The Witch's Anatomical Notes

Chapter 72

Chapter 72Tri-Tower Tournament

At the break of dawn, the black-haired girl on the single bed let out a soft hum and slowly sat up.

As the sheet slid down, it revealed large swathes of fair skin.

With the sheet slipping further, exposing her snow-white skin, she leaned lazily against the headboard, gazing gently at the silver-haired girl sitting at the desk.

"If we don't get up now, we'll miss the assembly time." Lucy said earnestly.

"Got it!" Olivia's voice was soft and tender, exceedingly charming.

"You’re so adorable when you're with me," Lucy chuckled, then continued, "If only you were this gentle with the other team members."

Over the past three days of training, the coordination within the Mead Squad had grown from clumsy to proficient, and the members had gradually become familiar with one another — except for a certain princess.

Only when alone with her did this princess ever show a smile, which caused some dissatisfaction among the other team members.

Olivia snorted coldly through her perky nose.

"I’ll never learn your skill at flirting everywhere."

Lucy was momentarily choked.hat this was actually a "gorge" and not a steep basin.

Rumble—

The hundred-meter-long airship slowly descended at the entrance of the gorge. As everyone disembarked, they saw that the teams from Eternal Silence Blackthorn and the Witch’s Cottage had been waiting for some time.

Judging by numbers, both the red-robed Witch’s Cottage and the green-robed Eternal Silence Blackthorn had more members than the Tower of the Four Sages.

Especially Eternal Silence Blackthorn, whose numbers had reached nearly five hundred.

This left Lucy quite puzzled.

Given their training methods, Eternal Silence Blackthorn’s mortality rate should clearly be far higher than that of the Tower of the Four Sages.

The always steady Hain spoke up to explain, "Because Eternal Silence Blackthorn recruits more than three thousand apprentices every year..."

"So many!" the squad members exclaimed in astonishment.

The Tower of the Four Sages only accepted about two hundred apprentices each year.

Hain nodded. "You don’t actually think that the Tower of the Four Sages, despite having the largest territory, happens to have exactly two hundred wizard-talented individuals every year, do you?"

In reality, the tower eliminated ninety percent of low-potential candidates during recruitment, retaining only the two hundred with higher talent.

But Eternal Silence Blackthorn and the Witch’s Cottage did not bother with such stringent standards. As long as someone tested positive for wizard aptitude, regardless of potential, they were admitted.

They then employed a high-pressure elimination system to select the strong.

This resulted in many people with only the faintest talent, some incapable of even meditating, joining the towers with dreams of wizardry, only to soon perish from excessive Contamination Value.

Compared to them, the fifty percent mortality rate during the Tower of the Four Sages’ protection period was practically a "greenhouse."