Chapter 1010: Witch United Club Declaration of War

Without war, union is meaningless!

A single sentence pointed out the fundamental reason for the existence of the Witch United Club.

Regardless of why they had initially formed such a club, now that this colossus had been assembled, it needed nutrients to sustain its operations, and it needed to find things to do to prove its significance.

Otherwise, it would be nothing but playing house.

This was a collective involving massive interests.

The Main Combat Department was a vast entity that relied on battle and slaughter to seize resources and interests, possessing inseparable ties to all the clubs.

The Transcendent Academic Department, led by the Spell Research Society and the Alchemy and Potion-making Society, served as a platform for academic discussion within a real-combat atmosphere.

The preferential treatment in resources, manpower, and materials were opportunities they could not give up.

Furthermore, the Logistics Department was the chip through which the two ultra-large clubs, Wan Shi Wu and the Witch's Secret Realm Club, displayed their prowess and distributed interests.

Whoever dared to make the Witch United Club meaningless was the enemy!

So, who was their enemy?

Unfold the world map, set aside the Witch Academy’s territory, and throw a dart at random.

Any point hit was an enemy!

And the Sun Rock Elf Academy, the first one brought up in this meeting, attracted most people's attention.

“Regarding the serious provocations of the Sun Rock Elf Transcendent Academy, I believe our Witch Academy has no obligation to tolerate such faults.”

“Their violent acts and infringement on the interests of the Witch Academy are obvious to all present. Since they have failed to recognize their place, let us help them recognize it!”

“Otherwise, we would be indulging the arrogance of those micro and small Transcendent academies. We have an obligation to correct their behavior and use the most direct means to make them re-examine the gap between themselves and the Witch Academy!”

“Therefore, given the seriousness of the aforementioned issues, the Witch Academy can make only one choice...”

As Olina said this, her gaze subconsciously turned toward me.

“And that is to—Declare War on the Sun Rock Elf Transcendent Academy!”

When Olina finished her words, the ones whose expressions shifted most violently were the Guardian Clubs.

The representative teams of the Eight Core Guardian Clubs merely marveled at the inflammatory nature of Olina's words.

Before this meeting began, they had already met more than once.

The final conclusion to declare war was set in stone, and the academy gave it full support.

Actually, at the very beginning, the people who opposed the declaration of war were afraid of Transcendents.

Even for an obscure Transcendent academy like the Sun Rock Elf Academy, its Academy Head and core mentors were definitely Transcendents.

The concept that Transcendents were invincible made them hesitate to act rashly.

However, the academy side stated that if any Transcendents intervened in this Academy War, it would lead to another Qunluosen Wasteland incident, and the academy would back the students to the end.

It was exactly this promise that allowed the clubs to finally show their true fangs!

The Witch race had never been kind.

Even Reserve Witches undergoing Witchification were the same; they would step by step break away from the inherent thinking of females and transform into the unique cognitive concepts of Witches.

This was precisely why those Transcendent academies would never, under any circumstances, take back a student who had undergone Witchification.

When all the words paved the way for a declaration of war, a single term was carved into their instincts like a conviction.

At this moment, everyone felt a sense of conviction and hot-bloodedness that transcended the entanglement of interests and rushed straight to their souls.

At the peak of everyone being swept away by emotion, I cooperated by standing up, looking straight into Olina's gaze, and responding firmly and loudly:

“Declare War!”

The words of declaration, following the rhythm of emotion, made them perk up as if hit by an electric shock.

With a loud crash and the dragging of chairs, most people stood up, shouting their conviction under the resonance of emotion!

“DECLARE WAR!!!”

At this moment, the shocking scene drove everyone to firmly commit to the same goal.

The hidden conformity within their hearts made them firmly believe their choice was right.

Thus, amidst the declaration of war, a war machine like a runaway horse began to operate!

For the rest of the meeting, everyone concluded the subsequent arrangements in a state of inexplicable excitement.

The first step in launching a war was mobilization!

On the Academy Network and Plant Network, the calls for war were extremely high, and a preliminary unity of public opinion within the academy had been completed.

Everything would reach its climax on the day the new semester began.

This declaration of war was bound to be formal, logical, and well-founded.

The Witch Academy officially announced the crimes of the Sun Rock Elf Transcendent Academy and the price they needed to pay for their provocations.

