Chapter 1071: Strike, Targeting the Blood Clan Affiliated Academy!
When the massive warship crafted by Fa Mu took to the skies carrying the students of the Zero Special Operations Sequence, the news spread quickly. After all, such a significant disturbance could not go unnoticed; even with one-third of the Mosquito Slave Peninsula’s population affected, countless families shared this information far and wide.
Cleveland was among the first to learn of this, even before the Extraordinary Academies, followed by the Union Society.
Cleveland dared not question my intentions; instead, she immediately asked what I intended to do, assisted in my actions, and informed the other members of the Union Society.
At this moment, the main force of the Union Society was in Fudu Valley probing the Blood Clan and validating various countermeasures against the Fiery Demon Armament’s operational schemes.
Thus, the entire Union Society found my rash decision to be incomprehensible.
The stability of the Zero Operations Sequence relied on the Witch Academy’s control over the Mosquito Slave Peninsula. If they left, what would happen if the Peninsula fell into other hands?
Reclaiming it would likely entail significant sacrifices. Many contemplated this situation; after all, the first and second operations had faltered here, and psychological impacts had to be factored in.
However, it was evident I would not provide them with too much explanation. I only told Cleveland what I planned to do and how no one knew about the floating battleship, and after that, I said no more.
Additionally, I sent her the findings from the investigation into the massive facilities beneath the Mosquito Slave Peninsula, asking her to help spread the word about “what I discovered down there.”
The sudden emergency meeting of the Union Society left everyone dumbfounded.
Spell derivatives? Constructing a floating battleship?
They too had their own spells for summoning a basic floating battleship, but the answer was that… such spells existed, but they did not possess them.
If that’s what you wanted, they had some peculiar aerial vehicle summoning spells, like chariots pulled by flying horses or the more common airships; for anything specific, you had to derive spells yourself.
What?
You can’t even derive spells using a spellbook?
Then perhaps you should refrain from playing.
Ultimately, the meeting concluded with one answer: they could not stop the decision made by that Little Assistant Xiao Han.
What decision?
The decision to directly attack the Blood Clan Affiliated Academy.
In the past year, they haven’t even issued a formal declaration of war.
Of course, what they did not know was that the declaration of war was just being finalized on the floating battleship.
As the topic of the meeting gradually shifted from the initial agenda to the spell summoning of the floating battleship, everyone began to wonder.
Since that Teaching Assistant Xiao Han could achieve this, what about the geniuses from the Union Society and the Spell Research Society?
If we are talking about spell derivation, those members dedicated to spell research are undoubtedly among the top in the academy.
However, their response was: they did not know how that Teaching Assistant Xiao Han accomplished it, instead offering many guesses.
Yet, among these guesses, any potentiality was more difficult than recreating a floating battleship.
Re-creating a ship through spell derivation methods?
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
They could not imagine how that Teaching Assistant Xiao Han could possibly succeed in forming a floating battleship in such a short time.
However, one possibility was not considered: why could they not overcome these difficulties?
There are not many shortcuts in the world; every shortcut is a path paved by someone’s hard work, differing only in whether one is pioneering or following in the footsteps of predecessors.
Unlike the Union Society, other Extraordinary Academies were equally restless.
Because that aerial floating battleship did not belong to them, nor did its crew.
Based on calculations of the flight path and comparing it to geographical maps, they quickly figured out where this type of battleship was headed.
It was either directed towards the Blood Clan Affiliated Academy or the main academy of the Lord Blood Clan.
This was the source of their discomfort!
That person was not moving towards the battling Fudu Valley, a crucial passage for opening up the Witch Academy’s territory and the Mosquito Slave Peninsula!
Just the estimation of the destination revealed an ambition they all noticed, leaving them shaken.
Was the script from Dayrock Academy about to unfold again at the Blood Clan Academy?
They wanted to stop it but… the Little Witch was aboard that floating battleship!
At that moment, once the flight path was calculated, all flights along that route immediately altered their course. After all, if you couldn’t persuade the other party to change their path, you had to change your own.
But changing flight paths was just a minor issue.
The earlier tragedies of the Holy Angel Academy and the Afenner Academy were still fresh in memory; this time, with the blood sacrifices done in such a crazed manner, the Little Witch’s actions could be even more unrestrained!
Therefore, the option to send reinforcements was absolutely off the table, and they could only notify the Blood Clan of this “not-so-good news” as quickly as possible.
While all the Extraordinary Academies were shocked by how quickly this event unfolded, I was situated within the core bridge of the battleship.
With the complete control afforded by the Great Knowledge Tree’s power, operating the battleship had transformed into a “game” that I could handle solo.
Upon boarding the ship, Lin…
“Go confirm if all the combat sequence members are ready with their flying brooms; if any are broken, see if we can redistribute them. We will be performing an aerial drop, and if it can’t be resolved, two people can ride one or use flying spells,” I said.
Those eligible to join the combat sequence were not merely top-tier combatants; they at least had a wealth of experience.
Once the battleship entered a steady cruise, I no longer needed to worry about its forward movement.
Based on the current speed and the distance between the two points, we could arrive in as little as half an hour to an hour, and that was not even the battleship’s limit.
My slow approach showcased my absolute confidence, didn’t it?
Watching Lin Wan depart, I also gazed at the war declaration I had recently drafted. I suppose it was a continuation of my old tradition?
Unlike the formal declaration from Dayrock Academy, this declaration was also a contract.
The content was simple: declare war! Restraint! Compensation!
