Chapter 494: The Abyssal Demon Transcendent Race Enters the Main World
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 494: The Abyssal Demon Transcendent Race Enters the Main World
"Using the Core World of a small world as an Expansion Realm for the Main World... that is quite the grand undertaking."
The representatives of the other Transcendent Academies could only sigh in amazement at the decision made by the Witch Academy.
The fact that the small world had already drifted close to the Main World was an unchangeable reality. Since the Witch Academy had taken control of that small world first, the right to speak naturally belonged to them.
Of course, that wasn't what they cared about most. They were more focused on the "future" the witches had promised them.
Back when the three great Transcendent Races had conquered the Main World, they had crushed the deep defensive lines like dry leaves. They had destroyed the outer worlds used to mask the Main World's true coordinates in the void, bypassed the Void Frontline World—the sole interface between the Main World and the void—and fought the final battle in the Expansion Realm.
Now, only the Core World of the Main World remained; the rest was a field of ruins. It was no exaggeration to call this Main World a world built of wreckage.
With the arrival of the witches, the Main World's Core World received the "protection" of the Great Weakening Spell, and many of the outer layers were temporarily used as a protective shell for the Main World.
This was a matter of necessity. The Core World represented the original form of every world at its birth, also known as a "small world." The current developmental progress of the Main World was roughly equivalent to the volume of a small world; only by including the outer ruins could it barely be considered to have the mass of a Main World.
However, its rank remained. It was still a world that stood upon the main trunk of the void's Ley Lines.
In the past, the Witch Academy had been perfectly fine, maintaining the same attitude as the other Transcendent Academies toward outside intrusion: they did not allow other Transcendent Races to move in, permitting at most small subsidiary races to assist in development.
There was no reason for the witches to suddenly relent just because the Abyssal Demons had arrived.
This meant the witches must have mastered some technique to repair the Main World using the void's Ley Lines during their long stay there.
This was something the others couldn't help but envy. Even among Transcendent Races, there were massive gaps in scale and strength. After all... the void only recognized "Transcendent" as a single classification.
It was like how humans could be divided into adults and minors. Among adults, there were office workers with poor physical health, and there were also boxers who could kill a man with one punch. Thus, the gap between one Transcendent and another was equally vast.
The witches wanted to restore the Main World to its former glory, using other external worlds as nourishment to revive the severed Ley Lines.
In the study of Ley Lines, the Witch Academy had always been at the absolute forefront of the Main World.
Of course, this didn't necessarily mean those witches were geniuses; the other academies preferred to believe this was the handiwork of the Primal Witch from the Great Library of the Witch World.
The approach of this small world was a test. If the fusion of this small world's Core World and the Main World's Expansion Realm succeeded, the other Transcendent Academies would be almost entirely unable to interfere with the Main World's future development. They simply lacked the skills and technology; they could only watch from the sidelines and wait for the benefits the witches had promised.
The reason they were willing to believe the witches' one-sided claims wasn't because they trusted the witches' words, but because they trusted the Witch World's Contract Truth Witch and the Primal Witch.
The Witch Contract was a "breakout" level Truth Dedication of the Witch World, and one of the few techniques the witches made public to those outside their race.
As long as one party in a Witch Contract was a Transcendent Witch, the contract was "supervised" by the Contract Truth Witch and the Primal Witch. Since the concept of the Witch Contract was born, the Witch World had maintained a record of zero defaults. This had given rise to the strange rumor: "Don't believe a single word of a witch's nonsense—unless she puts it in a Witch Contract."
This single sentence managed to destroy the personal credit of individual witches while simultaneously establishing the absolute credit of the witch race.
Currently, the Main World urgently needed to settle this small world that was about to descend.
If one were to ask where the Expansion Realm was located in the Main World, it was actually at Ninglan New City. Ninglan New City belonged to the Main World's territory, yet it was not covered by the Core World's Great Weakening Spell for this very reason.
The Witch Academy planned to use Ninglan New City as the central hub of the Expansion Realm, using that intact Ley Line fracture as an interface to graft the small world's Ley Lines, thereby substituting the surrounding ruins.
