If all the long-lived species joined forces when the time came...
Wiping out the Black Witches' main force would pose no problem.
In the end, perhaps only a small handful would escape, then hide away in the wilderness and wait for the Patriarch to return.
So whether it was for morale, for the world, or for herself...
Diana, the chief executive entrusted with this immense responsibility by Lan Qingyou, had to do it.
And so...
Throughout the following century of expansion, the Black Witches did, in fact, keep sending people out to search for Lan Qingyou.
It was just that the Karim Continent was far too vast.
Some places were also severely contaminated.
And they needed large numbers of people to expand their territory and establish settlements.
All told, they had barely managed to search anywhere.
They had simply spent a hundred years running around accomplishing nothing.
Calling it a show of effort would not have been unfair.
And in truth, Diana was putting on a show.
A show for the Black Witches.
Especially after she learned that the Magic Array Research Association was messing around, that "show" became all the more necessary.
Otherwise, who knew what other trouble those people might stir up later?
The reason Diana was putting on this "show" was entirely because she knew that, no matter how hard she tried, she could never find her missing Patriarch.
This was not a conclusion reached through divination.
It was not even an answer supplied by her intuition.
It was simply deduction.
After all, Lan Qingyou had sent a message before disappearing.
That message had warned them not to venture into the Depths of the New Continent.
In particular, they were absolutely not to approach those few coordinates.
Taken in context, it was immediately clear that she had