Chapter 237 : Chapter 237

Chapter 237: The Sea Race is in for a Great Misfortune

After finalizing the details, everyone roughly understood what they needed to do.

And now they just had to wait for the dwarves to finish their War Fortress.

With this, they could at least suffer less from the effects of those abnormal natural disasters when traversing the Central Ancient Battlefield.

Even when dealing with the Phantoms of the Past, it was completely fine at the current stage.

It might get a bit strenuous in the later stages, but that wasn't something to think about right now.

“Ai Ke, how much longer will it take for you guys?”

Ai Ke was one of the few female students from the Dwarf Academy.

After becoming a dwarf, her height had been constantly shrinking, and she had now changed from a young girl's physique to a true loli.

But don't underestimate her.

In the Dwarf Forging Academy, she was the one with the most talent for learning dwarven forging techniques, an existence respected as "Big Sis."

However, she didn't quite like this title.

Because she felt that being called this gave her the false impression of being a tomboy.

She chose the Dwarf Academy partly because she liked her cute self.

On the other hand, her hands-on skills were also excellent, and her grades supported her admission to the Dwarf Forging Academy.

Moreover, she was very lively and talked a lot, otherwise I wouldn't know so much about her.

“It’s almost done. There's nothing left for me to do in terms of technical guidance. Let the boys with more strength handle the physical labor,” Ai Ke said to us, putting away her forging tools.

Dwarves have many forging tools.

Forging is a science, not just simply swinging a hammer.

It involves many things, such as solidifying spell effects, enchanting with special attributes, and endowing inherent properties.

Of course, as a newcomer, she had not yet mastered that many skills.

The Dwarf Forging Academy's participation in the exchange competition this time was like joining in on the fun, especially for the Forging Academy.

They themselves hadn't learned many transcendent methods, and their forging was still in the theoretical stage, or they had just started.

It was already quite an achievement for them to be able to modify such a large structure from the Forged Ancient City Ruins.

Most of the modules of this War Fortress were ready-made.

They had at most assembled, modified, and made this big guy move.

The thermal weapons propelled by the holy relics were created by a few of the more aggressive boys.

After all, what boy could refuse such violent weapons?

During this period, we weren't just waiting around.

We went to investigate the situation.

After all, if we were to leave, it would be after turning this Land of Eternal Darkness into part of the ancient battlefield.

The main theme was to leave no blade of grass behind wherever we went.

“I’ve finished scouting and I'm back! Big Sis Little Han, you're here, Ai Ke is here too. Let big sis touch you, rub your cheeks.”

“Alright Minian, let's talk business,” I said, seeing Minian about to deform Ai Ke's face with her two hands.

“Okay Big Sis Little Han. There are many Phantoms of the Past at the border between the Land of Eternal Darkness and the ancient battlefield, and the speed of terrain erosion is roughly related to their numbers. The Phantoms of the Past like to stay at the junction. They will only actively invade non-ancient battlefield areas if they encounter someone passing by. Of course, the border will also actively attack after the number reaches a certain upper limit.”

“Has the specific number for that upper limit been counted?”

I asked curiously.

“Uh… I didn't pay too much attention.”

“Alright, is there anything else? About how fast are they? What is the approximate aggro range? What kind of actions or commotions can attract them over a large area?”

My series of questions completely baffled her, and in the end, she could only stammer out some general information.

But you couldn't blame Minian.

It was her first time and she wasn't very good at it.

Besides, we were about to take action, and we would find out these things soon enough.

The main reason Tan Han sent Minian to scout was to give her a general understanding.

After all, the reason I didn't care about these details was because I had the strength to back it up, but that wasn't necessarily the case for Minian and the others.

“I'm sorry, Big Sis Little Han, I feel so useless…”

“Then just become useful in the future,” I comforted her.

After all, everyone has their own strengths.

Take Minian for example, she is very good with words, a talent I can't help but envy.

“Big Sis Little Han, you're right! I just need to become useful! I'll go again right now!”

“Alright, don't go. We're about to set off soon, we'll go together. You should just rest here for a while.”

I stood up.

Although I hadn't done any of these things, no one was dissatisfied with my actions.

Because my role was combat support.

Naturally, others would be busy with all the preparations.

Besides, I wasn't just standing around in a daze.

I was also trying out new things with the spellbook, okay?

I was mastering more and more techniques for using the spellbook.

Although they were mostly for evocation spells, it didn't mean they couldn't be applied to other fields.

I was even wondering if every spell could achieve a so-called "spell domain" like the Fire Rain Domain?

Although that kind of domain looked extremely costly just by looking at it, and the performance threshold was also very low for those who couldn't control it.

If I hadn't mastered "resonance," my utilization of the Fire Rain Domain would have been limited to just making more or less fire rain fall in a certain area.

Although this might be an exaggeration, that's how spellbooks are.

