Chapter 931: A Contract That Pits Two Waves of People Against Each Other?
After allowing Dawn to digest this joy and calm down, some matters indeed needed to be clarified with him.
For example… the issue of the Power Network, whose core actually relies on the Wanlian Internet. He could use the Power Network in front of me because I had this clone present.
The clone is also a derivative of my own Field Order. If we liken the Wanlian Main Network Tree to a WiFi that can continuously expand its coverage, then my clone acts as a temporary shared hotspot.
“…The Wanlian Main Network Tree is the foundation that underpins the Power Network and the Root Network, and it is the source of the strength you can master later. At this stage, the Wanlian Main Network Tree is still in its growth phase. Even if this process is quick, it still requires time to gradually unfold.”
“So that means the Wanlian Main Network Tree must not be destroyed, right?” After my explanation, Dawn quickly grasped the core issue.
“Yes, if it is destroyed, the Root Network will gradually wither, and the Power Network will instantly lose its order, resulting in a rapid decline in the power you can control until it disappears. However, this will not affect the Great Knowledge Seed and Knowledge Seed, as the Power Network is merely a functional module of the Great Knowledge Seed.”
“I understand.” Dawn quickly accepted this explanation.
After all, there is a terminal of all worlds in the game; he could also understand the limitations of such power.
Moreover, he had never seen those Outsiders share such non-power capabilities.
It should be noted that the strength and weakness of this power merely depend on permissions. As long as permissions are granted, even an ordinary person like him can instantly become a master of non-power!
“Dawn, do you think the Association would accept this… charity of power?” I continued to ask.
“This power might be urgently needed by the Real Protection Association, but from my understanding of them, they care more about who controls this power than the power itself.”
“They wouldn’t be foolish enough to hand over the keys to power to you; if they did, the entire Real Protection Association would effectively belong to you.”
“Indeed, they are quite concerned… What if they end up with no choice?”
“So, does the Witch want to eliminate those Outsiders and completely push the Association to your side?” Dawn quickly connected this to the earlier mention of eliminating those Outsiders and organized a set of thoughts.
If they were to slaughter all the Outsiders before the Real Protection Association, then no one would dare to negotiate with the branch afterward!
In this case, faced with a strong external enemy, their only option would be one!
As for those in the Association who oppose, or are hard-headed, or those who are believers, elders, and advisors…
“Hmm, do you find this troublesome?”
“This… how could it be troublesome! The Association can view your efficiency as an honor! I will personally eliminate those stubborn ones for you!”
“You have a good sense of this.” I was quite satisfied with his response; he was quick-witted, so I decided to reduce some of his burdens, “If you want anything, just tell me directly.”
The various effects of Extraordinary Items are beyond your imagination; there is nothing you cannot use. That is the convenience I provide him.
In this world of ordinary people, using extraordinary means to breach organizational defenses is incredibly simple.
Hypnosis, suggestion, enslavement, curses, cognitive transition, memory alteration… achieving these on an extraordinary level is quite easy.
The reason these means are not commonly seen at the extraordinary level is that extraordinary beings also have countermeasures.
But for an ordinary person without anything, not even mental power to manipulate energy, it becomes a foolproof set of techniques.
This is also one reason why that fallen Elf boasted that the Real Protection Association could view his efficiency as their honor—because extraordinary beings truly look down on ordinary people.
The means at their disposal are far beyond what an ordinary person can imagine.
Those Outsiders are most limited by their own power systems and cannot grasp these methods.
However, if one masters some special techniques, making an organization work for them becomes truly simple.
Moreover, I learned from the information Dawn provided that many areas in this world have already been directly or indirectly dominated by those Outsiders.
In fact, it means they have been completely controlled, working for them.
The most independent place is the chaotic districts.
From the name, one can infer that these are areas where the All Worlds Terminal Headquarters has intervened somewhat. Due to various local factors, the control of the Wei Ji Team over these areas is insufficient.
The Wei Ji Team’s intervention can only temporarily subdue these people, and once they leave, chaos will immediately ensue.
And the Headquarters cannot allocate a small team of the Wei Ji Team here just to stabilize a chaotic area because that would be a huge waste.
To fundamentally change this place, restructuring the personnel framework and social form here is necessary, but due to various special reasons such as a large population, the All Worlds Terminal Headquarters has no good solutions.
