High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 545: Chapter 214 Penalty Points_1

”Outside the Little World.

Amidst the grandstands.

When the captain of the Clover Hunting Team appeared behind the Heart’s Q Hunter, startling him into a paralyzed sit-down, the once silent audience stands instantly erupted with many noises of excitement.

Whether it was the Starry Sky Academy, Jiuyou Academy, or even Atlas Academy - even cheers and jeers echoed from the grandstand of Alpha Academy, where Peter Greenspan hailed from.

Zheng Qing had every reason to believe that if not for the odd state of the Heavenly Eye separating the two worlds, some young wizards, moved deeply, would burst in, confront the short hunter, and spit in his face.

Even so, the disappointed crowds still picked up anything around them, throwable or not, chucked them into the hunting grounds, to vent their deep-seated disappointment. As a result, the host of the hunting competition had to issue severe warnings to these slightly out-of-control youths through speakers made from speaker flowers, and dispatched patrols into the stands to hand out penalty notices all around.

’That shorty from the Queen of Hearts Q Hunting Team... the hunter codenamed Insect Tail, is purely a burden!’ Xin Fat Man sharply criticized, ’I can’t comprehend why Queen Qiong would accept such an unremarkable student from Alpha Academy... He even wasted half of my chicken leg!’

During the wave of item throwing just now, Xin Fat Man, moving with the crowd, had discarded half-eaten drumstick into the hunting grounds.

Now, he’s angrily wiping his grease-stained fingers.

’The real talents from Alpha Academy are all mindful of their images, maintaining a certain distance from mixed breeds, or as they call it, ’mutts’.’ Dylan’s somewhat gloomy voice rang out from the side, ’Perhaps only someone from the money-focused Greenspan family can overlook such ideological differences, and happily join the Queen of Hearts Q.’

’Moreover, this Little Greenspan is not completely without abilities.’ Zhang Ji Xin interjected, continuing the analysis, ’He is very talented in Potionology, and I hear he’s already become an official member of Professor Li Qihuang’s laboratory... Additionally, judging from my observations, his role in this hunting team is in logistics and support, so it doesn’t matter much if his combat abilities fall short.’

’I always thought hunters needed to have strong combat skills, I remember you guys telling me that.’ Zheng Qing murmured.

’It’s ’adequate’ combat abilities... Being able to quickly and accurately cast spells is enough.’ Zhang Ji Xin immediately corrected, ’Comparatively, when selecting hunters, we value more on their abilities to discern demons.’

’Even if you guys say so, I still think he’s just freeloading for the credits.’ Xin Fat Man remained somewhat unsatisfied as he swung his feather pen around indignantly, ’I’m going to write a critique, to condemn this kind of opportunistic behaviour...’

’He’s not being opportunistic... It’s actually a win-win situation.’ Doctor Xiao, who’d been listening to everyone debating for some time, finally put down the feather pen in his hand. Rubbing his temples tiredly, he sighed, ’He is a Greenspan, the Greenspan of Sam’s Pass, the Greenspan whose family vault can buy half of Beta Town... over 90% of the Queen of Hearts Q Hunting Team’s sponsorships come from the Greenspans.’

’So, what? Just because he’s rich he can do whatever he wants?’ Xin Fat Man instantly raised his voice, ’We, the Absolution Hunting Team don’t have such bad habits! So, we don’t have the sponsorship. What’s the big deal?’

’That’s because we’ve just established. We’ve not even participated in an official hunting competition yet.’ Xiao Xiao glanced at him, raising her head, ’Not even considering the cost for team uniforms, team emblems, extra renting fees for training at the hunting grounds, buying prey, and daily expenses for magic, potions, or Fu Lu... Just the salary for hiring a hunting team coach and a hunting team manager alone, have you ever thought about where the money is going to come from?’

Xin Fat Man was left at a loss for words.

From the side, Lin Guo’s excited shrill voice rang out, ’I can still have a salary?’

’Go ask your fat brother.’ Noticing the hopeful gaze from the boy wizard, Zheng Qing immediately pointed at Xin Fat Man, speaking irritably, ’If it weren’t for him bringing up this topic, to begin with, my team wouldn’t have had to bear these additional expenses in the first place...’

