Chapter 731: World Fragments and Indigenous Peoples
“World fragments?!”
Upon hearing this description, even someone like me, who doesn’t have much understanding of value, instantly became clear-eyed!
“Yes, world fragments. No doubt about it. This world fragment is a shard from the former main world. As one of the top three extraordinary races that first invaded the main world, they can acquire the most valuable things, which are the world fragments of the main world. Even now, this remains a top-tier item among those extraordinary academies.”
The academy head carefully introduced this world fragment to me and revealed the truth that world fragments can be described as “heritage,” highlighting their preciousness.
“Then… as the latecomer, the Witch Academy…” After listening, I quickly reacted.
“Naturally, we didn’t seize it. However, witches generally do not compete for this. Remember I once mentioned a group of pioneering witches at the edge of the void?”
“Um… I think I have a vague recollection.” I nodded hesitantly, but I didn’t have a deep impression, and I hadn’t previously understood the concept of world fragments. However, I quickly associated it with other concepts, “That… is the Witch Secret Realm of the Witch Academy also a world fragment?”
“Although these seem to belong to independent spaces, the Witch Secret Realms of the Witch Academy are created by directly cutting space, which might be a bit complicated to explain. I’ll just share the information directly with your Great Knowledge Tree.” Principal Mei found it troublesome to explain slowly and chose the most convenient method.
“Okay, thank you, Sister Mei.” I nodded, prepared to receive this brand new information.
Soon, this information flowed into my Great Knowledge Tree like a stream.
The first piece of information that unfolded was about the Witch Secret Realm of the Witch Academy.
As the principal mentioned, the Witch Secret Realm is formed by slicing space. This is a space, but it’s a bit more advanced than storage equipment; it can cultivate plants, raise creatures, and even create a small biosphere or even build an amusement park, or simply a harsh trial space, etc.
However, these secret realms require maintenance; the oxygen and food necessary for the creatures, ecological balance, and even lighting must all be regularly maintained.
The most crucial aspect of the secret realm is light simulation. The secret realm is that small; it doesn’t even match the size of a stellar fragment, so the secret realms within the Witch Academy all share the same solar simulation system. Even the starry night and other aspects are created using special environmental shaping.
Only some completely enclosed trial spaces do not require such sun and moon rotation settings, but maintenance is still needed, and some requirements may be even more troublesome.
So overall… maintaining the Witch Secret Realm is really a labor-intensive task.
Eventually, the organization responsible for maintaining the secret realm’s operation—the Witch Secret Realm Association—was born this way.
As long as the Witch Secret Realm is maintained properly and the association does not touch the academy’s bottom line, they do not care about the association’s operations, which undoubtedly gives them significant implicit power.
This time, during the assistant clean-up, many assistants in the Witch Secret Realm were affected.
It’s not that those who personally participated in plotting against me could escape; this was the result of settling old scores.
Basically, any influential clubs or groups within the Witch Academy were implicated, such as the Witch Secret Realm Association and the All-purpose Association, which are officially associated with the academy, being typical representatives requiring notices throughout the school.
Even the Street of Elegance and the Black Market Street associated with the All-purpose Association underwent rectification.
Many students complained about this, especially regarding the rectification of the Street of Elegance, which left many seniors heartbroken… but they didn’t dare to foolishly run online to complain.
Returning to the main topic, after discussing the Witch Secret Realm, the next subject was world fragments.
In the terminology of witches, world fragments are products formed after the world was shattered, refined through “Star Alchemy” into an independent dungeon space.
Of course, even without refining, they can still be used, but in the “formal process” of the witch race, there are alchemists responsible for the refining process.
Refined dungeon spaces are generally classified into three types based on their conditions.
The first type is the most common “Heavenly Round and Earthly Square” self-contained world.
The internal small world has a simulated sun and moon; this type is suitable for smaller world fragments. However, even the smallest still has a flat continent surrounded by simulated suns and moons, so a dungeon space cannot be too small.
The second type is for larger world fragments.
