Chapter 1064: Magic-Draining Metal and the Abnormalities of the Wizard Apprentices

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The ‍​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍situation the United Club was currently facing was not very good.

If ‍​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍my view of equipment was that of an optional tool, then for the United Club, equipment was a sharp weapon that could determine the direction of the war!

“Everyone, ‍​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍we have received a very disadvantageous piece of news to share with you all.”

Cleveland, ‍​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍as the representative of Special Task Force Zero, also represented the will of that Teaching Assistant Xiao Han.

No ‍​‌​‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍one could shake the status of Special Task Force Zero on the Blood Slave Peninsula.

As long as this special combat sequence remained on the Blood Slave Peninsula, no academy would dare to take this place back from the Witch Academy under the name of expelling invaders.

Currently, the Witch Academy was mainly working on opening the geographical gap between the Witch Academy territory and the Blood Slave Peninsula.

This matter had been discussed for a long time, but to their shame, they still hadn't taken it down.

Although it looked like a complex region dominated by Blood Clan Affiliated Academies on the map, actually fighting it was as stressful as facing the Three Great Top-tier Academies directly.

The key was that the United Club still couldn't cut off the channels through which those top-tier academies secretly provided aid to this region!

A steady stream of weapons, equipment, and other materials was being deployed here, stubbornly smoothing over the gap in combat power and means between the Witch Academy and those small academies.

They also intended to learn from that battle where they crushed the Sun Rock Academy in one wave, but to avoid a second large-scale blood sacrifice incident, they gave up on such a brainless plan.

After all, no one could bear such a possible command error.

The blood sacrifice was just one form; no one knew what other means they had waiting for them.

Now.

This was not a large-scale meeting being conducted by the United Club, but a temporary small meeting convened by representatives of the core guardian clubs, with only a dozen or so members.

Everyone looked at a cut metal block taken out by Cleveland, quietly waiting for this bad news to be formally announced.

“This metal is called Magic-Draining Metal by those lower-ranked Blood Clans. It is a kind of extraordinary alloy formed through a special ratio, and there are many variant alloys. Its effect is to drain and absorb magic power, forming two effects on the battlefield that specifically target us witches.”

“One is that casting completed based on magic power will have its spell effects weakened to the maximum extent by protective equipment forged from this metal. The other is... being hit by a weapon forged from this metal will cause our control over our Magic Power Sources to drop significantly. Even if we forcibly overcome this influence ourselves, using a spellbook to cast will also carry the risk of casting failure. Once casting fails, the triggered magic power Backlash will also cause secondary damage.”

As Cleveland finished these words, everyone’s faces darkened slightly, but there were no other redundant emotional changes, because before this meeting was convened, they had roughly learned about such a “disgusting” thing.

Before, they didn't know there was actually a metal that targeted them so specifically.

And now, it had boldly appeared right before their eyes.

If one said this wasn't targeted, no one would believe it.

However, this wasn't unexpected either.

Things like extraordinary materials didn't just target magic power; there were also many other metal materials that would strongly counter Transcendent powers like the elements.

This Magic-Draining Metal just happened to specifically target them witches more.

This situation could be categorized as Transcendent energy resistance metal at the academic level.

However, as Cleveland finished her next sentence, many people’s expressions could somewhat no longer be held together:

“According to battlefield feedback, weapons made of this metal do not have a significant impact on students with the Self-generating Magic Power body talent, though their casting will still be weakened by this equipment.”

After these words were finished, the vast majority of people only felt even more envious of this talent.

However, the acquisition of this talent had already been placed under control by the Witch Academy.

But one layer they didn't think of was that since it couldn't affect students with the Self-generating Magic Power talent, then the impact caused by this metal didn't seem to directly affect the Magic Power Source, but rather affected the Earth Vein Chains that carried the Magic Power Source for each person.

But to them, it was actually all the same.

It was just that this news also meant:

Transcendent Mentors from other academies had already exerted influence on the Academy War.

After all, something that could affect single-item magic absorption and resistance, and even specifically affect the Earth Vein Chains, was not something students could research.

You could say things like materials science belonged to luck, but a student’s luck couldn't possibly be good to this degree.

Facing this equipment, unless it was powerful physical crushing caused by a spell, it was truly difficult for ordinary spells to heavily injure the enemy.

