Chapter 1059

After a very long period of conversation, I finally finished the negotiations with Chu Shi Bulei, ultimately deciding on the daily regular clothes I would wear as well as a set of formal gowns I might use.

The reason we chatted for so long was mainly that Chu Shi Bulei brought up many other topics during our negotiations; after all, this belonged to the most basic “communicating to understand needs” and “establishing trust.”

A person who knows nothing about you cannot possibly design clothes that satisfy you—these were Chu Shi Bulei’s original words.

I agreed with this as well.

Of course, the more important reason was that chatting with her was very “relaxing,” without too many calculations or excessive other intentions.

Her pure desire was only to know more about me and then design clothes that satisfied me.

Possessing Heart Sense, I felt this very clearly, which was why I admired her.

After all, pure people were few, and Chu Shi Bulei counted as one of the few I had met.

After understanding all this, Chu Shi Bulei mentioned the styles of the United Club uniforms to me again.

The United Club uniforms were divided into two sets: regular clothes and combat suits.

Although they were called two sets, the regular clothes were just ordinary clothing designs.

The overall piece carried extraordinary enchantment methods, and the whole had not yet reached the height of equipment grade; at most, they came with their own Cleaning Spell, remaining dust-free and unstained.

The combat suits, however, began to get flashy.

One could see obvious differences between the combat suits of the various combat sequences, but the grade of the equipment configuration was equally high.

The Tailor Club only handled the design for these, while mass production was handed over to a combination of clubs like the alchemy club, enchantment club, and blacksmith club to manufacture jointly.

After all, the entire Tailor Club was only that large; they weren’t machines that could work day and night, right?

Only the leaders of the various combat sequences, as well as the core guardian clubs and representative figures of the United Club, could have her personally take action.

As the president of the Tailor Club, Chu Shi Bulei had come into contact with many high-level members of the various clubs in the academy, so she was very familiar with this uniform mission.

She only harbored a sense of a full challenge toward that representative of the Bakery Club.

After all, that was a figure she had never come into contact with before.

When she learned that the other party had no such demand, she had even been disappointed for a short while back then.

This was also one of the reasons she was so enthusiastic after seeing me this time.

Regarding Special Task Force Zero, Cleveland had already more or less finalized the general style.

There were no other issues for everyone aside from some fine-tuning of specific requirements.

The only difference was likely the difference in the club emblems.

Although Special Task Force Zero was said to be led by the Bakery Club, the proportion of members was not as high as other combat sequences.

After all, it had started too late.

But that didn’t matter much.

I looked at the emblem representing the Bakery Club—it was a Red Velvet Cake dominated by a deep red color scheme, with a cake knife and fork crossed to decorate the entire badge.

At least it looked decent.

I had no intention of changing it either.

To this point, this process of custom-ordering clothes was considered finished.

As for the cost?

That was no longer within the scope of my consideration.

When the time came, at the earliest, Chu Shi Bulei would once again meticulously modify the design sketches in the following few days to confirm issues such as materials.

According to Chu Shi Bulei, a complete set of high-end private custom orders, from design to inspection, would take as long as 6 to 10 weeks.

In other words, it would take two or three months.

However, as the academy’s top and most efficient students who mastered extraordinary power and spells, they guaranteed this process would be compressed to within a month.

Of course, this referred to regular clothes.

Formal gowns, the kind of attire that might be worn to important occasions, could not be handled with even a tiny bit of carelessness; those might require a longer time.

I didn’t care about that.

After all, I truly couldn’t imagine an occasion grand enough to require me to wear a formal gown.

After the experience of wearing a formal dress to participate in that auction back then, I had already been de-mystified regarding such occasions.

What kind of amateur troupe is worth me treating so seriously?

After leaving that place, Big Sis Bai, the four little ones, and I went to a random restaurant to have a simple meal.

It wasn’t a high-end restaurant either; compared to those, more grounded meals were more flavorful.

The shopkeepers were perhaps hosting four Fool’s Dreams for the first time, as they even temporarily modified and brought over four “special Fool’s Dream booster seats,” being a bit overly enthusiastic.

The waitress would come over from time to time to offer greetings and then take the opportunity to tease Fool’s Luck.

After all, Fool’s Luck happened to be sitting in the most convenient spot.

