High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 551: Chapter 220: Consequences_1

The chaos in the Hunting Ground was like a storm.

It came swiftly and left just as quickly.

Most students didn’t even have the chance to cast their second spell before they were subdued by the professors of First University who arrived upon hearing the news.

Around the stands, everyone, including the Hunting Contest observers sent by the Wizard’s Alliance, representatives from other wizard organizations, and outsiders who held temporary invitations, were kindly asked to leave the No.1 Hunting Ground by the school staff.

When Professor Yao, the dean of the hosting academy, came to the Hunting Ground, his face was frighteningly dark.

The students of Jiuyou Academy, who had been excited, became as quiet as cicadas in winter after seeing their dean, obediently returned to their places and dared not move.

”How dare you?!”

Old Yao roared like an angry lion, pacing back and forth on the stage, waving his arms violently. His voice was so loud that it tickled Zheng Qing’s ears:

”Is this the first day you’ve come to school?”

”Let alone freshmen, what about the sophomores and juniors? Are the black edges on your robes just for decoration?!”

”Is there any self-discipline left in you as students of First University! Do you have any shame!”

”So many people!... So many outsiders!”

”You dare to use Law books on your fellow students in broad daylight?!”

”Did I teach you spells to curse your classmates?!”

”Where did you put the school rules and disciplines! Were you sleepwalking in general classes?!”

”It was only a simple campus hunting party, and you made it a mess. If the school organizes any larger-scale activities in the future, are you going to burn down the entire Silent Forest?! Huh?!”

The students of Jiuyou Academy and Alpha Academy stood on the spot with their heads down in silence. Not even the people from Starry Sky Academy and Atlas could escape. They had to endure Old Yao’s roar. The elves such as Ninfus and Sirens, who were hired as cheerleaders, cowered under the rage of the great wizard, shivering.

As for the Berle-Hillyer fairies who were previously scampering in the Jiuyou stands, they disappeared without a trace under the chairs in the stands as soon as the professors appeared.

”Where are those Fence Fairies?” Zheng Qing’s eyes were spinning around, he nudged Doctor Xiao beside him lightly with his elbow and asked in a low voice, ”How come they all disappeared?”

”That’s why they’re called ’pests’... because you never know where they’ll crawl to, but when you’re in a good mood, these annoying things always inadvertently enter your sight and ruin your mood.” Xiao Xiao’s lips moved rapidly, quickly explaining.

”What a pity,” the young publicly-funded student stared at a violently trembling Speaker Flower in front of him and sighed regretfully, ”I originally wanted to catch one or two, bring them to Professor Li’s lab, dissect them and see what they’ve eaten in their stomachs to be able to spit out such bad-smelling saliva....”

”You actually have the mood to consider this kind of thing?!” Xiao Xiao couldn’t help but exclaimed, looking at Zheng Qing in surprise, as if curious about what was in his head, ”Shouldn’t you be considering what a first-year dropout can do for work?”

Zheng Qing thought for a while before he realized what Xiao Xiao meant.

”You mean, the school might expel us?” He said incredulously, ”Are you kidding me! Has the school gone mad? Are they going to expel hundreds of people just because some young people had a fight?!”

”It’s not just a simple fight,” Xiao Xiao refuted Zheng Qing’s statement, emphasizing in a low voice, ”This is massive and systematic spell usage to attack each other by two academies. Something like this hasn’t occurred at the school for about ten years... According to the relevant regulations of the Wizards’ Alliance, the scene just now could almost be considered as ’an act of war’... And how do you think the school would deal with students who started or engaged in a war!”

Perhaps his analysis was too terrifying.

Members of the Absolution Hunting Team, that had been silently standing behind the two of them also edged closer without realizing it.

”If I get expelled from school, my old man will for sure break my legs,” Zhang Ji Xin moaned, his gaze blankly fixed on the grandstand of Alpha Academy across the hunting ground, ”Just last week I wrote a letter to my family, telling them that I had become the main hunter of the Hunting Team...”

