Chapter 388: Explanation of the Situation
“It still doesn’t work…”
When I awoke from meditation once more, I could only sigh helplessly.
I had hoped to replicate the contact with that young girl again, but after meditating, I was unable to succeed no matter what I tried.
Even with a trace of fortune guiding me, I couldn’t accomplish it. After my failure, I tried to summarize the reasons: perhaps my previous experience was just a coincidence, or maybe the power of fortune had been exhausted after my earlier effort. It could also be that the runes were insufficient to serve as a medium for communicating with her, or perhaps… it was simply because she had woken up?
After all, this was in a dream.
But one thing was certain: that rune was the key to the occurrence of all these events.
Perhaps I should complete it quickly, forming a systematic spell so I could derive the answers I sought through it.
Understanding this, I ended my meditation and continued with my body refining exercises. I didn’t go directly to find Teacher Ji, as the goal was still a goal, and persistence was persistence. If I couldn’t clearly distinguish the importance of things, my thoughts would become chaotic.
Of course, the main reason was… I felt things couldn’t possibly get worse.
After exhausting excess energy, the fatigue from a sleepless night vanished in that moment.
This set of meditation and body refining had already pushed the day toward noon. I instinctively glanced at the thread of fortune floating in my hand and the bow that moved with my arm, confirming that there was nothing amiss, and only then did I relax. It seemed my guess was correct.
Then, I headed to the cafeteria to prepare two takeout boxes.
Although Teacher Ji, as an extraordinary witch, didn’t need to eat, I certainly did.
And I couldn’t let Teacher Ji watch me eat, or let her eat as I ate… that would be so awkward!
After preparing, I returned with the lunch boxes, just in time to eat with Teacher Ji while discussing what had just happened. I felt this was a great opportunity to investigate the rune!
My intuition told me that the young girl was not simple. Just the language barrier, combined with the fact that this was a “summoning spell” rune, naturally led me to think of summoning girls from other worlds!
What a strange spell. By the way, does a spell to summon girls from other worlds really exist? If such a spell were to spread throughout the Witch Academy… just thinking about it feels terrifying.
Witches are attempting to conquer the void with beautiful girls!
Witches already cover the void everywhere? Oh, then never mind.
It always felt like this rune-generated spell was aiming to develop a story plot; since this rune involved other worlds, I naturally had to seek Teacher Ji’s help.
After all… this rune was a part of Teacher Ji’s 【Extraordinary Knowledge】 interpretation, so how could she not care?
With such thoughts, I returned to the laboratory.
As I pushed the door open, a figure in the lab made me pause in my steps!
“Headmaster… why are you here?”
I widened my eyes as I looked at the additional figure in the lab… wasn’t that Headmaster Mei Linde?
“Oh? Xiao Han is back! I heard from Xi Lan that you went to meditate and refine your body.”
“Yeah…” I silently stuffed the takeout box I had just pulled out at the door back into my storage equipment.
After walking into the laboratory, I glanced at the headmaster, my gaze seeming to ask her why she was here.
“Meditation and body refining, what a good habit! Judging by your appearance, are you curious why I came here?”
“Mhm!” I nodded vigorously.
“Of course, I happened to be passing by and came to take a look.”
“Is that so?” My gaze instinctively darted to Teacher Ji. If she hadn’t shown that strange expression earlier, I might have believed it.
But since the headmaster was here, she certainly had her reasons, though I didn’t know what they were.
“By the way, I saw you were holding something in your hand just now?”
“Uh… it’s lunch… I packed it early… sorry, I didn’t expect you would come by, so I didn’t bring yours…”
I said a bit awkwardly, feeling like I had encountered one of those awkward situations where the water I poured for the boss was less than what the boss had. Now I truly faced that moment, and as for high emotional IQ or low emotional IQ responses, I had forgotten all, so I just stated the truth and accepted my low emotional IQ.
