A Wanderer Wizard Tells a Story

Besides competing for honor, participants in hunting competitions also had a chance to win generous material rewards.

For instance, the blood, flesh, eyes, and even bones of demons were all materials wizards needed for magical experiments and certain spells, and they were highly sought after in the Wizarding World.

Zheng Qing did not have to hand over all the demon "materials" he had gathered during the Freshman Competition. After registering and having them verified by the Hunting Committee, he only needed to pay a small management fee before claiming most of them for himself—the same rules applied to the official Academy Cup competition—which meant fistfuls of Gold Beans.

That was why hunting competitions were so enthusiastically embraced at First University. Nearly every student with even a little ability tried to become a hunter and join a hunting team.

After all, if they wanted to go farther along the path of wizardry, ample material support was essential. Not every talented person came from a wealthy, influential family and never had to worry about lacking resources.

From that perspective, the Wanderer Wizard's guess about Zheng Qing's purpose was not without reason.

As Beta Town's largest gray market, Wander Bar brought together information brokers of every size, who traded all kinds of news they had acquired about First University.

As the manager of this market, the Wanderer Wizard could naturally obtain certain background information on Jiuyou Academy's publicly funded freshmen of the Class of '08 without much effort—for instance, that Zheng Qing came from the Bading World, had no reliable backing, and was short on money.

Being short on money meant that once Zheng Qing got his hands on a large batch of demon materials he had no immediate use for, he would sell them as soon as possible before they expired in