Chapter 1031: Slaughter and Blood Sacrifice?
As night gradually enveloped the earth.
The once grand and luxurious castle had lost its former glory; the toppled half-constructed buildings weakly leaned on the broken foundations.
The blood mist permeating the air gave the entire city a hint of a bloody sweetness.
Accompanied by a few sounds of flapping wings.
Several shadowy figures swiftly darted past, the so-called mysterious blood flies of the Blood Slave Peninsula had become rats pecking in the air.
The Blood Slave Academy was different from other academies; their relationship with ordinary people was very close, gradually spreading through local family ties until they controlled the entire region.
Ordinary people on the Blood Slave Peninsula took pride in giving blood, and the underground trade of blood was rampant.
If the Witch Academy had not invaded the Blood Slave Peninsula this time, no one would have expected that the majority of families on the Peninsula, even those who were not students, had been turned into blood slaves.
Although blood slaves were at the bottom of the Blood Clan system, they did not possess any extraordinary power.
Blood regeneration, wound self-healing, extended lifespan… these were incredibly attractive to those who could not join the academy.
After the academy war initiated by the Witch Academy against the Blood Slave Academy dragged on for so long, the root cause was still that the Blood Clan had intertwined too deeply with ordinary families through their special means.
Although initially, the blood slave liberation incident was essentially a conflict between the lower-class people and the high families, under the guidance of the Witch Academy, the focus was turned towards the Blood Slave Academy.
But was this not the families attempting to pressure the Blood Slave Academy using these lower-class people?
With the families tasting the sweetness of extraordinary power, they naturally would not be satisfied with the status quo.
The Blood Slave Academy was entirely different; they could not completely dominate ordinary people.
Moreover, they required a huge supply of blood food.
With the demand for interests, there naturally came possibilities for negotiation and even exchanges of leverage.
After all, the Blood Slave Academy itself was akin to the servant of the nobility of the Blood Clan; they also needed to meet their own quotas. To make things easier for themselves, why not lower their stance and cooperate with the families?
It was merely about sucking blood from the lower-class people; in their eyes, this was much easier than earning money from them.
However, no one had anticipated that their actions would directly attract the attention of the Witch Academy!
In the end, it resulted in such a situation.
The battle strength of the Blood Slave Academy was truly lacking; blood slaves themselves had no “talent” or “qualification” to speak of. Most were mere sources of good-tasting blood, eventually turning into pets of the Blood Clan.
Thus, the academy war initiated by the Blood Slave Academy against the Witch Academy was destined to have a push-pull outcome, but under the unique bloodline suppression of the Blood Clan, blood slaves were constantly forced to their deaths, causing significant pressure on the members of the Witch Academy’s combat sequence.
If they were facing an equally matched enemy, they would crave battle, even wanting to replicate a scene where corpses piled high and rivers of blood flowed across the wilderness.
But they were killing all defenseless, powerless individuals, their faces filled with fear, rushing towards them in the sea of people under bloodline suppression.
Not everyone could overcome their conscience and indulge in slaughter.
Even the former old academy had merely breached the academy, allowing those students to flee.
Adjusting their mentality took time; for the students to realize that they were killing blood slaves and not humans would take even longer.
The Union Society had never taken the discipline and ideological work of the combat sequence into account; after all, they were merely students.
Their kill count was built on the castles in the air of undying and resurrection spells, simply… never stepping out of the framework of arena battles.
However, in the end, the Blood Slave Academy was still taken down by the Witch Academy.
This battle would finally reveal many things. An unjust war would ultimately face some backlash; there had been many slaughters on the Blood Slave Peninsula, acts of slaughter that harvested lives like drowning lizards, destined to change the perceptions of many.
The various combat organizations involved in the Blood Slave War were also continually monitored by other extraordinary academies.
This included internal disagreements and other conflicts, all of which were observed.
“It looks like the effect is good.”
Among the gathered individuals conspiring together, a Wizard Apprentice spoke.
The individuals gathered here were indeed students from the top three academies, intimidated into not daring to act out due to the Witch Academy’s thunderous methods.
