Chapter 1080: Anomaly in the Verdant Forest World
While I was busy, the day after the conclusion of the Blood Clan War, the Blood Clan affiliated academy sent representatives to the Witch Academy.
You can’t say they weren’t proactive.
This time, the Blood Clan representative was Light Myrne.
As for the Blood Clan Duke representative Samuel Hudson from the Blood Clan affiliated academy, he was still undergoing mental therapy.
Unfortunately, they had not found a method for treatment and were considering whether to turn him into a blood production machine for the duke’s first embrace.
After all, the closer a bloodline is to the progenitor blood clan, the more it can command the next level of blood clan, but the essence of higher-level blood clans is also an opportunity for the next level of blood clan to be promoted.
Not just Samuel Hudson, that unnamed Duke of the Blood Clan was also facing a situation similar to Samuel Hudson’s, the difference being… Samuel Hudson had died once.
All the extraordinary dukes believed that reviving him would resolve everything, but after he was resurrected, he turned into a fool, an unconscious living dead.
This undoubtedly slapped all the extraordinary faces, and several extraordinary members of the Blood Clan were sweating profusely in the background. After all, at that time, if they had signed the duel contract, it would have been them living in unbearable conditions!
Moreover, primarily, they had to compensate the other party with a large amount of resources for such a useless extraordinary corpse!
Everyone knew that going to the Witch Academy was a humiliating chore with no one daring to go there.
Ultimately, Light Myrne, who had appeared during the academy war and had thrown away the initial contract, became the best scapegoat.
This house servant was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after the academy war, but even mentioning words related to Yuehan or the Little Witch, or even just the figure of silver-haired person, would cause uncontrollable feelings of fear.
Though the diagnosis could slowly recover, everyone knew that this house servant Light Myrne was done for.
Thus the disgraceful task fell to Light Myrne, and no matter how he resisted, he could not defy such orders.
Defeated surrender contracts are not just about signing a name, bowing, and apologizing; afterwards, there’s a series of compensation issues to negotiate.
Specifically, how much to compensate, what to pay with, what to use as debt repayment, how to start the slicing of territory, how to hand over…
Many professional matters naturally require professionals.
This time when the Blood Clan representative arrived, they were immediately met with a show of power from the Witch Academy’s Union Society.
Don’t think that renegotiating is a good thing; the contents of the renegotiation contract go beyond just debts, territory, and constraints.
When it comes to vampires’ skin, the family members representing interests are no less than pureblood vampires!
Moreover, they are also being flayed and skinned following orders from that little assistant, so they naturally had to showcase their abilities.
However, unfortunately, I was not involved in the entire process of the Blood Clan representative signing the defeat contract; only Kilan attended the aerial ceremony as my representative.
This “world famous painting” nearly spread throughout all extraordinary academies.
The Witch Academy was using this method to tell those overreaching extraordinary academies: you are not qualified to shout at us!
During this time, the Witch Academy remained amidst this lively atmosphere.
Everything was developing in an orderly fashion, and the Union Society was hurriedly reorganizing its combat strategies.
Even the team where Yi Lan was located achieved good results in studying the extraordinary materials on the sixth floor amber, prompting several extraordinary mentors to make an exception and allow them into the research laboratory of sixth-floor amber extraordinary materials.
Researching extraordinary materials, the mentors, whether in skills, knowledge, or insights, surpassed ordinary students.
Even Yi Chen was no exception.
I was pleased that Yi Chen and the others could enter the specialized materials laboratory for further study.
However, speaking of sixth-floor amber, one cannot forget the King of Ancient Ice Remains, Ning.
Currently, Ning was in the Expanding Realm because she had met another Child of Fortune: Ninglan Qiuyue.
Thus, under my special care, Millien took charge of her daily affairs in the Expanding Realm.
According to Millien’s daily reports, Ning and Ninglan Qiuyue were getting along quite pleasantly.
And precisely because of this, I pushed forward another significantly meaningful event!
The preparation technique for sixth-floor amber!
Through Millien’s contact with Ning, I guided her to complete her transition from “freeman” to “worker.”
She was willing to contribute her strength for the development of the Expanding Realm.
Then, with Ninglan Qiuyue representing the Ninglan World and the Expanding Realm, Millien representing the Natural Disaster Group, myself, and the provision of preparation techniques, along with official cooperation from the Witch Academy, we pushed forward the establishment of the first official sixth-floor amber production laboratory.
