Is It Weird for a Guy to Apply to a Witch School?-Chapter 459 -

Chapter 459: The Predicament of the Tree of Knowledge, Big Sis Bai Arrives

Although the matters the Academy Head discussed with me seemed simple, implementing them would be far from easy.

Especially since this issue involved things like the Script and [Transcendent Knowledge], it was very troublesome.

Furthermore, the Academy Head didn't have only me as a backup plan.

It was just that, currently, given Qiu Ruxin's wishes, my priority was placed at the front, and another reason was… I was more controllable and flexible in responding to unknown risks.

It was very realistic, but the facts were indeed so.

And I had absolutely no objection to this.

It would be laughable if I didn't fight for a chance to gain a piece of [Transcendent Knowledge], would it?

However, I had been exposed to quite a bit of [Transcendent Knowledge] recently.

I wasn't, by any chance, a constitution that attracts [Transcendent Knowledge], was I?

Putting aside these unrealistic thoughts, I was also making preparations.

Severing Qiu Ruxin's identity as a Child of Destiny couldn't be achieved simply by sending her to the Main World.

After all, I could still encounter the threads of Destiny from this Small World while in the Main World.

Qiu Ruxin wouldn't lose her status as a Child of Destiny so easily just by leaving her original world.

Therefore, other auxiliary methods were required.

Of course, Qiu Ruxin could completely retain her identity as a Child of Destiny and travel to the Main World, then wait for the Small World to merge with the Main World.

Although this would lead to a period of conflict with the Child of Destiny of the Main World, and this conflict on the Script level is unavoidable, this situation is not unacceptable.

However, Qiu Ruxin is very resistant to the identity of a Child of Destiny.

She has already clearly expressed her attitude.

Of course… there is a very important matter the Academy Head told me privately: after the Script of this Small World loses its Child of Destiny, they will intervene to suppress the birth of a substitute Child of Destiny.

Once the Script is completely destroyed, the world's origin will be severely damaged, and the World Will's ability to resist will weaken, accelerating the rate of fusion with the Main World.

And most importantly, by then the [Transcendent Knowledge] will be free from the World Will's control, and the World Will will no longer have the capital to select a substitute Child of Destiny.

Whether it's the Child of Destiny, the Script, or Destiny, all of this serves the [Transcendent Knowledge].

If the most essential element is gone, why bother with the rest?

“By the way, Academy Head ma'am, I have a rough question: how many days will this matter roughly delay me?”

I sought out the Academy Head again and asked this question.

This question was indeed very important to me.

After all, the interview hadn't been fully finalized yet.

The interview required all the teachers who needed a Teaching Assistant to be available to gather for the interviews.

Although most of them were newly arrived teachers who weren't busy, don't forget there were other teachers too!

Those teachers are busy.

If they weren't busy, why would they look for a Teaching Assistant?

To find someone to play with?

They aren't that bored, and besides, apart from witches with peculiar tastes, the remaining general witches would only be interested in beings who were also witches.

“Mhm, no rush. At most, it will only delay you by a day or two. We are researching how to destroy Qiu Ruxin's Seed of Destiny without harming her. It feels like a small project to play around with. If we can completely strip it away, that would be even better.”

“Uh… is there no precedent for this?”

I scratched my head and asked.

“There are precedents, naturally, but such opportunities are rare. When you encounter a puzzle you like, is your first thought to look up the answer?”

“Alright…”

I didn't argue further.

In fact, most of the time, I don't feel "liking" any puzzle; I just want to find the answer quickly.

Perhaps this is a habit inherited from my previous life?

“Little Han, is there something urgent you need to do at the academy, seeing as you asked about the delay? Qiu Ruxin summoned you once before, and you didn't respond the first time.”

“Ah, well… I do have some things to do. I’m going to have my Teaching Assistant Interview in another couple of days, perhaps tomorrow or the day after.”

“Oh, Teaching Assistant… it's already time for the new batch of witches to rotate… Wait a minute!”

Upon hearing my words, Academy Head Bev Ailana reacted.

Calculating the time, it was indeed that time, but…

“Wait a minute, no, Little Han, you are participating in the Teaching Assistant Test? Haven't you just enrolled?”

“Mhm… yes. Is there a problem?”

“Is there still a problem?”

Bev Ailana stood up immediately.

“There is no precedent for a student in the first three years of the Witch Academy to participate in the Teaching Assistant Test! Did that old hag Mei Linde instigate you to go?”

