"Professor and I had arranged to meet at noon today..."
"I'm asking what it's about?!"
"...Professor Monteria asked me to..."
"The professor is busy. You know the rules. If you have something to say, say it quickly. The professor will help you deal with it when he has time. If there's nothing else, I need to get back to my experiment... There's no one at the bench right now!"
The words came fast and sharp, but by this point, Zheng Qing could roughly guess where the male wizard's irritability came from. A wizard interrupted during an experiment was probably in much the same mood as someone disturbed in their sleep.
He did not dare ramble any further and pulled the test tube from his pocket.
"I wanted to ask the professor to test the blood inside..."
Before he could finish, Zheng Qing's vision blurred. When he looked again, the test tube in his hand had already been taken by the male wizard.
"Careful!" the young scholarship student cried. "That blood is a little strange..."
"Who would send normal blood here? We've seen stranger blood than that." The black-robed wizard sounded disdainful, but his expression grew more solemn. He easily sensed the pressure emanating from the "amber" inside the test tube. "...Was it sealed by an Archwizard? Hmm, from the Qingqiu clan?"
Zheng Qing immediately grew respectful.
"Yes," he answered honestly.
To make so many judgments in such a short time, this black-robed wizard was likely among the very best even among Registered Wizards.
"The source of this blood is legal, right?" the black-robed wizard cautiously reminded him. "Though the Qingqiu clan keeps a relatively low profile in the Alliance, they have always been one of the most powerful clans under the Moon Council..."
Zheng Qing instantly realized that the other