Versatile Mage: Thunderstorm

Chapter 97 Special Extracurricular Tasks

Time moves forward two hours.

Mingzhu main campus, Fire College, Demon Class.

The demon teacher on the podium was speaking eloquently and non-stop about the demon tribes surrounding the Demon City. With his passionate emotions and vivid descriptions, even the school leaders would come and praise him.

However, the atmosphere among the students below was lifeless. It couldn't be said to be chaotic, but it could be described as careless.

"Classmates, let's take a look at this pale jellyfish..."

"Ok?"

As he spoke, the teacher's voice on the podium became lower and lower, the expression on his face became uglier and uglier, and his fierce eyes scanned the lifeless students in the classroom through the lenses.

Ding Yumian, who was taking notes, was keenly aware of the teacher's emotional changes. Although she did not listen to the class seriously and was just studying and improving herself, this was the good thing about the psychic mage: she was extremely sensitive to emotional changes. She knew what was happening just by looking at the teacher's face and movements.

"Xingli, stop squinting."

Ding Yumian was quietly fiddling with her best friend who was half asleep.

"What are you doing, Yumian? I just finished the position change match yesterday and I'm tired today."

Huang Xingli was obviously in a dazed state, and perhaps her only respect for the class was to talk in a mumble.

"Hurry up and get up..."

Ding Yumian was still making his final effort, and the teacher also gave him a powerful assist at this time.

"Student Ding Yumian, don't waste your time worrying. Since my class is so boring, let student Huang Xingli have a good rest. She was really exhausted from yesterday's competition."

"teacher!"

The teacher's remarks, which were almost like calling out her name, woke Huang Xingli up from her half-asleep state. Her mind became clear and she subconsciously stood up and apologized.

Looking at her best friend who was trembling like a frightened little animal, Ding Yumian could only shake her head helplessly. She had tried her best.

The demon class teacher said that he had received Huang Xingli's apology, but did not say anything. He glanced at the students in the class. After this incident, everyone perked up, as the lesson from the past was still fresh in their minds!
The teacher's expression softened a little.

"I understand that the challenge week just ended yesterday. Many students have been busy with the competition and it is difficult for them to recover their energy in a short period of time. Therefore, it is understandable that they cannot concentrate in class."

Many students secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but their joy did not last long. Suddenly, the teacher's expression changed.
"but!"

"It's understandable, but it doesn't mean you have the right to do this!"

"It's twelve o'clock noon now, and there's still half an hour left before the morning class ends. You slept for an hour and a half in the two-hour demon class. Is this how you take my class?"

"The difficulty of Mr. Mi's magic circle in the previous class was much higher than my demon class, but I didn't see you guys being so presumptuous! Fortunately, Director Wei praised our Fire Academy students for being hardworking and studious."

"Okay, okay, is this how you guys work hard for me? Do you think my course is too difficult and unworthy of being a student at your Mingzhu main campus?"

"..."

Hundreds of students from the Fire Academy in the classroom shrank their heads like quails, listening obediently to the scolding of the demon teacher. Then they saw the fighting power of the usually gentle and polite demon teacher.

As expected of an instructor who started at an advanced level, he taught everyone for half an hour straight, still with quick wit and clear logic. He spoke in standard words throughout, and every word was like a gem, leaving all the students speechless.

"Bell~"

The bell for the end of get out of class rang, and all the students looked as if they had been pardoned. This time it should be over, right?
It is indeed gone. The demon teacher directly gave everyone a big one.

"Since you look down on this course, let me, a useless teacher, take a look at the demeanor of the students from the Fire Academy."

"I will give you one month. Within one month, no matter what means you use, you must form teams of no more than three people. Each team must submit to me at least a complete report on hunting demons.

The content of the report includes but is not limited to the type, characteristics, living habits of the monsters you hunted, and the hunting and tracking methods you adopted, plus a battle report. It is best if the report is accompanied by a battle video or picture. The monster’s strength is at least a small general..."

"Teacher, do you want us to hunt demons ourselves?"

Before the demon class teacher finished speaking, a student asked in surprise.

