Chapter 1085: Announcement of the Emerald Forest World
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 1085: Announcement of the Emerald Forest World
The "abducted" freshmen marveled at the fact that they had stepped into a transcendent world completely different from their past, while the other transcendent academies cursed the Witch Academy under their breath for its lack of sportsmanship.
However, within the Witch Academy at this moment, the representatives of the United Clubs were in a state of shock.
This particular meeting of the United Club representatives had been initiated by Cleveland, the representative of the Baking House.
The subject of her presentation was none other than the descent of the "Emerald Forest" world.
"According to the data and model deductions provided by Teaching Assistant Xiao Han, the Emerald Forest world will not directly merge with our Main World upon collision. The differences between the world rules will cause a stagnation at the regulatory level between the two worlds. This means that this disaster will not affect the entire world, but will instead be a localized collision..."
"Excuse me, why is it taking this form this time? Does this count as a second Expansion Realm?" someone asked from the floor.
"This is not a second Expansion Realm. The formation of an Expansion Realm requires the intervention of a Mentor, which did not happen this time. I cannot explain the specific reasons for its formation; the only thing I can say is that this world will slowly merge within the Core World where we are located," Cleveland said with a hint of regret.
"Then, may I ask what form this world fusion will take, and what impact it will have on our native world?"
"Will it be accompanied by natural disasters like earthquakes or tsunamis?"
"Will more land appear on our surface continent?"
Having recovered from the initial shock, the crowd quickly fired off a series of questions they were concerned about.
After all, this was a world-level event!
If it triggered a world-class earthquake or tsunami... was this going to cause a mass extinction of civilization?
"There will definitely be an impact, but let me explain," Cleveland said, before opening the world fusion model deduction.
"In the absence of Mentor intervention, the relationship between two worlds can be understood as 'Mutual Predation.' However, the world we inhabit is far more powerful than the Emerald Forest world, so the ultimate result of this mutual predation will undoubtedly be us annexing them."
"This is no joking matter. Can you give us a guarantee?" someone asked worriedly.
"This has been calculated and verified by a Mentor. If you are uneasy, you may obtain the model deduction from me after the meeting and take it back to consult your own Mentors," Cleveland said with great confidence.
"The instinct of mutual predation can last for hundreds or even thousands of years without Mentor intervention—that wouldn't be surprising. But do not forget the significance of the Emerald Forest world to us: it is to open a new battlefield for our Academy War and divert existing conflicts!"
"A century is more than enough time for all of you to end up in your coffins. I don't know what you're worried about. Once the situation in the Main World settles, a Mentor will naturally step in to handle the Emerald Forest world. What we need to do now is respond to the upcoming opportunity!"
Cleveland's words shifted the crowd's focus away from the fear of disaster. The word "opportunity" made many people's eyes light up!
The students present were basically all people who had participated in the previous Expansion Realm pioneering missions. A brand-new world represented resources everywhere!
"I'd like to ask, will the Academy restrict our actions in this so-called Emerald Forest world like they did with the Expansion Realm?" someone took the chance to ask.
"Until the Witch Academy becomes the sole dominant power in the Main World, the Academy will not place any restrictions on us. This world is not an Expansion Realm; it is a battlefield that Sister Xiao Han fought to secure for us! There will be no construction in this world—only harvesting and the suppression of other transcendent academies!"
After all, the war in the Main World was too widespread, and the common people suffered for it. Even if the conflicts were only at the academy level, they would inevitably affect the lives of ordinary people.
Therefore, a battlefield that greatly reduced the impact on the Main World was very important.
It was like a war sandbox independent of the Main World.
As for whether any transcendent academies would turn their noses up at this and refuse to participate?
Heh... was that even possible?
That was an entire world!
Even if it were just an ordinary world without any supernatural power, the land, stone, timber, and water resources... were all valuable things.
As for those who felt these things had no value to the transcendent? That only proved their vision was too narrow to create value with them!
Furthermore, this was a world teeming with supernatural power, containing a large number of elven communities. Even elven communities without a World Tree held immense value.
