Witches had an exceptionally precise standard for measuring favors. Every tier of "favor" corresponded to an equally matched tier of "repayment."
For example, if a witch possessed a favor owed by some great witch, but it only amounted to "the level of help one would give a land-dweller"—
That favor would become both troublesome and rather useless.
Such a small favor could not command a great witch.
Yet giving it up would feel even worse. So, asking a great witch for help through a minor favor not only used up that favor, but also established "contact" with the great witch. It was like laying the groundwork for "a key into the circle of top-tier witches"—there had to be contact before there could be a connection.
Still, a small number of witches possessed the ability to "raise the stakes of a favor."
For instance, if someone used a land-dweller-level favor to ask Eileen to deal with a Saintess, Eileen would ordinarily only send out a single Silver Knight witch.
As for whether the matter would be resolved with one hundred percent certainty, she would not guarantee it.
But it was different when Jiang Han came bearing that token to make the request!
A ten-witch squad of Silver Knights, plus an incarnation—the lineup was outrageously luxurious!
That was why some witches could slack off while drawing high salaries, yet their companies still tolerated them and even wished they could hand them a bonus.
Jiang Han enjoyed that feeling too, and every time, she received the hospitality of those powerful witches.
Beyond the coastline of South City, within a gigantic underwater structure.
The corridors, built from sea wood, were clean and lovely. Cat Lamps of every color drifted back and forth along either side, giving off an unhurried, lazy, soft and droopy