“That’s really a pity, but missing one meal doesn’t matter,” Mei Linde said, her gaze measuring me, finally landing on my right hand. “Did something happen on your way here?”
“Oh, I did encounter something significant; I was just about to discuss it.” Once the headmaster pointed it out and with her earlier gaze at me, I realized the matter of fortune hadn’t slipped by her. Besides, I had no intention of concealing it.
At that moment, even Teacher Ji stopped her work and came to stand beside me.
“Go ahead and tell me what you did in just one morning,” Teacher Ji spoke, after all… she was well aware that the headmaster had already divined that Xiao Han seemed to be up to something. If it was just about prying a piece of 【Extraordinary Knowledge】 rune, it might have been a bit too mundane.
“Okay, I want to ask first, the Witch Meditation Method enters the dream world during meditation, right?” I asked.
After all, to explain the existence of that young girl, I needed to clarify when and how I had contacted her.
I remembered that I had successfully used Spirit Vision as a cheat during meditation, and I was afraid of making assumptions, so I wanted to clarify some things now.
“Strictly speaking, the Witch Meditation Method does not enter a dream; rather, it borrows the special powers of dreams to refine mental power and will, and it is a meditation method that only witches can use.”
“Ah? Why? Can’t other races use this method? I remember… other extraordinary races seem to have also involved dream research?” I asked curiously.
“Of course, they are involved, but the dream used by the Witch Meditation Method is the Primordial Dream World. That dream world is an area anchored in dreams by the Primordial Witch and has been thoroughly refined into the Primordial Dream World. Only areas of the void under the Primordial Dream World can utilize the Witch Meditation Method.”
“I see… but what you said earlier about not entering a dream, what does that mean?” Does it mean the space where my consciousness was located was not a dream?
“You should have used Spirit Vision to probe deeper into the Primordial Dream World with the Witch Meditation Method, right? Generally speaking, this is a technique that can only be mastered after advancing to an extraordinary witch. If you are not yet an extraordinary witch, you wouldn’t have the capacity to access this area. That’s why I said it’s not entering a dream. What you think of as entering a dream is, in fact, just a kind of conscious space formed by the Primordial Dream World merging with your consciousness.”
“I understand now…” I nodded, confirming my initial guess.
“Why is Xiao Han asking about this?” After explaining, the headmaster asked.
“Oh, what I want to talk about actually happened while I was meditating.”
“During meditation? Tell me more.” Upon hearing my explanation, curiosity flickered on the headmaster’s face; after all, witches always exhibited a vibrant curiosity toward unknown phenomena.
Then, with a wave of her hand, several chairs appeared in the room, and even Teacher Ji had one. She unceremoniously took a seat, looking ready to listen to a story.
Alright, alright… summoning chairs, huh?
I placed one hand on the back of a chair but ultimately sat down.
“Then I’ll say this… just like usual, when I went to the meditation room to meditate, I entered a meditative state, that is, into that so-called conscious space. While my consciousness was in that state, I found that the rune would also condense there. Oh, that rune refers to the one from 【Extraordinary Knowledge】…” As I spoke, I felt my expression was not very clear, given that the headmaster might not know what rune I was referring to, so I intended to explain, but had barely said anything when the headmaster interrupted me.
“Xi Lan has already told me about the runes. I heard you created quite a mess? That’s alright; it’s understandable to feel fear in the face of the unknown.”
“It’s been mentioned? That’s good… now, back to what I was saying, that rune appeared in my conscious space during meditation.”
“Condensing a rune in the conscious space… interesting. Then what?”
“Then… I sensed an anomaly within that rune, and I was able to capture that anomaly, which is this…” I raised my hand, indicating the golden thread around my right wrist. Perhaps this thread of fortune was invisible to ordinary people, but she, as an extraordinary witch, would definitely be able to see it.
“Oh, the Thread of Fortune, this is the most withered one I have ever seen,” the headmaster remarked. “So you believe this Thread of Fortune is the key to maintaining your connection with this rune?”
