After buying clothes and some liquor, Jiang Han had Chen Ligu accompany her to the Mermaid Merchant Group once more.
This time, they were received by another Mermaid Witch—a formidable witch known as [Melissa the Sea Monster]. Compared to the "Xiao Mei" Jiang Han knew, this one was far more brimming with martial virtue.
When Jiang Han and Chen Ligu met her, the Mermaid Witch used her mutated Eternal Ice Eye—eyes known as the [Eye of Heat Tide]—to steam two undersea aberrations that had attacked her.
They were creatures close to legendary rank, having lived through countless ages.
If longevity could not be paired with the traits of short-lived species, then the conclusion across the entire multiverse was:
[A giveaway.]
That was truly a kind of curse.
These deep-sea overlords, who had survived for countless years, merely took a hundred-year nap. When they woke, they found themselves plastered with labels—things like [Deep-Sea Aberration Tentacles, Primary Uses... Actual Exchange Price...].
For one of the witches' elite witches to advance to legendary rank—that was, to become an Archwitch—required roughly thirty-five years under abundant resources.
For a creature from an advanced civilization—a sword-and-sorcery system—to advance from elite to legendary rank required roughly forty years under abundant resources.
For a truly terrible interstellar empire with rudimentary interstellar colonization capabilities, such as the old Apocalypse Empire that had ruled two star systems and spanned five hundred and ten large alternate worlds, it took an elite creature roughly eighty-six years to become legendary.
Even the worst ones could push them up within ninety-five years.
As for worlds where one needed luck and "exceptional talent within the world" to become legendary, they were not considered among the so-called "interstellar powers."
For example, so long as one was a witch in the Witch World, even one of