(The battle scene was too brutal to be shown.)

In the end, Zorn ripped off Miss Witch’s head.

On the bed, bathed in moonlight.

Zorn arranged Miss Witch’s headless body.

He placed the head in Miss Witch’s own hands.

Her face even retained a trace of fear and despair.

With all her Skills sealed, she had been helpless to fight back. Anyone would despair in the face of such a death.

’What a thoroughly satisfying and memorable battle,’ Zorn mused, admiring the bloody yet tranquil scene.

Placing the head and body together would better facilitate the separation of the Mirror Witch’s Sequence Crystal Core.

And a Sequence Crystal Core from a boss was incredibly useful. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

In this Steam Era, where Mysterious Power was just beginning to reawaken, materials were of the utmost importance if one wished to obtain a mysterious Extraordinary Sequence and gradually master its incredible power.

A Sequence Crystal Core from a boss.

It could certainly grant an ordinary person a corresponding Extraordinary Sequence class.

And since it came from a boss, this class would typically be very powerful.

For Zorn,

this rather powerful Witch Sequence Crystal Core could help him leverage one of the Four Knights: the Merciful Witch.

Vanessa’s loyalty and devotion were sufficient for her to receive a powerful Sequence.

With the Mirror Witch’s death,

moonlight began to slowly shine in from another rooftop window.

Under the moonlight, a silver Monster Treasure Chest slowly materialized.

Zorn was quite familiar with the treasures contained within the chest.

One Silver Moon Skull.

This was a core material for crafting high-quality Spiritual Statues.

Twelve vials of Boiling Blood Dragon Potion, an exclusive item that only dropped from boss chests.

After drinking one, the user’s blood would briefly boil, granting them a measure of the Power of the Giant Dragon.

Furthermore, each vial consumed would leave behind a small amount of residual Power of the Giant Dragon, permanently increasing the user’s strength.

There were also two Witch Skill Scrolls, which were likewise rare items.

Zorn took a look.

One was a guaranteed invisibility Skill.

The other was a charged assassination Skill.

The Merciful Witch.

She primarily specialized in control and survival.

Although her damage was weaker, that was only in comparison to the other three Guardians.

To those of an ordinary Sequence, the Merciful Witch’s damage was still more than they could easily withstand.

One offensive and one defensive—the two Skills were a perfect fit for the Merciful Witch.

The final item was a rather critical one.

The Forbidden Sealed Object, the Witch’s Mirror.

Like Zorn’s Ring of the Two Serpents, it was also a Lower Rank Level Sealed Object.

Through the Witch’s Mirror, one could enter the Mirror World and travel within it for a period of time.

Forbidden Side Effect: After each use, the user would lose their own Mirror Image for a period of time. While their Mirror Image was lost, they would become susceptible to being controlled by their mirrored self.

Even some Mirror Demon-type Transcendents, like the Mirror Demon Apostle Zorn had encountered before, could also manipulate a Transcendent through their mirror during this period of weakness.

After heavy use of the Witch’s Mirror, one would become corrupted, unable to distinguish between the real world and the Mirror World, and eventually become lost in the depths of the mirror.

Of course, this only applied to ordinary Transcendents.

But for a World-level boss like the Evil Spirit Wizard, who possessed Forbidden Weaving,

if a Transcendent of that type of Sequence dared to enter Zorn’s mirror and try to control him,

then congratulations, they would win themselves a one-way ticket to a mirror cage!

As for the corruption...

The Witch’s Mirror would be lucky not to be corrupted by Zorn instead.

The rest was... about half a chest of Kruger Gold Coins.

Roughly 1,800 of them.

Zorn looked around.

He found Miss Witch’s vanity chair and broke it apart.

After lighting it with the flames of his Destruction Magic Ball,

a small "bonfire ritual" was complete.

The ritual offerings were the Silver Moon Skull, the Witch’s Mirror, and two vials of Boiling Blood Dragon Potion.

’It would all end up back in my hands anyway. Using these "materials" to build a bridge for the ritual would make it more effective.’

’When you’re summoning yourself, it’s all about being economical.’

Zorn chanted the ritual of the Mysterious Realm to summon himself.

Soon, the flames surged, and the Calamity Black Mist slowly unfurled.

The potions and Skill Scrolls were slowly sent through, falling into the depths of the Calamity Origin Land.

When it came to the Kruger Gold Coins,

they floated up one after another, and the process was not very fast.

But this was a fortune of nearly three thousand gold pounds. Slow as it was, he had to send it all over today.

A full half-hour passed before all eighteen hundred Kruger Gold Coins were finally sent through.

Zorn naturally hadn’t forgotten Miss Witch’s Spiritual Mirror Witch Crystal Core, and he sent that through as well.

Finally, the Calamity Black Mist sluggishly drew in the last of the ritual offerings.

The entire ritual process took over an hour.

A normal ritual would have only taken two or three minutes.

After sending everything away,

Zorn stood up, let out a long breath, and looked out through the old, yellowed glass of the window.

He saw that the entire Mirror Demon Realm on the seventh floor had become a vast, shimmering, mirror-like surface.

Mirror Image Warriors were constantly spawning, and even... a number of Mirror Image Constructors had come directly from the Mirror World into reality.

Now that Miss Witch was dead...