Chapter 522 – The Witches’ Capabilities

Chapter 522 – The Witches’ Capabilities

Golden birds carrying sealed message boxes flew from the Wilds to every corner of Valen.

The witches who had lost their fireworks magic maintained calm facades, but in the dead of night when no one was around, they could not hide their worry for the Wilds.

Had the golden birds not brought letters from the Witch Council instructing them to act carefully and avoid exposing the news of what had happened to the Fireworks Witch, they would likely already have been on their way back to the Wilds.

Though they did not reside in the Wilds, it was a place the witches absolutely could not afford to lose.

Even so, they were already preparing to quietly leave their current places of residence and return to guard the borders of the Wilds.

It was at this moment that another golden bird arrived bearing a message box from the Witch Council. After reading the letters inside, the witches’ confidence was reignited.

Four new Sorceresses had appeared among the witch clan! And there was the wise existence of Lady Moira, who had conceived of something like the Dawn Society.

The Wilds was safe for now, so what they needed to do was help the newly born Sorceresses spread the Dawn Society silently and without a trace.

As for how to do it, Lady Moira had already thought of everything for them. The {Dawn Society Promotional Guidance Plan} contained over a thousand promotional strategies and examples for them to choose from.

The potion-brewing witch who had been profiteering off the war in the Elven Woods drank a transformation potion she had brewed herself. She first infiltrated the pureblooded Elf army, spreading rumors that the half-elf army had the assistance of a secret organization, which was why they fought so fearlessly. Then she drank another transformation potion, turned into a half-elf, and infiltrated the half-elf army, claiming that the pureblooded Elf side had obtained the aid of a hidden organization.

Once both sides were riddled with suspicion, she quietly hid Dawn Society Trial Invitations on corpses across the battlefield. Before long, these invitations had landed on the desks of the Elf King and Royal Duke Elwiss alike. Both sides launched undercover operations, sending agents to accept the invitations…

The Alchemy Witches hidden within the Imperial Magic Academy quietly slipped a Dawn Society Trial Invitation among the relics of a deceased Beyond Peak mage. The {Dawn Society Trial Invitation} was mistaken for an artifact from the Well of the Sky and was eagerly activated.

The leader of the largest blasphemer organization in the Yala Empire, who was also a witch with an extreme loathing for the Temple, saw her opportunity. She personally signed the invitation, then summoned every spellcaster in her organization and gave each one an invitation card.

The witch near Heaven’s Peak manipulated things from the shadows. A follower of a low-ranking Angel reported to their “god” that someone was secretly harvesting faith, and presented evidence — a Dawn Society Invitation.

The witch near the Dwarven Kingdom quietly smuggled Dawn Society Invitations into the cargo of a human merchant caravan, which carried them into the dwarven palace.

The witch near the Beastmen Court rode her broom under an invisibility shield and dropped an invitation over every resource-scarce Beastmantribe.

The witch in the Land of Chaos simply wrote a long list of precious resources on the Dawn Society Invitation, then sent it to the auction house in the City of Chaos, where it caused a sensation.

The witch in the sea placed {Dawn Society Trial Invitation} cards inside a ship that had recently sunk. The Merfolk, ever curious about the land, never passed up a sunken vessel — the invitation was secretly squirreled away by a curious treasure-hunting Merfolk.

The Culinary Witch on the Dragon’s Delicacy Island simply began selling gourmet cards, luring in greedy dragons who seized the Dawn Society Trial Invitations for themselves.

The witch in the Underdark set up a stall at the black market wearing a dark cloak, giving away Dawn Society Invitations as a free bonus with purchases.

The witch in the Abyss secretly slipped Dawn Trial Invitations into the hands of spellcaster slaves captured by Demons.

…

The carriage had not even made it out of the Duchy of Green before Mo Lan and the others watched with their own eyes as the numbers in the “Members in Trial” and “Official Members” columns on the {Dawn Society Management Card} began to surge dramatically, growing faster and faster.

The races of the members were astonishingly diverse — humans, Elves, half-Elves, Merfolk, giant trolls, Dragons, Beastmen, Dwarves, Angels, Demons… Nearly every race recorded in 《Continent of Valen》 was represented.

Even races unique to certain sub-planes of Valen had appeared, such as elemental sprites from the Elemental Plane.

The witches’ capabilities far exceeded anything they had imagined.

Judging by the Dawn Society’s rate of expansion and the diversity of its membership alone, it would not be an exaggeration to say that witches had a presence in every corner of Valen.

“Wait, what is this Ice-Snow Tribe? I’ve never heard of them,” Lilith noticed a strange name.

No matter how many fewer books she had read compared to Mo Lan, she still knew what races existed in Valen. It had come up on multiple exams at the Witch Academy.

“They should be a species discovered in the far northern snowfields during the early Magic Era. They were previously classified as quasi-elemental beings, considered relatives of ice elemental sprites. They have strong ability to manipulate ice elemental force, but were thought to have low intelligence — not qualifying as sentient beings. They shouldn’t be able to understand the meaning of a contract, participate in the Society’s trials, or use Dawn Society magic!”

Mo Lan also found it rather strange.

If only one member of the Ice-Snow Tribe had signed a Dawn Society Invitation, it might have been a case of a single high-ranking individual with exceptional intelligence. But now, several Ice-Snow Tribe members had become trial participants in succession, and their scores on Trial Task One were actually quite good — definitely at the level of sentient beings.

“Could they be a newly emerged sentient race?” Mo Lan was uncertain.

“No way! Since the Divine Descent Era, no new sentient race has appeared in Valen. At most, individual members of certain species have shown exceptional intelligence,” Sylph said.

“Let me ask Madam Amisha!” Mo Lan said.

She was, after all, now in possession of Madam Amisha’s instant messaging card.

The message was sent and a reply came immediately. Madam Amisha, who had numerous avatars, had even dedicated one specifically to monitoring this messaging card so as not to miss any calls for help from Mo Lan and the others.

【Amisha: According to the message the Snow Witch in the far northern snowfields sent back last year, the Ice-Snow Tribe is an otherworldly race that arrived in Valen during the Divine Descent Era. Their growth period is even longer than that of Dragons. At the time, only a few snow eggs fell on the far northern snowfields. They didn’t hatch until the early Magic Era, and only now are they showing signs of being a sentient race. Once the senior Snow Witch finishes her research on the Ice-Snow Tribe, 《Continent of Valen》 will need to be revised with an entire volume dedicated to them.】

“Our poor juniors — they’ll have one more race’s information to memorize,” Vasida said.

“Even though we’ve graduated, we can’t escape it either,” Mo Lan said. “Since they’re a sentient race, they could potentially influence the situation in Valen. We can’t afford to know nothing about them.”

The moment they heard it could affect the situation in Valen, Lilith, Vasida, and Sylph all became alert.

These days, they looked at every foreign race and saw a potential future enemy.