magic circle all at once, starting from scratch.
This sense of accomplishment made it impossible for her not to smile.
She couldn't hold it back, nor could she suppress it.
And so.
As the planner and executor of the entire operation, Lan Qingyou very joyfully shared the results with the witches who crowded around her.
This was the benefit of being 'like-minded.' No matter how complex the things she said were, the others could always chime in. This sense of satisfaction was like throwing a reference at someone and having them catch it perfectly.
In her excitement, Lan Qingyou even included things like her design logic.
The members of the witch group already knew about these things anyway, so there was no harm in speaking of them.
Of course, the most important reason was that this kind of thing wasn't really a secret; even if she told people, it was unlikely anyone could replicate it.
After all, the cost was far too high. Lan Qingyou's material inventory had nearly reached its limit.
This condition alone was enough to filter out a vast majority of people and organizations.
Not to mention the strict requirements for the timing of activation, the complex incantations, and the duration of the cast.
Exactly.
The incantation Lan Qingyou had been chanting, which sounded like an ancient language, was actually something she had meticulously edited.
To be more precise, she had taken the incantation styles, the rhythmic pauses, and the pronunciation standards from summoning-type witches, and then obtained it through her own analysis and recombination.
Although Lan Qingyou had previously said that incantations were like anchors.
Through deeper research, she had discovered that the incantations of summoning-type witches were not only anchors but also a kind of 'proclamation.'
It was a somewhat forced way of telling a summoned creature, 'Something has happened on my end, I need you to come and help.'
Because the act of speaking carried mana like a word-spirit and triggered a teleportation, the summoned creature would be teleported behind the caster after receiving the proclamation.
So, Lan Qingyou had directly modified this mandatory incantation.
This was also why, when she used the summoning art, what she summoned wasn't a hell creature but the mana from the sky.
Because she hadn't specified 'who' she needed help from at all.
Therefore.
In a situation where no individual could be selected, the only thing left to come was something as ethereal as mana, right?
When put that way, using the word 'summon' seemed a bit inappropriate.
Perhaps the word 'extraction' was more fitting.
But regardless.
With the addition of the milky-white, high-concentration mana droplets, there were no more concerns about the energy supply for this massive magic circle or the magic shield.
Even if some emergency caused excessive consumption, mana droplets would 'fall' from the sky on their own.
This was the true brilliance of this system.
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