It's weird to apply for Witch Academy as a boy

So much so that he almost overlooked the fact that we were not from the same world at the moment.

"It's okay. For us, extraordinary powers do not require too many external objects, because we call it... magic."

Then, I snapped my fingers, and runes flashed to form a spell ritual. Then, with a bang, a fireball appeared out of thin air in front of me.

This fireball was a pure spell structure created by hand, without any reliance on spellbooks, and its power seemed to be no less powerful than the one cast with the Fireball spellbook at the Witch Academy.

That's why I said this is a paradise for studying and researching magic!

Freed from the limitations of the spell book, my direct understanding of spells is now more intuitive.

I admit that spell books are a form of display of the higher skills of the concept of spells, but it is so high that I can only look up to it. At this moment, this way is more suitable for me to understand the essence of spells.

"This...this!" At this moment Wu Mali widened his eyes, looking at the fireball that suddenly appeared in front of me, and excitedly stepped forward and wanted to touch it with his hand.

Naturally, I didn't stop him. After all, how could something in a dream hurt reality?

“This… is amazing!”

At this moment, he could no longer use words to describe the means he was seeing.

"Just now...just now! Can I see the combination of the extraordinary inscriptions again?"

"Of course you can, but you should understand that we are talking about more important things at the moment. Don't lose the big picture for the small." I said after dispersing the fireball.

As for them calling the rune ritual the Extraordinary Inscription, there is actually nothing wrong with it. It is just a name. I noticed it before when I was reading the introductory books they compiled.

The words with special powers engraved on objects that drive extraordinary forces are called extraordinary inscriptions for a reason.

Moreover, this was evolved by borrowing from established runes and became their own unique inscription.

They mastered many inscriptions, some of which were rare runes or combination runes that I had rarely come across.

They also discovered that inscriptions have complex characteristics, or some inscriptions can be broken down into two or more inscriptions, and have even become part of their system, but compared with the rune system, they are very simple.

"Oh, sorry, sorry, I'm just too excited. I wonder how you two would like to cooperate with us? Also, this matter seems to involve too many people. I also need to test the city lord's attitude."

"I don't care about these. I only care about the results. What I want is for everyone to study and explore our extraordinary system, either in a research group or in any other form. I need to create an atmosphere of mutual communication and learning. I think your Extraordinary Skills Research Association is very suitable and has such a foundation, right?"

"This...you mean you want to share these for free so that we can study and discuss?" the other party asked tentatively.

"It's not free. After all, I need all the research data on this subject during this period, and you need to share it with me."

After all, I have the spell book on the memory bookshelf, so it is easy for me to record these things. Regardless of whether I will use them or not, these materials will become my most precious wealth and my foundation.

Moreover, this is the basic knowledge related to runes, and they are the conclusions and results reached by different people. In a sense, is this considered free stuff?

Anyway, instead of struggling here for those trivial benefits, it is better to make concessions directly and get the most important things.

"This... This is of course what we should do! Our research association naturally advocates knowledge sharing, which is beneficial to our exploration of extraordinary powers. Do you have any other requests?"

"What I need is people who truly love supernatural powers and have a spirit of exploration and discovery, not lazy people who are just waiting for others to fill in the gaps. This requirement is not limited to the amount of supernatural knowledge you have mastered. For the supernatural power system I'm talking about, all of you are newcomers starting from the same starting line. I don't want anyone to take advantage of their seniority and talk about their past glory. Do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood. I will strictly control these aspects. Is that all for now?"

"Well, that's about it for now. Of course, once everything is ready, I will personally explain the extraordinary system and runeology we have mastered. This corresponds to your extraordinary system and inscriptions. In fact, it is almost the same thing, but you call it extraordinary inscriptions, and we call it rune rituals."

"Supernatural system...rune ritual..." Although Wu Mali could not fully understand these new terms and concepts, he knew that this was something more systematic than what they had mastered. Why not learn something good?

This is definitely something you need to learn!

