Monday, May 3rd.
Cloudy.
Duty Deity: Black Tortoise. Clash: Goat. Inauspicious direction: East. God of Wealth: Due South.
Suitable: Cleaning, demolishing houses, nothing else.
Avoid: Everything.
When Zheng Qing got up that morning and flipped through the old almanac, he unexpectedly found the entries "nothing else" and "avoid everything." Remembering what he had planned last night, he immediately hesitated.
But after hesitating for only a few seconds, he shook his head and laughed at himself.
Although many wizards still consulted the old almanac, very few truly followed its recommendations and prohibitions to the letter. Mainly because the almanac was too old, and its listed dos and don'ts could no longer encompass the needs of modern daily life.
People flipped through it in the morning more out of habit than anything else.
But it would not be entirely accurate to say that the old almanac's recommendations and prohibitions had no effect at all. After all, a considerable portion of modern magic was still categorized by wizards as "mysticism" precisely because it could not be fully explained by existing magical theory.
The old almanac's recommendations and prohibitions were among them.
In short, consulting the old almanac was like throwing salt over one's shoulder or knocking on wood after hearing something unlucky. Even among wizards, it fell within the realm of mysticism.
As for last night's plan.
After meeting Wizard Mili from Trident Sword yesterday, Zheng Qing had decided to complete this month's supply contract as soon as possible. To that end, he had ended his morning class early, skipped both the library and the classroom, and detoured to Trident Sword's Beta Town office, hoping to complete the handover of the Blood Talisman Bombs before first period.
Trident Sword's office stood at the intersection of three streets in Beta Town. There was a