Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 738 - 612: The Witch Who Seizes Magic Power

Chapter 738: Chapter 612: The Witch Who Seizes Magic Power

After the Battle of Jialong Slope, Nestor Corporation’s status and renown rose once more.

Silvia Delacruz of Scarlet Reconstruction Company, upon hearing the news, couldn’t help but feel pleased.

For a long time, she had been regarded as the third most powerful witch in the world, which was largely accurate.

Silvia was a "witch specialized in stealing magic power," with an extremely unique ability. Once activated, she could siphon and seize the magic powers of other witches within a vast range, making it her own.

The witches whose powers she had drained would no longer be any different from ordinary people for a lengthy period of time.

Whenever Scarlet Reconstruction fought with other corporations, Silvia often directly devoured all opposing witches’ powers, claimed them for herself, and then freely indulged in these pilfered powers before striking heavy blows against the enemy corporations’ troops that had lost witch support.

At last... Nestor Corporation, nurturing the Witch Goddess, had preliminarily entered the ranks of the giant enterprises. Silvia thought to herself.

During their previous rituals, they had found traces of the Witch Goddess and confirmed the awakening of Farosa.

Now, Silvia intended to engage in higher-level, more public cooperation with Nestor Corporation.

The string of victories at Jialong Slope was sufficient to silence any opposing opinions among the corporation’s other executives.

Silvia issued an order to summon the majority of the witches in her family along with key members for a meeting.

Out of respect for tradition, she didn’t wear the uniforms invented by corporate people, but instead draped herself in the family’s traditional black cloak, wore scarlet jewels around her neck, and slipped her feet into high-heeled boots with golden thread embroidery. Despite being over 130 years old, she remained very beautiful.

She turned off the lights and lit candles, human servants came and went serving food and drinks, and the noble witches of the family entered the meeting hall one by one, all conducted in the ancient Delacruz family tradition.

"The oppression of the Delacruz family by the Corporate Alliance has come to an end. Their spies have been arrested and wiped out everywhere; now, they can no longer suppress our growth or our knowledge and power!" Silvia announced to the family members.

"Yes!"

"The exhaustion of the Corporate Alliance is evident for all to see."

"The young no longer see the Corporate Alliance as a formidable organization. Apart from waiting for death in Greeny City, they have no other choice."

"This day has finally come..." Older witches in the family still remembered the Delacruz family’s tragic past.

Silvia’s expression was solemn.

Her Delacruz family was a noble and esteemed clan from the Cardis Archipelago, and due to ancient pacts, the family often produced many offspring, who were invariably witches of excellent talent.

years after the Witch War, the Corporate Alliance, having purged mysticism, set their sights on the Delacruz family, forced them to exile their witches, and even coerced them into selling the family’s legacy, Cardis Electronics.

Silvia was also sent away by her family, finding ways to survive overseas.

She and 30 other witches of her age went into exile abroad, continually hearing about senior and older witches in the family being assassinated, captured, and executed.

After enduring a difficult and painful childhood, Silvia’s magic power grew increasingly stronger. By the time she was 50 and became a high-ranking witch, she returned to the Cardis Archipelago, defeated all her enemies, reclaimed the family business’s control, and reorganized it into Scarlet Reconstruction Company.

The Corporate Alliance could not interfere with her return because, at that time, they were preoccupied with dealing with a "rebellion" in the Agave Continent led by the Colonel.

In the following decades, she developed the corporation while trying her best to find the other children sent away in her childhood. She only managed to find 5 relatives; the rest had been secretly killed by the Corporate Alliance’s agents.

The bloody past made Silvia feel an extreme hatred toward humans.

She gathered the finest witch researchers and developers to work on human cybernetic augmentations. Now, the implant technology is flourishing and complex, but in the early days, their goal was purely to research brain modification, neural surveillance, and psychological assessment technologies to continuously monitor and torture ordinary people through corporate means.

Because of the efficient brainwave-reading chips, loyalty monitoring systems, and thought-control mods provided by Scarlet Reconstruction Company, they also earned their place in the corporate world.

"Many questioned who was better to follow, the abandoned Empress or our Witch Goddess... Now the answer is very clear," Silvia’s gaze swept across the others.

In their midst were excellent men and the most powerful witches, revitalizing for many years. Scarlet Reconstruction Company had a strong force of witch troops, eagerly awaiting to follow the most powerful witch.

Eradicating the human taint and re-establishing witch supremacy had always been the core ideology of the Delacruz family and Scarlet Reconstruction.

They had been divided for a long time before.

One faction attempted to reach out to the "Seven Seals" and remained loyal to the last Witch Empress.

The other faction placed their hopes in the return of a powerful new witch, the one rumored to be the witch who once slew a god.