This laboratory would not only teach the initial contract to use the power of the Great Ice Emperor’s wood combined with sixth-floor amber preparation techniques for production but also lay a solid research foundation for the subsequent derivative applications of sixth-floor amber extraordinary materials.
Do not forget, the Expanding Realm is a new world filled with extraordinary opportunities, and extraordinary materials will always have a market, although these sixth-floor amber still belong to controlled-level extraordinary materials.
The bulk of the production shares will be distributed and strategically reserved by the Witch Academy, with only a small portion flowing into the high-end market of the Expanding Realm, stimulating the development and innovation of high-end extraordinary techniques in the Expanding Realm.
Such a cooperative model is still undergoing continual adjustment, and I believe they can collaborate pleasantly.
As for myself.
I continuously taught and imparted my aspirations to master bloodline powers; during this gap, I also delved into the concept of races.
If bloodlines have a high relationship with the essence of life, then the concept of races is more complex.
Because the concept of races is not only built upon the essence of life but also closely related to the consciousness born from the essence of life.
Therefore, the concept of “racial imprint” I proposed has a good chance of being proven!
If I could grasp the “art of racial flame imprint” through “skills”… I can barely imagine how terrifying it could become!
Think about witch transformation; witch transformation is my interpretation of my concept of races and racial flame imprint. The witch race has long mastered this skill.
However… it only enables other race concepts to be directed converted into the witch race.
Yet the “racial flame imprint technique” I conceive is a skill broadly applicable to various races.
This skill destined that once it is born, it cannot be applied.
After all, while life may have no boundaries of race, individuals do have racial stances.
I chose the witch race, not for anything else; the witch race provided a new turning point in my life. Everything from my past changed completely with that magical power inserted into my body. This is why I choose and uphold the witch identity.
It is simple and pure.
However, just when I wanted to delve deeply into the “racial flame imprint” technique and open up the series of life amid my nightmare life, an accident disrupted my thoughts.
The Verdant Forest World.
This world, having escaped from the game, was about to invade the main world in a disastrous manner, encountered an accident.
In the first instance, my life clone in the Verdant Forest sensed something was amiss.
In this soul material resource nearly exhausted small world, instinctively, it issued a somewhat urgent warning.
As the players left, this world gradually returned to normal, and these elves submitted to my powerful combat strength.
After all, I single-handedly thrust this world into the catastrophe; such a terrifying method left no room for these elves to resist.
Moreover, I was nominally their hero, saving them from danger!
But these good days did not last long; the destroyed player main city and vegetation had yet to start recovering, and an even greater disaster descended.
On that day.
The elves of the Verdant Forest World saw terrifying large cracks appear in the sky!
A doomsday scene, like the sky collapsing, pressed down on this small world’s boundary.
Even I was shaken by such an occurrence and did not know what was happening.
Until I saw the collision of world-space rifts in the life forbidden zone, a gigantic “monster,” too large to see in full, emerged from the crack, I finally understood what was happening in this world.
This small world had been invaded by such a gargantuan entity!
What I witnessed was far from the whole picture.
Cosmic events were occurring in places I could not see as well.
This giant, even merely extended partial parts of its body, was enough to cause rifts within the world to continuously erupt, as if space could not bear the existence of such life.
“Sister! What… is happening?”
Meng Nafu looked at the large, darkening sky with terror. Such a massive presence ignited a deep-seated fear of gigantic beings within every life.
These invaders constantly destroyed the stability of this world, as if they smelled some lethal temptation, they wanted to burrow into this small world.
“Monsters from outside the world…” I silently observed how things had developed to this point.
After comforting Meng Nafu and settling her in the underground space of the villa, I directly flew into the life forbidden zone of this small world.
Upon getting closer, I could also sense how gigantic these monsters really were.
If the life planet of this Verdant Forest were compared to an apple or an orange, then these monsters crossing the world barrier to reach here would be like a fish!
When I tentatively attacked them, my heart sank to the depths.
The weakest among them was at least an extraordinary life!
But how could that be possible?
Principal Mei had described the situation in the void to me. The conditions in the void were unknown, everything was murky there, and finding a world drifting through the void would be exceedingly difficult.
The question was, why did the Verdant Forest World meet with such an assault?
And just when I was thinking about how to efficiently kill all these invading monsters, a spell’s radiance pierced through the void and the boundaries of worlds.
With just one strike, it killed the monster that had invaded this world before my eyes!
“Oh, lucky me, a big prize!”
As this massive monster fell from the space rift, finally crashing into the surface of the Verdant Forest World, a voice came from beyond the boundaries of the world.
