Zheng Qing's first winter hunting event at First University ended in a rather anticlimactic fashion.
Because of the Dark Council's illegal intrusion, the originally planned three-day winter hunt lasted only one day before being hastily wrapped up. Though First University did not fear those dark forces, it would not treat its students' lives lightly by exposing them beyond the school's Guardian Array.
Thus, early Saturday morning, First University students received a joint notice issued by the First University Professor Joint Conference, the School Labor Committee, and the Student Union, requiring all enrolled students to refrain from leaving the school grounds without a professor's permission.
And the most basic requirement for obtaining a professor's pass was proficient mastery of the 'Yuan Chen Shou Hu Spell.'
Professor Yao had taught the spell to the students long ago, but because it was not a compulsory examination subject in the curriculum, few had practiced it seriously—and more importantly, even among those who did practice seriously, few could master it.
To the young wizards of the You Zui Hunting Team, this new rule was nothing short of a bolt from the blue.
Their little shop on Beta Town's Pedestrian Street had been open for less than a month. The work inside and outside the store was still in its adjustment period. If they, the owners, could not go to the shop at a time like this, then only heaven knew what D&K would end up becoming.
"Relax, aren't there still a few 'employees' in the shop? Fox Five came from a respectable family, after all. Even if he's no good for anything else, he should be able to watch over a little shop for us." Zhang Jixin bit down on his brush handle, his face full of misery. "Compared with that little shop, I think