Chapter 526: The Value of the Qi Observation Technique?
“According to reports, in the Magic Capital, a heinous incident occurred yesterday. A terror attack executed by three individuals targeted three densely populated public areas, resulting in indiscriminate harm and theft, leading to a total of 32 deaths and an estimated number of injured persons surpassing a hundred, with countless property losses. Currently, no Extraordinary Academy has taken responsibility for this incident. The terrorists are suspected of possessing extraordinary powers, initially inferred to be a loosely organized, unregistered Extraordinary group…”
This report caused quite a stir and sparked a massive online discussion.
In response to such extraordinary attacks, the Main World usually opts to keep the heat down, revealing as little as possible.
However, this time it was reported without any concealment, which drew a lot of awareness. Moreover… this happened in the Magic Capital!
The Magic Capital is the territory of witches, and an incident of such severe nature occurring there is indeed akin to slapping the Witch Academy in the face.
Yet before this incident could shock the world, similar uncoordinated terror attacks began to surface in various places globally.
For a moment, ordinary people’s discussions about extraordinary beings heightened, and threats posed by extraordinary beings seemed to be circulating in a new cycle throughout the Main World.
In some areas, spontaneous protests erupted as ordinary people took to the streets, after all, numerous ordinary people had lost their lives in this grave incident!
However, looking back at the history of the Main World, ordinary people are trained to both fear and yearn for the extraordinary, and with each passing generation of peace, they gradually forgot the terror of the extraordinary.
Soon, various Extraordinary Academies quietly published tasks to investigate the relevant extraordinary incidents and then issued a notice to students who had already left school, stressing not to use extraordinary powers for wrongdoing off-campus. However, in the event of encountering extraordinary incidents, they were advised to make good use of their own powers for self-defense, and thus the incident quietly fermented, waiting for ignition.
Naturally, the incident that occurred in the Magic Capital also spread to the academy network within the Witch Academy.
Currently, the Witch Academy has issued tasks concerning the incident in the Magic Capital to intervene, thus it also came into my view.
I originally had no interest in this matter; after all, it was during the vacation period, and extraordinary students had left school. If someone had malicious intent, it would undoubtedly trigger an extraordinary incident, which was not an uncommon occurrence.
However, what piqued my interest was the Witch Academy’s attitude towards this incident; a task appeared on the academy’s task board, along with a notice, and then that was it.
This happened in the Magic Capital!
The Witch Academy is an establishment in the Magic Capital. Isn’t this akin to stealing from one’s own territory?
When I realized something was amiss, the first thing I suspected was… this is a part of the script.
If you calculate the time, the intervals between script nodes are roughly aligned.
“Xiao Han, why are you suddenly interested in this matter?” A nearby witch, noticing my sudden curiosity in an external news piece, asked curiously.
“Oh? Sister Qiong, you know about this?” I asked curiously.
Sister Qiong, whose full name is Qiong Onions, is one of the specialized witches introduced by the principal, responsible for interfacing with the academy network operating system. She primarily communicated with me regarding the integration of the Great Knowledge Tree and the academy network. However, this matter will be completed soon, so she entrusted it to a sister she had brought along, while she mainly communicated with me in advance about the firewall related to the Great Knowledge Tree.
“I know a bit, but Xiao Han, you needn’t get involved, right? It’s just a small matter; no need to waste too much energy on it.”
“Oh, I just happened to see it, but I’m still curious… isn’t the Witch Academy going to do something about it? Or is there another hidden agenda behind this?” Actually, I wanted to ask whether this matter was related to the script.
After all, with extraordinary powers in the Extraordinary Academy, there were typically no channels to showcase them. Now that students had returned home, as a Child of Fortune, there should be some encounter in the outside world, such as suddenly being attacked and turning danger into safety, and then discovering this seemed to involve some organization. Finally, during the vacation, they could trace the clues and dismantle an evil extraordinary organization, adding a chapter to their life journey.
Although this kind of plot speculation is somewhat clichéd, it could very well happen.