However, the words spoken were not in the world language.
Instead… it was the language of witches!
I truly understood this witch language; my Great Knowledge Tree certainly has accumulated knowledge in this area, so it was not surprising for me to understand witch language.
Soon after, I saw a figure following that monster, drilling in from the rift in the world.
Faced with such an unknown situation, I instinctively became wary, as I did not know the other party’s background.
Even though the language spoken was genuine witch language, I could not let my guard down.
“Are you the little Pu from the main world?” After locking eyes with me, the figure showed a burst of delight and immediately called out my name.
I swear I did not recognize this witch.
Indeed, the other party was a witch; whether through life sensing or the magical power fluctuations she emitted, everything showcased her identity as an extraordinary witch.
Moreover, she was also a powerful Holy Realm witch!
After all, although that previous strike was swift, I still sensed the aura of spell order.
“Uh… You think I…?” I asked, looking at the other person.
If not for my sixth sense telling me the other party held no malice, I would have had no hesitation in making a run for it; I wasn’t proud enough to think I was untouchable just because I killed a Duke of the Blood Clan.
“Hehe~ Of course! I heard that the main world speaks the main world language, but I didn’t expect you, little Pu, to know the witch language too?”
“Hmm, I’ve learned a little… But I still want to thank you for your help.” I nodded, routinely expressing my gratitude.
After all, she had indeed helped me a great deal.
Such a massive monster would be impossible for me to kill without putting in a significant effort.
Its skin and scales were just too tough.
“A mere trifle~ Anyway, I was idle.” The other party spoke in a very familiar manner, as if chatting with me nonchalantly.
“Oh~ I almost forgot to introduce myself; you can call me Greta.” This extraordinary witch seemed to think of something and then began to introduce herself: “You probably guessed it; I am not a witch from the main world but came from another place, drawn here by rumors~ Oh! I nearly forgot, I am also a Betraying Witch~”
“Betraying… Witch…” Upon hearing this term, I instinctively twitched my nose.
“It seems you have quite a misunderstanding of Betraying Witches?” Greta looked somewhat distressed.
“Not at all! I have dealt with Betraying Witches; in my view, most of them are very independent-minded witches, so I don’t hold much bias.” I quickly responded.
“Wonderful!” Greta said happily upon hearing my words affirming there wasn’t too much bias.
Before I could ask what was so wonderful, several figures traversed the distant sky above the Verdant Forest World, exuding extraordinary grace as they moved between those crumbled giants, descending to the surface.
“Oh~ It seems my sisters have come looking for me.” Greta smiled as she looked at the figures above.
“Uh… Sisters?”
“Yep~ All Betraying Witches!”
“All of them?! I widened my eyes at those rapidly approaching figures. The earlier mental sweep that covered the entire world seemed to not have been wrong, “Why does it feel like they are all coming toward me?”
“Of course, they all came for you~ Didn’t I say I was drawn here by rumors? Greta walked behind me and said, “The one rumored is the genius of the main world in some elder sister’s words, that’s you~ Xiao Han.”
“Uh… So, why did you suddenly come over at this time? And… what is the situation with these gigantic monsters?” I somewhat dazedly turned around and made eye contact with Greta.
“Didn’t Xiao Han know?”
“Should I know?”
“Alright, it seems you really don’t know.” Greta looked at my sincere and confused expression, confirming I was indeed clueless, “Originally, we didn’t plan to contact you so soon, but your small world was attacked by some void beasts, so we hurried over to check.”
“Void beasts? Attack? Why? We didn’t encounter such things recently.”
“The world you are in has been marked; the marking substance is a special material that attracts void beasts. It cannot remain in the void, will be naturally decomposed by the void, and then absorbed by nearby worlds. The problem is, after this small world absorbed this material, it also drew in these void beasts.”
“So it was man-made? I quickly realized.
“Correct! If you compare the void to an ocean and the void beasts to big fish, your world has been ‘fished’,” Greta metaphorically explained, “This is a common method to capture and hunt void beasts on a large scale, but it’s quite cruel for this world itself.”
“I understand… Thank you, Greta elder sister.”
“Oh dear~ Xiao Han, your sweet words are truly delightful.” Greta cherished being called “elder sister” from me, as not many witches willingly referred to her that way in ordinary times, “If you have any questions, feel free to ask elder sister Greta!”
“I indeed have a lot of things I want to ask. After all, what’s happening right now is incredibly bizarre and exceeds my known limits.”
