Huge Income

Making a fortune by the sea was clearly easy, simple work. Jiang Han and the others spent a few hours underwater every day, hauling box after box of overlooked gold back to shore.

Smelting, scorching, removing the impurities from the gold, then finally blending in the magic power that severely depleted the gold itself.

At last, gleaming Witch Gold emerged.

Golden and glittering, standard-issue 400-ounce Witch Gold bars. Each weighed over ten kilograms and was worth roughly 560,000 Witch Gold dollars. They were also the ultimate goal of every witch's savings:

Convert one's savings into glittering Witch Gold and store it in a bank—or somewhere more secretive—as an extra reserve of mana.

Ordinary gold was merely gold, but Witch Gold was an extremely valuable spell material, reserve, and strategic resource. It could be used to manufacture thousands upon thousands of the most cutting-edge witch technologies. Laboratories always demanded more Witch Gold; this stuff never lacked buyers!

In Angelite's laboratory alone, more than 400 ounces of Witch Gold were burned through every day. Far more than just a handful of witches in this world needed Witch Gold; vast numbers of Archwitches—far beyond anything landfolk could imagine—consumed the stuff. Thank Angelite. Without the method she invented for turning gold into Witch Gold, witches would still have to search for all kinds of high-magic worlds!

Only those high-magic worlds could produce gold that barely met witches' standards.

Unlike now.

Just find a world with an ordinary gold deposit of several thousand or tens of thousands of tons, and it could satisfy the needs of quite a few witches!

Incidentally, Witch Gold was also witches' largest source of trade surplus in outer space.

Among the hundreds of known advanced magical civilizations across all of outer space, every world had a mountain of demand for