Monster Hunting High School

January 1st, New Year's Day.

Friday.

Sunny, breezy and cloudless.

It is appropriate to break ground, plant, and install a gate;

Taboo: getting married, praying for blessings, and digging wells.

The reason why the old almanac is called "old" is because many of its taboos are out of touch with the times. Just like digging a well, in the agricultural society hundreds of years ago, one well may be of great significance to several villages. If the well is dug incorrectly, the earth's energy will be imbalanced and the feng shui of villages and towns will be affected. It will disturb the yin and yang and attract spirits.

But now, with the continuous refinement of the Wizards Alliance's management system, there are very few spirits causing trouble in the outside world. The intersection between Bai Ding and the wizards is getting smaller and smaller, and many of the taboos of the old Huangli have become more and more outdated.

After finishing his morning class, Zheng Qing walked towards the teaching building with his mind full of random thoughts. He walked to Linzhong Lake and saw the meat buns held by a wizard passing by. He smelled the fragrance and then I realized it later.

"Where's Fatty Xin?" He tilted his head and looked at Xiao Xiao, with a puzzled look on his face.

Usually after the two of them finished their morning classes, the fat wizard would buy breakfast and wait next to Feiyuan to go to class together. Today, he walked around for a while and didn't even notice that breakfast was gone.

Dr. Xiao glanced at him silently and raised the croissant in his hand.

"I got the divination last night, and there is no breakfast today."

The short wizard spoke in a calm tone, sounding very unsatisfied: "But you also know that things related to you often fail to calculate... so I don't know where your breakfast is."

The young public-funded student came to the classroom with a glimmer of hope, but was disappointed to see the lonely figure of Zhang Jixin in the corner of the back row.

"Where's the fat man?"

Zheng Qing raised his hand and snapped his fingers in front of the red-faced wizard.

Bang, bang!

"Huh? Fat?"

Zhang Jixin looked confused and turned to look at Zheng Qing with a somewhat hollow look in his eyes: "Pangdahai, also known as Dadongguo, is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and sticky when chewed. It can cure fire, acne, and all types of fever, fatigue, and vomiting." Blood in the nose, disinfection and heat removal, occasional red eyes, toothache due to wind and fire, insect accumulation in food, leaky hemorrhoids, dry cough without phlegm, bone steaming internal heat, triple burner fire syndrome..."

Obviously, he didn't hear what the young public-funded student was saying at all.

Zheng Qing rolled his eyes in his heart.

Zhang Jixin always looks like this before every major exam. Don't expect him to return to normal in a short time.

Today is Friday, the morning is a session of alchemy.

Similar to other classes this week, Professor Tesla's teaching assistant also gave everyone full freedom and did not even call names. Therefore, after nearly half an hour of class, Fatty Xin hurried to the classroom. The teaching assistant behind the podium did not even criticize, but just waved and let him in easily.

"What did you do?"

Zheng Qing was already very hungry and was only interested in Fatty's whereabouts. In his mind, this seemed to be the first time Xin was late for class.

"Waiting in the editorial office for a while." The fat wizard had a look of dismay on his face, but soon, a trace of satisfaction appeared on his face, and he took out a crumpled parchment from his arms: "I bet that we are the first ones One of the students who knows..."

"What do you know?" Zheng Qing hated people playing riddles.

The fat man looked hurt.

"Am I the only one who cares about this? What's the date today?" He tried to awaken the dusty memories of his companions: "Think about this time last year..."

Zheng Qing couldn't bear to listen to his ramblings and snatched the parchment.

There is only the simple word "Magic Wand" on the top of the paper, and the lines below are scrawled, as if they were written by ghosts. Zheng Qing doubted that no one except the copyist could recognize them.

"The list of major and minor arcana in the latest issue of "Magic Wand"!"

The fat man had lost all his initial energy, but he still kept his spirits up and muttered: "It stands to reason that this list will not be released until noon, and everyone will know it in the afternoon or later, but you also know that I am here Having stayed in the editorial board of the school newspaper for so long, you are not someone with no connections at all..."

"What does "Magic Wand" have to do with your school newspaper?" Zheng Qing had already realized what the fat man was doing, and at the same time threw the crumpled parchment back: "...Also, everything written on it is What the hell!”

Every January 1st is the day when "Magic Wand" updates the Arcana List. This is a list that is very influential in the entire league. The students who can be on the Little Arcana List are the leaders and elites of each college. , and the wizards who can ascend to the Major Arcana are almost all in high positions - except Zheng Qing.

Last year, "Magic Wand" defied the world and placed a certain first-year freshman on the list of the Major Arcana who had no outstanding hunting record, low magic power, weak background, and was almost unknown in the league. It caused an uproar in the public opinion for a while, and both "The Magic Wand" and Zheng Qing were under great pressure for a time.

Of course, over the past year, as the young public-funded student shot Soprano, entered the Dreamland, participated in the Battle of Black Prison, and performed well in several hunts, the voices of the outside world questioning him have become smaller and smaller, especially recently. When Zheng Qing's other identity, that of Su Shijun's spouse, was exposed, no one questioned whether he was qualified to serve as the 'world'.

For this reason, Zheng Qing was not that concerned about this list.

After all, he had too much to worry about.

"The school newspaper is a strategic partner of "Magic Wand". Every year, Magic Wand authorizes the school newspaper to reprint this list." Fatty Xin took the parchment, smoothed the wrinkles on it, and sighed slightly sadly.

Xiao Xiao looked away from the alchemy handout, pushed up his glasses, and leaned forward: "So... is there anything new in this year's list? You looked very excited just now."

Zheng Qing glanced sideways at the doctor.

After hearing the doctor's consultation, Fatty Xin suddenly regained his energy.

“There’s not much new to it either.”

He tried to show a sense of understatement, moved his chubby fingers on the 'ghost symbols', lowered his voice slightly, and broke the news quickly: "Brother Zha is still the 'world' of the Major Arcana, and Senator Su is still the 'moon' '...There haven't been many changes in the Major Arcana, but because of the departure of Vice Principal Shi, the priestess is temporarily vacant..."

"Is the list still empty?" Zheng Qing finally became interested.

"It's rare, but it's not unheard of in history." The fat wizard looked a little more serious. It was obvious that talking about high-level wizards gave him a lot of psychological pressure: "Everyone knows that although Professor Emma became the vice-principal, , but she is not a legend after all... Although Professor Yao has advanced to become a legend, he certainly cannot serve as a 'priestess'."

Listening to this analysis, Zheng Qing inexplicably pictured Old Yao in women's clothing, and couldn't help but chuckle.