"I understand. I will arrange it as soon as possible. I will negotiate with the city lord."

"Yeah." I nodded, which meant we had reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with the other party.

As for why I take the trouble to teach personally, it is naturally because teaching others is also a means of self-examination for myself and a way to understand myself more clearly.

Similarly, this is also about using other people's thought processes to make yourself understand that these things can be understood in this way, and these are the key.

I may not have understood it before, but now I understand how important it is to open your mind.

Some things are so important that they cannot even be measured by value, like the knowledge that I valued before, the ideas that I value now, the inspiration that the dean values, and so on.

This kind of cooperation is not about who gets the upper hand, but rather a win-win situation. I can’t think of any reason why I wouldn’t do this.

Afterwards, we talked about some details with the president and I planned to go back. After all, I didn’t want to stay here until the work was done.

"By the way, I'm curious to ask, what was your purpose in going to the History Museum today?" After all, the other party only went there for a short while, and then talked to us for a few words before coming back.

"Oh, mainly to visit the old curator. When I was young, the curator took good care of me. He was also the teacher who led me to develop an interest in extraordinary skills. Whenever I feel upset, I will go there to take a look. After all, there are few people there."

"Oh, I see." There were indeed very few people there, and looking at the exhibits did make me subconsciously think about life and other things. "By the way, the girl who accompanied you before..."

"Oh, you are talking about her. Her name is Ning Lan Qiu Yue. I believe you should know her identity when you hear her name, right? She is also the most important member of our research association. Qiu Yue is also very interested in extraordinary powers. You don't mind her learning your extraordinary knowledge when the time comes, right?"

"I don't mind, as long as it's not a vase."

"That's good, that's good. Qiu Yue has many unique insights into the current extraordinary system. She is definitely not just a vase."

"Okay, then we'll take our leave first. If everything is ready, you can come to Ning Lanxiang Hotel to find us, although it's unlikely that I'll be in the hotel during the day."

"Understood. Take care, both of you."

"Yeah." I also waved my hand to indicate that there was no need to see me off. This conversation was quite pleasant and we didn't encounter any problems, so there was no need for me to stay any longer.

As soon as I went out, I almost bumped into a familiar figure. It was Ning Lanqiuyue whom I met before. As expected, she was the daughter of the city lord.

"Sorry, sorry..." Ning Lanqiuyue said apologetically at this moment.

"It's okay." Sister Bai and I made way for her to pass, and then she closed the door of the president's office.

"That Ning Lanqiuyue has been eavesdropping outside for a while." Bai Yu whispered beside me at this moment.

"I know, it's no big deal." I said.

After all, there was such a big person standing there motionless outside the door, and the information presented by my spiritual vision was too conspicuous, so I mentioned Ning Lanqiuyue’s matter at the end.

"Let's go back first. I have some more important things to do."

"Oh? What important things does our genius Xiaohan have to do again?"

"Of course, it's to explore the boundary between dreams and reality. Just as you said before, Sister Bai, what we see is the real world, but our existence is a dream consciousness body. We can't interact with real things, but... there seem to be many things in dreams that we can touch, such as... this solid ground, thick walls, and stones on the ground... Sister Bai, aren't you curious?"

As I spoke, I stomped my feet and scraped my fingers on the wall, as if these things in the dream also existed in reality.

In fact, I have had this thought before. For example, dreams invading reality is my guess. The information of many objects in reality is invaded by dreams, thus generating equivalent existences in dreams.

So, in principle, there is still some connection between dreams and reality, such as the interaction between information?

"Indeed, but these..."

"How can we know what we don't know if we don't try? Sister Bai, please, accompany me to experiment. Don't you want to know how far you can go here?"

I hugged Sister Bai's arm and shook it coquettishly, and I found that Sister Bai seemed to like it.

"Okay...well, there's nothing else to do anyway."

"Okay! Let's go back to the hotel and try it out somewhere where there aren't many people. I don't want to be a monkey in a crowded place."

