Chapter 223 : Chapter 223

Chapter 223: The Witch Academy's Situation of Being an Enemy to the World

“Is this the Blood Pool Ancient Castle, the very core of the Land of Eternal Darkness? It's so luxurious.”

After bypassing the obstruction, I looked at the magnificent, huge castle in the distance.

Although it was located in a somewhat gloomy place, at least it looked luxurious.

Recalling the place where we slept last night, and then looking at this, they actually slept in such a comfortable castle.

This sense of imbalance naturally arose at once.

When I saw this place, I subconsciously felt that tonight's accommodation was settled.

No matter where we had to go after holding the ritual here today, I really wanted to sleep here tonight.

As for the Blood Clan here?

Sorry, only the strong are qualified to live in luxurious castles.

Since Tan Han and the others had already started the ritual, it meant that the Blood Clan here had been cleared out, or the danger here was no longer enough to threaten us.

“It's indeed very luxurious, the contrast is too great!”

Su Ningmu also said from the side.

However, when Su Ningmu and I walked in, we discovered that the ancient castle was very empty.

The pillar of light penetrated the ground and went deep underground.

It seemed that the so-called core blood pool of the Blood Clan should be underground.

After spending some time finding the corridor leading to the underground, the further down I went, the more I could smell that pure, bloody scent.

“Little Han, you're here?”

When I walked down, my appearance attracted a lot of attention.

“Hmm… What's wrong… with you guys? Who's seriously injured?”

I ran over curiously, only to find that the person Tan Han was treating was Su Xingyue.

I still had some impression of Su Xingyue, the one who chatted with me privately for a bit after the dinner party Tan Han invited us to ended.

She's also here at the Blood Pool Ancient Castle?

Doesn't that mean the Witch Academy can gather eight people at once!

But Su Xingyue's condition in front of me was not good.

Although Tan Han was treating her with a spell, she was still unconscious.

The fabric on her chest had a large hole, and blood from there had stained the skirt below.

“Su Xingyue… has already passed out, but is not completely dead… but…”

“Big Sis Xiao Han, if you don't understand, go take a look at the blood pool over there.”

“Blood pool?”

I tilted my head suspiciously.

Just now, because my attention was focused here, I forgot about the most spectacular sight here, the blood pool.

The blood pool was the most core sight in this underground space.

Just like its name, it was a huge pool, but it was filled with crimson blood!

The ferocious symmetrical design and bat elements were very in line with the Blood Clan's aesthetics, but the sharp protruding structures were particularly conspicuous.

Four protrusions, three of which had “corpses” impaled on them.

Stone spikes pierced from their spines in the back to their chests in the front, and blood flowed down from the pierced areas.

If you looked closely, the superficial blood vessels in their limbs were also cut, and it was obvious that the blood was flowing very quickly.

Through Spirit Vision, I could also see a terrifying spell effect solidified on this blood pool, which was “life suspension”.

That is to say, even so, the other party was still alive!

Even passing out was useless.

This was the exchange competition, which meant that at this moment, the other party didn't even have the ability to resurrect on their own!

Four stone spikes, three with people, and one empty.

It was very obvious that this position was Su Xingyue's before…

“The Blood Clan actually dares to do this?”

I suppressed my emotions.

After all, Lan Baihui's experience had already made me understand that this exchange competition was no child's play.

“Of course they dare. After all, doing this doesn't violate the rules.”

Tan Han's voice was also a little low at this moment.

“Big Sis Xiao Han, it's alright. Su Xingyue is out of danger, but before this, we already made the Blood Clan pay the price.”

“Pay the price? You should have let them try their own methods here.”

I walked to the edge of the blood pool and looked at the three people.

I didn't know any of these three.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or a fetish, but including Su Xingyue, these four “sacrifices” all seemed to be girls.

An elf… a Holy Angel… and a succubus?

This was really something.

They even managed to get a student from the Holy Angel Academy.