“Alright, alright… actually, I don’t know much about this either, but it does have that kind of connection… Just don’t interfere foolishly, Xiao Han.”
“Is it the so-called Fortune Script?” I asked directly.
“You guessed it?” Seeing me lay it out, she didn’t hide her answer either.
“Hasn’t this already spread? How could I not know?” I shrugged. “I really don’t want to get involved anymore, but… I’m still quite curious, how do you witches usually gather this kind of information?”
“Well… since you ask, I won’t hide it any longer. But the way I know about this is mainly by listening to gossip from other witches. You should know that witches tend to discuss all sorts of topics during their chats. Oh~ it’s already afternoon tea time. Want to come over to my place for some dessert?”
“Um… thanks, but I’ll pass. Safe travels~ Hope you enjoy your afternoon tea.”
After a brief farewell, I turned away, having a rough idea about the witches’ daily routines.
No matter how urgent the matter, witches always set aside some time for relaxation, even while researching the Great Spellbook.
With my special permission, a certain spot in my villa had temporarily become a tea party venue.
Of course, it’s not just about having afternoon tea; witches also enjoy entering the Primordial Dream World to have fun with other witches.
To extraordinary witches, the Primordial Dream World serves as a platform where they socialize and interact with witches from different worlds.
It is a dream-constructed world belonging to witches; it’s distinctly different from the dream worlds students usually enter.
I had heard them describe the vibrancy of the worlds within, and there’s supposedly a specific dream region constructed for the Witch Academy in the Primordial Dream World to facilitate information exchange among witches, but I still don’t have the qualifications to step into it, as I lack the spells to enter the Primordial Dream World myself. The versions of the Primordial Dream World accessed through devices are all designed scenarios set up by the Witch Academy.
However, I’m not envious; after all, I’m still not mentally prepared to interact with witches there. At present, contacting these extraordinary witches in the academy has been tiring enough.
And I clearly have other matters to attend to.
Now that the script has been edited, the fortune is likely to experience significant fluctuations – this is a fantastic opportunity, an opportunity to further refine my Qi Observation Technique!
At this stage, my research on communicating with the consciousness of the Dream World has hit a temporary bottleneck. However, experiments have proven the feasibility of this approach, but to complete it requires overcoming numerous challenges, such as… the current issue I’m facing: the communication with the Dream World also has a requirement regarding the sleep state of the Fool Dream. Quite fascinating; I was shocked when I reached this conclusion, but excluding other variables, this is the only explanation left.
Later, under the suggestion of several witches accompanying me during the tests, I decided to shift Fool Dream from sleep to conscious meditation. Meditation is a more subjectively controllable attempt compared to sleep. Currently, Fool Dream is testing what kind of meditation can best meet my requirements, which necessitates a lot of trial and error to achieve the established goal.
With this time and the coincident opportunity, I’m also curious about how the current fortune is trending.
As the Qi Observation Technique unfolds, the Great Knowledge Tree presents corresponding information regarding the manifestation of fortune, most of which I’ve marked as gathering places for fortune, also known as the Children of Fortune.
However, the manifestations presented by the current Qi Observation Technique… depict situations I have never observed before.
“Sure enough, there are unusual movements. What does this mean?” I pondered, frowning at the information. The manifestations of fortune are somewhat too abstract. After the “translation” of the Qi Observation Technique, I can only roughly confirm some locations of the Children of Fortune.
For instance, at this moment, Luxien has returned to the Witch Academy. Although I was somewhat surprised why she chose to come back, I assumed it was related to the Great Knowledge Seed I gave her. When I calculated this assumption into the variables, I found a significant alignment with the forms presented by fortune.
This is the role of the Qi Observation Technique; as long as I understand enough information, I can deduce many things from the script that are otherwise unclear.
However, precisely because of this, the difficulty of perfecting the Qi Observation Technique and completing the rules of fortune is far scarier than I anticipated. The Qi Observation Technique has become more akin to… a casual deduction game.
