Chapter 772: New Teaching Model and Compromise New Student Competition
As the new semester begins, the brand new teaching model attracts not only new students to start touching the extraordinary world and feel the thrill of wielding extraordinary power, but also makes many old students watch with envy and sigh that they were born too early.
Regarding the promotion of the Knowledge Seed, it is currently being slowly popularized throughout the school, and the laboratory for “planting” Knowledge Seeds is shouldering the heavy responsibility of providing a large number of Knowledge Seeds in a short time.
However, with the friction between the Witch Academy and other Extraordinary Academies, the rapid promotion of Knowledge Seeds in the school is also thanks to the temporary cooperation between the Extraordinary Academies. Otherwise, this batch of Knowledge Seeds should have been provided to them according to the cooperation.
For the upper-grade students, the only consolation with the new semester is probably that the Wanlian Arena, which meets their expectations, has introduced a competitive model based on the Power Network.
In fact, many students are still somewhat reluctant to try this model, which is caused by self-doubt regarding their own strength, until the arena showcased the slogan “The weak arm themselves with power, the strong control their power,” which sparked enthusiasm in some people.
Of course, alongside this slogan was a competition hosted unilaterally by the arena, as well as a tiered ranking system.
Wherever there is ranking, there is war!
Moreover, this is the formal ranking from the arena. Although not every student challenges in the arena, it roughly reflects their ranking level within the academy.
Thus, the arena’s competitive model centered on the Power Network has even opened up a brand-new competitive classification.
The competitions that do not participate in the tiered rankings but utilize the Power Network are also classified under it.
This new competitive model and demarcation will last for a long time before stabilizing, representing that the upper-grade students who have idle time and enjoy fighting now finally have a place to battle.
In this broader context, the new students also welcomed their new student competition.
Although the new students experienced an entirely new curriculum that their predecessors had never encountered, their new student competition is far from the excitement of previous years.
In past years, even last year, the new student competition was enough to make the entire academy cheer, but this year, it coincided with the grand event of the arena, making the little skirmishes between new students seem inadequate.
It mainly comes down to a matter of comparison.
In response, the director of the new student grade expressed that the arena’s behavior is too much; couldn’t they wait until their traditional new student competition is over before doing this?
However, although the arena is managed by student clubs, such a massive change cannot be accomplished without the academy’s consent.
She has raised objections, but many witches feel that since the academy has adopted a new model, the new student competition should also return to its essence.
The new students have only been enrolled for a few days and have very little experience in mastering extraordinary power, so the significance of such a competition is not comparable to the arena’s confrontation.
This situation nearly labeled the new student grade director, Teacher Benaire, as a traditionalist; after all, she is the witch leading the new student class in the academy’s reforms!
How could she be a traditionalist?
But she indeed has to admit that the significance of the new student competition is relatively lacking.
Moreover, her original idea was to mobilize all the students in an entire grade to participate; even if it was just a single round, every student should have the opportunity to participate, breaking the previous rule that only designated class leaders could take part.
But since the arena cannot cooperate, that idea can only remain an idea and cannot be put into practice.
Apart from the arena, doesn’t the Witch Academy have other places to offer for so many students to have a competition?
No… there are many.
The reason the new student competition initially chose the arena was that it could accommodate many spectators while having a small number of participants, with only the class leaders being able to enter.
There are many venues that can hold more people, such as practical training grounds for battle courses, free testing grounds in the teaching area, and so on.
These places need to simultaneously accommodate multiple classes of students and the competition demands of multiple groups within a class, so some training grounds encompass areas below that have a much larger space ratio than that of the arena, and their height and depth meet the needs of three-dimensional combat.
The only downside is that these places cannot accommodate spectators.
If the new student competition is held in such places, it would really become mere self-entertainment for the new student grade.
But as the new student grade director, Benaire ultimately chose to compromise.
She also wants her students to make an appearance in the academy and wishes to draw more attention to the performance of new students, but this is merely her own wishful thinking.
The previous new student competitions have brought more disappointment to the entire academy.
As for last year… it encountered a fortune script and a Child of Fortune, plus an anomaly from a transcendent script.