Then, without a better way to settle these “refugees,” it will remain chaotic.
They also wouldn’t spend vast amounts of manpower and resources for these “thieves.”
It is more efficient to let them maintain the status quo themselves.
Ideally, they should self-destruct!
In nicer terms, this place is referred to as “autonomy.”
But in reality, it’s a refusal to provide aid.
The money from the higher-ups won’t be spent on such places.
Thus, such places become excellent starting points for those Outsiders’ developmental efforts.
Regardless of whether it is military rule, death threats, belief propagation, or even large-scale brainwashing, those with methods will always find ways to gather people to work for them.
Yet, chaotic districts are still chaotic districts. They remain places that the All Worlds Terminal Headquarters disdain to even glance at, and ultimately have tremendous limitations.
This makes the Real Protection Association’s occupation of a surface city so eye-catching, and even within a short time, it was praised as the initial beacon of resistance, which is not an exaggeration.
So, the surface city where Iger is will be the sharpest thorn in the hearts of the All Worlds Terminal Headquarters, piercing their hearts with pain.
And atop that thorn, there is a Catastrophe Witch, capable of dealing a significant blow to them.
After explaining these precautions and needs to Dawn, he felt… terrifyingly strong!
He couldn’t wait to charge to the front lines to clear all obstacles for the Catastrophe Witch!
But despite his excitement, he remembered that the Catastrophe Witch asked him to act with more composure and not to be startled by everything, so he began to try to control his emotions.
At this moment, he noticed that the Catastrophe Witch handed him something similar to a card.
“What is this?” Without hesitation, he took it, trusting that the Catastrophe Witch wouldn’t harm him at this moment.
“This is my business card. It has my summoning runes. In the future, you won’t have to summon me so loudly as before. Of course, avoid using this recklessly unless it’s a significant matter,” I explained.
Previously, the Real Protection Association summoned me with such grandeur that it truly opened my eyes.
But I also understood that they were unfamiliar with the system of rune ceremonies, resulting in some deviations in the summoning runes they obtained. However, these deviations were ultimately corrected by the overwhelming energy.
“Understood!”
After briefly discussing the specifics with Dawn, this meeting concluded in a highly efficient manner.
As for the dreaming secretary nearby… at this moment, he was deep within the dream illusions I wove.
“Try out the cognitive alteration method after hypnosis on this secretary yourself,” I tossed a gold pocket watch used for hypnosis to Dawn and said, “The main reason you came here is my dissatisfaction and questions over your Association contacting those Outsiders behind my back. Once you succeed, you can leave.”
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Witch Academy.
After Ming Xueming obtained the simple coordinate location of the secret realm from Tan Jun, they immediately sought out the Witch Secret Realm Association.
Even though the two of them were allied clubs, sisterhood still requires clear accounting.
This time, Ming Xueming lowered her status to negotiate with Tan Jun, resulting in the loss being shouldered by the All-purpose Workshop.
They had to give Tan Jun a Heart of Cold Wave and an Outsider Child named Luxien!
Naturally, they couldn’t let the Witch Secret Realm Association take advantage, but their collaboration couldn’t end over this matter.
After all, one person from the All-purpose Workshop is under immense pressure, which they cannot handle alone.
In this case, isolating their partner would mean facing external pressures while also being ambushed by her older sister.
As for compensation… they could discuss it slowly later, but the current plan needed to proceed quickly—time is money.
Poor Aen Galande, the four of them might still not know that their value had completely vanished the moment the Witch Academy took action.
If earlier they had returned with important information, they could have mitigated their losses, but now, they were worth nothing.
Especially Aen Galande; she might even lose her status as a Wizard Apprentice!
Wizards would not accept her if she underwent Witch Transformation.
The process of Witch Transformation is nearly irreversible.
So she could only hope that the Witch Academy would take her in; if not, she would lose her identity as an Extraordinary Student altogether. Without that, even if she understands vast knowledge related to the extraordinary, it would be useless.
Although many at the Witch Academy have used countless examples to prove that even if a person undergoes Witch Transformation, they would not mentally assimilate and identify with the Witch Race.
But other academies would never accept students who have undergone Witch Transformation.
It’s like a form of spiritual cleanliness; where there is even a slight possibility, they do not wish to cultivate a potential traitor.
