Chapter 799: The Betrayer Witch’s Disruption
“Mei Linde, this time you’ve crossed the line.”
As the consciousness of the arriving wizards was easily manipulated by Mei Linde, a figure resonated in the skies above Monopeng City, filled with slight anger.
“You’ve grown wise; none of you chose to descend in your true forms. Do you really think I lack the ability to drag you out of your wizard tower?” Mei Linde snorted lightly, not directly responding to the question, but continued to control the few wizard consciousnesses imprisoned beside her.
If those wizards were willing to give up their consciousness clones, then Mei Linde had no way to stop them. Otherwise, as she said earlier, she would have to go to the wizard tower to drag them out.
But these wizards were reluctant to do so.
These descending consciousnesses were not ordinary clones; losing them would greatly backfire on the wizards themselves, and they would also suffer irreparable loss of power.
These clones would only allow them to survive compared to the d*ath of their true forms.
“If you want a witch to come alone, then feel free to try.”
“Tch… Is that something you can say?”
Mei Linde found the other party amusing. She naturally wouldn’t be that foolish; if it weren’t for the current situation, she would have slapped the other party before leaving. However, the current situation did not allow such recklessness, especially since she was now the academy head and needed to be responsible for her mentors and students.
“Hmph! Just say you don’t dare.” The wizard side countered defiantly; if one didn’t know what had been said earlier, one would think he was really impressive.
“Since you, Mei Linde, have personally come here, our Wizard Academy will give you this face. But now, immediately, bring your precious student and mentors away!”
In the end, after throwing some harsh words, the Wizard Academy side voluntarily offered a way out.
And this was also currently the best outcome for both sides.
“You are placing an unreasonable demand on me~ The witch’s promotion ceremony is not something you can casually interfere with.”
Mei Linde’s gaze stayed fixed on the young girl emitting unstable energy at this moment.
That characteristic was undoubtedly the demeanor after ascending to the extraordinary, with the pressure derived from the extraordinary still unstable, signifying that the consciousness or mind had not yet completed its transformation and control.
Normally, the promotion of a witch would not be so troublesome and would not create such a huge commotion.
Thinking of this, Mei Linde glanced at Bai Yu beside her; this one was a typical example of ascending into the extraordinary without a word in the Expanding Realm.
So that fainted young girl’s promotion to the extraordinary was certainly of a convoluted nature.
Due to this situation, Mei Linde wanted to take this opportunity to step down, but the reality didn’t really allow it.
“What do you mean? Are you planning to continue causing trouble here?”
“Is borrowing a space not allowed? Once this child’s promotion is completed, we will leave; what’s there to be worried about?”
“Easy for you to say…” The Wizard Academy side was practically about to explode with anger; what more could be said?
Worried?
These witches being here were the trouble!
They had to keep a close watch on these witches, like someone strolling down the street with a three-meter-long broadsword claiming to be normal; no sane person would believe that.
“Since you think it’s not easy, I’ll find something for you to do.” Mei Linde knew that staying here wouldn’t calm things down, so she prepared to change the subject. She then gestured to the few arriving wizard consciousnesses and spoke, “So let’s talk about the ransom for these guys.”
“Ransom?”
Upon hearing this term, even without seeing the wizard’s true form, everyone present seemed to be able to visualize the image of the other party’s forehead bulging with veins.
“Mei Linde! You need to understand! It’s your witches that came to our wizard place causing chaos, and you captured our wizards on our turf, and you ask me for ransom?!”
“The order is wrong; it’s your extraordinary wizards who first attacked our students and teaching assistants, and our witch mentors retaliated! If your extraordinary hadn’t intervened, it would have just been small conflicts between students and even ordinary people!”
Mei Linde completely disregarded what the other party said and firmly insisted that the extraordinary acted first, wanting to establish the nature of the incident.
“You look at this, is this a mere small conflict? Creating such a loud commotion is small conflict? You nearly destroyed Monopeng City! Do you know how much resources are needed for a rebuild?”
