Chapter 806: The Fool Dream Defined by Me as “Wise Life”
In the laboratory.
“Eh? Sister Belika, are you all leaving this place?” I was surprised to learn this news.
These witch mentors in the laboratory had been staying here for some time. Although they described their stay as ‘visiting the laboratory,’ in reality, they had mostly been helping us.
During this time, Instructor Belika and her team had assisted us a lot, including but not limited to spellbook creation and professional knowledge explanation. Particularly, Yi Rui and her group had grown somewhat dependent on them.
However, this was also one of the reasons they chose to leave.
They did not want their students to rely too much on them.
Of course, more importantly, they had learned from me that the difficulties and barriers regarding the self-generated magic topic were nearly resolved, so they had no reason to stay.
As for using the laboratory?
Witches can create alchemical items just by being in their bedrooms. Is the laboratory really necessary?
Not mandatory; having it would save a lot of trouble, but in the end, this is not their laboratory.
“Yes, we indeed have to leave. We’ve overstayed our welcome here.”
“Actually, Sister Belika, you all could stay here permanently.”
“Xiao Han, you should know why we can’t. I won’t elaborate further on that.”
“Okay… but what about Yi Rui and the others…” I nodded in understanding, but compared to my understanding, Yi Rui and the others seemed quite reluctant.
As I finished speaking, Yi Rui and the others appeared in this area.
I silently made some space for them.
Although they appeared to be mature adults in terms of age, as long as they stayed at the Witch Academy, they remained students, looking forward to their mentors’ guidance.
Moreover, girls tend to express their feelings quite sensibly. Even if they understand their mentors aren’t abandoning them, being in one place for too long fosters a sense of dependency.
“Alright, everyone, what’s with those expressions? We’re just leaving the laboratory.”
“I just feel a bit reluctant… If I encounter a problem again later, I’ll have to run quite far to find you, Mentor.”
“When you meet a problem, figure out how to solve it yourselves first. Do you really think I’m your problem solver? You should learn to be independent like Xiao Han; handling issues on your own is also a form of training, so you…”
After Instructor Belika mentioned my name, I quietly left. I hate it when others compare me with others, though I know she’s educating Yi Rui and the others. Still, Yi Rui and her group are among the best students at the Witch Academy.
After creating some distance, I returned to my designated experimental chamber within the laboratory. This space had become my unofficial experimental area.
Once inside, three petite figures quickly appeared in front of me.
The three small Fool Dreams in front of me were Yu Lan, Yu Yun, and Yu Guo.
I had brought them here by casting a dream projection spell, allowing them to abandon their original bodies.
Fool Dreams, in essence, are dream creatures, so their understanding of the body is limited to the corporeal form in the material realm. Hence, the damage or deactivation of the body cannot be considered “d*ath” to them because they aren’t even defined as “life.”
“Ah!” I sighed, then randomly picked up one Fool Dream—Yu Lan, the first to run to me. “When you’re in the lab, don’t run around so excitedly. This is still a regulated laboratory, and it can’t be compared to the villa’s lab.”
“Um… I’m sorry, Sister Xiao Han.”
“I didn’t mean to blame you; just be more careful next time.”
“Got it.”
“Sister Xiao Han, when are we going to start attempting that so-called life metamorphosis?” Yu Yun asked eagerly from the side.
They had been here for several days, but I had not formally conducted a soul drawing on them yet.
Part of the reason is that I’ve been perfecting this technique in my free time.
Another part is to prepare in advance.
First, there’s the issue of raw materials, such as Soul Material. I need a large quantity, which requires Millien’s assistance.
Soul Material is quite rare in the Main World. If the Expanding Realm hadn’t been opened last semester, there wouldn’t be any source for Soul Crystals.
As for collecting Soul Material by killing or privately mining Soul Material in the natural cycle of earth veins in the Main World, those are absolutely prohibited actions.
