Chapter 89: Copying the school rules twenty times
Edith frowned. This was somewhat beyond her expectations.
"Dead?"
Although she didn't perform healing magic on her opponent like she did in the past few matches due to her position, Celeste's heart was still beating the second before he left her hand. After being taken over by the doctor, he was fed bottle of medicine after bottle. It is possible that he could have been in a coma for several months, so how could he have died instantly?
"The fatal wound is in the chest, from the last stab you made. Preliminary evaluation shows excessive blood loss." Joyce also found it a bit strange. "From what I just learned, they attributed this result to your sword."
"I don't know the details, so I plan to borrow yours to study it."
Joyce's hand slid down the sword, feeling the warmth from her fingertips, as if she was not touching a sword but a piece of breathing skin.
"Where did you get this sword?"
"Inside the manor of Marquis Charles." Edith naturally gave Lynch away. "Master Charles didn't know the value of the item, so he just gave it to me."
Joyce: “…”
What a bizarre reason.
"...I thought I got it from the cave ruins." Joyce whispered.
Edith didn't hear clearly and hummed in doubt.
"The cave ruins? The one we went to for the promotion tournament?"
Joyce nodded.
Edith turned her head and looked at Joyce who was carrying her on his back. "So, the choice of the venue for the promotion match was really an accident and was not originally planned?"
"I don't know." Joyce shook his head. "The education system does not belong to the Magic Association system."
Even if it was her responsibility, as the president who coordinated everything, she couldn't focus on a student competition that had never gone wrong in previous years.
"The school explained that because the Queen suddenly changed the conditions for this year's court wizard election, all teachers were forced to be transferred to set questions, and there were no staff to supervise the original competition venue." Joyce turned around, expressionless, obviously not believing this explanation, "Since the original venue cannot be used, they can actually take students directly to the undeveloped new venue... It's really a fantasy."
The ruins were also very strange. They were immediately sealed after the students had visited them. She sent mages from the Magic Circle Association to investigate, and their conclusion was that there was no way to unlock them - this was too abnormal.
Edith closed her mouth and listened quietly to Joyce talking to herself, trying to get more information.
Joyce pondered for a few minutes, and suddenly remembered that Edith was still there. He said with a sigh, "Okay, I'll take you home first. Remember not to go out before the next game."
Edith: "...That's a bit too much to ask."
Is it that serious?
"If you want to die," Joyce suddenly leaned down so that Edith's eyes were level with his own, "you can come out and walk around while the Eddy family is at school."
"Okay, now, immediately, go back to your dormitory."
......
Girls dormitory.
Of course Edith would stay in the dormitory - that would be weird.
It was just right. During this time when everyone took it for granted that she would stay still, she could go out and do things that she would not normally do because of the sight of others.
Of course, before that, she needs to cure Mulin first.
"The draw results are out." Bell also came back under escort. He crumpled up the paper with the next opponent's information and threw it to Edith. "Your luck has rebounded. You unexpectedly drew an average player in the 13-to-7 match. You can relax now."
Edith raised an eyebrow.
It has come to the stage of selecting 7 out of 13, yet there are still some with mediocre results?
She flattened the crumpled paper, glanced at the information about her opponent, and immediately understood.
It’s the girl who got a bye in the third round.
She was lucky enough to meet students with lower rankings in the first and second rounds, and she managed to avoid a bye in the third round, which was when the difficulty really began. Her luck was truly amazing.
Unfortunately, Palmer Smith's good luck was about to be ended by Edith.
"His strength is average... I think if he's lucky he can get into the top 30, but if he's unlucky he'll be in the top 50 or 60, definitely not good enough to get into the top 7." Edith flipped through the information in her hand, "He's good at potions... huh?"
What weird luck... maybe I drank a luck-boosting potion to get this ranking.
"But aren't luck potions strictly controlled? Most potion shops are not allowed to stock them, and the shops that can make them themselves have sales restrictions. You can't buy them without showing your receipt." As an adventure enthusiast, Heda has a deep understanding of these legendary things. "As far as I know, there is only one store in the Tulip Market that sells this."
Edith continued to flip through the paper materials in her hand and said casually, "She can practice it herself."
Bell: “?”
Heda: “?”
Bell: "The luck potion is not a senior exam question that can be made with practice. How could a student make something that even the formula is not disclosed to the public? No one in the Palmer family is a member of the Pharmacy Association. There is no situation of helping children like in Alec's family."
Edith narrowed her eyes. "No one in the family is in the Pharmacy Guild?"
Is that the refining method you figured out yourself?
"She must have made it herself," she said calmly, "If she drank the luck potion formulated by the association, I wouldn't have been picked in the draw today."
"Since it's my own research, there must be a lot of problems. Also, I suspect that student has no idea about the side effects of the potion... You're right. The next game will be much easier."
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Palmer Residence Hall.
