High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 530: Chapter 199 The Last Round-Robin Match_1

It’s been more than ten days since the start of the Academy’s hunting tournament.

The round-robin matches in which many preparatory hunting teams participated are also nearing their end, and most of the hunting teams have completed their promotion tasks.

Today is the last match of the round-robin, and the match that will decide the final team competing for the ’Campus Cup’. Since Friday afternoon, rumors started circulating around the academy that Lei Zhe’s girlfriend’s team would be competing today, and Alpha Academy has prepared multiple sniper hunting teams.

As a result, this Sunday morning match, which has not yet started, has attracted a lot of attention.

Even the underground gambling organizations have specifically opened betting for this match — that diligent broker, Blue-Green Eyes Neville, even sent a large flock of paper cranes to his clients, detailing the many secrets behind the match, the participants, odds, and other highlights, inviting everyone to continue betting.

As clients of Blue-Green Eyes, Zheng Qing, Xiao Xiao, and Xin, naturally received the paper cranes.

As the time coincides with the weekend, and this is the last round-robin match, the Absolution Hunting Team unanimously decided to watch the match in full.

On the one hand, they want to connect theory with practice, comparing the training results of the past week with the actual gap between them and the real hunting teams. On the other hand, this is the last public match before the freshman competition — starting from the ninth week, the school hunting tournament will enter the actual ’Campus Cup’ competition, and no more preparatory hunting teams with a similar level to the new student hunting teams will appear in the Hunting Ground anymore.

For a newly formed hunting team like Absolution, what they can learn from these relatively ’low-level’ hunting matches is more than what they can gain from more professional ones.

”...That’s what Deng Zi told me.” On the way to Hunting Ground No. 1, Zheng Qing said, ”He suggested that we should not pay attention to next week’s relatively more professional matches, but try to learn as much as possible from today’s match... so, Doctor, your task today is the most important. Try to record as many tactics of the hunting teams on the Hunting Ground as possible.”

”Why didn’t we watch the previous round-robin matches?” Xin Fat Man complained on the side, ”And do you guys know how many reports I missed because of this?”

”It’s because the training level of Absolution was not enough previously. Even if we all sat in VIP seats to watch the competition, besides seeing some flashy techniques, we would not learn anything effective.” Zheng Qing was patiently explaining.

”I think he’s complaining about missing out on the news.” Xiao Xiao always had sharp comments like this.

”It’s not just my opinion!” The Fat Man’s face turned red as he defended, ”Dylan... Dylan also complained to me yesterday about missing many round-robin matches due to hunting team training...”

”I just regret missing out on the heroic figures of those beautiful girls,” Dylan chuckled lowly, adding, ”Like today’s match, I’m actually more interested in the performance of that ’queen’...”

The ’queen’ mentioned by Dylan was Lei Zhe’s girlfriend, who was rumored to be a sophomore witch at Jiuyou Academy named ’Joan’. In Neville’s ’betting report’, she was described as a somewhat capricious and arrogant, but excellent swordsman as the main hunter.

”Every time I see a descriptor like ’excellent swordsman’ for a wizard, it always feels a bit jarring.” Sitting in the stands, Zheng Qing flipped through the betting report, making a sarcastic comment.

”I thought you’d be used to it by now.” Xiao Xiao snorted softly, ”The wizards in this world, they aren’t those frail, spell-using mages you read about in the mundane world’s fantasy stories...”

”Gandalf is not frail at all.” Zheng Qing nodded thoughtfully, ”...Describing Gandalf as ’excellent swordsman’ doesn’t sound odd at all.”

”Gandalf? The old man with a beard holding a wooden staff?” Xin Fat Man, eager to join in, interrupted, ”A few days ago, when I was wandering in the translation room of the editorial department, I saw some documents about him from the Mundane World... I remember the translator’s notes didn’t mention that he was good at swordsmanship?”

”Shut up!” Zheng Qing pushed the Fat Man’s plump face to the side, ”Except for Xiao Xiao, none of you should discuss the mundane world with me...”

This was a truth he had learned through countless times of his world view being destroyed.

These wizards with short sight, touching thoughts, and baffling logic often subjectively connect all kinds of strange things when introducing the mundane world.

For example, the reason why mundanes are generally unhappy is because the average use of hallucinogens is too low; the reason why mundanes live in such small places is because their architectural structures are too conservative; the reason why a one-armed swordsman who owns an eagle becomes gray-haired at a young age is because he uses inferior quality shampoo; the reason that a puppet’s nose will grow longer when it lies is that some defective product from an alchemy workshop in the wizard world had ended up in the mundane world.

About the puppet, a meddling wizard once wrote a tens of thousands words long paper analyzing it, searching for the so-called ’fraudulent business ruining the reputation of the wizarding world’, and serialized it in the ”Beta Town Post”. After reading it, Xin Fat Man greatly admired it, and once used the wizard’s writing style as a template to modify his own report on the tricksters in the North District of Beta Town — even though Zheng Qing repeatedly explained to him the difference between ’mundane fairy tales’ and the ’real mundane world’, and that the report was complete nonsense, it was to no avail.

Comparatively speaking, the fact that Gandalf is good at stick fighting magic can only be considered a very minor ’correction’.

Only Doctor Xiao, who has extensive knowledge and reads a lot, is able to discuss topics he is familiar with without feeling awkward, using a normal worldview that is friendly to Zheng Qing.

”As if anyone cares.” The Fat Man snorted, lifting up his brass telescope, ”I just wanted to kindly remind you all, the hunting teams are entering...”

Zheng Qing immediately raised his telescope.

As the lens turned, he quickly found today’s main characters in the Hunting Ground.

It was a hunting team that appeared on the eastern meadow, four men and a woman, and the telescope’s lens clearly marked the team’s name and the name of the main hunter and hunting team leader.

Hearts Q Hunting Team, main hunter and captain: Joan.

She is a tall girl with somewhat gentle eyes.

Zheng Qing had seen her photo in the school paper’s hunting team details — he was once very curious about why this witch would have an ’overbearing’ title such as ’queen’.

The betting guide given by Blue-Green Eyes’ broker explained this: on one hand, Joan is Lei Zhe’s girlfriend and as the king of Small Arcana, it’s fitting for his lover to have the title ’queen’; on the other hand, in the Hearts Q Hunting Team, Joan, as the captain, commands absolute authority, and the team style is aggressive and domineering, hence she is jokingly referred to as Queen by her teammates.