The former indiscriminately annihilates life, which is morally unacceptable in the Main World, even for the extraordinary, as it has been agreed that large-scale killings aren’t permitted.
The latter would destroy the world’s cycle in the Main World, which is also forbidden.
Even I can’t be an exception to these rules.
So the only channel presently is the Soul Crystals stored after resource extraction in the Expanding Realm.
However, after communicating with Millien, I realized that even with her help, it would be difficult to obtain a large amount of Soul Crystals.
After all, this is also scarce in the Expanding Realm. I haven’t seen many Soul Materials myself, and plenty of dream creatures in the Expanding Realm also absorb Soul Materials, making Soul Crystals quite rare.
Most who acquire them choose to use them for personal life enhancement.
Nevertheless… collecting a quantity of Soul Crystals for experiments shouldn’t be a problem.
Thus, the issue of Soul Material has been mostly resolved.
At this preparatory stage, preparing Soul Material is already quite troublesome, and it will get even more complicated moving forward.
The real challenge lies in giving “dream creatures” a sense of reality, which they initially lacked.
One thing can be confirmed: dream creatures possess their own consciousness, which is the only concept they have. Even Fool Dreams are no exception.
According to my current definition of life, I need to prepare many things for the Fool Dreams.
For example, soul drawing is needed to shape the soul’s essence for the Fool Dreams.
Additionally, the bestowal of wisdom is required to create the seeds of wisdom for the Fool Dreams, using the soul as soil and the consciousness and memory to form the roots of wisdom.
Furthermore, I need to shape a concept of race and bloodline information for the Fool Dreams, which also exists on the concept of the soul’s essence.
Thus, soul drawing is what I consider the foundation of creating life.
But… this is just the foundation.
The second step of bestowing wisdom requires raw materials for creating the Fool Dreams’ seeds of wisdom: “consciousness” and “memory.”
Fool Dreams lack “memory.”
Or rather, everything Fool Dreams remember does not belong to them but is raw material from the Primordial Dream World.
As dream creatures of the Primordial Dream World, they appear “memory confused” externally, or forgetful, and Fool Dreams are no different.
However, Fool Dreams can live normally now, which highlights their uniqueness.
Initially, when the Fool Dreams were still in the Witch Secret Realm, they had what was known as body memory, where a part of the body retained a memory and a portion collected raw material from the Primordial Dream World. So, when the Fool Dreams died, or were dragged back into the dream by their other halves in a nightmare, they basically lost their original memories.
After they followed me, I used the Grand Wisdom Enlightenment Spell to impart a foundation to them, and the memories were retained in a manner I hadn’t considered before.
But now, their memories have been deliberately preserved with the Great Knowledge Seed.
Each Fool Dream possesses one Great Knowledge Seed, which is my most basic guarantee for them.
Thus, their memories barely exist, but this memory information, retained as data, needs special processing to transform it into “memory material” for shaping the seed of wisdom.
So this will take a long time.
As for shaping the concept of race and bloodline information for the Fool Dreams… this is also a challenging point.
Of course, this is the simplest part, which is to define the Fool Dreams based on the essence of the soul.
What is the definition of Fool Dreams?
No one knows.
They are dream creatures, but since they are to metamorphose into life, they cannot just be meaningless dream creatures, and this definition cannot be expressed in the essence of the soul.
The simplest explanation would be: Fool Dreams are what they are.
Just like how humans are human.
Bloodline information can be simply understood as defining the species and appearance of Fool Dreams.
So… what exactly are Fool Dreams… this isn’t a question requiring an answer; rather, it’s a will and choice I must make as their creator.
The preliminary answer I provide is that… they are a group of “wise life” as defined by my understanding of wisdom.
After all, I have endowed them with wisdom, so wisdom is their first “power” that fully belongs to them after achieving life!
Helping the Fool Dreams complete their metamorphosis isn’t simply about using soul drawing on them.
Soul drawing is a skill, not a spell that solves everything with a single release.