The fragment interior is a star planet, with the entire continent being the largest star, surrounded by simulated suns and moons. Therefore, if the beings living there proposed the geocentric theory, it wouldn’t pose a problem.
This is also the simplest module to refine using Star Alchemy due to its regular refinement pattern.
The third type is custom world fragments designed for special purposes, such as a world entirely made of fire or water, useful for breeding elemental creatures, etc.
When the academy head conveyed this information to me, she also described the basic information of the fragment to be given to me.
The world fragment I am about to obtain originates from the former expanding realm of the main world. It is not very large and consists of a formerly flat continent, belonging to the first type of world fragment mentioned earlier.
This world fragment comes from the Wizard Academy.
As for why it is from the Wizard Academy, the Witch Academy has roughly understood that the Wizard Academy might be the one leaking the game world’s void coordinates based on past information, and the anomalies in the game world might also be the doing of the Wizard Academy.
The extraordinary sorcery grasped by the Wizard Academy and the reputation and deeds of the Extraordinary Wizard Alliance within the void, while not enough to be considered evidence, can certainly be justifiably suspected.
They possess the means to communicate with other worlds, and this sorcery skill is comparable to that of the witch race. In the main world, extraordinary races capable of easily communicating with that world place the wizard as the primary suspect.
They are wizards fueled by knowledge and mental power, leveraging mundane humans without distinctive characteristics or bloodline heritage as the starting point, using wisdom to touch the extraordinary; their alliance is also notorious within the void.
The Wizard Academy used this world fragment to quell the suspicion and the subsequent series of events.
The rough sequence of events was that witches said to wizards, “You’re finished. I now know it was you. Find evidence for me, and I will throw it in your face; let’s see if I can’t finish you off.”
The wizards also knew the witches were angry and hurried to quell this wrath while offering some benefits to make the witches ignore their small actions in the game world, hoping they wouldn’t use it against them in the future.
In the end, the witches hesitated for a moment and agreed.
Then… shortly after agreeing, the wizards of the Wizard Academy realized they had been deceived; they did not k*ll the targets they meant to k*ll, and the witches’ anger was just a facade.
The world fragment they gave was indeed real…
One can imagine how frustrated the Wizard Academy must feel at this moment!
Of course, other extraordinary academies were not faring much better, but they weren’t targeted as severely as the Wizard Academy.
“Xiao Han, do you know about the power of faith?”
While I was digesting and comprehending this new information, Principal Mei timely inquired.
“I have learned a little, but not much.” I responded promptly.
The concept of the power of faith seemed to be something Principal Mei mentioned when she entrusted Fool Dream to me, and afterward, I gathered additional information about it within the Great Knowledge Tree, but my understanding remained limited.
It’s probably similar to the information about becoming a god through faith, but I couldn’t guarantee its accuracy.
“Why did Sister Mei suddenly ask me about this?”
“It’s just a casual inquiry, since it’s related to dungeon spaces. If the witches had dungeon spaces, and they didn’t use them to cultivate productive plants and animals, they might use the dungeon as a temporary residence for their believers or to train a slave army. However, let’s not talk about slave armies for now; I don’t think you would consider that, right?”
“Um… believers? Slave army?” I could understand the former concept, but the latter sounded quite evil…
“Do you remember when I entrusted Fool Dream to you and casually suggested it? Those Fool Dreams, even if they have not yet become true life, can still almost become believers. This dungeon world you’re about to receive could make a good dwelling for them. However… if you hope for them to integrate into an environment like the Witch Academy, I won’t push you.”
“Hmm… I think Fool Dream is currently quite well integrated into the Witch Academy. If I take them to a strange environment… it might be a bit…” I hesitated regarding the principal’s suggestion.
“So this is just a suggestion. If you don’t want to, it’s no problem. The Witch Academy is very happy to accept such adorable beings. Even I sometimes go to the Witch Cat Café to order a Fool Dream Drink to relax.”
Principal Mei waved her hand and smiled, indicating that it was fine; she wasn’t making any demands, just offering a suggestion.