“The uproar was caused by an internal conflict within the Monopeng City family, right? You really think I don’t know the details since I just arrived?” Mei Linde directly employed the Earth Vein Identification Technique, revealing the information displayed by the earth vein in a replay, leaving the wizards utterly stunned.
“Our teaching assistant and mentors just came to visit a former teaching assistant who was advised to leave. Your Wizard Academy’s surrounding families have significant power; they mobilized the entire city’s Security Bureau and armed forces to hunt down a departing teaching assistant. Aren’t you afraid that one day the families will tear down your Wizard Tower?”
While saying this, Mei Linde’s tone was quite cynical, even though what she said was indeed a fact to some extent.
And her final statement directly placed a label on the secular family power, simultaneously insulting the Wizard Academy. Even if the family couldn’t achieve this, the pressure from the Wizard Academy on the family was certain.
And the Hothorn Family, which collided at this point, would undoubtedly be the first to be sacrificed.
Even if this incident was instigated by the witches, it was the Wizard Academy that crossed the line, so after enduring further arguments, the outcome was that the Wizard Academy was pushed to want to act against Mei Linde.
But acting against each other was not good for either side, so both were quite restrained; otherwise, they wouldn’t have exchanged verbal jabs until now.
In the end, the result was that the wizards captured by Mei Linde would pay their own ransom to buy themselves back; or those who didn’t want to redeem themselves could choose to end it all.
In any case, every confrontation with witches left them exhausted.
This time, they hadn’t harmed the academy’s interests, which was already very good. After all, those wizards acted on their own; if they had successfully killed that little witch, that would have been it. Since they failed, they must bear the consequences!
Any grievances could be slowly summed up later.
In any case, this matter seemed to come to an end, much better than the last time they were swindled by the Witch Academy and lost a World Fragment.
Although that World Fragment belonged to the lowest value category, even now, reflecting back, the wizards still felt a pang of heartache.
And I, who had not participated in this debate, subconsciously took a step back at this moment.
Because at this point, Aipuli had already reached the Soul Great Topic, the final step of elevating her soul, which is also the step I was most concerned about!
That is the shaping of the soul!
This transformation directly involved the most critical part of my Soul Drawing technique.
As the fluctuations stemming from the essence of her life began to intensify, I understood that Aipuli was gradually starting to awaken from “her world”. No, it should be said she was “reborn”!
From now on, Aipuli would completely bid farewell to the past her and become a brand new extraordinary witch!
Perhaps the rumors within her family were right once again; a witch after ascending to the extraordinary was no longer the same as her former kin. But Aipuli reaching this step… was it not also the family’s self-inflicted curse?
“Soul elevation… Yes, that’s it…” Looking at the gradually awakening Aipuli, I couldn’t help but exclaim.
As long as I grasped this process and summarized the ceremony of soul elevation, it would be the final piece of the puzzle for my Soul Drawing technique!
However, at this moment, Aipuli’s extreme pressure from her initial entry into the extraordinary also brought me tremendous stress.
If previously, the oppressive force was at a non-extraordinary life level, I could compete with it relying on body cultivation. But once this qualitative change arrived at the extraordinary, it seemed to cross over into another level, delivering an absolute dimensional strike!
Even when I countered with body cultivation strength and Field Order, Aipuli’s uncontrolled pressure still brought me immense trouble.
At that moment, Sister Bai stepped in to shield me a bit.
“Huh? Is it you? I recognize you.” The first person the gradually awakening Aipuli saw was naturally me, standing directly in front of her.
Even though she simply spoke a sentence, I realized that Aipuli had become completely different from her past self at this moment. Every gesture made me lose the confidence I once had to control her life direction with ease.
This was Aipuli’s most intuitive transformation—a change from her heart, a shift in perspective and confidence. With such an existence, even just locking eyes with me made me feel uneasy all over.
Yet when Aipuli’s gaze fell upon Principal Mei and the extraordinary wizard consciousness confronting her, she inevitably found herself trapped in past recognitions.
Of course, more so was her confusion about the current situation.
“What’s happening?” Faced with such a complex scenario, Aipuli still asked.
