Chapter 1009: Witch United Club
“Truly damnable! A tiny Sun Rock Academy actually has the audacity to try and sit on the heads of our Witch Academy!”
Nicola sat in the position of the President of Wan Shi Wu, but such a position was not easy to sit in.
Ever since she took office, the internal situation of the club had become increasingly chaotic, with factions at each other's throats.
Even handling a minor matter of cooperation had eventually escalated to the point of needing to stir up an Academy War.
For her, who had no experience with an Academy War whatsoever, she was completely in the dark.
However, under the suggestion of the assisting think tank, Wan Shi Wu had also quietly established a War Department within the Witch Academy during the holiday.
This was also drawing from the Academy War experiences of those small Transcendent academies, but it was impossible for the Witch Academy to reach a state of total mobilization, not even for an entire club.
After all, the atmosphere and framework of the Witch Academy, coupled with the general environment, made it impossible to facilitate such a situation.
Following Wan Shi Wu's actions, other clubs also followed suit.
Regardless of whether this so-called Academy War could ultimately escalate, having such a dedicated club department responsible for this matter would prevent them from being caught off guard.
Moreover, the difficulty of establishing something like a War Department was not high.
There were always combat pillars in the Athletics Departments within the clubs; they were the type that vied for various rankings in the Arena in the script.
The student rankings of the Arena reflected the combat strength of the clubs to a certain extent.
Furthermore, the Witch Academy was a Transcendent Academy to begin with, and Transcendence could not be separated from struggle.
It was merely moving those students who sweated in the Arena to the battlefields of the future.
After repeated negotiations and compromises, persuasion by force, and convincing through reason, the various clubs had reached a final agreement.
At the beginning of the new semester, they would establish the “Witch United Club” with the cooperation of the academy!
The concept of a United Club was the product of discussions between club representatives and the academy side.
This was a brand-new independent club, a massive collective formed by several large clubs taking the lead and joining with multiple small clubs possessed of Transcendent combat capabilities.
Furthermore, this was a dual-qualification club, meaning that under normal circumstances, a person could only join one club and could not hold memberships in two different clubs.
And this Witch United Club could be considered the first club in the Witch Academy to formally recognize dual membership status!
Additionally, the United Club promised that, in principle, it would not interfere in the internal affairs of any individual club.
Everything was solely to deal with the potential arrival of an Academy War.
The internal structure of the club was roughly divided into three parts.
The Main Combat Department.
Mainly responsible for personnel during wartime, supplies, resource allocation, and other operations.
It was also the main body of this club's establishment.
The Transcendent Academic Department.
After all, war was not a simple one-for-one trade of personnel or mindless charging.
Special tactics, strategic weapons, or methods all required specialized talents to implement.
For example, certain spell diagrams, giant magic circles, strategic one-time alchemical items, and so on, even the development of new weapons and combat-adaptive weapons were not things that a single individual could produce by just tinkering blindly.
Of course, the more important purpose was actually to provide a platform for academic exchange, giving those academic clubs that had no fame in the Witch Academy but whom no one dared to provoke a reason to be invited.
Finally, there was the Logistics Department.
Needless to say, the Logistics Department managed all logistics; war was a battle of logistics!
The composition of the Witch United Club was led by a total of eight clubs, referred to as the “Eight Core Guardian Clubs.”
The remaining small clubs were called Guardian Clubs, and were also secretly referred to as “Protected Clubs.”
Among these eight major clubs, seven held pivotal positions within the Witch Academy.
First was Wan Shi Wu, which had the widest recognition.
Next was the Witch's Secret Realm Club, known as the source of Transcendent material resource output within the Witch Academy, responsible for the maintenance and operation of the Witch's Secret Realms.
The Spell Research Society, which was so low-profile that it had no discussion heat, yet no one dared to provoke it when it was mentioned.
The wealthiest Alchemy and Potion-making Society, gathering the most alchemists and apothecaries in the Witch Academy, and also the major producer of those potions and alchemical items within the Witch Academy.
The Elixir Association, a club without any lower-year students.
After all, elixir techniques required mental power sufficient to drive magic power, using magic power as a ritual medium for elixir blending.
It was also a special technique unique to the Witch race.
