Chapter 1034

After the Ancient Glacial Ice refused to become a Witch, I did not force it.

Before thoroughly stabilizing the situation of the Main World, I was not so reckless.

Of course, I also wanted to use this to test the intention of the Main World.

Currently, it seemed the Main World very much did not expect me to do so.

Whether this was the Main World Will or the Ancient Glacial Ice’s own intention, the result was the same.

After walking out of the Ancient Glacial Ice specialized laboratory, I planned to take the Ancient Glacial Ice to have a good look at the landscape of the Main World.

But before that…

“Regardless of anything, your consciousness was born from my hands. Even now, you don't seem to have a name belonging to you… A name is a romance belonging to life, and naming is also a tiny ritual for an individual to anchor their own existence. Do you have any thoughts about giving yourself a name?”

“No. A name…”

The King of Ancient Glacial Ice knew from its own race that a name was mostly just a code for addressing someone.

As for the romance of life or what a ritual was… it had never heard of them.

However, it still placed importance on the concept of a ritual from the bottom of its heart.

“If I must have a name, I shall be called… Ning.”

“Ning? Is there any deep meaning?”

“No, it is merely an exclamation originating from the Ancient Glacial Ice race’s source in elemental condensed ice.”

Ning forced an explanation.

“A single character… How about calling you Ningbing?”

“As you wish.”

“Then never mind. I’m terrible at naming; the Ning you chose yourself is more meaningful, so I’ll just call you Ning.”

I ultimately shook my head and did not adopt my own suggestion.

Through a simple conversation, its name was finally confirmed.

I didn't know much about the names of the Ancient Glacial Ice; I only knew that the Ancient Glacial Ice that followed Tan Han back then seemed to be called… Lie?

Since they were all one character, I naturally did not intend to break their tradition.

Just as I planned to take Ning to the Ninglan New City in the Expansion Realm for a stroll, she refused.

Ning stated that the world she was currently in gave her a very broken sense of disharmony, and she wanted to follow her instincts to go to a place that made her feel more comfortable.

Subsequently… she directly crossed from the Expansion Realm to the Core Realm!

Without using a Grand Spellbook or any spatial means, she arrived in the Core Realm just like that!

Amidst my shock, I also followed suit in one step.

But my heart was constantly sighing in exclamation.

As expected of the Protector of the world. I didn't understand the method just now; I could only simply distinguish that it was related to the Earth Veins of the Main World.

And the Earth Veins of the Main World happened to be my cognitive blind spot.

I could only read information data flowing beneath the Earth Veins through the Earth Veins.

Even so, it was extremely difficult for me to even trace the Protector of the world crossing the Earth Veins like this.

After all, the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell essentially utilized the operational rules of the Earth Veins, while the Protector of the world dominated the power of the Earth Veins on an instinctive level!

Upon arriving in the Core Realm, Ning and I appeared one after another within the Witch Academy.

However, this was not an area with a large flow of people, so the two figures suddenly appearing was not considered very abrupt.

After arriving here, the massive body of the Ancient Glacial Ice gradually became smaller, until it was close to the height of an average person.

Subsequently… her body constructed of ice crystals blurred for a moment and transformed into the appearance of a young girl.

Moreover, at this moment, she—oh no, it's her now—had actually imitated my long white hair.

“What are you doing?”

I hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

The Ancient Glacial Ice had not learned any spells, and I had not left her any legacy of memories.

Even for a mere Disguise Technique or Transformation Spell, without knowing the spell framework, without understanding Transcendent runes, and without knowing the most basic principles, it was impossible to master them without a teacher!

However, I could also tell that Ning’s transformation into a girl's appearance was just a small trick like a “visual illusion,” completely unable to hide from my Spirit Vision.

“My original posture would probably be hard to integrate into this world, right?”

Ning spoke.

“No… I mean, how did you do it?”

“I’m not sure. Just out of instinct… I seem to be able to manifest this posture, but I can only manifest this posture. My essence has not changed; I am still the Ancient Glacial Ice.”

“Talent shapeshifting? Or… the bond between the Protector of the world and the Mandate Race?”

I murmured to myself, but I leaned more toward the latter.

But these were just some small tricks.

It had to be said, Ning doing this indeed saved me a whole lot of trouble.