Indeed, although the hunting team had been established, due to the short time, the expense for the entire team was almost zero. Zheng Qing has yet to worry about finding a sponsor for them. The old Yao allowed them to use the hunting grounds, and they trained together with the Judgment; the hunting team coach merely gave informal pointers without any official planning; the daily consumables of potions and magical spells were self-provided - Zheng Qing did provide a large number of Poor Quality Fu Lu.

As for team uniforms and team emblems, things that sounded quite grand, the young scholarship recipient stated that the hunting team was still in its founding phase and should uphold the spirit of hard work and endeavor, thus putting an end to the conversation.

”So... money really can do anything,” Zhang Ji Xin patted the fat man’s shoulder, his tone shows helplessness, ”If I were to guess, to a large extent, the Queen of Hearts Q is actually organized by ’Mr. Greenspan’... Whether it’s your Queen, or Black, or Sharp Fork, they should all be helping Mr. Greenspan earn credits.”

Upon hearing this theory, Xin Fat Man couldn’t help but widen his eyes.

”That seems possible,” Xiao Xiao thoughtfully scratched his chin with the feather of his quill, ”Looking at the composition of the Queen of Hearts Q, it really does fit with the Greenspan family’s usual principle of lowest cost and highest benefit... Also, this Little Greenspan seems to have inherited Old Greenspan’s habit of liking to take advantage of strange goods and risk investment...”

”What about fairness? Equality? This is the First University, not a bank for fairies!” The fat man yelled loudly, ignoring the strange looks from the stands around him.

”Sin·Banna·Schmidt-Bayer?!” A stern voice interrupted the fat man’s rant.

The voice was somewhat unfamiliar, and several male wizards in the stands turned around almost simultaneously.

The speaker was a young male wizard wearing a yellow academy robe. Zheng Qing noticed the three black rims at his cuffs and collar. This means that standing in front of them was a junior student of Atlas Academy.

At this moment, the senior student from Atlas Academy was holding a notepad, his eyes scanning over the young wizards’ faces, asking sternly, ”Who is Sin·Banna·Schmidt-Bayer?”

The fat man timidly raised his hand.

”According to the ’First University Campus Management Regulations’ and the relevant rules of ’Campus Cup’ Hunting Competition Temporary Measures’, your previous act of throwing litter into the hunting ground severely disrupted the order of the competition and campus sanitation... now, we are deducting a point from you, with a verbal warning once.”

The yellow-robed wizard speedily recited the above paragraph like reciting from a textbook, then lifted his eyes to look at the fat man, ”Do you have any objections?”

Xin Fat Man was dazed.

”Did you all see it?” He asked in a whisper, meanwhile subconsciously putting the hand he just used to throw the chicken leg into his pocket.

”Many people saw it... and we have professional diviners in charge of monitoring,” The yellow-robed wizard seemed to realize something, glanced at the bare collars and cuffs of the few young wizards around him, shook his head, and added, ”Others who cause trouble are just like you, most of them are freshmen... The veterans have this self-awareness. Or call it self-knowledge.”

The fat man lowered his head dejectedly, admitting to the act of throwing the chicken leg.

”Watching the game should be orderly and polite. I won’t repeat these cliché statements. Everyone here is of age, stop acting like children.” As he scolded, the yellow-robed wizard ’rip’ a strip of paper from the notepad, hastily wrote a few lines, and handed it to the fat man, ”Pay the credits to the school workers committee within a week, double deductions if overdue... I trust you aren’t that foolish.”

The fat man shook his head like a wobble-head doll, his chubby cheeks trembling non-stop.

”Oh, and one more thing,” before leaving, it seemed that the veteran remembered something, turned back and looked at the few young wizards, and added with a smile, ”There’s a reward for reporting rule-breaking spectators, the reward is 50% of the offender’s deducted points, you can report to any patrol member... keep an eye out!”

The fat man was stunned for a moment, then suddenly flew into a rage, looking around.

”So, someone did report me just now?” He seemed a bit indignant, but there were too many eyes glancing around, it was hard to identify the ’informer’.

”Admit defeat, you broke the rule in the first place,” Xiao Xiao hmphed and reminded, ”If you continue to dwell on the issue of being deducted points, you might miss a lot of exciting moments... The Queen of Hearts Q has already stood up on that tree... It seems a big fight is about to start between the two team leaders.”