The Dean and Two Teaching Assistants

Just as Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu were visiting Dr. Duzem and mentioned the little shop they had just opened, the matter was also brought up in an office less than a thousand meters from the Institute of Abnormal Life.

It was an office at the northern end of the first floor of Jiuyou Academy's Office Building.

The office door was immaculate. No Door Gods hung upon it, nor were any other Guardian Talismans or magical patterns carved into it. It looked like nothing more than an ordinary red wooden door. Although a bronze plaque hung above the frame, the poor lighting shrouded its words in dim shadow, making them too blurry to see clearly.

Matching the spotless wooden door, its brass handle was also exceptionally clean, gleaming beneath the corridor's dim lights.

The winter morning sunlight was not bright, and even less light filtered through the window at the end of the corridor into this long hallway. Yet there was always a faint layer of light cast upon the floor, leaving a narrow, elongated trace that seemed veiled in gauze.

Then two shadows abruptly appeared in that halo of light. They moved silently along the center of the corridor, their shadows stretching longer as they advanced.

At the front was a young wizard with a tall build and graying hair. His broad robe seemed to have been starched, hanging stiffly about him, while even its normally limp collar stood high enough to nearly cover the tip of his nose.

Beside him stood a tall, blond, blue-eyed Germanic man with a high nose bridge. However, the heavy bags under his eyes and his shadowed eyelids greatly detracted from his appearance. Unlike the companion beside him, this wizard's robe was rumpled, with several spots of mud staining its hem, as though