“So many people have died, do you think this is good?” In response to the wizard’s words, a Holy Angel, who was most displeased with him, spoke up.
Indeed, while the wizard pushed the blood slaves onto the Witches, it did create differences within the Witch Academy’s combat sequence, but the Holy Angel Academy could not stand by!
Furthermore, the population density in the Blood Slave Academy was a critical area of focus for the propagation of the Holy Angel Academy’s faith.
How many believers and potential believers had they lost due to this slaughter?
How could the Holy Angels not feel pain?
For this, the Holy Angel Academy’s tutors only provided one instruction regarding the situation in the Main World: to promote the Holy Light faith in areas of suffering while ensuring the foundation of faith, expanding the influence of the Holy Light.
Yet they had made no moves, and the foundation of faith had been shaken. This could invoke punishment from the academy!
“Then may I ask, Holy Angels, do you have any good methods? If you are willing to step in and bring your Holy Light faith to redeem those in suffering, I think this is a great suggestion.”
“You!” The Holy Angel was left speechless by the wizard’s words.
What did they mean going there?
Surely those Witches would take them down instantly!
Not leaving even a single hair.
This spokesperson seemed to have undergone something, and their wings unconsciously contracted a bit.
“Don’t underestimate the wickedness of witches; mere slaughter cannot shake their hearts. I believe they will quickly adjust, but you Wizards, have you given up on the Blood Clan so quickly?” The Holy Angel steered the topic to the Wizard Apprentice, as the Blood Clan was an open secret that the Wizards relied on.
Not long after the Day Incident occurred, the Wizards had slinked back, allowing the Witches to invade the Blood Pattern Academy and even that entire Peninsula, making them subjects of ridicule.
In fact, the Wizards’ ruthlessness in abandoning them might even lead to their subordinates turning against them.
However, the Wizard Apprentice was unconcerned.
The relationships between academies were hierarchical, what did it matter to students?
Among students, helping was a favor; not helping was the norm.
This was the mindset of most Wizards, unless… the tutors demanded how they should act; otherwise, nothing would make an impact.
Those smaller extraordinary academies would continue to rely on their top-tier academies.
“Give up… when have we ever said we would give up? Has the Witch Academy won? Who can say for sure that those big-chested, brainless Witches aren’t falling into our trap?”
“You have a backup plan? When did you prepare it?” At this moment, the previously quiet Aphhemia Forest Elf spoke.
“……”
“What’s wrong? You unwilling to share, or… are you worried those present will leak the information?” Seeing the Wizard Apprentice hesitating, the Elves spoke again.
“Even if it leaks, it matters not. Many things, even if known, cannot change anything. How could the Witch Academy possibly give up this stepping stone of the Blood Slave Academy?”
“Let’s hear it; the Wizards don’t have the opportunity to deploy such countermeasures. It must be the backup plans that were already in place within the Blood Slave Academy, right?”
“The Blood Slave Academy is a huge blood transfer factory; even the Extraordinary Mentors are tutors rotated from the Blood Academy. What backup plan could such a place have?” The Holy Angel frowned and pressed for answers.
“You are right in saying that the Blood Slave Academy is a massive blood transfer factory, but it’s also a bloody slaughterhouse! On one hand, it needs to sacrifice all blood slaves to supply enormous blood energy when necessary; on the other hand… the Blood Slave Academy is the lifeblood of the Blood Clan. If they are truly invaded, they have the capital to sacrifice the invaders together!”
“Together sacrifice?!”
“The Blood Slave Academy itself is the core of a blood sacrifice ritual?”
Hearing the Wizard Apprentice speak this way, the others from the two academies immediately thought of a possibility.
“Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could there be a blood sacrifice ritual that covers the entire Extraordinary Academy? Do you know how large the Blood Slave Academy is? How much extraordinary energy is needed to activate such a ritual? The lag in ritual nodes…”
“What do you think we are waiting for?” The Wizard interrupted the Holy Angel’s words, “The Blood Slave Academy has probably already been shrouded by blood mist.”
