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Unfortunately, it was too late to change teachers, as the school year was about to start. After mulling it over, Dorothy decided to take the offer. After all, it isn't often that one comes across a teacher of dual master-level expertise.

Whining internally, 'Teacher, let bygones be bygones, shall we? From today on, can't we just peacefully be a nice, calm Research Witch together?'

That's what the homebody witch humbly thought to herself.

The tough part was that although she had been deceived, in order to fully exploit this bargain of a teacher's knowledge in the future, Dorothy now had to butter her up and make her happy. Otherwise, if the master didn't like her and held back while teaching her, that would really be troublesome.

So....

"This hat was just given to me by a respected elder I hold in high regard, and because it's rather special, I've been wearing it. But I haven't gone through my coming-of-age ceremony yet, and I'm really looking forward to having you help me put on a hat when the time comes," Dorothy said with a bright and sincere smile to the somewhat disheartened Spider Teacher.

"Really?"

Upon hearing this, Noelle Rose immediately perked up.

So it was a gift from an elder, huh? Then there's no problem—hats given by elders and hats given by teachers obviously have different meanings.

Yep, yep, as long as I'm the first among the teachers, then it's all good.

Realizing that this disciple was still genuine and that she wasn't just a scapegoat for a lousy teacher, she instantly cheered up.

She looked at the brilliant, smart, and well-spoken disciple before her and couldn't help but find her incredibly endearing, almost wishing she could immediately pass on all her proud knowledge—the Military Architecture and War Puppetering she mastered—to this worthy disciple.

"Mm, I will pick out a nice and practical hat for you," assured the Spider Witch, patting her chest among the surging waves.

"Um, Audrey, yours too, I will prepare it," Noelle Rose hastily added, realizing she had almost forgotten about her cute little niece and second disciple.

Audrey: "..."

Forget it, Auntie, I know you forget about your niece once you have a disciple. Feelings fade; I'm used to it.

The Little Fox, feeling like an add-on to the elder sister, declared her indifference.

And to be honest, the War Puppetering you taught me was all old and ugly anyway. Those kinds of aesthetically meaningless things, irrelevant to my Puppet Theater, are not worth my time—I'd rather learn the "lively" Puppetry Technique from Sister.

At that moment, the once familial bond between the two witches was severed, dissolving into cold indifference.

But then again, did Sister always wear a hat?

Audrey curiously eyed her sister's head intently.

All of a sudden, she thought she saw a hat-shaped monster covered in tentacles waving its vast tentacles at her, as if greeting her.

"Ah...."

Startled, the Little Fox cried out and quickly hid behind her auntie, whom she was just recently disdaining.

"Sister, scaring a child isn't something a future king should do," Dorothy chided her suddenly mischievous Hat Senior Sister.

"Who told you to want another hat when you already have me? I even became your elder outright, even though I'm still a 17-year-old girl," protested senior Fanny, waving her tentacles.

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Ha! As if I'd believe that—Senior Sister claiming she's 17 when she's long since graduated. You ghostly woman, you're terribly deceptive.

Time passed amidst the laughter and frolics of the three, and soon, as the huge clock in the campus bell tower tolled deeply, Dorothy lowered her head to look at the freshly pinned student ID badge on her chest, only to see the abstract spider-shaped metal brooch begin to emit a faint glow.

Three rays of light descended from the sky, enveloping the trio of master and disciples.

"Don't panic, it's just that time has come. The opening ceremony is starting; this is the transport light from the Great Hall," the Spider Teacher explained with a smile, easing the anxious Dorothy and Audrey.

Only...

"Damn, teleportation?"

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Just when Dorothy breathed a sigh of relief at the absence of danger, her face suddenly changed. She reached frantically into her magic bag at her waist, but it was already too late.

The three people in the pillar of light soon turned into countless particles that quietly dispersed and finally vanished along with the pillar of light on the spot.

....little witch teleporting.....

In fact, in one's personal experience, the process of teleportation was just a blink of an eye. With her eyes closed and then opened, Audrey discovered that she and her companions had already left the small courtyard and arrived at the very top of a towering mountain peak.

Looking into the distance, only the rolling, unfettered misty sea of clouds and the freshly risen suns, one large and two small, in the southern sky could be seen.

The dawn dyed the sea of clouds red; the thrice southern rising scenery was indeed magnificent but weren't we supposed to be going to the academy's great hall?

Little Fox had heard her sister mention the great hall of Witch Academy before, which, besides the Tower of Shine and the Great Library, was another piece of marvelous architecture within the school.

This miraculous great hall was the brainchild of a legendary master architect. At the time of construction, an entire small world was used as the building's foundation, which meant the interior space was immensely huge, big enough to accommodate the entire school's faculty and students.

Moreover, the architect ingeniously sliced and folded the space of that whole world into countless large and small box seats. These divided boxes constantly revolved around the world's center, which had been transformed into a grand stage.

Therefore, through the windows of the box world, everyone could clearly see the activities in the center of the stage.

This was also the favorite design technique of that legendary master architect. Audrey had always longed to perform on stage in the famous Witch Opera House, which seemed to have also been created by this master architect.

It's just that the owner of the Witch Opera House was none other than Lord Demon King. The wealthy and imposing Lord Demon King had provided the master architect with a supermassive world possessing a vast starry universe as building material while the academy's great hall was merely a small, round, and square miniature dimensional world.

It seemed that the hall's seats were allocated according to school districts, then specific boxes were assigned based on departments. For their department of automated mechanical civil engineering at Brust Academy, there were only the three of them, so this mountaintop area must be the box world assigned to them.

So where was the box window facing the stage?

Audrey looked around and then saw a pavilion not far away. Inside the pavilion was a stone table with four stone stools. Even a few snacks had been provided on the table.

"Hmm, it's over there, senior, let's go," she said, seeing that her second aunt had already headed toward the pavilion.

Having seen this, Audrey turned to her senior sister beside her and suggested they follow.

However, as she turned her head, she saw her invincible senior sister with a pale face, body trembling, yet very adeptly taking out a bag from her own and then...

"This damn teleportation, urgh...."

The homebody witch cursed and proceeded to vomit out a rainbow.

Little Fox, not understanding the situation, was shocked and hurried to her senior sister's side, anxiously using her puppet to ask,

"Senior sister, what's wrong with you, don't scare me, Auntie, come quickly, something seems off with senior sister."

She frantically wanted to call over her second aunt to check on her senior sister.

However...

"It's nothing, just a special physique that gets a bit dizzy from teleportation, I'll be fine after some rest,"

Dorothy explained weakly, staring with dead fish eyes.

Audrey: "..."

Spider Teacher, who had hurried over upon hearing the noise: "..."

Little Fox looked at her pitiful senior sister with a face full of sympathy, as if looking at a handicapped person, after all, in a world where teleportation was commonplace in the Witch World, being dizzy from teleportation must be quite uncomfortable.

But Noelle Rose, who had seen much of the world, suddenly raised an eyebrow.

"Spatial Talent?"

At that moment, the way Spider Teacher looked at her beloved disciple heated up. Initially, she just thought the child was clever, possessing the talent for accelerated learning, and a good material. Thinking she had picked up a treasure, she felt she had struck gold.

But now, she suddenly realized this wasn't striking gold, this was like crashing head-first into a gold mountain.

Spatial Talent, that was one of the talents most suited for architecture. There was hope for the child to surpass her ordinary master and achieve the legendary status in architecture.

"Ah, teacher, it's actually Space-Time Talent," Dorothy said, thinking about it and then modestly correcting her ecstatic teacher.

Noelle Rose: "..."

.....Spider Teacher crashing into a gold planet....

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