“Ah?”

I pretended to be confused, but I was inwardly shocked.

What was "old hag Mei Linde"?

It couldn't possibly be Academy Head Mei Linde's nickname… The thought made me almost burst out laughing, but I looked at Academy Head Bev Ailana and restrained myself.

“Fine, fine, it was her, right? She's truly reckless! Doesn't she know you… you…”

Bev Ailana looked at me.

She was going to talk about the review process, but as an Academy Head, she had some knowledge of Little Han's situation.

Even if Little Han did nothing, the value of being the first-place winner of the multi-academy-organized Dream State Exchange Competition was a huge bonus.

Add in Little Han’s various strange achievements, and even without anything else, the initial review would pass.

“Doesn't she know you've only been enrolled for half a year? The written test covers a lot of knowledge points, let alone the extension questions.”

“The written test score has already been released. I was one point shy of a full score.”

I stated truthfully.

After all, the Academy Head's words truly struck a chord with me.

This was something I achieved through my own capability!

“One point shy… Tsk… Will any teacher take you on, a newcomer like you?”

Academy Head Bev Ailana choked on my words.

Clearly, this question was no longer a genuine inquiry but an expression of disbelief.

“I know a senior who has already graduated and returned in this batch of new teachers. She is willing to take me on.”

“Pfft… Haha, haha Oh…”

Just as I finished speaking, after leaving the Academy Head speechless once again, laughter suddenly erupted from around a nearby corner before she could respond.

“Goodness, you're eavesdropping on me here? And laughing out loud? Is this funny?”

Academy Head Bev Ailana immediately turned around and strode towards the corner, as if she had found a place to vent her frustration.

I stayed put.

With the Academy Head's powerful Perception, how could she not know there were witches eavesdropping?

She had simply ignored them.

But now that they had laughed out loud the moment she was embarrassed, well, they were going to suffer.

Following a burst of screams, which seemed deliberately intended for me to hear, the Academy Head walked out, clapped her hands, and came over with a beaming smile.

“Little Han, where were we in the conversation?”

“Uh… the Teaching Assistant matter?”

“Oh, right. Since you have your own arrangements, that’s good too. I like students who are proactive and have their own plans. You handle the matter here first. If it gets delayed, I'll go speak up for you. Little Han, do you have anything else?”

“No… no. Um, Academy Head ma'am, I'll head back now…”

“Mhm, go back. I’ll notify you when we are ready.”

Academy Head Bev Ailana also waved her hand, not continuing the topic.

It was just a Teaching Assistant position, after all.

She wasn't going to get too worked up about it.

However, Bev Ailana watched my departing back, contemplating something else inwardly.

For example, where did this person, who had only been enrolled for half a year, meet that senior?

Did they know each other before enrollment?

Realizing that thinking about this was pointless, she also went back to her own work.

After leaving the Academy Head, I turned to look for Qiu Ruxin.

However, the palace was truly vast.

I wandered around for a long time, and finally managed to find her after trying to use the Tree of Knowledge to connect to the Earth Vein information of this world.

Qiu Ruxin was currently cooperating with a few teachers on a kind of experiment—likely the attempt to strip away or destroy the Seed of Destiny that the Academy Head mentioned.

They welcomed my arrival warmly and enthusiastically ushered me in.

“Big Sis Little Han, I didn’t expect you to find your way here…”

“Mhm, mainly because I didn't have much to do here anyway, so I just happened to wander over.”

I briefly replied, then my gaze turned to the two teachers.

“Teachers, may I curiously ask about the progress of severing the connection with the Seed of Destiny in Qiu Ruxin's body?”

“Soon, soon. Little Han, maybe even today.”

One of the teachers spoke up at this moment.

“That quickly?”

“Of course. It’s also because we haven’t researched Destiny much. Otherwise, it could be faster. But gaining knowledge in this area is also good. After all, this is a rare opportunity.”

“I see…”

I hadn't expected that the people doing this kind of work weren't specialists.

However, seeing the confident expressions of the two teachers, it seemed that an entity like Destiny was no longer a great mystery to Transcendent beings.

During this time, Qiu Ruxin also took advantage of the interval to tell me about the events that had occurred here after my hasty departure.

It was mostly an exciting story of the Academy Head and the teachers showing off their power to suppress this world with absolute force.

But I listened with great interest.

The main reason was to learn about the methods the Academy Head and the others used to conquer a world in a short period.

What if I needed to use those methods someday?