“Yes, that’s what I think.” I nodded in agreement.
“Interesting, fortune doesn’t create such things out of thin air. The intertwining of fortune and rune… wait, is that all that happened?” the headmaster inquired, sensing that it didn’t seem sufficient for the predictability that her divination suggested.
“No, there’s more to it.”
“Go on.”
“This Thread of Fortune shattered my conscious space during meditation; after experiencing a sense of weightlessness, I found myself in another conscious space, or rather, it didn’t necessarily feel like a conscious space. It felt more like a dream because it felt vast, like a world, and everything around was rather absurd.”
“Oh? The fortune pulled your consciousness into another dream?”
“No, it was that rune that pulled me in. When my conscious space shattered, it was that rune that underwent a change, while the fortune… its role should be to guide. After arriving in that dream, that Thread of Fortune guided me to meet a young girl, and that Thread of Fortune belonged to her, which is precisely why I felt the space I was in at that time was the young girl’s dream.”
“I see.”
After listening to my description, it was clear the headmaster had a much clearer understanding.
Along with her knowledge of the extraordinary, runes, etc., it seemed she had already unraveled the cause and effect.
“Has the headmaster figured it out?”
“Based on what you’ve said, I have some thoughts. Do you have any additional details? Since you’ve seen that young girl, did you talk to her?” the headmaster continued to ask.
“I did try to talk to her, but at first, she ignored me. However, later when she did speak to me, I found that we couldn’t understand each other’s language.”
“Language barrier? Where else in the main world…” At that moment, Teacher Ji seemed eager to argue, but then appeared to think of something and quickly fell silent.
“Xiao Han, you mean to say that young girl is not from the main world, right?” the headmaster asked.
“Yes, that’s how I speculate. Even in Ninglan New City, everyone speaks the same as the main world, so it doesn’t make sense that I wouldn’t understand her words. Moreover…” I recalled the scene from that time, “her clothing style was also somewhat different from what I knew, but not too much… it was evident that her attire also suggested… if that really is another world, it should be on a similar developmental trajectory as ours.”
“How interesting.”
Upon hearing what I said, the headmaster was the first to speak, and her excitement was evident in her tone.
“A mere rune that transcends the void between worlds, intersecting with another world outside the main world. She has fortune; it should mean she’s a Child of Fortune from that world, doesn’t it mean that fortune can actively cross worlds to introduce variables?”
“Introduce variables?”
“Yes, that refers to you, Xiao Han. Perhaps that world is currently in turmoil, and you might very well become its savior. It’s quite marvelous—this is merely a rune imprinted from 【Extraordinary Knowledge】, yet it leads to such an event by sheer coincidence… not to mention it found you, a little one who has already severed the Earth Vein Shackles. If it had found us, it would likely have vanished immediately.”
“Um…”
For a moment, I was left speechless; even I didn’t understand why such a thing would occur. But as the headmaster mentioned, the occurrence was entirely driven by coincidence.
“What should I do now?”
“Of course, just let nature take its course. What can you do? You can’t do anything right now, can you?” the headmaster said with a smile.
“…”
I didn’t speak; it was a bit painful to hear that I couldn’t do anything. It reminded me of the young girl I had seen. If that world was a reflection of her inner self… then she must be a rather introverted and unsociable person, right?
The world lay in ruins, and it was still raining…
But I also breathed a sigh of relief. I hated this feeling of being swept along to do something. Perhaps I had read too many novels in my previous life, making this kind of development seem so cliché.
Yet, just a slight recollection… brought me to think of myself. When I saw her, I felt like looking in a mirror, reminding me of my past life. In my previous life, I was a boy, and since birth, the beliefs instilled in me robbed me of even the right to cry like a girl, so I learned to be indifferent.
“Really… is there nothing I can do…” I subconsciously asked.
“Of course… not entirely. We can try to complete this rune into a complete spellbook. Who knows? There might be a miracle!”
