Is It Weird for a Guy to Apply to a Witch School?-Chapter 550 -

Chapter 550: Auction and the Book in the Casket

Ultimately, this reception concluded with Vice President Xing Anlei being the first to excuse herself.

She left in a hurry, perhaps because she realized that the matter that interrupted our conversation was more complicated than she had anticipated.

After a quick farewell, she and another girl who came to explain the situation left first.

The matter that caused her to leave in such a rush was naturally related to the girl who had just been resurrected.

The girl was killed for no reason, suffered endless torture before her death, possibly even witnessing the death of her family, and she had also lost her Child of Destiny identity…

Any of these factors would be a huge blow to her.

Remaining completely dispirited might even be the better outcome.

If she suffered mental trauma and became erratic, that would be a true tragedy.

If the girl intended to request the Academy to resurrect her parents and family, the Academy would most likely not help, but these were clearly not matters I should worry about.

Moreover… this matter seemed to have spread faster than I had anticipated.

When I opened some discussion threads or topics on the Academy Network, I found that the incident of this student being killed outside the school had already begun to circulate.

If this continued, and the Wan Shi Wu Club published the details of this incident, skillfully guiding the hatred, they could probably mobilize many people to freely help the Wan Shi Wu Club confront those Players. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

However, this was no concern of mine.

After all, the only ones who would ultimately suffer were those Players.

It was about time those Players learned a hard lesson.

Daring to lay hands on a student of the Witch Academy—they truly didn't know how to spell death.

And it was possible that people from more than just our Witch Academy had been attacked and harassed during this time.

But the real challenge… was definitely still ahead.

After bidding farewell to Daphne and the others, I also planned to leave the Wan Shi Wu Club.

They still had their own matters to attend to here, but I did not feel it appropriate to inquire too much.

However… the one who was most reluctant to part was perhaps Qiu Ruxin?

She seemed to have many more things she wanted to say to me, but she didn't cling to me too much.

Ultimately, when Daphne and the others said their goodbyes, they only symbolically said things like, "Hope to see you at the subsequent auction event," since they would also be participating.

This exhibition before the auction was only the appetizer, a preview of the auction items.

The subsequent auction was the main event of the trip, and the dinner party after the auction was merely optional.

An auction… I was naturally full of curiosity about this kind of event, as I had never attended one.

I also remembered that the Witch Academy had such auctions, right?

And quite a few of them…

When I first showed my capabilities, quite a few club organizations seemed to have extended their goodwill to me, which included quite a few auction houses…

I heard that many rare Spellbooks and some other items would appear at those auctions.

I wondered what kind of items would be at this auction.

After leaving, I flipped through the Invitation Letter.

Since Xing Anlei hadn't given me too many details, the Invitation Letter must have the information written down in detail.

After a rough look, I realized that this auction was not a temporary one but a tradition.

It was held approximately twice a year, taking place shortly before the start of each semester, roughly… around the time students were about to return to school.

And the location was a hotel in Modu… this hotel was also a property of the Witch Academy.

I heard that a certain senior sister from a previous batch had established the property herself, and that senior sister and her gal pal later joined the Wan Shi Wu Club.

Subsequently, this regular auction was mostly organized and planned by the people of the Wan Shi Wu Club here.

All this information was found on the Academy Network.

I really wouldn't have known if I hadn't intentionally searched.

The attendees invited to this auction were mostly students and Teaching Assistants from the same Transcendent Academies.

If one had the capability, one could also invite a Transcendent Mentor, but most of the time, Transcendent Mentors rarely involved themselves in this kind of event.

Of course, besides the Transcendent students, this auction was also famous in the various wealthy circles of this world.

Those non-Transcendent ordinary people would also use connections to establish relationships and worm their way in.

Even just seeing the sights was considered a good opportunity.

After all, this was an event where one could connect with Transcendent beings, and anyone invited to participate in this auction was a top-tier powerhouse or genius from a Transcendent Academy, right?

Transcendent beings were not uncommon in this world, given the number of Transcendent Academies here, but most students would eventually become mediocre.

For those wealthy non-Transcendent people, the peak period of a Transcendent being, the most valuable period, was their time at the Academy.

Therefore, getting to know some Transcendent beings was a process of continuously updating relationships and could not be severed.

Ultimately, whether those students graduated or were unable to graduate and forced to leave, their worst outcome was still better than that of ordinary people.

