"Money!?" Aiden was taken aback.
"Yes, they offered a sum of cash in circulation within the Empire, as well as some gold," Abigail recalled, saying, "Since we didn't really suffer any losses, we accepted their offer."
"The witches' coven... is short of money?" Aiden was somewhat surprised.
He found it hard to imagine that the witches' coven would be short of money, given that the seven Great Witches at the core of the coven commanded rare technologies. Just the magic potions that Lamia produced could fetch astronomical prices in the black market.
Even if items related to black magic couldn't be mass-produced, the derivative technologies developed in the course of their research into black magic also had promising prospects for monetization, such as the metallurgy techniques mastered by Vila, which could create high-end materials that even the previous world was unable to produce...