Liu Family's Ordeal

"True. If it's a dungeon, then the people who went in to make a pact must have noticed some clues, like the Dungeon Portal."

Lan Qingyou agreed, then waved a hand.

"Have the Ghost Witch send me a few photos later. I'll ask the people in the Map Compilation Room if any of them recognize it."

"Of course. There's one more thing I need to report to you..."

"There's more?"

At the mention of another matter, Lan Qingyou's face immediately fell.

Seeing her reaction, Bei Adoris hurried to report.

"It's nothing bad..."

Her clan leader was notoriously impatient. If Bei Adoris wanted to report something, she had to do it now, or she and the others would have to figure out a solution on their own again.

"Helen sent word that, starting the night the livestream ended, quite a few people began dumping all kinds of successfully grafted trees in the square at Abandoned Harbor."

Bei Adoris gave Lan Qingyou the last piece of news with a wry smile.

"Hmm... This was what we were aiming for in the first place."

Lan Qingyou raised an eyebrow.

The earlier raid on the Void Clan had been meant to make an example of them.

Although nobody had said it outright, anyone with sense could see the reason.

So those people who had grafted the branches must have understood the message loud and clear.

Compared with a huge clan like the Void Clan, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of members, these minor powers couldn't protect their grafted branches from the Perching Giant Tree.

If the Black Witch found out they had something like that, they might not even know what killed them.

The witches could have simply used Curse Magic to threaten the Knights Guild, yet they'd gone so far as