Chapter 888 – Custom Mirror Spaces

“Are you sure this is the place? Mo Lan’s Witch’s home?”

Vasida stood at the end of an overgrown trail. Looking at the yard smothered in weeds before her, she couldn’t help but wonder if they’d taken a wrong turn.

“This is way too old, too run-down, too desolate! It’s only marginally better than the freshman Dormitory at the Witch Academy. Didn’t Mo Lan set up magic circles to protect her Witch’s home?”

Sylph bent down and picked up a half-buried, moss-covered stone slab from the collapsed grass. She gently wiped away the grime with her fingers, revealing clearly engraved text: “‘Mo Lan’s Lakeside Cottage’…”

She straightened up and double-checked the coordinates. “That’s right, this should be the place.”

Just then, Lilith teleported in as well. She too was startled by the surroundings. “Didn’t all the Witches who attended Mo Lan’s Witch’s home inauguration banquet say her place was incredibly luxurious? Even now, people in the Witch Council group chat say Mo Lan’s Witch’s home is their dream house. And it’s… this?”

“Let’s go in and have a look! Mo Lan’s been completely off the radar, so she’s definitely scheming something…” Sylph had a feeling this place wasn’t what it appeared to be. Her curiosity piqued, she channeled a bit of Mana and used Path Clearing. The obstructing weeds parted on their own, clearing a path. She walked through and pushed open the half-closed yard gate.

“The plants in the yard are a mess, but the yard itself is still intact. It looks like a house materialized from a card… It’s probably just that no one’s maintained it for so long that the protective Magic has worn off.”

The three of them crossed the overgrown yard and arrived at the cottage’s front door.

Vasida raised her hand, about to knock, but her motion froze abruptly.

She stared at the door before her, hesitated for a moment, then turned to Sylph. “Um… Sylph, why don’t you do the honors? I’m a bit worried that if I don’t control my strength, I’ll knock this door right off its hinges.”

The house really did look extremely fragile.

If it weren’t materialized from the Mobile Cottage Card, it probably would have collapsed already.

Sylph nodded understandingly and extended her slender fingers, rapping her knuckles against the door panel with the utmost gentleness three times.

“Creeeeak—”

Almost the instant the knocking ended, the wooden door was swiftly pulled open from inside.

Mo Lan, who had been waiting behind the door all along, appeared before her three friends with a brilliant smile of mischief accomplished. “Well? Were you wondering how I could possibly live in a place like this?”

She had deliberately held back from going outside to greet them early, just so she could see the surprise on their faces when they saw the “dilapidated” exterior.

However, as her smugly satisfied gaze instinctively swept over the yard beyond the door, she herself was a bit stunned.

She had anticipated that the yard would be rather messy after being left unattended for so long, but she hadn’t expected it to be this bad.

Wild grass had spread everywhere, thorns tangled together—there was barely a clean patch of ground to step on. It was truly a wonder that the three of them had still made their way through to knock on the door.

“Uh…” A barely perceptible flash of embarrassment crossed Mo Lan’s face, but this minor surprise couldn’t dampen her joy at reuniting with her friends in the slightest.

She immediately stepped aside, clearing the way into the interior, and said in a cheerful tone:

“…Come in! Don’t be fooled by the exterior—this is just one of the entrances to my Witch’s home.”

Behind Mo Lan, the silver-furred little monkey Zhizhi, the little skeleton Clack, and an arm-thick tree root were obediently greeting the Sorceresses. Sylph followed the tree root with her eyes and noticed the window to the left of the door—the root was extending in from there. She took a step back and looked again at the left side of the door from outside.

There was indeed a window there too, but its shape and size were completely different from the one inside, and no tree root was extending through it.

“This is…”

“It’s a mirror space!” Seeing the confusion and curiosity on her friends’ faces, Mo Lan finally stopped keeping them in suspense and revealed the answer with a smile. “This is a mirror space I brought back from the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins World. Once it’s bound to an owner, you can enter it at any time within a certain range. Right now, you’re all inside my mirror space.”

She paused briefly and added, “Oh, and I’ve made this into a card too—it’s the mirror space card from the ‘Otherworld Treasures Series: Three Thousand Mirror Ruins.'”

“That mirror space card that costs at least two trillion Gem Coins for a single one?”

Lilith immediately chimed in. She had looked into that astronomically priced product when she was back in Valen, and the price had been seared into her memory ever since.

“That’s the one.” Mo Lan nodded, confirming Lilith’s words.

To give everyone a more tangible sense of it, she took her three friends on a tour of the Witch’s home, just as she had done with the other Witches before.

Looking at the tranquil pond outside the windows, the vast expanse of green moss lawn, the sprawling plantation, the distinctly shaped ecological zones in the distance, and that wondrous magical clock that could connect to locations all around the world… Vasida’s, Sylph’s, and Lilith’s eyes grew brighter and brighter.

“This is absolutely amazing! Compared to this, the place I’m living in now is laughably tiny!” Vasida pumped her fists. She was already imagining herself owning a mirror space and building a massive dedicated training arena and a food warehouse inside it.

Sylph was particularly fascinated by the ecological zones and had already begun mentally planning the layout of her future planting spaces. “The ecosystem at Emerald Creek Plains is still too limited. So many plants can only be grown in spatial greenhouses. Once I have a mirror space, I want to set up tons of ecological zones—that way, even when I go on missions to other worlds, I can cultivate mutated plants!”

This would be far more convenient than her plantation at Emerald Creek Plains.

Even with the spatial planting pot, the plantation was still difficult to relocate for growing purposes. She often had to slow down her exploration of other worlds because of the plants she was nurturing.

That was exactly why she had visited the fewest other worlds of any of them to date.

Lilith had fewer functional demands for a mirror space, but even she couldn’t resist such a portable home. “This truly is the most perfect Witch’s home!”

Almost immediately, all three of them opened the Card Shop in unison, added the mirror space card to their shopping carts—and every single one of them selected the custom version.

They began excitedly describing their ideal mirror spaces, and Mo Lan quickly estimated customization prices based on their requirements.

“Vasida, you want a large area that can withstand high-intensity training, plus some agricultural land for growing ingredients… That comes to at least eight trillion Gem Coins!”

“Lilith, yours mainly costs more for the time flow adjustment feature—around five trillion Gem Coins should be enough.”

“Sylph, you want to simulate multiple ecosystems, which is the most complex. The time flow adjustment feature also needs to cover all the ecological zones, so the cost is the highest—probably around ten trillion Gem Coins.”

The three who had been brimming with excitement just moments ago froze the instant they heard these astronomical figures.