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But Wu Yuhan shook his head and spread his hands.
Jiang Kehan rarely noticed that the other person was giving up.
"No, her participation in this Little Witch preliminary competition is beyond my expectations." Wu Yuhan clicked his tongue lightly, "Even her team was something she put together herself on the spot."
"Before this, Qin Luoyu and I both thought she had no interest in dueling and wanted to become a scientific research witch."
Random team?
Jiang Kehan was confused. She looked at the name of the opposing team and slowly read it out.
"The Mysterious Truth Group?"
"Could it be that they came together solely out of shared interests, without any other support?"
Jiang Kehan knew exactly how many resources a duel would require. If it relied solely on individual support, these individuals would definitely be the kings of paid labor.
As for why they aren't rich kids, it's because the witches in the story are all transformed from other races.
"How would I know?" Wu Yuhan shrugged nonchalantly, looking quite indifferent.
"These girls have never participated in witch duels before, and they've never even been to the training grounds. Only they themselves know their true strength."
"However, the fact that they can participate so casually means that they are either idiots or really capable."
"I tend to favor the latter possibility."
Jiang Kehan also felt that it was impossible for anyone to impulsively lead a team of eight people to participate in the witch duel; this wasn't like forming a band.
"I will be vigilant." She nodded, intending to go back and explain to the others who needed to be watched.
"This information is very useful, and we will treat it well!"
Looking at Jiang Kehan's small face, Wu Yuhan rested his chin on his hands, seemingly lost in thought.
"Since everything that needs to be said has been said, I won't see you out."
She said that, but for some reason, she added a sentence as if possessed.
"Remember not to make up any other excuses next time you ask me out."
“Okay!” Jiang Kehan nodded vigorously, revealing a bright smile. “I’ll bring Li Hui to play with you sometime.”
The little girl was so presumptuous. Wu Yuhan felt a bit helpless, but a dimple appeared at the corner of his mouth that she didn't even notice. He waved to Jiang Kehan, signaling her to leave.
Chapter 210 Overtime
After leaving Wu Yuhan's castle, Jiang Kehan looked at the sunlight overhead and felt that it was still early.
She simply opened the terminal, swiped to find Bai Bingbing's profile picture, and opened the chat interface.
The other party has contacted her several times recently, all under the guise of the Whirlpool Society.
The Whirlpool Society's recent gains from developing new shattered spaces have exceeded their expectations, leading to witches like alchemists, who can directly process materials into finished products and sell them quickly, becoming coveted.
Unfortunately, alchemy witches cannot be recruited simply by having money; the vast majority of them are actually second-generation rich kids like Qingxue.
Other skilled A2 alchemists also have enough patents to support themselves.
They spend most of their time on their studies, which means their schedules depend on their teachers' wishes—hence the term "witches" who have obtained A3 certificates.
As for why they didn't recruit their teachers as well, that involves cost issues.
A witch who has obtained an A3 certificate is only slightly lower in status than a normal Great Witch. To recruit them, you can't just pay them a salary; you have to use a revenue-sharing model.
If they were to spend one percent of the revenue from developing the Shattered Space to recruit an A3-level alchemist witch and her students, the Vortex Society felt it was better to take it slow, since the Shattered Space wasn't going anywhere.
Moreover, this brand-new shattered space is unbelievably large; if you were to hire an A3-level alchemist witch, it would be a complete loss.
That being said, there's a reason why the Whirlpool Society is in such a hurry.
There is a window of opportunity for a surge in resource quality after the birth of a shattered space, similar to how innate treasures are more likely to appear at the beginning of a world's creation.
The materials harvested during this window of opportunity are almost all top-quality, and the finished products made from them are also of the highest value, so the Whirlpool Society is in a rather awkward position now.
They needed to save time but didn't have enough manpower, so alchemy witches like Jiang Kehan, who didn't have a teacher, came into their sights.
They even offered Jiang Kehan the same compensation as a normal A2-level alchemist, which was more than a hundred times the normal compensation for an A1-level alchemist.
Yes, that's equivalent to twice Jiang Kehan's salary from selling alcohol.
After all, a witch who hasn't passed A1 can only be described as either not having graduated yet or having a problem with her head. If she's recruited, she'll just be used as an assistant, so it's normal for her to have a low salary.
Jiang Kehan received this treatment purely because she had the "self-reading" drug to legitimize her.
When she sent the message she was looking for to Bai Bingbing, the other party was very excited and sent her coordinates, urging her to come over immediately.
Ah, overtime... Jiang Kehan suddenly didn't want to go when she looked at the coordinates above, but what could she do when she had used all her savings to buy a magic staff?
This meant she had no money left to buy spells, and she had to work overtime to change her spell list before the competition started.
Life is tough, Jiang Kehan sighed softly, rubbed her face, forced a smile, and started walking towards the space pavilion.
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After entering the coordinates, Jiang Kehan arrived almost instantly, but her face was a little green.
She walked outside with practiced ease, supporting herself against the wall of the pavilion. She felt as if her brain had been put into a washing machine and was running at full speed.
"I... Phew, I'll have to learn spatial magic that allows me to teleport long distances sooner or later."
