"What are you reading?"
The publicly funded student noticed that the smile on the Red-faced Male Wizard's face was no weaker than his own. Raising his brows in surprise, he leaned his head toward the wizard.
He didn't remember him being close to any witch.
Why was he so happy?
Zhang Jixin could not hear Zheng Qing's inner grumbling. Without looking up, he patted the newspaper beneath his hand, making it rustle loudly as he flipped through it, then replied with a chuckle, "I'm seeing how everyone is praising us. Listen to this part..."
Zheng Qing glanced at the newspaper's masthead and could not help raising his brows.
It was the Beta Town Post.
The Post knew how to praise people? The young publicly funded student instinctively curled his lip, already prepared for an article dripping with sarcasm to hit him in the face.
The Red-faced Male Wizard cleared his throat and began reading in a dramatic cadence:
"...A new-generation hunting team composed entirely of second-year students unexpectedly deployed a Second Tier Battle Formation during the sixth Academy Cup qualifier, held at nine o'clock Thursday night. They formed a fully corporeal mature Bofushi Giant and withstood the frenzied attacks of numerous high-level Magical Creatures... Although, in the final three minutes, this giant was easily suppressed by Atrach's projection, that does not diminish the hunting team's outstanding performance..."
"...As everyone knows, the Second Tier Battle Formation is an advanced applied Magic Circle with broad applications in New World exploration and battles against demons. Yet very few wizards below the Registered Wizard level can successfully practice it... In fact, even among the many exploration hunting teams in the New World, not every hunting team has mastered the Second Tier Battle Formation. (Relevant experts repeatedly stressed to reporters that this profound magic must