Chapter 877: Ice Snow Throne Witch Secret Realm
“Ah~ Have you heard? It’s the new secret realm that just opened.”
“Ah~ That one, you know about it too? The Ice Snow Throne. It’s a pity I don’t have a ticket to enter.”
“Yeah… What a pity. That power is related to the Great Spellbook. If I could have that kind of power, I could be better than that legendary teaching assistant, Yang Yuelan.”
As information spread, the Witch Secret Realm Association began to gain momentum for this secret realm.
This news not only circulated on the academy’s network but also quickly reached other academies and families through family connections.
In light of this event, this dream exploration led by families from the Witch Academy has been jokingly referred to by many families as the academy’s compensation.
Of course, this was just a jest, a mock at the academy’s previous suppression of family influences.
However, the academy really didn’t care about these families.
But the fact remains that the Witch Academy handed over a secret realm for a club to handle completely, which naturally meant that other families had many matters to consider.
The meaning of “completely” is that the exploration, maintenance, and operation of this secret realm, along with the secondary design of the secret realm model, are all handed over to them.
They could even use the exploration of this secret realm as an excuse to promote communication between the Witch Academy and other academies.
If this were just an ordinary secret realm, the members of the Witch Secret Realm Association would absolutely not share it with other academies.
But when the academy side told them that this was an experimental secret realm made from the Great Ice Snow Throne… their thoughts changed.
Even if the academy stopped saying anything, they already understood a lot!
The families represented by the clubs within the Witch Academy were very clear that this fragment of the Great Ice Snow Throne was something other families desired madly, but… didn’t they want it too?
The power of the Great Spellbook!
Enough to rival the means of an Extraordinary Witch.
That little witch they cannot surpass possesses such power, standing at the pinnacle of the academy, recognized even by Extraordinary Witches, who are even willing to be close to her…
This is both what they spread out to shape the propaganda of the Great Spellbook’s power and a fact they are willing to believe!
However, with the spread of this information, there were also some other voices constantly questioning.
For example… Why is this property of the Witch Academy being offered to outsiders to share?
Or, why can only those holding fragments enter this secret realm? The secret realm itself has no threshold; isn’t the Witch Secret Realm Association creating a blockade?
But no matter how these negative messages spread, they couldn’t shake the implementation of this plan.
Because those in the association only care about who holds those fragments and will not do charity.
Before this cooperative exploration of the secret realm, the people from the Witch Secret Realm used this opportunity to enter and collect basic information in advance.
After all, this secret realm is already the association’s, and the urgent task now, after the cooperation, is to leverage the home field advantage to collect a lot of information.
This information is not only an early advantage for them but can also be exchanged for commodities of interests.
However, the results of the exploration between the Witch Secret Realm Association and the All-purpose Workshop were quite unsatisfactory.
Because this Witch Secret Realm is simply too vast to compare with the realms managed and maintained within the association.
Upon entering this secret realm, their first impression was that it was as enormous as when they first began exploring the Expanding Realm.
Moreover, the internal environment is extremely harsh, completely covered by blizzards.
Through personal experience and insights from their mentors, they learned that this environment… was created by a spell effect of the Great Ice Snow Throne Technique.
The blizzard covering the entire secret realm is merely a spell effect!
This deepened their understanding of the horror of the Great Spellbook.
Even if the spellbook is gone, its spell effects still exist… What power can rival such means?
None!
Nevertheless, lamentations aside, dreams aside.
But right now, they had to face a very real problem, which is that they must overcome this challenge to find what they want in this secret realm.
Although such blizzard power can be resisted under protection spells, no one can maintain a protection spell for several days or even half a month.
Plus, the extremely low temperatures and the obscuring blizzard visibility are also major issues.
They need warming spells or alchemical gear to keep warm and must maintain detection spells throughout, or they risk losing direction.
Even general spell effects are masked by suppressed effects within…
If it were just like this, it would not pose an obstacle to exploration. More importantly, the ice and snow creations in this secret realm… could all potentially turn into living beings that attack outsiders!
In other words, here, they must be vigilant at all times, and they could easily fall into combat.
So, to explore this secret realm, they need to be strong enough and have a team to advance together.
During this time, students who participated in the Self-Generated Magic Power experiments received olive branches from those clubs seeking cooperation.
After all, as long as they have enough magic power, they basically won’t be hindered by those small issues within the secret realm.
While these clubs are busy exploring and promoting, there are also many problems on the Witch Academy side that need resolution.
Firstly, the continuous departure of witches during this time has caused a gap in the dynamic balance of extraordinary numbers in the main world.
This also means that the main world might attempt to recruit witches during non-cycle transitions.
With Bai Hua successfully mastering the conceptual forms of the Dream Realm, this has led to the emergence of body techniques practice among the extraordinary levels within the Witch Academy, intending to go down the body cultivation path.
This trend was brought about by those researching the Primordial Dream regarding the Scholarly Witches, as they witnessed Bai Hua’s success! Naturally, they were eager for it.
As for the other uninformed witches, they were simply following the trend.
Additionally, Principal Mei’s encouragement has caused body cultivation to gradually warm up among the witch community.
Although many witches don’t know exactly what’s happening, a large group of witches studying part-time means that following the trend is just right.
Multiple strengths for witches are not necessarily a bad thing, are they?
Thus, the Witch Academy plans to focus on hiring witches with body cultivation expertise as they recruit mentors, preferably those specializing in Five Senses Body Cultivation or awakening the sixth sense through body cultivation.
And all of this is, of course, obvious in purpose.
They need numerous successful cases to pave the way for the power system of the Dream Realm!
In fact, Principal Mei originally thought about bringing Xiaoliu directly to that Primordial Witch.
But a certain little witch was unwilling.
