Life was like the sea. Calm waters were best, raging waves could be fun, but that awkward in-between turbulence made people dizzy and miserable.
Just like this Monday morning.
Professor Yao Xiaomi, the advisor for Astronomy Class 08-1, dean of Jiuyou Academy, and a Legendary Wizard, had missed his Magic Spell Class without any warning. This was something that had never happened in Zheng Qing's nearly two years at First University.
Even Dunton had hurried to the Office Building and searched all around, yet failed to find any trace of Old Yao.
The Door Gods on the Dean's Office door had been quite polite. They told the young wizard that Old Yao had indeed come to the office that morning, but had left again in a hurry without leaving any message.
The good news was that Old Yao seemed to be the only professor absent from class—which meant it might have merely been an emergency, rather than some trouble at the school. According to Dunton's observations along the way, classes for the other groups were proceeding as usual.
The bad news was that the other professors did not know where Old Yao had gone either.
This mixture of good and bad left everyone neither daring to fool around with abandon nor willing to study obediently. They could only hesitate, chatting idly while flipping through leisure reading. It truly was like that awkward in-between turbulence, making everyone feel miserable.
If Zheng Qing had been four or five years younger, back in middle school or high school, and a teacher had failed to show up one morning, the classroom would surely have erupted in cheers. Everyone would have celebrated that lottery-winning sliver of respite amid their heavy schoolwork.
But he was a university student now.
And at a magic university, no less.