If I were to say contact with entities from outside the world, we only encountered it when Principal Mei shaped the Great Wisdom Enlightenment techniques, but far from the size of these monsters now.
For instance… this giant monster is called a void beast?” I followed up with a question, my understanding of this area from my Great Knowledge Tree was quite limited; I only knew that the void was dangerous for any life, not just the void’s environment, but also the void life drifting within.
Indeed, void beasts, or void nomadic life, can also be called that, as not every kind of void life falls under the classification of anomalous beings; the apparent attacking creatures in this world were a small group of void beasts.” Greta introduced, then pointed to the corpse of the abyss creature she had just killed, saying, “Do you want to have a close look? I’ve heard some beast meat is quite good.”
“Let’s take a look.” I nodded, following this Betraying Witch towards the massive corpse that had fallen from the sky.
They fell like meteors, creating flames upon friction with the atmosphere, and even so, the body crashed into the surface with such force that it created an enormous pit, and the body remained very intact.
This demonstrated just how terrifying the void beast’s body truly was.
As we arrived, the several figures rushing from afar also followed closely behind.
“Greta, I didn’t expect you to find Xiao Xi first.”
The several witches who followed evidently recognized Greta but seemed to not be particularly close.
They all recognized me uniformly.
After exchanging greetings with the several witch sisters here, we established a bonfire camp by the corpse of the void beast.
Through simple communication, I understood where their information had come from.
Sheryl.
While interactions between Betraying Witches generally weren’t very close, they indeed had a special information network, unknown to ordinary witches, through which information could efficiently connect voids and Betraying Witches across various locations in the void.
As for what utility that had, it was naturally used to hunt down those “Betrayer Witches” who broke witch contracts or killed other witches.
Such a vast and widespread “information network” could only be carried by the “Primordial Dream World.”
This implies that even if Greta and the other few Betraying Witches met for the first time in reality.
According to the statements from these Betraying Witch sisters, they originally entered the void area where the main world was hoping to stay a while longer, as this area was very special, without any worlds nearby.
The only neighboring world cluster discovered bore the constraints of witch contracts, preventing extraordinary beings from entering it, so they couldn’t take this world as a temporary foothold.
Moreover, it was exceedingly difficult for them to enter the main world; the leaders of the witches entering the main world held very stringent audits, not even allowing Betraying Witches entry, truly leaving them bitterly silent.
“Wait… Since you all know there is a small world here, why not use this as a temporary foothold?” I curiously inquired.
“Upon learning that this small world was part of a plan you proposed, ultimately set to collide with the main world, we decided not to contact you in advance.”
“Exactly! Originally, I suggested if we should come earlier, to see if we could sneak into the main world, but with the current situation in the main world, sigh… if it can’t hold, then we can only give up~”
I sat on a piece of dry wood, throwing dehydrated branches into the bonfire.
As the conversation continued, this bonfire gathering increasingly made me feel what awkwardness was.
I knew nothing about them, yet they knew a lot about me, as if… Sheryl was livestreaming me every moment, showcasing to them what I had been doing in the main world.
They even knew about me defeating the extraordinary just a few days ago!
“Here~ Xiao Han, try this tender tenderloin; the other meat is too tough, and not even the softening wood can save it.”
The witch Greta beside me handed over a piece of roasted meat skewered on a stick and then took out an exquisite small jar from her storage equipment.
Then she sprinkled a bit of my special barbecue powder~
“Thank you, Greta elder sister.” I took a sniff, discovering that this jar’s seasoning held flavors I had never experienced before.
I couldn’t help but say that the deliciousness of this world made me very期待.
“Xiao Han, how about trying mine? My seasoning is high-end goods bought from the Divine Kingdom Grand Market!”
Upon hearing that Greta just went over to get a piece of roasted meat and sprinkled a bit of her homemade seasoning, she earned me a sweet “elder sister” from Xiao Han; immediately, the witches began to compete in a strange rivalry.
“Wait… Elder sister, you went to the Divine Kingdom just to buy this stuff?”
“If I’m happy~”
Just as the several witch sisters wanted to show off, this witch elder sister ended the competition right from the start.
However, even so, I had no idea what she referred to as the “Divine Kingdom Grand Market.”
Amidst the inter-witch teasing, I weakly asked, “Can I ask what the Divine Kingdom Grand Market is?”
After I posed my question, the witches initially froze in reflex, before one of them finally reacted.
“Haha, I remembered, Xiao Han doesn’t know this place.”
“No worries, just think of it as a large supermarket in the void, but where else do you find genuine seasonings as potent as mine?” Greta laughed, shaking the small jar in her hand.