Then Mei Linde sought Bai Yu, but Bai Yu also did not want to leave, expressing that she wanted to accompany Xiaoliu during her promotion to extraordinary.
In the end, she could only report this matter to the Primordial Witch in another format.
And she plans to replicate this miracle once again; after all, this power serves as the trump card for the main world’s Witch Academy, and the more, the better.
She knows that although it is hard to find body cultivation witches starting from the sixth sense in the main world, it is relatively easy to find such witches outside of the main world, and whether they can come here or are willing to do so is another matter.
…
“Finally found you; you were hard to locate~”
“Huh? I turned to look at the witch named Sheryl, a sense of vigilance rising in my heart.”
But thinking that I am currently a clone, “Moon,” I quickly relaxed.
One clone, what’s there to fear?
Even if this betraying witch has many schemes, could she still figure out my location and harm me?
You have to know that my true body is over in the Experiment Zone.
The barrier there is something that even this betraying witch cannot do anything about.
After all, although her strength surpasses even that of the academy head, it does not mean she can run amok in the Witch Academy.
Not every obstacle can be destroyed through brute force, for example… mathematical problems.
The realm of the extraordinary has many “unsolvable” means comparable to mathematical problems; if you don’t understand, then you truly don’t understand.
That obstacle, once struck hard, will be trapped in the Space Maze, using extraordinary means to construct a property akin to rules, which is high-end extraordinary skill.
Even if you destroy the maze to escape, attempting to break the barrier will still send you back into the Space Maze.
Although this obstacle has many flaws, such as being immobile, unable to actively counter enemies, and unable to construct in a short time, in specific places, it is nearly “invincible.”
“Is something the matter, Sister Sheryl?”
After experiencing the earlier events in the Primordial Dream, I gradually became more comfortable with this betraying witch.
I acknowledge her power, but now she is unable to exert the same pressure on me in terms of aura, identity, and mystery.
“Oh? You actually want to call me sister? I’m quite happy~” Sheryl seemed delighted upon hearing my address. Back then, I too used to call her “sister,” but I hadn’t referred to her that way for a while.
“So… what is Sister Sheryl looking for me about? I repeated my question.”
“Don’t rush into the subject so fast~ How about we just chat? I’ll accompany you for a walk; after all, this is just your clone, so you should be free, right?”
“Alright…”
Honestly, my clone is not busy at all.
The clone’s role resembles an ordinary person’s, attending the Witch Academy, experiencing an ordinary life, and occasionally even attending public courses, trying out the learning process.
In the end, I discovered that I found normal classroom education quite exhausting.
Because this teaching method doesn’t suit me; this classroom-style education feels more like injecting a concept into someone else’s brain, and I need to convert their viewpoints into a way I can understand for effective learning.
As expected~ My choice to exempt myself from classes back then was indeed correct. Self-motivated learning and active thinking is the best position for studying.
Now, I am just having a conversation with Sheryl, saying a little here and there.
With Heart Sense, I can faintly feel Sheryl’s expectation to use this approach to close the distance between us.
I have to say, I’m not buying it, and I don’t really enjoy communicating with others.
Others focus on emotional and cognitive connection, while my communication revolves more around misunderstandings and oversights in discourse.
So over a longer period, the interaction doesn’t bridge the relationship; it even induces annoyance and dullness.
No one can cultivate derived emotions and resonance from something they dislike.
Little Tang really doesn’t care for me, does she? Sheryl naturally realizes that this ongoing conversation hasn’t bridged our connection, leaving her somewhat disappointed.
At times, betraying witches are like this; they are more candid than any witch because they have no friends outside of their path as betraying witches.
“Well, sort of, but I actually don’t enjoy chatting with others much and am not very good at interacting with them.”
“Is that so? You seem quite similar to me. I think I’ve told you… you seem fit to be a betraying witch, right?”
“But I don’t want to be one right now.”
“Just joking! Even if you wanted to, calling yourself a betraying witch wouldn’t make you one.”
“That’s good.”
“Mm mm~ I can feel that what you’re saying now flows more naturally than before. Has anyone told you that your replies are filled with spontaneity and humor?”
“Maybe? If you really have run out of topics to discuss… we can actually choose to part ways.”
“Our topic hasn’t even entered the main point, and you’re already thinking of wrapping it up?”
“You mean we haven’t gotten to the main point yet? I should have known better than to ask.”
“I’ll take that as a joke,” Sheryl chuckled lightly, not taking the matter too seriously. “Are we at the Witch Cat Café again? Want to go in for a drink? I remember those cute Fool Dreams seem to be closely related to you~ I wonder if you’d get any discounts if you went?”
“No discounts, but… Teacher Deina gave me a Golden Cat Card.”
“You also have a Golden Cat Card?”
“Also?”
“Ahem~ Never mind, a friend of mine has a Golden Cat Card from Deina too. Mind treating me to a drink?”
“Alright… I don’t mind.”
“Then let’s go~ The Witch Cat Café, you know? Places like the Witch Cat Café exist wherever witches gather, not just in the main world but also in other worlds where witches reside. It has become a symbol of witches and a manifestation of witches’ love for cats.”
“Of course~ The Witch Cat Café has another meaning for witches.”
“What does that mean? I asked curiously.”
“That is a reflection of witches’ open-mindedness; as long as you come here and press the cat paw stamp, the unknown, anticipation, surprise, and curiosity let every Guest Catgirl have a relaxed attitude of ‘if you feel like it, do it; if not, just sit.’”
“Stop…”
“Alright~ Actually, I’ve only heard about this rumor. I know you, Xiaohan, have a girlfriend~ We’re coming here for a legitimate Witch Cat Café, so we’re just sitting; I’ve heard this special Witch Cat Café… is actually on the Street of Elegance in your academy~”