Isn't the Blood Clan's way of doing things too wild?

However, since no one here asked what to do with these three, it was very likely they were just going to be left alone.

After all, they weren't from the Witch Academy, and saving them would be troublesome.

Moreover, they were all from academies that had a grudge against us, so there was even less reason to save them.

Both Tan Han and I were targeting the Holy Angel Academy.

I had killed them before, and Tan Han, needless to say, was specifically targeting the Holy Angel Academy.

Needless to say on the Elf side either; the forest fire, burning the World Tree, breaking the branches of the World Tree.

Succubus Academy… I had just drowned their nest, the Fallen Land.

It could be said that we were enemies of the entire world.

It was foreseeable that in the later stages, when the Blood Clan lost their blood pool, the Elves lost their World Tree, the Wizards lost their Wizard Tower, and the Angels lost their floating island, they would unite to attack our Witch Academy.

And now, those guys from the Imp and Necromancer Academies have already lost the Fallen Land.

When our ritual is over, the Blood Clan's blood pool won't be left either.

It can be said that at that moment, the Blood Clan will truly exist in name only.

“Little Han, teleport Minian over. Time waits for no one,” Tan Han said.

“Mhm.”

I nodded and started summoning.

After sensing it for a moment, Minian's mark hadn't shattered.

It seemed she had protected the mark well.

As the summoning ritual of the spell appeared, a figure rushed out from it, and with a scream, made intimate contact with the rough ground here.

“Waaah! Ouch… Hiss… I… Huh? Am I here? Great! I'm here!”

After feeling the sharp pain, Minian was stunned for a moment, then reacted, so excited that she was about to dance for joy.

“Alright, Minian, be quiet. What did you just experience?”

“Uh… sorry! Big Sis Xiao Han, I didn't listen to your advice not to go to the forest. I really wanted to see you burn the World Tree, Big Sis Xiao Han…”

“Hmm? Okay… then… where's the invitation?”

I facepalmed.

This girl really knows how to cause trouble.

“In… invitation? Here! I brought it! I've completed the mission, right? I didn't delay things, did I?”

Minian asked tentatively.

“As long as you brought the invitation, it's fine. And don't do this again next time. Also… let me ask you, were you being hunted by elves?”

I took the invitation and then asked.

“Ye… yes, those elves are too terrifying, they're like lunatics. They just focus fire on anything flying in the sky, without even asking!”

“Focus fire directly?”

My brow twitched.

I didn't expect the elves' attitude towards witches to become like this.

I thought they were scared of me and wouldn't dare to make a move when they saw a witch.

Could it be the confidence they gained after successfully holding the ritual?

But these were just guesses.

But now everything was proceeding according to plan, so it wasn't out of control, and naturally, there was no need to worry about unnecessary things.

I brought the invitation to the ritual's tea table.

At this moment, everything here was already set up: tea, desserts…

It's just that this dessert cake was a bit strange.

The cream on the cake base was spread in a rather unique style.

It should be the one from the second tea party where I let them spread the cream themselves and take it away.

I must say, the person who spread the cream was a genius.

When everything was ready and the invitation was in place, the ritual was completely activated.

The phenomenon of the ritual's activation at this moment immediately attracted everyone's attention.

The ritual that rose from the Land of Eternal Darkness, from its start to the end of its preparation, the time consumed was simply too short!

This was a very terrifying piece of information, indicating that an academy had mastered a method of rapidly preparing for rituals.

Regardless of whether that method was advance preparation or something else, this must attract everyone's attention.

If this kind of loophole-level existence was allowed to develop, it would definitely cause big problems!

Therefore, many academies didn't care that they had fought all night and were now listless.

They directly grabbed their weapons and went to check the situation.

Even if they couldn't stop the other party, they had to know which academy had such means.

If it wasn't stopped, it would be the second Witch Academy.

And if it was the Witch Academy, then that might be even worse news.

