Chapter 682: The Most Special Final Unified Exam
“Is it closely related to me… referring to the Knowledge Seed?” I asked curiously.
“Yeah, that’s just one part. I’ll briefly describe the situation of this final exam to you, and the specifics will be explained in detail during the teaching assistant meeting.”
“Okay, please go ahead, Teacher Lina.” I nodded, since she specifically came to talk to me, it meant there were some things that didn’t need to be discussed with the other teaching assistants.
“This final exam takes into full consideration the disparity in actual combat power levels among the lower-grade students from different academies, so the extraordinary power used in this final exam will not be the students’ own strength.”
“What is it then?” I inquired curiously.
“Of course, it’s the power of the Wanlian Main Network Tree game account,” Lina replied.
“Huh? Wait! Wanlian Main Network Tree… game account? We’re using this? How does that work? There aren’t enough fruits, right?” I frowned and asked.
“Right, there aren’t enough fruits, but we have enough Knowledge Seeds for dissemination. The lab has already completed the interoperability between the Knowledge Seeds and Wanlian Main Network Tree accounts; as long as you’re under the root network of the Wanlian Main Network Tree, you can use the account,” Teacher Lina explained with a smile.
Initially, the Great Knowledge Seed had the concept of supporting a gaming platform; this time it was just transferring that gaming platform from the Great Knowledge Seed to the Knowledge Seed and linking it with the Wanlian Main Network Tree. All these products stem from the same source.
At that moment, I realized that I still had a clone in that lab, and while the clone hadn’t communicated much there, I had understood many of the outcomes.
Now that I was informed of this, I finally grasped why there was such a buzz after the interoperability technique between the Knowledge Seed and the Wanlian Main Network Tree was completed.
So this idea had already been around back then?
“Looks like Xiao Han has thought of it?” Lina wasn’t in a hurry; as a participant in this plan, she had frequent dealings with that lab in the Expanding Realm, so she naturally knew that there was a clone of Xiao Han there.
“Yeah, I get the whole story now. Oh~”
I nodded, thinking of even more information in a chain of thoughts. The achievements of the Wanlian Main Network Tree lab had produced so much during this time, and there was one detail that I hadn’t cared much about, but thinking back, it seemed to have been prepared for this final exam.
For instance… job transfers.
Initially, I had thought that the various Witch Sisters had directly designed professions based on the characteristics of various extraordinary races and had created corresponding equipment systems and skill trees… but unexpectedly, this was prepared for the students of each academy?!
This effectively forced all lower-grade students up to the same level.
My own strength couldn’t help me at all; if I wanted to win, I needed combat experience, practical skills, even tactical insights, overall strategies, reconnaissance information…
All of these might be needed!
Additionally, every student would no longer have the absolute advantage over another student’s strength, making this competition environment, it seemed… “fairer”?
At least this model gave more weaker individuals a chance to participate and made those obsessed with power that was beyond their capabilities aware of their shortcomings.
“This time, our final exam adopts a reform that we have never tried before, discarding the original individual strength and uniformly adopting an equal power system; mindless strength will only exacerbate the senseless pursuit of power, and in the long run, it is extremely harmful to every student.”
“In the past, we didn’t have this technology, mainly because this approach was thankless, but now that we have this foundation, I am willing to conduct an experiment with this final exam for this idea.”
“That… really takes guts…” I actually wanted to say that it was quite casual… but considering it was proposed by an Extraordinary Witch, it didn’t seem to be an issue anymore.
“It’s just a trial; after all, this lab has gathered so many witches working towards it, there has to be some outcome, right?”
“Yeah.” I nodded, suppressing my desire to refute. There are many labs in the Witch Academy that haven’t produced results in centuries, right? For example, the research cycle for “Extraordinary Knowledge” is measured in years.
“By the way, that’s about it for the general form of this final exam. Since the content is closely related to you, I naturally need to make it clear. There’s another question I came to ask you.”
“Um… what is it?” I inquired curiously, as I was also interested in what the other question might be.
“It’s about the mutated beasts in the Expanding Realm.”
“Mutated beasts?! Um… what… what’s the issue?” Suddenly mentioning mutated beasts made me a bit uneasy.
After all, I had conducted experiments on all the mutated beasts in the entire Expanding Realm. Although I wouldn’t say I had covered every mutated beast population in the Expanding Realm, I had a significant portion, right?