Jiang Kehan finally calmed down and, looking at the azure sky, made up her mind.
"That's not easy," Bai Bingbing, who arrived late, joked after hearing her words.
"Buying spells is a small matter; obtaining the right to teleport freely over long distances is not so simple."
She handed the juice to Jiang Kehan and patted her on the back.
"This is a special juice made by the society to relieve dizziness."
Jiang Kehan grasped at a straw and quickly grabbed the juice and poured it into her mouth.
The products of the Grand Society are truly extraordinary. She felt she was almost fully recovered and breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Jiang Kehan looked at Bai Bingbing with some curiosity and asked.
Why does long-distance teleportation require authorization?
Bai Bingbing smiled shyly and extended her hand to Jiang Kehan.
Jiang Kehan's lips twitched. She knew what the other party wanted, so she took out a poster from her pocket.
The photo above is a picture of her and Ruoxin. Qin Luoyu took advantage of Jiang Kehan's fame after she became famous in the school team selection to attract a lot of popularity for her.
Qin Luoyu was much more shrewd than her. Apart from the large poster hanging outside the tavern, Qin Luoyu only gave out a dozen or so of these posters.
The other person was still smiling and saying strange things like "limited edition" and "promising future".
However, Jiang Kehan felt that it was simply because Qin Luoyu was lazy. It wouldn't be difficult for a witch to replicate it. After all, there was already a life-size doll of Li Hui in Ai Li'er's basement.
"Wuhu, limited edition!" Bai Bingbing snatched the poster from Jiang Kehan's hand with lightning speed, somewhat excited.
"Miss Ruoxin doesn't have many posters, and Kehan is in one of them." She put the poster back in her personal space with satisfaction, something she could brag about to her other friends.
Yes, showing off.
Jiang Kehan overlooked a small detail: while dolls like Ariel's could only be admired by herself, official posters like these could be openly shown off to others.
Especially since the pub's staff are somewhat like celebrities, with an abundance of social connections, that's where the value of these posters comes from.
"So now you can tell me why, right?" Jiang Kehan looked at the other person with annoyance.
"Of course, knowledge has its own price, and clearly the price you've given exceeds the knowledge itself."
Bai Bingbing coughed lightly and said with a somewhat serious expression.
"However, to explain the reason, we have to start with the Witch Tower."
"The Witch's Tower?" Jiang Kehan looked at Bai Bingbing with a puzzled expression.
“Yes, the Witch Tower.” Bai Bingbing nodded. “You should know that the Witch Tower’s main function is not teleportation, but defense, right?”
Jiang Kehan knows this; it was mentioned in The Simple History of Witches. The Witch Tower was built at the end of World War II to defend against the surging waves of alien slave armies.
These alien slave armies have no boundaries, are even more outrageous than locusts, and the witch's ability to alter the flow of time causes their numbers to be endless.
Their purpose is to use their lives to bind the witch's human resources.
In the early stages of World War II, things were alright; the witch had enough manpower to deal with these slave armies. But towards the end, the intensity of the war became unbelievably high.
At that time, every witch was an important factor influencing the course of the battle, which indirectly led to the creation of the Witch Tower.
The Witch Tower, relying on elven witches with little combat power to guard a region, quickly spread to various places and has now even become one of the symbols of witches.
"The birth of the Witch Tower rendered slave army tactics obsolete, and similar harassment and containment tactics were subsequently upgraded."
"The most effective tactic is harassment tactics that rely on the super mobility of spatial magic."
"Later, the Witch Tower acquired the effect of space-restricting magic."
Jiang Kehan understood somewhat. If a witch casts a spell and runs away, there's really nothing that can be done about her. This tactic can even hold back a powerful witch, forcing her to protect the city.
However, she narrowed her eyes suspiciously and tentatively opened her mouth.
"Could the forced dizziness caused by the space pavilion teleportation be related to this?"
"Very smart." Bai Bingbing nodded in surprise, causing Jiang Kehan's forehead veins to bulge slightly.
"What do you think I am...?" Jiang Kehan puffed out her cheeks, as if she wanted to bite the other person's neck to let them know that she was not someone to be trifled with.
However, her attention was quickly drawn to Bai Bingbing's words.
"The Witch Tower's spatial movement restrictions are mandatory and indiscriminate, regardless of friend or foe; only the Great Witch can ignore them at will."
"Therefore, a controllable means of spatial movement was needed to replace teleportation, and that's how the space pavilion came about."
"However, the space pavilion can only be moved by entering the core of the Witch Tower's space restriction first. So, in order to protect the core, a forced stun was added at the suggestion of some damned witch."
It was clear that Bai Bingbing also had a lot of opinions about this; she gritted her teeth, somewhat indignant.
So that's how it is... Jiang Kehan finally understood where the dizzying sensation in the groove came from; it was the effect of the spell.
"As for permissions, they are a new feature added to the Witch Tower after entering the modern era," Bai Bingbing explained to Jiang Kehan. "Technology combined with magic has created quite a few new things. Having permissions allows you to enter the whitelist that restricts spatial movement."
"The most typical example is the stun gun that every member of the Witch Machine has; more advanced ones use magic to identify them."