“Well, I’d prefer not to for now. Fool Dream has pretty much adjusted to life in the academy. Although not all of them have adapted perfectly, constantly moving back and forth wouldn’t be good for them.”
“Since you have your own thoughts, that’s good. However, when I mentioned faith and believers, I wasn’t referring to Fool Dream; it’s about another issue,” Principal Mei explained.
“Another issue? What issue? Are you telling me to build my own faith now? It can’t be that ascending to the extraordinary requires a foundation of faith, right?” I joked.
“How could ascending to the extraordinary require a foundation of faith?” The principal laughed and shook her head to dismiss that idea. “However, faith does lead to extraordinary ascension, but it’s definitely not suitable for you, Xiao Han. I mean that world fragment. There’s a high probability it contains indigenous life.”
“Huh?”
Upon hearing the principal’s final remark, I was momentarily taken aback. “Indigenous life? Is there such a presence in there… wait, Sister Mei, didn’t you say this world fragment is from the expanding realm of the main world?”
“Indeed, it is an expanding realm world fragment, but it may still possess natives. These natives might be productive life forms raised by the Wizard Academy or slaves introduced for labor, as extraordinary wizards also enjoy invading various worlds within the void. Slave legions are the cheapest cannon fodder.” Here, Principal Mei’s tone shifted slightly as she lowered her voice, “Of course! There could also be the original inhabitants of the former expanding realm who have survived until now.”
“Gasp!”
Upon hearing the principal’s words, the earlier implication was actually bearable; even slaves, I could reluctantly accept as they had nothing to do with me. But the remnants of the main world… even if my soul does not belong to the main world, I have grown up in the main world.
This suggestion indeed triggered a primal discomfort.
This discomfort stemmed from… those wizards being able to enslave former inhabitants of the main world, meaning they could still do so now!
In fact, the structure of the Wizard Tower within the Wizard Academy subtly reveals that form, where extraordinary wizards exploit students, higher-level students oppress apprentices within the tower, and apprentices look down upon and disdain students outside the tower.
This class awareness… tiered downwards, students outside the tower appear to be inferior to extraordinary wizards, even less than slaves.
However, thinking about it, extraordinary witches also have similar treatment towards preparatory witches, only it’s not as apparent.
“So, if such a situation arises, Xiao Han, how do you plan to handle it?” Principal Mei asked with a smile, almost awaiting my response, exhibiting only a modicum of curiosity.
“Handle it… If there are none, then there’s no need to say. But if there are…” I found it difficult to make a decision at this point, but I was still inclined towards analyzing specific matters based on the situation.
“You needn’t worry about our views, even if you decide to k*ll them all, it’s nothing. Don’t treat every life equally, nor try to save one unless they exhibit a breathtaking spark of life, proving they are worth saving.”
“Perhaps you could try to view those lives from an extraordinary perspective right now; your degrading identity will only give them more leverage to seek maximum benefits from you… and in the end, it will only result in you getting filthy here. This is some advice from seniors to you.”
Seeing me hesitating, Principal Mei slowly spoke.
Her intention was clearly to tell Xiao Han not to be too soft-hearted, considering she grew up in the main world. Even if the family environment was unfavorable, she had never experienced the stage of enslaving others, inevitably making her unfamiliar with many things.
Some things, when not experienced, genuinely remain unknown, but Mei Lind understood that the final decision still lies with Xiao Han.
Even if Xiao Han chooses to save them, even develop them into believers, they wouldn’t protest; after all, the final result would be either success or failure.
However, the outcome would likely be failure, and after experiencing failure, Xiao Han would surely come to understand many matters clearly and thoroughly.
“I understand, thank you for the reminder, Sister Mei. However, I still plan to observe first. Many things need to be understood before making a final decision.”
“Do you want to give them a chance?” Principal Mei asked with a smile.
“No, it’s about seeing if they give me a chance.” I replied with a smile, “And… who can say whether there are those beings inside or not?”
