Sorry, It's a Witch-Exclusive Spell

Justice: "Hmm!!!"

The Fool: "What's the situation!?"

The Hermit: "In other words, the body parts of evolved beings can also trigger evolution?"

Wheel of Fortune: "Looking at it this way, it should be considered a pseudo-evolution."

Chariot: "Pseudo-evolution? That sounds about right."

The Moon: "Now that you mention it, I think I received a similar business order a while back."

Due to Diana's expulsion policy, Shang Chuan and the other merchants had also been driven out of the Abandoned Land. However, because Diana had discussed this with Shang Chuan in advance, no complications had arisen.

It couldn't be helped.

The witches were already facing a crisis of trust after the Abandoned War. As a merchant, Shang Chuan naturally wouldn't cause any trouble at a time like this.

In truth, there was nothing to complain about.

Even though the witches hadn't reclaimed those mines, the profits were still there; it was just that his people weren't allowed to enter, and they had been replaced by golems for the mining work.

Shang Chuan naturally had no objections to this.

Magician: "A business order? What was it specifically?"

The Racial War previously announced by the world consciousness was now being overlooked.

Because if this matter were true, it would only cause the Racial War to escalate further.

By then, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a free-for-all among the transmigrator community—a veritable "World War" in another world.

Shang Chuan: "I can't go into specifics because of confidentiality agreements, but generally, it involved the transportation of some frozen goods."

....

Frozen goods...

Connecting this to the previous events...

Righteousness: "I suddenly feel like I'm a person filled with a sense of righteousness."

Empress: "Well, your codename is Righteousness, after all."

The Hermit: "Disgusting as it is, there's no shortage of people willing to do anything to stand out or simply increase their strength."

Chariot: "It can't be helped. If we hadn't been lucky enough to learn a few skills early on, who knows where we'd be now."

The Sun: "True, but to put it bluntly, everyone's current achievements are built on a foundation of personal effort combined with a bit of luck."

The Sun: "Take the most typical example: life skills. Many people have learned them, but few have actually stuck with them. On that point, I have to disagree with Chariot's sentiment."

Chariot: "Uh... I was just reminiscing. It wasn't meant to be a definitive statement."

It was true.

Everyone knew how they had started out.

With the exception of a few who hadn't suffered much, everyone else had developed through sheer effort.

This was especially true for the two major growers, Jiang Lan, the Empress, and Riesling, the Righteousness.

They had certainly suffered their fair share of setbacks when they were first establishing their farms.

However, things had gradually improved after they joined the Tarot Villa and began exchanging items, information, and research results with one another.

Jiang Lan had it a bit easier since she had joined the villa early on, while Riesling had joined just as his orchard was beginning to take shape.

Justice: "Let's move on. We should talk about what the world consciousness just announced."

Now that everyone generally understood the motives behind the actions of those Demon Hunters and transmigrators, they finally steered the conversation toward the world consciousness's announcement.

In the Magician's words, this was the "real topic."

However, because the previous revelation had been so shocking, some had completely forgotten about this "real topic."

The Star: "What thing?"

Justice: "The matter of the Racial War."

The Sun: "Oh, right. Go ahead, then."

Justice: "..."

Chu Yuan never imagined that someone could actually forget such a major event.

But what Lan Qingyou had said earlier was indeed very shocking.

If it were true, it would mean that in the future...

High Priestess: "The fight's over. These Demon Hunters really do have crimson Magic Eyes. They even hid them with colored contacts or black goggles, as if they were afraid of being seen."

Before Chu Yuan could bring the conversation back on track, Vivian jumped in again.

Once the battle concluded, Vivian immediately inspected the corpses left behind by the Demon Hunters.

Sure enough, she found the highly distinctive crimson Magic Eyes of the Witch race within their sockets.

This caused Vivian to instantly believe what Lan Qingyou had said earlier.

Consequently, she immediately ordered her vampires to carry back the corpses left behind by those werewolves.

Since transmigrators could transform into Demon Hunters using body parts, she could also transform some of the transmigrators who relied on her into something else.

When the time came, sending these people to fight in the arena would provide her with the maximum amount of protection.

This was exactly what it meant to pay them back in their own coin.

After all, both Vivian and the others were well aware of one thing.

No matter how much their population grew, they would still be a minority in the face of billions of transmigrators.

All evolved beings, excluding degenerates, numbered only about tens of millions; they didn't even reach a hundred million.

Only by instigating internal strife among the transmigrators could her own race survive.

High Priestess: "Tower, do you want to reclaim these?"

The Tower: "Of course. They're the remains of my clanswomen. Name your price."

High Priestess: "Don't worry about the price. However, I heard your side has developed a curse-type spell. I was wondering if you could teach it to me?"

Vivian had originally wanted the witches' resurrection magic, but she decided against it, feeling the value was too unequal.

Of course, the most important reason was that vampires were essentially ageless and immortal as well, just in a different way.

The Tower: "Sorry, curse-type spells can only be used by members of the Witch race. There are quite a few restrictions."

Lan Qingyou wasn't lying about this.

The spells she was currently developing were designed to be used only by the Witch race.

This wasn't due to any inherent limitation, but simply because Lan Qingyou didn't want her research to leak out for others to learn.

It was fine for the witches to learn them, as that was internal, so to speak.

But Lan Qingyou was quite unwilling to let outsiders learn them.

After all, if someone were to be killed by a spell she had researched, to say they would "die with their eyes wide open" would be an understatement of her own tolerance.

Therefore, while researching curse magic, Lan Qingyou was also studying the Black Witch Smoke spell.

After all, that spell was exclusive to the Witch race; only a witch could learn it.

As long as she thoroughly researched that spell, it wouldn't be impossible to give other spells an exclusive signature.

And in fact, she had succeeded.

She was so successful that when she shared the news with Alisa—her former rival and current partner—the other woman immediately sent over a pile of research materials to purchase the technology for this magic.

It just went to show that only a witch truly understands another witch.