Otherwise, if the original posture of the Ancient Glacial Ice took a lap around the Witch Academy, it would absolutely attract a huge crowd of onlookers.

“Perhaps… Can you tell me where this is?”

“Here is the Core Realm of the Main World. The place you were just at was the Expansion Realm.”

“I feel like the space where I am seems to have a layer of folding… it was the same when I was in the Expansion Realm.”

“You didn't sense it wrong. The Witch Academy is a space established above a city called Modu. The place we are at is the Witch Academy. The Expansion Realm is similar, except in the Expansion Realm we were outside the Witch branch, while here we are inside the academy.”

“What a complex composition…”

“I think so too, but you’ll get used to it. Of course, I also don't want you to run around blindly. The place outside the Witch Academy is Modu, which is where ordinary people live. If your main body appears, it will scare those ordinary people.”

“I will be careful.”

“Oh! Right. I also don't suggest you leave the territory radiated by the Witch Academy.”

“Why?”

Ning asked curiously.

“Because outside the Witch territory are the lands of other Transcendent races. If they catch you, they won't talk to you nicely like I do.”

“Oh.”

Ning nodded with a partial understanding.

She was not clear about many matters of the Main World, so she naturally didn't understand how serious the danger I mentioned was.

After some thought, I took out a seed.

“I’ll give you one of these. It's called a Seed of Great Knowledge. It can help you understand many things, help you remember many things, and similarly, allow you to contact me at any time. This contact can even cross the distance between worlds.”

“Thank you. How do I use this?”

“Just insert it into the Sea of Consciousness through the center of your brow.”

I introduced.

The current version of the Seed of Great Knowledge was completely different from the past when I had to teach it hand-in-hand.

Along with the Seed of Knowledge, it had suddenly become an “all-automatic” mode, including opening the Sea of Consciousness and the initial gestation and germination stage of the Seed of Great Knowledge.

Not long after, Ning had preliminarily mastered the Seed of Great Knowledge, and she also displayed a strong interest in it.

However, while briefly teaching Ning how to use the Seed of Great Knowledge, I only then noticed that during the period I had blocked communication contacts, something extraordinary seemed to have happened.

The consciousness gestation experiment was extremely important to me, and with so many Witch sisters cooperating with full effort, I couldn't afford not to place importance on it.

Regarding this, I had blocked all matters related to the United Club and the Academy War in one go, to avoid stirring up some of my curiosity and dispersing my energy and attention.

And now, with the revival of the Ancient Glacial Ice and the experiment having results, upon unblocking I discovered that Cleveland had sent me many messages.

Not only Cleveland, but also Tan Han, Shi Ruizhi, and many people from the Bakery Club had sent me messages.

Even though I didn't have many friends, I was suddenly overwhelmed.

But after checking carefully, I understood that everything they said pointed to one thing.

The Blood Slave Peninsula blood sacrifice massacre!

Our Witch Academy United Club, partial members of STF 7, and the main combat members of STF 1 and STF 2 were ambushed by the Blood Slave Academy within the Blood Slave Academy.

A bloody ritual massive enough to cover an entire Transcendent academy was activated by some unknown means.

In the night, before most students even knew what was happening, they were transformed into blood mist under the ritual’s strangulation and merged into the core of the ritual.

With such terrifying means, the level of cruelty was comparable to the Deep Abyss Demons’ flesh and blood devouring!

This was a revenge!

Seeing the Witch Academy students being so easily strangled to death, their flesh and blood converging, and their soul-substances being carried away—this was to make even resurrection a luxury for them!

“What happened? Your expression was a bit terrifying just now.”

At this moment, Ning looked at me, shocked by the killing intent I had subconsciously revealed just now.

However, this killing intent was not directed at her, so she asked.

“Sorry, I might have lost my composure a bit just now. I saw some bad news.”

I gathered my emotions in an instant; after all, I was an Emotional Body Cultivator.

But this didn't mean this matter could be brushed aside.

There was no longer any distinction between right or wrong in this matter, and I would no longer use grand principles to guide my emotions.

I no longer needed to explain right or wrong; weakness is the original sin!

I checked the time; it was sent to me by Cleveland not long ago…

Meaning this matter had not happened very long ago.

“Is it convenient to say what exactly happened?”