Moreover, when I entered the Expanding Realm… I don’t think there was any rule against doing that…
“Xiao Han, don’t you want to hide your guilty expression at all?”
“Is there?” My expression suddenly turned calm, as if the guilty look from before was fake.
“Alright, I’ll be straightforward; the mutations of the mutated beasts in the Expanding Realm are related to you, right?”
“What specific aspect?” I asked cautiously.
“Xiao Han, rest assured, I’m not asking this question to hold you accountable for anything. I don’t care about that, and no witch will come after you concerning this,” Lina said as she rubbed her temples.
“Oh! Like that.” With Lina’s assurance, I immediately stopped feeling uneasy! “Yeah! I did it. Most of the mutations in the mutated beasts are my doing!”
“So it really was you! We were just wondering why the mutated beasts collectively mutated towards a unified intelligence direction,” Lina said, looking enlightened after my “open” admission, but then a curiosity arose, “Xiao Han, how did you do it? Of course, if it’s inconvenient, you don’t have to say. Our inquiry is not to pry into any secrets.”
“That… haha, it really is a bit hard to explain. It’s just a type of composite technique I derived. I don’t have any place for experiments, so I just gathered some data from those mutated beasts during my experiments.”
At that moment, I also learned some information about the mutated beasts being hunted by the Extraordinary Witches from the many “clones” of mutated beast forms I had; it seemed the situation of the mutated beasts had caught the attention of the Extraordinary Witches… Could it be that their powers were increasing too quickly?
After all, the mutated beasts had evolved through the Void energy tides at the beginning; their lives had become dependent on extraordinary energy. But this also meant that as long as there was sufficient extraordinary energy, their life forms could change dramatically!
“Just experiments, you say… So how are those experiments? Do the mutated beasts still hold any value for existence?” Lina asked several questions in succession.
“Yes, it’s just a trial experiment. The outcomes… are pretty good? As for the value of these mutated beasts’ existence… personally, I think they are also a part of the Expanding Realm or an indispensable segment?”
“So that’s how you think, Xiao Han.”
Hearing my response, Lina fell into contemplation. The question of whether mutated beasts were part of the Expanding Realm wasn’t particularly important, but since Xiao Han had spoken, she naturally had to ponder it.
“Overall, the format of this final exam is somewhat similar to the hunting training over at the elves. Initially, we were thinking of using the mutated beasts in the Expanding Realm as the hunting targets. Xiao Han, would you be able to accept the clearing out of mutated beasts in the Ninglan Realm and its surrounding areas? The worst-case scenario could be extinction. If it’s really not acceptable…”
“Hunting? Of course, there’s no problem, I don’t mind!” After understanding what Teacher Lina wanted to do, I directly agreed.
Let’s not even talk about this not being an extinction event for the entire Expanding Realm; how long can the final exam last?
I might not be able to fully explore the Expanding Realm.
And most importantly, I possess the Reincarnation Rebirth Spell! I also recorded information on the bloodline races of every mutated beast I conducted the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell on, so I could definitely use the Reincarnation Rebirth Spell to reshape this group and let them reproduce again.
“You don’t mind? That’s good, very good…” Lina smiled.
If it really didn’t work, she could have witches in the academy specializing in biological alchemy use their secret spaces for nurturing special creatures and release some as hunting targets for this final exam.
Moreover, they wouldn’t worry about these creatures becoming invasive species in the Expanding Realm and spreading, destroying the environment, and so on.
They could make these monsters lose their reproductive abilities and shorten their lifespans to keep them in check.
Additionally, not only the witches in the Academy of Witches who are biological alchemists, but there are also plenty of flesh-and-bl**d wizards over in the wizard side, so getting them to produce some hunting targets wouldn’t be a problem at all.
The strength didn’t have to be overly strong; these lowly creatures weren’t worth much, but they were perfect for this final exam.
After all, the current “game account” professions and skill trees aren’t that powerful either, and being too strong could crush the purpose of the final exam.
“Alright, I’ve pretty much said what I came for. Since there’s nothing serious, the subsequent final exam won’t have too much adjustment and will proceed as planned directly.”
With that, Lina wrapped up her purpose for coming here; after all, it was hard to clarify so many matters over the phone, and discussing it face-to-face actually didn’t take much time.
“Since you, Xiao Han, agreed to assist as a teaching assistant for this final exam, remember to participate in the teaching assistant meeting after the final exam. The specific process of this final exam will be clarified in the meeting, and I’ll send you the exact time and place later.” After saying this, Lina stood up and lightly patted her slightly wrinkled sleeves, “Then I’ll take my leave now, you all carry on.”