But even so, Transcendent students who left the world of the Transcendent to become ordinary people could still accumulate considerable wealth.

After all, they were exchanging Transcendent-level resources for ordinary currency and assets in the outside world, which was a downward class slide.

As long as they didn't care about anything else, they would definitely live a very comfortable life.

If a student with some capability graduated, they could even get a secure position within the Transcendent Academies.

Coupled with the network of Transcendent connections they had established, how could such a person fare poorly?

After all, this world was controlled by Transcendent beings.

Ordinary people were merely cogs maintaining the operation of society, and the wealthy were no exception.

To jump out of this comfort zone, one needed to become a Transcendent being.

But the prerequisite for all of this was… entering a Transcendent Academy, and specifically one of the four major academies.

This was essentially a barrier.

Although the rumors outside spoke of only Three Great Top-tier Academies, the family systems that had been established in the Main World for countless generations naturally had summarized the pattern: the Three Great Top-tier Academies plus the Witch Academy.

Even those who fared the worst and were forced to leave these four academies without graduating would still do very well.

As for the other academies, even those Beast Academies, they were seen as choices for the lowest class.

The enrollment standards for some were truly low.

For those families, even graduating from an ordinary university and returning to inherit the family property was better than attending these academies, because these academies… were illogical pits of fire!

At least, that’s what they believed.

This should be the accumulated experience summarized over generations.

However, this summarized experience would not be advertised to ordinary people.

Therefore, most ordinary families in the Main World still dreamed of entering a Transcendent Academy to defy fate and cross class lines… but most of them jumped into a pit of fire.

The fact that this situation could be sustained was naturally due to the Main World's encouragement of fertility and birth subsidies.

With many children, those ordinary families couldn't manage everything.

Even if they were jumping into a pit of fire, they were still lining up to jump.

The vast majority didn't even have the opportunity to jump.

Perhaps the Main World was simply this distorted…

At this moment, I closed the Invitation Letter.

After reading the information on the Invitation Letter, I again used the Earth Vein Appraisal Spell to check the other associated information carried by this Invitation Letter.

I mainly wanted to learn more about this auction.

This series of events would likely last for several days, so that hotel also provided accommodation and meals.

Since it would gather students from Transcendent Academies all over the world and wealthy, well-off people, this was naturally a consideration.

More than half of the holiday had already passed, and this auction would indeed start in a few days.

I really needed to prepare for this in the limited time I had, for example… buying a suitable formal dress for myself?

After all, this was my first time participating in such an event.

Custom-making one would certainly be too late.

It was better to just buy a set…

However, I was completely ignorant about these things.

I didn't even know where in Witch Academy I could buy high-end formal dresses or custom gowns.

Should I… ask Big Sis Bai?

But even if it wasn't a high-end formal dress, I could still accept it.

At worst, I could rely on my own Alchemy techniques to subtly enchant the dress.

Just as I was contemplating how to double back and ask Big Sis Bai about this, I suddenly received a call.

I tried to open the Academy Network and the phone communication system attached to the Great Tree of Knowledge, and found that it was Natalie calling.

“Hello Big Sis Natalie, is there something you need my cooperation with again?”

I asked after connecting the call.

Natalie had previously said she would try her best to complete the manufacture of the Book in the Casket before the start of the new semester.

The holiday was almost over, and I could frequently receive calls from Natalie for the final adjustment phase.

“Little Han, are you free now? If you are, come to my place. You can come and try out your weapon.”

“Ah? Big Sis Natalie, have you finished manufacturing it?”

My eyes widened.

I found this a bit unbelievable.

This speed… was too fast, wasn't it?

“It's only preliminarily finished, but it still requires fine-tuning based on the user's habits. This is the so-called Weapon Attunement. During this period, you should use this weapon as much as possible, if you can. Don't be afraid of breaking it. I will maintain it for you during this time and give me feedback on any problems or suggestions. I will continuously follow up and help you adjust it. If you have any other inspiration, I will also try my best to implement it within the existing framework.”

Natalie spoke a long passage on the other end of the phone, but I listened intently.

I understood the general meaning: the weapon was at the final adjustment and Attunement stage.

As expected of a weapon customized with the help of an Alchemist Master, the service was impeccable.

“Okay, okay. Should I come over now?”

Hearing the other party was so thoughtful and considerate, I didn't waste any words and went straight to the point.