It feels like something very suitable for witches who have nothing better to do… As for the application of the Qi Observation Technique, it’s merely a method inspired by the Earth Vein Identification Technique, so I don’t mind exposing this skill.
In fact, at this moment, I was already thinking about how to expose this, to let those idle witches help me refine it.
My ambition for the Qi Observation Technique is to make it usable in any world where a script begins!
“Xiao Han~”
Just as I was pondering, a familiar voice suddenly rang out behind me. This voice startled me, and when I turned around, it was indeed Principal Beif Alanna!
“Principal Beif?”
“That feels a bit distant. You call that old hag Mei sister, but you won’t even call me sister Beif?” Beif declared with a look of feigned sorrow.
The time Xiao Han signed the Little Witch Contract, that old hag Mei hadn’t called her which made her furious, but this time she mainly came for something.
“Uh… Sister Beif, hello~” I smiled and greeted her, after all, she is the principal and is quite generous, so it’s fine to be a bit sweet, especially since the first time I met this principal, I was asked to call her “Principal Alanna.”
“Great~” Upon hearing this sweet address, Beif’s face lit up with a smile. “By the way, I came over mainly to collect the Great Knowledge Seeds. Some matters have delayed me, so I came to collect them a bit late.”
“Oh, no problem. I have been saving some for the principal. Recently, the demand for the Great Knowledge Seeds has increased, but my production capacity is steadily improving. This is currently all I have in stock.”
“So many?” Beif was somewhat surprised at the quantity I presented. “No, I didn’t give that many resources at the time, and the old hag Mei only took less than ten…”
“At that time, it hadn’t been popularized yet, right? Now I’m almost giving the Great Knowledge Seeds away for free; it wouldn’t be fair to the principal to use the previous value.”
“Free…” Upon hearing this word, Beif’s mouth twitched slightly, “You really don’t want to earn anything at all. Now I understand why so many witches are so keen on the Great Knowledge Seeds…”
After all, no one can refuse free things, witches included.
“Well~ it’s not really that; after all, the principal has heard that the most expensive things are often the free ones, right?”
“Do you have any other plans?” Beif raised an eyebrow; did she misjudge me?
“Uh… not at the moment…”
“Isn’t this still giving away for free?” Principal Beif said irritably, “But since you’re this generous, I’ll accept it. Since that’s your wish, I won’t insist. I’ll help you pass these Great Knowledge Seeds to suitable witches. By the way, do you have any insights regarding the spellbook I gave you earlier?”
“Spellbook? Oh, that… I haven’t had the time to try it yet, so I don’t know the specific situation. Uh… Sister Beif, are you very invested in this?” I scratched my head awkwardly.
After all, experiments regarding this spellbook really haven’t made it onto my project list because my time is nearly occupied by two Great Spellbooks, leaving no space for anything else, especially not recently.
Moreover, I truly have no shortage of research topics; I have too many good things.
“Oh, that’s no problem. I was mainly worried that you wouldn’t be able to handle this spellbook. If you don’t want it, I can provide you with another spellbook.”
“No need for the principal to worry; I like to challenge difficulties. I believe there shouldn’t be any spellbook that is completely unusable; thanks for your concern, Principal.”
“Well, as long as you have confidence, that’s good.” Beif didn’t press the issue further; her gaze quickly shifted to what was in front of me. “Xiao Han, what are you busy with?”
“Oh, just some small experiments related to fortune.”
“Small experiments? Fortune? Anything concerning fortune is not just a small experiment.” Beif Alanna said with some surprise and leaned in, “Mind introducing this to me? It looks a bit abstract.”
“Sure~ but I don’t know if this technique has any practical value, so please don’t laugh at me, Sister Beif…”
Seeing the principal interested, I felt this was a great opportunity.
I just don’t know how much interest she has in this, but… as an extraordinary witch, she must have some means to manipulate fortune, right?
Nevertheless, I still began explaining the Qi Observation Technique and the related information to Principal Beif.
“Every technique has its value; don’t measure the value of a technique solely by its practicality.”
