High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2428: Chapter 649: Appointment

Zheng Qingyuan thought that the ’stay’ Old Yao mentioned meant staying in the classroom, but unexpectedly, the professor on the podium waved his sleeves and enveloped the two young wizards. After a dizzying moment, when Zheng Qing came to his senses, the three had already returned to the dean’s office.

In the redwood bookcase, a row of small, shriveled demon heads were whispering to each other secretly. When they noticed the boy’s bewildered gaze, they all snarled and bared their teeth, revealing fierce expressions.

This menacing aura quickly sobered Zheng Qing.

”Professor—”

The pleasant complaints of a witch came from beside him: ”If you intended to bring him back to the office, why did you hand it over to me... it wasted a whole round of time.”

As she spoke, she returned the notebook-like item wrapped in parchment to Old Yao’s desk. At the same time, she glanced back at Zheng Qing with a smile in her eyes: ”Forgot to tell you... congratulations, congratulations~”

Zheng Qing looked puzzled.

The owner of the office behind the desk bit his pipe and chuckled: ”Ah, sorry, sorry... I originally planned to announce this at the regular meeting, but I might have overestimated everyone’s ability to handle it, so I changed my mind last minute... After all, simplicity is the essence of life; too much drama can be hard on the heart...”

As he rambled on with flavorless nonsense, he picked up that notebook, tore off the parchment wrapping, revealing a deep red matte cover. Just by its appearance, it looked very much like the certificates Zheng Qing received in high school.

A certificate of the Merlin Gold Medal?

This was the first thought that flashed in his mind.

Immediately, Old Yao shoved the certificate into Zheng Qing’s hands, patted his shoulder, and encouraged him: ”According to normal procedures, this thing should be issued under the supervision of the Assistant Team at the Professor Joint Meeting... but in times of emergency, flexibility is allowed, right? I can issue it too. After all, I’m still the dean of Jiuyou Academy...”

Zheng Qing was oblivious to the chatter around him, simply staring blankly at the ’certificate’ cover in his hands, his eyes slightly glazed.

The texture of the cover was excellent, smooth yet elastic to the touch, with intricately fine web-like patterns faintly carved on its surface. As his fingertips brushed over it, he felt a very subtle tingling sensation, uncertain if it was a natural effect of the leather or if invisible magic runes were etched into the patterns during its creation.

However, none of this mattered.

At that moment, Zheng Qing’s entire focus was on the two gilded characters at the center of the certificate’s front—

Appointment Letter

This seemed a bit different from what he had imagined.

Old Yao, biting his pipe, arms crossed, stood by the desk looking tolerant, without reproaching the boy for his momentary distraction; Jiang Yu leaned closer to the young man, smilingly urging, ”Quickly open it and take a look...”

Zheng Qing, with a wooden expression, flipped open the appointment letter in his hand—

This is to appoint Zheng Qing (student) as an assistant (concurrent) in the Fu Lu Class at the Edge Academy of First University, enjoying and shouldering the rights and obligations of a formal member of the First University Assistant Corps, for a term of one semester, from February 22, 2010 to June 27, 2010.

——This appointment letter is specially issued as proof

——First University Edge Academy

——February 21, 2010

There were two bright red seals on it, one belonging to the Edge Academy of First University, and the other to the Vice Dean of Edge Academy, Korama De Gini. The white paper was surrounded by light green, wild grass-like patterns, faintly revealing the rotating and rolling trilinear school emblem of First University within.

”Sister Korma is the Vice Dean of Edge Academy now?” He mumbled, his fingers lightly brushing over the grass-like patterns, attempting to start sorting out his chaotic thoughts from parts he could get clear.

But the moment he asked this question, Zheng Qing knew he was talking nonsense.

Perhaps Korma’s qualifications were slightly inadequate, but given her significance to the Northern District Wizard and her tier, taking the position of vice dean at a newly established academy, although not overly qualified, was definitely sufficient.

”One of the Vice Deans.”

Old Yao removed the pipe from his mouth and corrected the boy’s wording, simultaneously explaining in simple terms: ”After all, the academy hasn’t been officially established yet, it’s only in a ’pre-established’ state. The school hasn’t finalized a dean yet... so they’ve just appointed two vice deans to handle daily affairs for now. One is Miss Korma, the other is Professor Montreya, who teaches your Magic Script class... your appointment has their joint recommendation, so it carries a lot of weight!”

He set down the pipe, picked up a teacup from somewhere, blew on the leaves floating on the surface, took a small sip, and then nodded in satisfaction: ”Indeed, tea made from demon flesh tastes more delicious.”

Holding the appointment letter in his hands, Zheng Qing only felt it as heavy as a thousand pounds.

It wasn’t that he lacked the confidence to teach those Northern District wizards Talisman Studies, to be honest, even if the school appointed him as a teaching assistant for Talisman Studies at Jiuyou Academy, he wouldn’t feel the least bit apprehensive.

The problem is that this semester he has nearly thirty classes a week; where does he find the time to be an assistant at Edge Academy!

”Don’t worry about the time.”

Perhaps guessing his concern, Old Yao took another small sip of tea, shook his head, and comforted: ”There won’t be too many students enrolled for pre-courses at Edge Academy, so you just need to set aside one class per week to teach them... I looked at it, and how about the Thursday afternoon class? Others will volunteer, with you serving as the assistant, killing two birds with one stone!”

”You should have told me in advance this afternoon, Professor.” Zheng Qing sighed heavily, his face full of worry.

”I did,” Old Yao set down the teacup, spread his hands, and smiled amiably: ”’A pure funded student or the title of Great Arcana is not enough; it needs to be more specific and richer in content’... That was my original words, wasn’t it?”

Zheng Qing recalled and indeed those were the original words.

But the original words had nothing to do with ’assistant.’

”In any case, you’ve already accepted the appointment letter. On how to prepare and conduct the classes, you can ask Hilda or Thomas when you have time. I remember you get along quite well, right?”

Old Yao rubbed his hands together as he spoke, picking up two more pieces of parchment and two small wooden boxes from the table, before handing them over to the two young wizards. He glanced at Zheng Qing once more, adding: ”Oh, by the way, tomorrow is the first day of your appointment, and Thursday is your first class. Before class, that is, before Thursday, make sure to find time to visit the two deans of Edge Academy to hear if they have any opinions or suggestions on your teaching plan... No time? Then squeeze in time from your lunch break or sleep at night, but don’t misuse this...”

He tapped the small wooden box Zheng Qing received: ”This is your Time Converter, foolproof to use, requiring no powerful magic power or profound spells from you... also there’s the final schedule I confirmed for you all, take a look first.”