Chapter 910 – The Sorceress Era

Vasida wore a look of total disbelief. “It’s mostly just to satisfy her twisted sense of humor! Which little witch hasn’t been flung out of the teleportation channel like a piece of garbage on her first day?”

“And then again at graduation!” Lilith’s grievance ran even deeper. “The only person who’s ever smacked my butt in my entire life is Madam Amisha!”

That had been her very first “intimate” encounter with her own Guardian Headmistress, and even now, just thinking about it made her tailbone ache.

Vasida nodded in agreement. Every little witch had been shoved into a teleportation channel by her Guardian Headmistress without the slightest warning.

“No, no, no!” Mo Lan suddenly objected loudly, putting on a righteous expression as she spoke up in Amisha’s defense:

“Madam Amisha clearly had the best of intentions—she was helping the little witches acclimate in advance to the various discomforts of teleportation…”

Vasida and Lilith immediately fixed her with incredulous stares, as though looking at a traitor.

“…And so,” Mo Lan pivoted, a meaningful smile spreading across her face, “when we go back to the Academy as Headmistresses someday, we absolutely must carry on Madam Amisha’s precious ‘fine tradition’!”

Vasida and Lilith were stunned for a moment, then the realization hit them. Their expressions shifted from cloudy to bright in an instant, replaced by looks of deep admiration that said, “You’re on another level.”

“Exactly! Couldn’t have said it better! A tradition this wonderful absolutely must be carried on!” Vasida immediately chimed in at full volume.

Lilith not only nodded vigorously but also turned to advise Sylph, who had already become Headmistress:

“Sylph, these days, which witch heading out into the Wilds doesn’t save up to buy a few Teleportation cards for self-defense? It’s fine if the little witches can’t use Spatial Magic yet, but they absolutely cannot get teleportation sickness! We need to make the most of those two teleportation training opportunities at enrollment and departure. The tradition must not be abandoned!”

Sylph looked at the three pairs of eyes brimming with “anticipation” and finally gave a “reluctant” nod:

“Alright… since it’s a longstanding Academy tradition, then… let’s carry it on.”

The group followed Sylph into the teleportation channel, and in the blink of an eye they arrived in the Headmistress’s Lounge hall, located beneath the Academy Castle.

“This place is so much bigger than before!” Mo Lan exclaimed in surprise as she surveyed the lounge, which was now as vast as a grand palace.

“Normally, all the Headmistress avatars stay here. The number of enrolled little witches has increased over the years, so the number of Guardian Headmistresses and Teaching Headmistresses has naturally grown substantially as well.” Sylph explained as she walked toward the center of the lounge.

“How many little witches are there at the Academy now? To need a lounge this enormous!” Vasida could hardly believe it—the space was at least several dozen times larger than when they had been students.

“First year: eight hundred and twenty students. Second year: seven hundred and ninety-three. Third year: five hundred and sixty. Fourth year: six hundred and eighty-nine. Fifth year: five hundred and ninety-six. Day-to-day operations require three thousand four hundred and fifty-eight Guardian Headmistresses and at least ninety-seven Teaching Headmistresses.

Maintaining a single Guardian Headmistress avatar at the advanced Witch level costs five thousand Mana per day.

Maintaining a single Teaching Headmistress avatar at the Peak level Witch level costs ten thousand Mana per day.

All of these costs are funded by Witch Council allocations, paid in ordinary mana crystals.

Right now, maintaining the guardian and teaching Headmistress avatars alone consumes eighteen million two hundred and sixty thousand ordinary mana crystals per day—twenty times what it used to be.

As a result, the threshold for applying to become Headmistress has been raised as well. In the past, a Beyond Peak Witch could qualify, but now it takes at least a Second Rank Witch.

That’s exactly why Madam Amisha took so long to find a successor!” Sylph explained as she used the Headmistress’s Golden Chalice to create the Guardian Headmistress avatars responsible for watching over students around the clock, as well as the Teaching Headmistress avatars responsible for instructing classes across the first, second, and third years. She imbued each of them with enough Mana to remain active for half a month.

It was only because she was now a Sixth Rank Sorceress that this was possible. Otherwise, just creating the Headmistress avatars would have consumed an unknown amount of her time, since absorbing ordinary mana crystals to restore Mana also took time.

But now, it cost her only a little more than half of her own Mana, and she finished in the time it took to turn around.

The Headmistress’s Lounge hall, which had been empty just moments ago, was suddenly filled with a large crowd of Headmistress avatars.

Each one looked exactly like Sylph, though when they first appeared, they were completely unclothed.

One by one, they received the Spatial Cards that Sylph produced, retrieved the clothes she had prepared in advance, changed into them, and then headed off—those assigned to watch over the little witches went to their posts, and those assigned to teach went to prepare their lessons.

Watching the lounge come alive in an instant, filled with these differently-dressed Sylph avatars about to head off to their various posts, Mo Lan, Vasida, and Lilith crowded around them with eager curiosity.

In the past, whenever they had asked questions about the Headmistress avatars, Madam Amisha would always keep them in suspense. But now that Sylph was Headmistress, they had far fewer reservations and could ask to their hearts’ content.

“Number 1021, are you a Guardian Headmistress or a Teaching Headmistress?” Lilith grabbed hold of one avatar. “A Guardian Headmistress? Do you really have to watch the little witches all the time? You don’t peek when they’re bathing or using the toilet, do you?!”

Vasida was also pestering another avatar with curious questions. “You’re a Teaching Headmistress? What year do you teach?”

“Second year, Class Fifteen? There are that many classes in a single year now? Does the Academy Castle even have that many classrooms?”

“What? The inside of the Academy Castle has been expanded with the Expansion Spell too, just like the Headmistress’s Lounge?”

Mo Lan was more interested in the current state of the little witches’ academics. She caught hold of a Teaching Headmistress avatar and asked, “Could I see the Academy’s current 《Academic Year Plan》, class schedule, and textbooks? I want to see how much has changed compared to our time.”

“Ha ha ha! Seeing that the tradition of exams lives on at the Witch Academy—now I can rest easy!”

Mo Lan let out a satisfied laugh after reviewing the 《Academic Year Plan》 and class schedule, but her amusement quickly faded:

“Huh? 《History of Witches》 has a new edition again? Why has it gotten so much thicker?

Oh my goodness! Our stories have all been written into it?!”

In 《History of Witches》, an entirely new major chapter had been added: “The Sorceress Era.”

This chapter began with the predecessor Anita’s physical body being destroyed, her warning issued to all witches, and her refunding of everything every witch had spent to purchase fireworks magic.

The crisis that the Witch race had faced at the time, the subsequent emergence of the Dawn Society, the flourishing of Card Magic, blood fusion spell, devouring magic, and Hybrid Magic, the Witch race’s victory without battle, and the later success in cultivating the Witch Tree leading to an explosive growth in Second-Generation Sorceresses—all of it was recounted in detail.

The term “Sorceress Era” had actually been coined first by the humans, because in recent years, the Sorceresses had made too great an impact on the Valen world.

Her name, along with Lilith’s, Vasida’s, and Sylph’s, appeared frequently throughout the chapter.

Thinking about how all the little witches would be studying this chapter carefully, memorizing its key historical points, Mo Lan couldn’t help feeling a bit embarrassed.

She had never imagined that, in the blink of an eye, she would become a figure in the history books.