Chapter 118: Earth Vein Accumulation
“I’m sorry, but there’s really no explanation. After all, an explanation is just a cover-up. I am honestly expressing my thoughts, or rather my decision.” I shook my head and said what was on my mind.
Just as I mentioned before, my conversations with Tan Han only leave me with apologies.
“Well, that’s straightforward. It seems I’m not suited to keep entangling myself here. However, I still want to let you know—I happened to meet you here, and I was planning to come and talk to you about this. But I didn’t expect this development; let’s consider the original exchange as information I’m giving you.”
As she spoke, Tan Han handed over a stack of bound papers.
“This is a photocopy of information regarding the accumulation of Earth Veins within the Academy. The details are all recorded inside. I think once you read it, you should understand what it represents.”
I looked at the stack of information in Tan Han’s hands, and for a moment, I hesitated about whether to take it.
“Alright… let’s put it this way. If you take this information, then I won’t bother you anymore in the future, okay?” Tan Han tilted her head and continued to extend it towards me, as if urging me to take it quickly.
“Thank you…”
In the end, I accepted the information. Although I didn’t know what was inside, I still heard words like “Earth Veins,” which unfortunately I didn’t have much detailed knowledge about.
However, based on my experience collecting information about it, Earth Veins were indeed important.
“There’s no need to thank me, after all, we can’t be friends. You need to learn not to say thank you to those outside your circle of friends. It’s quite coincidental that you’re the class leader of Class 14, and I’m the class leader of Class 1. Perhaps we’ll meet again in the future.” After saying this, Tan Han walked away without looking back.
Leaving me feeling quite awkward.
Did Tan Han already know that I had become the class leader of Class 14? Where did she get this information from?
I had only been the class leader for a short time myself.
After calming down, I quietly sat down with the stack of information to read. Although the earlier incident made me feel uneasy, at least it wasn’t all bad news.
The only worry was probably the issues between classes in the future?
Both she and I were class leaders, so inevitably we would have interactions. The class leader of Class 1, indeed fitting for the role of a study prodigy.
After shaking off the emotions brought on by others, I once again entered a calm state of reading.
The information Tan Han gave me was comprehensive, seemingly gathered from some source.
It documented the network of Earth Veins within the Academy.
And even kindly introduced the characteristics of Earth Veins, specifically their ability to carry information. Because of this feature, Earth Veins are filled with countless complex information and past histories. This can even lead to destruction caused by the surging extraordinary energy.
Thus, a phenomenon called Earth Vein accumulation can occur within the Earth Vein network.
These phenomena can cause a whole area to enter an abnormal state, potentially affecting the normal flow of energy and interfering with devices that collect information through Earth Veins.
For instance, if there was Earth Vein accumulation in the villa I live in, casting spells there might have various effects, such as the fireball spell detonating prematurely or protection spells trapping oneself, etc. It could even affect the normal operation of alchemical items in the villa, causing energy shorts.
To alleviate Earth Vein energy, specialized equipment or alchemical items are needed.
This should be a very normal behavior, and it doesn’t really involve me, Tan Han, or even all the new students.
However, the subsequent descriptions did indeed excite me.
Generally, this Earth Vein accumulation requires trained seniors using professional instruments to alleviate it. However, naturally, there can be additional actions during this process.
That is, through certain means, one can extract the “things” carried within the Earth Veins.
This includes unresolvable information, unknown histories of the Academy, various memories accumulated from senior training, and extraordinary materials that condense after separating from the Earth Veins.
Leaving aside the earlier items, those special energy substances formed through the baptism of extraordinary energy from the Earth Veins are indeed precious.
The materials then focused on two things.
One was the accumulated training memories within the Academy. This is a pure form of memory, not including subjective cognition. Therefore, it acts as a nearly perfect consumable for autonomous learning.
For example, this is similar to experience points for leveling up characters in a game.
Obtaining this memory is like having a memory in your mind that feels like a personal experience, without affecting an individual’s self-awareness or worldview.
Of course, the flaw is that what you learn might not necessarily be what you need, and the difficulty of obtaining it is quite high, with low output. It also requires training on your part; otherwise, it wouldn’t be much different from watching a vivid 5D movie.
As for the extraordinary materials condensed from pure extraordinary energy, their rarity is quite high. Compared to naturally formed materials and artificial ones, they possess unique qualities that can provide new insights into novel artificial materials.
So, in a word, they are expensive, the top tier of luxury items.
This information seems to have been released not long ago, and these two days mark the new student’s enrollment period, also the time when the Academy makes extensive use of the Earth Veins.
After the admission of new students is over, it will be the peak period for Earth Vein accumulation. After all, Earth Veins usually flow in a fixed network, and the probability of sudden Earth Vein accumulation is very low.
However, the various behaviors of the Witch Academy utilizing Earth Veins to create enrollment effects seriously violate the original operational methods of the Earth Veins, leading to various accumulations.
Even though the admission process hasn’t finished for three days now, signs of accumulation have already appeared in various places within the Academy.
In fact, this isn’t a bad thing; rather, it’s something the Academy has done intentionally. It’s just an annual effort to make full use of the Earth Veins. It acts as a summary of the past year and a form of encouragement for the new students.
Indeed, the output from this Earth Vein accumulation will serve as rewards for the new students.
How these rewards are distributed is, of course, left to the representatives of the class, specifically the class leaders to obtain.
Thus, selecting a class leader is the first competition within the class!
And how much a class can obtain is the second competition among the respective class leaders.
At this moment, I felt the pressure of being a class leader. While resources are indeed in hand, the pressure is undeniably real!
Moreover, I was appointed as the class leader by the counselor without any discussion or competition, wouldn’t that directly provoke public anger?
How would I lead Class 14 to unity under such circumstances?
If I were to distribute this reward evenly among the class members, I undoubtedly wouldn’t be satisfied either. Regardless of whether a hundred people in the class can split it, whether that reward can even be divided is another question.
Both objectively and subjectively, it cannot be divided. At least, that’s how I see it.
Tan Han really delivered a hot potato to me…
Is this a different form of anxiety selling?
If this becomes a competition among class leaders in the end, it seems reasonable that Tan Han knew I was the class leader of Class 14.
But how did she find out about this?
It can’t just be because Ji Niang has a big mouth and talks everywhere, that seems unlikely when I think about it.