This shopping experience also became a topic of idle chatter at the dinner table.

“Does Xiao Han still have a bias against things like equipment?”

“It’s alright... For things like equipment, don’t I also have the Book in the Casket? Don’t I also have to use storage cards normally? A need is a need. What I find repulsive is merely treating a temporary external force as one’s own permanence,” I explained.

“There are actually many people with thoughts like yours, but others aren’t as severe as you. To use the words you once said to me: bias, fear, and worship are feelings born only because one hasn’t experienced it. How about... after this meal is finished, I take you to experience it once?”

“Oh my... I’m being lectured by Big Sis Bai.”

“So, are you going or not?”

“Hehe of course I’m going. I’ll treat it as post-meal exercise.”

After finishing the meal.

Big Sis Bai took me to the arena—it was the Myriad Connection Arena I was very familiar with.

The arena provided various combat venues, such as public venues for the outside world, semi-open venues, or venues limited to specific live broadcast screens.

Naturally, there were also free competitive venues where one could freely set whether they could be watched, freely set how many matches to fight, and freely set restrictions on what spellbooks or weapons and equipment to use.

However, the fees for such venues were very high.

After all, this couldn't generate additional revenue for the arena.

The arena was also operated and maintained by clubs within the Witch Academy.

Venue repairs were a major expense.

If a certain batch of students participated in a competition at the academy level, it would have to cooperate accordingly.

Having arrived at the arena, Big Sis Bai directly opened a sealed dueling field.

Because of site restrictions, this was not open-air but in an underground area.

The internal space was widened through spatial rune techniques, and the rune area was even reinforced and protected to prevent the spatial extension runes from being affected by combat, leading to a tragedy of spatial backlog.

After arriving here, the first thing Big Sis Bai did was secondary reinforcement of this dueling field’s spatial stability.

After all, from a Transcendent perspective, the arena’s rune techniques were just a drop in the bucket for extraordinary students, but she herself was a Transcendent; if she wasn't careful, problems could arise.

At this moment, after sealing the main gate, only I, Big Sis Bai, and the four little ones remained in this massive venue.

“Xiao Han, have you understood the grading of equipment?”

Walking into this dueling field, the clicking sound of Big Sis Bai’s footsteps echoed in this space, and then she asked this question.

“I haven’t understood the specifics, though there are records in my Great Tree of Knowledge. But it always feels a bit strange, divided so meticulously into things like one-star and two-star.”

“It seems what Xiao Han knows is only the division within the Main World. Actually, that division you speak of only applies to situations below Transcendent in the Main World. Things like 1 to 10-star equipment are essentially just categorized as ‘Extraordinary Equipment’.”

“Oh, I get it. Just like spellbooks being subdivided into 1-point consumption and 10-point consumption, but it’s meaningless for Transcendents, right?”

“Mhm. However, subdivision has its own benefits. The more detailed it is, the more it can help a person intuitively understand a piece of equipment’s performance. But the classification I’m talking about isn’t that, but the major classifications. From the unified Extraordinary Equipment of the Main World which corresponds to those below Transcendent, the equipment suitable for Transcendent powerhouses is Transcendent Equipment, and the equipment suitable for the Saint Stage is called Saint Stage Equipment, or Holy Relics.”

Big Sis Bai explained to me.

“Uh... I feel like there are many points of doubt...”

I said.

“Does Xiao Han have any questions?”

“I have two.”

“Two? Then ask. Although I don’t know very detailed information, I’m still clear on some simple questions.”

Big Sis Bai spoke confidently.

“First... equipment suitable for Transcendents is called Transcendent Equipment. Then... what do ‘Transcendent Items’ count as? Transcendent Items have both weak and strong ones; weak ones can’t even cause effective damage, while powerful ones can even dominate a world’s rise and fall.”

“You said it yourself—those are Transcendent Items. The primary thing is that they are items, not equipment. Although some Transcendent Items are naturally equipment, equipment is not a Transcendent Item. The two are independent systems. Xiao Han, you wouldn't be unable to even distinguish between these two differences, right?”

“I distinguish them now. That is to say, the two are independent of each other, but they also have some intersections within common sense.”

I immediately nodded.

“More or less. Transcendent Items are sought after but hard to find, and those that are handy to use are even rarer. Equipment is a product of forging techniques. The two are different, but they indeed have a little bit of intersection in terms of usage attributes.”

