Chapter 1035

The Witch United Club, as the most special club within the Witch Academy, without exception, had been given a vast amount of club land by the Witch Academy.

Specifically, the club headquarters could be considered the largest club building at present.

After all, it united representatives from all the large clubs in the Witch Academy; the grand conference room for club representatives alone was unprecedented.

But now, the atmosphere within the United Club was not particularly happy, and was even filled with anger amidst the depression!

After all, the peninsula blood sacrifice incident had occurred, and so many students had died; who could be happy after seeing this?

I contacted Cleveland once more, and the agreed-upon location was the assembly hall of the United Club.

At this moment, the internal meeting of the United Club had reached its end.

It was just right for me to go over to settle everyone’s emotions to a certain extent, and Cleveland would give me a detailed report.

Currently, a large number of club representatives had gathered here at the United Club headquarters, and many different types of vehicles were parked outside.

After all, not everyone in the Witch Academy mastered spatial spells, and not everyone liked riding brooms.

“Welcome Assistant Yang Yuehan to the United Club!”

Accompanied by the receptionist girl outside the United Club who watched me enter with a burning gaze, I soon met the assistant Cleveland had arranged to receive me.

She led me and Ning, who was by my side, toward the United Club assembly hall.

“That is Assistant Xiao Han? Heavens... I’ve seen her in the flesh!”

The receptionist member sighed with emotion as she watched that figure walk away.

“That must be the Lesser Witch who single-handedly triggered the Earth-Sun Tragedy... I heard that because the influence of that matter was too great, the academy was forced by the joint pressure of the Three Great Top-tier Academies to settle her in the Expansion Realm... I didn't expect her to actually return?”

“Nonsense! Of course she’d come back! If it were before, the influence was indeed bad, but what about now? Look at what those damnable fellows have done!”

“Exactly! Lord Xiao Han’s return must be to lead our United Club to fight back. We must pay blood for blood!”

As my figure appeared here at the United Club headquarters, even before I reached the assembly hall, many club representatives had already received the news.

Learning that this strategic deterrent of the United Club had returned from the Expansion Realm instantly put their hearts at ease.

Many people cast their gazes toward the several large doors of the assembly hall.

Along with a commotion at the entrance nearest to the doors, the noisy discussions and arguments in the assembly hall decreased sharply like a chain reaction.

Even among small groups in fierce debate, they subconsciously lowered their voices and looked up to see exactly what had happened.

Subsequently, they saw two figures with white hair entering here, surrounded by a group of people.

After a few seconds of silence in the entire hall, the sound of discussion soared again!

The absolute representative figure of the Bakery Club, that Assistant Xiao Han, had actually come in person!

I ignored the excited crowd.

Regarding such a noisy and chaotic scene at a meeting, I was barely used to it by now.

Every person who could come here possessed their own personality and ability; even the United Club found it very difficult to make everyone sit and discuss problems as obediently as primary school students.

Furthermore, this was the Witch Academy; this reason could explain the vast majority of irrational phenomena.

I came over to the seats of the Bakery Club.

Besides Cleveland, there were many familiar faces here.

After greeting them one by one, I also received the meeting minutes for this occasion from Cleveland.

Only then did she begin to explain things to me from the side.

This meeting was a temporary emergency meeting.

The primary reason was the issue of combat sequences like STF 1, STF 2, and STF 7 suffering blood sacrifice retaliation on the Blood Slave Peninsula.

Currently, the major combat sequences had all formed a joint rescue team to go there.

Because the space there was extremely unstable, it was very difficult for spatial spells to reach there directly.

The Bakery Club had also sent many people over; it was Shop Manager Xia Li who had proactively requested to lead the team there.

That was why I didn't see the shop manager’s figure here.

Just as Cleveland and I had barely exchanged a few words, representatives from several core guardian clubs like Wan Shi Wu and the Witch's Secret Realm Club also came over to me.

The one I was relatively familiar with was Olina from the Witch's Secret Realm; she was also currently the presider over the important meetings of the United Club.

As for Nicola from Wan Shi Wu, this girl who, in my impression, hadn't been the President of Wan Shi Wu for long, had now lost her previous recklessness and gained a trace of steadiness.