They aren't something you can use just by possessing one.

I vaguely remembered Teacher Ji Niang telling me about the first person who acquired the Fireball spell failing to cast it.

Although I succeeded on my first try, I was an exception.

In short, I'm thankful for Spirit Vision… all of this is a benefit granted to me by this talent, even though it only brought me bad memories in the first half of my life.

I had also imagined that if I didn't have this so-called Spirit Vision, would I have lived a normal person's life like those in ordinary families… but that's all just wishful thinking.

I know very well that I can't start over.

But everything can start anew.

With Tan Han's return, our plan officially began.

As for that mermaid, she was forcibly stuffed with the dwarves.

Since we brought her here anyway, it would be a pity to kill her, but not killing her would be a bit of a hindrance.

But if we killed her, and she got lucky, she could tip off the other academies at the revival point, which would also cause us considerable trouble.

So we could only do this for now.

Besides, the Sea Race's water spells are quite good.

In the dry ancient battlefield, where yellow sand fills the sky, having water to drink is happiness, right?

We and the dwarves also separated.

After all, such a large thing moved rather slowly, and it couldn't compare to the brooms ridden by witches.

So they needed to go to the next location first.

By the way, they could test the safety of their War Fortress while passing through the ancient battlefield area.

The witches who couldn't ride brooms went with the dwarves, also to protect them.

After all, the dwarves had proven with their actions that their War Fortress was not invincible and needed units to cooperate in combat from the outside.

As for us witches who could ride brooms, we began to experiment with the fastest method of erosion, using the entire Land of Eternal Darkness as our experimental site.

And in the sea area of the Fallen Land next door, we would also test whether the erosion of the ancient battlefield's yellow sand landscape could succeed on the sea.

If it succeeded, we would immediately leave to rendezvous with the dwarves.

If it didn't, we would have to think of some other methods to punish the Sea Race in the sea.

Otherwise… we can't possibly poison the water, can we?

How large of a dose would that require?

“Little Han, let's go,” Tan Han said, waving at me with her broom.

At the border of the ancient battlefield, I finally saw those Phantoms of the Past that had become extremely powerful.

As their strength grew, their bodies would also become larger, and some had even deviated from their former human forms and developed in more grotesque directions.

They had no so-called vision, so naturally, there were no special actions that could attract their attention.

But they were products simulated in the dream state's earth vein, and they also obtained information through the earth vein.

Whether passing by on the ground or flying in the sky, as long as they touched the earth vein energy, leaving information that was recorded in the earth vein, they would be discovered by them.

This was a conclusion we reached after actual testing.

Of course, from the perspective of Spirit Vision, the rhythm of the earth vein energy could be seen more clearly.

And the erosion of the terrain was also a manifestation of the surging earth vein.

The earth vein showed abnormalities and "eroded and assimilated" other places.

The abnormal natural disasters produced by the earth vein could then affect this area.

So theoretically, the faster the earth vein energy flows, the faster the regional erosion of the ancient battlefield.

Although in reality, the speed of erosion would become difficult for various reasons.

Logically, the erosion should be very fast.

Could it be that the genius who designed the map also thought that we would use the ancient battlefield's erosion to carry out an encirclement?

After deeply understanding the structure of this dream state, I also roughly understood its operating principle.

It formed such a self-consistent map through the shaping of the earth vein by the dream state.

Different areas were generated by the earth vein producing different effects.

So the so-called "erosion" could be so fast because they were essentially the same thing, the effect of the earth vein.

The sea erodes the land, so the land can also erode the sea, because the sea is also a scene generated by the earth vein in the dream state.

“The speed of the ancient battlefield's erosion is even more terrifying than we expected. With no obstacles, and even with our inducement, this progress…”

Tan Han and the others looked at the result of just a little guidance from them.

The yellow sandy land unique to the ancient battlefield was constantly eroding the landscape of the Land of Eternal Darkness, and the sandstorms in the ancient battlefield would accelerate this progress.

Because sandstorms are a manifestation of earth vein abnormality, the surging sandstorms are essentially surging earth vein energy, so the advent of abnormal natural disasters will accelerate the erosion even faster.

“The so-called ancient battlefield erosion is probably earth vein assimilation. The formation of the entire dream state relies on the earth vein, so instead of guiding the Phantoms of the Past, we should guide the earth vein energy,” I said.

“Uh… Big Sis Little Han, what are you talking about?”

Minian looked at me, a little confused.

However, Tan Han and those who understood the characteristics of the earth vein probably understood what I meant.

“So when we guide the Phantoms of the Past, we are essentially guiding the earth's vein energy.”

“Yes, but the earth vein energy brought by natural disasters is even greater. We seem to be able to use this characteristic to speed up our progress. The surging of earth vein energy in the ancient battlefield is like tides, wave after wave. We just need to seize the opportunity,” I said with a nod.

