Chapter 1008: The Ambition of the Family – A Unified Common Family
After leaving Principal Mei’s place.
Sister Bai and I planned to take a good rest in the last few days of the holiday.
If we talk about where it is most convenient to rest and least likely to be disturbed, we have to mention that Instance Realm.
“Sister~ Speaking of which, didn’t we say before that we would go fishing and roast fish at our newly built lakeside cabin? How about we experience it during these few days?” I suggested.
“Sounds good! I want to see the house that is already built, and I’ve been looking forward to eating grilled food there for days,” Sister Bai nodded without hesitation.
Once we entered the Instance Realm, we saw Ling Yi. After greeting her and explaining why I had turned out this way, we headed straight to the lakeside cabin.
I now had some clues about Ling Yi’s nonexistent “friend.” This situation is fundamentally similar to that of the King of Ancient Ice Remains.
The nurturing of consciousness signifies the beginning of life, the soul is the foundation of life, while the body represents life’s initial exploration of the world.
I had not tried this set of experiments yet.
When the hierarchy of cognition is no longer bound by those frameworks, I can understand what I truly want to do.
Arriving at the platform extending into the lake, Sister Bai took out two fishing rods.
These were prepared by Sister Bai long ago, shortly after I suggested this idea.
“Cachu, the fishing rod prepared for you seems a bit large,” she said, measuring the rod in front of me.
Indicating how I could hold it with my little arms and legs.
“Don’t underestimate me! I may have shrunk in size, but my strength hasn’t weakened much! Even if I face an adult, I can still throw them over my shoulder!” I retorted immediately.
“Of course~ I certainly believe in Xiao Han’s strength, but… since Xiao Han has become smaller, it’s better to prepare a smaller fishing rod~”
Before she finished her sentence, the fishing rod in her hand was transformed into a much smaller rod through basic particle manipulation. If other witches saw this, they would surely be amazed.
After all, creating something from scratch is possible for every witch, but redesigning or reconstituting it into a different form is a whole different level of difficulty—this is pure display of skills.
While there are some heavy-type spells, those only restore things within the framework of spells, such as repairing a broken cup or a damaged sculpture.
To take it further, that falls into the realm of the skills of restorative alchemy.
Moreover, Sister’s sense of time is an even more profound technique.
“This size is just right for a little one~” Sister handed the fishing rod to me.
“Surely very (?), hand bite~” I mumbled.
“When the little one catches a fish, don’t let the fish pull you into the lake, okay? After all, the little one’s physique is originally light, and if you’re not careful, you might fall into the lake for the fish~”
“How is that possible? We haven’t even started fishing yet! There’s no way I’ll get pulled into the water by a fish!”
……
Unlike the leisurely atmosphere of the Instance Realm.
The situation at the Witch Academy’s clubs is far from optimistic.
At first, they thought this was just a first-time opportunity to collaborate with that little assistant, but no one expected this would directly trigger a war within the academy!
They had thoroughly received information from the academy side; the Witch Academy encourages the clubs to be aggressive.
In the past, the academy might have released information about excellent students in the new first semester to incite current students to seize new students. But now… the academy has directly incited students to attack the Dayrock Elf Academy.
After all, the Dayrock Elf Academy killed students from the Witch Academy, and revenge is a must.
Throughout this period, there have been various attacks within the academy, leading to many people from the Dayrock Elf Academy paying the price with their lives, but that does not relieve the anger!
Of course, the people feeling the most dissatisfied are generally the easily provoked students.
The clubs mainly composed of family members, however, are currently extremely anxious.
Because there has been armed conflict between families in the border area!
The situation is actually quite simple; the Witch Academy’s actions to promote the Power Network have made the families outside its regions quite envious, so a family in the border area decided to embrace the Witch Realm.
This behavior is considered a complete betrayal by other families!
With the leakage of information, this family faced attacks from surrounding families, ultimately seeking help from families within the Witch Academy, sparking a regional dispute and protective war!
Even if families typically kept some extraordinary items secret to enrich their own foundations, this private extraordinary power and armed force cannot withstand the dimension-reducing blow brought by the establishment of a Power Network!
Currently, various families are taking sides, shouting, and clashing verbally.
With the occurrence of armed conflict, and the changes in family territories, war has fully impacted trade and financial battles between families, and strategic material exports are also being controlled by the families.
This operation has left the families opposing all extraordinary academies, particularly the Witch Academy, feeling extremely passive.
After all, the price impact of basic materials directly reflects on the living costs of ordinary households!
Moreover, the families within the Witch Realm are not exactly of one mind; there are always people who sing a different tune and wish to profit from the war, so all parties are currently discussing coordination.
However, no consensus can be reached yet.
The only agreement is that… the extraordinary power they have painstakingly grasped, now that it has yielded benefits, they will definitely not let go of it.
Furthermore, this extraordinary power is not coerced by the Witch Academy to become feminine and does not affect the ability to bear the next generation!
Such a great opportunity allows them to unleash far more power than they initially anticipated!
They seem to foresee the future world and the scenes filled with extraordinary powers.
It may bring greater competition, but they believe in the foundation of their families; they are bound to become… extraordinary families under such great benefits!
Extraordinary families, that is their ambition!
Since the establishment of families, extraordinary academies have overshadowed all families. Many families aspire to change the situation where this extraordinary power has been abandoned by the academies.
Their thinking is quite simple: if the academy can become an otherworldly force that transcends the extraordinary, so can families!
But they have underestimated the academies.
Behind the extraordinary academies are the bases of extraordinary races beyond the world, which has suppressed all families; none have become so-called “extraordinary families” in a millennium.
Extraordinary academies do not allow any extraordinary aspects to flow out of the academy. For instance, after graduation from the Witch Academy, if students do not continue to pursue extraordinary aspirations, all connections to the extraordinary will be stripped away.
