High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2738: Chapter 959: About the Exam Schedule

"Class dismissed!"

Professor Severus organized the lecture notes on the desk, his gaze wandering around the classroom for a moment before finally landing on Zheng Qing: "...Zheng Qing, don’t be in a rush to leave... hmm, there’s something I need to discuss with you."

"Alright, Professor."

Zheng Qing hesitated, nodding while pretending to hurriedly pack up his textbooks and engraving knife, frantically trying to recall why the professor called his name.

The other students in the class looked at this scene in surprise, whispering among themselves in groups of threes and fours as they walked out of the classroom.

This class was ’Talisman Weapon Making and Maintenance’—compared to big courses like Ancient Magic Arts Study, there was almost no interaction between the students in this class and Zheng Qing, so he didn’t need to hide deliberately in similar courses—this was a Time Conversion class on a Friday for Zheng Qing, but for others, it was just a regular school-wide elective.

Of course, due to the high difficulty of the course, the students were also held to high standards. Professor Severus generally only enrolled third-year and above students with outstanding performance in Talisman Studies or Alchemy, and adopted a small class teaching approach—like in this class, there were only eleven students in total.

It’s rare for a student to be kept by the professor in such a class.

No wonder everyone else was curious.

It wasn’t until the last person left that Zheng Qing dawdled to the podium—even though he still didn’t know why he was kept, he thought it was at most due to not meeting the previous class’s assignment standard, which shouldn’t be a big problem.

Professor Severus looked up.

As soon as their eyes met, Zheng Qing rushed to apologize: "Sorry, Professor, because I had to grade the assignments for the Edge Academy students last week and also complete tasks for the teaching assistant group, so I was a bit tight on time for the post-class homework..."

"Hmm, wait, please wait a moment."

The black-curled professor raised his hand to make a stopping gesture, his eyes possessing a hint of confusion: "What grading assignments, assistant tasks... is there anything wrong with your homework?"

Zheng Qing instinctively felt for the Time Conversion hourglass tucked in his belt, wishing he could jump back a minute in time.

Fortunately, this thought only flashed briefly in his mind.

Sparing him the risk of taking a trip to Danghag.

"I thought you were looking for me..." A trace of embarrassment appeared on the young assistant’s face.

"No, no, I want to talk to you about tomorrow’s exam."

A flash of amusement crossed Professor Severus’s eyes as he waved his hand: "I believe you have received the school’s notification. I am one of the invigilators for the ’Authorized Symbol Bomb Maker’ exam tomorrow morning..."

"You are the invigilator?" Zheng Qing felt a mix of surprise and joy.

"One of them."

Professor Severus had to repeat the most important word he had just said and then emphasized: "Don’t expect me to be able to help you in the exam, in fact, because this exam involves high-risk work fields, the Alliance will dispatch Trident Sword representatives as examiners to invigilate together with us."

Zheng Qing vaguely remembered Su Shijun mentioning this possibility, so he wasn’t surprised, just a little bit disappointed that the professor explicitly stated he wouldn’t go easy on them.

"—And the reason I’m looking for you is about the arrangement of the exam hall and exam time." After a series of preludes, Professor Severus finally got to the main point: "The Exam Committee noticed a conflict between your exam time and class time... you have classes tomorrow morning, right?"

"Two classes."

Zheng Qing was troubled by this matter and quickly added: "One session of Laws and Regulations Nine Chapters, one session of Decrees Study... can I apply for exam postponement? What materials do I need to prepare?"

After receiving the exam notification last night, he noticed the time conflict and had originally planned to visit Old Yao’s office after the morning classes, only to be intercepted earlier by the invigilator.

"You have two classes tomorrow morning?"

"Yes, Decrees Study needs to be compensated with Time Conversion for insufficient time." The boy quickly replied.

The professor tapped his fingers slowly on the desk, looked up at the ceiling: "—If I remember correctly, this class of yours was also Time Conversion?"

"Yes, Professor."

Zheng Qing replied honestly.

Professor Severus nodded slightly: "Since you have such an advantage, I suggest you apply to the School Works Committee for an additional Time Conversion opportunity tomorrow morning, that way you can complete the exam without affecting your coursework."

"Wouldn’t that be really dangerous?" Zheng Qing was now particularly sensitive to risk.

If an additional Time Conversion was done tomorrow morning, it would mean three Zheng Qings were ’active’ in different places on the same timeline. No amount of magical theory was needed to understand, the common logic could tell him how dangerous this was.

"It only sounds a bit dangerous."

Professor Severus smiled: "This isn’t any more dangerous than practicing Transformation Techniques in class, or observing stars at Astronomical Tower. At the school, the Protect Legal Formation will sort out all incorrect times, and if your application is approved, the related trajectory is very fixed, so the risk isn’t as big as imagined... Overall, I suggest you first submit an application to the School Works Committee, and if they don’t authorize it, we can then consider the possibility of a postponed makeup exam."

The phrase ’then consider’ said a lot.

Zheng Qing suspected Professor Severus had already divined the result—or there had been similar cases in the past—otherwise, he wouldn’t have arranged such a tight timeframe.

But on the other hand, he doubted the probability of a successful application for increasing Time Conversion opportunities.

Because his current ’security’ level was relatively high, much like now, because of the Time Conversion, the school needed to simultaneously dispatch two Guard Squads to execute security tasks near the two Zheng Qings (compared to a single squad accompanying Zheng Qing’s timeline adjustment, arranging guards outside Zheng Qing’s timeline was the most efficient and cost-effective).

If he were to spin the hourglass again, then the school would need to deploy more personnel, even if calculated at the minimum scale of three-person Guard Squads, it would require the simultaneous dispatch of nine elite wizards to execute the task, but attention would also need to be paid to avoid the possibility of these wizards interfering with the abnormal timeline.

Despite all these thoughts flashing through his mind, faced with Professor Severus’s encouraging gaze, the boy ultimately showed no dissent: "—Okay, Professor."

"Hmm."

Satisfied, the professor nodded, just about to leave when he suddenly stopped and looked back at the boy: "By the way, do you know Jiang Qianli?"

Jiang Qianli?

The school had two Jiang Qianlis, one was a professor in Alchemy, and the other was a professor in Sociology—especially the latter Jiang Qianli professor, who was also Jiang Yu’s graduation thesis advisor—unsure of which one he meant.

But it didn’t matter which one, they were both Jiang Yu’s elders.

The boy hesitated for a few seconds, vaguely: "Uh, he’s an elder of a friend, but I’ve never met him—"

"Just a friend’s elder?"

Professor Severus seemed surprised by this answer: "Originally he was the ’Authorized Symbol Bomb Maker’ exam invigilator, but during qualification review, he was determined to need to implement special relationship avoidance policies... anyway, you don’t need to worry too much about tomorrow’s exam, just do your best."

Zheng Qing nodded obediently.

Though he also wasn’t sure if he had any special relationship with that Professor Jiang.