"Really, really..."
It was the first time Jiang Han had heard her master, Histeria, sound so flustered. Stammering, she finally managed to get the sentence out:
"Such astonishing wealth."
"So your library is down there?" Jiang Han briefly shook off the influence and clambered onto a massive pile of gold ingots beside her. She glanced down into the bottomless enormous shaft, where only the various glittering gems hanging along the spiraling World Tree corridors provided illumination... oh, and the lava falling from above, along with the fiery-red gemstones.
With a smile on her face, Eileen habitually lifted her chin and said:
"Right below. It took me a very long time to move my nest here."
She stretched out a hand and made a swiping motion.
A nest was where a Witch's amplification became most terrifying, and where it was most compatible with her magic. Even powerful Witches would suffer considerable penalties upon entering the nests of weaker Witches. In history, quite a few famous Witch comebacks had happened because the victors failed to finish things properly after winning, allowing their opponents to turn the tables and forcing the final outcome into a draw.
Put another way, Eileen and Angelite's match had only been decided because Eileen lost the initiative. After all, once she lost and holed up in her own nest, Angelite would most likely have had no way to deal with her. But that would have caused an even more severe depletion of Witch resources, so Eileen had still accepted the loss and been branded with the sun.
Magic surged out with Eileen's gesture, activating an enormous lava wall beside them and causing the "wall" to melt. In an instant, vast quantities of lava began flowing continuously into the World Tree corridor.
There was no need to worry about