Ning also revealed curiosity beyond her concern.

“Three of our Witch Academy’s combat sequences were trapped and killed by other Transcendent academies outside the academy. Preliminary estimates of dead and injured might reach a thousand…”

Among the combat sequences, my Special Task Force Zero represents the Bakery Club and some free unaffiliated members, so it only totaled a few hundred people.

But every other combat sequence represented a large club!

And the cooperation of many other small clubs.

So a single combat sequence already reached several hundred, nearly a thousand people!

And this did not include logistics personnel.

Over at the Blood Slave Peninsula, the blood sacrifice ritual had trapped and killed at least two and a half Witch Academy combat sequences.

No matter how conservative the estimate, the number of dead and injured reached a thousand!

Moreover, when the temporary unstable spatial tunnel was opened, the Witch Academy had also urgently dispatched a large number of logistics personnel.

If these people were also dead…

The Earth-Sun Tragedy I created at the time didn't even have that many people die!

What’s more, this was on the Blood Slave Peninsula.

The residual might of the blood sacrifice ritual covered at least half of the Blood Slave Peninsula.

The blood clouds and blood mist had even crossed the peninsula to other regions.

According to estimates, the effective lethality probably covered one-third of the peninsula.

Those ordinary people facing this overbearing and completely unreasonable blood sacrifice didn't even have the ability to resist!

Such a terrifying and bloody massacre made even me frown.

If it were me doing the killing, at least I wouldn't make these people suffer so much.

Or rather, if possible, I wouldn't want to involve so many ordinary people.

For some reason, seeing this blood sacrifice suddenly made me think of the plan in the Game World to collapse an underground city on one side of the Boyunis Earth Rift Resettlement Area just to kill me…

Not treating people as humans.

To speak of being cold-blooded… one still has to look at the Wizards.

Behind the Blood Clan represented by the Blood Slave Academy stands the Wizard Academy!

I don't believe the Blood Slave Academy could achieve such a thing on its own, so the mastermind must be someone else.

Then my intuition tells me it was absolutely done by the Wizards!

“Sorry… I might have to excuse myself for a bit. But don't worry, I’ll let my other Life Clone accompany you to witness the scenery of the Main World. I personally have some business to attend to.”

I looked at Ning with a bit of apology.

Ning’s existence was very important.

Even if I was busy, I had to have another Life Clone help look after her.

Because she was the deputy of the Main World Consciousness, she was likely to be the “medium” for our Witch Academy’s communication with the Main World next.

“Another Life Clone?”

Ning was a bit surprised, but in the end, she shook her head.

“No need for that trouble. Can I follow you? Just to see the world.”

“……It’s possible, but if you follow me, then the Main World you see will be from my perspective. This isn't a very good experience.”

“But this is also the Main World. I certainly don't need to look at those boring beauties all the time.”

“Hehe Clearly you’ve never experienced beauty, why would you call it boring?”

“……I, I don't know.”

Ning was also slightly stunned, not knowing what the situation was.

“It's like an instinct…”

“I understand. You don't need to explain.”

I smiled and waved my hand, not caring too much.

This was likely related to the Main World Will.

The Main World was currently in dire straits, and had no mind to enjoy superficial beauty.

I sent a message to Cleveland; I planned to go ask about the situation in person.

And Ning followed by my side by default.

Not long after, she proactively spoke: “Tell me about the situation of the Main World. Is the Main World very chaotic now? It looks like more than a thousand people died at once…”

“Do you care, or are you just interested in gossip?”

“It should be interest in gossip, as you put it. I also very much need to understand what exactly happened to the Main World.”

After all, she hadn't learned too much knowledge of the Core Realm in the Earth Veins of the Expansion Realm earlier.

But now that she had come to the Core Realm, in just this short while, she only roughly understood some situations within the Witch Academy and knew the general concept of the Transcendent Witch Academy.

But she was unclear about everything outside the Witch Academy.

Since the “Lesser Witch” before her said it was very dangerous outside the Witch Academy, she at least needed to know to what extent the danger reached.

“Then I’ll take this opportunity to tell you. The place we are at is called the Witch Academy. Outside the Witch Academy, there are many other Transcendent academies, and among them, they are led by the Three Great Top-tier Academies……”