Chapter 621: The Chaotic Status of the Main World
Witch Academy.
With the opening of the Expanding Realm, many upperclassmen rushed in, eager to develop this untouched blue ocean to gain advantages for their futures.
However, many soon realized that upon arriving there, it wasn’t a blue ocean for them to exploit but rather working for others. Even organizing a small group would be crushed by the efficiency of those already present.
Gradually, this wave subsided.
Of course, many were clear-headed, no longer acting blindly. Those with abilities found suitable positions for themselves, while those without abilities returned to the Witch Academy.
After all… it isn’t bad to learn under mentors in the Witch Academy, right?
The same goes for lowerclassmen; after all, if they couldn’t even learn their courses in advance to exempt from them, what was the point?
Such learning efficiency would only hinder their self-study.
However, compared to last semester’s dullness, this semester’s course arrangements became interesting.
Why?
Because of the Witch Academy itself, other extraordinary academies began to engage with it.
In the past, the Witch Academy was often the most isolated one.
Although the Witch Academy considered itself powerful, this also meant that its students had very few opportunities to interact with students from other academies. Without interactions or exchanges, they couldn’t experience the diversity of power systems.
Moreover, the ease of obtaining magic sources and spellbooks deprived them of sufficient combat experience.
The direct overpowering resulted in the loss of thoughtful combat, and these flaws are subtle, not immediately apparent.
Contact with other academies often meant top-tier students were simply crushing opponents, maintaining a false “prosperity.” Victory was the Witch Academy’s final cover.
In terms of extraordinary academic research, the Wizard Academy ranked the highest, as wizards lacked the bloodlines of extraordinary races and innate talents. Every bit of their power was gained through relentless study.
When it comes to practical combat skills, the Aphhemia Academy stood supreme, boasting the most extensive elven forest hunting grounds in the main world.
Reaction, insight, techniques, weapon use, and elven magic—these memories, almost ingrained in their bl**d, would be continuously remembered as their power amplified.
Even the Beast Academy merely differed from the Aphhemia Academy in terms of bloodlines and talents, yet their regular training was far more savage and reckless.
The Holy Angel Academy’s strength lies in faith and meditation. The Holy Angel Academy is unique, with its sanctuaries spread throughout the main world, and the number of its believers is immense. This has led to countless ascetic families, whose spiritual beliefs are unshakable.
It can be said that the students of the Holy Angel Academy undergo a selection process before enrollment, and those who genuinely embody the beliefs of asceticism are individuals who strictly self-discipline. Even if they are swayed into other academies, most of those whose faith has shaped them still consider themselves ascetics.
Faced with these three top-tier academies, the witches have accepted the challenge, but that doesn’t mean the Witch Academy manages this effortlessly.
The three top academies instilled a rigorous work ethic in their students because they understood that hard work and practice were the only paths to progress. Yet, when it came to the Witch Academy, it felt as if all the pressure was borne solely by the witches, while the students merely enjoyed the fruits of the academy’s efforts.
The Witch Meditation Method, the most powerful methodology for honing mental power in the main world, utilizes the Primordial Dream World to train, but very few have specialized in this. Even the first lesson upon enrollment is to learn this Witch Meditation Method, yet many lack the awareness that “foundation is the most important.”
The Primordial Dream Pods and the Witch Secret Realm—there are plenty of trial grounds in the Witch Academy providing training spaces for students.
But nowadays, the Witch Secret Realm has turned into a place for acquiring rewards, while realms without rewards have nearly been abandoned and even require special clubs to operate.
As for academic research in the Witch Academy… in the fourth year, every student can be assigned a mentor to guide their studies.
It isn’t about whether the mentor teaches or not, but whether opportunities are presented.
A student’s willingness to learn is the attitude they should have.
The phrase “the mentor doesn’t want to teach” is a lie; those who genuinely want to learn will continue to seek knowledge even if they switch mentors.
