After submitting the application, Jiang Han followed Histeria to the training room.
Rainy Night Club's training room was of the highest standard. Whether it was the instruments, the equipment, or the bottles and jars used for potion refinement, everything was either the finest product on the market or a pre-production model not yet released. It could be called the pinnacle of what the market had to offer. Any longtime Gundam fan knew that the words "pre-production model" themselves stood for nobility and expense.
Just as Jiang Han had seen and realized while visiting Kraken's Sea Shepherds Club in the past, the era of witch clubs had entered the middle stage of the age of money.
From simply spending fortunes to assemble galactic fleets, to the point where some clubs' youth training programs now averaged several thousand more points of magic power than those of other clubs.
"..."
"Exceptional witches having exceptional environments is only natural. So long as a witch displays the aptitude of an elite witch, countless resources will be tilted toward her. Cultivating an Archwitch is both important and immensely profitable."
"Subsidies, connections, prestige—even in the future matchmaking market, it can attract daughters of heaven willing to 'marry beneath themselves.'"
Histeria continuously tutored Jiang Han in the necessary knowledge, while the latter listened with blinking eyes and perked cat ears.
After spending some time with her foolish disciple, she had come to understand that her disciple might be a genetic mutant among witches—a rare state of "hypermutation," far surpassing the progress of every ancestor and peer before her, having formally entered the higher life-form stage of witches. Yet it was precisely because of this sudden, extreme mutation that her foolish disciple lacked the pride and brilliance expected of a "powerful witch."
To make up for that, she had