After all, not every student had a Super Consumption spellbook; even a 100-point consumption spellbook was a trump card for average students.

Therefore, this form of equipment greatly weakened the threat level of the witches.

On the battlefield, the lethality of Evocation Spells was unquestionable.

Wanting to change combat methods would carry great risks, not to mention other types of spells weren't absolutely unaffected.

After a bit of discussion, everyone’s viewpoints were actually consistent.

Since these means were so countered by magic power as the lead, then they would switch to other methods.

After all, they didn't necessarily have to stubborn themselves into catering to the enemy’s logic.

Magic Power Sources and spellbooks were just the easiest powers and means to obtain in the Witch Academy, but that didn't mean they were the only powers.

Whether it was alchemical equipment or techniques like potions and formations, they could also function without the intervention of magic power.

But these means belonged to a move of helplessness.

What more people were optimistic about was actually... the large-scale destruction equipment mounted on the Witch Warships!

Since there was pure power that could break through everything with one force, why bother so much?

This was the thought of the majority.

“By the way, what is the progress of the Magic Annihilation Cannon proposed by the Spell Research Club? Can it reach a weakening ceiling that ignores that equipment?”

Someone took the initiative to ask at this time.

Subsequently, many people looked toward the representative of the United Club’s Transcendent Academic Department.

After all, they were responsible for researching the Witch Warships and large-scale mountable destruction weapons.

During this period, the United Club had burned quite a lot of money for these academic researches; the kind where even reminiscing about it felt a bit painful.

“In terms of theoretical values, the Magic Annihilation Cannon will let those guys know: their magic-draining equipment will be as vulnerable as their bodies. But...”

“But what?”

“But processes like research, testing, and implementation all take time. Building weapons isn't like molding clay.”

The representative of the Transcendent Academic Department complained.

After all, they had endured being made to build floating warships from zero based on drawings given by mentors within a few months; now they were being asked to give a finished product in such a short time.

Did they really think their technical department was omnipotent!

“Then how long will it take at the earliest? You have to give us a deadline, at least.”

“One month...”

Before the academic department representative could finish fighting for it, she was directly interrupted by someone:

“Impossible! One month? Do you know when it will be after one month? By then, this batch’s college entrance examination will be almost over. Do you understand?”

“Exactly! It only takes you a few months to build a floating warship; a mountable weapon actually takes that long?”

Someone followed up and questioned.

“Do you know how fast one month actually is? Don't mention that floating warship built in a few months; that’s just a floating iron coffin box that looks very imposing on the outside! If you don't understand technology, then you do it! See if you can hand-craft it yourself!”

The academic department representative, having been snapped at for a few sentences, also had a fiery temper.

Carrying a sense of superiority in intelligence and knowledge, she directly opened fire on these guys.

“Cool down, they were just disgusted by those guys’ methods. Our enemies will always be those top-tier academies and the Hundred Academies Alliance, not our own people.”

After a role that took the initiative to advise stepped forward and gave an out, the meeting also quickly returned to the right track.

And they also quickly entered the next agenda.

That was the secret problem concerning the Blood Slave Peninsula.

Because of the blood sacrifice incident on the Blood Slave Peninsula, almost one-third of the cities on the Blood Slave Peninsula had become ghost towns that no one dared to inhabit, the kind without any trace of human presence.

The combat sequences stationed there also quickly united with local families to sweep the area.

And this sweep quickly discovered many secret areas buried here.

Different from the Witch Academy, which liked to open various spaces—Curtain Wall spaces, folded spaces, overlapping spaces of various types—other Transcendent races didn't have such heritage to let students play with such high-end means.

Therefore, expanding space either meant supervising floating islands in the sky like the Holy Angels, or digging and developing toward underground areas.

Consequently, many underground facilities were discovered within the Blood Slave Peninsula.

Moreover, following the various nodes of the blood sacrifice ritual, very regular underground structures were found.

And among these, the huge space beneath the Blood Slave Academy was the greatest.

The combat sequence didn't rashly enter it; if they triggered some irresistible back-up plan again, it would be pure suicide.

Therefore, they could only dispatch squads for flexible exploration.