In the Wizard Academy’s Wizard Tower, those wizard apprentices do not have the kind of normal teacher-student relationship with extraordinary mentors like those in the Witch Academy; instead, they often have a relationship of laborer and master. Even having apprentices transcribe research drafts is considered a favor.
Sometimes, it’s truly unwise to be too benevolent to students.
This sentiment was echoed by many extraordinary witches in the Witch Academy after realizing these comparisons.
However, as other academies deepened cooperation with the Witch Academy, many issues seemed to resolve.
For example, for lowerclassmen, they bid farewell to the dull written monthly exams of last semester.
With some educational reforms, they found it easier to access magic sources and spellbooks.
Yet under the academy’s regulations, they are limited to obtaining spellbooks with double-digit consumption at most. After all, mastering overwhelming power too early is merely fostering weeds for students lacking experience.
However… if they genuinely have the ability to obtain high-consumption spellbooks, the academy will not obstruct them, as this aligns with the returns based on their own capacities.
The academy only prevents incompetent individuals from acquiring powers that do not match their abilities.
For this is the real waste of resources.
Of course, controlling students’ mastery of high-intensity power also aims to intervene in combat power balance.
Since other academies brought the Witch Academy into play, interactions for practical combat among students naturally become more frequent.
For instance, the lowerclassmen’s monthly exams have transitioned from cumbersome written tests to a combination of written assessments and practical exchanges with other academies.
They go to the hunting grounds of Aphhemia Academy to compete in hunting, honing their combat skills.
They venture into the Wizard Academy to challenge the monster towers created by wizards, experiencing pure combat.
Or they might head to the Holy Angel Academy for the Holy Light Trials, competing in mental power and willpower.
These plans have been incorporated into the arrangements for this brand-new semester.
It can be said that this new generation of students has coincidentally caught the best era, but it is also the worst era.
They will watch helplessly as they fall behind predecessors during this transformation, but they are also the experimental subjects paving the way for the new generation to discover the correct path.
Meanwhile, as the Witch Academy made changes, the outside world was undergoing massive transformations as well.
The first point is… the surge in the number of players.
Moreover, this group of players has been exposed to the general public.
The extraordinary academies have officially defined this group as invaders from outside the world, eliciting shock and panic worldwide as this news broke.
After all, for those unacquainted with the truths of the outside world, all unknowns tend to add an air of mystery.
Originally, it was thought that once this matter was exposed, it would spark an anti-player uprising, but as public opinion fermented, it catalyzed a group of world traitors.
They worshiped these players as their saviors, bringing new changes to their world.
For ordinary people who have no connection with the extraordinary academies, the wonders of this world are beyond their reach, and the societal hierarchy has shut the door to their transcendence.
As a result, many online communities sprang up, trying to liven up this stagnant world.
What left the deepest impression was a group of foreign historians who collected history, summarized patterns, posed questions, and rationally doubted that extraordinary academies were never part of their original world.
The historical discontinuities offered them endless space for imagination, and the once laughable foreign historians were having their springtime at this historical juncture.
Their theories spread throughout the world, garnering recognition from numerous people and receiving backing from the wealthy.
Extraordinary academies were portrayed as invaders of their world, and they criticized them harshly for resisting these invaders due to xenophobia, accusing them of manipulating the original historical processes of their world and covering up past truths…
People within the extraordinary academy community had not anticipated the extent to which events would deviate from their expectations, as if the forgotten issues of history had suddenly been ignited.
When they resolved to investigate what had caused such public discourse, they discovered that behind it all were groups, families, nobles, and wealthy merchants that control the capital and operations of this world.
They acknowledged that ordinary people cannot overturn the absolute status of the extraordinary, but they serve as pillars for maintaining the stability of external society.
Naturally, they employed methods of making examples, but this led to unintended consequences they had not foreseen.
In a region governed by a Beast Academy, a riot of ordinary people erupted. Influenced by the Beast Academy’s themes, the culture of that area was notably fierce and beast-like.
If brutally suppressed, it would result in the Beast Academy facing a decline in enrollment the following year, and if the basic foundation was shaken, their development would stagnate.
