High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 782: Chapter 130 Time’s Up_1

With the help of the elves, Zheng Qing finally completed the seemingly impossible task -- retrieving Xin Fat Man’s storage watch from the paws of Fatty Cat.

”These elves were so helpful!” Xin Fat Man expressed his gratitude tearfully and effusively: ”They must be rewarded! We can’t forget the contributions.....”

”But they created as much chaos as that fat cat!” Dylan, with a crucible of boiling blood in his hands, dug half-coagulated blood clots from the pot with a small copper spoon, eating them slurpingly like jelly, while angrily protesting: ”Look what they’ve done to my precious virgin blood! If they could talk, I would argue with them good and hard!”

”This is the first time I heard about men having virgin blood.” Clearly displeased with Dylan’s words against the elves, Xin Fat Man quickly stood up for them, his protectors, and mockingly retorted to the werewolf’s remarks.

”Is that what I meant?” Dylan’s eyes widened, revealing his two sharp little fangs in the corner of his mouth, giving Xin Fat Man an intimidating look.

”That’s what you meant, who knows...” Xin Fat Man snapped his strange eyes and defiantly hugged his arms across his chest, then raised his chin, and a touch of blue tinged across his face.

”Ah, stop quarrelling, everyone stop.” Zheng Qing rubbed his forehead in annoyance. He sighed at the tense atmosphere between the two sides. The elves that had just made a great contribution were sitting on the young public fee student’s shoulders and head with their semi-transparent wings wrapped around their bodies. They were watching the wizards compete with their wide, shiny black eyes, with the expressions of watching a play - Zheng Qing felt as if all they were missing was a bucket of popcorn and two cans of happy water for a fat house.

”Indeed, their inability to speak is a big flaw, but it’s a trait of all elves, we can’t help it.” Zheng Qing ended up siding with neither Xin Fat Man nor Dylan in their argument but picked an irrelevant point from their conversation and commented blandly.

”We can think of a way!” Xin Fat Man immediately became a little annoyed, raised his eyebrows, and said: ”In this world where even ghosts can speak and dried fish can walk on land, it shouldn’t be too hard to make some alchemy products for the elves to communicate.”

”Are all things in the world difficult or easy? If you do it, then even tough tasks become easy, if you don’t, then even easy ones become difficult!”

The last sentence of Xin Fat Man gave a serious vibe. Everyone felt the motivation and dedication in his words weren’t something that the lazy fat man would normally say.

Perhaps only Xiao Xiao didn’t seem to care about the resolution made by Xin Fat Man.

”Instead of wasting your time on whether the elves can speak or not, you should focus on more important issues.” As Xiao Xiao carefully wiped the copper teapot in front of him with a piece of white fine cloth, he asked leisurely: ”By the way, the medicine you concocted for them from Doctor Du Zemu, how long will it last for them?”

He put down his work with great seriousness when he finished his question, looking straight at the young public fee student, Zheng Qing with a grave expression.

Zheng Qing froze in place upon hearing this -- because Xiao Xiao brought up the most critical issue.

This was one of the issues that the young public fee student least wanted to face.

A few months ago, because he accidentally solved the ’Sand Hourworm disaster’ that once caused panic on campus, the young public fee student was rewarded with some Sand Hour royal jelly by the school. Sand Hour royal jelly, a magical potion with amazing time effects, has been used in sophisticated wizarding concoctions and has never been used on elves before.

Of course, its miraculous effect corresponds to its precious use.

Using it as the main ingredient, the potion took the dying elves from the clutches of death, negating their inherent flaws, and allowing them to live in the absence of a ’life potion’.

But this effect is temporary.

According to Doctor Du Zemu’s guess, after about three months, the effect of these potions will wear off. At that time, if Zheng Qing cannot find new Sand Hour royal jelly or other magical potions with similar effects, the elves will still face death.

”Three months.” Zheng Qing answered in a low voice.

”Three months.” Xiao Xiao paused for a moment, sighed lightly, cruelly revealing the truth that Zheng Qing was trying to forget: ”If I remember correctly, the Sand Hourworm incident happened at the end of September... it was less than a month after we started classes.”

”Today is December 13th.”

”If you calculate according to the strict time limit given by Doctor Du Zemu, by the end of December, which is the end of this month, you will reach the end of the three-month limit.”

”In other words, you have less than two weeks to prepare a new potion for the elves... are you ready?”

Zheng Qing silently shook his head without saying a word.

Although he posted a request to buy Sand Hour royal jelly on the black market of the Wandering Bar three months ago, whether it was because the price he offered was too low, or because this magical ingredient is very rare, no one had contacted Zheng Qing through the Wandering Wizard in nearly three months.

Originally, he had always been using various busy excuses to escape this fact, but when the time comes, he suddenly realized that there was nowhere to escape, and sticking your head in the sand like an ostrich does nothing to solve the problem.

”Maybe we can try another approach?” Xin Fat Man also seemed to have just realized this problem. Looking shocked, he moved his gaze between Zheng Qing and Xiao Xiao, while trying to find a new solution:

”I remember the elves, they are alchemical creatures... maybe we can ask the senior researchers at the university to help modify them?”

”Ignorant talk,” Xiao Xiao looked at Xin Fat Man with disdain and explained, ”Modifying life forms is not within the research scope of registered wizards! Do you know what the hallmark of advanced wizards is? It’s to create a new species.....and life-modification is the prerequisite for advancement.”

”Only wizards who master life modification have a greater grasp on advancing to higher realms.”

”Because surpassing the realm of a great wizard involves self-life evolution... and only by gaining a certain understanding of life can this be achieved.”

At that point, all wizards in the dormitory fell silent.

”Hehe, hehe.”

The elves, however, seemed oblivious to the fact that the young wizards were discussing a matter related to them. They flit around the wizards in mid-air, chirping cheerfully like songbirds, looking very joyful.