Chapter 1034: Experiences of the King of Ancient Ice Remains
After the Ancient Ice Remains refused to become a demon, I did not insist, as I wouldn’t be so reckless while the world situation was not completely stable.
Of course, I also wanted to test the intentions of the Main World through this.
So far, it seems that the Main World does not expect me to do so.
Whether this is the will of the Main World or the intention of the Ancient Ice Remains itself, the result is the same.
After leaving the special laboratory for the Ancient Ice Remains, I planned to take it to experience the features of the Main World.
However, before that…
“Regardless, your consciousness was born from my hand, and now it seems you still don’t have a name that belongs to you… A name belongs to the romance of life; naming is also a small ritual that reflects one’s existence. Do you have the idea of naming yourself?”
“No, a name…” The King of Ancient Ice Remains understood from its kind that a name is more of a code for a title.
As for life romance and rituals… it had never heard of them.
However, it still placed sincere importance on the concept of rituals.
“If I had to have a name, I would call myself… Ning.”
“Ning? Does it have a deeper meaning?”
“No, it’s just a reflection because the Ancient Ice Remains clan originates from elementally condensed ice.”
“Ning forcibly explained one sentence.”
“Just one character… how about calling it Condensed Ice?”
“That’s fine by me.”
“Then forget it, I’m not good at naming; calling you Ning is more meaningful than anything I would come up with, so I’ll just call you Ning.” In the end, I shook my head and did not adopt my own suggestion.
After a simple conversation, we confirmed its name.
I didn’t know much about the naming of the Ancient Ice Remains, except for that one who followed Tan Jun, who seemed to be called… Lie?
Since they are all single-character names, I felt I shouldn’t disturb their tradition.
Just as I was about to take Ning to Ninglan New City in the Expanding Realm for a walk, it refused.
Ning expressed that the world it was in at the moment gave it a sense of dissonance, and it wanted to follow its instincts to go to a place where it felt more comfortable.
Then… it directly crossed from the Expanding Realm to the Core Realm!
Without using any great magic or any spatial means, it arrived in the Core Realm so effortlessly!
In shock, I quickly followed.
But my heart was filled with emotions.
The fearless World Guardian—though I couldn’t fully understand that way of traveling, I could discern it was related to the Main World’s earth veins.
And the earth veins of the Main World were indeed a blind spot in my understanding.
I could only obtain information flowing beneath the earth veins, yet even that was quite difficult to trace due to the World Guardians’ instinctual control over the earth veins!
—Upon reaching the Core Realm, Ning and I appeared in the Witch Academy.
However, this was not a heavily trafficked area, and the sudden appearance of the two figures was not too intrusive.
After arriving here, the massive body of the Ancient Ice Remains gradually shrank until it was nearly the height of an ordinary person.
Then… its crystalline form transformed with a touch of melancholy into the shape of a young girl, and at this moment… hmm, it turned out that she had learned to have long white hair just like mine.
“What is this?” I hurriedly asked.
The Ancient Ice Remains hadn’t learned any spells from me, nor had I left her any memories or legacies.
Even for a simple illusion spell or transformation technique, without understanding the framework of spells, the fundamental principles, and the runes, it would be impossible to learn autonomously!
However, I could see that the way the Ancient Ice Remains had turned into a girl was just a simple “trick,” entirely exposed before my Spirit Vision.
“My original form is probably very difficult to blend into this world, right?” Ning commented.
“No… I mean, how did you do it?”
“I’m not sure; it’s just instinctive… I seem to be able to take this form, but I can only take this form. My essence hasn’t changed; I am still the Ancient Ice Remains.”
“Talent transformation? Or is it… the bond between the World Guardian and the fated races?” I muttered to myself, leaning toward the latter.
But it’s merely a little trick.
I must say, what Ning did really saved me a lot of trouble.
Otherwise, the original form of the Ancient Ice Remains would certainly attract a crowd if it wandered through the Witch Academy.
“Perhaps… can you tell me where this is?”
