"What is that?"

Dorothy scratched her head, thought carefully, and realized she indeed had never heard of anything like a Kengan Duel before.

But from the words ’duel’ you can tell, Senior Mia, you really still want to do those gray-area businesses, right? Let me give you a word of advice: our financial luck has been terrible recently, and we really don’t lack that bit of money. Once my Warship Workshop finally comes through, money will be just lying around for us to pick up.

The homebody witch thought about this as she pondered how to persuade Senior Mia.

Although she was indeed quite tempted by those warship technologies, she already had the Destruction Armor to study, so she could think of ways to handle other matters later.

However, before she could speak, Senior Mia looked at her silent self and smiled.

"Don’t worry, Little Fairy, I know my financial luck has been sucked away quite a bit by my sister recently, but the Chairman has already helped me stabilize it again, and this Kengan Duel is a legitimate business battle, not based on luck. Everything depends on strength."

She explained this.

Dorothy finally breathed a sigh of relief.

True, although her spell strengthened Melantha’s talent, no matter how much it’s strengthened, there’s a limit. The Silver Princess has a strong knack for plundering others’ financial luck, but when facing Sophia, the daughter of fate, she still gets crushed by her superior.

Alas, it seems that Miss Melantha is still lacking in comprehension, unable to grasp the true usage of the spell Dorothy gave her, failing to seize that one-in-a-million chance of victory.

But, a real business battle?

The homebody witch found herself a bit interested.

So before, when it was called the Money Tree and the Poisonous Koi, it wasn’t even a real business battle?

She thought that magic world’s business battles were fought with contests of fortune.

So how should a real business battle be conducted? Sending spies to steal each other’s secret technologies, using honey traps, financial warfare, and so on?

Hmm, sounds interesting, like something out of a blockbuster movie.

Dorothy’s eyes lit up.

Unfortunately, Senior Mia quickly poured cold water on her enthusiasm.

"Little Fairy, don’t even think about it. Those traditional business battles you’re imagining, you might have to look in the Demon Witch’s territory, or in the Abyss to see them. Those folks are the ones who enjoy using poaching, espionage, poisoning, and so on to achieve their goals."

"But here in the Dragon Kingdom, we rarely play like that."

"Dragon Witches are more accustomed to resolving things with their fists when in doubt."

"In the past, when the Dragon Kingdom had a business battle, even the small-scale ones involved ten thousand people brawling, and the bigger ones could mean full-scale Battle Group wars."

The Golden Princess said with a smile.

Dorothy: "..."

Geez, so it’s really a ’business battle.’ As expected, this commercial warfare is quite hardcore.

"Aren’t we even less able to participate? Although we now have some strength, we don’t have the qualification to go head-to-head with those regular battle groups, we truly can’t win in a real fight."

The homebody witch sighed.

If it were a business battle of conspiracies and tricks, then with her sister, the Sage of Lies, and her teacher, Lord Demon King’s little smarts, she’d have a fighting chance. But when it comes to real sword and gunfights, there’s no chance.

Though under her command are the Hyakki Witch and the Moon Rabbit Knight Order, she is considered a person of some influence, but all of this only amounts to a medium-sized battle group in scale.

And still, they are a motley crew, without even a proper warship in hand. Not even comparable to Sophia’s Revelation Battle Group, let alone the top ten ranked battle groups.

Better not to invite humiliation upon themselves, wait until she can assemble the Dream Fleet in reality before talking about these.

"Hahaha, so those kinds of business battles are things of the past, they eventually got banned for being too disruptive, and it was all pointless internal consumption, which only weakened the overall strength of the Witch World."

"So later on, everyone changed their way of business battling, scaled it down from real warfare to duels. When a problem arises, each side finds a trustworthy proxy, letting them duel against each other, and the ultimate winner takes it all."

"And that’s what they call the Kengan Duel."

"However, such duel competitions are not very public, so they’re just an unwritten rule. You can think of it as a large-scale underground duel competition."

"However, as of today, the Kengan tournament’s weight is actually higher than the regular duel competitions that anyone can join, but it’s still something that shouldn’t see the light of day, so it’s only circulated within the Dragon Kingdom, and even on the Magic Network, the major financial groups have jointly banned the news. If you are not an insider or a professional Duel Witch, you indeed wouldn’t know about these."

Senior Mia patiently explained to her lover.

Dorothy suddenly realized.

"So that’s how it is, an underground black boxing match? That sounds a bit interesting, Senior Mia, do you mean we should go to this Kengan tournament and join the fun?"

The homebody witch stroked her chin, gaining some interest.

Mysterious underground black boxing matches and such, things you usually see in anime and novels as hidden stages, Dorothy didn’t expect they really existed, she’s a bit curious to see for herself.

But...

"Senior Mia, even if this underground dueling exists, do you really play it that big? Even taking out master techniques kept in treasure boxes as stakes, isn’t this a bit too reckless?"