196: Chapter 120 The Staring Eyes_1 196: Chapter 120 The Staring Eyes_1 Ti ebbs away, second by second.
The colossal fireball in the sky leisurely emits its heat, enveloping the entire Green Valley in a languid atmosphere.
The assistant who went to seek help from Madam Bella has yet to return after a long while.
The line-up of new students on the lawn gradually loosens its ranks, with students clustering together in small groups for chit-chat and amusent, completely forgetting the warning given by their practice class teacher just a while ago.
Of course, the degree of looseness varies between different academies.
The freshn from Ninth-Grade Astronomy Class 08-1 at Jiuyou Academy are engaging in irregular Brownian motion under the enthusiastic sunshine, everyone improvising and running around spontaneously.
There are bursts of warm applause and cheers from the crowd.
Even Headmaster Tang is disoriented, surrounded by a group of girls, ignoring his responsibility completely.
In contrast, the Alpha Academy’s line-up appears much more orderly.
Their freshn are divided into obvious cliques based on their bloodline, family status, and varying talents.
Each clique is an isolated island with no interaction between them.
Within each clique, they maintain a dignified smile, scrutinizing their surrounding with detached looks, and whispering to one another.
If they were to hold wine goblets in their hands, they wouldn’t be out of place even at Duke Milton’s gala dinner.
Andrew wondered with a smirk whether they remain in such a manner even when going to the restroom.
He stood at the edge of the Alpha freshn lineup, a bitter smile on his face as he speculated about his classmates.
Although he inwardly disdains them, within his clique centered around him, Andrew nevertheless maintained the sa atmosphere as the main group.
It was a matter of principle.
The gentlen of Alpha can never be as uncultured as the bookworms at Jiuyou.
Suddenly, Julian leans over to the young master of the Taylor family and whispers, “Do you know that bookworm?”
“Which bookworm?” As Andrew was enjoying other people boasting, he turned his head irritably towards the line-up from Jiuyou Academy upon hearing this and complained in a low voice, “There’s a whole bunch of bookworms over there.”
At Alpha Academy, ‘bookworm’ is a term exclusively referring to students from Jiuyou Academy.
Just as the people from Jiuyou Academy would often call the people from Alpha ‘hypocrites’, this is a deeply-rooted prejudice between the two academies.
No one could stop the students from mocking each other in private.
“Short hair, a unique clump of hair on the top of his head, bright eyes, average height, wearing an Eight Trigrams button on the sleeve.” Julian provided a brief description, “He’s standing in the front row of the Jiuyou lineup, currently chatting with a gypsy witch with wavy hair.”
“Just stating the last condition is extrely obvious,” a male student beside them was clearly fed up with Julian’s fuss, “There’s no need to use your limited vocabulary to describe soone else’s appearance.”
“But that guy does have bright eyes,” another person in their small circle disagreed, shaking his head “The vampire princeling does have keen eyes.”
The friends gave the nickna of ‘vampire princeling’ to the carpenter’s son, Julian, who accepted it gladly.
Whether it’s ‘vampire’ or ‘princeling’, both have already lost their connection with him.
To hear such a title occasionally in daily life already satisfied him greatly.
“There are also two sturdy guys standing behind that bookworm, right.” Andrew squinted at that sowhat weak figure, his eyes filled with doubt, “Who is he?
He seems a bit familiar.”
“Zheng Qing,” Julian’s face lit up with joy, “His na is Zheng Qing, and he is a scholarship student from Jiuyou Academy this year.”
“I’ve heard that na!” soone in the circle imdiately spoke up, “Apparently, he was on the airliner hijacked by Nikita in the first university incident and single-handedly resisted the magic of that female demon.”
“Also,” soone else added, “I heard from so of the seniors at the student council that Zheng Qing prevented a crazed pig demon in the Great Ming Pavilion at the Four Seasons Pavilion before he enrolled.
He reportedly used a Thunder Curse to directly slay the pig demon.”
“Not struck down, but shocked to death,” another corrected, “Anyway, the pig demon fell into his hands.
Even my uncle, who works at the Trident Sword, knows the na of this freshman.
There’s a rumor that the Wizard Council is going to award him a rlin dal.”
In their small circle, several newcors recounted what they knew about the freshman from Jiuyou.
“I rember now.” Andrew rubbed his magical ring and, squinting, slowly recounted, “I heard that he ca down from Kunlun Mountain, specializes in talismans, and scored the highest possible marks in the practice test of the Talisman class, giving quite a shock to that instructor surnad Zhang.”
Surprised, Julian’s eyes practically popped out of his head as he clucked in admiration.
Obviously, he hadn’t heard this rumor.
But he knew that even for the arrogant aristocrats of Alpha Academy, to be able to awe a teacher at the First University as a freshman was quite an accomplishnt.
“Why do you ntion him to ?” Andrew returned to reality, looking seriously at Julian, “It seems you don’t know him that well…
could it be that you want to introduce that gypsy witch to you?”
He didn’t deliberately lower his voice, offering a knowing smile to several others who overheard his words.
Julian’s pale cheeks flushed.
He rapidly shook his head.
“I heard that there was a spat between Sir Sepulano and this scholarship student, and due to Sir Sepulano’s status, he found it inconvenient to trouble him.” The carpenter’s son edged closer to Andrew and whispered, “I think, if you want to visit Sir Sepulano, this would be a good opportunity.”
Andrew hadn’t hidden his plans from his group of friends.
And so, every mber of this small team was on the lookout for a chance to establish a connection with another big shot from Alpha Academy.
“Good opportunity.” The young master from the Taylor family stroked his chin, repeating the words of Julian and nodding pertinently.
“Moreover, as far as I know, the relationship between this scholarship student and Sir Friedman isn’t very cordial either,” another of the gang expressed, glee etched onto his face, “We had a little disagreent with Sir Friedman a few days ago; perhaps this is a chance to make it up.”
A wild enthusiasm ca over the students as they all chid in agreent.
“This kid really is a troublemaker!” Andrew cracked his knuckles, the dazzling array of magic rings on his fingers glinting in the sunlight, a smile of interest lit his face.
“I’m becoming increasingly eager to et him.”
In the formation of students from Jiuyou.
Zheng Qing was completely oblivious to the probing gazes directed at him from a not-so-distant place.
Right now, his mouth was slightly ajar as he concentrated fully on the dainty, smiling face before him, his mind racing.
A few minutes ago, Elena bypassed the bustling crowd, walked straight up to him, and revisited the idea she ntioned in the bar.
The beautiful witch intended to start learning about talismans as soon as possible.
Therefore, Zheng Qing needed to confirm his free ti schedule as soon as possible.
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