Is It Weird for a Guy to Apply to a Witch School?-Chapter 490 -

Chapter 490: Don't You Think This Joint Exam... Is as Bland as Water?

Looking at the two of them, I was naturally unmoved.

I recalled how they had taken my storage card without hesitation back then, which had made me laugh out of anger.

But as time went on, I became too lazy to deal with them.

To be honest, the online water army and public opinion they had stirred up on the academy network had almost zero effect on me.

A group of people were engaged in a self-indulgent act.

I didn't want to try to correct them.

For those with insufficient access to information, they couldn't analyze right from wrong.

When their own lives were not going well, they would vent their emotions on the academy network.

No one would use their remaining rationality to help someone they had nothing to do with analyze things rationally.

Even if I hadn't proposed this bet, the other party would have faced it.

The reason I gave them this opportunity was simply out of curiosity.

A person who knows they have done something wrong, under what circumstances... to what extent must they go to obtain the forgiveness of others, or will they never be forgiven?

Actually, during the time I was being "cyberbullied," the one who disappointed me the most was Tan Han.

She had completely lost control of her support group, and even her own words seemed to have no weight.

But... now, during the joint exam, everyone had gathered together again for the sake of profit, calling themselves Tan Han's followers, standing by her side, enjoying the protection brought by the strong, and the sense of belonging brought by the core.

This contradiction still hadn't broken through Tan Han's indulgence.

She either didn't realize it, or she did but chose to "consider the overall situation" without taking any action.

The ones who had just made contact with those two were naturally the Shadow of Knowledge.

I was watching the whole thing unfold from a distance.

Using this method was mainly for a quick getaway and to avoid being caught red-handed.

Although even if I was caught, I hadn't violated any rules.

It would just be very troublesome to prove my innocence, and I hate trouble.

Now that this trivial matter was settled, it was time for me to get down to business.

Although I had gone to check on the situation at the Wizard Academy on the other side and found nothing particularly interesting, I had still gathered some intelligence that I felt needed to be taken seriously.

It was about the situation of the Wizard Academy candidates.

Just as the Witch Academy had powerful Magic Power Sources and Spellbooks as its strength, the Elves had their own bloodline, and the Beast Academy was the same.

There were many Transcendent Academies.

For a newly enrolled student to master Transcendent power, just having mental power was not enough.

They also needed a kind of "talent" that could instinctively drive Transcendent power.

Most Transcendent Academies relied on their own bloodline power as the driving instinct.

But the Wizard Academy, as the self-proclaimed "orthodox of the human race," had no Transcendent bloodline to control Transcendent power, let alone resist the suppression of the Great Weakening Spell on the Main World to control Transcendent power.

So, mental power + knowledge + Wizard Tools became the standard means for wizards to control Transcendent power.

Wizards were the type of people most adept at using external objects, because they had no other choice.

But this was under normal circumstances.

However... in reality, the methods of the Wizard Academy students seemed far more terrifying than what those naive girls of the Witch Academy possessed.

For ordinary people, the most common underhanded methods were poisoning, raising insects, traps, and arson.

Poisoning the water source of a resource point they couldn't occupy, or after killing a large number of monsters, directly poisoning the leftover meat.

If someone came to pick up the leftovers, they would be done for.

And raising insects was another kind of "gameplay," a high-end one in the Wizard Academy.

In the early stages, the mother insect would be cultivated and developed, and in the end, it would directly explode with troops.

It would be even more vicious if these insects were poisonous.

Poisonous insects concocted through sorcery were even more terrifying.

The later the stage, the more exponential their growth.

Their consumption of resources was also terrifying.

They would gnaw on all vegetation like a plague of locusts, not even sparing the monsters.

This act of raising insects was even more terrifying than arson, because the spread of the insect swarm was faster than a mountain fire, and it was also very difficult to eliminate.

Unless a large-scale spell was used to kill them all.

It should be known that even a large-scale mountain fire could be extinguished by slowly using water-type Evocation Spells.

But if even a few of the insect swarm escaped, they would reappear in a short time, until all the resources of the Bobapus Archipelago were exhausted.

There was no need to doubt whether the Wizard Academy could have such terrifying methods.

They could, and it wasn't a difficult thing.

