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Fatty Xin's earlier claim that he was going to the Office Building had merely been an excuse, and Zheng Qing knew it perfectly well. Once they left the teaching building, the fat wizard sighed, patted the publicly funded student on the shoulder, then hooked arms with Zhang Jixin and headed toward the library.
Zheng Qing was left standing at the entrance to the teaching building, filled with regret.
He regretted those final exchanges between himself and Xiao Xiao, unease gnawing at his heart.
He dearly hoped Ilena had not heard Xiao Xiao clearly, or that she thought he had mentioned Solomon while working on a Hexagram Magic Array project. But he knew perfectly well that was wishful thinking.
"Damn it, what rotten luck."
The young publicly funded student angrily kicked a pebble away. It traced an arc through the air and smashed into the shrubs by the roadside, startling two sparrows that had been tangled together. The sparrows angrily chirped at the young wizard twice before leaving behind a blob of bird droppings.
Following the direction in which the pebble had rolled, Zheng Qing unexpectedly spotted a plump figure in a yellow robe.
It was little monk Shi Yuan, one of the founders of the Sin Absolution Knight Order, a person with almost zero presence.
Most of the time, he stayed in the temple at Atlas Academy chanting scriptures. Unless necessary, he rarely appeared around campus, and he seldom even attended meetings of the Sin Absolution Knight Order.
The instant Zheng Qing raised his hand to greet the little monk, he suddenly remembered something—during the last Hunting Moon Freshman Competition, when he had been chased across the hunting grounds by a massive pack of monsters, he had promised that if he survived, he would