Although they had made thorough preparations, Zheng Qing and the others ultimately finished that practical class without incident.
That was because Hilda Tang Alfonso kept a close watch on the students from both academies throughout the entire lesson. Anyone who made even the slightest move beyond the line was singled out by him and made to practice fifteen Weak Leg Curses in public.
Zhang Jixin and Andrew Taylor had been too hot-tempered, leaving them collapsed for most of the class. When class ended, Zheng Qing and the others had to support them out of Green Valley.
Meanwhile, Bella, the head nurse stationed at the edge of Green Valley, turned a blind eye to this apparent "corporal punishment" from beginning to end. On the contrary, she enthusiastically suggested safer punitive spells to Assistant Hilda.
Zheng Qing only had to think about it briefly to understand the logic behind the head nurse's behavior. Conflicts between the two academies had become increasingly frequent recently, forcing the School Hospital's doctors and nurses to work overtime for a long while. He had heard that students from the two academies sent to the School Hospital no longer had elves to wait on them; they even had to take their own medicine.
The last academy to receive such treatment had been the Starry Sky Academy students of Class of '07. It was said that the students admitted by Starry Sky Academy that year had exceptionally fiery tempers, and their hospitalization rate had risen by a full half over previous years.
Of course, Zheng Qing had ignored such trivial news after reading it. Even when he later heard rumors that Zhang Jixin had some difficulty urinating because of the Weak Leg Curse, it failed to stir up much gossiping interest in him.
Because he had more important things