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The five of them were the five young wizards of the You Zui Hunting Team.
Unlike taking part in campus hunting competitions or the winter hunts organized by the school, hunting teams carrying out Alliance-assigned missions needed to conceal their true identities to a certain extent, lest they be hounded by Dark Wizards or face retaliation afterward, inviting trouble beyond the mission itself.
Among the dazzling array of masks in Trident Sword's mask warehouse, Zheng Qing had taken a liking to these Cat Face Masks at first glance.
As standard-issue equipment, these masks looked more or less the same: white backgrounds, black patterns, and a tiny Trident Sword insignia branded on each cheek. Paired with cloaks and robes serving the same purpose, no one could identify them by appearance alone.
As for why they had appeared in this somewhat remote tavern, that was another story.
Before formally beginning the mission, Zheng Qing had imagined hunting Dark Wizards as being much like hunting Magical Creatures in the Silent Forest—diviners determined the location, Scouting Hunters searched for the target, Roaming Hunters kept watch, while the Lead Hunter and another Assistant Hunter stood ready to throw down at any moment.
But once the mission truly began, he realized the two followed entirely different procedures.
First, every member of the hunting team had to remain alert at all times. During the pursuit, aside from their target, there were far too many enemies of Trident Sword who were happy to make things difficult for these Cat-faced Wizards. These included, but were not limited to, Old Witches who deliberately pointed the young hunters in the wrong direction, cultists with frenzied faces who only wanted to drag them into a suicidal embrace, and dead bugs that occasionally appeared in their coffee