"Usually, I wear wizard robes. Does this mean I have to buy a new outfit?"
"Heh... you don't have to buy one."
"Be content! My grandmother hung this Guanyin amulet around my neck when I was one, and she repeatedly warned me never to take it off... Do you think the school might make an exception?"
"You can try asking the professor tomorrow... Professor Yao should be here tomorrow, right? He's such a nice person, he should let us bring one or two personal items..."
"Precisely because he's our professor, he's even less likely to indulge us in breaking the rules. You bring an amulet, he brings a stack of talisman paper—what would the trial meet turn into?"
"The more they revise it, the messier it gets. The school never should have listened to those old witches' nonsense and moved the trial meet to sophomore year. Everything was perfectly fine under the old system, holding it in freshman year."
"Did you notice that among the prohibitions Dunton just listed, he never forbade divination?"
"The trial meet will definitely test divination. It's one of the school's most important subjects. How could it possibly be forbidden?"
"No, no, you misunderstood me... I mean, he didn't say that seeking outside divinations was prohibited. Doesn't that mean we can go to Pedestrian Street or Wander Bar and ask those Grand Diviners what we'll be doing tomorrow?"
After Dunton announced the information related to the trial meet, the classroom immediately erupted into chaos. Everyone was discussing what they should do tomorrow, what they should bring, what they needed to leave behind. The cleverer ones had already begun picking over the loopholes in the instructions, seeing whether they could squeeze through them.
The only thing they had in common was that everyone was viciously cursing the