I finally found out how those witches incapacitated my spirits it turned out to be a cursed spirit coin sown into the uterus of one of the infiltration team members and of course it had to be the oldest most wrinkly woman that I have ever met that happened to be covered in pustule warts all over her body with a stink that suggested she forgot how to use a shower.
Now normally I would push the job of retrieving cursed coin to one of my unfortunate servants but unfortunately for me this particular coin seemed to resonate with a exceedingly potent spirit energy that my contracted spirits wanted and the worst part was that I had to retrieve it using her natural opening to her uterus in order to not damage the coin using my bare hands so the spirits can connect to it more easily through me and enhance my already sizable power but every little bit helps but I'm holding off for as long as I can to strengthen my heart to be able to withstand the ordeal.
The good news is that Marie's coven has been fully established their main base of operations is the the same building as my penthouse because I decided to buy the building in order to have complete control of the security of the building to keep my possessions safe the original building owner was none too thrilled about having to sell it but once I gave him a youth potion that everyone is dying to get there hands on he immediately signed over the property and thanked me for my generosity he even went as far as explaining all the things I need to know about the building itself and contacts regarding maintenance although surprisingly helpful but wholly unnecessary as I plan to make some upgrades to the building.
The renovation of the building would actually be more of a conversion as I planned to transform it into an alchemical lifeform something between a golem and a dungeon which is a completely different technique than any that I have seen in this world most use enchantments, arrays or runes which all have benefits and drawbacks but as I don't want to keep reapplying or maintaining such tedious safeties then going out of my way to hide them and hoping that no one discovered the flaw in its design I would rather just turn the entire building into a living being that could do that unnecessary work for me.
With that in mind I am now in the basement of the building with fifty volunteers (people that were clearly kidnapped) from the local drug dens and homeless population that were all drugged to keep them calm some were already drugged up before we found them as this ritual requires twenty people for good results and thirty-five for the best results but as I was using low quality ingredients I figured best to be safe and use fifty and usually finding a large amount of people without causing panic would be a problem at least in the other world but luckily on earth there are plenty of places to find people who have been thrown away by society and it would not be strange if they just disappeared one day as most wouldn't know or even care.
The Ritual called for a mixture of ingredients ranging kings blood to camel spunk to create a paint for marking the sacrifices of the ritual but using spirits I could skip that process and head straight into the fun part grinding up these wastes of humanity with a few other ingredients sure during the process they woke up screaming, begging and cursing me as there bodies were turned against them but their rude comments were a very small price to pay for my personal comfort leaving the basement as I done all I needed here I move up to one of the upper floors that I cleared out and filled to the brim with golems that I had Ai create but without cores instead there was a unique magical circuit carved into the floor that will spiritually link them to the building itself using the blood of a dead god essentially they would become part of its body.
The whole process looked like something out of Silent Hill a straight up horror story blood moving as if it had a mind of it's own, stiff jerky movements of the golems only add to the effect but that should smooth it self out soon enough but my audience didn't need to know that...
Me:"So ladies (captive witches) after I finish upgrading my home security I'm going to send all of you home except for one as I am owed something for my aggravation and since I am low on volunteers to test my new products I decided on aggressive recruitment"