High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 1950: Chapter 171: The Return Journey

Seven jade coins.

Equivalent to seventy gold beans, four hundred and twenty silver horns, eight thousand four hundred copper coins.

You can buy three hundred and fifty fragrant, juicy roasted chickens at the school cafeteria, get two hundred and ten standard bottles of Green Bee at the Yota restaurant on the pedestrian street, exchange for seventy standard Calm Heart Talismans through formal channels, or buy a decent amulet at the Wandering underground trading market — like a Peach Charm made from Thunderstruck Wood.

From any perspective, for an ordinary wizard, seven jade coins are already considered a decent income. You know, as a scholarship for cost students, there are only ten jade coins a year.

Especially when these seven jade coins are like an unexpected windfall that comes mishap by chance.

This sense of satisfaction becomes even stronger.

”I was just worried about where to get the money to buy the Bo Fu Clan’s blood essence.” On the way back, Zheng Qing said happily to his companions, ”I didn’t expect when I wanted to sleep, a pillow was delivered.”

The Bo Fu Battle Formation, also known as the Giant formation, is the most widely used and commonly known Second Rank battle formation in the wizarding world, having the advantages of simple array diagram and convenient casting. Especially, the Bo Fu Clan’s blood essence needed for quickly deploying the battle formation is easier to obtain compared to blood essence of high-level magical creatures like house fire pig or Ji water leopard, making it more friendly for hunting teams initially mastering the Second Rank battle formation.

Zheng Qing had already decided that the first Second Rank battle formation that the Absolution Hunting Team would master would be the Bo Fu formation.

”Is the hunting team’s funding very tight?” Zhang Ji Xin curiously asked, ”Do we need to pay some team fees... or, can’t we move a little from the D&K’s account?”

”No!”

Xiao Xiao glanced at him sharply, ”The store’s money is very limited, the inventory and accounts receivable are big holes, it’s already good enough to maintain the hunting team’s normal operation, don’t hit its idea randomly!”

”Paying team fees is not realistic either,” Xin Fat Man muttered quietly, ”my own pocket money is not enough... I needed a small tuft of white poodle hair to make lucky magic oil a few days ago, I couldn’t bear to buy it, so I asked Tuan Tuan to go to the Pet Garden to get some.”

”No wonder, I always felt that your bottle of magic oil was a bit off in color.” Xiao Xiao suddenly realized, adjusted his glasses, and glanced at the Fat Cat dozing atop the Fat Wizard’s head, ”Normally, lucky magic oil should be a sunlit gold color, but your bottle is more brownish... did Tuan Tuan mistakenly pluck the hair of that pug in the Pet Garden? I suggest you not use it, the danger of misconfigured potions doesn’t need me to emphasize to you.”

The Fat Cat immediately lifted its eyelids, glaring maliciously at the short warlock.

Xin Fat Man uneasily touched his watch and muttered, ”Not likely, shouldn’t be... the difference between a poodle and a pug is quite obvious, Tuan Tuan should be able to tell.”

His response was the prolonged and deliberate purr of the Fat Cat, which immediately darkened the Fat Wizard’s face.

Zheng Qing didn’t originally mind his companions’ digression into idle chatter; on the contrary, he was happy that others were focusing on trivial matters, allowing him to walk side by side with Jiang Yu, quietly enjoying the nighttime tranquility.

But the Fat Man’s low mood immediately made the warlock sensitively aware of a problem.

”Did you apply your ’lucky magic oil’ when you came out today?” The captain of the Absolution Hunting Team interrupted the Fat Wizard’s melancholy and asked out loud.

Everyone turned to look at Xin in unison.

The Fat Man was stunned for a few seconds, touched his cheek, and mumbled, ”Uh... seems like a bit?”

A sound of realization echoed around.

”That’s the reason for our bad luck today.” Dylan confidently blamed the Fat Man: ”Daring to go out after applying the incorrectly mixed lucky magic oil? You’re really brave!”

”Don’t blame me for this, who told Doctor not to say it earlier...” The Fat Man hurriedly defended himself.

Meanwhile, not far ahead, came a soft cry from the Blue Bird scouting ahead: ”Who!”

Zheng Qing didn’t need to say a word.

The other six hunters of the Absolution Hunting Team immediately halted their idle chatter and unfolded a Solomon’s Battle Formation. This was a composite battle formation made by embedding a positive triangular battle formation with an inverted triangular battle formation, also known as the Hexagram formation, with strengths in both defense and offense, but difficulty in mobility.

A light red magical envelope rapidly rose, and an invisible detection magic fluctuation spread in all directions. Located in the main position of the battle formation, Zheng Qing easily identified the presence of Blue Bird ahead, and next to Blue Bird, there were two unfamiliar presences.

”Biyue Feiwei!”

Jiang Yu flipped open her law book, and dozens of slender mushroom people jumped out of her book, scattering around, the sunlight they emitted illuminating a large expanse of forest.

The next moment, Blue Bird appeared in front of the rest of the Absolution Hunting Team, accompanied by two wizards in black robes.

”Solomon’s Battle Formation?” A tall, thin figure looked at the young wizards with interest, nodded, then shook his head, ”Speed isn’t bad... but if we wanted to ambush you, you wouldn’t be able to stop us with this formation alone.”

Hearing this familiar voice, Zheng Qing raised an eyebrow involuntarily.

”Hilda?” he asked in surprise.

”It’s Mr. Hilda, or Assistant Hilda.” The tall, thin warlock sounded quite displeased, ”You can’t just treat me as non-existent because you got full marks on a practical class... where’s your courtesy?”

”Sorry, Mr. Hilda, why are you here?” Zheng Qing corrected himself immediately, compliant as ever. Meanwhile, not only did the Absolution Hunting Team’s formation not dissolve, but it also closed in more cautiously, and the magical envelope enveloping the formation grew even thicker.

”That’s what I should ask you.” Hilda sneered at the young wizards’ caution and asked in return, ”Why aren’t you staying in your dorm at night, and instead, running around?”

”Hunting team training, this is an approved permit document from the School Works Committee and the School Hunting Committee.” A piece of parchment flew out from Xiao Xiao’s arms, drifting to the wizard in the black robe.

The assistant examined it briefly, lowering his head.

It was his companion, another unfamiliar black-robed figure, who cautiously cast several detection spells on the parchment to ensure its authenticity and prevent any traps on it.

”Hope you achieve as good results as last year.” The assistant gave a perfunctory blessing, rolled the parchment, and tossed it back to Xiao Xiao, while looking at Zheng Qing, ”During tonight’s training, did you encounter any strange people or... things?”

Zheng Qing immediately thought of the mutated Getrassi.

Without him having to say anything, the talkative Xin Fat Man animatedly recounted their various encounters that evening in detail. Of course, for the sake of ’morality,’ he omitted Andrew and the Fishmen’s small business venture.