Wizards, in particular, are severe in this regard.
Even the most inclusive bloodline-refining wizards, who aim to integrate other races’ bloodlines to extract power, avoid the concept of Witch Transformation with great caution.
After making their decision, the Witch Academy and other extraordinary academies clashed again.
However, the Witch Academy chose to feign ignorance to buy time.
But whether it was the Witch Academy hiding news or everyone following the original plan to seek that ruin, it interrupted their initial plans.
The happiest were probably Tan Wei and her group; at least they gained a lot of time.
Day One.
Wizard Apprentices allied with Holy Angels and Elves to pressure the Witch Academy.
The effects were poor, resulting in minor conflicts, which were mediated by the Wei Ji Team and dragged on for a day.
Day Two.
Wizard Apprentices, together with students from other extraordinary academies, negotiated with the Witch Academy for the transfer of Aen Galande and the others.
But the Witch Academy, adhering to the principle of being responsible for the injured, rejected this and led to the second medical room riot.
Subsequently, dozens of witch students mobilized, attacking the Wizard Academy’s side fiercely for seeking their wounded friends. What the Wizard Academy least wanted to see was forced into reality.
Because of the lesson from the first day, the Witch side provocatively insisted on “exchanging techniques” at the arena of the Witch Academy for half a day.
These two days could be likened to the academy’s students witnessing a grand performance.
It seemed inexplicably that other extraordinary academy students began to stir trouble within the Witch Academy.
Yet only those in the know were aware of what they were actually doing, while the fun on the academy’s networks covered up the reality.
By the third day.
The Witch Academy finally relented and, through a series of actions, signed a Witch Contract for joint development.
The contract outlined many detailed contents, including but not limited to sharing experimental data from the laboratory ruins, distribution of valuable materials left, and so forth.
It even made clear provisions for personnel arrangements.
When other extraordinary academies happily prepared for joint development, only the Witch Academy remained in the dark.
Not because of the joint development contract, but…
They had already completed the preliminary search of the laboratory over these two days, and the final conclusion was… that this laboratory was utterly worthless.
There were no materials left, no precious items, and even the data had been rummaged through.
This place had already been “looted” by Tan Jun and her team!
So within this joint development contract, the Witch Academy presented a guilty appearance.
The contract stated that all harvests from joint development included earlier gains, effectively forcing the Witch side to concede.
But only the Witch side knows that it doesn’t matter because they have nothing to give.
Instead, by leveraging the joint development contract, they constrained the main exploratory teams of the other extraordinary academies to remain at the ruins.
The contract explicitly stated that no one was allowed to withdraw until exploration of the ruins was publicly completed.
The other extraordinary academies mistakenly thought the Witch Academy’s sudden concession was due to finding the area of the ruins too challenging, so they didn’t suspect much.
But no one expected that the Witch Academy had thoughts beyond this level.
This joint development contract truly placed these guys in a terrible situation.
But never mind, they also took the opportunity to pull one over on Tan Jun.
After the All-purpose Workshop led the inclusion of the last fragment of the Great Spell to jointly develop the laboratory ruins, the students from the other extraordinary academies completely felt at ease.
They didn’t believe the Witch Academy would joke about the fragments.
Moreover, if anything was found in the laboratory, it could be directly tested with the fragments on-site.
The Wizard Academy was quite skilled with research data.
Thus, the rest of the extraordinary academies also gathered the remaining fragments.
They weren’t worried about being wiped out; if a fight broke out, the quantity and quality of personnel would surely make the Witch Academy suffer losses.
Moreover, a portion of the fragments was with the Ancient Ice Remains. Even if the Witch side designed a plot to seize the fragments, they couldn’t gather them all.
But they never anticipated that assembling all the fragments here was merely Ming Xueming’s means to complete the contractual deal with Tan Wei.
Even though they couldn’t meet directly, it didn’t mean they couldn’t sign the Witch Contract; they used two identical complementary contracts to complete the signing in different locations.
After all, the binding force of the contract did not come from signatures or witnesses, but from the ritualistic strength of the Witch Contract!
Thus… as all the fragments came together, they would tell Tan Wei the address to fulfill the contract. Even if Tan Wei wanted to steal them, would it really be stealing?
So it could be said that they managed to pit two waves of people with one contract, and even Tan Wei did not take advantage.