In fact, this struggle was not limited to this Beast Academy; many places worldwide experienced marches, and riots marked an escalation of the situation.
Amidst this environment, many smaller extraordinary academies suffered from unexpected disasters, leading to the merger of those unable to sustain themselves.
Regions that lost the governance of extraordinary academies even sparked independence movements. Although these ultimately failed due to lack of experience, a brand new sect was born during this period.
The Invaders’ Cult.
They referred to these players as invaders, which accurately reflected their consciousness taking over ordinary human bodies.
They believed that to overthrow the current extraordinary academy system, it was impossible to rely solely on the power of ordinary people. They needed to harness the forces from beyond the world and gain help from those invaders to reshape a new world!
The emergence of the Invaders’ Cult particularly alarmed the Holy Angel Academy.
For them, the Holy Light Church is the only sect in the main world!
Thus, at the moment of the Invaders’ Cult’s declaration, they were met with a full-force backlash from the Holy Light Church.
They were swiftly classified as a cult.
All Holy Light Churches globally would exert their efforts to judge them and guide those led astray back on track.
However, this strike did not yield effective results, and as a result, the Invaders’ Cult grew even stronger.
Now, a stalemate has been reached.
With the opening of the Expanding Realm causing a mass exodus of high-end combat power among students, the situation in the main world is perilous.
In response, the attitudes of various extraordinary academy mentors have been conspicuously uniform—they’ve fully entrusted the matter to the students.
During the process of addressing this issue, another matter has sparked a wave of discussion, namely… a type of gem called “Heart of Cold Wave” has begun to gain popularity.
This wave has been incited by the Invaders’ Cult, as they search for this item in the world.
No one knows why, except for those informed students within the extraordinary academies.
They understand that those players are also collecting Extraordinary Knowledge.
…
Expanding Realm.
Seed Vault Space Maze.
“We need to speed up our process.”
“What do you mean? Why the sudden change in tone?”
Having searched for a long time in the space maze, several among them had gone missing due to various mishaps. However, thanks to the Magic Power Silk Thread network, they at least wouldn’t get lost within the maze.
Yet they still hadn’t found their ultimate target.
They weren’t foolish; while extraordinary materials in the Seed Vault were important and precious seeds had significant value, could these ever surpass the value of the unknown substance that shaped this space maze?
“That Yang Yuelan, she has already found the core of this space maze.”
“What?! How is that possible?!”
“Who told you that?”
Hearing this answer, the group gathered in disbelief erupted in chaos. After putting in so much effort, would they end up doing all the work for someone else?
No one could accept such a result!
And how long had that Yang Yuelan even been inside?
It had been just over half a day since they learned of Yang Yuelan’s arrival and decided to enter the space maze directly—why had things turned out this way?
“News just came in that she… opened a live stream through the Great Knowledge Seed, and Mentor Elena is particularly attentive to this… we might end up as mere accessories.”
“What kind of monster has emerged from your Witch Academy?” Hearing that the mentor from Ninglan New City, who led the revival efforts, was also paying attention, everyone felt utterly despondent.
Even if the mentor were indifferent, she wouldn’t interfere in student disputes, but the involvement of an extraordinary mentor in this matter… brought them immense pressure.
“How would I know? I received this news late. We have no idea what Yang Yuelan is doing now… Hey! What’s happening?!”
As they lamented, a sudden tremor in the space made everyone’s hearts skip a beat!
Such evident vibrations should not occur in this space maze—it had to be some unexpected incident causing this uproar.
Before they could react, a massive root burst through one side of the wall, followed shortly by a moment of weightlessness before they experienced a violent impact!
Then they noticed that the original space cross-sections were gradually disappearing, becoming transparent. This was the convergence of spaces, slowly moving away, with the edges of the space reflecting the outside world…
As they regained their composure, the group propped themselves up from the ground, looking up through the refracted surfaces that displayed scenes from outside the space in awe, for they saw a tree!
A tree… so colossal that an entire cross-section could not reveal its full shape!