”The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment... and the more brutal the retaliation.” Dylan smacked his lips with the tone of someone who had been there, ”From my 1,300 years of experience, there are things that it’s better for everyone if you can keep them hidden for a lifetime.”

”1,300 years?” Lin Guo’s puzzled voice cut in, ”Didn’t you tell me last time that you’d just turned 1,000 this year, so you wanted me to roast a few swallows for you?”

”Hmph.” An unsatisfied snort came from Blue Bird nearby.

Obviously, he was very unhappy with Dylan’s deception of the child.

”Really? So, it was your thousandth birthday!” Dylan, not even blinking, swallowed the words he had said just seconds ago, ”What I meant was that my cousin, who is 1,300 years old, told me... you probably didn’t hear me properly since I was speaking quietly.”

Lin Guo mumbled something quietly, seeming to doubt the werewolf’s words deeply.

”What do you need a roast swallow for? Planning on hunting dragons?” Xin the Fat Man, clueless, dragged the conversation onto another topic, ”Also, when are you planning on celebrating your birthday? Do we need to prepare a gift? Need any help with a luxury coffin exterior... your black coffin looks a bit monotonous.”

Zheng Qing listened expressionlessly as the conversation beside him veered further off-topic, inexplicably irritated.

Eventually, he turned his head back to look at Xiao Xiao once more:

”You said earlier that such an incident hasn’t happened at the school for over a decade... you mean something like this happened over a decade ago? How did the school handle it back then?”

”Eleven years ago to be precise,” Xiao Xiao thought for a moment, then slowly stated, ”It all started with a few international students from the Dana Tribe ridiculing a pure-blood wizard from the Alpha Academy in class for having ’rotten tofu for brains’, sarcastically calling him a ’genetically chaotic idiot’... even though that was the truth.”

”But quite obviously, these international students went a bit too far when they took their jokes to the pure-blood wizard’s surname.”

”As you all may know, for many declining noble wizards, their surnames are the only things they have left to be proud of... so those few international students incited wrath and got beaten up by other Alpha Academy students in class.”

”Had those international students brought this matter to the school’s notice or gone through diplomatic channels, perhaps the downfallen could have been those Alpha Academy students... but they didn’t. These international students rallied their people as well as some other international students from different races, and had a duel with the Alpha students in the Silent Forest.”

”They were crazy,” Dylan restlessly shifted his body, ”Weren’t they afraid of the ghouls deep inside the forest?”

”Indeed,” Xiao Xiao sighed, ”Almost 200 students sneaked out of the school without a sound... It wasn’t until their fight ignited a patch of Return Soul Poplar trees in the Silent Forest and triggered an alert from the school’s Protection Array that they were discovered.”

”Fortunately, the situation was discovered early, and did not lead to any serious consequences.”

”Even so, this incident shocked the entire wizarding world, including the Wizards’ Alliance and the embassies of other races which immediately took up the investigation... Danghag concluded that this was no longer just a fight driven by the heat of the moment between a few young wizards, but rather, a low-intensity war between different races.”

”Yes, you heard it right. The fight ended up alerting the Wizards’ Court, probably due to the involvement of foreign species. Anyway, as a result of the incident, First University was forced to make a series of rectifications, including improving the monitoring system of the school’s Protection Array; issuing warnings to employees and faculty who had failed in their duties or even dismissing them; and adding a new compulsory course for all students of First University teaching the newly revised school rules... and the school stipulated that only students who scored full marks would be allowed to graduate.”

”All involved international students were expelled... On the other hand, after paying a hefty fine, Alpha Academy reluctantly agreed to their continuing education requests. Even so, all that the involved students ended up with was a study certificate. Not a single person who participated in that fight was allowed to graduate from the university.”

”There are detailed reviews of this incident in both ”Entering First University” and ”First University Yearbook”. Maybe you should read those carefully... then you won’t think I’m just trying to scare you.”