CHAPTER 82 - CAMPUS BULLYING
Translated by Luxican
Edited by madghost
In the backyard of the medical hall, the boy, who has already woken up from coma, was frightened at the sight of two strangers.
"Don't move, you still need more rest" the frightened boy saw the little girl coming beside his bed, while glaring at him.
The boy just tried to climb out of the bed and because of that his wound had opened again, causing few blood spots to appear on his gauze.
The boy was so frightened that he was having trouble with breathing.
"You...you have saved me...I thought I died...thank you," the boy was now able to speak, but he kept stammering, because of the shock from the recent events.
When Xiao Hei went to report the news just now, the boy had looked around to find that he was in a medical hall, with herbs hanging outside to dry, and his head wrapped in bandages.
The boy's appearance was a bit sloppy, with soil and dirt all-over his body, he looked like a freshly plucked out potato from the fields.
He isn't a resident of Yujing City. It wasn't a surprise that, even though He had been unconscious for quite a while now, his family didn't come to see him.
As soon as he woke up, he remembered how he had been trampled by a horse on the street. With a serious injury like that, he was afraid that even the instructors at the academy wouldn't necessarily be able to save him from death.
As he recalled about the accident, he started panicking and fumble around him.
"Scepter...where's my...magic scepter?" The boy was already on the verge of tears, his most important possession on his body was his magic scepter, his family had saved a whole year's worth of money to buy it for him.
"Don't move, if you move again, I assure you, I will knock you unconscious with my fist!" Because of his reckless movements the wound on his head that had just been treated, was about to split open again. After seeing this, Yun Sheng swung her fist at him.
The strength of the little girl was immediately revealed, the boy was too scared to continue moving, but he still kept muttering, "Magic...scepter."
"You're from the Magic Academy, right?" Doctor Fan observed the boy, he could feel the magic from him, but it wasn't that strong, the boy should be somewhere between Magic Apprentice and Magician.
"Well, I'm a student of the Royal... Magic Academy, and I...my magic scepter," the boy struggled to relate what had happened to him during this time.
The boy's name was Gu Feng, he was seven years old, and he lived in a small mountain village thousands of kilometers away from Yujing City.
From the description of it, it can be seen that it's similar to Jiao Ye Village, isolated from the rest of the world, with simple folk customs.
When Gu Feng was three years old, he participated in his first magic enlightenment and was found to have affinity with the extremely rare light element.
When the news spread, the mountain village was boiling with excitement. To know small villages like them usually don't have any children who can perceive magical elements in over hundreds of years, yet this small mountain village had a child who even has light element affinity. It was quite remarkable.
Due to the boy's special magic attribute, and the fact that the Great Zhou Empire had been working hard to cultivate magicians over the years, Gu Feng was elected to become a scholarship student, he completed the studies of a true Magic Apprentice in the local town, and then was sent to the Royal Magic Academy.
"I came here...only a few months ago...and since my...magic comprehension isn't that good...and I'm stupid...I've been bullied by the other students," Gu Feng nervously pulled on his clothes, his clothes were filled with patches.
On the Wu JI Continent, the tuition fees for Magic Apprentices and Entry-grade Martial Artists were paid by the state, but after they became a Magician or Crude Martial Artist they would need to find their own way to raise the fees for the following Magic Academies.
However, there were also special cases, such as the scholarship students.
A scholarship student referred to magicians or warriors who were from poor families, but had a certain grade of talent.
Most of them were not old enough to earn their own tuition fees, in this case the state would grant a certain amount of cost exemption or the schools would arrange some small jobs for them.
Gu Feng was a scholarship student of the Royal Magic Academy.
Yun Sheng now had a rough understanding about the whole process.
The Royal Magic Academy was the best Magic Academy in the Great Zhou Empire, where also the most wealthy and talented students of the Great Zhou Empire gathered.
These students were either from noble families, or the children of government officials, all of them extremely wealthy, and looked down on the poor.
This was like the typical school bullying in the modern era.
"So, the incident of being trampled by a horse during the day and the old wounds on your body were all caused by the students of the Royal Magic Academy?" When Yun Sheng heard this, she felt a fire burning inside her body.
When she had bandaged Gu Feng up earlier, she had noticed that in addition to the marks of being trampled by horses, he had many old wounds on his body.
The wounds were so dense that they couldn't be made in a day or two.
It could be assumed that Gu Feng had been bullied, since the day he had entered the Royal Magic Academy.
Gu Feng didn't answer, but his bleak eyes already answered Yun Sheng.
"This is too much, they even used a horse to almost kill someone!" Probably due to both of them being from small villages, Yun Sheng, who had experienced similar bullying earlier, sympathized with Gu Feng, and a devilish light glowed in her eyes.
Since it's a Magic Academy, let's use magic to compete, Yun Sheng lifted up her sleeves and pulled out her magic scepter.
"So, something like this also exists in the Royal Magic Academy," After hearing what Gu Feng said, Doctor Fan began to think if his plan of sending Yun Sheng to the Royal Magic Academy is right.
"So you're also a magician...thank you for saving me...the Magic Academy doesn't allow outsiders to enter...I haven't returned to the Magic Academy...If the teacher finds out...I will certainly be punished...thank you both...I...will go back first," Gu Feng was chatting with Yun Sheng and Doctor Fan and almost forgot that the Royal Magic Academy had a curfew.
Today, he had been dragged out of the Magic Academy by a group of students, and was trampled and seriously injured by someone riding a horse, but these things, the teachers do not know. If she finds him after the curfew, he would be put in solitary confinement.
The more Gu Feng thought about it, the more frightened he became, ignoring the fact that he was still injured, he insisted on rushing back to the Royal Magic Academy immediately.
Seeing that nothing could persuade him otherwise, Yun Sheng and Doctor Fan had no choice but to change their approach.
"You can't return with your injuries yet, so if you really must go back, let me and Doctor Fan send you back, we will go to your mentor and explain to him why you couldn't return today, and we'll be sure to tell your teacher about the students who bullied you!" Yun Sheng discussed with Doctor Fan, they didn't feel comfortable with letting Gu Feng return alone.
Yun Sheng also wanted to see what the Royal Magic Academy was like, so they put Gu Feng on a herb cart and pushed the cart to the Royal Magic Academy.
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T/N: Any one else feeling really tired these days? Like you come home, eat and immediately go to sleep?
I like Doctor Fan a lot more than Yun Canghai...
What do you think?
Thanks for reading!!
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