Chapter 784: Go Witness a Fun Event?
When the Witch Academy decided to implement a teaching method based on the Power Network, the circulation of spellbooks within the academy began to decline significantly.
If Tan Han doesn’t want to return to her Ancient Ice Transformation Technique, it will become increasingly difficult for her to obtain an Excessive Consumption Spellbook as time goes on.
However, this raises another question for me.
“I remember that the store manager has an Excessive Consumption Spellbook in the small treasury, right?” I asked.
“Indeed…” Tan Han quickly understood what I wanted to ask upon hearing this, “I know what you want to say; I haven’t thickened my skin to that extent. The store manager has offered it to me before, but I declined, at least not under those circumstances…”
“Heh heh~ Do you know?” I chuckled softly, interrupting Tan Han, “My teacher, Teacher Ji, used your example to educate me to not be so thin-skinned. She even said that if you had the chance, you would even ask the academy for the Universal Spellbook.”
“This… that was just youthful recklessness from back then.” Tan Han slightly bit her lip, looking a bit embarrassed, showing that she might have indeed done such a thing back then.
Perhaps that confident Tan Han really felt she deserved that kind of power.
Is this a regression?
I’m not sure; perhaps recognizing oneself and positioning rightly is also a form of self-improvement for her.
From enrollment to now, Tan Han’s clearly visible smoothing of edges is indeed a kind of helplessness.
“I’m just joking; those are all past events. Since you want to persist in mastering the true strength that belongs to you, casting aside so-called charity and holding onto your inner bottom line, then trying some new things is very necessary. The Witch Academy is not just a place with Magic Sources and Spellbooks; there are many other things. My suggestion is merely a suggestion.”
“You just said I need to do this thing…”
“That was from my perspective; of course, I hope everyone does things my way, but that’s impossible.” I shrugged.
“Then do you have any recommendations? I actually saw that a course on Body Transformation Spells has recently appeared on the course selection; this matter is undoubtedly related to you, right?”
“Well… it is indeed related to me. As for recommendations… if it were before, I would have unhesitatingly recommended Sister Bai’s course to you, but recently… Sister Bai might be a bit busy. I can suggest other instructors’ courses; they are pioneers in Body Transformation Techniques and helped refine the Demon Transformation Ceremony Dance.”
Based on my impressions, I recommended those few witch sisters to Tan Han. For those extraordinary witches devoted to Body Technique cultivation, Body Transformation Spells don’t enhance their strength but enrich their means and broaden their inspiration. They are still persistent and continue experimenting with Body Transformation Spells, but purely out of love for new things; they cannot keep doing so forever.
After all, they have their own paths.
I believe that given their pace, the development of Body Techniques related to Body Transformation Spells might match the application level of the Excessive Consumption Spellbook.
After all, those are extraordinary witches. Even without advancing to the Holy Realm, the Magic Sources of extraordinary witches can accumulate to a maximum limit of one hundred million units.
Perhaps a casually thrown spell starts at the strength level of the Universal Spellbook.
However, constrained by significant weakening techniques, its power might be heavily restricted.
But no matter how much it is restricted, the means provided by Body Techniques aren’t significantly weaker than spells.
“In summary… thank you. So, do I still need to come to this laboratory next?”
“You don’t need to come for a while; you can take this time to calmly engage with things you like. However, I won’t restrict you from coming; Yi Rui and the others also consider you a friend and you can talk to them about experiences related to Self-Generated Magic. If you have the skill to get them to teach you how to carry out Spell Derivation, that’s also your ability.”
“Spell Derivation…” This topic she naturally had discussed before.
According to Senior Yi Rui, before she boarded Xiao Han’s ship, she dedicated herself to research and experiments related to spell derivation.
“I understand.”
Spell Derivation truly is a remarkable ability that requires a strong foundational knowledge of magic to achieve such levels.
In fact, this spell derivation can turn a spellbook that consumes over a hundred points into a much more powerful Excessive Consumption Spellbook!
A considerable part of the Excessive Consumption Spellbooks circulating in the academy came about this way; it’s also a secret within the Witch Academy.
Because she enjoys discussing these topics with Yi Rui and the others, she more clearly understood that spells are not merely about consuming more energy to gain greater power; there lies an issue of how spell architecture utilizes energy.
