Chapter 1024: Magic Sun, Shining Upon the Earth!
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 1024: Magic Sun, Shining Upon the Earth!
Just as the Sun Rock Elf Academy and other elf-affiliated races relied on the Afuhemi Transcendent Forest Elves to establish these small-scale transcendent academies in the Main World, the Bloodkin actually relied on the Wizard Academies.
It wasn't just the Bloodkin; the Sea Clan and the Beast Academy also shared deep ties with the Transcendent Wizards.
However, the Beast Academy occupied a unique position. It was a product of the early period of resistance against the Witch Academies, a time when a large number of Transcendent Orcs were brought in to keep the witches in check.
Consequently, the Beast Academy remained somewhat rebellious. At one point, they even attempted to unite all Beast Academies to leverage their massive population of Transcendent Orcs and establish a top-tier academy on par with the other transcendent races.
Ultimately, they failed to achieve that goal.
Nevertheless, since orcs served as excellent labor and experimental subjects to a certain extent, the Beast Academy was allowed to persist.
Now that the Witch Academy had used such "despicable" means to intervene in the Blood Slave Academy, the Wizard Academy absolutely had to take a stand, regardless of who was in the right.
Immediately following this, Afuhemi Academy and the Holy Angel Academy also voiced their concerns, hoping to further prevent the situation from escalating.
If this conflict eventually evolved into a full-scale Academy War, the subsequent chain reaction would be far too massive to handle!
In short, stopping all actions of the Witch Academy had become the consensus among the top-tier academies.
But consensus was one thing; by the time the top academies reached it, the Witch Academy had already struck first with a public statement!
After all, the Witch Academy's joint clubs had been waiting for this powder keg to ignite.
Members of the Witch Academy's No. 7 Combat Sequence were sacrificed at the Blood Slave Academy during their withdrawal!
Regarding this action by the Blood Slave Academy, the Witch Academy's joint clubs have determined it to be a premeditated and organized act of provocation!
As world-renowned peacekeeping forces, the No. 7 Combat Sequence has played a major role in mediating academy wars across the globe.
The Blood Slave Academy's reckless disregard has led to the sacrifice of countless students on foreign soil. The Witch Academy must make the Blood Slave Academy pay the price!
Accompanying this rescue declaration—which was practically a declaration of war—was a series of exposed evidence detailing the crimes and oppression committed by the Blood Slave Academy.
Of course, regarding the oppression visible on the ordinary social internet, the focus remained largely on the conflicts of the Blood Slave Liberation Movement. The information blackout at the Transcendent Academy level still had to be followed to some extent.
However, with the leak of this blood slave riot, the widely recognized oppression was no longer within the scope of the information blackout.
With the arrival of the No. 1 and No. 2 Combat Sequences, the combat foundations of the Witch Academy's large-scale clubs were instantly unleashed. They spearheaded the resistance within the Blood Slave Academy, which became as unstoppable as a collapsing mountain.
The subsequent arrival of the Lord Vampire Academy and other Bloodkin affiliated academies provided reinforcements that, to some degree, split the combined advantage of the two combat sequences. This bought crucial time for the combat assistance from the Wizard Academy—a fellow top-tier institution—to arrive.
Generally speaking, the combat strength of teaching assistants and senior students was roughly equal between the Witch Academy and the Three Top Academies. At most, there were slight disparities in their transcendent combat systems.
Theoretically, possessing such convenient tools as Mana Sources and spellbooks should have given the Witch Academy the upper hand, but they hadn't released many high-potency spellbooks to the public. After all, within the Witch Academy, spellbooks were never tools for flaunting power; they were educational aids to help students understand spells.
Thus, with the Wizard Academy joining forces with the remaining Bloodkin combatants, the Witch Academy's side was thoroughly suppressed.
After all, a single combat sequence only represented the strength of one of the eight core Guardian Clubs recognized by the Witch Academy. Facing a Wizard Academy that was providing full support with the primary goal of obstructing the witches, they were naturally overwhelmed by superior numbers.
Faced with this situation, the Witch Joint Clubs were not about to sit idly by. The other combat sequences, which had been on standby, immediately prepared to deploy.
Subsequently, this move by the Witch Academy triggered joint sanctions from Afuhemi Academy and the Holy Angel Academy.
