High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 1985: Chapter 206: Hunting Party Schedule

The official schedule for the school hunting competition was only formally distributed to each class monitor after the fifth week’s schedule had just ended—meaning Friday evening.

If by chance a class monitor happens to be somewhat lazy, they might delay it by another two days, notifying those classmates interested in participating in the hunting competition during the Sunday evening class meeting.

By comparison, the Absolution Hunting Team was quite fortunate.

Since Absolution happened to have a hunter who was the monitor of Astronomy Class 08-1, the relevant notice was immediately sent via a paper crane to room 403, appearing in front of the Hunting Team Leader.

At the time, Zheng Qing had just finished dinner and was tidying up his books in the dormitory, preparing to go to the library to kill two hours and strive to complete more of his curse studies homework before the team’s night training session.

The paper crane flew in through the window, nearly getting swatted to the ground by Tuan Tuan who was out for a walk.

”Fat Man, control this Fat Cat!”

Feeling quite helpless as he caught the slanted paper crane, he said, ”Tell it not to catch paper cranes randomly; what if there’s a statement from the Wizard United Bank inside?”

The Wizard United Bank is where many merchants in Beta Town open their public accounts. Compared with Sam’s Pass or Gringotts, the United Bank is particularly favored by merchants because it issues the First University campus card.

”This is not something you should tell me.”

Xin Fat Man leaned crookedly on the bed, holding a copy of Denise Alvarado’s ”Voodoo Doll Magic and Rituals” with a toothpick in his mouth, not looking up: ”That big guy has never listened to me... you, though, aren’t you handling a large group of cats? You should have a way to deal with it.”

Fatty Cat sneered, flicked its tail, and knocked a bottle of magical essential oil placed on the edge of the desk to the ground, with a crisp sound.

Fat Man finally raised his eyelids, glanced at Zheng Qing, and said lazily, ”See what I mean!”

As he spoke, he had already swiftly extracted a law book with a speed contrary to his sluggish voice, casting a ’Revert to Origin’. The spell light flashed and the spilled magical essential oil flowed back into the bottle, the shattered glass bottle returning from the floor to the desk.

But this time, he carefully placed the bottle farther inward, away from the Fat Cat.

Zheng Qing sighed slightly, giving up discussing dormitory etiquette with Fat Man or the Fat Cat, and lowered his head to open the paper crane. The familiar handwriting on the unfolded letter paper slightly improved the warlock’s mood.

A second later, he raised an eyebrow.

”The schedule for the school hunting competition is out.” He informed the other two roommates: ”It says, from midnight on October 3rd to midnight on October 9th...”

”Wait!” Fat Man tossed aside the voodoo magic book in his hand, shouting: ”We will see it ourselves, don’t read it! Reading it out loud makes the schedule unlucky!”

Zheng Qing stopped as Jian Ruiliu advised but couldn’t help but retort: ”What’s unlucky about it.”

”It means reading out the schedule easily leads to deadlines or overdue situations,” Xiao Xiao explained simply while packing up his notebook and moved closer: ”This is a rare phenomenon in mysticism, lacking strong magical theoretical support... I personally tend to think it is psychological suggestion, not a real magical phenomenon.”

Chatting with the Doctor is just that dull.

He always manages to deconstruct interesting topics with unheard-of magical theories, turning the conversation dry and tedious.

While spreading the schedule on the desk, Zheng Qing silently complained about the Doctor’s explanation, at the same time wondering whether this short guy chats the same way when with Sima.

Imagining Doctor Xiao pushing his glasses earnestly under the moon, analyzing the twenty-three common uses of rose essential oil with Sima, the young student couldn’t help but laugh.

”I always feel you’re thinking of some disrespectful things.” The Doctor sharply glanced at Zheng Qing.

”I just remembered something happy.” Zheng Qing answered dryly, unable to help laughing again looking at Xiao Xiao’s honest face.

This time, even the Fat Cat on the table couldn’t help but glance at the young student.

Fat Man was also curious: ”What are you laughing at?”

”There’s a cat pregnant on the Cat Fruit Tree.” Zheng Qing blurted out, but immediately sensing a risk, he quickly corrected: ”Hmm, its pregnancy has nothing to do with me...”

The Fat Cat on the desk laughed until it shook.

Zheng Qing’s expression immediately fell, he tapped the letter paper on the desk to interrupt the Fat Cat’s snickering: ”You two hurry and look, then we must quickly decide the selection for the first task...”

Despite some institutional reform, this year’s school hunting competition schedule still roughly resembles previous years, with the opening ceremony still slated for mid-month, October 16th, a Friday.

However, unlike previous years, this year’s opening ceremony is followed not by a novice competition or a hunting meeting, but directly by the formal hunting competition; correspondingly, the hunting team selection and an ’Qualifier Competition’ similar to previous preliminary rounds are arranged before the opening ceremony.

From midnight on October 3rd to midnight on October 9th, seven days conducting hunting team selection, registered teams need to complete the ’selection task’ required by the Hunting Committee; completing the task entitles them to a status similar to obtaining a school hunting competition entry in previous years.

From midnight on October 10th to midnight on October 15th, six days conducting ’Qualifier Competition’, teams completing the qualifying tasks correspond to teams entering the main hunting meeting in previous years.

Overall, the new hunting competition system expands the preliminary scope, theoretically attracting more students to join the school hunting competition, making the Academy Cup more lively.

But whether development will follow student council’s expectations, everything is still unknown.

Therefore, this notice prudently states at the end ’The organization and interpretation rights for this hunting competition belong to the First University Student Council, Club Union, Hunting Committee’s joint council, assisted by First University’s Professor Joint Meeting and School Works Committee’.

”It’s such a situation.”

Zheng Qing surveyed around, looking at Xiao Xiao, then Xin, supplementing: ”...We now only need to consider how to complete the first selection task.”

The notification letter already informed the content of the selection task.

The Hunting Committee’s first task for the school hunting competition—or rather the pre-task—is neither having students write their team’s name on a parchment slip and throw it into a blazing flame cup nor hundreds of teams battling in a vast hunting ground until a few teams remain. Nor is it a competition from lineage to knowledge reserve in the exam room.

But to find a teacher.

Yes.

The first task of the school hunting competition is to find and obtain recognition from a mentor—any formally registered teacher in the school can be chosen, including lecturers, assistant professors, professors, even deans, and presidents.

Of course, teaching assistants are excluded.