When the time came, the small world's Core World would inevitably disintegrate, transforming into "World Origin Soil"—one of the three source elements of a world—to serve as the material foundation. Finally, it would attach itself to the framework of the Main World, using the power of the Ley Lines to reshape the world's original appearance.
This plan seemed simple, but it contained a massive amount of innovative principles and hypotheses. Any error in the process could affect the social stability of the Core World.
After all, the Expansion Realm and the Core World were right next to each other. If a collision occurred by mistake, it could open spatial channels between the two, causing a massive impact on the Main World's stable society.
However, there was another problem: if the small world's Core World disintegrated, what would happen to the people living on it?
Initially, many witches felt they could simply be ignored. Let those people enter the soul essence cycle; before long, they would become a new population for the Main World, inheriting the Main World's talents and receiving the Spirit Vision gift bestowed by the Main World Consciousness.
This was indeed the most convenient method, flawless in its efficiency. To Transcendent lifeforms, non-Transcendent lives were like mushrooms cultivated and screened by the world, cycling through growth and death in batch after batch.
In the eyes of Transcendents, non-Transcendent lives lacked independent individual consciousness. Even their memories were temporary possessions that would eventually be returned to the world's Ley Lines along with their soul essence to begin the cycle anew. They were temporary individuals born from the infinitely reorganized soul essence of the world. The evolution and development of non-Transcendent life relied on the world and the Ley Line Shackles, not on the individual lifeform itself.
Therefore, the act of severing the Ley Line Shackles was not merely about leaving one's native world; it was proof of seizing control over one's own life. This was the only path to becoming a true Transcendent.
Unfortunately, this proposal did not ultimately pass. Not all Transcendents viewed non-Transcendent lives as mere ants. Extinguishing the life of an entire small world touched a nerve for many, who felt it was simply not right.
Thus, the arduous task of protecting these lives from extinction during the process fell upon those who had opposed the idea.
Consequently, this proposal was forced to completion while the small world continued its approach.
There was another important driver behind all of this: the Abyssal Demon Transcendent Race.
Many academies were quite resistant to their inclusion, but the Abyssal Demons had reached their hands into the Main World long ago. They had put in immense effort to get a piece of the pie in this World Script; the sudden surge of Children of Destiny in the Main World was inextricably linked to them.
Initially, they hadn't intended to use Children of Destiny to complete the script for a violent intrusion. Instead, they wanted to use pseudo-Children of Destiny—created by dispersing luck—to use the script's momentum to force the establishment of an Abyssal Demon Transcendent Academy in the Main World.
After all, the Abyssal Demons had already laid their groundwork, establishing the prototypes of an Abyssal Demon Transcendent Academy. The Lesser Demon Academy, Necromancy Academy, Succubus Academy, and others were all supported by them. Once the Transcendent Demons intervened, these academies would immediately reorganize into the foundation of the Abyssal Demon Transcendent Academy.
However, the three great Transcendent Races eventually found out about the plan to create pseudo-Children of Destiny. They had "picked the peach," using their control over the script to turn those pseudo-Children of Destiny into candidates within the script. This had even caused Tan Han's status as a Child of Destiny to drop by a rank.
The Abyssal Demons were helpless, but things had already reached this point; they couldn't let their investment go to waste.
So... the matter of the Abyssal Demons entering the Main World had been dragged out until now. Under the premise of the Witch Academy leading the restoration of the Main World's glory, and as the various Transcendent Academies relented, it was time for the Abyssal Demons to move in.
Although the academies had agreed, the reputation of the Abyssal Demons was on par with that of the witches—it was hard to say who was worse. Every academy worried that the demons' entry would cause unnecessary trouble, as they all knew exactly what kind of character Abyssal Demons possessed.
Thus, the False World Space Great Witchcraft was prepared specifically for the Abyssal Demons; using it for the joint exam was merely a side benefit.
Furthermore, while the False World Space Great Witchcraft wasn't a "true" Great Witchcraft and lacked the direct intervention of [Transcendent Knowledge], it was a byproduct of the Wizard Academy's research into [Transcendent Knowledge]. Its power was beyond doubt.