Until I feel I’ve prepared perfectly, I won’t recklessly attempt this with the Fool Dreams, even though… I’ve already done many irresponsible things with them before, like shaping their soul essence with mimetic soul techniques.
After soothing the three small ones, I started to get busy again. Today isn’t the day Tan Han is supposed to come, so I need to utilize my time wisely.
If I’d known the busy work would take this long, I wouldn’t have changed my agreement with Tan Han; every two days seemed like the best option.
Still… this way isn’t bad either.
After all, I’m used to a tightly packed daily routine.
However, while organizing these things, I occasionally let my brain rest for a moment.
Sometimes, I would sort through the information accumulated in the Great Knowledge Tree, and other times I would communicate with my clones to understand the external situation of the academy, viewing the Witch Academy from a different perspective.
What concerned me the most was my player clone.
My player clone left after deceiving members of the Hothorn Family, but it’s still active in the Wizard Academy.
She witnessed the shocking collapse of the Hothorn Family during a certain moment these days, a collapse that sets off a series of chain reactions due to the downfall of a family pillar.
Ultimately, when the walls fall, everyone pushes— the Hothorn Family was completely expelled overnight.
This isn’t a story where a descendant escapes and comes back to rise again; it’s a hopeless delusion for a family in its final moments.
Not to mention… I also used the Wisdom Withering on important figures of this family, eliminating their last chance of resurrection.
The collapse of the Hothorn Family is just a small episode for me.
What I genuinely care about is the intelligence gathered by the player clone.
There’s a problem with the Wizard Academy.
This issue is significant, enough to affect the relationship between players and wizards.
They lost the channels to communicate with the players, which may result in [Extraordinary Knowledge] not being delivered to players as scheduled.
After a little pondering, I fixated on a witch—or rather, a Betrayer Witch.
Only this person could have done something like this. The time that the Betrayer Witch appeared in the Wizard Academy and left the wizards defenseless likely disrupted those communication channels.
But this also gave me other reflections.
Is that Betrayer Witch actually helping?
This doesn’t align with the way Sister Bai described the Betrayer Witch’s principles.
Could it be that I’m viewing Sheril through colored glasses?
Perhaps, as Principal Mei once said, all of them are actually good witches?
Then… Principal Mei’s unfavorable attitude toward this Betrayer Witch doesn’t seem to be acted.
Sure enough, the Betrayer Witch group is always the good witches when it doesn’t concern them.
Maybe this represents a kind of hypocrisy?
While I was busy, my compartment was pushed open.
“Sister Xiao Han… they really are leaving… eh?”
“Remember to knock before entering next time?” I ignored the person’s words and reminded her.
“I understand… but, what’s this? Fool Dreams! Sister Xiao Han, where did you get these Fool Dreams from? Oh my god! How did you get them here?”
“Huh?” I looked at the girl in confusion, feeling like she was focusing on the wrong thing, and her emotional shift was too great.
“I saw them at the Witch Cat Café! I wanted to take one home, but it wasn’t allowed. What a pity! Sister Xiao Han, how did you manage it?”
“What’s going on? Did I just hear someone talking about Fool Dreams?” At this moment, another girl who heard the commotion also walked in.
“Because they were originally following me; in a sense, they can be considered my experimental assistants,” I explained.
“Sister Xiao Han, you even have Fool Dreams as assistants? That’s too fortunate! Why haven’t I seen them before?”
“I only brought them here recently. Alright… can you let go now? You’re scaring the Fool Dreams,” I reached out to remind her.
“Sorry, sorry… I was just too excited! To think there are Fool Dreams in the laboratory! Can they brew Fool Dream drinks for us? I love that flavor!”
“By the way, didn’t your mentors forbid you from eating and drinking in the laboratory?” I reminded again.
“Haha… well, what’s the big deal? The mentors have already left! Now the laboratory is our domain!”
“No, but what about the sadness when you came in just now? Was that all an act?” I commented from the side.
