The outermost layer of the Winter Hunt grounds had always belonged to the school's top-tier hunting teams.
There weren't many of them, but their combat strength was not to be underestimated.
This year was no exception.
Besides the twenty-eight officially registered hunting teams, two unregistered teams whose strength was likewise recognized by the school had been assigned to the outermost layer.
One was the Edge Hunting Team, which had made it into this year's Campus Cup finals. That ranking alone was ample proof of its strength. The other was the Ouroboros Hunting Team, which hailed from Alpha Academy. Thanks to the new Augustus, this hunting team, named after the Ouroboros symbol of the Xiangqi Society, had won the favor of many young wizards. With current captain Andrew Taylor's ample financial backing, it had snatched up the last hunting ground in the outer region.
However, if Andrew had known that the Winter Hunt would run into such bad luck this time, he certainly would not have wasted so much gold.
When Linda Barnes tore off the red ribbon tied around the parchment scroll, the young werewolf from a small North American family was holding a partial meeting.
The reason it was called a "partial meeting" was that the Ouroboros Hunting Team had a full thirty hunters participating in the Winter Hunt, making it the largest team among all the participating groups. As a result, the Hunting Committee had assigned Ouroboros the largest hunting area as well. To balance factors such as hunter strength, team size, and the division of hunting grounds, the school had ultimately given Ouroboros a hunting area spanning two "layers." One section lay near Beta Town and belonged to the middle layer, while another, like those of the other twenty-nine hunting teams, lay beyond the Silent River, in