Is It Weird for a Guy to Apply to a Witch School?
Chapter 1061: Extraordinary Breaking Transcendent Equipment
When I took out the Book in the Casket to fight Big Sis Bai, the battle truly began.
For things like fighting, it was either to achieve a certain goal or to estimate what could be gained from the battle.
The reason I agreed to this fight with Big Sis Bai was precisely because I wanted to know the gap between me and a Transcendent at the level of combat power.
Big Sis Bai was the same; she wanted to make me understand the importance of equipment in combat.
Did we both achieve our goals?
It could basically be considered achieved.
Big Sis Bai made me understand that equipment was a tool for combat power, and Big Sis Bai also understood from my various means that even a Transcendent’s methods could be very flat.
After all, a Transcendent embodied a realm, while combat relied on means.
A Transcendent who did not cultivate might still rely on Fireballs as their means, while one who used their brain to cultivate would have ever-changing means.
While Big Sis Bai fought with me, she also explained things to me.
The general impression of Transcendent powerhouses was that one person was enough to destroy a world, but not every one of them could master such world-destroying means.
The first point to confirm was: the more powerful the means, the higher the threshold, and the more time and energy it took to cultivate and master.
Even taking the Witch race’s spellbooks as an example, low-level spellbooks like the Fireball Spellbook were almost equivalent to being flooded everywhere, but high-consumption spellbooks basically couldn't be bought.
For the most direct example, one basically couldn't see a Myriad Spellbook within the Witch Academy.
Even if one mastered a Super Consumption spellbook, their strength would be at the top of the academy, and after advancing to a Transcendent witch, such means would still not be outdated.
Back then, Mentor Belica was willing to exchange her rune insights and Totemology accumulated over so many years for a half-formed “Reincarnation” spell of mine, even if it was just an idea and some insights; one could see the preciousness of powerful spells from that.
During the soul-substance repair incident some time ago, she even used her entire research assets as a deposit to reserve the possibility of a Reincarnation spellbook.
One had to know that I had not yet advanced to Transcendent, and had not even learned the True Editing technique for creating spellbooks, yet she was able to invest so heavily in advance.
It was evident.
If I remembered correctly, the Academy Head seemed to have said that the consumption threshold for using a complete Reincarnation spellbook seemed to start at five hundred thousand magic power?
And that was a spell that cost one unit more than a Myriad Spellbook.
A single Domain of the Saint Stage required one hundred million magic power.
Then could there exist a spellbook with a consumption threshold of one hundred million?
Even Big Sis Bai was unclear on this point.
For Big Sis Bai, even though she was a Transcendent witch, the highest she had understood was the “Million God Spellbook.”
Spellbook circulation was so difficult among the Witch race; for other races in the void, similar things like spells, magic, or sorcery methods were even more difficult to circulate.
They were unlike physical objects and could not be plundered; if you didn't know it, you didn't know it.
Even a witch's spellbook wasn't something you could cast from as soon as you got it.
Therefore, equipment was the best medium to unleash one's accumulated “power.”
Big Sis Bai personally made me experience this point with Transcendent equipment.
Having reached the level of Transcendent equipment, the equipment and weapons in Big Sis Bai’s hands seemed to have moved beyond the scope of my recognition.
It was no longer like an external object or a tool; it was like an extension of her living body.
Equipment = Power had a concrete manifestation at this moment.
And I also understood the true meaning of the sentence Big Sis Bai kept mentioning: “The void is a place where equipment is king.”
Holding Transcendent equipment, Big Sis Bai had completely forced me to the point of using Spell Life.
Spell Life methods were the highest manifestation of my dominance over spell effects.
Even though they were very fragile as “lives,” as spell effects, they were so tricky that even Big Sis Bai had to treat them seriously.
The spell I was most familiar with was Protection of the Elemental Spirit, which was also the only category of Spell Life I knew.
But Big Sis Bai clearly went easy on me regarding this, to the point that I managed to figure out a “Fireball Spell Life.”
After all, Big Sis Bai knew very well that the purpose of this battle was not to win, but other things, so she allowed my “cultivation” during the battle.
Subsequently, Big Sis Bai “regretted” this move.
Because a life transformed from a single fireball was countless times more troublesome than a pure fireball!
Even if it was just a fireball.
It was like a comrade-in-arms who cooperated intimately with me, bursting forth with the most dazzling sparks in its short life.
And that wasn't even the most abnormal part.