The meeting transformed from initial shock to skepticism, and finally, in the face of the impending distribution of interests, everyone became harmonious.
Each of them fantasized about a beautiful future, occasionally sighing in praise of Teaching Assistant Xiao Han, who had made all of this possible.
However, deep down, many people's wariness of this "Little Witch" grew even deeper.
After all, Cleveland had said it herself: this Emerald Forest world was a world that Teaching Assistant Xiao Han had obtained by reverse-invading the game players' world.
Such methods were beyond their wildest imaginations. Thus, they could only rely on the benefits they could obtain in the future to soothe the fear in their hearts toward this Teaching Assistant Xiao Han.
As soon as the meeting ended, the representatives of the various clubs within the United Clubs quickly stepped forward to chat, hoping to gain more intelligence regarding the new world.
Cleveland also received many private invitations from clubs, hoping she would grace them with her presence at a dinner.
As for what schemes they were hatching, Cleveland didn't bother to ask. In the end, she only accepted the invitation from the Jack-of-all-trades Club.
Why?
Because after this meeting, she was going to see one of her former superiors.
Millian.
Although she was now nominally on the same level as Millian, she still held great respect for this "senior" who had been willing to give her such an opportunity.
With the holidays approaching, word had it that Millian had established a firm foothold in the Expansion Realm and could temporarily let go to return to the Witch Academy.
Cleveland was well aware of exactly what Millian had achieved in the Expansion Realm.
Ming Xueming, the former president of the Jack-of-all-trades Club who had gone there with Millian, was equally aware.
Therefore, the Jack-of-all-trades Club was the club within the United Clubs that understood the Baking House the best. Basically, the Jack-of-all-trades Club would actively echo any proposal decided by the Baking House, maintaining a posture of completely siding with them.
This was because some people in the Jack-of-all-trades Club understood that once the Witch Academy lifted all restrictions on the channels and trade between the Core World and the Expansion Realm, that so-called Calamity Group would become a calamity hanging over the heads of all the families in the Core World!
However, Cleveland didn't care about that for the moment. Millian's return to the Witch Academy during the holidays was also another signal. The "territories" previously conquered by the United Clubs included a significant share for the Baking House. Even if the Baking House didn't have family forces behind it to cooperate in development and infrastructure, it absolutely had to have the places it was entitled to.
One could say these places were the foundation for development in the Core World.
Of course, Cleveland had also heard that Millian had another purpose for her return: to participate in the Self-Generated Mana Talent shaping during the holidays!
Ever since the experiment for the Self-Generated Mana Talent ended, a regular student incentive project for granting Self-Generated Mana Talent had appeared in the Academy.
The selection and recommendation criteria were extremely strict, even requiring the signing of a mandatory contract. Under the binding force of a Witch Contract, the student had to promote to a Transcendent Witch and complete graduation within a certain number of years after obtaining the talent.
If the contract could not be fulfilled, the binding force of the contract would forcibly erase the talent!
This meant that Millian's participation in this project represented her absolute confidence in promoting to Transcendent status.
Crossing the portal between the Witch Academy and the branch academy, Cleveland arrived at the Witch Branch Academy in the Expansion Realm.
Millian's return to the Academy followed the process of entering the branch academy from the Expansion Realm, and then entering the main academy from the branch.
Although, in principle, the branch academy had not opened the channels between the cooperative Expansion Realms, some people always had privileges.
"Millian, welcome back."
Cleveland went to greet Millian personally. Millian had missed an entire era of the United Clubs at the Witch Academy; most of her knowledge of the current Academy came from chats and documents.
Along the way, Cleveland also hosted a small reception banquet, inviting many important figures from the United Clubs to attend.
This wasn't some unnecessary formality. As a figure who could represent the Baking House and the Xiao Han Fan Club forces, Millian's status was extremely important.
Especially for the people from the Jack-of-all-trades Club, they knew very well that the girl before them had completely become a sharp blade in Xiao Han's hand.
If they were to evaluate the old Xiao Han, they would at most call her a brute who possessed absolute power. But now... the other party had the ability to uproot their families. How could that not terrify them?
