Is It Weird for a Guy to Apply to a Witch School?

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“Strange... I’m still a bit sleepy. It can’t be that I’ve already developed a resistance to Refreshing Potions, can it?”

Ninglan Qiuyue muttered to herself in confusion, though she still stood up to move around a bit.

She looked briefly at the pitch-black sky outside.

She had pulled another all-nighter.

As the City Lord of Ninglan New City, there were simply too many things for her to be busy with.

During the day, she had to run all over the Expansion Realm; after all, if the Expansion Realm wanted to unite into a massive whole, it wasn’t something that could be accomplished by her just sitting in the Ninglan Township Fortress.

Furthermore, she also represented the will of the Witch Academy.

And with the incident involving Little Han continuing until now, she also needed to coordinate with the academy to make various responses at all times.

“Hmm?”

Ninglan Qiuyue stared at the sky somewhat vacantly.

In a daze, she seemed to see an incomparably massive figure in the horizon!

Even though she only saw it for an instant, that brief moment brought an extremely powerful shock to her!

It was as if at the moment her gaze reached it, everything she recognized became distorted.

The world began to crack, and everything before her eyes began to collapse.

Subsequently, she completely lost all vision... followed by a sensation of weightlessness.

Within her void-like sight, a golden streak of something like a rune appeared in her cognition.

She didn’t know what it was, only that it felt somewhat familiar.

However, she felt that the more she tried to grasp it, the heavier that unknown feeling striking her soul and that uncontrollable sense of weightlessness became!

Until a certain moment of critical mass, she suddenly lifted her head from the desk... Even the relatively soft backrest could not withstand her instinctive jolt awake.

As her entire body shuddered, the chair beneath her backside also suddenly lost its balance.

Clang!

A clear sound rang out.

Ninglan Qiuyue, still maintaining her sitting posture, fell entirely onto the ground.

Then, her somewhat vacant gaze refocused.

Looking at the familiar ceiling, she suddenly realized that the place she was in... seemed to be her office?

“What was that just now?”

Ninglan Qiuyue stood up without feeling any embarrassment.

She then righted the chair and cast a Cleaning Spell on herself.

The series of movements was smooth and natural, as if nothing had happened just now.

“I... just had a dream?”

Ninglan Qiuyue made this deduction somewhat hesitantly, but she still wanted to complain... why was it that even when dreaming, she was still busy with official duties in the dream!

Ninglan Qiuyue picked up the rows of diluted Refreshing Potions to the side.

She vaguely remembered drinking one, but this bottle seemed untouched.

“It really was a dream? Why? The dream overlap in Ninglan New City—didn’t Little Han already help us quell it? Or did the dream once again...”

Right at this moment, a burst of hurried and chaotic footsteps came from outside the door, and then Ninglan Qiuyue’s personal secretary, Lan Ke, suddenly pushed the door open.

“Sister Qiuyue! This is bad! Ninglan New City has likely been covered by a dream overlap area again!”

“Lan Ke? Calm down first!”

Ninglan Qiuyue spoke.

With Lan Ke’s appearance, Ninglan Qiuyue became even more certain that she had truly fallen into a dream state just now.

“I roughly know the situation. Go contact the City Guard and see exactly how many people experienced that dream just now.”

“This... this time it’s likely large-scale. When I came over just now, the City Guard guarding the Ninglan Township Fortress had all fainted and just scrambled back up...”

“What? On such a massive scale?”

Ninglan Qiuyue was shocked for a moment, but very quickly thought of the news the Academy Head had notified her of earlier—that people in the area close to Little Han should be prepared to evacuate and avoid disaster at any time.

But... that place was so far from the Ninglan territory!

Would the Academy Head make such a low-level error?

“Sister Qiuyue... then should I still...”

“Go, let’s go see what’s happening together.”

Ninglan Qiuyue couldn’t care about anything else and stood up directly to go check personally.

With a disaster of such a massive scale occurring, she absolutely could not sit still.

As soon as she pushed open the door, she saw the City Guards guarding the Ninglan Township Fortress rushing here at the first moment.

What they needed to do was naturally protect their City Lord.

Even though these City Guards knew very well that this City Lord was a witch herself and that her strength was not something that required their protection, their duty required them to make such a reaction.

“Were you all just caught in a dream state just now?”

Ninglan Qiuyue inquired, going straight to the point.

“Yes, City Lord! This is the incompetence of our City Guard...”

