Chapter 314: The Cruel Backroom Deal
Locke collected his emotions, "But Dean, can crystallization wizards curse me from a distance?"
Dean Earl Thompson smiled, "Of course not. The gap between First Circle wizards isn't that great. Even Second Circle wizards couldn't kill you without having seen you and without any form of contact with you."
"But actually, you had a vulnerability that you leaked to that Ghost Sacred Order female sect leader."
"You killed one of her formal wizards. The Ghost Sacred Order wizard organization is different from all other wizard organizations. The entire black wizard organization actually belongs entirely to her as an asset. All Ghost Sacred Order wizards, during their student phase, must split off a wisp of their soul and place it into their magic artifact Soul Torch. From then on, their life and death are controlled by the Ghost Sacred Order's sect leader."
"But this is actually still a combination spell." Dean Earl Thompson explained, "You killed a First Circle wizard belonging to her. Your soul aura will remain in that Soul Torch. With this, she can cast ritual magic on you once, dragging you into the River Styx."
"Only one opportunity."
"Similarly, anyone who kills her First Circle wizard, she can do this. So the Soul Torch is both a magic artifact protecting Ghost Sacred Order formal wizards and a trap for eliminating Ghost Sacred Order's enemies."
"Even if someone kills a Ghost Sacred Order wizard, the Ghost Sacred Order's crystallization wizard can use this to kill the wizard who killed their formal wizard."
"Honestly speaking, you shouldn't casually kill ghost school wizards. Ghost school wizards are the type of wizards most skilled at preserving their lives. Moreover, they're not only skilled at preserving their lives, but also skilled at taking away the person who killed them before dying."
Dean Earl Thompson advised Locke. Locke couldn't help but feel cold sweat. So the problem came from this aspect.
Because he didn't understand the insidiousness within ghost school, he stepped into their trap with one foot. Fortunately, he currently had a wizard organization backing him. Otherwise, the situation just now would have been relatively unsolvable for him.
Locke asked, "Dean, I thank you again. Have you been staying in this building all along?"
Dean Earl Thompson smiled, "Yes. This is a trap specifically set for those black wizards, but I must stay in this building to salvage the situation at critical moments."
"To prevent the situation from truly losing control." Dean Earl Thompson glanced at Locke and said, "Moreover, previously the situation indeed showed signs of truly losing control."
"I had originally planned to abandon the plan, but you gave me a surprise. Therefore I persuaded the academy leadership to place hope in the ecological transformation plan you proposed, and you perfectly completed the task as I expected."
Dean Earl Thompson smiled, "I said you could do it. Worthy of being our Lilith's Cottage's excellent graduate student."
"This actually is also a transaction. The White Wizard Association made huge resource concessions. Because of this, we agreed to make our Lilith's Cottage an important battlefield node for the White Wizard Association's battle with the Black Wizard Alliance."
Dean Earl Thompson's expression became serious. "It's just that the losses are somewhat greater than we imagined."
"The scale of black wizards in the southeastern quadrant has actually grown so rapidly."
Dean Earl Thompson muttered to himself, "It's time to initiate a great purge. What has happened in the past will always happen again. What already existed in the past will exist again."
"History is a circle."
"This time our Lilith's Cottage's losses are considerable. The transaction I made didn't earn as much as I thought."
Locke detected that this seemed to hide certain information he currently didn't have the qualifications to know.
Therefore, from the dean's words, he keenly detected that black wizard society and white wizard society seemed to have some kind of connection.
Indeed, he should have realized this before. How could a wizard world produce two societies that appeared to have completely different and isolated social levels out of thin air?
Black wizard society and white wizard society were like two completely isolated worlds but this was unreasonable. Even if in a historical period, a wizard world formed two factions, generally speaking, this period couldn't be too long-lasting.
Moreover, the gap in social forms between the two factions shouldn't be as large as now.
Black wizard society and white wizard society must have some kind of connection. The two societies should have been the same society very early on.
It was just unknown whether white wizard society became independent from black wizard society, or black wizard society broke away from white wizard society.
After learning all the truth, Locke couldn't help but sigh with relief that he was currently a First Circle wizard, not a wizard apprentice.
Otherwise, he might not even have the right to know the truth at this moment. He would still think his academy was attacked by black wizards. But he hadn't expected that this attack was fundamentally something the White Wizard Association had planned for a long time.
In corners he didn't know about, many transactions were being made.
Dean Earl Thompson became serious. "If this plan succeeds, we can severely damage the black wizards. I estimate the southeastern quadrant will be in large-scale war for the next fifty years."
"The association has completely torn off all pretenses with those black wizards."
"But it doesn't matter, because in the previous fifteen years, the association has been gradually activating wartime economics. Using our need for development as an excuse, we misled black wizard society, making the Black Wizard Alliance mistakenly believe we feared war occurring, causing our society's capital chain to break, resulting in comprehensive bankruptcy and comprehensive industrial degradation."
"But actually, we've been forcing black wizards to continuously engage in small-scale wars with us, then gradually escalating to medium-scale wars. Once our wartime economics are completely established, that's the moment to launch total war, which is right now."
Dean Earl Thompson used a calm tone to state a cruel fact. "At the same time, we established complete industrial replacement chains that can ensure that when total war occurs, the impact on our economy is minimized."
"Black wizards have completely fallen into our calculations. Their numbers and strength, as it now appears, are indeed too many."
Dean Earl Thompson raised his head. His gaze seemed to penetrate through the underground building's ceiling, seeing the tragic battlefield where white wizards and black wizards on both sides were battling. "The great purge plan should have been advanced by ten years."
At this time, on the battlefield, black wizards and white wizard formal wizards were locked in combat. On the white wizard side, besides Lilith's Cottage's formal wizards, there were also formal wizard white wizards from Virdantia University, Four Seasons Garden, Northern Niflheim University, Pyrotechnic Academy, and Valerian Spell Law University who had been hiding in the shadows all along.
Six factions united, collectively slaughtering Black Wizard Alliance wizards inside the Cross Radiant Holy Sword Seal.