Rumor had it that this club was established by a mentor.
If one did not advance to a Transcendent Witch, the learning memories related to elixir techniques would even be erased after graduation!
The next club was an existence that frequented the various arenas within the Witch Academy.
Every member was basically a battle-maniac lunatic, the “Combat? Cool! Club.”
Make no mistake, the punctuation was also part of the club's name.
This club was considered one of the battle-strength pillar-level clubs of the Witch Academy.
And the seventh, as well as the last club whose status in the Witch Academy was unshakable, was called: the Witch Academy Stunt Flying License Training Club.
There were several clubs for flying license training, but only this one was crowned with “Stunt Flying.”
Don't just look at it as a broom-riding club.
No matter how high your combat power was, if your broom didn't fly as fast as mine, you couldn't hit me.
Of course, this was the ridicule of ordinary people towards these clubs.
Students who truly mastered stunt flying techniques possessed extremely terrifying combat power.
The advantages of flight and three-dimensional combat were extremely powerful.
They just couldn't display their full potential in places like the Arena; otherwise, they would give those on the rankings a few slaps, and the opponent might not necessarily be able to catch them.
As for the eighth club...
It was the Bakery Club.
If it were before, some people might not have much of an impression when someone mentioned the Bakery Club, while others might think of Red Velvet Cake.
But now, when mentioning the Bakery Club... everyone could think of that terrifying figure.
The assistant who was personally awarded the honorary title of Lesser Witch by the Academy Head!
She had crushed a crowd of geniuses in the Witch Academy and those teaching assistants single-handedly, and afterwards suppressed the top-tier teaching assistants and students of other academies, totaling at least a hundred people!
But combat records were just records, not the limit of the opponent's combat power.
Not knowing the opponent's upper limit, and being unable to find any information about her—this was what made them frown the most.
Regarding the strength of her combat power, many clubs were convinced, as they had no choice but to be.
Clubs like the Spell Research Society, which stood aloof from others, also highly praised her.
They knew many things.
If they could attribute the Seed of Great Knowledge and the Seed of Knowledge to the Grand Spellbook, then the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree, the Power Network, the Root Network, and the most shocking self-generating magic power project experiment... made them feel the pressure was as heavy as a mountain.
And this was only what they could find out.
The mentors they followed also frequently mentioned this Lesser Witch.
It seemed there were still many things they were not qualified to know buried beneath that figure.
A single person supported the status of one of the “Eight Core Guardian Clubs.”
The other seven major clubs acknowledged it.
Even if someone didn't acknowledge it, others would help them acknowledge it; otherwise, they could try another path: being kicked out of the United Club.
Of course, the Eight Core Guardian Clubs also had a ninth off-staff group.
That was the “Disciplinary Squad,” composed of those who had graduated but remained at the academy, responsible for maintaining internal discipline.
Everyone had witnessed the combat power of the Disciplinary Squad.
Even an ordinary graduated senior possessed terrifying combat power.
The Disciplinary Squad was the ninth off-staff mobile force of the Eight Core Guardian Clubs.
They were considered existences on the same level as the Core Guardian Clubs.
Under normal circumstances, they would not participate in the allocation tasks of the Academy War.
Barring any accidents, the Disciplinary Squad would remain at the academy to guard the Witch Academy's Curtain Wall space and the Modu territory.
As the saying goes, when one holds a sharp weapon, the intent to kill arises.
After the Witch Academy established the United Club with the mindset of potentially launching an Academy War, there would be countless reasons to launch a just war in the following time.
Witch Academy Time.
9:00 AM.
The formal meeting of the United Club began.
After consultation among the eight major clubs, the Witch's Secret Realm Club was elected as the representative party to preside over the commencement of this meeting.
Originally, the person to preside should have been from Wan Shi Wu, but the President of the Wan Shi Wu club had only changed recently, and the club's successive setbacks made it difficult for this President to voice the bitterness in her heart.
In view of the internal unity of the club, ultimately the Witch's Secret Realm Club presided over the normal conduct of the meeting.
The President of the Witch's Secret Realm Club was named Olina.
Her capable uniform attire showed no sluggishness, and her movement from offstage to onstage was smooth and flowing, giving people an impression of strong executive ability.