Palmer himself was sitting on the bed with a pale face, rubbing the results of the draw with his fingers, feeling suffocated.
How could this be...there is clearly a bye in this round, she should be able to get in!
"Relax, you were lucky to lose to Edith." Seeing her lifeless look, her roommate consoled her, "How can you get a bye every time? If there really is such a person, the college will definitely be the first to investigate!"
She was just joking, but Palmer, who had something to hide, was really frightened. She silently pushed the crucible hidden under the bed with her foot and smiled dryly, "Yes, yes..."
...Yes, there was nothing wrong with the luck potion. If she got a bye again this time, she would definitely be suspected by the academy. A fair competition was the best option.
"Since Edith was chosen, does that mean that competing with her would be the easiest..." she thought silently, "There must be a gap in strength, which means that there should be some unexpected events at the competition that will cause her to fail."
Just relax and adapt to the situation during the game.
,,,,,,,
night.
Edith rubbed her sore wrist, pulled out a handkerchief beside her, and wiped off the ink stain on the outside of her palm.
She lifted the parchment and admired it up to the light.
"What are you writing?" Heda was afraid that if she asked too close, Edith would catch her and ask her to study, so she stuck her head out from a distance. "The competition just ended, you should take a good rest."
Neither she nor Belle mentioned Celeste, for fear of affecting Edith's mood.
"It's okay. I'll be out for a while." Edith folded the written parchment and put it in her pocket, then turned around and was about to leave.
Heda was stunned, then ran over in a panic and stretched out her arms to block the door: "No!"
"President Walker specifically told us today that you can't go out in the next few days!"
Her voice attracted Bell, but he just stood there listening with a frown and did not make any other extreme actions.
"So, everyone thinks I'll stay in my room." Edith shrugged. "Doesn't this mean I can go out without anyone suspecting me?"
"No one would think I have the guts to go out now."
Hedda hesitated for a moment and slowly put down her hand.
"Why do you have to go out so late?" Bell asked. "Why not disguise yourself during the day? At least you can judge whether there is any danger around you."
Heda raised his arm again and nodded, "You're right! We can't leave."
Edith: "You come with me."
Heda replied immediately: "Okay."
Bell: "......"
She saw Heda put down her hands instantly, held her forehead and walked forward, blocking the door of the room: "What exactly do you want to do?"
"Go treat Mulin." Edith said simply, "There are many doctors during the day, so there should only be one on duty at this time. It will be difficult to be discovered if we go there."
"Have you found a treatment plan?!" Heda and Bell said in unison. The latter directly picked up the wand on the table, put on his robe and walked out. "Hurry up, don't waste any more time!"
The two no longer objected to Edith's behavior. Edith pulled Bell, who was walking toward the door, and turned him around by his shoulders, pointing to the window: "Go this way."
You will definitely be discovered if you go through the main door.
The three of them successfully climbed from the outside of the wall to the bottom. They followed the wall closely and avoided the light source. There was no one else in the campus at night except the patrolling teachers and students. They tried their best to avoid the light from the magic wand and moved towards the school hospital little by little.
"There's only one more level left!" Heda was in high spirits, crouching in the bushes and chattering non-stop, "We traveled through mountains and rivers, avoided countless crises and tribulations, and finally arrived at the end of our destiny before dawn - so how can we lead the doctor out of the door?"
All windows of the school hospital were locked at night, and in order to prevent anyone from sneaking in and threatening the injured, there were also a large number of patrol personnel around. Edith and her group had already spent a lot of energy to successfully hide in the bushes in the flower bed, and it would be a bit difficult to sneak in again.
Edith hesitated for a moment and said, "Wait and see."
Bell: “Understood.”
Heda: “Understood”
Ursula: “Hmm?”
Hedda and Bell were startled by the extra noise and turned around to see Her Royal Highness the Princess standing ungracefully on the edge of the flower bed with her hands in her pockets, her body slightly leaning forward, looking at the three people squatting in the bushes with interest.
Her hair fell down, just a finger's width away from Hedda's cheek, and a faint floral scent wafted in the wind, making it hard to tell whether it was the smell of the flower bed or the scent of Ursula.
Hedda felt her blood run cold.
"Hello, can you help us lead the doctor at the door away?" Edith seemed to have expected this and raised her head to ask for a favor without hesitation, "We need to treat Mulin."
Ursula didn't say yes or no. She stretched out a hand and tapped Hedda's forehead with her finger, smiling: "If you leave the dormitory at night, according to the regulations, you need to copy the school rules twenty times as punishment."
Edith quickly took out the folded paper from her pocket and stuffed it into Ursula's hand in a flash: "Here."
I just copied it, and the ink isn't dry yet.
Ursula: “…”
She counted them and found there were exactly 20, no more, no less.
......This is the first time I have seen someone complete the punishment ahead of time to advance the payment for violating school rules.
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