Chapter 752: The Achievements of the Betrayer Witch
Watching this Sheril instructor leave, I couldn’t help but secretly sigh in relief.
I didn’t quite like this instructor, not just because she was a Betrayer Witch, but also because of her sudden visit and the manner of it.
It seemed like she brought gifts as an apology, but the items she offered were useless to me.
Moreover, the feeling my sixth sense gave me was even more uncomfortable.
Heart Sense is a channel for perception and understanding; even with Heart Sense, I couldn’t distinguish between her goodness and evil, as if everything was in a state of chaos. This feeling was something other extraordinary witches had never given me.
What’s more, the way she intruded without notice was in a private domain!
But now that she is gone, thinking about it further is pointless and will only add unnecessary negative emotions.
Upon reflection… it seemed that she, like the first time, asked some strange questions and then left on her own, almost as if conducting a psychological test to explore some of my essence, making my responses to her seem absurd.
I was still too immature in the second half of our conversation.
I was influenced by my emotions, but in hindsight, it was likely a result of her deliberate guidance, such as amplifying my emotions.
I leaned back on the sofa, lazily nestling into it to adjust myself into the most comfortable position, which would help alleviate and release my emotions.
“Forget it, I won’t go look for Sister Bai, I’ll just contact her directly…” I muttered to myself.
Soon a spell imagery appeared in front of me, and with skilled manipulation, it quickly switched to Sister Bai’s communication page.
In no time, the connection was established, and Sister Bai’s image appeared before me.
“Xiao Han~ why did you suddenly contact me? Did something happen?” Sister Bai seemed a bit surprised that I was reaching out at this time. She was currently in the Body Cultivation Room, and I could see several familiar faces of body cultivation witches in the background.
“Uh-huh, indeed some things happened. Does Sister Bai know a Betrayer Witch by the name of Sheril? This Betrayer Witch suddenly came to your villa… and scared me…”
“What?”
Hearing my words, Sister Bai hadn’t even fully caught what I said afterward before she tore through space and stepped back into the villa.
“Eh?” I looked up at Sister Bai who appeared in the villa, my face showing indescribable surprise. “Sister Bai, you came back so quickly?!”
“Where is that Betrayer Witch?” Sister Bai asked as soon as she entered, her gaze scanning the surroundings, her slightly twitching nose seeming to detect the scent left by the visitor.
Then she lightly snorted, cleaning up that trace.
“She’s already left…”
“She left, huh…” Sister Bai wasn’t surprised at this outcome. She didn’t regret returning so impulsively; for someone with extraordinary power like her, this wasn’t a difficult task.
“Before she left, she only asked some strange questions.” I added, “Sister Bai returned so urgently because you know that Betrayer Witch named Sheril?”
“I’ve seen her a few times, I suppose. Xiao Han, next time such a situation arises, contact me directly and avoid being alone with her.” Sister Bai’s expression became unexpectedly serious, a stark contrast to her usual gentle demeanor.
“Is she… very dangerous?” I asked tentatively.
“Betrayer Witches are all quite dangerous, especially since you are just a little witch and can’t withstand the torment of those types. This is what Principal Mei told me.” Sister Bai replied.
There was a hint of caution in her tone regarding Betrayer Witches, as if she felt such existences should not appear in the Main World.
“Principal Mei told you this?” I asked, somewhat puzzled.
I remembered Principal Mei had described the situation of Betrayer Witches to me; they were part of an organization specifically hunting Betrayer Witches. Although rebellious, they were acknowledged by Primordial Witches and even had dedicated Betrayer Witch Topics, categorized as subtopics under the major topics for witches.
However, the perception derived from Heart Sense couldn’t be wrong. I believed Principal Mei’s account and trusted my own judgment, but these were biases from a particular viewpoint.
Unless the other party was also a body cultivation expert and had Heart Sense, then it was likely they could interfere with my perception through the gap in extraordinary ability.
“I suppose so, did Principal Mei also tell you?”
“Yes, but from Principal Mei’s mouth, Betrayer Witches… aren’t that bad.”
“I’ve looked into the topic of Betrayer Witches myself.” Sister Bai began, after her encounter with Sheril, she researched the concept of Betrayer Witches and had communicated with Principal Mei more than once. “Betrayer Witches certainly aren’t that terrible, or rather, their existence is beneficial for the Witch Race, but it is limited to that. Any glorification of Betrayer Witches is built on the condition that there hasn’t been any relationship formed with them.”
“So they play the role of a warning at the expense of individual witches’ interests, to alert more witches?”
