High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 446: Chapter 115: The Strongest Hunter_1

Zheng Qing never forgot, he still had a bet with Sepulano.

It was at the beginning of the school year, because of the incident at the Great Ming Pavilion, that Zheng Qing and this big shot from the Alpha College of the First University mysteriously established a destiny.

During a night patrol at Lin Zhong Lake, the two met by accident, Sepulano promised that if Zheng Qing participated in this year’s Freshman Hunting Contest, if he won the championship without killing the Wild Demon King, then the grudge between the two would be erased.

This was not an easy thing to do.

Especially now, with Zheng Qing gaining more and more understanding of the Hunting Contest, the conditions of the bet seemed even more elusive.

Like the school’s Hunting Convention, the Freshman Hunting Contest also adopts a ’hunting-cum-point winning system’, which means that under the hunting mode, the team with the highest points will win the championship.

Points come from various sources like killing wild demons, collecting wild demon specimens, capturing wild demons, exploring unknown maps, collecting other specimens, and more.

In the hunting mode, the school releases wild demons into the Hunting Ground by ’groups’. Each group of wild demons has a Wild Demon King as the leader. Normally, the points owned by a Wild Demon King in a group of wild demons is about 30%±10%, and there is a reward of double points for capturing a wild demon alive.

”How can this be possible at all?” The young sponsored student muttered, his telescope roaming tirelessly over the Eye of the Vortex.

Over a dozen hunting teams had already appeared in the small world.

It seemed that once these hunting teams reached the Hunting Ground through the fog, they would be automatically partitioned into different areas. So far, no two hunting teams have had any overlap.

The first thing all hunting teams do after entering the Hunting Ground is set up a defense system and then rest.

Zheng Qing took a small notebook and noted down these hunting teams’ actions - in addition to this, the book also recorded the Hunting Race process, general equipment of the hunting teams, environment of the Hunting Ground, names and conditions of the hunting teams, and much more information.

Maybe it’s useful, maybe it’s not, anyway, since he was going to participate in the Freshman Hunting Contest, Zheng Qing had to make adequate preparations.

He was not a person who liked to regret afterwards.

”...Resting time,” he held the pocket watch in his hand, watching the second hand tick and move, then recording each one in his notebook: ”...School team, ten minutes rest, the defense system seems to be a Bagua formation; Alpha College Team, twelve minutes, don’t recognize their defense system; Jiuyou Academy Team, twelve and a half minutes, Qimen Dunjia defense system...Judgment Team, fifteen minutes, doesn’t seem to have a special defense system?...Auspicious Hunting Team, twenty minutes, don’t recognize...3A Hunting Team, twenty-eight minutes, don’t recognize...”

The resting time of these hunting teams basically matched their ranking on ”Arcana”, which was very telling.

The speaker flower hanging on the back of the front seat suddenly raised its head, stirring its broad petals.

”Please note, please note...”

”Audience members, please pay attention!”

”The prey for this year’s Hunting Convention has been thrown into the Hunting Ground. The competition will officially start at any time...unless there are special circumstances, it is forbidden to move between the stands to avoid affecting others’ viewing...”

The announcer’s voice was very unfamiliar, it wasn’t Tang Dun.

Perhaps because long periods of commentary were too draining, the Hunting Committee had arranged for professionals to rotate.

Zheng Qing didn’t pay much attention to this matter, and after briefly thinking about it, he tossed this idle worry out of his mind.

Compared to the Class Monitor Tang who was in the spotlight today, the young public student had more trouble to worry about.

”Where are the prey, have you seen them?” Zheng Qing’s telescope lens roamed around that narrow world many times, but he never found the monster mentioned by the commentator, so he was somewhat anxious.

If he can’t find the prey from the spectator stand even with the ’Eye of God’, then how can he find those ferocious and cunning demons on the Hunting Ground within a period of time!

”Don’t be in a hurry... The Hunting Meeting only has one prey, a small target, which indeed makes it hard to search for.” Half-Face spoke while registering the ’betting content’ for others, looking back at the scholarship student with a smile, consoling him, ”If you want to find that prey as soon as possible, I suggest you follow the strongest hunting team... for instance, the school team.”

Zheng Qing was clearly dissatisfied with this response.

If he could only find the prey by following the hunting team, that would be a bit too pathetic, wouldn’t it?

The lens of the telescope continued to wander over the hunting grounds.

On the hunting grounds, almost all the hunting teams were leisurely searching everywhere, occasionally releasing powerful magic to declare their presence, as if they were doing a show—it was obvious that their main task today wasn’t hunting, but performing.

The cheering and screaming of the young witches in the stands made it clear.

This made the young scholarship student even more irritated.

”Aren’t you going to bet on one?” Zhang Ji Xin’s voice rang out beside him, ”Simply betting on the rookie competition is nothing special... Let’s bet on the cycle race or the finals together. There are many choices here, and the returns are high!”

”You have five minutes to place your final bet on the winner of this ’Hunting Meeting’. I believe after watching for so long, you should have some insight...” Half-Face advertised opportunistically.

”Oh, have you all made your choices?” Zheng Qing set aside his inner annoyance, didn’t look back, and responded casually.

”I chose Judgment!” Zhang Ji Xin waved his fist excitedly, ”Their chances of winning this Hunting Meeting are very high!”

”Judgment?” Zheng Qing finally showed some interest.

He turned back, looking curiously at Elder Zhang Da, and teased, ”I thought you’d bet on the First University’s school team... Isn’t your brother on that team? Don’t you have confidence in him?”

The people around them couldn’t help but laugh lightly.

”One should focus on their specialty!” The red-faced wizard turned purple and defended himself, ”It’s true that the school team is the strongest... But this Hunting Meeting is mainly about hunting. In that respect, Judgment has, probably, the best tracker in the First University.”

”The strongest in the First University?”

”Who?”

”Erwin Hoffman, a junior student at the Alpha College of the First University, but he joined Lei Zhe’s ’Will’,” Xiao Xiao’s calm voice rang out and Zheng Qing didn’t seem surprised at all.

”He, Zhao Qiao and Uncle Zhang Zhi are referred to as the ’Three Holy Heroes’, and are among the strongest candidates for Lei Zhe’s successor in Sacred Will.”

”There have been reports that Hoffman already possesses the strength of a registered wizard, but due to his involvement in the club’s affairs, he has not proceeded to advance... However, the most important reason why he’s known as the ’strongest tracker’ is that he’s a werewolf.”

”Werewolf!” A look of realization appeared on Zheng Qing’s face.

Indeed, from a tracking perspective, there wouldn’t be many races more gifted than werewolves. Not to mention, this is a werewolf with the power of a registered wizard.

”But Hoffman doesn’t seem to be an outstanding surname,” Xin Fat Man scratched his head, somewhat confused.

His home is on the banks of the Rhine, which is home to one of the world’s three largest werewolf groups, the Rhine Werewolves. Furthermore, due to his background, he has a good relationship with the Rhine Werewolves and knows a lot about the werewolf world.

”Indeed.” Xiao Xiao closed his notebook and adjusted his glasses, ”Hoffman is not a pure-blooded werewolf... His father is a wizard, he’s a half-blood werewolf... This is not news in Alpha.”

Zheng Qing suddenly felt that he understood why Hoffman didn’t join the Alpha society.