Chapter 717
The day of the planar door’s opening had arrived.
After eight long months of slaughter in another world, the various branches of the Northern Witches had all returned to Shadow Island.
Those who had yet to return at this time were very likely never to return again.
Everything came with a cost!
The reduction of their ranks had happened to all the witch branches.
The Dark Witches lost two witches, the Death Witches one, and the Coldwinter Witches one. If one were to tally up all the witch branches’ casualties, most of them had suffered about one or two losses, apart from the Fate Witches.
However, the Fate Witches still weren’t the ones with the most substantial losses!
Shockingly enough, the False Witches that had chosen to venture into the Oceanic Empire had been completely wiped out, with the sole exception of a Third Grade witch. That said, she didn’t seem to be too mournful. It was likely that they had accomplished their mission as well.
Several tall voodoo beasts that had been waiting outside the hall promptly rushed in under the orders of the witch in the lead. They helped the witches in moving the spoils and slaves out of the chamber.
Alice, dressed in her purple starry robe, extended her hands and stopped the witches and voodoo beasts approaching to help them.
“We don’t need your help with our spoils. Tell your superiors to hurry up and open the teleportation array. We want to return to the Tower of Fate immediately!”
The witches were utterly befuddled upon hearing this.
What? Teleporting to the Tower of Fate?
Had Alice gone mad?
It didn’t matter how many spoils and slaves she had brought back with her; hiring a mercenary and traveling to the Tower of Fate by land wouldn’t cost more than a few thousand magical crystals. However, teleporting would easily cost up to hundreds of thousands of magical crystals.
While the witches were stunned in shock, a witch stood forth.
“Open the teleportation array. I also need to return to our headquarters immediately.”
The witches looked over. It was the only surviving False Witch.
It seemed there was something odd with the two witch branches. They were worried that dragging things out would invite variables and that was why they wanted to return as soon as possible.
The Sidonthiria Clan in charge of managing Werning had no reason to deny such a request.
Soon, once the other witch parties had exited the teleportation hall, the teleportation array once again got to work.
Dong, dong!
Two dull thuds rang out in the space, and the Fate Witches disappeared from the array, quickly followed by the False Witch.
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“Hurry up, hurry up. This, this…and this as well. Take them out of the room now!”
Under Sofia and Snowlotus’ orders, the witch apprentices that had received news of their return and had been waiting here quickly surged forward. They either used Levitation or simply commanded the voodoo beasts to lift the chests of spoils out of the teleportation array.
They only moved one-third of the spoils and prisoners. The remaining chests and cages were placed within the teleportation array, along with the cage full of three-headed lizards.
“We Fate Witches have lost quite a lot of strength this time. We might need quite a bit of time to reorganize our matters here. I’ll leave everything there to you,” Alice stood outside the teleportation array, waving her hand at Greem as she said, “The matter over in Lance isn’t easy to deal with. You need to be careful as well.”
Then a white light rose and enveloped the array.
By the time the white light faded, there was nothing left in the array.
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Lance. The metal fortress.
A blinding white light radiated from the portal as multiple silhouettes suddenly appeared on the teleportation platform.
Arms, who had transformed into a three-headed lizard, roared and broke free of the illusion when he smelled the familiar and comforting aura of his plane. He smashed through the wooden cage and let out a moan as he stretched his body.
The other dragons followed suit and broke out of the cage. They roared loudly as they returned to their original forms.
For a moment, the formerly spacious teleportation platform was wholly taken up by a dozen ferocious dragons. Now it appeared narrow and tiny.