Lin Guo's Black Goat going missing did not cause much of a stir at First University.
First University currently had far too many more important matters drawing the students' attention—the conflict between Jiuyou and Alpha, the internal debate within Atlas, Starry Sky Academy's no-holds-barred fighting tournament, Nicholas's blood purging, the handling of the Lei Zhe and Augustus incident, the newly emerged sacrificial wizards in Beta Town North District, a Student Union vice president who had quietly advanced to Archwizard, and so on.
Slightly less prominent were the Merfolk Tribe of Linzhong Lake, the Centaur Tribe still lingering outside Alpha Castle, and the underground rat folk, who had recently grown restless due to Rat Immortal's disappearance. They were all regulars in the Beta Town Post or the school paper.
By comparison, a black goat that had temporarily vanished seemed rather insignificant—compared to some little animal, the school papers and gossip might care more about some top student's love life. Besides, every year, if not a hundred then at least eighty pets sneaked off for a month or two of fun. The school could not possibly organize a search party for every pet that went missing briefly, nor could it waste the valuable efforts of professional diviners.
"Don't worry. Wait patiently for a few days," the School Labor Committee's duty wizard soothed Lin Guo gently, smiling. "Perhaps in a few days, you'll find your goat back at the Pet Garden, behaving itself, with a flock of lambs behind it... It's still late spring. Animals forgetting their owners after going into heat is very common."
The answer was a little teasing, and Zheng Qing could not help but laugh.
"Don't laugh. There have been precedents for this sort of thing." The duty wizard spoke solemnly to the two young men. "Not long ago,