**Chapter 876: Not Resigning to Mediocrity is Not What the Betraying Witch Represents**
“I also find it suspicious. A club might not have the qualifications to meddle in something of this level, unless… it’s sanctioned by the academy…”
“The academy’s involvement…” This is indeed a possibility, but I can’t think of why.
Taking out this secret and handing it over to a club for handling.
“Well, currently the Witch Secret Society has joined forces with the All-Purpose Workshop to jointly undertake a secret exploration plan, and this plan has even been publicized. Anyone holding a fragment of **Extraordinary Knowledge** can use it as a ticket to enter this secret.”
Just as I was pondering, Tan Jun broke this news.
“Ah? Is this real?” I widened my eyes in surprise. I hadn’t even obtained any related information through the Great Knowledge Tree!
“It’s true. This time they laid everything on the table in front of me, seeking cooperation, and it’s very obvious—they want to leverage the research materials of this Great Spellbook to forcibly gather all holders of **Extraordinary Knowledge** fragments together.”
“Wait… on what basis do they think they can attract all the holders to listen to their arrangements just by relying on this information? I frowned and asked.
“Isn’t this research material valuable enough? If one masters this material and gathers all the fragments, they might be able to reconstruct this Great Spellbook. Even if reconstruction is impossible, this material provides a research direction, saving a lot of time. Moreover, the ones attracted might not just be those students, but their mentors behind them! Only the mentors have the qualification to access the power of the Great Spellbook.”
“No… wait, let me sort this out first.” I quickly interjected.
Tan Jun’s account was full of peculiarities and contradictions; I cannot deny that this might be a misunderstanding on her part.
And the main point is, I am very clear that those from other academies avoid this **Extraordinary Knowledge**!
Let alone the knowledge and materials related to reconstructing the Great Spellbook.
These matters near fortune are something they don’t want to touch at all.
Moreover, this is a bait actively cast by the Witch Academy.
It’s hard not to make them recall the witches’ plans to use this to locate the world’s veins.
“What’s wrong?” Tan Jun seemed a bit confused, merely feeling that I seemed to have misunderstood something.
“This secret exploration, is it under the academy’s name, or the students’ group?”
“It’s jointly hosted by two major societies of the Witch Academy, so naturally, it has nothing to do with the academy.”
“Then… what about the location? The location is at the Witch Academy, right?” I said.
If this is just a simple student action, then this incident is actually no different from the store manager’s previous action. No matter how large the incident is, it still happens within the Witch Academy and has nothing to do with other extraordinary academies, thus there’s no possibility of leaking the relationship between the world’s veins and fortune.
If those students gather the fragments, they could also trade directly with the game, while conveniently resolving this hidden danger.
Even if the Witch Academy wants to interfere, at most, it can only cut down some students at the Witch Academy; from the perspective of those extraordinary beings, they have no impact whatsoever.
They could also tag the Witch Academy as one that cannot play along.
“Of course, it’s in the Witch Academy. The Witch Secret Realm definitely needs to be maintained in the Witch Academy. Moving this secret realm is simply too much effort.”
“So you plan to go in?”
“Well, of course I plan to go in. In a few days, those societies will create hype, and if I don’t go in my current status, I don’t know how they will spin it.”
“That’s true. I wish you good luck. By the way… are there any restrictions for entering this Witch Secret Realm?”
“No, precisely because of this, I feel my advantages are quite significant. At least in terms of individual strength, I’m among the top tier.” Tan Jing was quite confident about this; after all, she had solidified this confidence through countless battles and victories in the arena. As she spoke, her tone shifted, “But I also know that I need to guard against their malicious targeting. Although they came to me for cooperation, I feel more malice behind it.”
“Indeed. By the way, I wanted to ask, do you have any insight into the general situation in that ‘Witch Secret Realm’? Also, can one enter and exit freely?”
“I have naturally inquired with them, but unfortunately, the situation of that ‘Secret Realm’ is quite special. It seems that the entire area is covered in snow and ice, with terrifying blizzards and ice monsters. The specifics inside cannot be known in advance, but the entry and exit issue has been confirmed—it’s a fixed point entry.”
“Fixed point entry… means one cannot leave. So can space spells be used to teleport out?”
“It seems so, since this is merely a secret realm created by cutting space.” Tan Jing pondered and said, “Xiao Han, you seem to be very detailed… you’re not interested in this, are you? I have absolute zero degrees and the Frozen World; if you just want it as a ticket, I could give you the Frozen World back…”
“No need, I’m not interested in this.” I rejected.
In fact, even if I were interested, I wouldn’t have the time and energy to mess around with something like this.
Sister Bai’s Dream Realm hasn’t been fully developed yet. Fool Dream hasn’t turned into real life. Dream Demon hasn’t completely transformed a perfected technique into Dream State Soul Material, and the conversion between reality state and dream state soul materials still has no clear path.
There are so many problems waiting for me to solve; how could I have the energy to pursue a broken Great Spellbook?
I could even deconstruct a Great Spellbook for the sake of En Dream!
Naturally, I didn’t want to value their petty tricks.
“I just hope you pay attention to your safety; any trump cards you have should be used. In the end, even if you call me for battle using my business card, it’s fine. I may not go, but my attacks can.”
“Business card…”
“What’s wrong?” I asked when I saw Tan Jun’s hesitance.
“You gave me that business card… I lost it.”
“Lost it?” I chuckled lightly, “Being forgetful doesn’t seem like your style, Tan Jun.”
As I spoke, I took out a business card; after all, it was just an alchemical trinket that could be created easily.
