Chapter 400: 'Materialism School' and 'Mana Alchemy School'

After some simple and rough calculations by some math experts, what people got was that the number of Evolvers participating in this competition was as many as eighteen million.

Although it wasn't all Evolvers, this number was still terrifying.

But even in the face of such a terrifying number, the people of the Witch Race could still directly dominate the top three positions, which showed how terrifying the people of the Witch Race were.

And the price they paid was having about nine to eleven Witch Race contestants participate.

Meaning that about one-third to one-fourth of them stayed until the end.

This kind of ratio was fundamentally incomparable to any other race.

For example, among the people who came, there were quite a few Dwarf-folk and Winged Race people, but not a single one stayed until the end.

All in all, in a word...

If it was just a joke back then, then now there was no need for a competition, everyone unanimously agreed in their hearts that the Witch Race was the number one race on the Karim Continent.

Of course, the fact that Witches were all Alchemists on average couldn't be underestimated either.

After all, right now at least eighty percent of the Potions on the entire Karim Continent were provided by Witches.

[It seems both contestants are full of expectations for this match. Since you are so expectant, do you have any requests?]

[Because it's the final match, the organizers will try their best to satisfy one request from the two of you.]

Do I look like I'm very expectant?

Lan Qingyou turned her head and looked at the transparent person beside her, but the other party's following words made her forget about that bit of nonsense from before.

"Any wish will do?"

Lan Qingyou opened her mouth and asked directly.

[Yes, as long as it's related to the competition.]

To prevent this guy Lan Qingyou from exploiting loopholes, the transparent person nodded and explained like this.

"Then I want an actual scene, this kind of bare arena is completely uninteresting."

Seeing she couldn't ask for more, Lan Qingyou simply raised the difficulty and the spectacle of this match a bit.

An actual scene meant it wouldn't be illusory.

With more cover, the threat of Elisa's attack method used against Ursula towards herself could be minimized.

[This is no problem, and what about Contestant Elisa?]

"...Expand the arena, preferably infinitely large."

Elisa proposed her request after thinking slightly.

[This... expanding is no problem, but infinitely large is a bit too much.]

After all, it was a competition. If it was infinitely large and you directly made a tactical retreat, when would this competition end?

"Didn't you say spaces could be opened at will?"

Elisa was somewhat dissatisfied.

[But it can't be infinitely large.]

Facing Elisa's confusion, the transparent person was about to cry.

The arena could indeed be opened infinitely, and the space too, but the problem was still the same problem, the competition time had to be taken into consideration.

"How large can it be specifically?"

Elisa asked, not giving up.

[About a hundred football fields.]

"Then alright."

Although it didn't meet her expected goal, being this large was okay too.

Yes, in Elisa's eyes, the size of a hundred football fields seemed to be nothing at all.

She even disdained it a bit.

[Are you two sure this is the request?]

After understanding Elisa's need, the transparent person looked at Lan Qingyou again and received the latter's confirmation.

[Very well! Then let us begin the final battle of this competition!]

Saying so, Lan Qingyou and Elisa saw their arena suddenly start changing.

In the end, this change froze on a vast expanse of gray land.

From the gray ashes on the ground and the surrounding ruined walls, broken swords, and snapped halberds, one could tell that this place had probably experienced a great war in the distant past.

Although it was unknown what happened to the final losers and winners of this war, there was no doubt that this war must have been very tragic.

After all, besides the aforementioned things, there were also some human skeletons that had weathered to the point where not much was left.

Or perhaps something that walked upright?

Anyway, in the eyes of Lan Qingyou's Analytical Demon Eye, what was appraised were all three question marks.

The last time she encountered this situation was when she fought the Treant in the cave.

These skeletons couldn't possibly also be A-Rank or World Rank, right, haha.

[Welcome to the Ashen Land, this is a certain corner of the Ashen Land, and also the main battlefield for the two of you this time, so please let the two of you display your skills freely.]

After the venue was re-determined, the transparent person bowed with its hand on its chest, being unprecedentedly and extremely polite to the two of them, and subsequently disappeared.

It seems this abnormal battle doesn't require a referee.

Lan Qingyou and Elisa thought in their hearts at the same time.

"I heard that the people outside call us White Witch and Black Witch."

Under the circumstance that the venue had grown larger but their positions hadn't changed, Elisa, separated by twenty-some meters, began her first truly independent conversation with Lan Qingyou.

"It seems there is such a thing. But I don't really like it."

Lan Qingyou, not knowing why the other party would use this topic as an opening, nodded faintly.

"Right? Besides Workshop Faction and Tower, these two World Titles named after buildings, I think we should have more orthodox titles."

"Hmm? Orthodox?"

Lan Qingyou was puzzled, not understanding what was wrong with the other party.

It was just a title, there was no need to be so tense, right? She even used the word 'orthodox', which looked very serious.

And Elisa, seeing Lan Qingyou seem not to fully understand, spoke out two other new words.

"Materialism School and Mana Alchemy School."

"Hmm?"

Lan Qingyou frowned slightly.

"You still don't understand? The Equivalent Exchange you've been constantly talking about, isn't this the typical saying of the Materialism School?"

Seeing her opponent actually reveal that kind of silly expression, Elisa sighed.

It was unknown whether this sigh was feeling sad for herself or feeling pity for Lan Qingyou.

"Wait... you... are from the Mana Alchemy School?"

The belatedly realizing Lan Qingyou suddenly thought of something, so she stared straight at Elisa.

"Yes."

Elisa nodded.

...

"Materialism School? Mana Alchemy School? What are those?"

The unaware crowd watching the drama frowned just like Lan Qingyou previously.

Especially those people learning Alchemy attempting to replicate Lan Qingyou and Elisa.

They might not understand the meaning behind these two words.

But everyone was very clear about the word 'school'.

Schools, different factions formed due to different viewpoints within the same academic research.

Put into the current situation, wouldn't that just be the two Factions of Alchemy?

Then what are you still looking at, take notes!

The Alchemists frantically took out pen and paper one by one, staring intently at the two people on the Sky Screen.

After all, these two Witches could now be considered representing the highest authority of Alchemy among all Transmigrators. Casually saying anything could possibly benefit them immensely.