In fact, I also have some ideas about testing the boundary between dreams and reality. Similarly, there is another thing that I am very curious about, which is what is the relationship between me and my original body at this moment?

It is impossible for me to exist independently from my body. Even if I am a soul, wouldn’t it be possible for me to dissipate without the support of a body?

Then there are the revelations that those nightmares gave me.

Won't they eat our essence, energy, soul and so on?

But we are just conscious bodies at the moment, and everything she needs to eat is closely related to our real bodies, so the nightmare demon must have some means to achieve some kind of connection between us and the physical body, but I haven't discovered it yet.

Maybe... I need to catch a nightmare and let it stand in front of me to see how she drains a person. This most direct way of observing the transfer of energy can most intuitively feel the connection between different existences.

Perhaps the secrets at the boundary between dreams and reality seem to be there.

However, when I think about the fact that the problem of the boundary between dreams and reality has plagued the entire void for so long and has not been solved yet, I naturally don’t think that I have the talent and luck to solve this problem. I just need to understand the boundary between dreams and reality in this special environment where dreams invade reality.

After all, when we are in a dream and face the nightmare alone, we are still too passive.

Chapter 310 Dreams and Reality

"Hey? Xiaohan, isn't your room opposite? Why do you want to enter my room?" Bai Yu asked with some embarrassment as I pushed him into the hotel here.

"Didn't you say you would try it with me? How can we try it if we're not in the same room~" I pushed Sister Bai to the door of the hotel room, "Huh? We can actually touch this door..."

"Well...it can still be opened." At this moment, Bai Yu also stretched out his hand and placed it on the handrail of the door, and then with a click, the door was opened.

But I can see through my clairvoyance that the door in reality is not opened, only the door in the dream is opened. And in the dream, we will selectively ignore the closed door in reality. This is really... How can I describe the magic?

"Hehe~ I'm coming in~" After I came in, I closed the door immediately. Does this count as being in the same room with Sister Bai in some way?

The last time, I think I had just arrived at the academy? When Sister Bai slept with me, it was a pity that Sister Bai seemed to run away in the middle of the night.

What a pity.

"Okay, Xiaohan, what exactly do you want to test? If you don't tell me, I can't cooperate with you, okay?"

"I've almost gotten the results I wanted for the test."

I walked past Sister Bai out of the entrance hall and came to the big bed in the center. I have to say that the internal facilities of the hotel here are worthy of a high-end room. Many of the decorations are luxurious and ostentatious, but some of them do not conform to my aesthetic taste. It is not even as comfortable as the bedroom in the villa of the Witch Academy.

"Dreams are dreams, reality is reality, they are indeed completely independent. Sister Bai, you mentioned the interaction with reality earlier, such as picking up things, which actually still exist in the dream. It's just that when we pick up objects created by dreams in imitation of reality, we will subconsciously ignore the original things in reality and focus completely on the creations in the dream. The effect of this neglect is very obvious. How can we explain it? Sister Bai, did you feel that you pushed the door open just now?"

"Yes, I did push the door open." Bai Yu nodded.

"I thought so at first, but with my spiritual vision, I can break this cognitive neglect. The door in reality has not moved at all. Even if we don't close the door at this moment, in the eyes of those people in reality, the door is closed, and we just walked straight through the door."

"Is that so..." Bai Yu seemed to be thinking about something at this moment, and finally temporarily regarded this statement as the current truth.

"Since you have discovered this pattern, why did you go to so much trouble to come to me and ask me to cooperate with you?"

"Because... I want to try something else." At this moment, a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of my mouth, and then I slowly walked towards Sister Bai who was sitting in the corner of the bed.

"Hmm? Try something else? Xiaohan, what...are you going to try?" Bai Yu looked at Xiaohan in front of him. For some reason, he subconsciously had an illusion of panic in his heart, especially when Xiaohan with such an expression was getting closer and closer to him, as if he was afraid that some restricted scene would happen if he walked into it.