At least she no longer laid out many of her emotions on the surface without any concealment.

After a polite greeting, some people tactfully understood they couldn't join the conversation and waited on the side.

The one who spoke to me was Olina; from the moment she opened her mouth, the anger suppressed in her tone could be heard.

After all, STF 1 and STF 2 respectively represented the top-tier Witch's Secret Realm Club and Wan Shi Wu within the Witch Academy.

As the President of the Witch's Secret Realm Club, how could she not be angry?

“This blood sacrifice incident on the Blood Slave Peninsula has had an enormous impact on our Witch Academy. Even though we dispatched rescue teams immediately after learning of the situation, the outlook is very pessimistic. This incident is the responsibility of our entire United Club; we underestimated the tragic impact of various accidents within an Academy War...”

“This kind of thing is unpredictable; I hope there is no need for you to blame yourselves.”

I offered a word of comfort.

Actually, this matter should have been predictable—for example, through the Destiny Gazing Technique.

But I couldn't maintain observations with that spell at all times, let alone for the Destiny trends of an entire Main World.

After the comfort, I continued to speak: “Can this incident be salvaged? Are there any difficulties regarding the resurrection aspect?”

“This situation is special, and the outlook is not optimistic. The blood sacrifice ritual of the blood slaves draws not only the blood and flesh of everyone within the sacrificial ritual, but also their soul-substance.”

“According to the response from the mentors, such a violent extraction and drawing method causes damage to the soul-substance that is almost irreversible. If this blood sacrifice ritual also had a directional beneficiary, the soul-substance would even be consumed. At that time, Resurrection Spells would not even be able to resurrect those whose soul-substance had been consumed... which is so-called permanent death.”

The more Olina spoke, the more her tone trembled.

No one in the Witch Academy was unafraid of permanent death.

“According to the mentors’ conjecture, the Blood Slave Academy shouldn't dare to act like this. Such a massive blood sacrifice ritual is enough to produce a Blood Clan Transcendent Duke. Once that happens, it would be a Transcendent intervening in an Academy War, and the mentors of the Witch Academy would absolutely use thunderous methods to level the Blood Clan Academy!”

At this point, Nicola added a piece of not-so-good news that counted as a good one.

At least this might show that the students who died in the blood sacrifice had not suffered permanent death.

Bringing back the students who died in this battle might still allow them to be resurrected by Resurrection Spells.

It was like a replica of the Earth-Sun Tragedy.

Except the damage to soul-substance... was even more intense than the soul-substance aftereffects produced by the Aphrodite Academy and the Holy Angel Academy!

How was this to be explained to the entire student body?

After all, the Academy War had been launched by the United Club; no one possessed the ability to take responsibility for these people...

If handled poorly and anti-war sentiment soared within the Witch Academy, then everything the Witch Academy had done during this period would look like a complete joke...

“Regardless, the people must be rescued. As for what happens next, we will deal with it slowly later.”

I ultimately sighed, but in my heart, I was thinking about other things.

That was the memory of soul-substance repair.

Repairing soul-substance was not difficult for me.

Back then, Shi Ruizhi was already in that state where she couldn't even maintain a human life essence, yet she was still successfully fixed by my Soul Depiction.

Although missing soul-substance sounded intimidating, it was far from as dangerous as Shi Ruizhi's case.

The repair difficulty within this wasn't even as high as the difficulty of me improving my soul level.

But I didn't want to use Soul Depiction to help so many people complete soul transformation.

Although Soul Depiction was primarily targeted at the soul, soul-substance belonged to the primitive state before soul transformation; this technique could still achieve soul-substance repair.

But perfecting over a thousand people at once... was still too troublesome.

Perhaps I could rely on Soul Depiction to derive a “Soul-substance Depiction” that was more compatible with people of the Main World.

Seeing how everyone was feeling very downcast about this, I sat down in my seat.

“Everyone, don't be in a hurry to be depressed. Perhaps I have a piece of slightly better news on my end.”

“Assistant Xiao Han, do you actually have a way?”

Hearing me speak like this, Olina seemed to suddenly hear hope, prompting the other clubs to look over with great importance.

“Your current primary concern is damaged soul-substance, right?”