The only thing worth celebrating was that Millian's power and influence were in the Expansion Realm and could not yet affect them.
But... what about the future?
This was a sword hanging over their heads, capable of taking their lives at any moment!
They weren't afraid of absolute power; they controlled the social order and had plenty of means to deal with an opponent within their own framework. But now that the opponent had a means to painlessly excise family forces, they were terrified.
This banquet was meant both to compensate for Millian's missing status in the United Clubs and to test her attitude. It was also a declaration: the Baking House was beginning to show its fangs.
Who was an enemy and who was a friend—it was time to start picking sides.
With the descent of the Emerald Forest world imminent, even if one didn't want to be friends, they had to smilingly become partners. At the very least, this would tie everyone together on the surface.
The only flaw in this banquet was that the person they most hoped to see, Teaching Assistant Xiao Han, did not show up in person.
None of the major clubs, whose intelligence tentacles reached into every corner of the Witch Academy, could find out where she was. This was the gap between them and her.
And the "Xiao Han" they spoke of in every other sentence was currently staying in her own dungeon world.
I wasn't very interested in the banquet, but Cleveland had still asked me as per protocol, informing me of the banquet's purpose and such.
After learning about it, I went about my business as usual, simply waiting for the Fool's Dream to hatch.
If this incubation process succeeded, it would become a key node in my future construction of the Fool's Dream life cycle.
However, there was another problem that needed solving... who would gestate such a large egg?
Let the Fool's Dream do it themselves?
I looked at the Fool's Dream egg before me, which was nearly the size of a basketball. This size was almost as large as a Fool's Dream itself!
That was absolutely impossible.
Furthermore, once a Fool's Dream was born, it was almost an "adult form," with basically no room for growth.
Perhaps I could shrink the Fool's Dream egg and then add a developmental growth process for them.
But the idea of a Fool's Dream laying its own egg... that image was a bit too much to look at.
I should think of some other method...
This reminded me of the stance Sister Bai had taught me: the Witch Breeding project.
However, the breeding project, setting aside those "comfortable" and tedious processes, essentially still used the witch herself as a medium for gestation to give birth to a Witch Egg.
So... was there a possibility to detach from an individual medium and directly gestate a Fool's Dream?
It was actually possible; the hundred Fool's Dream eggs I had created were living examples.
But this method required mastering too many spell derivations and special techniques. The threshold was so high that basically no witch other than me could do it.
Perhaps I could try lowering the requirements and the threshold for this process.
For example, requiring a longer incubation time or more stringent conditions.
After all, as far as I knew, caring for a Witch Egg was also very tedious, and the survival rate was low. Once a Witch Egg hatched, it was a young witch who started at the Transcendent level!
Just as I was feeling a bit stuck, after all these days of gestation and incubation... finally!
The first Fool's Dream to break its shell appeared!
"Uwaaaaah..."
After breaking the shell, the newborn Fool's Dream let out its first instinctive cry. She was subconsciously expelling the biomass nutrient solution and other things used to shape her body inside the egg from her system.
I stepped forward, picked up a wrapping blanket, and hurried to pick up the Fool's Dream.
Once her body, life essence, and consciousness were perfectly aligned, the newborn Fool's Dream opened her eyes, which were filled with curiosity about reality.
"Sage... Sister!"
After I gently cleaned her up with a Cleaning Spell, the adorable Fool's Dream immediately called out.
"Welcome to reality~" I responded with a sincere smile, offering a welcoming blessing to the first Fool's Dream to descend into reality in this manner.
"Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?" I rubbed the Fool's Dream's little head and asked.
Currently, through the data monitoring of the Tree of Great Knowledge, I hadn't found any problems, but that didn't mean there were absolutely none.
"No! I feel great~ Everything around me... is so new! Is this... breathing? In... hale... ex... hale... A heartbeat? And..."
The first newborn Fool's Dream was like a curious baby, observing everything in reality from a brand-new perspective.
What made them different from human infants was... that even before birth, they had been constantly immersed in the complex information and knowledge from the Tree of Great Knowledge.