As long as one of them carried such a mother insect, it was enough.

So... sorcery is amazing, isn't it?

Fortunately, this joint exam was in a false world.

Otherwise, if these methods were to spread to the outside world, it would be unimaginable.

It would be a huge blow to the ecology of the Main World.

So I came this time to pass on this intelligence.

This kind of thing either had to be extinguished in the cradle early, or preparations had to be made in advance to resist this possible attack.

It could be said that almost every student in the Wizard Academy had their own little thoughts.

Compared to the students of the Witch Academy, they were much more professional.

As the one-time alchemical items of those with not much strength in the Witch Academy were used up, a group of people in the Witch Academy would inevitably fall into a state of weakness in strength.

Compared to saying they were here to participate in the joint exam, it was better to say they were here to get enough points to pass, and that was it.

Soon, it was daytime.

I was still conscientiously fulfilling my duties as a patrol teacher, wandering around.

When I had nothing to do, I would send some eliminated students back.

These things were really boring.

Especially after I had placed teleportation markers on the entire main island and other affiliated islands, I could almost get to wherever I wanted quickly.

As the Witch Academy candidates dispersed, the presence of witches on the main island also began to spread.

And my role was gradually diminishing, which was what I had hoped for.

Otherwise, I couldn't be busy until the end and get busier and busier, right?

The purpose of planning was to reduce trouble, not to take on more responsibilities and keep myself busy non-stop.

Otherwise, what was the point of being so busy before?

I wasn't here to work.

I had to say that the intelligence exchange group that Tan Han had previously established on the affiliated island played a huge role at this moment.

With the help of mobile phones and group chats, one could almost understand the situation of the entire main island and the changes in the situation.

And the people of the Witch Academy had basically come into contact with all the various academies.

Some suffered losses, some were in a standoff, and some fell into traps.

These things were constantly happening on the main island.

Overall, there were losses and gains.

On the contrary, I had a rare moment of leisure.

The live broadcast screens basically wouldn't deliberately give a view of the teaching assistants, so I took advantage of this opportunity to enjoy myself.

"I knew you'd be here. I didn't expect you to be so leisurely sunbathing."

"The rules didn't restrict me from slacking off. Would you only be happy if I were busy? If I were really busy, others should be worried," I said jokingly.

Even without turning around, I recognized the person as Lin Yi.

"That's true. Are there any more beach chairs? I want to lie down for a while too," Lin Yi said as she walked over.

"Are you planning to slack off with me? Beach chairs... over there, just grab one," I said lazily, pointing in a direction.

"Thanks... I didn't come over for anything, just wanted to chat with you. I find that I can't quite see through you, and I don't know what you're planning to do."

After a while, Lin Yi also lay down.

"The joint exam has been going on for almost two days now, and the situation is developing much faster than we expected. The number of candidates has been sharply reduced to less than half of the initial total. The monsters have been almost completely wiped out, and the only way to get points is by occupying resource points. Even the competition between students of the same school is very fierce..."

As Lin Yi spoke, she turned her head to look at me, seeming to be curious about any change in my expression, but she was to be disappointed.

"It's a very normal development. After all, you know that the Witch Academy has the largest number of students, and most of them are not very strong. This is inevitable."

"Then is the development of things now still beyond your expectations?" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Hmm... beyond expectations, but within reason. I find that you all seem to be very concerned about my thoughts. Do you have some preconceived prejudice against me? You should have done a lot too, right?"

"You're joking. We just did what we should do, and we naturally didn't do what we shouldn't do."

"Then what if I said that there is no live broadcast view of us here at this moment?"

I asked with a smile, then turned my head to look at Lin Yi, somewhat curious about her reaction.

"You can see?"

"Hmm... you guess?"

"I won't guess."

"Alright then."

The simple conversation seemed to reveal a lot of information, but it also seemed to say nothing at all.

But after that, the topics we talked about were much more relaxed.

As we chatted, I brought the topic back to this joint exam.

"You said this joint exam will last for a week. At this rate, do you think they will end it early?"

"I think so."

The later it gets, the more it becomes a battle of the gods.

For the ordinary students in this joint exam, it's probably like broadening their horizons, and also getting a taste of blood.

The comfortable atmosphere of the academy has made the students a bit too delicate.

