Chapter 1078: Bloodline Lens Observation Great Witchcraft
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 1078: Bloodline Lens Observation Great Witchcraft
Under the escort of a large group of personnel, I left the crowded area.
I left behind a crowd of curious students; I didn't even leave them the spectacular battleship from earlier.
However, following my departure, the events on the Academy Network completely exploded.
In particular, under the latest post from the United Club’s official account, many students who saw the news felt as if they were living in a dream.
At this moment, the Academy Network was filled with more than just "first!" comments and jokes about "rolling for a floating battleship." Almost everyone was discussing this blitzkrieg against the Vampire race.
Various news clubs within the academy followed up immediately, releasing the latest developments. The photos were freshly taken, the copy was wildly fabricated based on "internal intelligence," and the headlines were designed to be as eye-catching as possible.
But the crowd ate it up. Many students were even chasing the threads, asking for the latest updates.
"Holy crap! Teaching Assistant Xiao Han strikes again after the Sun Rock Battle and the Earth-Sun Tragedy! Does this mean the Vampire Academy is going to fall under our Witch Academy too?"
"Look closer, it's just the Vampire Affiliated Academy!"
"I don't care! Sister Xiao Han, [Step on me]!"
"Watch your language. Your crude words have been asterisked out."
"Is no one going to mention that Sister Xiao Han demanded the Vampire Affiliated Academy send representatives to the Witch Academy to sign a surrender contract? There’s another good show coming, sisters!"
"Hell yeah! Those disgusting Vampire bastards deserve to die. As someone who personally experienced the Blood Slave Peninsula incident, I’ll just say Sister Xiao Han really knows how to humiliate the Vampires."
"Salute to the King of Soldiers. Post your results so we can see~"
"Image.JPG. This is a Blood Slave."
"Eww! So gross! Sister Xiao Han is the GOAT! Attached: Xiao Han pinching a fireball.JPG"
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While the Academy Network was passionately "eating melons," inside the grand conference hall of the United Club:
"...I believe that filthy creatures like the Vampires fear power, not virtue. When facing them, we must use thunderous methods to strike fear into them once and for all, breaking their spines so they know exactly who they are dealing with!"
"The ongoing tug-of-war in Fudu Valley is, in my view, a decision that only serves to wear us down. We cannot be stalled. If we strike, we strike for a decisive victory. Any delay on their part is a failure of our strategy. The current problem with the United Club is that it lacks the heart to be ruthless."
"I know you all want an explanation from me for this war, but you don't dare ask me directly. So, I’ll bring it up myself."
"The victory of this war is my explanation. From the moment I arrived at the Blood Slave Peninsula and resolved the situation there, to the moment I decided to blitz the Vampire Affiliated Academy, it took only a single thought. I intend to use my actions to prove one thing: Academy Wars are no longer as simple as hopping on a broom, harassing the enemy, and coming back!"
"Since our Witch Academy has chosen to take the initiative, we must discard the rhetoric and style of the conservatives. No obstacle is an excuse for retreat, compromise, or stalemate."
"I don't mind telling you that the world ahead is one full of transformation. Many of us are avoiding a direct confrontation with the Three Top Academies, but are those academies really that scary? No! Since the United Club was formed, many have viewed it as a way to make money or gain benefits. I can only say... that is short-sighted."
At this point, my gaze swept over everyone present. After Millian had promised me that she would eventually have the confidence to crush all the families, my perspective on these elites trained by the families had changed.
If they made me unhappy, I would scold them right here in this meeting, and not a single person dared to stand up and refute me.
"I won't say explicitly whose layout and gambit are reflected behind the wars we lead. In this great transformation, we students, teaching assistants, Transcendent Mentors, the academy, and even the families cannot remain uninvolved. The struggles between students are merely filtering out those who aren't qualified to stand on the chessboard. Transcendents are the ultimate players."
"And we are currently standing at the crest of this wave. Our world has been peaceful for too long, and too many contradictions have accumulated. We should recognize this clearly and actively throw ourselves into it to become the drivers of history, rather than bystanders who are merely a footnote in a history book..."