For example, the simplest case is… the Excessive Consumption Spellbook of the Rain of Fire domain that Xiao Han possesses.
Its spell prototype is the basic type of Energy Manipulation spell called Rain of Fire, and in principle, it cannot compete with her previously possessed Ancient Ice Transformation Technique.
The Ancient Ice’s prototype is the “ice and snow creature” known as Ancient Ice, and in terms of spell ranking, Ancient Ice is quite powerful. However, she has never truly made good use of that spellbook.
After these unrealistic fantasies ended, Tan Han left the laboratory.
Before leaving, she took away a test version of the Self-Generated Magic enhancement ritual from me.
This was a ritual I summarized after trying to refine Self-Generated Magic.
It’s not guaranteed to be accurate; it’s only for testing purposes.
If it has no effect after trying, then Tan Han should decisively give up on it.
I will keep in touch with Tan Han in the following period, and the “enhancement ritual” will be iteratively updated; Tan Han is responsible for trying it out and providing me with feedback on the effects.
Naturally, such matters won’t waste Tan Han’s time, keeping her stuck in the laboratory.
Tan Han has her own life, but I’m different; I can treat the laboratory as a home.
“Sister Xiao Han~ Did Tan Han leave just now?” Once I came out of this experimental cubicle, someone asked.
After all, Tan Han left before me.
“Yeah, I found some tasks for Tan Han to do; after all, she is not the same type as us in the laboratory, and keeping her here would just waste her time,” I explained.
“Sister Xiao Han, are you a master of time management? Actually, it’s not impossible for Little Tan to stay and chat with us~”
“If you want Tan Han to come, I can just call her over, but she also has her own arrangements and plans. School has started after all, and you all know my pace; it won’t be fast.”
“Okay~”
“Do we need to help?”
“Of course! The resonance limit of the Magic Source in the Demon Transformation Transmutation Technique can continue. After successfully shaping Self-Generated Magic within ten thousand units, there are no more limits; to continuously enhance Self-Generated Magic, the required quantity may be very high, in the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands… just hearing that number feels ridiculous.”
“Speaking of which, these numbers should sound spectacular, right? Isn’t there a capacity limit for Self-Generated Magic?” someone asked.
“Of course, there is! Perhaps before becoming extraordinary, the limit is below one hundred million units. The one hundred million threshold involves another realm beyond the extraordinary, so we don’t need to worry too much,” I explained.
“One hundred million! The entire Witch Academy combined probably can’t add up to that much!” Upon hearing my words, someone exclaimed in surprise.
“Impossible! Who knows, perhaps we only need a single academy head to reach that number? That’s an extraordinary witch!” someone countered.
“Ah, that certainly doesn’t count the instructors. As for the students… hmmm… including the quantities hoarded by those clubs, it’s really hard to say.”
This group began an intense discussion about the upper limit of one hundred million Magic Sources. In fact, they had previously had some understanding of related issues, but it wasn’t much. Now, with this brought up, many had their own thoughts.
After all, that’s… one hundred million Magic Sources!
Just thinking about having tens of millions of Magic Sources before becoming extraordinary seems terrifying!
Then, this topic gradually shifted to how to promote Self-Generated Magic techniques within the academy, and along with the popularization of techniques for condensing Magic Sources, the value of Magic Sources would significantly decrease.
Its cost would approach the value of the time consumed for its condensation indefinitely.
Of course, this is only in an ideal state; the Witch Academy definitely won’t allow Magic Sources to flood outside.
Anything related to the extraordinary can’t circulate outside. Even the so-called ten-year graduation requires signing a Witch Contract.
The main purpose is to prevent the extraordinary from flowing into the outside world. The Witch Academy, or rather, various extraordinary academies, maintain a standing task to combat the smuggling of extraordinary materials.
If a student does not want to continue aiming to become a witch after graduation and does not stay in the school, they can sell all the resources they have, including but not limited to Magic Sources, Spellbooks, etc., and lead a carefree life as an ordinary person.
The most convenient place to handle these resources is the “Black Market Street” under the All-purpose Association.
Of course, they can also directly contact the academy for paid buybacks or free returns.
After chatting a bit, I also said a brief goodbye to them.
For me, the laboratory is just a formal research site, but not the only one.
Moreover, I still need to go back to find Sister Bai!