“Yeah, goodbye, Teacher Lina~”
“Goodbye, no need to see me off.” After Lina bid farewell to me and Sister Bai, her whole figure disappeared.
After Lina left, I let out a slight sigh of relief.
“What’s wrong? Suddenly relaxed; is chatting with Lina that stressful?” Sister Bai walked up behind me, placing a hand on my shoulder.
“Yeah… a little, it just caught me off guard,” I replied, pressing my right hand on my chest, and my nightgown suddenly changed into a casual outfit. “Fortunately, I didn’t come over wearing something indecent after meditating… otherwise, it would have been embarrassing…”
“Are you just worried about your clothes? You actually don’t need to be concerned, the relationships among witches are basically referred to as sisterhood. Even if you are a Little Witch, you don’t have to be so formal; just be a bit more casual. This is our home, and since someone came to visit uninvited, Lina wouldn’t mind at all, and you needn’t think too much about it.”
“Yeah…” I nodded, but I still found several messages that Teacher Lina had sent me from the Great Knowledge Tree; I just hadn’t noticed, and I hadn’t expected her to come over.
“It’s fine, Xiao Han. Let’s not mention this anymore. Look, with the time delay, it’s almost noon. Have you thought about what you want to eat? Or should we eat something good to replenish your strength?” Sister Bai pushed me toward the kitchen.
“Then let’s… just eat something casual~” I allowed Sister Bai to guide me to the frozen storage. Although it was called a frozen storage, much of it didn’t require cold storage; using a high-level preservation spell was sufficient.
Sister Bai stocked a lot of ingredients at home, with plenty of variety; perhaps this is the moment of cravings for body cultivation.
“By the way… Sister Bai, you also need to replenish yourself~ You’re the one who’s falling behind! You said you couldn’t get out of bed for three days or something, and yet the second day, I was still lively and hopping around,” I said, rummaging through the storage room for lunch ingredients while laughing.
“No way~ Who told Xiao Han to be more resilient?” Sister Bai laughed helplessly. It’s unlikely that someone could not get out of bed for three days; those with great strength could even be lively after being on the verge of d*ath in less than three days. The undying nature of life levels made it impossible for such an event to happen. Moreover, she didn’t want to do that to Xiao Han… right?
But teasing Xiao Han wasn’t something Bai Yu feared at all.
“If Xiao Han doesn’t know what to choose… let’s look at this~” Sister Bai suddenly spoke up and opened a special storage cabinet nearby, revealing everything inside.
“Huh? What are these?” I curiously looked over and found all sorts of items I didn’t recognize!
“They’re great things I got from sisters I know~” Sister Bai introduced vaguely.
“Great things?” I raised an eyebrow, then used the Earth Vein Identification Technique to observe.
The information about these “ingredients” then floated up.
These things were indeed, as Sister Bai said, obtained from other Extraordinary Witches; these belonged to experimental products, but their effects…
bl**d nourishing, tonifying yin, strengthening the body, enhancing libido… etc.! Was something strange mixed in?
“These are all excellent tonics~ Wanna give them a try, Xiao Han? Of course, these shouldn’t be eaten in excess; moderation is key. If overindulged… well, for us, it won’t have any bad effects, but if it’s too much nourishment, you might need to relieve some tension at night,” Sister Bai said.
“This…” I widened my eyes in disbelief.
“Xiao Han shouldn’t be too scared, right? Who was saying they were lively and hopping around today? Are you saying you’re afraid you can’t handle it tonight?” Sister Bai teased while pulling out an item to display before me.
In fact, many of these medicinal materials wouldn’t harm the body. In fact, many were tonics for body cultivation, meant to strengthen one’s physical body. The “aspect” was just a side effect, being the main material for the highly sought-after tonics within body cultivation circles, and could also serve as ingredients in medicinal cuisine.
These were all prepared according to Xiao Han’s current physical condition; there wouldn’t be any unexpected side effects. If the sudden use of potions turned out to be potent, she preferred using medicinal cuisine to subtly help Xiao Han enhance her foundational health.
“I think you really need this to enhance your physique properly~” Sister Bai waved a special plant root in front of me, which was the main ingredient for the strength-enhancing potion, but could also be used as an ingredient in medicinal cuisine. However, there were some other indescribable functions, but the Earth Vein Identification Technique would surely present all this data accurately.