One can never be too sure about such things.

Listening to Qiu Ruxin's account, I also reached a philosophical consensus with the Academy Head and the others on one point: don't argue with the people of this world.

Because if you lower yourself to talk and communicate with them, they will try to argue with you and find even the slightest opportunity or possibility for leverage.

Only ultimate power and unknown strength can plunge the other party into absolute fear.

After all, who isn't afraid of unknown and powerful enemies?

Time passed quickly.

Besides listening to Qiu Ruxin recount the events of the past few days, I was also busy perfecting the Tree of Knowledge.

Because I had previously attempted to connect to the Earth Vein, and since this involved two worlds, I needed to collect data to see if there were any differences.

This would be very helpful for me to quickly search the Earth Vein information if I went to other worlds in the future.

Of course, I also subtly intervened in the Plant Network to see if there were any new theories related to Earth Energy Conversion that could be used to iterate and update the results of my Earth Energy conversion process.

Unfortunately, the Earth Energy Conversion Technology in this world had not seen any new breakthroughs in a long time.

It seemed there would be no shortcuts here.

Although I lost the shortcut in this area, I was still sensing the information constantly emanating from Qiu Ruxin's Tear of Frenzied Growth near her.

My Tree of Knowledge was built on the foundation of the Memory Bookshelf, the Revelation acquired in that world, and the framework of the Plant Network.

Therefore, the Tree of Knowledge is intrinsically related to "Plant Technology".

Although a long time passed, I didn't encounter any major breakthroughs.

However, within the scope inadvertently encompassed by this Transcendent Item, many minor issues were continuously optimized, and I felt that the derivative of the Tree of Knowledge was progressing smoothly, as if riding a favorable current.

Given time, a few months, or even just one month, I could make further progress.

What a shame.

If I had realized this earlier, I wouldn't have wasted so much time.

But even if I could start over, I wouldn't regret it, because I would still have taken the same journey.

That period of travel brought me entirely different feelings, changes, and perspectives.

Currently, I was trying to break through the issue of the knowledge storage limit in the Tree of Knowledge.

As my use of the Tree of Knowledge became more frequent, and the things I needed to learn increased, the knowledge and memories within the Tree of Knowledge were continuously climbing.

This speed was so fast that it made me feel fear.

Even though I had the subconscious Knowledge Avatar to organize and perform streamlining and deletion of useless knowledge and memories for me, the accumulation of knowledge and memories was still increasing too quickly, while the increase in the capacity limit was only incremental.

It couldn't keep up with the growth rate at all.

At this point, after stopping my work, I understood a principle: the framework of the Tree of Knowledge had a fundamental flaw.

The spell seemed perfect in every aspect, but it was permeated with a "too obvious" sense of naivety.

It was a hybrid spell, a mishmash of many functions, ideas, and frameworks thrown together, rather than a truly systematic spell.

It was like using scrap parts from a car junkyard, patching together pieces that looked decent, and ending up with a bicycle.

When I first started using it, it seemed quite good, but now that I've encountered problems and scrutinized it, I realize its construction is too absurd.

Ultimately, my foundation was insufficient, my understanding of spells was insufficient, and even… my cognition of Spellbooks was insufficient.

After all, the Tree of Knowledge was fundamentally a heavily modified version of the Memory Bookshelf Spellbook.

Its essence was still the Memory Bookshelf Spellbook, but the Tree of Knowledge was a sequence derivative of that spell.

“It's getting late. I'll head back now. By the way, is there anywhere to sleep here?”

“Naturally, there is. This is the most opulent palace in this country. How could there be no place to sleep? Just ask around and have one of the attendants here lead you to an empty guest room,” one of the teachers said.

“Is that so? Alright then.”

I nodded. I wasn't planning to ask anyone, though.

I could try to communicate with the Earth Vein; maybe I could get a map of the palace's area divisions.

But just as I turned to leave, the door I was about to walk through was pushed open.

I thought it was just another teacher coming to check on the situation, but when I saw who it was, I froze on the spot.

“Are you here? I finally found you.”

“Big Sis Bai? You actually came here!”

My eyes widened in disbelief.

I had only mentioned it to Big Sis Bai casually.

And at this moment, not just me, but the teachers on the side were also curious, as was… Qiu Ruxin.

She had never seen Big Sis Little Han use such a surprised tone to refer to anyone.

It was as if the arrival of this figure signified that someone more qualified than her to protect Big Sis Little Han had appeared…