As my words stirred the emotions of those present, a sense of historical weight and a feeling of being destined for great responsibility lingered in their hearts.
I knew very well that using Emotion Body Cultivation like this wouldn't last long; once they left, this rush of blood to the head would quickly dissipate.
But that wasn't the result I was after. I was merely planting a seed in everyone's heart. Even if only one eventually sprouted, it wouldn't be a waste of my breath.
I realized I wasn't very good at socializing. I liked to listen as a bystander, and now... I also liked lecturing to a crowd like this.
Neither process involved complex negotiations. One was the understanding gained from listening, and the other was the indoctrination of cognition.
I spoke about many things during this meeting, mostly insights gained from my own practice. I couldn't guarantee that everything I said was correct, but it certainly fit the current situation.
Toward the end, I reached another key point.
The Vampire representatives coming to the Witch Academy to sign the surrender contract.
At the mention of this, even those still immersed in the resonance created by the Emotion Body Cultivation felt a jolt of excitement!
"Regarding the campaign against the Vampire Affiliated Academy, I sent them a declaration of war personally drafted by me via the battleship before the fighting even started. In addition to listing the crimes they committed against our Witch Academy, I also pre-drafted a series of contract requirements regarding war reparations, territorial cessions, and student restrictions."
"The result was obvious. The other party did not acknowledge them and refused to fulfill the requirements I proposed."
"The specific data regarding this area is not my field of expertise. I plan to hand over the assessment of reparations to the professionals of the United Club. When the time comes, remember to include the floating battleship I crashed into the Vampire Affiliated Academy. For its value, use the specifications of the battleship currently under construction by our United Club as a reference."
"I have only one requirement for this: you must cut deep! Make those Vampire fellows understand the meaning of pain! They will soon forget the pain of the blitzkrieg I conducted, but they have no right to forget! When the time comes, the reparations negotiations must make them jump from the pain! The reason I didn't wipe out their Affiliated Academy was to let them know what it means to wish they were dead!"
"As long as the Lord Vampire Academy still exists, destroying the Affiliated Academy is meaningless. When they send their representatives, we will be on our home turf! Even if we have to hold their heads down, we will make them sign a contract that humiliates their academy and forfeits their rights!"
"The Vampire Affiliated Academy is right on the doorstep of our Witch Academy's territory. If we don't cut them until they're terrified and put a dog leash of contractual restrictions on them, they won't know how to behave. I hope you haven't forgotten how the Hundred Academy Alliance has been harassing our Witch Academy lately."
"When the time comes, I propose that the contract-signing ceremony be live-streamed in its entirety..."
This meeting was less of a conference and more of a unilateral speech and post-war report by me.
I wanted to plant the idea that "might equals the right to speak" into their minds. This sentence is never wrong anywhere, and it is especially effective when cognitions and values differ.
At this moment, I felt a sense of irony regarding these people from the United Club. Their thinking might be different from mine, but that family-style "interests first" mindset did make them calm enough. Not a single brain-dead person raised an objection throughout the entire process.
At least it proved that the people sitting here taking this lecture had brains; they knew that the bird that sticks its head out gets shot.
They also knew that those with unequal status have no right to talk about equality, even with the temptation of profit... because in this blitzkrieg, I was the profit!
The war reparations from the Vampire Affiliated Academy would go to the collective that was the United Club. As for the final distribution, my voice carried the most weight.
So, regardless of why they didn't dare refute me and listened to my nagging so seriously, the end result was that the meeting concluded.
Many things had been set in stone.
I didn't have much energy left to continue playing along with the United Club. Aside from staying in touch with Cleveland to confirm a series of details regarding the incident, I ignored everyone else.
I didn't respond to those who wanted to hold a victory celebration, but I let Cleveland handle it.
After all, I didn't care about those honors, but the other students in the combat sequences really needed that kind of spiritual recognition.
As for me, I went immediately to Dean Mei's office.
