Chapter 143: The Shadow Assembly
“It's cleaner than I expected.”
Led by the executives to the meeting hall, I found myself... surprisingly underwhelmed.
I wasn’t expecting some tribal open space or crude hideout—they did have infrastructure rivaling small cities, after all.
But still, this wasn’t a den of black magic or a cursed sanctuary brimming with dark power.
It looked more like... a normal conference room.
“There’s barely any black mana here.”
“...Right?”
“Is there a reason for that?”
Trying to squeeze out every bit of intel I could on black mages, I asked the question as casually as I could.
The Shadow Witch tilted her head as if wondering why I’d care about something like that, then scratched her head and began explaining.
“Well, it’s nothing special... We’re just extracting the black mana essence.”
“Black mana essence?”