If it were to fail, I wouldn’t mind annihilating it like Dayrock Academy, but the Blood Clan Affiliated Academy was not something a small academy like Dayrock could compare to, nor could it be completely wiped out.
After all, this was an affiliated academy; as long as the main Blood Clan Academy stood, the affiliated academy could easily rise again. They did not possess a World Tree like the elves, so destroying the Blood Clan Affiliated Academy would hold little significance.
Ultimately, completely eliminating them or forcing them to sign a humiliating contract has the same effect in essence; the latter retains contractual obligations, which might offer more peace of mind.
At this moment, within the Wizard Academy.
In response to the witches’ Union Society, the major top academies had formed similar groups, but each academy had its unique style. For example, the Witch Academy was primarily student-driven, with clubs formed by students as the components of the academy, while the Wizard Academy was purely led by Extraordinary Wizards with divisions organized around the Wizard Towers.
While they had societies, none had the “same Wizard Tower” connections centered upon the extraordinary.
Thus, they replaced the wizard advancement system style with factional divisions among wizards.
Therefore, the unique alliance within the Wizard Academy could also be termed a faction coalition.
The Wizard Academy did not possess the information control system over earth veins like the Witch Academy, nor did they have the universal internet network to root systems; however, they did have wizard creations. These occult artifacts hidden in the skies, akin to satellites, scanned the airspace over the Mosquito Slave Peninsula with remarkable precision and easily locked onto the massive floating battleship hovering in the sky.
“Finally found it.”
Utilizing the temporary observation permissions granted by the superwizards of the Wizard Tower, members of the Wizard faction alliance finally located the massive battleship.
This aerial observation system was a gadget crafted by extraordinary wizards. They could leverage tremendous mental power to assist with the unit locking, but these students could not perform such absurd feats.
So they wasted quite a bit of time.
After informing the Blood Clan Academy of this message, they maintained an observation state, attentively monitoring the movements of the opposing party.
“At this speed, the witches will encounter the Blood Clan in the quickest half an hour. Time is running short for the Blood Clan.”
“All those witches left, and no one remained on the Mosquito Slave Peninsula?” one wizard questioned.
“What’s wrong? Do you want to reclaim the Mosquito Slave Peninsula for the Wizard Academy?” Another person seemed to recognize the weariness of the inquirer and scoffed.
“Ah… I’m not stupid. They’ve implanted the universal internet there; if we destroy it, who knows if that crazy witch will come to our Wizard Academy next.”
“But we could take this opportunity to complete the academy’s task of demolishing what’s beneath the Blood Slave Academy.”
“The academy’s directive was to reclaim the Mosquito Slave Peninsula! Why don’t you go execute it, huh?”
Just as a few of them seemed ready to argue, a female wizard apprentice suddenly stood up.
“Everyone quiet down! We’ve received news from the Witch Academy; that Yang Yuelan claims to have discovered the truth beneath the Blood Slave Academy.”
Upon these words, everyone present appeared bewildered.
“Where did you get this news from?” someone furrowed their brows and asked.
“From an announcement made by the Witch Academy’s Union Society. You could find it easily, but I don’t know what it signifies. However, this might lead to the academy letting this matter slide,” she responded.
Everyone understood there was some secret under the Blood Slave Academy that they were unaware of, but unfortunately, they could not intervene.
The last wizard apprentice to propose the blood sacrifice ritual that harmed the Witch Academy had been taken away angrily by his wizard mentor to become an experimental subject.
Aside from knowing that person was better off dead, they could not dig into what had transpired.
Most of the other wizard apprentices who led the blood sacrifice ritual had been dealt with by the mentors.
However, it did not appear to be capitulating to the Witch Academy; rather, it felt more like… they had done something they shouldn’t have.
“Alright, the relationship between the Blood Clan Academy and us wizards is on an institutional level. We are not allies with those Blood Clan; can’t you all just enjoy the show here?”
“Don’t you have the slightest sense of crisis? Just watching?”
“Then my dear Wizard Herbert, what can we do now… attack the witches? Or maybe rally for them live?”
“Enough! Stop yelling! There’s movement on the screens.” At that moment, a voice curtailed the private grudges present.
Everyone looked towards the center of the image, on the deck of the witch warship’s top view.
A figure descended onto the upper deck at such high speed on the witch warship.
Her long silver hair was striking.
It was exactly the Little Witch they had been speaking of!
When she stepped forward, she did not make any unnecessary movements. She looked up directly at the sunlight, as if transcending the boundary of space and the picture, engaging them in a silent gaze.
All present instinctively felt a chill reaching from their tailbone to their brain!
“What… what is she going to do?” The first person to react subconsciously inquired.
Though no one answered him, his voice pulled everyone back from their shock to reality.
They were unclear about what the Little Witch intended, but they would soon find out.
Suddenly, that figure conjured a spell ceremony, and even when magnified to the maximum, they did not recognize the nature of this spell.
The students from the Witch Academy were the fierce rivals of the three major magical academies; they were very familiar with witches’ spells. Spellbooks were indeed convenient, but the foundational spells they used could be broken down and analyzed, and the power of advanced spells could be attributed to which student held them.
However, this one before them was something they had never encountered.
Before long, they recognized that the spell ceremony summoned an enormous fire beast, emerging with blazing flames on the battleship’s deck!
As its wings unfolded, the massive shape, over a hundred meters long, streaked through the sky, leaving a trail of fire.
Without giving them much time to ponder, the colossal flaming eagle spread its wings and flew, disappearing from the battleship’s visual field in the blink of an eye.
That singular flame carved through the clouds, revealing the genuine void space ahead to everyone.