It also notified and warned other unrelated Transcendent academies not to interfere.

Specifically, the Aphrodite Forest Elf Transcendent Academy.

If the Sun Rock Elves dared to jump like this, who would believe there wasn't support from that academy behind them?

The notice had been issued; do not say you were not warned.

When the time came and students from other academies were captured on the battlefield, not only would no mercy be shown, but it would be used as an excuse to turn on those other academies.

The Sun Rock Elf Academy was only the first, but it would definitely not be the last.

***

Witch Academy United Club Declaration of War

Declarers: All members of the Witch United Club

Date: 1147.2.27

To the Sun Rock Elf Transcendent Academy and its lackeys:

Today, I, Yang Yuehan, Teaching Assistant of the Witch Academy, in my capacity as the representative and commander of the Witch United Club Special Task Force Zero, bearing the glory and mission of the Witch Academy and with incomparable determination, formally declare war on you shameless scoundrels who dared to covet and maliciously seize the Witch Academy's regulated resources, and who trampled upon and provoked the Witch Academy's dignity and bottom line!

The Witch Academy has a long heritage.

We once treated any Transcendent academy with a free and open posture, but your greed and arrogance have placed our friendship in an irreconcilable position.

Now, we will no longer remain silent!

We will defend our dignity and glory with magic power and spells!

We once sought peace in a mild manner, but you cast it aside.

From the moment we declare war, we will no longer accept any form of submission or peace offerings!

We know your base nature well; you won't realize you were wrong until you realize you are about to die!

Our spells will descend upon your heads like a violent storm, destroying your ridiculous fortifications along with your weak physical bodies...

***

I, Yang Yuehan, on behalf of the entire Special Task Force Zero, hereby make this declaration:

The Witch Academy will defend our resources and dignity at any cost.

Everything the Sun Rock Elves have swallowed, they shall spit out!

Everything they have done, shall be repaid in full!

Sun Rock Elf Transcendent Academy, your end has arrived!

Students of the Witch Academy, prepare your spells and let us welcome this inevitable war together!

Witch Academy, Victory!

***

Looking at the declaration of war issued by the Witch Academy, it was as if everyone in the Core Realm felt suffocated by this operation.

This group of lunatics at the Witch Academy was actually launching an Academy War!

Even if they had deliberately excluded the Witch Academy when ranking the top-tier academies, it didn't mean they could ignore the Witch Academy's scale!

How could they wantonly launch an Academy War for such a reason?!

War was no child's play; people would die!

For a large-scale Transcendent academy, any single movement would cause a massive uproar in this world.

The Sun Rock Elf Academy had only gone over for a basic attack, yet they were met with the Witch Academy's ultimate skill.

And the Sun Rock Elves, seeing this declaration of war, broke into a cold sweat.

They never expected it to be like this.

Even more so, they didn't expect that by being willing to serve as a pawn for a top-tier academy, they would directly become cannon fodder in the game between top-tier academies.

But no matter how they begged and pleaded for help, they never thought of one thing: admitting their mistake.

They never thought they could be wrong; the ones in the wrong were never them.

It was that Witch Academy that bullied others with its power!

This declaration of war circulated not only among Transcendent academies but also caused a huge stir in ordinary society.

The long-absent war stimulated their survival instincts, triggering a trend of hoarding that drove up the prices of many basic materials.

This allowed the families to reap a significant war dividend in the secular world.

As soon as the declaration was issued, the Three Great Top-tier Academies immediately followed with calls for peace.

They also accused the Witch Academy of being inhumane and bullying the small as a large power.

Furthermore, they implicitly suggested support for the Sun Rock Elf Academy to resist the "inhumane invasion."

The Witch Academy’s side responded very overbearingly: on the battlefield, life and death are irrelevant!

Any third-party forces other than the Sun Rock Elves found intervening will be suppressed and killed with thunderous force!

Such an explicit threat immediately caused many Transcendent academies to rein in their plans to send personnel to assist.

Because they weren't blind.

The leader of the declaration of war against the Sun Rock Elf Academy was Special Task Force Zero.

Of course, that wasn't the main point.

The main point was Yang Yuehan!

Back then, with one person and one blade, she had slain over a hundred experts from the multi-school alliance!