Moreover, other Extraordinary Academies came to join in the fun, turning the competition into a multi-school exchange event.
Last year was already an unrepeatable miracle.
And this year… she really should face reality.
The Power Network model is not suitable for the Witch Academy to seek exchanges with other Extraordinary Academies; even if exchanges were to happen, it would have to be on the Witch Academy’s terms.
However, since the other Extraordinary Academies have just provoked the Witch Academy, the relationship is quite delicate, and it likely won’t ease up soon.
So in the end, Benaire placed the new student competition in the training ground. As for classes that need to be held normally… they all have to make way. After all, even if this training ground is unavailable, there are other options; what if the training ground does not work, right? There are still testing grounds!
It’s just a course; how can it be so inconvenient?
Their new student competition can tolerate being held here; why can’t classes be held elsewhere?
However, Benaire managed to secure the rights for an all-round live broadcast from the Root Network, and although there aren’t spectators cheering for them around the competition, it’s acceptable online.
Furthermore, they are a new student competition with all participants being new students, so the new students themselves are the audience for this competition.
Returning this competition to its true meaning, allowing new students to cheer for newcomers, and planting the seeds of yearning for extraordinary power in the hearts of new students is its original significance.
Of course, the main reason Benaire reluctantly chose this traditional confrontation mode between new students is… she has not properly kept control over those clones borrowed from Xiao Han.
As the saying goes, plans cannot keep pace with changes. After the new students enrolled, those hundreds of Xiao Han clones came into the sight of many witches.
Eventually, these clones were claimed by the arena… those clones became important gatekeepers in the arena’s Power Network tiered competition and official testing opponents for the contestant ranking.
After all, Xiao Han’s mastery of the Power Network was evident during the previous final hunting session, and since the clones can only use the Power Network, they serve as a good benchmark for strength.
Of course, Benaire can be the new student grade director, and she is not someone anyone can bully. Although those Xiao Han clones were borrowed away and she only kept a few, as compensation for borrowing them, she resolved the reward source issue for this year’s new student competition.
In previous years, the rewards for the new student competition were not many, and due to the small number of participants, they mainly came from the academy, along with various extraordinary materials obtained from periodic cleaning of earth vein accumulation.
But this year, with new students using the Root Network instead of the previous earth vein network, the issue of earth vein accumulation has been alleviated, but this also means the new student competition lacks an important source of prizes.
Although witches can also develop and utilize earth vein resources in other ways, this time the new students participating in this competition are the entire student body!
This requires a huge base of rewards.
At the very least, each new student should have a participation prize as an incentive; otherwise, the new students’ enthusiasm could be completely worn out.
As the director of the first generation academy reform, Benaire is truly holding the banner of trial and error, mainly because everything is too rushed, leaving little time for planning.
However, to make up for this, she abandoned the plan of using Xiao Han’s clones to instill “despair” in the new students, exchanging it for a multitude of event prizes.
Moreover, she is also preparing to make a move during this new student competition.
She wants to throw the new student who emerges victorious from the final new student competition into the arena’s Power Network tiered event!
This can be considered her revenge.
After all… no one in the arena can withstand losing to a new student who has only just enrolled for a few days!
At that time, she will privately use rewards to incentivize them: defeat a senior and receive a reward! The sky’s the limit!
To present a challenge and humiliation from the new students to those people.
She really wants to prove that new students can showcase their brilliance at the academy level.
But this also requires the new students to deliver.
Even if they enter a single elimination in the arena’s tiered ranking… at least they will have made an appearance, right?
However, not everyone has the opportunity to show their face, and this opportunity is what is decided through the new student competition.
When that time comes, let the remaining Xiao Han clones put them to the test and help them adapt.
There are bound to be children among the students recruited by the Witch Academy who are born suitable for battle.
Do they really think that under the coverage of the college entrance examination fortune allocation ceremony, this form of selection is truly used to choose machines that solve exam problems?
Such people will only be eliminated by fortune more swiftly.
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Laboratory.
Days have passed since school started, and the excitement of the arena and the new student competition seem to have nothing to do with me.
Even though I know very clearly that my clones are being borrowed here and there, I don’t actually mind that.