“That’s one way to describe it… but it’s not entirely accurate.” Sister Bai sighed, then continued, “Let me clarify this with an example and a little story.”
“Sure.” I nodded, keen to listen.
“This was something I found while looking through information. Xiao Han should know there are many Witch Academies in the Void, right? Those are established by witches for the purpose of witch transformation.” Sister Bai said. “The entry threshold for establishing a Witch Academy is actually very low; as long as there is one Extraordinary Witch as a guarantor and registered with the Primordial Witches, it can be set up.”
“I know there are many Witch Academies in the Void, but the threshold… that’s the first time I’ve heard that it only requires one Extraordinary Witch?” I was somewhat surprised.
“Yes, if it’s merely a lower limit to establish it, one will suffice. But generally, Witch Academies are established by a group of witches, which are usually the initial academy heads.”
“So there is actually a significant gap between the upper and lower limits of Witch Academies, while the Witch Academy in the Main World is already considered very large and open… I digress, let’s talk about those established in the Void.”
“Alright~ so what exactly happened there?” I inquired curiously.
“In the Void, there is a notable difference in the system of Witch Academies compared to the Main World, and the students they take in mostly come from the wandering races in that area of the Void. Why are those lives wandering? Because their worlds were destroyed during the witches’ expansion into the Void.”
“I see…” This reminded me of what Principal Mei had told me about the flow of instance realms… those instance realms should be the original homes of those lives.
With such hatred, could those lives really be transformed into witches?
“Strange, right? Xiao Han, are you wondering if all this was caused by witches, how could a race burdened with hatred be transformed into extraordinary witches?” Sister Bai asked with a smile.
“Yes.” I nodded, indeed a bit surprised.
“So, in reality, the transformation rate of extraordinary witches in the Witch Academies on the Void’s border is quite low; it relies entirely on a massive base, and the witches that are transformed do, in fact, carry with them the hatred towards witches you imagined.”
“Huh?”
“But this hatred is then transferred because of the subjugation of the witches.” At this, Sister Bai took a deep breath, “The information I found describes the existence of the Betrayer Witch topic; part of its purpose is to transform such witches. They feel the sense of allegiance from the Witch Race but harbor hatred and extreme emotions towards witches. The Primordial Witches still acknowledge their identities as witches, so this hatred becomes an extreme driving force against the Witch Race itself.”
“Hatred transforming into motivation… so this motivation can sometimes be reckless, right?” I interjected.
“Something like that, but… it’s not just sometimes; they don’t know moderation at any time,” Sister Bai said seriously. “So I’ve covered the general background and situation, and now the little story can officially begin.”
“Right, the little story.” I quickly nodded, looking forward to what the Betrayer Witches would do in such a dark context and environment.
“Expanding into the Void is actually a matter of luck because you never know whether you’ll encounter a small world or a large world during the expansion, but more often than not, it’s not even a small world but merely a formative outline of one. So this event took place in a Witch Academy established in the Void, where they discovered a large world cluster never seen before.”
“And then?”
“Then they realized that their academy couldn’t possibly consume this one large world and its surrounding united world clusters, so they joined forces with several nearby extraordinary academies to launch a world expedition.”
“Huh? Are the Witch Academies in the Void so densely distributed that they can team up?” I asked curiously.
“I’m not sure; after all, I haven’t been to the Void’s border. But… it must be more gruesome than you imagine.” Sister Bai thought of the two Miao and He from her office; they seemed to be graduates from a similar Witch Academy, and even if not at the front lines, it was certainly not a peaceful world like the Main World.
“This world expedition lasted for over a hundred years; it sounds long, doesn’t it?”
“Yeah, an ordinary person might not live that long.” I nodded in agreement.
“But this is just a glimpse of the extraordinary races fighting in the Void. This isn’t merely a war but an invasion aimed at this world and its civilization. It’s not only a battle of war and life but also an invasion and assimilation of civilizations and races.”
“As time went on, more extraordinary academies joined this world cluster invasion, its number exceeding twenty, but the war still became bogged down in a deadlock.”
“Ah? Why?” I was a bit confused hearing this outcome, feeling like it shouldn’t be this way…
“Xiao Han, this happened a long time ago, so… you can’t judge it by the scale of our Main World Witch Academies, nor can you compare it with the influence of our current witch race. Moreover, that large world cluster was a successful elven race that had promoted to an extraordinary race, already possessing extraordinary beings that gave birth to extraordinary elven royalty.”