I had sent Sister Bai ahead of time, carrying my Book in the Box and that drop of "Primitive Bloodline."
The thing the Vampires had cooked up this time was clearly problematic, but my Ley Line Identification Art couldn't provide a specific answer.
This was the limitation of the Ley Line Identification Art; I simply couldn't obtain effective information from data that had been intentionally distorted, tampered with, or destroyed.
But the fact that it could be done to this extent was enough to show the severity of the problem.
Arriving at Dean Mei's office, I gave a perfunctory knock and walked straight in.
At the moment, Dean Mei didn't seem to have much time for me.
She was busy.
She only gave me a token greeting.
I looked at the Witch Bookshelf Dean Mei had unfolded. These seemed to be the accumulation of Mei's own research. The compressed and folded spatial bookshelf seemed to extend infinitely, showing the depth of Dean Mei's foundation.
Even the research materials Mentor Belica had given me couldn't compare to this.
"Sister Bai~ what is Dean Mei doing?"
I plopped down on the sofa, sitting side-by-side with Sister Bai.
"Looking for information," Sister Bai said, handing over the Book in the Box.
I took the book and, after opening it, confirmed that there was nothing wrong with that drop of Primitive Bloodline.
Only then did I follow up: "Looking for information?"
"Yes. Regarding this drop of Primitive Bloodline you found. Dean Mei didn't have a very deep impression of it, but she remembered something, so she went to dig through her records."
"That mysterious? Even Dean Mei has to dig through records... isn't that a bit much?"
"Primitive Bloodline is actually easy to understand, but Dean Mei thinks this might be related to the Staff of World Destruction Plan. She's looking for research done by Wizards in this area," Sister Bai explained to me.
"Related to the Staff of World Destruction Plan? For real? Did I hit the jackpot?" I said, quite surprised.
Before, I just thought the thing was powerful. What really made me take it seriously was the diary mentioning that the Dean of the Wizard Academy had personally come to inspect it.
Later, the Vampire Dean's abnormal behavior further exposed the problem. It was practically a confession; except for the specific use, he had revealed everything else.
"It's just a guess for now," Sister Bai said.
Just as Sister Bai said that, Dean Mei walked out from her bookshelf space.
"It was a guess just now, but not necessarily anymore."
"Did Sister Mei find the key to the problem?" I immediately asked.
"Yes, exactly. I found the relevant records. They're a bit old, and the place they were tucked away gave me quite a search." As Dean Mei spoke, she spread a book open to a specific page and pushed it toward Sister Bai and me.
"Hmm... this is..."
"Bloodline Lens Observation Great Witchcraft?"
"Exactly!" Dean Mei nodded. "We Witches still deal with the Transcendent race of Human Wizards quite often. This Bloodline Lens Observation Great Witchcraft is a troublesome method they've mastered for observing and positioning the World Navel."
"Don't be fooled by how primitive and troublesome this method is; the current situation of the Main World perfectly fits the conditions for performing it."
"What conditions?" I skimmed the content on the page and waited for Dean Mei to explain.
"Look for yourselves! I've turned to the right page for you." Dean Mei tapped the page. The book was very old; if not for the traces of magic on it, it probably would have crumbled to dust long ago.
"The Bloodline Lens Great Witchcraft has a very wide range of applications and has been tested in countless worlds, large and small. Although there's no experimental data for the Main World, it's eighty percent likely it can be done."
"To perform this method, one needs to extract the Primitive Bloodline of the corresponding world's Destined Race. This requires a massive blood sacrifice of that race's lives to achieve. Rumor has it that this method was a technique discovered by Transcendent Wizards after they invaded and discovered a large Vampire world community."
"The Vampire race in the Main World is an obscure one; their highest Vampire Progenitor is only at the level of an ordinary Transcendent Saint Realm, yet they occupy such a vast territory in the Main World and possess three Transcendent Academies. That in itself is very suspicious."
"So, I thought of this possibility," Dean Mei said firmly.
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Author's Note: Happy New Year!
Heh heh~