Many witches of stunning talent have appeared in history, but... the one who single-handedly killed a god, there was only that one witch.

Silvia led the latter faction, which had long been under pressure, accusations, and mockery due to the absence of relevant news, and now the moment to hold their heads high had arrived.

"Our spies have stolen a video from ’Jialong Slope Security Company.’ Please watch closely what the God Slayer can do," Silvia continued.

She waved her hand to summon a projection in the air, revealing a security guard standing in an abnormal space surrounded by Phantom Light, shivering, his gaze constantly shaking as if falling under some psychic influence.

Immediately after, a golden light flashed across the sky, a colossal Power sweeping instantly across the battlefield, with an unstoppable golden radiance cutting straight across heaven and earth. Explosions erupted where the light touched, obliterating everything in its path! Even the portal that connected the real world with the Divine Realm was destroyed, severing the arm that extended from it.

"Ah—"

"Could that be...?"

"No weapon can compare to it..."

"The Godslayer Weapon has been revealed once again, and only we who retain the secret histories of witches understand its true value... Farosa de Aquilia has returned, the God Slayer has returned! She has performed the Seven Witches Ritual, becoming the Witch Goddess, answering our summons, manifesting her slumbering shadow in our dreams, leading us to her starry domain – the era of witches is approaching!" Silvia announced to the others.

With this, the previously undecided neutral members also leaned toward joining Farosa’s ranks.

Silvia’s spirits were naturally high, and the young witches were eager to try, while the mature and experienced family members were completely unfazed, like a group of indifferent crows.

"We hope this will aid our expansion in business," a manager said.

"Keep in mind we are not just part of the Delacruz Family; we also look after our company’s 200,000 employees. We have divisions in over 225 cities; we have 15 subsidiaries and 8 strategic sectors outside the implant industry, all aggressively advancing, with no room for error..." Another witch director also offered her opinion.

"So, my dear, you need to keep these witch-supremacist talks among us few; our more than 200 key partners do not want to hear these words from you... Our investors, distributors, and agents are all anxious individuals; if they hear this from you, our family’s wealth might dry up," an even older witch advised Silvia.

At 150 years old, she was 20 years Silvia’s senior; yet due to witches’ tendency to retain their youth, they appeared almost like sisters.

"Yes," Silvia verbally complied, inwardly scornful of these kinswomen immersed in corporate thinking.

"The Empress would be disappointed by your indecisiveness. There is only one Empress in the world, and she will punish your rashness," a witch loyal to the Seven Seals declared loudly.

"When the Witch Goddess elevates me to Supreme Witch, you will know who truly grants the greatest benefits," Silvia replied coldly.

"Let’s establish cooperation with Nestor Corporation first. We must gain support in the Eastern Hemisphere to continue holding our ground in the Western Hemisphere against the pressure from the Lighthouse Core..." the Old Witch mediated their differences.

Silvia nodded.

Previously, following the witch wars, the Witch Council’s last members were taken by the Seven Seals and became the new Empress. However, as the witches from the Scarlet Reconstruction Company long lacked support from the Empress, Silvia suspected that the "last Empress" had become a forbidden delight under the Seven Seals’ control, serving the Seven Seals instead of the fate of the witches’ tribe.

That was why Silvia was urgently seeking an "alternative" – the perfect Witch Goddess.

She could grant these witches Power and wisdom and utterly destroy the human order.

The Third Witch War concluded with the complete victory of humans, but with the arrival of the Witch Goddess, the Fourth Witch War was bound to break out, and the witches would regain dominion over the world.

With the family’s arrangement, they quickly established contact with the high-level executives of the Nestor Corporation.

The witches of mediocre magic Power accepted cybernetic enhancements, jacking into the virtual meeting space. Their brainwave signals were captured and converted into images, allowing Silvia to see the data space with her own eyes.

Because cybernetic enhancements affect the development of magic circuits, such alterations are naturally forbidden for someone like Silvia who hopes to become the most powerful witch.

"Welcome," Lila said, seated in a wingback chair with her most trusted deputy, Aledy, at her side and a mysterious and enigmatic man from Nestor Corporation’s network surveillance standing behind them.

"The news of Nestor Corporation’s victory in Jialong Slope has spread to the Cardis Archipelago. Now, even the most skeptical among us are fully convinced of Nestor Corporation’s capabilities," Silvia declared, while other staff were responsible for transforming and conveying the message of this high-ranking witch.

Xu Yang observed from behind.

The Scarlet Reconstruction Company, located in the small Cardis Archipelago, was bordered by the Lighthouse Core to the north and Agave Continent to the south, seemingly caught between two forces, yet its survival to this day was mainly due to Silvia Delacruz, the third most powerful witch of the Western Hemisphere.