With the spellbook as the core of dominance, the Fireball Spell Life, although essentially already a spell effect detached from the spellbook, gradually began to show more forms under continuous optimization...
The Fireball Spell Life mastered the forms and effects of other sequence derivatives of the Fireball!
Every death or new birth of a Fireball Spell Life represented the derivative diversity of a brand new Spell Life!
Admittedly, such means still could not withstand the spell effects of the Transcendent dimension in terms of “numerical values,” but its own function brought endless trouble to Big Sis Bai.
At this moment, the fireball leaped upon my Book in the Casket, transforming into a blazing blade with the help of the Book in the Casket’s own amplification effect on spells.
And the fireball in this posture was its strongest strike!
After this strike, its life would pass away along with the flames, yet the Fireball Spell was incredibly joyful for it, as if it had been born specifically to display this strike.
“Kill!”
I couldn't help but roar in resonance with the fireball!
Even Big Sis Bai’s eyes widened under this strike, as if she had seen an inconceivable scene.
A Transcendent longsword in her hand also met this strike under combat instinct.
Clang!
Crack...
The collision between the red flames and the weapon emitted a piercing ring, followed by a crisp sound announcing the weapon’s breakage.
Extraordinary breaking a Transcendent weapon?!
Even Big Sis Bai, who was at the Saint Stage, felt this was inconceivable.
Even back when I had killed the Transcendent wizard, that had been with the help of a Void Crack.
But this time... it was a spell!
The representative characteristic of Transcendent equipment was that power intervened in True Time.
It was impossible for those below Transcendent to completely destroy Transcendent equipment; at most, a notch would appear, but they could be repaired naturally using the self-repair techniques of Transcendent equipment.
It was the same logic as how an extraordinary person couldn't kill a Transcendent with general means.
“Xiao Han, you! You...”
“Phew... Oh my.”
The flames dissipated, and I returned to my senses from that special state just now.
Looking at the broken longsword in Big Sis Bai’s hand, I stuck out my tongue sheepishly.
“Sorry, Big Sis Bai... I remember Transcendent equipment seems quite expensive?”
After all, that was Transcendent equipment!
A weapon that only Transcendents could wield.
In Big Sis Bai’s words, even the top clubs in the Witch Academy could barely forge one piece of Transcendent equipment with all the resources they had accumulated.
After all, club members were not Transcendents, and didn't even meet the threshold for using the materials.
But no matter what, Transcendent equipment was outrageously expensive!
“...It’s fine. It’s even more expensive now.”
Big Sis Bai crouched down to pick up the broken part of the blade.
“Uh... ah? What do you mean? Big Sis Bai, you aren't going to blackmail me, are you? I don't have any money, just a body—do you want it?”
“Of course I do but I didn't mean I was blackmailing you.”
Big Sis Bai stared blankly at the figure before her who didn't yet know what had happened, then suddenly burst into a smile.
“If you aren't blackmailing me, you still want it?”
“You offered it yourself, why wouldn't I want it?”
Big Sis Bai said with a smile.
“Alright, alright treat it as compensation. Um... what about this sword? Can it still be repaired?”
“I won't repair it. I'll keep it as a souvenir.”
Big Sis Bai said with a smile.
Heaven knew that if she took this out and displayed it in front of her friends, saying it was cut by Xiao Han with a spell, how much face that would give her!
A little witch breaking Transcendent equipment!
Who else could possibly do that!
“Ah? As a souvenir?”
“Exactly! You have no idea what an incredible thing you’ve done... let’s not mention that. Xiao Han, in that instant just now, did you touch True Time?”
Big Sis Bai didn't hide much and asked directly.
In that instant just now, she had felt a disturbance in True Time.
If power could not extend into True Time, then no one could break this longsword.
“Yes, that’s indeed how it was.”
I nodded in admission.
At the end, the reason I fought so seriously with Big Sis Bai was because I felt the atmosphere of this battle was perfectly built up.
In the Witch Academy, no one had ever been able to force me to this extent, letting me throw myself entirely into the gap between technique, awareness, and instinct.
So in that last strike, I also took advantage of the momentum to break through that layer of the “barrier” of True Time.
But I had not yet advanced to Transcendent, because it wasn't that my life essence had reached True Time, but rather that in that instant, I combined technique with power to briefly cross that barrier.
This was absolutely a wonderful experience.
It was different from the limitation of the heaven-sent gift of Spirit Vision that allowed me to see True Time; the feeling of that power stepping into True Time was as free and real as a fish entering the ocean!