“Oh? You’re awake? In any case, congratulations on becoming a part of the witch family. If I remember correctly, you are Aipuli, right?” Mei Linde was filled with joy upon seeing Aipuli awake; at the very least, this way, they could directly retreat and not have to bicker with those wizards.
“In any case, you need not worry about anything now. Leave everything to me, the academy head; your Sister Mei is quite reliable.” Now, Mei Linde naturally didn’t mind showing off her presence in front of the new sisters, even referring to herself as “Sister Mei”.
I have to say, this sense of security from the academy head was quite substantial.
But just as everyone and the witches thought this matter was over, an unexpected event occurred again at this critical moment.
“d*mn it… Mei Linde, what do you witches mean! Attracting our attention over here, while you sent another group of witches to our Wizard Academy to cause trouble?!”
“What?”
Originally prepared to escort Xiao Han away, Mei Linde was instantly frozen by the wizard’s words.
Because this was indeed something beyond her expectations.
“Speak clearly; we haven’t caused any trouble at all. Does your Wizard Academy want to keep this up?!” Mei Linde’s momentum exploded as she clashed with the wizard.
But upon seeing the other party’s emotions didn’t seem feigned, Mei Linde felt uneasy in her heart.
“b*stard, it’s you witches! You witches actually came to our Wizard Academy to create chaos, do you intend to start an academy war?!”
“I guarantee in the name of the academy head of the Witch Academy that I did not arrange a surprise attack on your Wizard Academy, or do you think that at such a moment, our Witch Academy is the type that likes to cause chaos?” Mei Linde countered with a question.
Although they witches did not particularly like those guys and harbored ambitions to drive them out of the main world, it was certainly not the time for unnecessary troubles.
“So who is this?!” The wizard angrily cast a wizarding image, showing what was currently happening at the Wizard Academy.
Disregarding the towering structures of the wizard towers and the circular academy framework, in the center of the image, a female figure could be clearly seen.
And this figure, not just one present recognized, even I could recognize who she was.
That was the Betrayer Witch currently causing a stir in the Witch Academy—Sheril.
“Is it her?” Seeing this figure, even Mei Linde felt her earlier confidence drain away, leaving her with a headache.
“You really know her!”
“I do know her, but I want to clarify one thing: this person is not a witch from our Witch Academy.”
“Who are you trying to fool?! You’ve already admitted she is a witch; how could she not be from your Witch Academy?” At this moment, the extraordinary wizard seemed ready to explode; this was no longer just a simple matter of being played.
Do they really think the Wizard Academy doesn’t have a temper?!
“She is the Betrayer Witch; you know what sort she is, right? Even if she were my own, she wouldn’t listen to me. I’m also quite troubled.”
“What?! The Betrayer Witch?” Upon hearing this title, the wizard’s breath suddenly caught, even forcibly suppressing the violent emotions he had just felt.
“I don’t care! Get this plague witch out of here, now!” At this moment, the wizard’s expression changed multiple times in an instant, ranging from conflicted to furious, but ultimately, his rage fell upon Mei Linde.
Because he knew he had to drag the Witch Academy down completely; otherwise, even if Mei Linde appeared helpless, it was uncertain how pleased she felt inside!
The Betrayer Witch was indeed harming their Wizard Academy!
“If you don’t chase that person away, then we will initiate an academy war! It’s a matter of life and d*ath together in the end!”
“Calm down. The main world has been peaceful for so long; must we erupt to this extent?” Mei Linde quickly soothed the other party’s emotions; it was not yet time to flip the table, “The actions of the Betrayer Witch are extremely strange; even she doesn’t care about being the same witch. How about this… I accompany you to the Witch Academy to resolve this matter?”
“… Fine.”
The wizard gritted his teeth, ultimately squeezing out this one word. But even so, it seemed the other party remembered something and opened his mouth to add, “But before that, the witch contract of non-aggression must be signed! Who knows if you have conspired in advance…”
“Alright… Anyway, the delay also costs you time. You draft the contract content; I’ll first send my students back.”
“No! You can at most send back a clone; your true form must stay. Otherwise, I’m afraid you’ll just run away!”