“This is the Core Realm of the Main World; where you were just now was the Expanding Realm.”
“I feel like the place I’m in still has a layer of spatial folding… it was the same in the Expanding Realm.”
You are not mistaken; the Witch Academy is built on a city called the Magic Capital. The space we are in is the Witch Academy; the Expanding Realm is similar, but in the Expanding Realm, we were outside the academy while here we are inside.
What a complicated structure…
I agree, but it’s something to get used to. Of course, I also hope you don’t run around. The area outside the Witch Academy is the Magic Capital, where ordinary people live. If your original form appears, it would frighten those ordinary people.
I will be careful.
Hey! By the way, I also don’t suggest you leave the territory radiated by the Witch Academy.
Why? A curious question.
Because beyond the Witch World are the territories of other extraordinary races. If they capture you, they won’t treat you the way I do.
Oh.
Ning nodded, seemingly understanding yet not fully grasping the severity of the dangers I spoke of.
After some thoughts, I took out a seed.
Here’s a present for you; it’s called the Knowledge Seed. It can help you understand many things, remember many things, and also maintain contact with me at any time. This connection can even transcend distances between worlds.”
“Thank you, how do I use this?”
“Just insert it into the Sea of Consciousness from the middle of your forehead,” I explained.
The current version of the Great Knowledge Seed has already turned into a fully automated mode, and even the Knowledge Seed has instantly become part of that “fully automatic” system, including the opening of the Sea of Consciousness and the initial stages of the Knowledge Seed’s budding process.
Before long, Ning had already got the hang of the Great Knowledge Seed and showed great interest in it.
However, while simply teaching Ning about the Great Knowledge Seed, I realized that I had blocked communication during the period, and it seemed something significant had occurred.
The consciousness nurturing experiment was crucial for me, and with so many of the witches collaborating, I couldn’t afford to ignore it.
For this reason, I blocked all news related to the Union Society and the academy’s battles to avoid igniting my curiosity and scattering my energy and focus.
Now, with the revival of the Ancient Ice Remains and the results of the experiment, I unblocked the messages and discovered that Cleveland had sent me many updates.
Not just Cleveland; Tan Jun, Shi Ruizhi, and many others from the Baking House had messaged me too.
Even though I don’t have many friends, it was overwhelming to catch up on everything at once.
However, after carefully reviewing everything, I understood that what they were all referring to pointed towards one matter.
The blood sacrifice massacre on Blood Slave Peninsula!
Our Witch Academy Union Society, members from the No. 7 Operations Sequence, and main combat members from Operations Sequences One and Two were ambushed by the Blood Slave Academy.
A vast bloody ritual of considerable scale covered an entire extraordinary academy, initiated by an unknown means.
At night, most students, unaware of what was happening, were transformed into blood mist and integrated into the core of the ritual under its strangling effect.
Such a terrifying method, with a level of cruelty comparable to the flesh-eating of Abyss Demons!
This is a revenge!
Seeing the students of the Witch Academy being easily slaughtered, accumulating flesh and mangling souls, their very resurrection became a fantasy!
“What happened? You looked a bit scared just now.” At this moment, Ning looked at me, shocked by the killing intent that had unintentionally leaked from me.
However, this killing intent was not directed at her, which is why she asked.
“I’m sorry; I might have lost my composure just now. I saw some bad news.” I quickly collected my mood; after all, I’m an emotional body cultivator.
But that doesn’t mean I could just let this matter pass. There’s no longer a difference between who’s right and who’s wrong; I won’t use any grand principles to ponder my emotions.
There’s no need to explain right or wrong; weakness is also a crime!
I checked the time; it was just not long ago when Cleveland sent me the message…
Meaning that this matter hasn’t happened for long.
“Would it be convenient to tell me exactly what happened?” Ning also revealed her curiosity beyond her concern.
