Chapter 6 Witch Academy Under the Curtain Wall
Although Sister Bai’s phone is very cool, I’m not bold enough to ask to borrow it. Not to mention whether there are any of Sister Bai’s privacy on the phone, I still haven’t mastered Extraordinary Power—will I even be able to use this phone?
And if I can endure a little longer, I’ll be at the academy soon. Naturally, someone will provide me with a phone; at least that’s what Sister Bai said, so I’ll just trust her for now.
“Almost there, Xiao Han, hold your admission notice in your hand.” At this moment, Sister Bai suddenly said to me.
“Ah? Oh.” Although I was a bit confused about why, I obediently held my admission notice in my hand. “This… what’s the use of it?”
“We’re about to pass through the curtain wall.” Sister Bai said in a very brief tone, “Non-Witch Academy students can only pass through the curtain wall with their admission notices.”
“Ah?” It took me a few seconds to process Sister Bai’s words. Setting aside the confusing parts, it means I need to hold the admission notice to enter Witch Academy?
What kind of special screening mechanism is this?
However, since Sister Bai didn’t seem inclined to explain further, I didn’t press the matter any further. Instead, I looked at the notice in my hand. I hadn’t had the chance to read all the details when I received it, and I was just pulled into the car by Sister Bai in a daze. Now that I looked closely, there was indeed a point stating that one must physically hold the admission notice to enter Witch Academy, and if there is no academy staff to guide, one can go to a specific station to find…
The following lengthy section was all about how to enter Witch Academy; goodness~ If it weren’t for Sister Bai’s guidance, it might have taken me a long time to figure it out.
As for this world, my gaze shifted to the two people across from me. I watched as that senior passed an admission notice, seemingly prepared in advance, into the boy’s hand.
“Witch Academy issues admission notices for each batch targeted at the Genius Academy. If the other party doesn’t include Witch Academy in their preferences, or has no intention of attending, this admission notice will be included among the tools for capturing new students. No need to make a fuss about it.” Sister Bai said with a smile, as if it wasn’t a big deal.
So this is how Witch Academy operates?
“Other academies do the same.” Sister Bai added at this point, but I hadn’t yet relaxed and she spoke again, “Of course, they all learn from us at Witch Academy; it’s really shameful.”
What a shameful situation… This is blatant double standards; who exactly should be ashamed?
At this point, I was already too exhausted to provide any commentary. I felt like, no, Witch Academy has already become an unorthodox academy in my mind.
But it doesn’t matter; what I want is Extraordinary Power, and it doesn’t matter where it comes from. I just hope the academy doesn’t operate under some survival-of-the-fittest forest rule; I really can’t compete with others.
I’m not good at calculating things, and my thought process is quite short, so I just hope that the academy allows for someone like me to exist.
I took a few deep breaths to calm my mind and looked out the window. I could already see a large, technologically advanced city in the distance.
I still don’t know what the curtain wall mentioned by Sister Bai really is.
I curiously activated my Spirit Vision. In the past, Spirit Vision only brought me endless burdens; at that time, I couldn’t control this perspective, which caused a significant strain on my daily life.
I felt that the things I saw didn’t match my common sense at all. They challenged my worldview and consumed my limited rationality.
It wasn’t until later that I gradually learned the techniques involved, such as how to turn off Spirit Vision and how to selectively block out the complex and illogical information while in its state.
Now, in my eyes, this world seemed to be filtered, as if the information from the outside world no longer came from sunlight reflecting off surfaces into my eyes.
Instead, it felt like all matter was conveying its various information through abstract concepts, and my “eyes” served as a receiving window, flooding my mind with these insights.
This gave shape to concepts like “distance,” “material,” and “energy,” among others.
This perspective requires adaptation and understanding, as well as a comparison with the visuals seen through ordinary eyes.
The impact it had on me was akin to a congenitally blind person regaining sight after decades of living; everything seen stimulates their nerves, and the unprecedented visuals guide the blind person to reconstruct their understanding of the world.
Fortunately, I am a traveler; if I were a newborn in this original world, I might have been locked away in a mental hospital for life because I wouldn’t know what a normal world looks like. Without a normal perspective to compare against, I wouldn’t be able to distinguish between the Surface World and the Inner World.
And now, with the enhancement of Spirit Vision, I saw the city gradually transform into a “shape” I couldn’t comprehend, complex material information covering the fundamental characteristics of the original substance.
However, I wasn’t interested in those high-rise buildings; my attention was entirely captivated by a massive, bowl-like, translucent energy structure.
The high-speed train I was on was just about to crash directly into it!
But whether it was an illusion or not, I had the strange feeling that the city beneath the cover was oddly overlapping; this significant difference naturally drew my attention.
Could this be the curtain wall Sister Bai was talking about?
Beneath the curtain wall is the Magic Capital, and within it is… the Witch Academy?
I was startled by my own guess, but if that’s true, then… is the Witch Academy in a different space?
I watched as the high-speed train sped toward the so-called curtain wall, that semi-transparent barrier gradually engulfing the train. In the blink of an eye, the wall seemed to sweep past me.
As the light curtain passed over my body, my instinctive reaction kicked in, but nothing happened; only the goosebumps on my skin testified to what I had just witnessed.
I looked down at the admission notice in my hand, realizing it seemed as if something had wrapped around my entire body just now.
Then I felt a jolt from the sudden stop, causing my forehead to collide hard against the back of the seat in front of me.
“We’ve arrived.” Sister Bai spoke first, and after coming to a complete stop, she got up to prepare to disembark.
The senior, Deng, was still attending to the student who had fallen asleep, ensuring that the student she brought would safely arrive at the academy.
After getting off the train, I discovered that the so-called high-speed train had completely changed. The front of the train car was entirely gone, leaving only our car, which even looked different from when we boarded.
“Well, after all, Witch Academy and the Magic Capital are not essentially in the same space. Did you expect a train to appear in two spaces at once? Not even in overlapping spaces would that work.”
Sister Bai simply explained this to attract my attention, and I stopped overthinking it.
So I hurriedly took a few quick steps, dragging my suitcase to get beside Bai Yu and checked out at the station.