“A supermarket in the void? What a strange metaphor?”
“Wait until you advance to extraordinary and step into the void; you will understand this place. In short, it’s a market acknowledged by the void, where you can buy most common goods from the void.”
“I really don’t know much about this; could you please enlighten me?”
“Strange… Doesn’t Xiao Han have anyone to teach you in the main world?”
“The Witch Academy teaches everything.” I replied.
“That’s true! I remember that witch academy I attended only taught me how to survive.” One of the Betraying Witch sisters casually said something rather terrifying.
“Then let’s give Xiao Han a lesson on knowledge about the void!”
They seemed to hold quite a bit of novelty towards such a “professor,” sharing a desire to teach what older generations learned with the younger ones.
“How much do you understand about the void, Xiao Han? Just say freely~ We’ll take it as fun.”
“What kind of nonsense is that? Come on~ Be bold and speak; if you encounter anything you don’t understand or wrong, we’ll correct it.”
“Alright… my understanding of the void all stems from hearsay, combined with what I learned about the void beasts. I also know about the myriad races of the void… Are there truly over ten thousand races in the void?” I spoke to clarify my understanding.
Though I had studied the life sequence that indirectly proved the presence of void races, the situation remained unknown to all.
“Over ten thousand? Add another hundred million to that; there’s easily tens of billions!”
“Ah? Really?”
“This is theoretical; the void is infinitely vast, so that statement isn’t wrong.”
“Exactly! Just from the different races I’ve encountered, I’ve already met over ten thousand kinds, and the races I’ve personally exterminated are not fewer than a hundred… Uh, the void births the same race worlds in numerous cases! I mean, those I exterminated only equate to an entire world wiped out!” This witch, who shared her fantastic experiences, rolled her eyes, covering her lips, as if speaking of something trivial.
“Don’t scare Xiao Han, you Betraying Witches.” Another witch sister seated somewhat distanced from the Betraying Witches spoke up.
“What’s wrong with that? Look, Xiao Han doesn’t seem frightened at all; if she were scared just from this, she’d probably need some serious training.”
“Let’s return to the subject; Xiao Han, do you have anything else you’d like to ask?”
A crowd of witches turned their gazes back toward me.
“I don’t know much about the void… Why don’t you sisters share about the powers of the void? For instance, the Divine Kingdom Grand Market mentioned earlier, it gives me the impression that the void isn’t really empty?”
“That statement is incorrect!” A witch sister quickly corrected.
“The void is vast and empty, without boundaries — a vast nothingness. However, the substantial extraordinary races have established void powers, and the short-range teleportation passages connect the void with those races, so it doesn’t seem so empty. Yet, the term Divine Kingdom Grand Market is very misleading, and this great market is one no one has the qualifications to enter.”
“That is indeed true; for example, I have never been to the Divine Kingdom Grand Market. When I was young and foolish, I went there and revealed my Betraying Witch identity, and was kicked out.”
“Isn’t that what you deserve? The avian creatures of the Divine Kingdom have a poor attitude toward us witches. However, in order to maintain an open and inclusive free market, they also allowed witches to visit, but thank the Betraying Witches for entering; reflect on what you’ve done.”
“What did the Betraying Witches do?” I curiously asked, but upon hearing the witches talk about those “avian creatures,” I couldn’t help but recall the holy angels in the main world.
“Xiao Han wants to know?”
When I asked, a witch seemed to laugh silently, carrying little intention of explaining.
“Uh-huh.” I nodded, then hesitated a bit: “If it can’t be mentioned, then let’s move on to the next topic?”
“What’s wrong to mention? This is the glorious record of we Betraying Witches!” At that moment, one of the Betraying Witches spoke up.
“Indeed there is nothing I can’t say, but before mentioning this, I need to give you some knowledge about the composition of the Divine Kingdom Grand Market.”
“The Divine Kingdom Grand Market is a vast world spanning across the void, possessing a complete core realm, an expanding realm, and the void frontline realm. It is a sea of holy light and a large open market, encompassing most trading channels for various life races in the void.”
“It’s a pity that the Divine Kingdom is entirely inhabited by avian people; that’s the only drawback.” At this moment, another Betraying Witch expressed a feeling.
“Mind your mouth! Truly, let’s continue; since the Divine Kingdom is a huge market, it implies that there exist various forms of trading commodities and routes there, conducting fair and sincere transactions under the holy light, while in the areas not illuminated by holy light, deep black and secretive black market trades are conducted.”