Although many academy students felt it didn't matter now, the ones who were anxious were the academy teachers!

The academy ranking was never something dispensable!

It was the means to distribute the Destiny gathered in this exchange competition!

They could no longer compete for first place in the individual rankings, and the academy rankings were also poor.

So why did all the academies go to so much trouble and provide resources to hold this exchange competition?

This was only the second day of the exchange competition, not even halfway through.

It was predicted that the exchange competition would last about three or four days, but with this turn of events, it felt like it would end in three days.

Just three days, and their plans were completely ruined.

But the only good news was that the academies on the Abyssal Demon side hadn't caused much of a stir, and were even crushed by a little one who wasn't even a Child of Destiny.

After all, preventing the Abyssal Demon race from invading the Main World was a matter of principle.

On this basis, they wanted to gain some benefits for themselves through these means.

At this stage, it no longer mattered whether there were benefits or not.

“This should be the fastest we've ever held a ritual, right? If we follow this method, can't we quickly farm for designated resource drops?”

Minian asked with a smile after sitting down.

“We can, but the other academies definitely won't give us such an opportunity,” Tan Han said.

“Also, the speed at which we held the ritual this time is too abnormal. Any academy that pays a little attention to the rituals will soon realize that something is wrong here. Even if they don't besiege us, at least someone will come to see which academy it is. Do you understand what I mean?”

“Of course I know. If any other academy held a ritual so quickly, I would also be very wary and would have to go see which academy it was.”

At this moment, the Witch Tea Party had already begun, and everyone had taken their seats.

Su Xingyue, who was seriously injured and unconscious earlier, had not yet woken up, but her body was fine.

She was helped to a seat and was lying on the tea table.

After all, the underground here was very dirty.

We couldn't just leave Su Xingyue on the ground while we held a tea party here.

However, at this time, I was making desserts on the side.

I didn't know if the desserts made in such a bloody environment would also have a bloody taste.

But there weren't enough desserts at the tea party to begin with, and with some people treating the tea party as a dessert buffet, this little amount was not enough to eat.

Moreover, we also had to plan for the future.

We couldn't just think that we were already number one and slack off, right?

“Um, Big Sis Xiao Han, can I also learn some baking skills from you? It doesn't have to be too troublesome, a simple small cake… small cookies would be fine too,” Hedi came over and asked cautiously at this moment.

“You want to learn baking?”

I sized Hedi up.

“Actually, if you want to learn, you can totally get a part-time job at any bakery after the exchange competition. You can learn a lot of things, if you really like it.”

“Uh… actually, spending so much time in the academy just to learn baking, wouldn't that be too extravagant…”

“Extravagant… it seems so…”

“How is it extravagant! Don't you two have any free time usually?”

Minian jumped over and retorted.

“Oh, you're both 'involution kings', right? No time to spend on hobbies. Wait, Big Sis Xiao Han, your skill…”

“I learned it before school started.”

“Ah… as expected, Big Sis Xiao Han, you're also an 'involution king'…”

“How am I an 'involution king'? I'm just studying normally. I even have course exemptions and have more free time than you guys.”

“Now that you mention it… wait, you have free control over your time, you must be 'involuting' even harder than us!”

“Let's not talk about this. It doesn't matter if we're 'involuting' or not. How about I make some bread rolls for you to try?”

“Eh? Yes! I definitely want some!”

“If you want some, go back and sit tight,” I said with a smile.

“Sigh Big Sis Xiao Han looks so virtuous wearing an apron and making food… I really wonder which lucky guy will benefit in the future!”

Minian had to return to her seat peacefully, but her mouth couldn't stop.

“Then you might have guessed wrong. I don't like men. Of course, it's more likely that I won't like anyone in the future… I guess.”

Speaking of which, I inexplicably thought of Big Sis Bai.

Of course, it's not that I have any improper thoughts about Big Sis Bai, I'm just worried that Big Sis Bai has them for me.

