1035: Chapter 97: The Redness at the Bottom of the Eyes 1035: Chapter 97: The Redness at the Bottom of the Eyes Professor Montreya of the First University is an expert in the study of advanced magic scripts and bloodline research, having his own independent laboratory at the Institute of Applied Magic.
He is also a mber of the Mage Alliance Conference, although it has been said that he has not attended etings for a long ti due to his attempts to break through the rank of a Big Wizard.
Although Zheng Qing was not clear about Professor Montreya’s full na—as it was a common practice among university professors, except for those confident big-shots, to only reveal part of their nas—he had known the professor for quite so ti.
The first and only encounter with Professor Montreya had happened just over a month after Zheng Qing had started his studies.
That night, Zheng Qing and Lin Guo were on a night patrol, wandering through the corridors and discussing the asurent of ti when they were suddenly blocked by a demon-converted Kappa.
Fortunately, that Kappa Monster was rather weak and did not cause any serious consequences.
As a mber of the investigation team for the incident, Professor Montreya appeared at the lakeside of Bell Lake alongside Professor Yi.
That was the first ti Zheng Qing had seen the professor, and he had even had the fortune to exchange a few words with him.
The most lasting impression Zheng Qing had of Professor Montreya, besides his high cheekbones and gray hair, was his sharp eyes and sowhat husky voice.
Also morable was his excited deanor when he talked about bloodline modification in demons.
Latter, at the end of the Moon Hunting competition for newcors, Professor Yao had suggested Zheng Qing consult with Professor Montreya due to a certain Big Black Cat and Zheng Qing’s abnormal attraction to demons.
However, on one hand, due to the complexity of the latter half of the sester and the inconvenience for Zheng Qing to ask Su Shi Jun to write him a recomndation letter; on the other, as Professor Montreya was ultimately a professor from Alpha Academy and his research involved the sensitive topic of bloodlines, his reputation in places like the Wandering Bar and other wizard circles was not good, so Zheng Qing feared that going to his laboratory might land him on an experintal table.
Thus, things were delayed first for a couple of months, then for three, and before he knew it, almost half a year had passed.
It was not until recently, when his encounter with demons during the Black Tide incident in North Beita Town raised concern again, that he truly felt alard and realized the gravity of the situation.
It just so happened that during the winter break, he was staying at the Greenhill Mansion, so he found the ti to ask Su Daxu to help him write the recomndation letter.
This was before the start of the new term.
After school resud, Zheng Qing delivered the letter through proper channels to Professor Montreya’s office.
Then, there was no response for over a week.
Just a couple of days ago, Zheng Qing was still privately contemplating whether to take so ti to visit Greenhill Mansion again and have Su Daxu inquire about the matter.
Unexpectedly, he soon received a reply from the professor.
The reply was brief, just a single line long, but unlike other professors’ fancy calligraphy, Professor Montreya’s handwriting was extrely neat, almost as if it had been printed with movable type:
“Saturday, one o’clock in the afternoon, co to Montreya Laboratory, to serve as an intern assistant.
(Professor’s signature)”
Although there was no subject and the sentence was overly concise, the content was clear.
After reading it, Zheng Qing breathed a sigh of relief—at least it was an assistant position in a laboratory; he hoped that would an he wouldn’t end up on an experintal table, right?
“What do you need Professor Montreya for?” Elena’s face lost so of its embarrassnt and annoyance as her curiosity bubbled up again after she crumpled the note.
“I rember his reputation isn’t very good outside…
many warlocks say that he’s conducting human experints.”
As the words ‘human experintation’ were uttered, Zheng Qing couldn’t help but think back to the newspaper he had read before yesterday’s Sunday class eting, and felt gloomy at heart.
“The reason rumors remain rumors is that no one can prove their truthfulness,” the young sponsored student attempted to smile more relaxedly, tugging at the corner of his mouth: “It just so happens, I can visit his laboratory and see for myself, then I’ll tell you what that laboratory is really like.”
The Gypsy witch chuckled in response, but there was still so hesitation on her face.
Zheng Qing blinked and comforted her, “No matter what, I am a public-funded student of the school, and also a recipient of the rlin dal…
Professor Montreya is a formal professor at the school too, so it’s not likely he would drag to the experint table upon eting.”
Putting it that way, it indeed seed that both of them were worrying unnecessarily.
Elena couldn’t help but laugh as well.
“Oh, I almost forgot, you are also the Great Arcana ‘World’ of the wand,” the witch said as she smoothed out the Tarot Cards in her hand, glancing at the young warlock with a teasing tone in her voice.
Zheng Qing couldn’t help but show a wry smile.
“Actually, I’m here to see Professor Montreya for a serious matter,” he said, pulling down the skin under his eyes to reveal the redness in the bottom of his eyes, indicating, “See, my eyes are a bit red again…
and it’s definitely not from staying up late.”
Elena stared for a long while before exclaiming in a delayed realization, “Your eyes are turning red again?”
Zheng Qing pursed his lips, showing a helpless expression.
Last ti he and Elena had a date at the Lakeside of Bell Lake, his eyes turned into a rabbit-like appearance due to the mysterious pressure emanating from the Lake Heart Tower.
And now it was happening again.
But because his eyes would frequently show signs of bloodshot, everyone had beco much more accepting of the redness in his eyes.
Therefore, even when his eyes showed redness at the bottom again today in class, it didn’t cause his classmates to gather around or react with alarm.
“When did it happen?
I rember your eyes were fine during the class eting yesterday,” the witch looked at him with so concern.
Hearing Elena’s question, Zheng Qing felt a warm feeling in his heart and a strange emotion filling his chest, sothing akin to courage.
“It was last night, I saw two moons in the sky.
When I got up this morning and looked in the mirror, I realized my eyes were a bit off.”
His answer was not entirely fabricated, but rather crafted with ChunQiu style of writing.
Yesterday evening, Satoguya stared down upon this sky with its large eyes, searching for the murderer who had killed its offspring, only to be exploded by a streak of cyan light.
But even during those few seconds of its appearance, it gave Zheng Qing imnse ntal pressure.
When he went back to wash up in the evening, he noticed so redness at the bottom of his eyes.
It was worse this morning.
However, unlike before, this ti the ‘Red Eye Disease’ was not ‘acute,’ it had turned ‘chronic,’ and the redness at the bottom of his eyes appeared much slower.
Additionally, since Satoguya’s invasion was erased from the world line by so big shot in the wizard world, almost no one at the school rembered the event, so Zheng Qing used so vague descriptions when recounting it.
If Elena still rembered what happened in the sky last night, then his explanation wouldn’t pose any problems; if Elena had forgotten, that wasn’t an issue either, as Zheng Qing knew how to steer the conversation back.
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