If the Spirit Vision talent was like me taking a submarine to dive deep into the ocean of “True Time,” where I could only rely on Spirit Vision to glimpse a corner of the scenery outside the deep sea.
Then the moment I personally touched True Time was like I had jumped into the ocean myself.
Even if I couldn't go as deep as Spirit Vision, I “experienced” the power of True Time in a comprehensive way.
To use an analogy.
The use of the ability bestowed by Spirit Vision on True Time was like scratching an itch through a boot.
Personally stepping into True Time was equivalent to sinking one's everything into True Time; moving a hand could cause True Time to fluctuate along with it.
This ability was like Big Sis Bai being able to tear space with the help of True Touch; it belonged to instinct.
And I experienced that instinct in that instant...
Even if it was only for a moment, it was enough for me to savor it countless times.
If I had previously said that advancing to Transcendent was just following the steps in my plan, then now... I had a trace of active desire toward advancing to Transcendent.
“As I thought! Xiao Han, are you about to advance to Transcendent?”
Big Sis Bai asked me excitedly while holding my shoulders.
Even if she knew in her heart that under those special techniques, Xiao Han was getting closer and closer to being a Transcendent, witnessing all this so intuitively had an unparalleled impact on her heart!
Xiao Han had only been enrolled for two years!
What was she doing during her second year back then?
“Haiya it’s soon. Don't be so excited at the latest I still have to wait another year or two.”
Feeling the immense shock in Big Sis Bai’s heart, I also felt a burst of secret joy.
There was a sense of satisfaction as if my efforts had finally been discovered by Big Sis Bai intuitively.
“How could I not be excited?”
Big Sis Bai breathed heavily, but her gaze caught the Fool's Dreams on the side, causing her to restrain her next instinctual behaviors.
“Big Sis Xiao Han is the battle over?”
“If it's over, can you let us out?”
The Fool's Dreams, who were watching the battle from the side, tapped on the protective spell jointly set by me and Big Sis Bai.
Because no one could say for sure with things like fighting, if the Fool's Dreams got too excited during the battle, they might be hurt by the aftershocks.
After all, the Fool's Dreams essentially didn't have any Transcendent power.
“Almost forgot.”
I walked over to undo the protective spell for the Fool's Dreams.
“Big Sis Xiao Han looked so cool while fighting just now!”
“Yeah, yeah! Big Sis Bai too!”
The four little Fool's Dreams swarmed toward me after the spell restriction was undone.
Regarding the form of “combat,” the Fool's Dreams rarely saw it.
Especially the Fool's Dreams following me; I rarely let them come into contact with such things.
This time counted as an accident.
I picked up Fool's Blue, while the other few also placed themselves in the dream and floated to follow by my side.
Regarding this “Dreamification” talent, the four little ones had gradually begun to adapt to it.
Fool's Luck kept lamenting on the side, stating that the battle between me and Big Sis Bai just now was like art.
The intertwining of spells, physical arts, and equipment indeed constituted a combat process with significant artistic appreciation value.
Because of this, every moment in the Witch Academy, the arena had a large number of spectators.
Unfortunately, the battle between me and Big Sis Bai would not be seen by anyone else.
“Big Sis Xiao Han um... can I also fight together with you? Like just now, together with that fire going whoosh.”
As these words were spoken by Fool's Luck, my expression froze slightly.
Then I turned my head to look at Fool's Luck floating in mid-air.
Even I hadn't expected Fool's Luck to suddenly say this!
“Fool's Luck, why did you suddenly think of this? Combat is a very dangerous behavior.”
I advised cryptically.
“But I saw Big Sis Xiao Han and Big Sis Bai looked so excited while fighting!”
Fool's Luck tilted her little head and said in confusion.
“This...”
I blinked my eyes.
In an instant, my head thought of many words to continue advising her, but they were all rejected by me one by one.
Explanation?
Analysis?
Or perhaps persuasion?
None seemed quite right.
An explanation wouldn't be clear, with an analysis, the Fool's Dreams wouldn't understand, and persuasion... then I would become an insurmountable mountain in front of the Fool's Dreams.
Moreover, Fool's Luck had only mentioned “combat.”
I had many ways to let the Fool's Dreams experience the thing they spoke of without any risk.
“Then shall I take you to experience it and see, how about that?”
I said.
Then I saw the eyes of Fool's Blue, who was being held by me, also light up.
“Big Sis Xiao Han.”
Fool's Blue’s voice also sounded from my arms at the right time.
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