High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2653: Chapter 874: Thoughts Inspired by the Roster

To enroll, you need to establish a student record and be filed.

Which means you need a name.

Even someone with a ’clean’ background like Ding Dang and Ding Dong from the Ears Brother took on these names upon enrollment for the academy to register, let alone the few Great Elves with more complicated backgrounds.

Su Shijun was willing to take on these troubles, for which Zheng Qing was very grateful.

However, the names she gave them made his scalp tingle, and for a moment, he didn’t know what expression to make—abruptly, the half-crying, half-laughing face from the TV series ”Legend of Jigong” he watched as a child surfaced in his mind, and he felt that his current expression probably wasn’t much better than that old monk.

Korma’s expression was also somewhat subtle upon hearing these three names.

”Is that so?”

She asked Zheng Qing again, perhaps to prove she wasn’t trying to stir things up, she specifically explained: ”I originally thought these Great Elves were products from Su Councilor’s lab.”

Zheng Qing didn’t believe this was the first time she knew he had a group of Sprites.

She was feigning ignorance!

The young assistant managed a weak smile, nodding slightly, vaguely admitting: ”These names... sound nice, I think everyone will like them.”

When it came to playing dumb, no one present could match him.

”So then...”

The vice-principal of Edge Academy did not further embarrass him, smiled slightly, and conveniently pulled out a roster, spreading it in front of ’Zheng Suyi’, indicating: ”Here, be good and sign here... If you don’t know how to write, drawing a circle works too.”

The Great Elf who was being led turned back again, looking eagerly at Zheng Qing.

The circle needed to be drawn.

Zheng Qing obediently took the feather pen, demonstrated for the Great Elf, watched as their auras fell on the roster one after another, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Before coming, he only thought of finding a temporary place for these great and small elves, but did not expect them to become students of the First University. During more than a year on Buji Island, he had deeply realized the influence of this university; every year, many young wizards in the Alliance try to find ways to enter this university but find no way, while these three Great Elves, who had just been ’born’ not long ago, muddle-headedly got recorded into the roster of the First University, which indeed counted as an unexpected joy.

Moreover, becoming students of the First University would also be very helpful for the subsequent identity recognition of these Great Elves — perhaps the elder wizards from the Alliance or Danghag might have many opinions or even conduct strict investigations on the opportunities of a few lucky ones, but they couldn’t ignore the rightful interests of students from the First University.

Of course, Edge Academy is currently just in its initial founding stage, not even officially established, but everyone knows it will become the fifth college of the First University.

In just a few weeks, there has been more than one news story about those trying to ’lower themselves to mix into the edge group,’ which has truly opened people’s eyes.

”Is this the roster from the First University?”

Feeling suddenly much more relaxed, Zheng Qing’s attention was drawn to the roster in Korma’s hands, and he asked curiously: ”I heard that the roster at the school would directly show the names of those admitted... Can it still be manually filled in?”

He vaguely saw the Zheng’s three sisters above Ding’s two brothers, but couldn’t see more names.

”This is just a supplementary one.”

Korma didn’t give the boy more chances to snoop, closed the roster, patted its cover, and seriously explained: ”The final admission rules for Edge Academy are still being deliberated, and every race and kind of wizard recorded now will serve as a reference standard for future admissions... Spells are a collection of rules, not a collection of consciousness; you always have to show it an example for it to know the running logic.”

Zheng Qing took a while to understand the last sentence.

Although Korma was talking about that roster — the roster’s self-admission function stemmed from a spell, and the consciousness it exhibited was actually just a realized admission rule — but after hearing this sentence, Zheng Qing couldn’t help but think of the Forbidden Curse seedling in his body, thinking of its running logic, thinking of its potential influence on himself.

This kind of worry is not without basis.

Mages fall often because they are influenced by the running rules of evil spells, doing unforgivable things.

Wizards can influence magic effects (for instance, a powerful wizard using ordinary magic still exerts strong power), correspondingly, powerful magic also exerts recoil on wizards.

Zheng Qing didn’t want to become the embodiment of ’Order’.

He wanted to be himself.

——’So is that why I often make choices that do not conform to Order?’

This wasn’t the first time this thought flashed through his mind, but whenever it did, it always inexplicably generated a peculiar sacred feeling of ’self-rescue’ from the deepest part of his consciousness, allowing him to further realize the subtlety and mystery of magic.

Magic is averse to random thoughts.

Zheng Qing closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and tried to discard those messy thoughts, leaving only the ideas related to these great and small elves in front of him.

The good news is that according to Korma, newly born Great Elves will also have the opportunity to be directly listed on Edge Academy’s roster in the future.

The bad news is that these few Great Elves will appear in his class next week.

This was the bad news Korma gave Zheng Qing before she left.

The North District Grand-Wizard who got signatures on the roster didn’t stay long at Greenhill Mansion; before leaving, this vice-principal of Edge Academy cheerfully informed the guardian about the enrollment time for the Great Elves: ”If you have no other arrangements, they can enter Edge Academy for classes next week... It’s all pre-courses, regardless of pace, but enrolling as soon as possible will help them adapt better to this world... It’s very important for them.”

Korma’s last judgment was accurate, and it was immediately validated.

When Zheng Qing left these great and small elves and tried to leave Greenhill Mansion, barely stepping over the fence of Greenhill Mansion, the Great Elves had already built a beautiful little wooden bridge over the stream beyond the fence for him. With arms akimbo, they looked at him proudly, seemingly expecting praise from the warlock.

This made Zheng Qing both headache and gratified.

He had to bring them back to the mansion again, repeatedly instructing them to obediently listen to Su Shijun, not to follow him, and not to return to dormitory 403 — racking his brains, like a professional contractor, he devised very complex and detailed rules for these elves to ensure they could temporarily stay at Greenhill Mansion.

Whether it was the Sprites or the Great Elves, they felt confused and fearful of Zheng Qing’s ’new rules’. They found it difficult to overcome their instinctual choices but could not refuse commands from Zheng Qing.

Zheng Qing had to flee, overwhelmed by the tearful environment large and small.