They claimed that the Witch Academy was conducting an Academy War with sinister intent. As top-tier academies, they argued they had an obligation to join the Wizard Academy in interfering with the Witch Academy's actions.
They even brought out The Never-Landing Life Floating Tree and the Holy Angel Floating Island, carrying a massive force of senior students to demonstrate their resolve to stop the Witch Academy!
Faced with such a massive scale—a situation involving the joint mobilization of the Three Top Academies—the scene was so shocking it was destined to be recorded in the transcendent history of the Main World!
In the face of such a disadvantageous situation, the No. 0 Special Combat Sequence... or rather, I, stepped in.
Subsequently, everyone across all transcendent academies who was monitoring the conflict witnessed a scene they would never forget for the rest of their lives...
A sun rose from the surface of the earth!
When the sun finally extinguished:
The Never-Landing Life Floating Tree, Afuhemi Academy's pride, was reduced to wreckage and plummeted to the ground.
The Holy Angel Floating Island crumbled and crashed with a thunderous roar, forming a landscape of hilly ruins.
The entire Shuizik Mountain Range was nearly leveled. Rocks shattered and collapsed under the mana shockwave, turning the continuous mountain range into a neat basin.
Terrifying mana seeped into the earth, turning the entire region into a wasteland covered in mana radiation.
The surrounding areas were rocked by the horrific mana tremors. Vast tracts of forest were uprooted and snapped, eventually turning to charcoal under the mana radiation.
The continental plates centered around the Shuizik Mountain Range shifted, allowing countless people who had never experienced an earthquake in their lives to feel the earth tremble.
Faced with this scene of natural calamity, all the students of the transcendent academies fell silent.
From the moment of the explosion to the final sight of the remaining ruins, they were unable to snap out of it for a long time. They had never imagined that a single person's power could reach such a level. It was so overwhelming that they subconsciously forgot just how much loss the deaths of those caught in the disaster represented to them.
It wasn't just the students; the mentors within the transcendent academies were equally silent.
They were shocked that a Little Witch could achieve such a horrific outburst. It wasn't that a Transcendent couldn't reach this level—most Transcendents could.
But... "Transcendent" was a realm, while this world-extinguishing ability was a method.
What truly terrified them was that this Little Witch hadn't even ascended to the Transcendent realm yet! If she did, wouldn't destroying a world be as easy as flipping a hand?
Moreover, they saw through the nature of this ability quite clearly: it was called "Infinite Mana."
This meant that she had caused such horrific and pure destructive power simply by relying on the release of mana. If she used this method and amplified its world-destroying power through a spell framework, it wouldn't be as simple as leveling a mountain range on a continental plate...
This was practically cheating!
However, she wasn't a Transcendent, so she hadn't violated the principle of Transcendent non-interference. If their Transcendents interfered, it would inevitably trigger a counterattack from the Transcendent Witches.
That was the theory, but how to handle the reality was another matter entirely.
Allowing such an unrestrained Little Witch to remain in the Main World was an absolute disaster! Yet, they had no good way to deal with it, unless... they went to negotiate with the Witch Academy. Only through face-to-face talks could they express their stance, and only then could threats and collective pressure have any effect.
Because... they had completely lost the ability to negotiate with the Witch Academy "from a position of strength."
And before the sanctions against this Little Witch could be handed down, it was the students of the various transcendent academies who suffered.
Previously, the talk of joint sanctions by the Three Top Academies seemed like a joke under the radiance of the mana sun on the surface. They had completely lost the ability to threaten the Witch Academy by concentrating their forces.
The two top academies didn't even issue a statement condemning the Witch Academy's mass slaughter. In the end, their rescue teams slunk off to the Shuizik Mountain Range—or rather, the Shuizik Basin ruins—braving the mana radiation to bring back the remains of the fallen.
Faced with such a terrifying impact, even the students resurrected by the Holy Angel Academy—famed for its Resurrection Spells—fell into a state of severe injury requiring long-term recovery. Their soul essence had been heavily damaged, requiring precious soul-nourishing resources to heal.
Without such resources, they could only rely on time to slowly smooth over the trauma.
The vast majority of these people had lost a significant portion of their memories. Some extreme cases of resurrection resulted in total amnesia. Many others developed mental illnesses after being revived, showing symptoms like mild insanity or heliophobia.