“Coming over now is fine. I'll wait for you for a while.”

“Mmm, mmm, then I’ll be right there.”

After agreeing, I immediately hung up the phone.

I calmed down my slightly excited mood.

As for the auction and the Invitation Letter, I would put those troublesome matters aside for now.

Didn't I still have a few days?

My weapon was more important.

Although I already knew roughly what my weapon would look like, the final product would definitely have many differences from the initial concept.

This sense of surprise was like opening a blind box.

If I didn't try it, I wouldn't know what kind of surprise the Witch who created it would bring me.

So… I appeared outside Natalie's Alchemy room as quickly as possible.

Guided by the intelligent housekeeper here, I went inside.

The arrangement inside Natalie's Alchemy room hadn't changed much from the front.

This time, we didn't go to the reception area but directly to the most crucial refining area of the Alchemy room.

“Little Han, you came so quickly? That’s so efficient.”

Seeing my figure arrive, Natalie immediately took off the professional attire she wore while performing Alchemy.

“Well… I was just too excited. But speaking of efficiency, Big Sis Natalie is the most efficient, almost finishing it so quickly.”

I also responded excitedly, but my gaze was drawn to something on the side of this alchemy laboratory area.

It was a palm-sized crown, placed on a base-like stand beneath it.

Countless sealed Runes seemed to nail it to this point in space, floating in the air.

“Oh? Are you very curious about this? This is what you told me about earlier, the material that carries [Transcendent Knowledge]. I have to admire this palm-sized crown. It’s actually an alchemical item artificially made, and it achieved such perfect containment of [Transcendent Knowledge]…”

“Is the required technique very difficult?”

I asked subconsciously.

“I haven't tried it, but this crown is in a damaged state, so I studied it a little… The Transmutation Technique it used is indeed very formidable, and it shouldn't be a technique possessed by the Main World. However, I am now confident that I can imitate it… Alas let's not talk about this. Anyway, the two people who brought this over didn't ask me to repair or imitate it, so I'll just leave it be.”

Natalie spoke while holding a delicately side-opening Casket in her hand.

The opening had a clasp, and the spine of the book inside could be seen.

“Here, give it a try. Combining my former inspiration with your requirements, plus the technique I’ve mastered now, oh and the precious Transcendent Materials sponsored by Mei Linde! I think this book, even if it can't be called the strongest, will definitely be the most functional!”

“Then I’m looking forward to it.”

I happily took the Casket.

My first impression upon holding it was… solid!

The book inside the Casket didn't make any noise when shaken.

After opening the clasp, I simply flipped it gently, and an exquisitely bound book smoothly slid into my hand.

Looking at the beautiful cover, the wooden exterior of the book was covered with dark leather material, giving it an excellent texture.

On it were golden and silver intertwined Rune patterns, which seemed to be Arcanite Gold and Mithril mixed with other materials to form the Runes.

This was both decoration and a manifestation of its power.

The spine, which I held in one hand, was made of the same material.

The structure connecting the book cover was very natural.

On it was a metal strip engraved with my name.

“You can engrave many things on it. Whatever you want, engraved patterns, a School Emblem, or a number, it's up to you. I have temporarily engraved your name, which you can erase at any time.”

“Is that so? That’s really convenient.”

I looked at the center of the book cover.

The centerpiece of the pattern outlined by the binding was a silhouette.

From some features, it looked like my own image, and a clear gem was inlaid in the center-lower part, flashing with Transcendent Energy fluctuations.

It seemed this was not merely a decorative gem.

The four edges of the book were also bound with metal corners of unknown material, presenting a dark golden color, which perfectly matched the overall dark tone of the book.

Finally, I grabbed the spine and swung it a few times.

The feel was excellent.

The special structure of the spine connected to the book cover design was truly brilliant!

“How is it? Does it feel comfortable? These are minor modifications made according to your requests. Open the book and take a look. Actually, the most valuable part of this book is its inner pages. The material of every page has been uniformly refined by me. Their resistance to corrosion, durability, and perfect fit for the Sealing Spell technique are simply flawless! I would say the material for every page was cut from the very heart of Mei Linde!”

“That exaggerated?”

“Of course Do you want to come to my testing ground and try out its effect?”

“Yes, yes!”

My eyes lit up, and I immediately agreed.

After all, based on my first impression, I was very satisfied with its appearance.

Now, it was time to see how much practical effect it could bring me.