Little Quexi

As the saying went, only hope could heal misfortune.

Because of such tiny yet certain hopes, Zheng Qing gradually learned to turn a blind eye to the rumors that surfaced after the hunting competition; Ilena was able to storm into Alpha Castle on the Lower Yuan Festival without fear; and Jiang Yu was able to persist in searching through archives in the library, even resorting to the Transformation Spell, all to catch the villain who had hurt the kittens.

That said, in the young scholarship student's view, catching the culprit did not necessarily require using oneself as bait—though that approach did seem a little more likely to succeed—but the risks were also much greater.

Especially since Zheng Qing had experienced an abnormality after using the Transformation Spell not long ago, which made him even more uneasy.

Although Old Yao suspected that the anomaly Zheng Qing experienced while using the Transformation Spell was related to the shadow that had escaped from his laboratory, that was ultimately only a guess. Before the laboratory issued an official report, any "clues" connected to it required extra caution.

For example, the notes on the Transformation Spell that he had given Jiang Yu earlier.

He had recorded those notes during Professor Yi's private tutoring sessions every Tuesday. Most of the contents concerned the Transformation Spell—including its basic principles and mechanisms, common transformation techniques, relevant taboos during transformation, analyses of Transformation Potion properties, ways to use different potions, and so on. To veteran Registered Wizards or upperclassmen well versed in the Transformation Spell, those notes might still have seemed rather rough and simple.

But for first-year freshmen who had been enrolled for less than half a year, those notes were already immensely valuable.

There were also many supplementary explanations Zheng Qing had added after putting things into