Comparing her with the current President of Wan Shi Wu, Nicola, Nicola appeared visibly more immature.
Olina stood on the stage and swept her gaze over the people below.
Even for a President who had experienced great storms, such a scene was something she had never seen in her life.
Throughout the history of the Witch Academy, the interior of the Witch Academy had never been united like this.
Her gaze passed over the representatives of the Core Guardian Clubs one by one, finally landing on a very special position.
It was a girl with silver-white long hair, sitting in a leisurely posture in the assembly seats.
On the table beside her was a note with the words “Bakery Club.”
Unlike other clubs with one representative plus nearly a dozen secretaries, high-level members, and elders, the people who came from this club could be counted on one hand.
Finally, Olina took a deep breath.
“Hello, club representatives. It is an honor for me to preside over this meeting.”
“I think I don't need to dwell too much on why everyone is sitting here. We will get straight to the point.”
Olina's voice was very loud.
Without excessive politeness, after her gaze glanced over the meeting script, she no longer looked down.
After briefly and concisely describing some of the recent encounters of the Witch Academy and mentioning the family conflicts, Olina began to narrate the situation of the academy.
It wasn't that everyone and Olina didn't care about the family conflicts, but that it was not suitable to talk about these things at this time.
They were club representatives, representing the interests of the clubs and the academy, and could not use families as a starting point.
Family friction could, at most, be considered an extension of academy conflicts.
It could be said that Olina understood the art of speaking very well.
While she was speaking, a massive magical image unfolded behind Olina.
These were all real images of the frictions surrounding the Witch Academy.
“Everyone has seen it. The Sun Rock Elf Transcendent Academy, as a Transcendent academy bordering our Witch Academy's territory, has served as a follower behind the Aphrodite Academy's buttocks for years. Now, they even dare to provocatively face our Witch Academy. Not only with verbal provocations, but they also dared to strike back against our academy's people!”
“This behavior is a serious provocation against the Witch Academy! We must make them pay a price in blood!”
“Right! Kill! Kill our way to their academy and blockade their gates!”
The representative from the Combat? Cool! Club below was the first to respond.
With one hot-headed club taking the lead, the “Protected Clubs” below also spoke up one after another.
“Indeed! This is simply seeking death!”
“School is about to start. Blockade their gates while they are returning to school!”
“Let them know the consequences of provoking us Witches!”
“Everyone!”
A shout from Olina directly drowned out the voices of these jeering representatives.
“We are now a formal United Club. Please do not be like a netizen on the Academy Network who only knows how to talk big. This is not some so-called village-entrance brawl, much less a child's-play group conflict, and even less like the academy exchanges of the past!”
“In this world, other Transcendent academies have a very bad attitude towards our Witch Academy. What we are facing now is a conflict between academies, and we cannot afford to act on emotion.”
“When we stepped into the world of Transcendence, powerful strength already told us that strength is the essence of identity, status, and the right to speak! Fortunately, the Witch Academy has provided all of us with a comfortable and harmonious learning environment and atmosphere.”
“To be honest, our Witch Academy basically has no precedent for an Academy War. But the rise and fall of countless small Transcendent academies in corners of the world we haven't understood are telling all of us that this world has never had any so-called peace!”
As Olina spoke like this, some images they had never seen before were appropriately played behind her.
Those wearing clothes with holes, with very obvious racial characteristics, the dirty environment, and the earthy mud and dust—it was hard to imagine these people would be students of a Transcendent academy.
Some also recalled the advice from their families.
Their elders told them that if they did not perform ideally in the college entrance examination, they would rather be ordinary people than drill into those small Transcendent academies.
Perhaps this was the reason.
Those ordinary families thought that by constantly having children and letting them mindlessly choose Transcendent academies, one would eventually stand out.
But their shallow perception simply didn't know that they were personally sending their children to the abyss of death.
While everyone was in shock and memory, Olina's voice pulled them back again.
“The reason I'm telling you this is for no other reason than that just by standing here, I feel that a considerable number of you present do not understand what sitting here means!”
“The Witch United Club! It is a club that unites the vast majority of the Witch Academy's combat power! Its reason of existence is to respond to the Academy War that could come at any time! Without war... then our union would have no meaning!”