After all, these are ultimately just clones. Being able to shine at the Witch Academy is already their value, and keeping them is just because it would be too wasteful to destroy them directly.
Speaking of the progress here in the laboratory, it is quite remarkable.
During these days, Tan Han has gradually begun to understand what self-generated magic really is and what we have paid for it. At the beginning, Tan Han was actually somewhat resistant.
This reflects the difference in perspective between someone like Tan Han and Yi Rui and the others who are more seasoned.
Yi Rui and the others are already long-time veterans.
Tan Han, however, is still trying to understand and respect actions that toy with d*ath and life; as for acceptance… she herself has not experienced many real deaths. Although she has experienced resurrection spells, she still holds a sense of reverence towards d*ath.
In fact, I admire Tan Han’s mindset. Everyone should have a sense of reverence toward d*ath, but my understanding of d*ath differs from what Tan Han comprehends, which is one of the reasons for the gap in perspectives.
However, with Tan Han joining this lab, we have already passed the stage that required continuous deaths.
Tan Han only needs to accept the Demon Transformation Transmutation Technique to step into the threshold of the Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method.
Subsequently, she will need to learn various techniques such as the “Self-Generated Magic Shaping Ceremony” and “Demon Transformation Ritual Dance.”
The final purpose of learning these techniques is simply to achieve the final “Self-Generated Magic,” and throughout this process, there are many areas yet to be developed.
Among them, the “Body Techniques of Morphing Magic” is the most basic application of the Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method.
Perhaps the Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method system is not solely used to produce the self-generated magic physique talent.
Even after this talent is born, the Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method still has its significance, as self-generated magic serves more as a staging platform for the Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method.
It provides potential witches with the possibility of obtaining self-generated magic ahead of time and lays a path for those who possess self-generated magic, leading to the road of becoming extraordinary witches.
How far this road can be traveled… depends on how much I can improve it.
Because the entire “Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method” is a feedback built upon my understanding of self-generated magic physique talent.
This also aligns with my desire to continue to delve deeper into self-generated magic.
To others, once they have cultivated self-generated magic through the Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method, they may find little meaning in continuing their training. But only I understand that if I can gain a deeper understanding of self-generated magic, then I can bestow higher significance to the Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method at any time.
However, it is still too early to say these things.
After all, one must eat one bite at a time.
During this period, I have been deeply exploring the concepts and bloodline information of the Witch Race, using myself as a case study for observational results.
The so-called “witch transformation” essentially involves transforming the fundamental essence of deep life through “magic” and techniques that I cannot comprehend, and this architectural process is passive because this “unexplained technique” is built upon the level of life.
Only upon reaching the “extraordinary level of life” is the complete “Witch Race concept” and “bloodline information” reconstructed in the essence of life.
Self-generated magic is thus the product “hatched” under the racial concept; therefore, the “Witch Transformation Body Cultivation Method” is truly one of the fundamentals of the Witch Race, after all, it is built upon the concept of the Witch Race.
I can so intuitively sense its importance; after all, before it was merely a guess, now it has been directly proven in terms of its position.
Moreover, my “Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method” utilizes the Magic Source, equivalent to a second-level construction of improvement built upon the “Magic Source Body Cultivation Method,” thereby already “hatching” the concept of “self-generated magic” within the framework of the Witch Race.
With this theoretical process, it represents the early acquisition of “self-generated magic,” providing clear evidence that self-generated magic can accelerate a person’s advancement to becoming an extraordinary witch.
This can even, to some extent, replace the role of the “Witch Topic” in advancing to extraordinary witches, as self-generated magic itself is a strongly correlated concept with the grand topic of witches and many subtopics.
However, extraordinary witches promoted in this manner will likely only make some achievements in the aspect of the Demon Transformation Body Cultivation Method in the future because this is the foundation for their advancement to extraordinary witches.
But… that is not a bad thing; after all, no matter how mediocre an extraordinary witch is, she is still an extraordinary witch.
There are many mediocre extraordinary witches, but true talents will not be constrained by such limitations. Self-generated magic merely lowers the threshold for advancement to the extraordinary; it does not lower the upper limit of what an extraordinary witch can achieve.