Even if they encountered some irresistible danger, they could be saved through pre-arranged rescue methods, or brought back for resurrection.

“Currently, we have discovered one large underground hollow facility on the Blood Slave Peninsula. Small and medium-sized underground facilities have reached 134, and this is not yet the final number.”

Many people were slightly stunned to hear this number.

This wasn't the first time they had heard this news.

When the last meeting mentioned this, only a little over double digits of such underground facilities had been probed; now it had actually reached triple digits!

At the beginning, they received squad exploration intelligence shared from the Bakery Club’s combat sequence.

It had to be said, the internal situation had indeed shocked them.

Because a large area of “unknown creatures” reared underground was discovered down there!

But what could be confirmed was that they were in humanoid postures, with significant differences from humans in their limbs.

They were hairless across their bodies, including their heads.

The whole was a morbidly pale appearance, and they were bloated with a huge physique.

They were also afraid of light.

When discovered, these guys underground were living very well; it seemed the underground facilities used special materials to isolate the impact of the blood sacrifice.

And these underground facilities similarly retained many remaining students of the Blood Slave Academy.

After being caught, they confessed very quickly.

These “monsters” were all students who had formerly completed their courses or graduated from the Blood Slave Academy.

They had completely regressed into blood slaves with only instincts.

Correct... this posture was the pure blood slave in the mouths of the Blood Clan.

A blood-producing machine that only knew how to supply blood!

If it were only so, they would just loathe academies like the Blood Clan even more; it wouldn't reach the point of being this important.

At most, they would just have slight disagreements on how to dispose of these blood slaves.

But they encountered Wizard Apprentices here!

Ultimately, these Wizard Apprentices ended with the result of having destroyed the place and successfully escaped.

This series of operations undoubtedly proved that the Wizard Academy had actively taken the field to intervene in the Blood Slave Peninsula, and in the form of secret infiltration.

However, the Wizard Academy side refused to admit it.

Coupled with the fact that the United Club was not yet ready to declare war on a top-tier academy, this matter could only continue in this state of stalemate.

Therefore, on the Blood Slave Peninsula, Special Task Force Zero constantly staked out the Wizard Apprentices using these special underground facilities as bait.

But when more underground facilities were discovered, they were already in a state of having been destroyed by Wizard Apprentices.

And now, according to Cleveland’s words, 134 such places had been discovered!

But they still couldn't determine why the wizards would be so obsessed with destroying these underground facilities.

Could they be afraid that materials like those blood crystals would fall into the hands of the Witch Academy?

Please... after knowing what those things were, a wind of repulsion had already appeared in the academy.

How could the Witch Academy possibly want that stuff?

It couldn't be sold for much money and would even damage their own reputation.

But to say covering up crimes... this similarly had no meaning.

Now, Special Task Force Zero had retracted their exploration squads, only guarding the super-large underground facility beneath the Blood Slave Academy, letting the other small facilities be destroyed by the wizards as they pleased.

Even if the Wizard Apprentices didn't destroy those places, they were going to destroy them anyway; after all, their moral concepts didn't allow such things to happen before them.

Leaving one largest underground facility to figure out what they were trying to do was enough.

“By the way, does the academy have any expression regarding this matter?”

“We have cryptically mentioned this matter, but the academy side doesn't seem to want to interfere too much with our behavior, letting us handle it as we see fit. If we can't stand it, just perform humane destruction on all of them directly.”

“In my opinion, there’s no need to make a fuss over this. No matter what obsession they have with this, just destroy it all.”

Someone proposed.

“Brute, your suggestion is better left unsaid. Those wizards would rather take this risk to come and destroy these underground facilities; there must be some secret down there. How about... we ask Teaching Assistant Xiao Han for help? See if she is interested in this matter, and then we’ll make a decision.”

The representative who proposed this suggestion looked toward Cleveland, appearing to be waiting for the other party’s response.

“Should I trouble Big Sis Xiao Han...”

Cleveland frowned, pondering whether this matter should be done.

“I can go test Big Sis Xiao Han’s tone on this matter.”

Cleveland didn't give a response immediately either.

She planned to consolidate recent developments and then report to Big Sis Xiao Han.

Although this was her proactive periodic summary of work, she believed having such an excuse would be better than just going there directly.