Besides having to endure his companions' teasing and mockery over the afternoon's "study room incident," Zheng Qing found Professor Yao to be another unsettling presence at the class meeting.
Ever since learning Professor Yao's identity, Zheng Qing had found himself increasingly unable to look the smiling professor in the eye. Rather than fading with time, the feeling had only grown stronger.
There were less than ten minutes left before the class meeting began.
Zheng Qing was already fidgeting uneasily.
He even felt that Fatty Xin, who had wrapped an arm around his neck a few minutes earlier and "tortured" him into confessing everything he had done with Jiang Yu that afternoon, now looked remarkably kind and benevolent.
"What are you reading?" The young scholarship student searched for something to say and poked the fat boy's arm with the tip of his Quill Pen.
Banner sucked in a cold breath.
"The Beta Town Post!" His face scrunched up from the jab of the pen, but the arm holding up the newspaper did not budge. His attention remained fixed on its contents. "...Some wizards believe the existence of the North District Wizards threatens the Wizard Council and the Under the Moon Council. They intend to introduce a motion before the Alliance to review the legitimacy of the North District Wizards' existence... This is a very dangerous move."
Hearing that it concerned the North District Wizards, Zheng Qing was instantly interested—the tension he felt about Professor Yao's arrival eased a little. Leaning over beside the fat boy's arm, the young scholarship student squinted as he began making out the dense print in the newspaper:
"...The crisis facing the Magic World stands at a crossroads—not because we are approaching the limits imposed by the Forbidden Spell Non-Proliferation Treaty, but because the emergence of the