Capítulo 2049: Chapter 270: The Middleman
The assignnts Belfinger handed to the black cat weren’t difficult; as long as one diligently reviewed the textbook and reference materials, they could answer them. However, the process and answers were overly intricate, rely exercising the students’ patience without improving their magic abilities in the slightest.
Just like that question on drawing a star map.
These days, a standard star map drawn by a magical feather pen is sold at Green Grocery for five copper coins a large sheet. If it’s a specified star domain, you only need to pay an additional five copper coins, and the shopkeeper will thoughtfully add a soft edge to the star map—note that at the Yota restaurant in Beta Town, a small roast chicken sells for twenty-four copper coins, skin and bones included.
Besides the old scholars of First University, no one was using a brass telescope and feather pen, bending over parchnt, and tracing the varied bright stars in the sky anymore.
Many students speculated privately that the reason the school retained such ancient and outdated learning thods was partly due to the inertia of tradition. On the other hand, it was also to drain the energy of young wizards with these detailed and complicated assignnts, to prevent them from having too much free ti to cause trouble around campus.
But these were not reasons for the black cat to help with the assignnts.
Looking at the parchnt filled with a dense mass of topics, the black cat almost waved its palm-sized paw to slap at the bird-headed mask in front of it—how could it finish other people’s assignnts when it couldn’t even finish its own?
This bird brain is dreaming of peaches!
Only the fist-sized gold, shimring under the moonlight, barely suppressed the black cat’s anger and prevented it from jumping up impulsively.
“I can’t even finish my own assignnts.” The black cat coldly rejected.
Belfinger touched the long bird beak on the mask, looked down at the parchnt, calculated quickly with his fingers, and finally tossed down a small piece of gold: “There’s no more, these assignnts are only worth this much gold… I’m very sincere.”
The black cat felt its pride being challenged, angrily raising its tail.
The Sin Bearer in the white mask quickly intervened: “With the school holding the hunting contest recently, everyone’s ti is tight… How about this, both parties compromise a bit, Belfinger gives more ti, and our examinee shouldn’t give up all the previous effort over this small difficulty.”
The black cat silently rolled its eyes, wishing to tell this guy it hadn’t actually put in much effort before.
Belfinger, however, hesitated for a mont and then nodded slightly: “Then extend it another week; the assignnts must be submitted by Saturday the following week.”
The black cat twitched its ears, chuckled, and was about to refuse when suddenly a revelation ca to mind, flashing through several thoughts.
“How do I know if this isn’t part of the examination?”
It skillfully displayed the cunning of a cat: “… Facing the test of the ‘Lazy One,’ the correct answer should be ‘I’m too lazy to help you write’ right?”
Bang!
“Absolutely correct!”
The wizard in the bird-head mask snapped his fingers, gleefully concluded: “Answer completely correct… rlin Above, you’re smarter than any cat I’ve seen… Congratulations, you’ve passed my examination!”
The black cat flicked its tail in surprise.
This was not what it had expected.
“However!”
Belfinger slightly increased his tone, squatted in front of the black cat, played with the two pieces of gold on the ground, his voice full of temptation: “The tasks represented by these pieces of gold are not false… If you wish… these pieces of gold can still be yours.”
“Ahem.”
The wizard with the white mask softly coughed, interrupting: “Just to confirm, tonight’s examination has indeed concluded… My candidate has passed your examination, correct?”
“No doubt!” Belfinger affird unequivocally.
The Sin Bearer shrugged, donned his hood: “In that case… there’s nothing more for here… I wish you a pleasant transaction.”
Before the words finished, he had already transford into a scattering of light fragnts, disappearing into the deep night.
The black cat glanced at the still-settling light fragnts, then at the pieces of gold shining even more than them, and finally looked at the bird man squatting beside.
“Deal.”
It raised its paw and pressed onto the two pieces of gold, agreeing hoarsely: “Since you’re so sincere… Coincidentally, due to the school’s hunting contest, there are fewer tasks in the lab… I can take this opportunity to reinforce so of the magic knowledge from when I was in school.”
Bang!
Belfinger raised his hand and high-fived the black cat to seal the deal, nodding with satisfaction: “It’s a win-win night… By the way, a friendly reminder, when impersonating a researcher next ti, be sure not to contradict what you said before.”
With that, he adjusted the sharp beak on his mask—as old-school wizards adjust the brim of their pointed hats—then leapt away, disappearing swiftly among the lush tree shadows.
The black cat blinked and stood stunned for quite a while.
After carefully reflecting on the previous conversation, it finally realized its mistake—that a researcher shouldn’t have unfinished assignnts.
Of course, this slight misstep didn’t impact the black cat’s gains tonight.
It felt it had gained far more than those two pieces of gold.
Only a pity, this smug thought was ruthlessly shattered early the next morning by Doctor Xiao.
“This isn’t a single person’s assignnt.”
Doctor Xiao carefully examined the parchnt and gave his opinion: “It includes extracurricular problems from four-year Magic Universe Study, first-year Modern History of Magic content, and our second-year Magic Potion class howork… Don’t you recognize the words White Dew? We just learned last month!”
Last month?
Stuffed full of all sorts of chaotic matters every day—especially with the school’s hunting contest this month—Zheng Qing felt last month was already a lifeti ago.
“So, there’s no way to identify the issuer through these assignnts?” The young cost students seed a bit dejected.
“Everyone’s possible.” The doctor replied tactfully, anwhile curiously shaking the parchnt: “Where did you find this?”
“A very old bulletin board near the Cat Fruit Tree,” Zheng Qing said vaguely, stealing a glance at the short warlock: “These assignnts, the other party is willing to pay twenty gold beans…”
“Truly extravagant.” The Diviner of Absolution comnted like this: “These topics, with a little effort, don’t even require checking materials; a bit of extracurricular ti can accomplish them.”
That’s easy for you not needing to check materials, the young cost student grumbled inwardly.
“Probably a ragtag hunting team needs ti for training, so they pooled funds to have soone else do the assignnts.” Zheng Qing vaguely guessed, then looked expectantly at Xiao Xiao: “… How about I pass this task to you?”
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