High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2821: Chapter 1042: Hunting Target

After becoming a qualified test subject, the first target was the Ancient Leather Giant.

This surprised Zheng Qing, but upon further reflection, it seemed natural.

This type of monster is born in Dreamland, naturally worships the Evil God, and is undoubtedly a pollutant in the Wizard World. Last year, during the Battle of the Black Prison, Nikita led an army of monsters from Dreamland to harass the area near the First University. At that time, the Ancient Leather Giants were the main land force of the monsters.

Zheng Qing suspected that the target he hunted today was likely one of the batch that arrived on Buji Island last year. However, whether it was captured by the school and released today for test subjects to hunt, or it escaped the initial cleanup, was unknown.

Of course, more importantly, the Ancient Leather Giants generally stand around twenty feet tall, just over six meters — in contrast, the test subject controlled by Zheng Qing stood well over seven meters tall — and the combat power of Ancient Leather Giants ranks in the lower tiers among giants, posing a formidable challenge for ordinary registered wizards, but not enough for elite registered wizards.

Having them as the first battle’s prey was just right for those who had yet to become fully familiar with manipulating the test subject.

As these thoughts flickered in his mind.

The edge number seven slowly straightened its body; the surrounding Resurrection Poplar Forest, several meters high, turned into shrubbery that could only reach chest height, and the small mountains in the distance turned into low mounds. Looking into the distance, the view turned into a dark green sea rolling under the breeze and moonlight, as he waded through the shallow river in front, setting off through the Green Sea toward the direction where the prey was located.

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”——Are you even listening to me?”

The green Big Fox frowned, squinting its eyes; four big tails swayed dangerously behind her, like seaweed drifting at the bottom of the sea.

The Black Gem Cat retracted its thoughts, lifted a paw to scratch its head, and very honestly replied, ”Sorry, no.”

The fox widened her eyes in surprise.

”That is so rude!” She seemed to have never encountered such an answer and didn’t know how to react for a moment.

The Black Gem Cat looked up and glanced at the tall Cat Fruit Tree beside them, twitching its ears.

”Courtesy? Courtesy is a human concept, and we are not human.”

It cunningly yet clearly separated a few concepts and then analyzed seriously, ”——The Cat Fruit Tree itself is a place where names and human courtesy are forgotten... The troubles of people are theirs, and the Cat Tree belongs to cats, nothing more.”

Clap!

A big fluffy tail lashed over the Big Fox’s shoulder, accurately hitting the Black Gem Cat on the head, causing it to stagger.

”Don’t joke around here!”

She kept a stern face, her tone somewhat unfriendly: ”Graduation season is coming up in more than a month, and you dare to daydream while reviewing your coursework?! Look at Student Jiang Yu’s study attitude! Stop lying there pretending to be dead, get up, and continue!”

The Black Gem Cat shook its whiskers, sighed, and promptly got up.

Although Su Shijun spared it the trouble of researching its graduation thesis at the Greenhill Mansion, she arranged for her fox avatar to supervise its coursework review!

Can you imagine? In the dark of night, a fox tutoring two cats! And still, in the presence of a group of other cats watching! Just thinking about it made it feel undignified.

It turned into a cat to rest!

As a human, it needed to study nonstop, and even as a cat, it had to study nonstop; wasn’t it a waste to turn into a cat then?

Even so, the Black Gem Cat only dared to mutter in its heart, outwardly still obediently following the Big Fox’s teachings.

”You answer the previous question.” The green Big Fox turned to look at the White Jade Cat on the other side.

The Black Gem Cat quickly perked up its ears.

The White Jade Cat sat upright on the ground, its tail neatly wrapped around its paws, and fluently answered, ”The magic power intensity of light is positively correlated with its origin nature. Classical magic theory holds that the source origins of artificial light and animal light are fragile, while the source origin of sunlight is extremely strong. This is why sunlight and moonlight possess powerful magic; sunlight can eliminate many impure moon creatures, while moonlight can nourish moon creatures. In contrast, glow, candlelight, ghost flames, etc., lack such magic. Similar examples include the great entities in the deeps of the Starry Sky compared to an ordinary wizard; the former has a strong source origin, so even though they are extremely far from us, the faint traces they send can still pollute many lives; the latter, even standing in front of the spell’s recipient, can only barely exert shallow influence using numerous methods... from a dimensional theory perspective, these belong to the dimensional difference of higher dimensions over lower dimensions...”

Clap!

The fluffy fox tail whipped through the air again, sending the Black Gem Cat tumbling.

”Why are you daydreaming again?” The green Big Fox couldn’t hide the anger in her tone.

Even the White Jade Cat was displeased, giving him a glance.

The Black Gem Cat frustratedly flicked its tail.

”——I’m a bit worried about my other body.” It finally didn’t conceal its concern, sharing the news it received earlier this evening with the fox and the White Cat: ”Zhang Yu took him to participate in that qualified test subject assessment, which is said to be safe, but I still feel uneasy, always feeling like he’ll cause trouble.”

”Qualified... assessment?” The White Jade Cat seemed puzzled, clearly hearing the term for the first time.

However, the Big Fox, her gaze suddenly deepened: ”Qualified? You? How could they arrange for you to enter this project? You’re not those Northern District Wizards!”

”Is there any danger in this project?” The Black Gem Cat keenly detected the fluctuation in the Big Fox’s tone.

To this, the Big Fox was uncommonly silent for a few seconds.

”I’ll discuss this with Old Yao.” She abruptly shifted the topic, raising her tail like a teaching rod, whipping through the air with a whooshing sound: ”——Now, your task is to study hard; answer Grushkov’s discourse on time and space in Magic Universe Study for me!”

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Crunch!

A sharp tail sting pierced deeply into the thick banyan tree trunk, then the muscles on the tail abruptly exerted force, pulling the edge number seven, who was standing diagonally to the banyan tree, skyward, floating like a kite into the air.

Bang!

The Ancient Leather Giant, charging towards it like a tank, couldn’t stop in time and crashed heavily into the limestone hill. Basin-sized rock chunks fell like raindrops, and the dull thud of them hitting the ground echoed far in the quiet Silent Forest.

Seizing the opportunity while the monster was dazed from the collision.

Zheng Qing decisively withdrew the tail sting and descended from the sky, landing accurately on the back of the Ancient Leather Giant, using both hands and feet to lock the giant’s limbs. Then, the tail, like a spring-loaded long spear, continuously pierced different vital parts of its body. In the blink of an eye, the brutal monster was turned into a blood gourd.