“Uh… so in short, we need to switch to a more efficient method, right?”

“Yes,” I said with a nod.

Afterward, we began to change our policy and try new things.

But it was obvious that Tan Han saw more in the information I revealed.

“Is this also through your Spirit Vision…”

“Yes.”

“Then if all of this is built on the earth vein, then the ancient battlefield eroding the sea is actually a certainty?”

Tan Han asked again.

“Yes, but just in case, it's safer to try it out,” I said with a shrug.

Time passed bit by bit, and with our joint efforts, the Land of Eternal Darkness completely disappeared from this map.

Where the earth vein surged, the land boiled, hard rock weathered, buildings were buried deep, and the darkness was dispelled.

What followed were surging natural disasters and endless Phantoms of the Past.

The time it took to completely make the Land of Eternal Darkness fall exceeded our expectations, and in the end, it was like an avalanche, requiring no guidance from us.

And the most threatening among them turned out to be the Phantoms of the Past, which we hadn't paid much attention to before.

After the Land of Eternal Darkness fell, enemies similar to the Blood Clan appeared among the Phantoms of the Past.

They controlled power and used the Blood Clan's combat style.

But I have to say, the Phantoms of the Past actually made us understand how troublesome the Blood Clan's combat style was, even more terrifying than the Blood Clan Academy itself.

Looking at it this way, the Blood Clan Academy itself seemed to lose some face, with such a poor performance.

“The Phantoms of the Past are truly perverted… Blood Clan form… then when it erodes the sea, won't there be a Sea Race form?”

“Why worry about that? If there's a Sea Race form, the Sea Race should be the ones worrying.”

“Exactly, the sea is so big, the speed of erosion might be much faster than on land!”

We were flying in the sky on our brooms, but there were also flying creatures among the Phantoms of the Past, probably monsters that pursued the floating islands, but at this moment, they were just as difficult to deal with for us witches.

At this moment, we were no longer guiding the Phantoms of the Past to the submerged Fallen Land, but were forced here.

“It's terrifying. The second day isn't even over, and the strength of the Phantoms of the Past… Did we play ourselves?”

“Don't worry, at least if we played ourselves, everyone will have to bear the risk with us, won't they?”

I said comfortingly.

We witches were inherently in a very "free" state, and also the group most likely to stir up trouble.

If the Witch Academy wasn't suppressed from the beginning, they would definitely suffer a great loss in the end.

But no academy took this matter seriously at the beginning.

“The ancient battlefield's erosion of the sea has begun.”

I turned my head and looked down at the Fallen Land below.

The Phantoms of the Past began to charge into the water, and even the disastrous sand and dust behind them poured madly into the sea's entrance.

“Is this the Fallen Land that you submerged, Big Sis Little Han? It's so spectacular…”

Minian once again exclaimed with admiration like a little fangirl.

The last time seemed to be the forest fire.

But the erosion of the sea by the ancient battlefield was different from what we imagined.

We thought the seawater would recede, and the yellow sand would erode the seabed.

But that was not the case.

The azure blue water of the sea was rapidly polluted at this moment, like the Yellow River entering the sea.

The blue seawater seemed to have a filter applied, becoming foul and turbid.

Something seemed to be churning in the water, it was the Phantoms of the Past.

The erosion of the sea by the ancient battlefield was indeed as swift as I had guessed, but the beings born after this erosion were a terrifying sea of undead, and undead corpses!

The undead walked from the bottom of the sea towards the highlands, ignoring the seawater, occupying the reefs that were once mountain peaks.

As the ancient battlefield eroded the sea, the form of the natural disasters also showed new manifestations.

At the beginning, the disasters were mostly sandstorms, dark thunder, extreme weather, and tornadoes.

After eroding the Land of Eternal Darkness, the acid rain of the Land of Eternal Darkness faintly appeared.

And now… the waves of the eroded sea were surging, and I could already imagine the eroded sea creating a tsunami, along with a sea thunderstorm…

Even the Sea Race would be terrified by this scene, right?

Just thinking about it made me shudder.

I subconsciously swallowed, almost scared by my own thoughts.

Our actions might have brought a catastrophe to the Sea Race… I hope the sea falls before the land is completely eroded, otherwise if the sea stirs up an even bigger tsunami disaster, then no one on land will be able to escape.

This time… it looks like the Sea Race is in for a great misfortune.

They probably never thought that the sea would also be eroded by the ancient battlefield, right?

“Little Han, stop spacing out. We need to leave here quickly.”

“Oh… okay.”

Coming to my senses, I quickly caught up with the main group.

Now that we had completely taken over the Land of Eternal Darkness, and also tested the possibility of the ancient battlefield eroding the sea, the next step was to rendezvous with the dwarves.

By the way, we could communicate the intelligence and speculations we had just obtained with them.