Full-Time Magister: The Ruler of Wind and Rain

Immediately, a student couldn't resist the sarcasm and retorted loudly, "We're here for a training program as mages, not on a picnic, and we're not ordinary high school students!"

The response to this high school student was a striking, pale white constellation that appeared prominently in the sky!

An ice-type constellation formed almost instantly! This guy is incredible, even more incredible than Senior Brother Xiao Ding!

"Are you a high school student on a field trip?" The immense mental pressure wasn't focused on the student who had just asked the question, but rather distributed among the 120 students present. Everyone was struggling to resist the mental pressure from the high-level mage, which, objectively speaking, wasn't easy; Wang Yu could already see some people's legs trembling. However, for a freak like him with two mid-level mages, the dispersed mental pressure didn't pose much of a threat.

Instructor Feng Yang on the stage seemed to have noticed Wang Yu as if nothing had happened, but he didn't target him specifically. However, the sharp-eyed Wang Yu noticed that the homeroom teacher, several teachers from Huayao, and a few military mages were pointing at them and making notes in their notebooks from a distance.

Dude, this is some kind of scheme! They have a high-level mage draw a constellation and then hold it back to scare people, while they secretly hide behind the scenes and rate it. What a pair of buddies!

Wang Yu inwardly scoffed at the teachers' and examiners' outdated tactics. Seeing that no one was intimidated by his magic, the head instructor deactivated his zodiac sign and picked up the microphone again:

"Not bad. It seems you are indeed better than the previous groups of students who came for the outing. You know, their teachers asked our post station's military mages to design an absolutely safe route for them. Except for the end point guarded by the military mages, no demons are allowed to appear along the way. They also asked us to send mages to accompany the group to guard them. I think you are not the kind of cowards, are you?"

"no."

"no!"

"It can't be..."

The students responded in a chaotic manner.

"I can't hear you!" Feng Yang pretended to be hard of hearing.

"No!!!" The students finally chorused.

"Very good. Since your teachers and yourselves have enough confidence, I will now introduce the mission of this mage training. In the simplest terms, your mission is to accept a bounty in the Hunter's Hall behind me and complete it! If a team or an individual completes a bounty, the team will be guaranteed a minimum rating of B, and outstanding performers will be given an A or even an S rating at our discretion."

As soon as the words were spoken, the students of Huayao stirred up. They had heard from their seniors that the mage training was just about passing the time at the post station and occasionally standing behind the military mages to cast spells on demons. Wasn't it said that as long as you didn't offend the instructors, you could pass and get an AB grade if you performed well?

Bounty? What the heck?

You should know that, apart from a few abnormal individuals (Wang Yu: smiles without saying a word), most of the bounties in the Hunter's Hall require a mature mage team to complete. Why would you ask a group of students to complete hunter bounty missions?

The old hunters by the square were already grinning. The bounties still hanging in the hunters' hall were usually the kind that were time-consuming, somewhat dangerous, and had little reward. Now that the students were here to do the hard work, if they succeeded, they would help them clean up the garbage commissions; if they failed, they could at least have a good laugh. If they didn't laugh now, when would they?

Besides, can these students really complete the task? It would be a laughing stock if word got out.

After the chaotic scene quieted down a bit, Feng Yang's next words were even more shocking: "But if not a single team completes the bounty mission, then they will all be deemed unqualified and will all receive a D-."

These words completely unsettled the students of Huayao High School: the assessment results of their mage training directly affected their university entrance exams, accounting for 20% of their total score! Although this score might seem small, considering the low weight of academic subjects, the fact that everyone's magical cultivation was stuck at the initial stage (it was unlikely anyone would reach the intermediate stage before the college entrance exam), and the fact that even the top magical students were roughly equal in ability (no significant differences across the three subjects), whether their mage training results were C or A would largely determine whether they could attend a top university, an ordinary magic university, or even have no education at all! Huayao High School's tuition was exorbitant, at least over 100,000 yuan a year. Students who could afford to study there were certainly no mediocre ones. Even the most idle rich kids would strive to inherit more wealth and prove their abilities by attending a better magic university.

"Chief Instructor, you might as well just fail us all!" A student from Huayao's side stood up, unable to bear it any longer.

"Yeah, what's the difference between this and simply disqualifying us all?!"

Hua Yao's teachers were also a little embarrassed. What was going on? Why was this head instructor acting so unpredictably? A bounty? What did those two words have to do with the students?

"If you feel there's anything wrong, you can go back to your principal. If you want to get a high score from me, you'd better be prepared to suffer a lot! Since Huayao is the top high school in Shanghai, don't send a bunch of good-for-nothings here to waste everyone's time. You think you can just coast along and pass the test by hitting wooden stakes? Then you might as well go back to your school and use your laughable magic to throw puppets. My inn may not be very safe, but it absolutely does not welcome useless mages who are afraid to face demons!" Feng Yang's tone gradually became harsher, and the scars on his face made him look even more ferocious and menacing.

"Useless mage?" These words struck a chord deep within all the students.

But Feng Yang also knew the importance of balancing tension and relaxation; after giving someone a blow, he had to offer a sweet treat: "Dear teachers and students of Yaohua, I understand your nervousness about accepting a bounty for the first time, but there's a first time for everything. Besides, you weren't entirely unprepared this time. Many students in the Mingzhu Academy preparatory class have already registered as hunters and participated in actual bounties. Hunters of Mingzhu, show your badges!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Yu, Wu Shulan, and Xie Ze all pulled out their hunter badges. Wang Yu had already advanced to intermediate hunter, while the other two remained at the beginner level. In the preparatory class, more than half of the students had already registered as hunters and gained actual bounty experience. Most of them had joined the Pearl Demon Agency, a large private hunting agency run by the Pearl seniors that always gave preferential treatment to Pearl students. Most of their bounty experience was gained there in teams.

Wang Yu is different. Even without counting the bounties he took with Xiao Ding and Lingling after joining the Qingtian Hunters Agency, he is already a mid-level hunter. That's a very high level of achievement.

Several hunter badges, now imbued with magic and gleaming, were held high, finally giving the high school students of Huayao a sense of purpose.