“No, this isn’t your fault. This is great power at the Transcendent level, not something an ordinary person can resist. Just now, even I fell for it. Let’s not worry about that for now... now, come with me.”

Just as Ninglan Qiuyue was preparing to investigate, she suddenly received a message from her Seed of Great Knowledge.

It was the Academy Head contacting her personally.

When she finished reading this clearly somewhat hurried notification message, she was stunned.

Just now, she had thought this was merely a dream overlap affecting Ninglan New City, but... who would have thought it was a Dream Calamity involving more than half of the Expansion Realm this time!

“Tsk... this is troublesome...”

At the thought of the range affected by this disaster, Ninglan Qiuyue’s head immediately started aching.

The primary goal now was to ensure the operational status of various places in the Expansion Realm, followed by personnel safety and so on.

***

Within the Primal Dream State.

After the Academy Head and the others all left, my means became even more unrestrained.

And regarding the mastery of the Wisdom Bestowal technique, I could also very clearly feel its progress.

Wisdom Bestowal was extremely important for both me and the Fool’s Dreams; after all, this was one of the concepts I would bestow upon the Fool’s Dreams later.

The only pity was that I could not use Wisdom Deprival on these Transcendents, only Wisdom Wither, which resulted in me being unable to utilize them to create Wisdom Seeds that could be used by me.

However, the impact of this on me wasn’t very large.

After marking these people with a piece of Knowledge Power for anchoring, the final destination for these fellows would be becoming lost within the Primal Dream State.

Then, they might possibly be retrieved during the Primal Dream State search plan proposed by the Academy Head.

Now, staying in the Primal Dream State, I had roughly two major things left to do.

The first was to continue the research on Nightmares, finding a dream-state soul-substance suitable for Soul Depiction and completing the shaping of the soul Fool’s Dreams.

The second... was to dismantle the Great Wisdom Enlightenment Spell and, using the Fool’s Dream Seed as a framework, create a brand-new “Tree of Wisdom’s Enlightenment”!

And the brand-new Tree of Wisdom’s Enlightenment could even be said to not count as a Grand Spellbook anymore.

The Great Tree of Knowledge was shaped with the help of the framework of the Memory Bookshelf spellbook.

If I wanted to make the Great Tree of Knowledge a complete Grand Spellbook, then at the very least I would need to advance to Transcendent, master True Editing technology, and possess the foundation for creating spellbooks to complete its abilities.

As for the Tree of Wisdom’s Enlightenment in my plan... it didn’t even have a spellbook framework!

Its framework was the Dream Picture Scroll!

It was only transcribed into the Fool’s Dream Seed based on the special techniques of the Great Tree of Knowledge.

Therefore... the essence of the Tree of Wisdom’s Enlightenment was a modification technique born based on the spell effects of another Grand Spellbook.

Although it was a bit messy to put it that way, once I broke the restriction that the destination of [Transcendent Knowledge] was not necessarily a Grand Spellbook, there was actually no need to dwell so much on the essence of the Tree of Wisdom’s Enlightenment.

Or rather, what it was was no longer important; what was important was what it could bring me.

A brand-new... Fool’s Village?

Or a Fool’s Village enhanced by a Sacred Object?

Even I wasn’t clear on what the final result would be.

I was actually quite curious whether the other techniques derived from this Grand Spellbook platform would undergo peculiar changes after reconstructing the Tree of Wisdom’s Enlightenment.

Mimetic Soul... Soul Depiction... Wisdom Bestowal...

Even my domain!

After all, my domain was the mutual architecture between Body Cultivation and the two Grand Spellbooks...

This also represented that if I took this step and failed, I would lose many things, including the power of the domain being affected, and the order contained within the Knowledge Power of the domain would all undergo unpredictable changes.

But what if it succeeded?

The benefits would absolutely be unimaginable...

However, these so-called imaginary successes and failures had no meaning for the current me.

Even if it failed later, it only brought anxiety for the future to the current me; and success... would merely bring a moment of empty joy right now.

This choice was absolutely not a gamble for me, and the outcome was by no means limited to only two choices: success or failure.

Looking at my current choice with a developmental eye, this was absolutely a decision where one would gain without losing.

Something unsuitable for oneself, even if it was a Grand Spellbook, was merely a spell to me; the so-called reluctance to part with it was merely being stuck in one’s ways.

Those derived techniques and domains were, in the final analysis, merely “tools” that were handy to use.

If I couldn’t bear to let go... then it would prove that I had fallen into the trap of chasing power.

But the knowledge that shaped these powers and everything about my Transcendent perception would not disappear.

