Several more days passed.
The sealed Outer Courtyard had no overlap whatsoever with the freely accessible Main Castle.
Naturally, the senior students of the four Houses breathed a sigh of relief.
It was rather interesting, really.
The younger students of the Outer Courtyard were now confined to their dormitories and forbidden from going out.
Yet the younger students of the four Houses did not indulge themselves either.
They flocked into the library, looking up the questions that had accumulated over this period.
At the same time, on the great lawn beside the Black Lake,
one temporary study group after another formed, exchanging answers to their questions.
Perhaps because the teachers were not much older than they were and lacked the Outer Courtyard professors' imposing authority,
the Outer Courtyard students may have behaved in class, but they had clearly become far more lively.
With so many people around, all sorts of questions that left the four Houses' students speechless often came up.
If they could not answer them, they wrote them down first.
But the senior students could not disrupt their own plans over such trivial matters and rush off to the library to search through books.
They would have to hunt through the vast sea of books for a theoretical basis, or obscure questions involving, but not limited to, Magical Creatures and magical plants.
They needed to practice magic and improve their own abilities as well.
Classes in the Outer Courtyard had been suspended these past few days, leaving the time they would normally have spent teaching free.
They finally had the chance to do their own things.
At first, it was only one or two wizards exchanging answers with each other, saving quite a bit of search time and putting their minds at ease.
Later, everyone realized that this