"That's right. Any questions?" The demon teacher was not angry when he was interrupted, but answered the question calmly.

"But the students we have just entered the main campus are not strong enough, right?"

The student did not say anything about not wanting to fight the monsters. They were all young and energetic geniuses. If he said that, he would probably be dragged out and punished for the next four years and would not be able to hold his head up in the academy.

However, there are limitations due to objective conditions. Most of the students who have just entered the campus are mid-level mages. They cast mid-level magic as slowly as an old lady taking a walk. They will die eight times in front of generals and demons.

Those with less strength can't even perform mid-level magic. Even if they form a team, three such mid-level wizards are just a small dish in front of the war generals and demons.

The teacher of the demon class obviously just wanted to curb the students' laziness and had no intention of making things difficult for them. He gave a corresponding response to this question:
"I said that at most every three of you can give me one report, which does not mean that you can only have three people." "Everyone can form a team, recruit external aid from other academies, or even hire hunters to help. There is no limit to the means. As long as I can see that you play an important role in the monster hunting process, whether it is intelligence gathering, tracking or fighting."

"If you don't have these..."

The demon class teacher glanced at everyone with an unfriendly look and sneered.
"Then you can get out of Mingzhu Academy."

"Understand?"

The sudden outburst of the demon class teacher obviously gave a great shock to the students. After asking this question, they immediately received a neat and loud response.

"understand!"

"very good."

Looking at this obviously different spirit, the demon class teacher was also very satisfied with the effect of this sudden idea. He had the big stick, and he also had to give the sweet dates.

"Of course, since this is an assessment arranged by me, I will also give you some rewards from private funds outside the academy."

"Each group will pass the final exam if they submit a report on hunting one type of demon. If the group passes, you will get 10 extra points. For each additional type, you will get 10 extra points."

Seeing the gradually brightening eyes of the students who were much higher than him in the classroom, the demon teacher smiled secretly in his heart and directly raised the atmosphere to the maximum.

"If there is a team that can hunt fifteen or more types of war generals and demons within a month..."

"I will personally fund and reward any spiritual seed you want. You can choose any type. If you don't want it, you can also choose to cash it out. It's 25 million in cash.

If more than one group achieves this feat, the one with the greater number and strength of monsters wins."

"boom!"

"it is good!"

The deafening cheers almost blew the roof off. Amid the excited and admiring eyes of the students, the demon class teacher left the room and began a heated discussion.

Spiritual seeds! Those are spiritual seeds! Most of the hundreds of students in the Fire Academy don't have them. How precious!

It was actually treated as a reward for an extracurricular assignment.

……

At lunch time, Huang Xingli was stirring her chopsticks with a worried look on her face. Ding Yumian thought that Huang Xingli was still feeling bad about being singled out as an example, so she consoled her:

"Okay, don't be sad, you just had bad luck and got called out by the teacher."

“I’m not upset about this.”

Huang Xingli bit her chopsticks hard. Is she such a person? It's impossible to know.

"I was thinking about the spirit seed. Spirit seed, spirit seed, don't you want it? How many resources can you buy with 25 million!"

Hearing about the spirit seed, Ding Yumian perked up again, then smiled and shook his head.

"It's useless to think about it. Our current strength is far inferior to that of our predecessors."

Huang Xingli, needless to say, is at the second intermediate level of Fire Element, and is stuck at the third elementary level of Earth Element. Ding Yumian's only strengths are in the Mind Element and the Fire Element, both at the second intermediate level. Although their combined strength is not bad, it is limited to completing tasks and giving them extra points in their final exams.

Compared with the old hands in the Fire Academy, his skills are far behind.

"Yeah, I just heard a few seniors ranked in the top 50 discussing forming a team in the classroom. How are we rookies going to survive?"

"Let's think about where to find an easy target and complete the task quickly."

"Oh, I hate going out into the wild. It's so troublesome."

"Yu Mian, do you think we should hire a hunter to lead the way?"

"hunter?"

Ding Yumian's eyes lit up.

……

"Ah? Let me take you to hunt demons?"

Li Yu's eyes were clear and confused.

(End of this chapter)