Of course, there might be a more important factor...

But putting that factor aside, in the current joint exam environment, it was actually the candidates from the Wizard Academy who often shone.

Look at what they had done in the past two days.

They had burned down large areas of forest on the main island, forcing the elves to withdraw from their best jungle home ground.

As long as it was a resource point they could reach, the desalinated water source would definitely be poisoned.

As the people from the Wizard Academy dispersed on the main island, the water sources of a large number of resource points were polluted.

Even after cleaning and dilution, the voodoo poison could still give a person diarrhea.

As the monsters were gradually cleared out, if the food supply was not sufficiently stockpiled, people might go hungry.

If you picked up a well-preserved monster corpse you encountered on the roadside, it was most likely a trap set by someone from the Wizard Academy.

Poisoning the monster was the least of it.

After all, they had many methods: curses, Gu worms, they would use them all.

No one wanted to be tortured by a curse to the point of withdrawing from the competition, nor did they want to see those disgusting Gu worms burrowing into their bodies and devouring their flesh and blood.

And this was only a part of what the Wizard Academy had done.

In comparison, the Witch Academy seemed "harmless."

Even the elimination of a large number of ordinary students gave the candidates of other academies the illusion that "the level of the Witch Academy's students is just this."

"Then who do you think will win?"

"I think... there will be no winner," I said after some thought.

"No winner? What does that mean?"

"Don't you think this joint exam... is as bland as water? Maybe it's because I didn't personally participate, so it feels a bit bland."

"Bland?"

Lin Yi was stunned by my statement.

If this level of academy confrontation was also called bland, then what was passion?

Did they have to blow up the entire Bobapus Archipelago and detonate the dormant volcano?

"You seem to be a little confused by my evaluation? What I said is really just my personal feeling. Lin Yi, you should know about things and concepts like the Child of Destiny, right?"

"I know. Didn't this matter spread like wildfire for a while? How could I not know? Or rather, even if it hadn't spread during that time, I had a general understanding of it before, but not much."

"I see."

I recalled Big Sis Bai.

She had also known about related secrets, and was even forced to sign a contract not to reveal them.

But who could have known that plans couldn't keep up with changes?

This matter was just made public like that.

"Then... do you think this joint exam is a confrontation between academies... or a confrontation between Children of Destiny?"

I continued to ask.

What I said earlier about there being no live broadcast view of us nearby was not a lie, and Lin Yi also understood what I meant.

"This..."

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment.

She didn't know much about concepts like destiny and the script.

She had only briefly looked into them after being bombarded with information some time ago.

It wasn't that she didn't believe it or wasn't interested.

Because she knew she wasn't a Child of Destiny, she very rationally chose not to delve too deeply.

Because the more you understood something that didn't belong to you, the more it would deepen your own mental exhaustion.

"To be honest, I really haven't thought about it. Little Han, what do you think? I remember the academy network said that you were also a Child of Destiny, but you personally destroyed that so-called Seed of Destiny?"

Lin Yi generously admitted this, then threw the question back to me.

"Something like that. But back to the previous question, I'm more inclined to believe that this is a struggle for destiny, a battle between the protagonists of this world. But I won't deny the efforts of those who are not Children of Destiny."

"Because I am proving that even if I am not a... sorry, just ignore my last sentence."

I held my forehead with one hand and didn't finish the last sentence.

Because a key word in the last sentence had stimulated me.

I was actually saying that I was trying to prove something.

Prove what?

Prove that even if I'm not a Child of Destiny, I can do better than a Child of Destiny?

To whom am I proving this?

What's the point?

Why do I need to prove it?

After a few short self-questions, I understood... I was proving it to myself.

Because deep down, I still had this... unwillingness to admit the power of the Child of Destiny, so I had to prove myself.

But self-proving is usually foolish and unnecessary.

I seem to have discovered another kind of internal friction within myself...

"What's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing. I just suddenly figured some things out. Let's continue talking about something else. But let me say this in advance, I don't have a talent for conversation, and I also have the title of a conversation-ender."

"Is that so? Then congratulations."

Lin Yi didn't care about what the other party said later about not being good at conversation.

She was just a little envious.

To suddenly figure some things out while chatting was really an amazing talent.