After getting through the chaotic, frantic first week of school, the university students quickly returned, starting from the second week, to the dull yet orderly routine of the previous semester.
Fifteen hours of classes every day left Zheng Qing feeling exhausted the moment he opened his eyes. Heavy stacks of extracurricular assignments kept piling onto him, until the afternoon nap had become a distant and unfamiliar term.
Until Thursday.
On a bright, sunny afternoon, Zheng Qing unknowingly fell asleep with his head on the desk.
Thursday afternoon was when he served as a teaching assistant for Edge Academy's Talisman Class.
Ever since taking on the teaching assistant position, Zheng Qing had harbored a faint worry that the students in the class, many of whom were older than him, would refuse to listen. To that end, he had specifically prepared a contingency plan: if anyone really acted up in class, he would have any five students form a hunting team, then use a one-against-five victory to make everyone submit wholeheartedly.
He still had that much confidence when dealing with Edge Academy students, who were mainly North District Wizards. As for the few who required a little more attention, such as Nicholas, Carmen, and Iseni, he knew them well enough too.
When Xiao Xiao shook him awake, Zheng Qing was in the middle of battling his students in a dream—he had reinforced himself with Jia Ma Talismans, Diamond Talismans, Light Body Talismans, and Sweet Dew Talismans, circling the temporary hunting team of Edge Academy students who had set up a pentagram defensive formation, recklessly scattering talismans for weak legs, confusion, binding, flashes, and more.
Yellow talismans poured down like a torrential rain. Alone, he suppressed all five students until they could barely breathe. Cheers rose and fell from the onlookers outside the