What disappeared was only my obsession with this power.

Think about it carefully...

I should be the person in this Main World who should least have power anxiety!

Below Transcendent, if I said “I am invincible!”, who would contradict me?

And above Transcendent—that was even less of a matter I should be anxious about.

What I lacked in the end was merely time.

After figuring these things out, I suddenly discovered that the psychological burden of wanting to dismantle a Grand Spellbook didn’t seem that heavy anymore.

In reality.

The Academy Head had already placed my physical body in reality within the Expansion Realm according to my request.

However, merely placing it there was naturally not enough; there were also several witch mentors here to look after it to prevent accidents.

It could be said that the Academy Head’s regard for Little Han was absolutely very high.

But... Mei Linde seemed to have forgotten one thing.

That was that the Little Han she valued so much was herself... also a little witch who was very capable of causing trouble.

Among the three witches left in the Expansion Realm, Bai Yu had also proactively applied to become one of those taking care of Little Han.

Although Bai Yu had just returned from the Primal Dream State, she ultimately chose to stay by Little Han’s side.

After all, the upcoming matters were all professional bickering; there was naturally no need for Bai Yu to keep following the Academy Head and the others to negotiate with other academies.

“Is this Little Han? It’s the first time seeing her from such a close distance.”

At this moment, the other two witches quite naturally leaned forward, though their hands were still slightly restrained.

After all, the person’s partner was right there, so they naturally needed to be a bit more reserved.

These two witches had proactively applied to take care of Little Han together with Bai Yu, naturally having their own thoughts.

For example... they were truly curious about what exactly happened in the Expansion Realm.

After all, the impact of the Dream Calamity had not yet shown signs of receding, and some accompanying dream hazard phenomena were still continuously occurring.

Therefore, they mainly wanted to strike up a conversation with Bai Yu and then snag a bit of gossip to learn some things they didn’t know!

It could be said they had long been unable to wait to find out what exactly had happened in the Expansion Realm.

In their view, as a personal participant in this matter, Bai Yu definitely had the right to speak!

Meanwhile, Bai Yu was to the side slightly tidying Little Han’s clothes, cleaning away some dust stained during this matter, and then holding a comb to lightly comb the slightly messy long silver-white hair.

“Sister, mind if I ask you are Little Han’s girlfriend, that legendary Bai Yu, right?”

“Legendary? Isn’t that address a bit too exaggerated?”

Bai Yu also found it quite interesting that these two sisters were striking up a conversation.

Although these two clearly recognized her, Bai Yu still made a formal self-introduction, and the two witches did the same.

Friendships between witches were very simple; many relationships actually started from a single conversation or a single piece of gossip.

And these two also didn’t hide their great interest in the events of the Expansion Realm this time.

Furthermore, they stated that they were essentially witches at the very forefront of gossip within the Witch Academy.

Regarding this, Bai Yu was naturally willing to address them as sisters.

After all, making friends with several witches who were very well-informed about gossip had many benefits for herself as well; at least she could have more channels to learn about more valuable things at the first moment.

Only now... she had become the source of the gossip spread.

Regarding the matter this time, Bai Yu was very clear that some things could not be disclosed, such as... the Dream Domain Little Han mastered!

Regarding this kind of “ultimate weapon means,” even the Academy Head advocated for concealment.

Currently, the witches who knew about Little Han’s Dream Domain were at most the witches who participated in this incident, and they had all promised not to speak of it.

At least until it played a decisive role at the strategic level, this matter would not be disclosed.

The news Bai Yu disclosed was also very standardized; after all, these were all “colluded stories” prepared in advance.

The Witch Academy was indeed affected by this Dream Calamity just like the other Transcendent academies, but because rescue was timely, the losses were not large.

Only a few witches were lost in the Primal Dream State.

During this Primal Dream State invasion, the Witch Academy had some small breakthrough progress regarding the Primal Dream State, which was why the prediction of the Primal Dream State Calamity was made...

And while Bai Yu was recounting things just like that, a burst of anomaly instantly made her stop the thought of continuing to speak.

The other two witches were also drawn by this anomaly.

They saw Little Han’s body suddenly glow with golden Knowledge Power, and then... a light orb emerged from within her body.

The thing wrapped and brought out by Knowledge Power was precisely a Grand Spellbook.

This scene left all three witches present in a daze.

But what happened in the next moment shocked them beyond measure!

Because... this Grand Spellbook was gradually deconstructing under the wrapping of Knowledge Power!