High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 840: Chapter 188 Target

”At the center of every storm, there is an eye.”

”Giant waves driven by fierce winds, covering the sky and earth with their majestic might, yet they always revolve around this core. Correspondingly, the eye of the storm is the calmest area of all.”

”And now, we find ourselves in the midst of a storm.”

Amber crouched in a corner with his hands folded in his sleeves, muttering to himself in a soft voice.

His voice was so low that even Andrew Taylor sitting beside him had to strain his ears to catch what he was saying. The young master of the Taylor family dug his thick, short fingers into his ears, leaning forward, trying to get his ears even closer.

”What did you just say? Something about a storm, something about calm?” His voice was a bit loud, causing other people in the shop to look over.

Amber silently glanced at his captain but made no sound.

After the misunderstanding was cleared, Commissioner Andrew of Trident Sword did not stay long and quickly bade farewell. The guests from the hunting party of the Ouroboros were, however, bustling with excitement, eagerly touring the small shop owned by the Absolution group.

Andrew headed straight to the warehouse in the back of the shop, saying he wanted to chat with the Fishman, while Julian asked Xiao Xiao about the procedures and processes needed to open a store, appearing quite interested in doing a bit of business on the Pedestrian Street. Then there was Omega, chasing the cats around the store like a monkey – catching, releasing, recatching, re-releasing – causing a pack of cats to dash wildly after him, alarming the mice in their cages into a panicked squealing frenzy.

Only the Diviner Amber, with his calm nature, quietly chose a corner and sat there, idly playing with his Divination Tokens.

Zheng Qing, while manning the counter, couldn’t help but glance several times at the man in the yellow robe. Because the corner Amber chose was precisely where the Rat Kings had previously made their burrow - although with the temporary departure of those mice, the deep burrow had also disappeared, this did not mean Zheng Qing could ignore that corner.

The choice of the Diviner only made him more certain of this.

The young public student thought to himself that the Diviner must know something. However, he did not approach to ask directly. After all, in his experience, Diviners were people who liked to speak in riddles and enigmas; asking them directly would definitely not yield any satisfactory answers.

Moreover, after the scent of the Fishman inside and outside the shop had slowly dissipated, the originally sparse flow of customers began to pick up again. He still had business to attend to.

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Duke Milton Karen was the third son of the legendary clan leader of the Karen Family, John Hugh Karen, and was not yet three hundred years old. In the Vampire world, he belonged to the type brimming with potential and at the prime of life.

Of course, in the eyes of Duke Milton, he preferred adjectives used by the newspapers when reporting on him, such as ”promising and charming.”

Especially the words ”charming and dashing.”

An elegant and refined demeanor, unbound by worldly conventions, only such an image was worthy of the wizard world’s foremost beauty.

Yes, he fancied Su Shijun.

In the Wizard World, Duke Milton Karen’s admiration for Su Shijun was well-known. Although the first time he saw her, she was but a girl in her early teens, and he was already a two-hundred-year-old uncle, but what did that matter?

For wizards, time is the most precious yet the least valuable of commodities—especially for the Long-Lived Kind such as vampires and zombies, time seems to serve no other purpose than to make them even more bored.

The age gap can surely be bridged by love!

In his desire to interact more with Su Shijun of the Qingqiu Su Family, Milton Karen even went against his own wishes and accepted his family’s title of duke; upon hearing that Su Shijun had become a member of the Moon Council’s Upper House, he took a bottle of vintage beauty blood nicknamed ’Orleans Girl’ from his private gold stash and traded with his second brother for a seat in the Upper House.

All to be a little closer to her.

As for the gifts for major anniversaries and regular gestures of goodwill, his blood servants took care of those diligently without need for detail.

However, all his efforts shattered with the spread of one piece of news, piercing the heart of the young vampire—Su Shijun had a child.

This news was even more despairing than learning of Su Shijun achieving the status of Big Wizard.

After all, becoming a Big Wizard is just a process, and he would eventually become one too; it was just a matter of time. But a child? Whether it was pregnancy before marriage or a discreet wedding, it meant that the distance between Su Shijun and him was growing further and further apart, slowly becoming unreachable.

When he heard this news, Milton was at the highest point of Mount Alps engaged in a gentleman’s duel with the wolf pup from the Tabbot family—though he didn’t consider the uncouth big dog to be a gentleman—and the day before the duel, he found a clump of beautiful Seven-color pansy at the foot of the mountains, which he thought for a moment was a good omen.

Good omens, duels, Upper House membership, dukes, and so on, all became a joke with the spread of that news.

As a well-mannered gentleman, Milton would certainly not display any behavior that would tarnish the image of the Moon-under nobility. He continued to attend Upper House meetings as usual, to join hunting parties as usual, and to dine with friends from the circle as usual.

But in private, the young vampire spent all his gold from his private stash in one night just to buy a piece of information—who was that damned man, and where was he now?!

Eventually, a message came from the newly emergent Dark Council, indicating that his target might very well be a cost student named Zheng Qing from the first year at First University.

Duke His Excellency was somewhat surprised, but even more so, disappointed.

He became increasingly eager to meet this damned fellow.

However, this was no easy task.

As one of the three cores of the Wizard World, First University was enveloped in a massive Protective Array most of the time, with ordinary students only allowed to leave the isle once during the summer and winter breaks, while the rest of the time they were strictly protected within that enormous barrier.

Those outside of the school who wished to enter this Protective Array needed to obtain an invitation issued by the school.

For the Karen’s family, which held a seat in the Upper House of the Moon Council, obtaining an invitation was a trivial matter. For Milton, who had the status of an Upper House Member, the only obstacle was how he could sneak into First University without being tracked by the frenzied media or fixed within the sights of certain individuals.

In addition, when that cost student would leave the school was also a very crucial factor.