(I found that so readers are over-interpreting this chapter; please, ease up. It was written spontaneously, and your overly enthusiastic interpretative skills scare .)
"So, to save this world, let's beco idols...oops, I an, let's establish a new sect to compete with the Church of Glory."
During the break in the Divine King's mini-class, Dorothy gathered all her close sisters and then excitedly slamd the hamr-shaped Destined Canon "Creation of the World" onto the table.
The Witches first looked down at the large hole hamred into the table, then blinked in confusion, not knowing what to say.
They couldn't follow the Hobody Witch's train of thought; why on earth would she suddenly think of establishing a sect?
Clearly, participating in Witch's Night only required following the script to conclude it; there was absolutely no need to do anything extra...
emmm, wait, the script had already fallen apart anyhow, so never mind.
The Witches glanced at Denisha beside them, then simultaneously turned their heads towards Dorothy.
Following the normal process, all they had to do was patiently stay low, and then once the God King awakened and established the Holy City Pandora, they would support the big shot, obeying orders and waiting for him to take them to the top.
The hardest battles at the forefront were fought by the God-King himself, and all they needed to do was join the peripheral battles against the "Heavenly cannon fodder" of similar levels to engage in a few rounds of low-skilled skirmishing, then they could go back and wait for their awards based on their battle rit.
Yes, this is how Witch's Night normally should be.
After all, the festival is fundantally about letting these Witch Students, who had yet to graduate from school, experience firsthand the cruelty of a real battlefield, understand the struggles during the rise of the Divine King, acknowledge how hard-won the current status and glory of the Witch World is, to not forget their origins, stay mission-focused, strive for improvent, and soon take over the future of the world from their predecessors, and create new glory for the Witch World.
Plainly speaking, it's an educational festival promoting love for their own race and world from deep within their hearts, and also to let them experience the battlefield environnt before they graduate through a simulated war, so they aren't clueless when they eventually face a real battlefield post-graduation.
In essence, everything would conclude smoothly just by following the plot, and no one really expected a group of students who hadn't even graduated from the academy to play a significant role in affecting the whole battlefield situation or even deciding the world's future.
Like this Witch's Night, it's set against the backdrop of the entire process of the Divine King's rise, but no one seriously thought that a bunch of students, at best novice Great Witches, could actually affect the final course or layout of the war, right?
During the early days of the Divine King's rise, when overall strength wasn't high, these students could still play so role, but in the later stages, when gods battled, a group of students who hadn't even beco Great Witches yet were hardly of any use. They were most likely just cannon fodder at the edge of the battlefield, clashing low-grade against the equivalent Angel factions.
Even though this festival's rules had changed, shifting from a single-player ga to a competitive match, the shift wasn't significant. The opponents simply changed from the Phantoms of days past structured as "NPCs" to the Heavenly Mission structured as "players."
It's still a bunch of newbies squabbling; after all, most of them didn't even qualify to enter the main battlefield of the God King and the Lord of Glory, otherwise, they might just get blown away by the aftermath of the big shots' skirmish.
Therefore, the real "scoring points" of Witch's Night lay in the early to middle stages of the war, where full-scale war hadn't yet been unleashed, and these students could still mix it up. However, in the latter stages of the war, most witches actually served more as war correspondents, there to spectate and experience what a real clash between gods is like, witnessing these grand historical scenes as a way to broaden their horizons.
It was just the difference between below-average students being correspondents at peripheral battlefields and average students being correspondents at front-line battlefields.
Only a very few top students weren't correspondents but joined as official soldiers, finding a slight sense of participation in the main battlefield where Sages gathered and Peaks were common, and where ordinary Great Witches were treated no better than dogs.
Among past students, those who managed to earn even a Third-Level rit on that main battlefield were already considered top students, and if they got rated for a Second-Class rit, or even a First-Class rit, they were considered future stars of the Witch World."
After all, earning a Third-Class rit was relatively easy; just stand out in war by killing a few enemies or saving so teammates would do the trick, but a Second-Class rit required a crucial role in the battle you were in. As for the First-Class rit, that required contributions significant enough to influence an entire war zone.
As for the Special-Class rit that affected the entire course of war, in the over one hundred thousand years history of Witch's Night, there have been hardly any, and the recipients had almost all reached the pinnacle figures in the Witch World.
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