The Wizard Academy was even confident that through further research, they could turn this spell into a true Great Witchcraft, further increasing their influence in the Main World.
The Witch Academy didn't care about any of this, as they had never ceased their own research into Great Spellbooks.
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Meanwhile, on the Bobapus Archipelago.
"Eh?" I stared at Sister Bai with wide, disbelieving eyes. "Something is about to happen to the Bobapus Archipelago?!"
What was going on?
"Xiao Han, did you know? The range of the False World Space Great Witchcraft provided by the Wizard Academy doesn't just cover the Bobapus Archipelago and its surrounding waters. it encompasses a much larger territory. Moreover, it's not just here; many other places across the Main World are covered by this Great Witchcraft. And all these covered areas share a common trait..." Sister Bai explained patiently.
"A common trait?"
"Yes. They are all coordinate points for the Abyssal Demons' descent into the Main World," Bai Yu said in a low voice. She looked at me, only to find that I didn't look particularly shocked. "Xiao Han, you don't seem surprised by this?"
"Mm... I sort of expected it, I just didn't think it would be so soon..." I replied. "Actually, the Dean mentioned this to me before. I have a general idea of what's happening..."
"Is that so? I see. It seems Dean Mei really tells you everything... she truly values you." A flash of surprise crossed Sister Bai's eyes.
"Dean Mei is indeed very good to me. Her kindness is almost overwhelming."
"That just means the Dean has discovered a value in you that you haven't even noticed yourself. Perhaps... you hold yourself in too low a regard?"
"Do I? I feel like I'm already quite spoiled..."
After all, looking around the entire Witch Academy, was there any other senior sister who received the same special treatment I did?
"Alright, it seems you're really easy to satisfy, Xiao Han." Bai Yu chuckled and sighed. She was no longer trying to change Xiao Han's perspective on these things. If she didn't want to compete, then she wouldn't.
She should try to accept Xiao Han as she was, rather than imposing her own views on her.
"Easy to satisfy? Sister Bai, isn't it a bit rash to say that after only trying twice? I'm the insatiable type!" Seeing her sigh, I nudged the conversation in a slightly different direction.
"Hmm? Xiao Han, are you asking for a beating? How do you manage to turn every topic into something so strange?" Bai Yu was stunned for a moment before reacting. Seeing my teasing expression, she understood instantly.
"It's your mind that's in the gutter, Sister Bai! It has nothing to do with me! I was being serious!" I quickly explained as she reached out as if to strike me.
I knew she was only half-joking, but a little strategic surrender was always good.
Besides, why was our sex life so sparse?
Before, I had gotten used to celibacy, but after that first time, I had truly "tasted the marrow." Yet, during such a crucial period afterward, Sister Bai had run off! She left me hanging for so long, and now that we were finally back in the Main World, it had been so many days and we'd only done it once...
Who could stand that?
This kind of thing... you get addicted after just one time, okay?
That said, in reality, I wasn't about to let my brain be ruled by hormones.
I was just testing Sister Bai's thoughts. If she didn't want to for now, I wouldn't force it. This sort of thing was only fun when both parties were into it.
As Sister Bai and I were enjoying our walk on the main island of the Bobapus Archipelago, her expression shifted slightly.
"What's wrong?"
"The Abyssal Demons have begun their entry into the Main World," Sister Bai said succinctly.
"Really? Why don't I see any portals?" I looked around but couldn't sense any fluctuations.
"The docking with the False World is already complete. If they don't try any tricks, everything will proceed as normal. If they do... they might need to be taught a lesson." As she spoke, a long blade appeared in her hand.
It was the weapon summoning spell Sister Bai had mastered. I hadn't expected that even after becoming a Transcendent, this spell wouldn't be obsolete. The last time I saw her use this blade was back at Ninglan New City.
Her action didn't trigger any panic in the crowd; it was as if everyone was simply ignoring her abnormal behavior.
This miraculous method amazed me every time I saw it. No wonder they had sent Sister Bai to handle this trouble.
"Sister Bai, if the Abyssal Demons are being dropped into the False World, what about the candidates? Or is this also part of the joint exam?"