This was equivalent to a total generational gap in the senior student ranks of the Holy Angel Academy and Afuhemi Academy!
As for the Wizard Academy, which had been assisting in the Blood Slave Peninsula campaign, they urgently withdrew under a few flimsy excuses.
Subsequently, after the initial shock, the Witch Academy officially issued a declaration of war against the Blood Slave Academy.
A formal, vengeful Academy War had officially begun.
After all, setting aside the students from other academies who died there, the number of Witch Academy students sacrificed was beyond count!
And everyone knew that the Witch Academy held a serious grudge!
Once they finished liquidating the Blood Slave Academy, the Lord Vampire Academy and the Bloodkin affiliated academies would be next!
However, it was clear that the situation with the Blood Slave Academy was entirely different from the previous incident with the Sun Rock Elf Academy. This was a protracted campaign, which included the process of overthrowing the Blood Slave Academy and using it as leverage to coerce the Lord Vampire Academy.
The Wizard Academy could abandon the Blood Slave Academy, but the Bloodkin's transcendent academies absolutely could not! Blood slaves were their pillar-level source of food and power. Once they completely lost the Blood Slave Peninsula, they would be entirely at the mercy of others.
But worry as they might, without strength, they had to face this reality they were unwilling but powerless to change.
While on the surface it seemed the Witch Academy's joint clubs were the final winners, no one within the Witch Academy could remain calm...
After all, who could ignore a terrifying existence that could ignite a sun right next to them at any moment?
At this moment, they finally realized the true weight of the academy's previous announcement regarding the advanced talent of Self-Generated Mana—Infinite Mana—during the Twin Suns event.
Infinite Mana!
When they saw that term, they thought back to when they first encountered Self-Generated Mana. No one had expected the advanced version of that talent to be so terrifying!
Just as they were eagerly asking when this talent could be rolled out, they learned from their mentors... that even the mentors didn't meet the threshold to learn it.
At that moment, they seemed to understand again. They understood the significance of the fact that the announcement mentioned only one person as the lead and participant in the project to perfect the Infinite Mana talent: "Yang Yuehan."
The incident at the Shuizik Mountain Range was dubbed the "Earth-Sun Tragedy," categorized alongside the "Double Sun Event."
When the Double Sun Event occurred, no one thought that a similar disaster would fall so cleanly upon their heads so soon after.
And after the Earth-Sun Tragedy, the popularity of Yang Yuehan—Teaching Assistant Xiao Han—soared to unprecedented heights! Whether it was the Academy Network, the Plant Network, or the Transcendent Dark Web, everyone was discussing it.
This Little Witch had become a walking natural disaster. The title of "Calamity Witch" was dug up once again amidst the endless discussions.
If being called the Calamity Witch was once considered an honor for her, now, it seemed the title itself was honored to be associated with her.
And the Little Witch at the center of all this discussion—me—didn't care about these empty titles.
Compared to the endless curses and insults from outside the academy, or the cheers and worship from within, what I cared about most was the result brought by the Life Clone in this attempt.
And the final result was... a success!
I looked at the girl before me, who looked exactly like me. This wasn't a brand-new Life Clone I had fabricated, but the "me" who had persisted through the Infinite Mana talent experiment.
The Infinite Mana experiment was a success!
This talent had been integrated into my soul essence as a permanent ability. Furthermore, it had birthed a brand-new, complete Sixth Sense Heart Sense Domain!
The Life Clone was not my main body, after all. My main body's domain order was a Power of Knowledge Domain Order built on the foundation of the Heart Sense Domain and two fragments of [Transcendent Knowledge]. But the Life Clone possessed only the Sixth Sense Heart Sense Domain.
This success undoubtedly proved the feasibility of my theory!
Infinite Mana, a complete domain, a Saint Realm Little Witch below the Transcendent level... in just one attempt, all of it was accomplished!
But it didn't come without a price. The impact caused by the Infinite Mana experiment on the Core World had truly reflected back onto this world. The fact that a single experiment could shut up so many transcendent academies proved that the Infinite Mana experiment wasn't something to be done lightly. The subsequent chain of influences and troubles would follow one after another.
For instance... Dean Mei, the head of the Witch Academy, had just come knocking on my door.