The concept of an extraordinary race refers to a group that has the ability to reproduce extraordinary beings and continue to pass on their extraordinary bloodlines. Many races that are not extraordinary still have extraordinary individuals but cannot give birth to “born extraordinary” offspring for various reasons, thus preventing them from qualifying as extraordinary races.
Therefore, a race that can produce “born extraordinary” offspring is recognized as an extraordinary race, and the more such races develop, the deeper their foundation becomes, even though extraordinary races also need time to continuously develop.
Thus, there are also disparities among extraordinary races.
“Alright~ then Sister Bai continued, what happened next? When do the Betrayer Witches show up?” I curiously asked.
“Betrayer Witches… didn’t they make their appearance right from the start?” Sister Bai said. “The main force behind the Void’s expansion and expeditions is the Betrayer Witches. Only by continuously transferring that hatred to other races can those witches burdened with hatred find meaning in their existence. Xiao Han, not every witch is as carefree as those in the Main World.”
“So that’s how it is… so not everything the Betrayer Witches do is harmful to witches, right?”
“At least from a racial perspective, it is indeed so, but their methods are not accepted by all witches.” Sister Bai explained, “In fact, the Witch Academies in the Void’s expansion weren’t that ruthless at first; they initially aimed to explore new worlds and cooperatively develop and assimilate those worlds, becoming sister academies.”
“But with the Betrayer Witches’ methods, destroying the world first before accepting the wandering refugees allowed the witches’ bad reputation to spread. However, it was precisely because of this approach that many Witch Academies had a large number of preparatory students and a great deal of cannon fodder to invade more worlds, and the progress of expanding into the Void surged, leading to more instance realms flowing in.”
“…”
“Returning to that large elven world cluster, those more than twenty Witch Academies were dragged into the mire of war by the extraordinary elves. Their intention was to hope that the witches would retreat since the war was a battle over resources. The elves had an entire cluster of worlds in the Void, but the witches only had their established Witch Academies, so they naturally couldn’t sustain a fight.”
“But they were disappointed?”
“Yes.” Sister Bai nodded. “While it was a fact that the witches couldn’t sustain a fight, this information was actively disclosed by the Betrayer Witches. On the front lines, the servant armies led by the Betrayer Witches feigned weakness, luring the elves to counterattack, using several witch academies as bait to mutually destroy the main force of the elves, while the Betrayer Witches infiltrated the large world cluster to carry out decapitation actions against the elven royalty.”
“Wait… what does it mean to use several extraordinary academies as bait?” I immediately asked.
“The literal meaning. They abandoned and pulled down their fellow extraordinary witches, using their own and other extraordinary academies as leverage to keep the main force occupied, leading the elven royalty to misjudge the situation, believing witches would counterattack. In reality, they infiltrated the core realm of the large world cluster and executed the elven royalty.”
“What… what is the point?!” I asked in bafflement.
“Yeah, what’s the point? We don’t understand because we’re not Betrayer Witches.” Sister Bai shook her head. “But do you know what the witches ultimately lost and what they gained?”
“I don’t know…” I shook my head.
“The war ultimately succeeded. The Witch Race gained a large world cluster, established a much larger Witch Academy, obtained precious bloodlines from the elven royalty, and gave birth to powerful witch branches with unique bloodlines. They mastered rare and what the elves once claimed couldn’t be plundered, the elven race bloodline transformation techniques and summoning spells…”
“And they even plundered the foundation and essence of the elven race, the elven magic, and incorporated it into the spellbook system of extraordinary witches. Otherwise… do you think the spellbooks of elven magic categories that witches master came about? How did they develop?”
“…So what’s the cost?”
“The cost was… countless casualties, with more than a dozen witch academies destroyed. It seems very tragic but…” At this point, Sister Bai sighed, yet continued, “However, the losses of extraordinary witches were extremely minimal; those that died were only preparatory witches and servant armies… their deaths don’t count as losses for the Witch Race itself. Thus, this was an almost costless victory in the war, only the methods were so brutal that many witches couldn’t accept it. And this is the approach of the Betrayer Witches, and it only manifested in the context of external wars.”
“So… is there still an internal aspect?” It took a long time for me to align with the mindset of the Betrayer Witches.
Even if the ones who died were preparatory witches, they were still not recognized extraordinary witches. This way of thinking was far more extreme than those witches in the Main World; at least they still regarded the people of the Main World as human and were even willing to construct a peaceful social order.
“Yes, there are also internal methods, directed at those long-standing conservative witches, the younger new generation witches, and the seed witches that have yet to advance to extraordinary… they all have their own judgments, tests, and codes of conduct.”
