There was only a single character, "Wu," on the back of the red tablet.
That was right—the same Wu as Mister Wu.
What was strange was that Zheng Qing also had a red tablet bearing the character "Wu." Looking only at that side, the two tablets were almost identical, from the size of the writing to the shape of the tablets.
The problem was that Zheng Qing had written his tablet himself. When he was young, he had used it to improve his success rate when drawing talismans. After growing up, he rarely used it—its last use had been in the North District, against an unexpectedly descended Outer God projection. He had shattered the tablet and summoned an image of Mister Wu.
He had assumed the tablet had been wasted just like that. Yet one day, while sorting through his talisman-drawing tools, he had been astonished to find that red paper tablet lying perfectly intact in the corner of the Gray Cloth Bag.
Given the tablet's unusual nature, the young wizard had dutifully wrapped it in silk and stuffed it into the deepest part of the bag. He had not touched it in a very long time.
Until today.
Old Man Ernest had obtained this special proof of authority, supposedly "issued" by the School Guardian Formation. As Zheng Qing looked at it, he could not shake the bizarre, absurd feeling—how could the tablet he had written himself be exactly the same as one issued by the School Guardian Formation?
Zheng Qing dared swear on all four paws of the Black Gemstone Cat—or Cat Thirteen, that Big Black Cat from the Relevant Department—that he had absolutely never written one of these tablets for anyone else.
And after the North District incident, he had tried mass-producing these tablets. Yet that miraculous power