Lord: I have built a witch's sanctuary.

Chapter 131 Harvest

Chapter 130 Harvest

Outside the city walls, on the snow-covered plains, the smoke of battle had not yet dissipated.

The corpses of tens of thousands of demons rapidly dissolved in the afterglow of the bizarre moment, transforming into clusters of light orbs suspended in mid-air.

The orbs of light varied in size and color.

Some glowed with a dark red light, some shimmered with an icy blue glow, and several large orbs of light radiating a rich golden glow were particularly eye-catching.

Those were spoils left behind by a fourth-tier monster.

Lorraine stood on the north wall, overlooking the snowfield filled with orbs of light, her expression serene.

Less than ten minutes.

Six fourth-tier demons and tens of thousands of soldiers were annihilated.

The battle was fought too easily, so easily that he even felt he had wasted the mana reserves of those defensive towers.

But then he thought about it again. These monsters were resources that he had asked Lyra to "lure" over. There was no better outcome than harvesting them all at the lowest cost.

"Victor, take some men down and collect them," Lorraine ordered. "All the orbs, not one less."

"yes!"

Fourth-tier Grand Knight Victor knelt on one knee to receive the order, then leaped off the city wall.

He kicked up a cloud of snow mist as he landed, sheathed his molten longsword, turned and strode toward the city gate, issuing orders along the way.

The city gates opened, and the engineering puppets that had been waiting filed out.

These mechanical servants, manufactured by Ohm, were arranged in neat rows, each pushing an iron collection cart. Under Victor's command, they quickly dispersed and rushed toward the scattered orbs of light on the snowfield.

Lorraine did not wait idly on the city wall.

He walked down the stone steps from the city wall, through the streets of the inner city, and went straight to the Lord's Hall.

He sat down in the main seat, closed his eyes, and probed the witch's secret book with his spiritual power.

A semi-transparent building panel unfolded before his eyes, but instead of looking at the building list, he switched to the loot statistics page.

He instructed the secret manual to automatically record all the loot dropped by monsters killed within the territory. Even before the engineering golems had retrieved the orbs of light, the data was already being updated in real time.

Lorraine opened her eyes, a slight smile playing on her lips.

Leila's good luck did not disappoint him.

The passive buffs of the Fate Witch were fully utilized in this battle, with the material drop rate increasing by nearly 50% compared to normal.

Moreover, the materials dropped are almost tailored to the specific needs of the territory.

"Good luck has indeed come," he muttered to himself.

About half an hour later, the engineering puppets returned one after another, transporting all the spoils back to the warehouse.

Lorraine left the lord's hall and went into the warehouse.

Examine them one by one.

The most common item is magic crystal.

Fourth-tier monsters drop the most magic crystals, with a single monster dropping over a thousand. Combined with the magic crystals dropped by third-tier and second-tier monsters, the total is a whopping fifty thousand!

"This batch of magic crystals alone is enough to support a fifth-tier advancement ceremony." Lorraine put the magic crystals back on the table and shifted his gaze to the pile of materials next to him.

The variety of materials is extremely rich.

Fragments of the Abyss Spider's carapace are as hard as refined steel, making them a superior material for forging defensive equipment.

The Heartfire Stone of the Lava Hellhound contains high-temperature flame energy, which can be used to enhance fire-attribute magic arrays.

The icy bone marrow of the Frost Troll, the acidic glands of the Poisonous Swamp Monster, and a large amount of leather and claws left behind by low-level monsters.

Tendon————

Lorraine looked at each item one by one, checking them against the secret manual panel.

Then his gaze settled on several items that radiated a unique light.

That's a rare object.

The first item is the [Crown of Frostthorns].

A crown of thorns formed naturally from frozen ice crystals. When worn, it creates a continuously cooling zone within a radius of 100 meters, and has a strong restraining effect on fire-attribute monsters.

The source is the Frost Troll.

The second item is the [Spider Silk Binding Rope].

A semi-transparent thread, its material existing between solidity and nothingness, can bind beings at the soul level, including ghosts.

Shadow-type monsters are particularly effective.

The source is the Abyssal Spider.

When Lorraine picked up the third item, she felt a distinct warmth in her fingers.

It was a palm-sized, dark red crystal, irregularly shaped, as if it had been directly peeled from the body of some kind of organism.

Inside the crystal, flame-like patterns were constantly writhing, and the heat emitted caused the surrounding air to distort slightly.