Big Sis Bai also nodded.

“Then what is the second question you are doubtful about, Xiao Han?”

“The second is Holy Relics. I still remember that in the multi-school joint exchange competition back then, the weapons forged by the Dwarves were called Holy Relics. Is this related to the Holy Relics suitable for the Saint Stage?”

“Mmm... that truly is a tricky question.”

Big Sis Bai lamented, and then organized her language:

“Holy Relic is just an alternative name for Saint Stage Equipment. And the Dwarves are the race with the top forging techniques among the Myriad Races of the Void; this ‘top’ even reaches deep into their racial talent.”

“The initial Holy Relics were forged and defined by the Dwarf race. I’ve seen many stories among them, though unfortunately I haven’t understood them one by one. In short, the concept of Holy Relics was taken from the name that Dwarf community used for forged weapons back then. That Dwarf community called all the weapons they forged Holy Relics. They also had their own set of level classifications, but it conflicted with the mainstream void classifications. So, some names were adopted while others were discarded. Void Saint Stage equipment is called Holy Relics, and the Dwarf advancement system equipment is also called Holy Relics; just distinguish them for yourself.”

“Ah, this! So casual!”

I complained.

Not just me, the Fool’s Dreams beside me also nodded repeatedly.

The Fool’s Dreams weren’t little cuties who understood nothing; they only looked small in size, but following by my side, their own independent thinking abilities were not weaker than an average person’s.

They only chose to act this way while staying by my side.

All because... I like it.

I couldn’t stop this behavior even if I wanted to, so what else could I do?

Just gotta pamper them.

Afterward, Big Sis Bai chatted with me about some other classifications of equipment, such as equipment of various distributions, general components for humanoid races, and the different equipment and forging techniques for the Void Myriad Races’ beasts, mutated beasts, and special lifeform types.

But I basically couldn't come into contact with those latter ones, nor did I have a use for them, so Big Sis Bai only mentioned them briefly.

Then, she took out several pieces of equipment one by one from her storage equipment.

This equipment was very different from the equipment in my impression.

At first, I only felt it was very ordinary—various styles ranging from rings to bracelets, then necklaces, and so on.

It wasn't until Big Sis Bai took out a piece of equipment that made me feel a sense of palpitation that I realized there actually was equipment that could make me feel a “threatening” aura just from the power it radiated.

“Did you feel it? This is attack-type equipment suitable for Transcendent powerhouses.”

Big Sis Bai felt the throb in my heart, and then picked up this bracelet and said to me:

“Attack-type Transcendent equipment isn’t necessarily a weapon; it can also be an accessory. This bracelet is called the Swiftwind Sharp Blade Bracelet. It has the Transcendent-level Swiftwind Sharp Blade spell effect engraved on it, and it can be used multiple times.”

“Because it is a spell-triggered Transcendent equipment, it can also be called a magical artifact. Of course, in the void, other races also call the Witch race’s magical artifacts magic artifacts. For spell equipment driven by Magic Power, no matter what it’s called, it’s fine to collectively call them Transcendent equipment.”

While Big Sis Bai spoke, she put the bracelet on her right wrist.

“I won’t use my own power, and will only rely on equipment to fight you. How about it?”

Big Sis Bai asked.

“Alright.”

My eyes lit up slightly!

I agreed immediately.

It wasn’t that I hadn’t fought Big Sis Bai before, but I was instantaneously crushed by her back then.

That kind of crushing wasn’t about being inferior to Big Sis Bai, but pure numerical crushing.

Of course, within that, there was also the instinctual gap between combat experience skills and actual life-and-death struggle.

As for the Transcendent wizard I killed with Void Cracks, that was a “fixed numerical” crushing.

The “True Time” that Transcendents stepped into brought a comprehensive enhancement to themselves.

From combat awareness to the level of means, attacks that reached deep into True Time against those who are extraordinary would each be “True Damage.”

Even an Undying Nature was like child's play under the level-crushing of True Time.

So this time, since Big Sis Bai was actually only using equipment to fight me, I naturally wouldn't refuse!

I admitted Big Sis Bai was a Transcendent, but facing this restriction where she could only use equipment to respond to the battle, I still had full confidence.

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