The outermost hunting grounds of the Winter Hunt formed a belt around the entire First University.
For safety's sake, the hunting teams were arranged in order of strength. For example, the strongest School Hunt Team was assigned Hunting Ground No. 1, designated A-Jia-1. To its left was the second-ranked Judgement Hunting Team, assigned A-Jia-2; to its right was the last-ranked Ouroboros Hunting Team, assigned A-Gui-3. To Ouroboros's right was the second-to-last Edge Hunting Team, assigned A-Gui-2; to Edge's right was the third-to-last You Zui Hunting Team, assigned A-Gui-1; and to You Zui's right was the Xiangqi Hunting Team, assigned A-Ren-3, and so on.
To put it more clearly, the teams stationed in this section of the outermost hunting grounds were, in order: Judgement Hunting Team (Erwin Hoffman), School Hunt Team (Zhang Shuzhi), Ouroboros Hunting Team (Andrew Taylor), Edge Hunting Team (Nicholas Green), You Zui Hunting Team (Zheng Qing), and Xiangqi Hunting Team (Mike King Sephrano).
Aside from being neat and orderly, this arrangement made it easier for the strongest teams to look after the weakest ones.
At the very least, that had been the Hunting Committee's original plan.
However, on the afternoon of the third day of the Winter Hunt, more than twenty wild dragons suddenly burst into the outskirts of the hunting grounds, and the situation gradually slipped beyond the Hunting Committee's control.
The wild dragons' harassment drew in the Patrol Team outside the hunting grounds, which ordinarily would not have caused the Winter Hunt teams any trouble.
But when the scroll Linda Barnes threw out awakened the School Guardian Formation, even the dullest hunting teams realized something was wrong when they saw the Golden Curtain slowly descending.
Sticking together for warmth and supporting one another as horns became the best choice for every "normal" hunting team.
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