Corpses were piled into mountains, and blood soaked the entire Qunluosen Wasteland.

Although the description was exaggerated, the battle record contained no falsehoods.

If you gave it a squeeze, what dripped out was nothing but blood and wails!

After all, those who paid the ransoms clearly remembered how many people had died there.

Now, just mentioning that name would cause those who participated in the Qunluosen Wasteland battle to subconsciously feel a chill run from their spine to their brain.

Thus, no one dared to touch their bad luck at the moment the Witch Academy was fighting its first battle to establish absolute victory and prestige.

Since they had Special Task Force Zero, there would be Task Force One, Two, and even Three, Four...

Even if they dared to say the Witch Academy only had one Yang Yuehan and the others were nothing to fear, they didn't want to have a head-on conflict with the Witches.

Who knew if they would act like mad dogs, biting whoever they caught?

Now, following the issuance of the declaration of war, a series of external statements followed in quick succession.

Among the series of crimes listed, it was also mentioned that the Sun Rock Elf Academy had privately mined the Witch Academy’s regulated material, Hexagonal Crystal Amber, without permission.

Preliminary estimates put the loss of Hexagonal Crystal Amber and its associated materials at the hundred-ton level.

This claim was extremely vague.

Hundreds of tons of Hexagonal Crystal Amber and its associated materials stolen... assuming it was one hundred tons, no one could disprove me if I said 99 tons of that ratio was pure Hexagonal Crystal Amber!

What did this mean?

Even the current reserves of Hexagonal Crystal Amber mined by Wan Shi Wu didn't reach a fraction of that mass!

One must know this was a regulated material; for students, its use was measured in grams.

Then the fluctuating value of this batch of lost materials was absolutely heaven-defying.

Once the Sun Rock Elf Academy was defeated, the equivalent return and compensation in regulated resources alone would make them bleed heavily.

Academies would not disappear; only the students would die out.

As long as the Transcendent Mentors remained, they could quickly transform and establish a brand-new Transcendent academy elsewhere.

This was the law of conservation of Transcendent academies in the macro-sense of the Main World.

A new semester had begun.

No one expected the Witch Academy to prepare such a surprise for the new semester.

Within the Witch Academy, under the guidance of public opinion, the sentiment had completely shifted toward "I want to see blood flow like a river."

Even if one or two anti-war comments popped up occasionally, they would be instantly submerged.

The Witch Academy did not mandate that anyone participate in this war.

As long as one didn't want to participate, they could just not join the Witch United Club.

However, in reality, most of the students in the Witch Academy participated.

Even many students without clubs were willing to join, being incorporated into temporary individual units.

For the expedition of STF Zero, a safety net of guaranteed resurrection was announced.

Anyone who sacrificed themselves on the front lines of battle would be resurrected free of charge.

This service was specially provided by Teaching Assistant Yang Yuehan.

This point was spread within the Witch Academy without any concealment, and it was even intentionally made known to the people of the Sun Rock Elf Academy; this was a form of psychological warfare.

A group of people who weren't afraid of death, backed by guaranteed resurrection—no one dared to imagine what crazy things they would do.

This time, the Special Task Force Zero I led, excluding myself, was mostly composed of students I personally selected who were unaffiliated and awaiting assignment, as well as those who had participated in the self-generating magic power experiment.

Unexpectedly, Shop Manager Xia Li, as well as Senior Ying Shiqian and Senior Tang Yihan, also joined the task force.

One should not overlook their combat power.

They were once old fritters who dared to take Red Velvet Cake to various Transcendent academies to provoke and snatch people.

The one who truly surprised me was Shop Manager Xia Li.

Several previous interactions had led me to believe she would not accept an Academy War.

But now, she used actual actions to prove that back then, she didn't seem to mean that.

Also following along this time were Tan Han, Shi Ruizhi, Lucianne, and the others.

Initially, I wanted to persuade them to enter the Expansion Realm branch along with the lower-year students at the start of the semester to adapt.

But in the end... I compromised.

After all, the combat power of Tan Han and the others was at the top tier of the academy.

Back then, they had fought in the Myriad Connection Arena until the teaching assistants didn't dare to make a move; that spoke for itself.

Since others could follow me to battle, so could they!

Facing the danger of potential death, they were fearless.

This was the best proof of loyalty they could give me!