Location of the 【Beast Emperor Ore】

The Star: "'Too obvious'?"

Magician: "You forgot?"

The Sun: "Oh, quit the innocent act!"

High Priestess: "Haha! You wasted so much of my time! What nerve!"

Lovers: "You're dead!"

When a person is truly angry, they often end up laughing from pure frustration.

As the group read Lan Qingyou's message, they all burst into laughter, ready to head to Typhon City and give her a piece of their minds.

However, at that moment, Professor Seymer saved Lan Qingyou's life.

The Hermit: "Although not mentioning it was indeed a bit frustrating, I've also discovered a problem based on your description."

Professor Seymer's theory was fundamentally about controlling the output process of mana within the body.

The greater the output, the higher the spell's level.

Conversely, the smaller the mana output, the lower the spell's level.

In this context, Lan Qingyou stated that using the Magic Eye made the process much easier.

That could only mean one thing—

His theory's requirements for mana sensing were too high, making it nearly impossible for an average person, or even some evolved beings, to complete.

In reality, aside from races like Man-Demons and witches who were naturally inclined toward mana, sensing mana was not as easy as he had imagined for other races.

If Lan Qingyou had forgotten the Magic Eye issue because she was so used to it...

Then he had overlooked the practical application of this theory for other races because he was so used to being surrounded by witches.

Damn... To make such an obvious mistake.

As a professor, Seymer felt deep self-reproach for his oversight and took it to heart, vowing never to let it happen again.

The Hermit: "The core of this theory lies in observing one's own mana, which witches can do very easily with their Magic Eye."

The Hermit: "And we Man-Demons can also sense the flow of mana very easily, so it is much simpler for us compared to other races."

The Hermit: "If you are interested, you may continue your research. I will also do my best to provide a suitable solution as soon as possible to address the issue of being unable to observe mana."

High Priestess: "No, no, no, Hermit. There's no need to rush. Just continue your research at your own pace."

Seeing Professor Seymer's frantic state, Vivian immediately sent a message to stop him.

It was no joke.

Research into mana was something that could affect the entire transmigrator population.

For research of this magnitude, it was better to be slow than to have something go wrong.

Even if the previous theory was extremely difficult to understand and learn, the theory itself was correct; it was simply 'Hell-grade' in terms of difficulty.

Therefore, Vivian didn't want Seymer to take any unnecessary risks.

If their pressure caused him to produce some lethal, defective version, they would be the ones to blame.

High Priestess: "@Tower, by the way, how many flying familiars can one person have?"

Once the theoretical discussion settled, Vivian immediately changed the subject, not wanting to delve deeper.

Tower: "I'm not sure. The most I've seen so far is a witch taking seven, but they were all palm-sized birds. I don't know about larger ones."

High Priestess: "Is that so? I see."

The Star: "@High Priestess, there's a rumor going around that someone spent over a dozen gold coins and only ended up with a single bat. That wasn't you, was it?"

High Priestess: "Bullshit! How could it be me? With my charm, forget a dozen gold coins—I'd get it for one coin, and I'd be surrounded by familiars at that!"

The Sun: "Hmm? Are you talking about Lovers?"

Lovers: "Don't drag me into this. I'm busy every day with monster breeding."

Lovers: "@Tower, I'm almost out of strength potions. Why haven't your witches sent any this month?"

Tower: "It might not be possible for a while. Everyone is currently busy studying the fundamentals of magic."

Lovers: "That's a problem. The output has been quite high lately, and I don't know how many days the remaining stock will last."

Tower: "Isn't that a good thing? Is it those people from the knight orders I introduced earlier looking for stock?"

Lovers: "No, it's like this..."

Seeing that Lan Qingyou seemed unaware, Frenna didn't hide anything and explained that she was now running a land-based familiar business.

Ruan Qingyi and Nemo also followed up, mentioning that they were operating similar businesses.

After all, the Witch race had started this trend, and they were essentially competing for the market.

Since the original trendsetter was right here, it was only natural to explain the situation.

Lan Qingyou didn't mind at all.

Tower: "It's fine. There's demand for land, sea, and air anyway. We might as well just monopolize all the familiar resources in Kalim together, hahaha."

Justice: "Oh, everyone's having a lively chat."

High Priestess: "Yeah. Don't tell me you just finished a meeting and haven't eaten yet."

Justice: "Spot on. As expected of Your Eminence, My Lady."

High Priestess: "...Don't you think combining 'Your Eminence' and 'My Lady' sounds weird?"

Justice: "Not at all. Feels quite fresh."

High Priestess: "..."

Justice: "@Tower, since you're here, I have something to tell you."

Tower: "This involves me?"

Justice: "Yeah. Remember how the Council President said they'd look into where the Beast Emperor Ore might be? Well, they've found it."

Tower: "Oh! Truly!"

Chu Yuan's message made Lan Qingyou's eyes light up.

Lately, the Supreme Council had been like ants moving house, delivering the materials she needed for her Level 7 shelter bit by bit.

This alone made Lan Qingyou certain that the Supreme Council was facing a material shortage.

However, she didn't pay it much mind, nor did she have some 'saintly' urge to say nonsense like 'give it to me when you have more.' She simply accepted it all silently.

After all, she had earned these things; there was no reason to feel guilty about it.

Other things were manageable—though difficult, they could be found or cobbled together with enough effort.

The only thing that had remained elusive was news of the Beast Emperor Ore.

Now that Chu Yuan had brought good news, she was so excited she could hardly wait.

Forget Chu Yuan; she herself wanted to see what a Level 7 shelter looked like.

And of course...

The most important thing was to see if any upgrade information for the Perching Giant Tree would appear during the process.

After all, the tree was technically a 'facility' within her shelter's range.

There was no reason it shouldn't be upgradeable.

Justice: "Truly. It's inside a dungeon called the Gloomy Forest."

Tower: "How exactly was it discovered?"

Justice: "Dispatched staff found a massive hill inside the Gloomy Forest."

Justice: "But what they originally thought was a hill is actually a creature called a Beast Emperor. As for whether Beast Emperor Ore actually exists inside the hill, we're not sure yet."