Except for merchants, whose interests were tied to them and thus caused little harm, any other human approaching a witch definitely had some ulterior motive.
For the ageless witches, time was not an issue.
So.
It would be fine once they got used to it after a century or so; after all, many things were no problem once you got used to them.
Of course, while they said no contact, it was not absolute.
After all, there were still many enemies waiting to be hunted down; the witches of the High Tower Clan, from top to bottom, had not forgotten this.
Upgrading the shelter was not something unfamiliar to anyone.
So when white smoke rose from the central area, every witch in Eureka City knew what Lan Qingyou was doing.
First, she made the city float, and then she upgraded the shelter.
These two actions caused all the witches to stop what they were doing.
Whether they were witches shopping, running shops, or conducting research, they all stopped.
Because they knew that what came next was the key to whether the entire Witch race and the entire flying city could truly function.
However, after the white smoke dissipated, the first thing the witches noticed was no longer the issue of flying.
A tree.
A massive tree, large enough to cover almost the entire city, suddenly appeared in everyone's vision like a parasol.
But although it was like a parasol, sunlight still spilled into Eureka City.
And quite a lot of it.
Rather, the sunlight filtering through the leaves made the already dreamlike flying city even more ethereal, fitting the witches' tastes perfectly.
And those iconic bird-nest-like leaves had already proclaimed its identity.
—The Perching Giant Tree.
Now, the Perching Giant Tree had grown to an incomprehensible scale.
However, compared to before, the leaves on the giant tree were now more diverse.
The variety of nests was so great that even the most erudite witches had never seen most of them.
But it didn't matter.
After all, while these flying monsters chirped, they weren't too noisy. Perhaps because of the giant tree, these cries sounded more like children singing, just like a fairy tale.
So no one had any objections to the growth of the Perching Giant Tree.
After all, if more unseen monsters came to perch without being noisy, it meant their choices for familiars would be broader.
Combined with the precedent of the fire elemental variant belonging to the Flame Witch Pandora, everyone felt that bigger was not a bad thing.
Witch of the Tower: "The Flight Control Center is located on the tenth basement level of the industrial zone. Who wants to be in charge?"
Immediately after the upgrade was complete, Lan Qingyou asked in the group.
After all, although she knew new facilities would appear, she didn't know exactly what they were or how they would be presented.
But now that she had a general idea after the upgrade, Lan Qingyou naturally began to assign tasks.
Of course.
As the Clan Leader, she would not force her people to do anything.
Everything was voluntary. After all, the Witch race researched all sorts of things; someone was bound to be interested.
Besides, flying itself was a pleasurable thing.
Sure enough.
The second after Lan Qingyou's message was sent, that woman appeared.
Steel Witch: "Need you even ask? It's me, of course. I'll move my entire shelter over there."
She didn't even give the others a chance to object.
But Erika, the Steel Witch, couldn't do it alone, so four or five others stepped up, all expressing their intent to move their shelters inside.
Lan Qingyou naturally had nothing to say about this. If they found the living environment unpleasant or inconvenient, they could just move out again.
It was only a matter of a scroll or two.
Witch of the Tower: "Have you headed over yet?"
Steel Witch: "On my way."
Witch of the Tower: "I've already spoken to Margaret. Just go down ten levels from the industrial zone administrative building."
Steel Witch: "Aren't you going to take a look?"
Witch of the Tower: "I'm on my way too, but I'll probably be faster than you."
Steel Witch: "Alright then."
Lan Qingyou had flown out the door as soon as the white smoke rose.
After all, once the upgrade started, there was nothing for her to do. She might as well see what the so-called Flight Control Center looked like.
As for the Perching Giant Tree, she put that aside for the moment.
However, halfway there, the white smoke cleared, and the sheer size of the Perching Giant Tree allowed her to see the situation without returning to her shelter.
To put it simply, it was an enhanced version of the previous Perching Giant Tree.
Besides being more attractive to high-tier flying monsters, it also had a new function for air purification.
She didn't know the specifics of what it could do yet.
But since the giant tree grew, Lan Qingyou could indeed feel the mana concentration in the air slowly rising.
It would be incredibly worth it if the giant tree transformed Eureka City into a heavy mana zone.
After all, heavy mana zones only existed in places with extreme natural phenomena.
Like volcanoes, the seabed, or the center of a storm...
Lan Qingyou had never seen a heavy mana zone suitable for human habitation.
As for the benefits of a heavy mana zone, the first was that in high mana concentrations, materials like herbs would not lose quality even if stored without any special techniques.
Secondly, the quality of herbs growing in these places would be higher than in normal areas.
For example, the Fire Bells Li Huai had picked for her at the crater belonged to this category.
So for the Witch race, where everyone was an alchemist, it couldn't be better.
As for whether living here had any impact on people, that remained to be seen.
This would be a subject for later research.
After looking at the Perching Giant Tree that covered the whole territory without being too oppressive, Lan Qingyou quickly flew toward the Flight Control Center.
When she reached the tenth basement level of the industrial zone administrative building, the first person she encountered was Margaret, who was waiting there.
"Clan Leader, the facilities here have all been upgraded."
"Mm, good work."
Putting on her leader's air, Lan Qingyou floated into the control center with her hands behind her back.
However, once inside, she felt a bit out of place.
Part of the discomfort came from the layout, which looked like a security monitoring room in some residential complex, feeling quite out of character. The other part was the biological tentacles that would twitch from time to time.
Without looking, Lan Qingyou knew these tentacles originated from Ksuya's eye cell tissues.
But out of professional habit, she still performed an identification on them.
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