Chapter 516: Perhaps Consider

Chapter 516: Perhaps Consider

All the talk about not disturbing was just reasons you made up for yourself; the most important thing was still the intelligence she passed on to you…

Zheng Yichen had no idea until he looked, but when he did, he truly didn’t know that so many things had actually happened outside while he was in the Containment Zone. First off, the Derivative Witch of Soul Perception was still at large. After Dan Marina’s detailed explanation, unless under some necessary conditions, it would be very difficult for Saintess Deya to deal with that Derivative Witch. The Saintess was strong in power , but lacking core ability support, she could fight a Witch but couldn’t decisively end the battle.

Then there were those matters concerning Loris. This, Zheng Yichen truly hadn’t expected that she would… be so high-profile? All along, Loris had basically been the lowest-key among the Witches, relatively speaking! Look at Qin, her merchant association was opened everywhere, was that ordinary?

Dan Marina ran around right under the nose of the Sanctuary Church, so high-profile her feet hardly touched the ground. Annie, when usually idle, scattered her creations all over the place. In the Professionals’ circles, she was the kind of Witch who was often not seen, but had the ‘elegant nickname’ of ‘the Gift-giving Witch’…

Well, to many people, anything from a Witch was desirable. After all, in this world, Witches were symbols of power. Annie scattered so many things; before, no one knew what was going on. Later, more people knew, and since those people didn’t encounter any danger, naturally more people pursued the things she scattered.

In the intelligence provided by Qin, Zheng Yichen saw many traces of destruction. These traces were big or small, but without exception, they all showed severe desertification characteristics. There were no residues at the scene, but many of these deserts’ predecessors were mountainous areas or grassland jungles. Now they had all become deserts.

The change in terrain wasn’t important; this was the Otherworld, after all. Similar things could happen too often. Some powerful Spellcasters accidentally messed up some magic experiment that went out of control and could leave many traces similar to radioactive residue. So deserts or the like weren’t strange… except they were!

Suddenly several more places appeared, and some even had humans living there before. Now they were all wiped clean. Could that be called a minor matter?

By the way, this kind of desertification sign looked especially familiar to Zheng Yichen; he had seen it a few times before. After glancing at the latest intelligence, Zheng Yichen let out a breath and immediately set off to go there to check the situation. But when he arrived, the entire scene was sealed off. People from the Sanctuary Church were patrolling. A powerful member spotted Zheng Yichen from far away and couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his mouth, saying to his colleague beside him: “So, is it this willful just because he knows how to make Alchemical Puppets? This dragon runs around everywhere!!”

“…Even if you could make them, you couldn’t be like him, right? Otherwise, wouldn’t all those Auxiliary Profession Practitioners use Alchemical Puppets?” his colleague said, feeling quite envious. He was an Auxiliary Profession Practitioner, currently doing on-site investigation here. Of course, he knew some inside information about Zheng Yichen’s use of the Alchemical Puppet issue.

For example, driving such an Alchemical Puppet for a long time required continuous consumption of Mental Energy and Mana. Even if Mana could be substituted, Mental Energy wasn’t something you could recover immediately just by saying to recover it. Ordinary people really couldn’t torment themselves like Zheng Yichen, let alone control it over ultra-long distances.

“Also, it’s normal for him to come here, right? After all, the traces at this place are very similar to the effects after the Cursed Witch’s power…” At this point, this Auxiliary Profession Practitioner didn’t continue speaking further.

Although it was only suspicion for now, comparing with previously discovered locations and combining past clues, it could basically be confirmed that it was indeed the Cursed Witch’s handiwork, and not some out-of-control magic experiment caused by a Spellcaster messing around. Because everything here was desertified, it was difficult to find additional combat traces.

Besides, the Cursed Witch had cleaned her power traces too cleanly. It was as if after a battle ended, she specifically swept the area extra thoroughly here, preventing her destructive Curse Power from going out of control and spreading. Although this was a good thing, thinking about her identity… as someone from the Sanctuary Church, it felt so contradictory, tsk!

A Witch should act like a Witch. What exactly was this… uh, Witches, well, Witches’ true natures were very rich; there were all types of Witches with various personalities.

“This is exactly what’s problematic.” The church member who first saw Zheng Yichen took out a long-stemmed pipe. He fished this thing out from Zheng Yichen’s Online Store when he was idle, complete with a small pouch of tobacco. This type of product would occasionally appear on Zheng Yichen’s Online Store, and most of the time, after it appeared, a second one wouldn’t show up, or it would be a long time before a second appeared.

As for major uses of these special things, forget it, but minor uses were many, many. After purchasing, they even came with an attached Instruction Manual, saying something like, “I, this dragon, have records for these things; all designs and such exist. If you mass-produce copies of the pipe without my permission, this dragon will gift you a free shark head…”

The shark head made them think of some kind of aquatic creature, but what they could think of even more were those Shark-head Missiles Zheng Yichen messed around with during the Witch Hunt!!

The power of that thing—well, compared to the AOE range of Magic, it might be lower. But don’t forget, back then, the people maintaining the base points for the Church were all in a state of defense +9999… So what happened? They were done for!

Moreover, it couldn’t be ruled out that Zheng Yichen had more powerful ones. So even though Zheng Yichen often released these little trinkets, they only circulated in small circles and weren’t substantial commodities. Smokers existed in the Otherworld too, and such pipes felt good to use. Many people had seen them, but everyone was already used to such things, mostly casually made by Zheng Yichen.

Want to copy and mass-produce? Sure, go find the dragon at the time. Otherwise, afterward, no one could guarantee whether this dragon would be extremely nitpicky.

And also because of such circumstances, among the Magic Weapon Summoners, a somewhat special ‘group’ that supported genuine products developed. The reason? Simple. The things they held in their hands now were unique. Even if it was temporary, that was enough. Not to mention, the special things Zheng Yichen occasionally tossed up were quite useful in daily life.

“Think about it. He’s so close to the Cursed Witch; is there a need for him to come here to check? Do you think the Cursed Witch lost something?”

“…”

“Since she didn’t lose anything, then we might as well properly consider some reasons why he came here. For example… he and the Cursed Witch separated for some reason, and now he’s looking for her?”

“Is that the only conclusion?” the Auxiliary Profession Practitioner colleague was somewhat surprised. What about further details?

“It’s not right to gossip about others behind their backs. Since the dragon is here, let’s go greet him.” The speaking church member snapped his fingers, and a small flame landed in the pipe, as if he hadn’t said anything just now.