The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 930: Abnormal Transcendence



Shortly after Secretary Foster left the presidential office to arrange a summoning notice for the director of the Bluefin Marine Research Tower, President Hugo turned to Director Gardner.

"In your opinion, do you prefer the remnant super-civilization to be alive or dead, Director Gardner?" President Hugo asked.

"Is that even a question? Of course, I would prefer it to a dead civilization. What good would such a powerful super-civilization do for us if it was still alive?" Director Gardner responded. "Just like Secretary Foster said, if the remnant super-civilization is dead, its resource and technology would be ours for the taking once we find it. However, that isn't as important as the potential threat it poses if it is alive."

"After all, this remnant super-civilization might be the one behind Pangea's absence of spirit energy. Would it take kindly to the Black Rose Empire's aggressive spirit energy production in their pursuit of space exploration and colonization?"

"If we are looking at a non-human ancient super-civilization, the entire human race will be implicated once it emerges and points its sword at the Black Rose Empire."

"That's true."

President Hugo couldn't help but agree with Director Gardner's reasonable perspective regarding the remnant super-civilization.

There was a very high chance that the Black Rose Empire's spirit energy production would force the remnant super-civilization to emerge from their seclusion and start a war on the world.

If that happened, would they even be able to withstand the remnant super-civilization's wrath?

Since the Black Rose Empire suspected the remnant super-civilization was behind the spirit energy disappearance, there was no way it didn't consider their retaliation for bringing spirit energy back.

Was the Black Rose Empire purposely using spirit energy as bait to lure out the remnant super-civilization as well?

President Hugo couldn't help but sweat.

Pangea could be destroyed by the war between the Black Rose Empire and the ancient super- civilization long before the Outer Beings arrived.

The future certainly looked grim for humanity.

No matter which side the Freedom Federation stood on, the world was bound to experience a rocky storm.

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Ever since a stable route to the moon base had been established, witches and dragons have both experienced rapid improvement.

Thousands of Peak-stage Senior Witches may have achieved a breakthrough to the High Witch rank, but the Black Rose Empire had also welcomed new Transcendent Witches. Besides Henrietta's breakthrough to the Late-stage Transcendent Witch rank, Aeliana and Astoria had both made smooth transitions to the Early-stage Transcendent Witch rank. Hester had also returned to the group as a Transcendent Witch after being away for months. However, she did not achieve her advancement with the help of pure mana. Instead, she had been holed up in the Red Dragon Clan, relying on dragon magic to help her overcome every bottleneck with brute force and sheer will.

Even though she had relied on dragon magic, she was still the first witch to achieve Transcendence on Pangea outside of the seven original Transcendent Witches, a feat that was deemed almost impossible to achieve.

Nevertheless, the forceful breakthroughs in the past two months had made her cultivation unstable and her mental state vulnerable.

Thus, she was sent to the moon's core region to recover under the blessing of pure mana.

Besides the advancement of the witches, the members of the Red Dragon Clan were also impressive under the miraculous effects of pure mana.

Hundreds of Rank 4 Red Dragons, both senior and junior generations, had advanced to Rank 5, becoming Transcendent-rank Red Dragons. Eight out of the nine dragon lords had all advanced to the Mid-stage Demigod level, with Lord Astarot being the closest to reaching the Late-stage Demigod level.

None of them could even believe their own rate of growth.

They felt like their weeks of slaving away on multiple big projects had also refined their control and mastery of magic, allowing the flow of pure mana inside their bodies to be especially smooth.

That said, it was Lord Narvim who had made the most improvements out of all the dragon lords.

He had been the weakest dragon lord due to the side effects of a forbidden spell he used in the past. He was stuck at the Early-stage Transcendent rank while everyone else had been Peak- stage Transcendents.

However, the pure mana of the subterranean region had actually given him a meteoric rise to the Early-stage Demigod level.

Although he was still the weakest dragon lord, it was also undeniable that the gap in strength between him and the other dragon lords had grown smaller. His wife, Khaleesi, had been the most happy for him.

Unfortunately, their happiness was short-lived. They had become deeply concerned about Eniwse.

Within the last three days, Eniwse had also returned to the subterranean region to achieve her breakthrough to the Transcendent Witch rank and, indeed, the aura of transcendence had

surrounded her body on the first day.

However, they both felt something was wrong when Eniwse failed to awaken from her

meditation, even after two days had passed.

Since Eniwse's body lacked the circulation of mana, Lord Narvim and Lady Khaleesi both knew she wasn't cultivating. Instead, she appeared to have fallen into a deep sleep that she could not wake up from while she was still seated in meditation.

Her occasional grimace also suggested she was experiencing unpleasant nightmares in her

dreams.

Whether it was Aeliana, Astoria, or Hester, none of them had experienced such symptoms during their transcendence.

As such, there was definitely a problem with Eniwse's despite it being a success. "How is it, Khaleesi? Did you find out what is wrong with our daughter and why she can't wake up?" Lord Narvim quickly inquired after his wife finished her regular checkup.

However, Khaleesi shook her head sadly.

"I don't know the exact details, but it seems to be some sort of conflict within her soul." Khaleesi frowned before saying, "I only hope it's not an unknown detrimental side effect of your forbidden spell that we don't know about."

"This... the side effects of the forbidden spell should only be limited to me. It shouldn't have affected our daughter's soul," Lord Narvim replied unconfidently.

Khaleesi glared at him and said, "You better hope not. Otherwise, I will never forgive you if something happens to our daughter because of it!"

"I... I understand," Lord Narvim started sweating under his wife's fierce gaze.