“Exactly. Soul-substance is the root of life. According to my understanding, although ordinary Resurrection Spells have the effect of gathering soul-substance to a certain extent, lost soul-substance cannot be created out of thin air. After resurrection, the price for wanting to repair damaged soul-substance... is also enormous, to the point that a large club like ours couldn't support even one or two cases.”

“Do you remember what happened during the second promotion experiment of the self-generating magic power experiment?”

I turned my head to look at Shi Ruizhi on the side; she was also present.

“Eh? I was mentioned?”

Shi Ruizhi also subconsciously pointed at herself.

Upon hearing me mention this matter, quite a few people present subconsciously felt their hearts tighten.

Although this matter had already been "brushed aside" and the "masterminds" had all been cleared out, there were quite a few people involved in this matter.

Even those who were merely informed were afraid of being held in a grudge by the person before them.

As the President of Wan Shi Wu, Nicola proactively spoke up after pursing her lips.

To say that their Wan Shi Wu was unaware of this matter, no one would believe it.

“Assistant Xiao Han, this matter actually...”

“I’m not looking to pursue that matter now.”

I reached out to gesture to Nicola, interrupting what she was about to say.

“I just want to tell you that the injury Shi Ruizhi suffered at that time was far more serious than what you recognize as merely damaged soul-substance.”

“Yet Shi Ruizhi is now sitting here perfectly fine, with the only price being the loss of all her previous memories.”

Speaking this way, I continued:

“Damaged soul-substance is far from being as serious as the consequences caused by that sabotage accident. The Witch Academy possesses a special technique for repairing damaged soul-substance.”

As soon as I said this, many people’s eyes instantly lit up!

The hope in their hearts also soared all at once.

A special technique!

The reason they were sighing and groaning over this matter—wasn't it because they didn't have a repair technique and could only rely on rare and precious things to slowly repair the soul-substance?

If there were such a technique for repairing soul-substance, and the resources consumed were within their capacity, then the influence caused by this incident could be suppressed to a great extent!

“Is there truly such a special technique?! I take the liberty to ask, what precious resources does this technique require? Our Wan Shi Wu can prepare them right now!”

“Our Witch's Secret Realm as well! In addition, we also want to ask, which mentor masters this technique? Assistant Xiao Han, can you ask that mentor to take action? Our Witch's Secret Realm Club will definitely remember this favor, and we will also give a return that satisfies you afterwards...”

“Don't get excited yet.”

I stopped these excited fellows and then continued:

“I can step forward to help you ask that mentor to take action, but this doesn't come without a price. Additionally... what resources need to be consumed requires me to understand specifically. I will send the required resources to you later, but one thing that can be confirmed is that soul-substance, which is to say Soul Crystals, is naturally an indispensable resource for repairing damaged soul-substance.”

I didn't intend to reveal my methods to them directly.

When the time came, I’d just find a mentor to coordinate with me.

As for me explicitly telling them to prepare soul-substance, aside from it truly being a necessary material for repairing the essence of life, the primary reason was for my own benefit.

I needed to speed up the efficiency of my own advancement to Transcendent, so I naturally needed a massive amount of soul-substance!

Not only for advancing to Transcendent, but even more for the planning after Transcendence.

My life essence is the soul; to advance to Transcendent, the foundation I accumulate must be firmer than other students, so the consumption is naturally higher.

As for the other vaguely mentioned resources, those would naturally be earned by my own capability.

They didn't care at all that so many people died; they only cared that so many people dying had too much influence, and the subsequent impacts of fragmented soul-substance.

They were even more afraid that this Academy War could not be maintained to plunder more interests for them.

Now that I mentioned my side could resolve this fundamental problem, they thoroughly relaxed.

Since it was a trade between a willing buyer and a willing seller, it was perfectly natural for me to fleece the other party for some affordable benefits.

Anyway, I’m not a good person.

After all, if we really were to pursue it, the beginning of this Academy War was also something I single-handedly stirred up.

After this matter was briefly finalized, this meeting, which was already at its end, could be considered to have ended successfully.

The anxiety, regret, and unease originally on their faces had mostly dissipated.

In their hearts, only the fire of revenge remained!

And this was likewise what I wanted.