Even if they graduate and insist that they still aim to advance to the extraordinary, wanting to serve their families with extraordinary powers is impossible; the binding force of the Witch Contract leaves them with no chance whatsoever.
Other extraordinary academies, even without the Witch Contract, have other means.
Even with wizards whose advancement system is centered around knowledge, without the assistance of corresponding extraordinary materials and various resources, they will not see any improvement.
Moreover, the wizard realm is also the area with the strictest regulation of extraordinary materials; just getting caught is a death sentence. The cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness of wizards are built on lives they consider expendable.
Thus, families can only scour the world for some extraordinary items at most.
The birth of extraordinary items relies on infinite coincidence and mystery, and they are the only way to access extraordinary power in the external society that extraordinary materials cannot obtain.
However, using extraordinary items also requires paying the price of usage.
The families want to rely on extraordinary items to accumulate and become extraordinary families; it’s simply akin to a drug addict dreaming!
And now… with the Witch Academy actively promoting the Power Network, it signifies that the Witch Academy has made the first move!
All families are envious of this, but not all families hope to integrate into the framework of the Power Network.
Because they understand that the Power Network is a trap set by the Witch Academy, that power completely belongs to the Witch Academy; if a family does not obey, cutting off its power is as simple as cutting off its network.
How can an extraordinary family built on such power even be considered extraordinary?
Therefore, other families are naturally observing whether other extraordinary academies will follow in the Witch Academy’s footsteps and open up the channels of extraordinary power.
They do not believe other extraordinary academies would give such power rooted in the academies’ control!
Hence, other families are essentially betting.
As long as one extraordinary academy truly disseminates unrestricted extraordinary power, then all… or at least the majority of families will support this extraordinary academy!
Thus, the hardest part of this matter lies in finding that breakthrough point.
The broken window effect states that as long as there is a beginning, the steadfastness of other academies will become meaningless!
When the extraordinary power fills the whole world, then the prosperous era belonging to the families will arrive!
And families will have their own extraordinary powers, not those belonging to the academy.
Too many families have waited too long for such an opportunity.
Long enough that their ambitions were almost worn down to nothing, gradually becoming the dogs of the academy.
Because families hold such demands, many family conflicts occurring along the borders of the Witch World indeed have many hands behind the scenes pushing the tide.
Smaller families become sacrifices, turning into fuel for conflicts to escalate for the sake of the prosperity of the main world families.
Only through fighting, so that the world is no longer stable, will no one be able to sit back and enjoy the benefits, and then people will start to resent.
The families hold the idea that the academy is more urgent than the families themselves, pushing some smaller families into the pit of conflict.
Then they go to the academy, crying for help; after all, the child who cries gets the candy. Sooner or later, the academy will step in to comfort them.
They propagandize the dangers of the Power Network as an invincible existence, while they need equivalent means to counterbalance it—that is their demand.
It can be said that the demands of the families collide with the thoughts of the Witch Academy.
The Witch Academy needs a major reshuffle to reorganize the pattern of the main world.
And families also need a breakthrough to establish the foundation for becoming extraordinary families.
Perhaps not all families want the Power Network, but the Power Network can threaten other extraordinary academies, helping families gain what they want.
However, it is clear that most families in the Witch Academy do not think this way.
They have already accepted the Witch’s grace, so they must bear the pressure from the outside world for the Witch Academy.
Moreover, some patient factions also believe that in the future, they could also strive for the autonomy of extraordinary powers.
They also hope to push beyond and create greater chaos; once chaos erupts, they can claim more benefits and even negotiate equally with the Witch Academy!
After all, the Witch Academy needs people, a constant flow of new students to provide a steady stream of quality students.
Thus, they feel qualified to negotiate chips with the extraordinary academies.
When these thoughts within the families were conveyed to the club members within the academy, it was this unwarranted confidence and ambition that left them the most speechless.
Only by entering the academy can one understand that kind of despair and irreversibility.
To be specific, it is like: Before you enter the extraordinary academy, you see me as a frog at the bottom of the well; after you enter, you see me as a mayfly under the vast sky.
The gap… is too great.
This battle, led by the All Matters Club, with the Witch Realm Academy, the Stunt Flying Photography Training Club, the Explosive Witch Cabin, and other clubs as representatives, along with numerous small math clubs, gathered to hold a discussion meeting.
Although these students are only club representatives within the Witch Academy, the families behind them are capable of stirring up a storm outside the academy!
Their meeting discussed, of course, the various family forces’ issues regarding the promotion of the Power Network, as well as the issue of an “Academy War” as the grand finale.
Regarding the promotion of the Power Network, they naturally cannot interfere with the academy’s arrangements; they could only understand the follow-up impacts after such events occur.
There seems to be another very important topic, which involved everyone’s heart and mind; the topic of the Power Network was hastily concluded.
As for the concept of an academy war, unless they deliberately sought to understand it, many had never considered such matters.
But now they knew, and they showed good acceptance abilities; mainly, there were still many who supported the academy war.
After all… the people calling out “I want to see rivers of blood” on the academy network every day aren’t all just mouthing off.
More of them are actually longstanding grievances.
Currently, the academy war is still in the theoretical stage. With the current small-scale conflicts, nearly all… no, all students feel that it is far too easy for the Witch Academy to eliminate a small academy.
Just take the Dayrock Elf Academy, which has angered many witches; wanting to wipe them out is almost a certainty!
Confidence is the best catalyst for war, and challenges from the outside world light the final fuse.
As soon as this gathering of club representatives ended, the call for an academy war began to appear openly on the Witch Academy’s network.
It is foreseeable that when the new semester begins and students return to school, the debate surrounding this academy war will rise sharply!