“Blood mist? The ritual has already been activated?”
“….ha…” The Wizard glanced at the nearby birdmen, merely letting out a light laugh, prompting them to understand on their own.
Indeed, initiating the blood sacrifice ritual within the Blood Slave Academy was challenging, especially with the absence of extraordinary intervention.
However, the blood slaves driven into slaughter within the academy had set the groundwork as their blood soaked into the land.
Such an enormous blood sacrifice ritual, using the blood and soul material of blood slaves as the medium to initiate the ritual, would undoubtedly teach the members of the Witch Academy a lesson!
It would be best if they all died there!
After all, the Witch Academy had instigated the Day Incident, and the Wizard Academy, as the only side not “affected,” had directly widened the gap between themselves and the other two factions. Though not openly stated, an alliance had already subtly emerged between the Elves and the Birdmen.
This meeting appeared to harbor the intention to watch the Wizard Academy make a fool of itself.
This meant they could not stand to see the Wizard Academy succeed.
The Wizard side naturally needed to maintain a semblance of surface harmony; the simplest method would be… to take revenge with the help of the Blood Slave Academy.
Certainly, the blood sacrifice ceremony could not achieve the unparalleled might of the Day Incident, but it could certainly kill those prospective witches.
“Everyone, currently the main forces of combat sequences one, two, and seven of the Witch Academy are still there, scrapping the foundations of the Blood Slave Academy while encircling it.
The Wizard Academy helped you take revenge for the Day Incident; can’t you feel this sincerity?”
The crowd looked at this representative from the Wizard Academy, and amidst shocked gazes, a hint of joy flashed.
Suddenly, what the Wizard Apprentices did did not seem so unacceptable.
Meanwhile.
Witch Academy.
Just moments ago, the unstable spatial passage between the Witch Academy and Blood Slave Academy had been cut off for unknown reasons.
Preliminary judgments suggested this should have been caused by spatial instability; there are many reasons for material spatial instability, possibly due to powerful energy fluctuations or some periodic interspatial movement.
Of course, it might also have been due to someone blocking the space.
However, now that the entire Blood Slave Academy had fallen into the hands of the Witch Union Society, no one could undertake such an action under their noses.
The Union Society did not overly concern itself with this, but kept communications with the other side at all times.
With the Knowledge Seed as assurance, they had never encountered a communication disruption, and they were quite confident in this.
However, before the spatial passage was severed, they also received feedback from the Blood Slave Academy.
Many individuals who had gone over had developed psychological problems due to the mass slaughter and needed counseling.
Some even directly applied to return.
Originally, this matter was not intended to be brought up at the Union Society’s meeting, but due to the special nature of this temporary application being too frequent, coupled with the Baking House representative Cleveland’s initiative to raise it, it was discussed in the meeting.
Cleveland attached importance to this matter because, initially, Teaching Assistant Xiao Han had mentioned the issues of combat sequence discipline and psychological counseling. Although that mention during the post-battle summary had been brushed off, Cleveland had noted it down.
The meeting was originally set to discuss the management issues of the Blood Slave Peninsula, but the families from the Peninsula reacted so intensely because the Witch Academy had disrupted their access to extraordinary materials from the Blood Clan, even though this access had always been disallowed by all extraordinary academies.
For extraordinary power, those families were still extremely uncooperative. Even after the Blood Slave Academy was torn down, they still believed that the Blood Clan Academy would not abandon them and would come back to rebuild the Blood Slave Academy.
The Union Society wanted to leverage these families’ thirst for extraordinary power to replace it through the Power Network.
This would promote the Wanlian Main Network Tree while also strengthening their control over local families.
After all, the families in that area couldn’t cross into the domain of the witches. There was territorial blockading between the two parties, and families didn’t have spatial passage abilities, which was just out of reach.
The Union Society intended to primarily curry favor with the families of the Blood Slave Academy.
Promoting this matter would face significant resistance, but before discussing it, they did not mind giving the representative of the Baking House a courtesy and briefly addressing the temporary application issue from the front-line combat sequence.