The important part is the summoning rune on it.
“This… was from a long time ago, during that holiday auction when a player invaded the auction house’s hotel. I lost it back then.”
“That time?”
I recalled that time; it was when Tan Jun summoned me to handle everything. At that time, my counteraction with the players in the custom instance realm exceeded their understanding.
The confrontation between realms was also something they could not bear.
After summoning me under such extreme conditions, Tan Jun probably lost the thought of keeping it and forgot everything that followed.
If it was lost back then… I could understand, but I don’t know who the lucky one who picked it up was.
“Are you going too?” Daniel looked at the departing figure, her tone filled with melancholy.
“This main world is so boring; it’s about time I go back to visit my two mothers. I hope they haven’t added a few more sisters to my family.”
“Then… contact the Primordial Dream World.”
“Yeah, actually… you should leave too. This main world is even more boring for you, why endure it here?”
“I just won’t resign to it! Do you resign to mediocrity?”
“Then you should go out and ask, rather than search here… Hehe~ pretend I didn’t say that.”
“You can go.”
“I’m leaving. Seems we’re not witches on the same path~ If it’s regarding the Primordial Dream World, then let’s meet again if fate allows.”
Hearing this, Daniel did not respond further to the other person, and this departure might mean they will never meet again.
She was somewhat confused; she was also an extraordinary witch. Why did the witches around her leave her one after another?
“Ah… it’s just the loneliness of one person. The path of the Betraying Witch is destined to be muddy. Those witches who resign to mediocrity truly do not deserve to be with me.”
Daniel comforted herself this way.
“As a witch, what makes you think that ordinary witches are unworthy of your company? Is it the Betrayer Witch Topic?”
“Who? Is it you…” Daniel was startled.
Then, she saw that figure, and the pressure it brought her made her instinctively take a half step back.
“So I say you really are juvenile, being unique and placing yourself in opposition to everyone’s sight—this is the Betrayer Witch Topic as you understand it?”
“What do you understand!” Daniel instinctively felt disgusted towards the witch in front of her.
It was as if the witch in front of her effortlessly possessed everything she pursued, and smugly flaunted it with an indifference that she could hardly bear. This stark contrast continuously provoked her emotions.
“Oh~ is that not it? Then… not resigning to mediocrity is what you consider the Betraying Witch? When you become the Betraying Witch, if you are also not resigning to mediocrity, then do you have to walk the path of the Betrayer Witch?”
“You really know how to place labels… do you think you are something great? You are merely someone with hundreds or thousands of years more of accumulation than I. When it comes down to it, you are just a lunatic who can only flaunt power, coincidentally killing a Betrayer and obtaining the title of Betraying Witch.”
“Hehe……. Hahaha, ha-ha… Upon hearing Daniel’s words, Sheryl laughed out loud without caring about her image.
Because she discovered she had overestimated the other’s understanding.
When Daniel stated the gap between them as merely being lucky enough to kill a Betrayer Witch, all arguments became meaningless.
Hunting a Betrayer Witch was merely a rite of passage to become a Betraying Witch, not the means for a witch to become a Betraying Witch!
Once a witch is prepared to become a Betraying Witch, everything she does is to practice the concepts of being a Betraying Witch.
The so-called title is merely a trivial recognition in the path of practicing such beliefs.
But… does the Betraying Witch need recognition?
Of course, among the Betraying Witch group, there are also those who first killed a Betrayer Witch before walking the path of the Betraying Witch.
However, killing a Betrayer Witch is not an honor; it is a reflection on the concept of the witch race and racial identity.
What exactly drives a witch onto the path of betrayal?”
Encouraging mistakes and continuing efforts!
Afterwards… resolving the hidden danger at minimal cost.
“What are you laughing at?”
“Haha… I’m laughing at your stupidity, laughing at your clumsiness. I’m laughing at myself for wasting time pointless on you.”
This was the truest expression of Sheryl’s heart at this moment, but clearly Daniel did not see it that way.
“You…”
“Are you only capable of impotent rage?!”
Sheryl switched her tone, and with merely the order pressure from the Holy Realm, she directly intimidated Daniel, making her clearly realize the gap between herself and the other.
This feeling of being forced to calm down is really uncomfortable.
“Perhaps you should know one thing by now? Not long ago, the academy announced breakthroughs in the Primordial Dream World, informing every witch.”
“But what you don’t know is… just how terrifying this skill breakthrough is. The dream disasters from the Expanding Realm, remember? This skill breakthrough has reached the level of being able to control this terrifying dream disaster.”
“This… it’s impossible!” Daniel’s pupils contracted. Even though she hadn’t witnessed such means firsthand, she had heard of the battle records of such means.
“Is that impossible? Then… let me tell you, the witch who mastered this art is named Bai Yu. Shouldn’t you find it even harder to believe?”
“Bai… Hua?”
“Yes, that Bai Hua, the little witch you know, whose body cultivation shaped her into an invincible figure with a sense of time.” Sheryl dug another wound into Daniel.
“Come on~ let me see, in contrast to such a witch, what kind of answer will an ordinary like you give?”
Sheryl constantly touched Daniel’s most vulnerable heart with the word “ordinary.”
That witch named Bai Hua was walking on the ordinary topic she looked down on the most but ultimately surpassed her “preparatory Betraying Witch,” which is highly dramatic.
Amidst the ongoing conflict of recognition, until… before she calms down, she will fall into endless self-doubt, and until she calms down, everything will have an answer.
Yang Yuelan
Today is Little Su’s birthday~
No matter which day you see this, you can wish me a happy birthday~
( *·ω·* )*
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