In any case, whatever sort of ethically dubious mentor-and-student history the Pale Witch and her own mentor, the Thorn Witch, had shared in the past, times had changed. The Hierarch of the Flores Wanda, the Church, was dead, and the World Serpent was enduring one of the hardest periods in its centuries-long history. The more perilous the times, the more everyone needed to band together for warmth.
No one knew what sort of soul-searching the two sides had gone through, but what followed was still very wholesome. In short, thanks to the Pale Witch's introduction, the World Serpent and the Thorn Witch met with a smile and buried the hatchet... In truth, they hadn't had any major grievances between them before. The Thorn Witch's two prized disciples had indeed betrayed their mentor after being recruited by the Serpent, but that was an internal matter for their own "Withering School." At most, the Serpent was partly to blame for egging them on.
Besides, the "World Serpent" had indeed just lost three of its Thirteen Faces. And after more than a year of an all-out hunt across the entire galaxy, it had also lost double-digit numbers of its various Time Executors. Plenty of its outlying branches, gangs, mercenaries, and even "legitimate" trading companies and the politicians they had propped up had been swept away.
At any rate, this number-one secret villain organization in the entire galaxy was indeed in need of talent.
They were all old cosmic monsters who couldn't operate in the open, and lately they'd all been having a particularly rough time. Neither side was in a position to look down on the other. Under the circumstances, it was hardly impossible that they'd hit it off.
Anyway, according to what the Pale Witch had explained before switching to her defensive