Chapter 2891: The Right to Judge
The sun had set and risen three times already.
Yet every day, the enormous firebird still appeared on the horizon right after the morning star.
So everyone knew that First University had yet to recover Puji Island's sun.
From the sea to the Withered Land, from Danhaag to the New World, undercurrents surged within and beyond the Alliance like the prelude to the black tide that rose from the Silent Forest every early spring—silent and soundless, yet everyone knew they were rolling and gathering in the shadows, waiting for the moment when they would merge and roar at everything in sight.
The young wizards at the school were still not sensitive enough to such changes.
What worried them most now was the upcoming final examinations—this was already the seventeenth week of the semester. In another week, no, in another four days, the final exams for the second semester of the 09-10 academic year would officially begin.
Including Zheng Qing.
The "crow problem" that had long weighed on his heart had been answered in an almost anticlimactic manner. The excitement and exhilaration he had imagined lasted less than a day before an even greater emptiness and unease instantly swallowed the young man who was about to leave First University.
"—At last, you can prepare for your graduation exams in peace!"
That was Xiao Xiao's first reaction after hearing the top-secret firsthand information Zheng Qing had brought back. "Now you have no excuse to say the crows are interfering with your studies... well, though you do not have much time left to study anyway."
By comparison, Fatty Xin's reaction after learning the truth was much more intense.
"Damn it!"
The moment the Fat Wizard learned Professor Monteria's identity, he slammed the Quill Pen in Hand onto