“Our Witch Academy’s three major operational sequences were ambushed by other extraordinary academies outside the academy, and the preliminary estimates of casualties could reach over a thousand…”
Among the operational sequences, my Zero Special Operations Sequence represents the Baking House and some scattered free members, amounting to about a hundred.
However, each of the other operational sequences represented a large community!
There are also many smaller communities collaborating.
Therefore, a single operational sequence has reached several hundred, nearly a thousand people!
And this does not include logistical personnel.
On Blood Slave Peninsula, the blood sacrifice ritual accounted for the massacre of about two and a half operational sequences from the Witch Academy; even if we estimate it conservatively, the number of casualties has reached over a thousand!
Moreover, when the temporary unstable spatial passage opened, the Witch Academy urgently dispatched a large number of logistical personnel. If those people also died…
The tragedy I created had not caused that many deaths!
Let alone on Blood Slave Peninsula, the residual effects of the blood sacrifice ritual covered most of the area; blood clouds and mists even overflowed into other regions.
Based on effective lethality estimates, it likely covered a third of the peninsula. Those ordinary people faced this unreasonable and tyrannical blood sacrifice, with no ability to resist!
Such a terrifying bloody massacre made me frown even just looking at it.
If I were the one to kill, I would at least not let these people suffer so much.
Or rather, if possible, I wouldn’t want to push so many ordinary people into it.
For some reason, witnessing this blood sacrifice suddenly reminded me of the collapse of the underground city at the side of the Bedeaniss Reclamation Area in the Game World, just to kill me…
Not treating people as people.
If we’re talking about being cold-blooded… it’s still about the wizards.
The Blood Fiend Academy represents the Blood Clan, and behind them is the Wizard Academy!
I don’t believe the Blood Fiend Academy could carry out such things, so the mastermind must be someone else.
My instinct told me it was certainly the wizards!
“I’m sorry… I may have to accompany you for the afternoon, but don’t worry, I’ll send another life body to help you witness the scenery of the Main World. I personally have some matters to attend to.” I looked at Ning with a bit of apologetic expression.
Ning’s existence was very important; even when I had matters to deal with, I had to have another life body help look after her.
Because it was the agent of the consciousness of the Main World, it was likely that it would become the “medium” through which our Witch Academy communicates with the Main World next.
“Another life body?” Ning was a bit surprised but eventually shook her head, “It’s still unnecessary to go through so much trouble. Can I follow you? Just to see the world.”
“…… You can, but if you follow me, then the Main World you see will be my perspective, which isn’t necessarily a good experience.”
“But this is still the Main World; I definitely don’t need to only see those drab and boring beauties.”
“Hehe~ Why would you say something is boring when you haven’t even experienced the beauty?”
“… I, I don’t know.” Ning was slightly stunned, unsure of the situation. “It feels like some sort of instinct…”
“I understand; you don’t need to explain.” I waved my hand with a smile, not minding too much.
Of course, here is the OCR result of the text in your image:
This most likely relates to the will of the Main World.
The Main World is currently in dire straits, with no thoughts of enjoying the superficial beauty.
I sent a message to Cleveland, preparing to inquire about the situation in person.
Meanwhile, Ning assumed a default position beside me.
Before long, she proactively spoke, “Tell me about the situation in the Main World. Is it very chaotic? Is it true that over a thousand people have died…”
“You care, or are you just curious for the sake of gossip?”
“It should be your gossip I’m interested in; I really need to understand what has happened in the Main World.”
After all, she hadn’t learned much about the Core Realm’s knowledge while in the Expanding Realm.
However, now that she was in the Core Realm, just after a short while, she had only roughly understood some things within the Witch Academy and comprehended the broader concept of the extraordinary Witch Academy.
But she was still clueless about everything outside the Witch Academy.
Since this “Little Witch” in front of me said that the area beyond the Witch Academy was very dangerous, at the very least, she needed to know what extent that danger reached.
“Then I’ll take this opportunity to talk to you. The place we are in is called the Witch Academy, and outside the Witch Academy are many extraordinary academies, among which three top academies lead the way…”