"Of course...trying...a spell~"

"A spell? Here? Are you sure? What if…"

"This is a dream, what are you afraid of? Sister Bai, even if we demolish the entire Ninglan New City, it will not affect the normal lives of people here. Sister Bai, you say... when we use spell books in a dream, does the magic power consumed belong to the dream or... the real world?"

"Dreams... After all, spell effects can only be produced in dreams and cannot affect reality." Bai Yu pondered for a moment and expressed his thoughts.

"Yes, that's right, but what constitutes the source of magic power in dreams? There must be a reference, that is, a template. Is this template idealistically generated through our consciousness, or does it directly and objectively reflect the information of our real body?" I asked again.

"It should be an objective reflection of reality. If it is too idealistic, then a simple psychological suggestion spell can make one completely invincible in a dream, but this is impossible."

"Yes, dreams receive information from reality and thus become the carrier of our consciousness in dreams. Of course, this is my guess, and I think it is the most reasonable guess."

The so-called "information" generally means information that can be obtained and can bring immediate value to oneself, and this term is given more meanings in the extraordinary field. Unfortunately, this is just a concept I learned when I was looking for information related to clairvoyance, and I have not studied it in depth.

However, information intentionality is undoubtedly a very important concept in the supernatural.

Just like at this moment, the information received by my spiritual vision can be regarded as information obtained from real time, but a lot of it is beyond my understanding.

But there is one kind of information that I can understand, and it is very simple, that is the direction of information flow. This is a very abstract concept, but clairvoyance seems to be able to see it. This is an ability that is easily overlooked.

It's probably similar to having floaters in the eyes, where you often see strange things in your field of vision, but over time or when your attention is diverted, you will subconsciously ignore these things.

"Does the dream imitate reality and construct a world that completely overlaps with reality?"

"Yes, that's almost what I meant, but that's not my main point." I nodded and then shook my head and said, "The main point I want to make is... the channel through which dreams obtain information from reality. That channel is very important."

"This... does it mean anything to you, Xiaohan?" Bai Yu asked, still unable to follow my train of thought.

"Sister Bai, have you discovered that after we changed the dream world, the dream world will continue to receive information from reality... and repair it little by little?" I walked to the door and opened it. "The door in reality is closed, but I opened it. This change in the dream and the feedback from reality have caused a discrepancy. The dream is slowly repairing this discrepancy, which is manifested as... the door is closing little by little, but... the process is very slow."

"Is that so... Then what's the point? Do you want to destroy the entire Ninglan New City to see when the dream will be restored? Wait, channel, you can see this, do you want to..."

"Yes, Sister Bai, did you notice that after we used the spell book, the magic power in the magic source recovered a little too quickly? That's because while the magic power source in the dream is recovering itself, the dream is also receiving information from reality and making up for this change. This kind of dream... has completely different rules from the dream we entered through the dream device. The rules here are more primitive, and the original dreams entered through the device are all designed by humans."

"You...are you trying to find the connection between us and reality by observing the source of magic, no, not only ourselves, but also ourselves?"

"Yes!" I nodded and said with a smile.

"Have you made any progress?"

"No, Sister Bai, if you don't cooperate with me, how can I make any progress~"

"But wouldn't it be more efficient for you to observe yourself?"

"It's so inconvenient to observe myself ~ Wouldn't it be better if you, Sister Bai, cooperated with me~" At this moment, a smile of success immediately appeared on my face, and I rubbed my hands like a pervert, biting my lower lip lightly with my pearly teeth.

Compared to the slightly bewildered Sister Bai at the moment, from Bai Yu's perspective, she suddenly found that Xiao Han was really cuter than before. She wanted to...

"It's okay, it's okay. Sister Bai, didn't you tell me before that this was a normal interaction between best friends? Were you kidding me before?" I came to Sister Bai and put my arm around her shoulders, with my right leg resting on the bed between her legs. The slightly shaky bed made Bai Tu sway slightly, and I subconsciously swallowed my saliva when I saw it.