After leaving the experimental area, I immediately teleported into my Instance Realm.
“Xiao Han~ You’re back?”
As soon as I returned, Sister Bai immediately noticed my arrival.
“Of course~” I nodded happily as I approached Sister Bai.
Although I had spent these days in the laboratory, I still made time to return.
Now the lakeside island had already revealed approximately its outline, and the surrounding planned flower beds were planted with ornamental plants and grass seeds, after all, these plants can’t just sit there.
“Are we continuing today?” Sister Bai glanced at the house; thanks to the spells’ enhancement, building the house was as easy as stacking blocks, while the most troublesome part became the processing of materials and the enhancement of runes.
This house should be finished in a few days, so Sister Bai and I weren’t in a rush.
“Sister Bai, no need to hurry~ I currently have something time-sensitive that I want to do; would you be willing to accompany me?” I shook my head and said.
“A time-sensitive matter? What could attract your interest, Little Han? The academy shouldn’t have any major moves recently, or did some witch approach you?” Sister Bai became interested in my request upon hearing it.
The house can be finished anytime; if it weren’t for wanting to work with Little Han, she could have completed it with a wave of her hand.
Don’t underestimate the mental power, multi-thread manipulation ability, and creative capacity of an extraordinary witch!
Moreover, she is also a practitioner of the Holy Realm of Sense of Time.
Time?
That concept is merely a plaything of subjective cognition.
“Oh, that’s not it! Remember my clones? The very special clone.” I reminded her.
“Very special clone…” Sister Bai thought for a moment and quickly figured out which one I meant, “The game player clone you attempted to take the game account from?”
“Yes! That’s the one!” I nodded affirmatively.
“Did something happen with the game world again?”
“The game world seems to be fairly calm; it’s just getting closer to various extraordinary academies. Unfortunately, my clone didn’t manage to get involved in the school enrollment process, so I can’t see what it’s like inside other extraordinary academies,” I said with a bit of regret.
That player clone is weak, and it has few friends, so obtaining information is quite limited.
However, I did learn recently that those players seem to have not given up on collecting the Fragment of Extraordinary Knowledge belonging to Tan Han, which they referred to as the Technology Core; the allure is indeed considerable.
“So, did that clone encounter any problems?” Sister Bai continued to inquire.
“It hasn’t run into any unexpected issues; lately, that clone wandered to areas influenced by the Wizard Academy, mainly wanting to check out what the rift from the Horasso Swamp to the Expanding Realm looks like in the Core Realm.”
“And then?”
“Then I met someone there… um, I guess I should say a familiar person, it’s Aipuli.”
“Who?”
“Uh… how to put it? An instructor, the one I mentioned to you, don’t you remember? She’s the assistant who fought against Tan Han. Her mentor is Witch Chris, and after that battle, it seems she left the school directly,” I quickly explained.
“Are you interested in this person, Xiao Han?”
“Yes~ Although I haven’t directly interacted with Aipuli, I learned about her during that competition with Witch Chris. Objectively speaking, aside from the subjective influence Tan Han has on me, I actually have a pretty good impression of her. The only regret is that she hasn’t advanced to become an extraordinary witch. Being able to be taken as an assistant by Chris indicates she had the opportunity to become an extraordinary witch, but ultimately, based on the results, it seems she hasn’t crossed the constraints of the Earth Vein Shackles…” I said somewhat regretfully at the end.
“So… what do you want to do, Xiao Han?” Sister Bai, having listened to my long explanation, became curious about what I wanted to do.
“I want to seek some fun, or you could say resource repurposing… she betrayed her mentor and returned to her family, but she lost a Fragment of Extraordinary Knowledge. I want to see if, with my encouragement, she can overcome the Earth Vein Shackles and advance to become an extraordinary witch. If she can… I want to witness what the advancement to becoming an extraordinary witch is like!”
The more I spoke, the more excited I became. Instead of learning more, I want to experience it myself; if I can’t experience it, even observing from the side is a good experience.
I not only want to understand the process of advancing to become extraordinary; I want to witness the process of Soul Material transforming the soul after becoming extraordinary.
If this process goes smoothly, I could even perfect my Soul Drawing Technique in advance!
Of course… all of this hinges on Aipuli being able to advance; if she can’t… then I’ll just take her as entertainment, treating it as compensation for my trip.