This world is really strange to think that I would one day worry about others liking me.

“Eh? Big Sis Xiao Han doesn't like men? Then wouldn't all of us here be in danger! I saw a rumor before that Little Han used to be… Mmph! S… sorry, um… did I say something wrong…?”

“Sorry, Big Sis Xiao Han, I didn't…”

At this moment, Minian's original intention of livening up the atmosphere was completely gone.

She even began to regret why her mouth had become so unrestrained.

“Said something wrong? What did you want to say?”

At that moment, my actions also paused, but after thinking for a second, I recovered.

Why can't some things be faced calmly?

Let's just convince myself.

“You wanted to say the rumor that I used to be a boy? Is that important? After entering the Witch Academy, such things are no longer important, right?”

I said with a smile.

I don't know if everyone realized this was a very serious topic, but they all fell silent in an instant.

“What are the intentions of those who care so much about the past? If it's to find a so-called sense of superiority or some other comfort, I can only say that their lives are too much of a failure. Not only did they fail in the past, but they also brought their past failures into the present. Entering the Witch Academy is the beginning of a new life, can't they even grasp such a good opportunity to bid farewell to the past?”

“Actually, this topic isn't that serious. I'm just speaking up for the boys who enrolled in the Witch Academy. I've met many such newcomers, and the probability of meeting them before school starts is even greater because most of the newcomers before school starts are brought here by the seniors. I've also guest-starred as a volunteer to guide newcomers with their registration.”

“I… is that so? Big Sis Xiao Han, you even guided newcomers? How come I didn't meet you!”

“Maybe you just weren't fated to.”

I responded with a smile.

However, the atmosphere now was not as heavy as when I was speaking alone just now.

I have to say, it's great to have someone who can liven up the atmosphere with their words.

Such a talent cannot be envied.

As for what I said just now, what kind of heated discussion it will cause in the Witch Academy in the end, let's talk about that after I get back.

As for why I didn't make it clear, that's naturally because everyone has the right to keep secrets.

The rest can be left for them to guess and argue about.

On the virtual internet, isn't this what they like to do most?

I should have understood it earlier, but I just didn't face it.

Those who hurt people with vicious words, how much of a failure must their lives be to speak so viciously on the internet?

If I really wanted to gain a sense of superiority, then facing such a person, I should also treat them in their own way.

Even if I gave the other party all the spellbooks on me and kept only one Fireball spell for myself, I could still abuse them until they cried.

Then, I wonder, would the sense of superiority they sought from me still be able to soothe their ego?

Since they have already chosen such a disgusting way to please themselves, I will let them know that they have found the wrong person.

Disgusting people should entertain themselves in dirty, dark corners.

Once you understand their way of thinking, you can let everything go.

It's like seeing someone throwing mud at you from a mud pit.

You shouldn't jump into the mud pit to fight with them.

That's their home ground.

Doing so will only get you dirty, and you'll lose in the end.

Even if you win, it's not glorious.

So the correct way is to withdraw, and then clean off the mud.

Once you get angry with the other party, you've lost from the very beginning.

The most important thing, in the end, is your own mentality.

And just as our Witch Tea Party was in full swing, a strange noise and a terrifying vibration broke the pleasant atmosphere.

“What's happening? An earthquake? No way!”

“Someone is launching a strong attack.”

I saw the information from outside the building through Spirit Vision.

I can do this kind of thing easily now.

“Ah? Which academy is so bold as to provoke our Witch Academy?”

At this moment, Tan Han and I also put up a protective shield at the first moment to prevent bricks and stones from disrupting the Witch Tea Party.

“Hmm… the Integrated Dwarf Academy?”

As soon as I finished speaking, the building on the ground was directly blown open by a terrifying attack.

Then the floor of this underground level was also blown open along with it.

“Sigh, Big Sis Xiao Han, you really guessed it!”