"A fourth-tier molten metal core." Lorraine raised an eyebrow slightly as he looked at the markings on the secret manual.

This thing was extracted from the body of a lava hellhound. It was of extremely high quality and contained an extremely concentrated amount of fire-attribute energy.

On its own, it's not very useful, but if used as a core catalyst for a promotion ceremony—

Lorraine tapped her fingers lightly twice on the table.

He quickly flipped through the records in the secret manual about the fifth-order advancement ceremony, comparing the list of required materials with the spoils on the table one by one.

Magic crystals—that's enough.

Basic materials—that's enough.

The core catalyst, a fourth-tier melting core, can serve as a catalyst; other fourth-tier monster materials, with slight modifications, can also be used.

Lorraine closed the secret manual panel and took a deep breath.

That's enough.

This batch of spoils, along with the remaining supplies in the territory's inventory, is just enough to barely cover a fifth-tier advancement ceremony.

In other territories, those that cannot tailor-make witch ascension rituals like the Witch's Codex, the material consumption is almost five times higher.

But he did have it after all.

Lorraine did not hesitate.

"Someone come here," Lorraine said, looking up at the guard at the door. "Go and fetch Anna."

The guards obeyed and left.

A few minutes later, Anna pushed open the door to the Lord's Hall.

She was still wearing her battle attire, her black witch's robe stained with a few ice crystals, clearly indicating that she had just come down from the city wall.

Seeing Lorraine standing alone in front of the long table piled high with spoils of war, she quickly walked over.

"Sir, you wanted to see me?"

Anna's voice was soft, carrying a hint of tension that hadn't completely subsided after the battle.

Her gaze swept over the dazzling array of materials and oddities on the table before quickly returning to Lorraine's face.

Lorraine turned around and looked at her.

A nineteen-year-old girl stood before him, her red hair cascading over her shoulders. Her eyes, once filled with humility and timidity, were now calm and composed.

The aura of the fourth-order entropy witch emanated naturally from her body, not ostentatious, but enough to make anyone who sensed it feel awe.

From a trembling little maid at the White Wolf Outpost to a powerful witch who can now single-handedly control twenty-four fourth-order entropy towers and forcefully blast fourth-order frost trolls with time rays.

This road was only traveled for a few months.

Anna.

Lorraine gently patted Anna's shoulder. "Get ready, we're going to hold your fifth-order witch ascension ceremony."

Anna's eyes widened slightly; she had been looking forward to this moment for a long time.

"The materials are all ready." Lorraine stepped aside, revealing a long table piled high with spoils of war behind him. "We'll use fourth-tier fusion cores as catalysts, 40,000 magic crystals as the energy source, and the other auxiliary materials are sufficient. I've also examined the advancement array for the fifth-tier Entropy Witch."

Anna stood there, looking at the materials on the table that were emitting various colors of light, and then looked at Lorraine.

"Fifth rank—" she repeated the word in a low voice.

In this era, she knew better than anyone what the fifth rank meant.

In the entire Northern Territory, there is currently only one known fifth-tier being—the Winter Lord.

It was a terrifying monster capable of summoning a white blizzard and suppressing the entire city with natural disasters.

And now Lorraine is telling her that she wants to elevate her to the same level.

"grown ups----"

Even after so many witch advancements, Anna's voice still sounded a little strained when she reached the legendary fifth rank.

"Can I do it?"

Lorraine glanced at her.

"You've always been great."

Anna was silent for a moment, then slowly nodded.

She no longer said things like "I'm not worthy" or "I'm afraid of letting you down."

Those words belong to the Anna of the past, to the helpless little maid who was bullied by everyone.

She is now a fourth-order entropy witch, the leader of the witch corps, and the earliest awakened and most trustworthy combat force under Lorraine.

"I'll be ready," Anna said.

Lorraine nodded.

"Go and rest, get plenty of rest. We'll start inscribing the magic array first thing tomorrow morning; you can just wait by the side."

Anna bowed and turned to leave the hall.

Her footsteps faded into the distance in the corridor. Lorraine turned her gaze back to the materials on the table and began to retrieve the blueprints for the advancement array of the fifth-order entropy witch from the secret manual, confirming the material configuration of each node one by one.

It's a big gamble.

His territory's reserves are almost depleted, but if he succeeds, he will have a fifth-tier witch under his command.

Before the arrival of the Winter Lord.