CHAPTER 96 - THE SCHOLARSHIP STUDENTS' HERB FIELD
Translated by Luxican
Edited by madghost
Yun Sheng apparently had forgotten one very important thing.
It was that she had joined the Royal Magic Academy as a scholarship student.
The so-called scholarship student was the modern equivalent to a work-study student. Who attended normal classes at the academy on weekdays, but on weekends, sorry but, you must work for the academy.
Gu Feng and Qi Gubian were also scholarship students. Gu Feng seemed to be working as an assistant to Mentor Mei Li. As for Qi Gubian, she had not heard of him doing anything for the school but he always seemed to be very busy.
It was no wonder that the two of them disappeared on the weekend.
The condition for Yun Sheng's work-study program was to help take care of the scholarship students' herb field.
The Royal Magic Academy was established in a valley basin, which is comfortable in all seasons. The herb field of the scholarship students was also very prosperous.
The herbs from the herb field were mainly supplied to the Potion Department and the medical room. While the remaining herbs were sold and the earnings were used to cover the scholarship students' tuition fees.
Before she came to the herb field, Yun Sheng had imagined that it would at best would only be quite similar to the herb fields in Jiao Ye Village, a few acres or tens of acres.
But when she really stood before the herb field, she realized her ridiculous mistake.
Up close, it was a field.
From a distance, it was still a field.
Across, still a field.
Looking vertically, sorry, it's still a field.
The Royal Magic Academy of Yujing's herb fields were vast.
Yun Sheng roughly estimated that this herb field is at least five to six hundred mu (34 – 40 hectare) one.
Yun Sheng finally understood why there was such a vacancy for scholarship students in the Potion Department. They were actually responsible for looking after this enormous herb field.
In fact, this scholarship spot has been vacant for five years before Yun Sheng arrived.
During that period, the scholarship students would take turns to take care of it. But now that the spot has filled no one is willing to come work again.
Yun Sheng was soon told that she needed to water all the herbs within two days to prevent the herbs from dying.
Looking at the vast fields of herbs, Yun Sheng instantly felt that life was indeed tough.
Yun Sheng sighed, as she began to take care of the herb field.
***
In the shadows, there was a pair of thievish eyes watching Yun Sheng.
Soon the owner of that pair of thievish eyes returned to the Fighting Department and entered a room with the sign of Magic Fighting Association.
The man reported in detail about Yun Sheng's visit to the Scholarship Students' Herb Field, to an eleven or twelve-year-old female student.
The female student had a beautiful appearance. Wearing a beautifully crafted mage's robe, her magic scepter was also inlaid with two Soulstones.
While only eleven or twelve years old, this female student was already an intermediate student and a Great Magician!
While she listened, a magical light was shooting out from the magic scepter in her hand. In the light, her face glowed even more radiantly.
"Sister Song, as you instructed, I kept an eye on the scholarship student called Yun Sheng. The scholarship students are brought, no one will help her in taking care of the herb field." The student who had been watching Yun Sheng was a brown-haired student of the wind attribute and from the Fighting Department.
"That damned scholarship student, who is defiant just because she had Feng Kuo and Mei Li backing her up. Beating my baby brother to this extent!" It was Song Xiangru who spoke. She is the older sister of Song Jie, who had been taught two harsh lessons by Yun Sheng.
Song Jie and Song Xiangru were the children of the Minister of Public Affairs of the Great Zhou Empire.
When they were young, both of them were discovered to be able to sense magic elements. So they were both sent to the Royal Magic Academy.
Among the two of them, Song Xiangru's talent was very high. After only six years, she became an intermediate student and just last month passed the Magic Temple's Great Magician Assessment.
Song Jie was the only younger brother of Song Xiangru. The two of them have a very good brother-sister bond.
A few days ago, Song Jie was not only beaten up, even his magic scepter had been destroyed by someone. Song Xiangru wanted to teach that person a lesson the moment she heard this news! She wanted to teach the meaning of life to that scholarship student of the Potion Department.
Only later, when she asked around, did she find out that the new freshman of the Potion Department had quite the history. Not only did she come in halfway through the school year, she also seemed to be a talented combat magician! There was also the rumor that Feng Kuo had personally recommended her.
Feng Kuo's name was known to everyone in the Royal Magic Academy. Song Xiangru had also taken Feng Kuo's combat class!
That bear-like man, whether it was martial arts or magic combat, was terrifyingly strong.
He was able to instantly send out three spells that could directly smash a boulder into powder.
He also had a violent personality, even the other teachers of the academy did not dare argue with him. Which was why, after learning about Yun Sheng's origin, Cang Song simply turned around and left.
In this way, Song Xiangru also lost the opportunity to directly take revenge on Yun Sheng.
In the Magic Academy, there was no objection to fighting in different grades. But that was only if the lower grade student challenged the higher grade student. The higher grade students were not allowed to directly challenge the lower grade students or else they would be immediately expelled from the campus, if they were discovered by the academy.
After thinking hard, it suddenly occurred to Song Xiangru that she could make use of Yun Sheng's status as a scholarship student.
The rules of the Magic Academy were strict and for the scholarship students, the academy's rules stated that they had to maintain good grades in their magic classes and complete the academy arranged work-study assignments or they would be expelled from campus.
As soon as Yun Sheng was expelled from the Royal Magic Academy and out of sight of Feng Kuo and Mei Li, Song Xiangru had thousands of ways to make Yun Sheng disappear.
Song XIangru secretly bribed the other members of the scholarship dormitory and let them leave the task of the hundreds of mu of herb fields for Yun Sheng, who she expected had no way of ever completing watering the herb field in two days.
Not to mention that Yun Sheng wasn't even a water magician. Though even if she was one, how many times would she have to cast the Cloud Gathering Spell to completely water the fields.
Thinking about how Yun Sheng was going to be kicked out of the Magic Academy once the weekend was over, Song Xiangru felt elated.
"Ru Ru, what are you so happy about?" A sweet girl's voice interrupted the conversation between Song Xiangru and the scout.
A blue clothed female student walked inside. Song Xiangru was already considered superior looking, but compared to this blue-clothed girl, Song Xiangru was like a star, however after seeing the moon, the star's light immediately dimmed.
At the sight of the girl in blue, a touch of jealousy appeared on Song Xiangru's face.
But she quickly concealed her jealousy and didn't let Cheng Lian discover it, and spoke in a cute tone: "Lian'er, I see that you have a happy face, did you encounter something good that makes you rejoice like this?"
The girl who came was the vice president of the Royal Magic Academy's Magic Fighting Association, as well as the favorite granddaughter of the Great Zhou Empire's first ranked official, Cheng Ge, the water element Great Magician, Cheng Lian.
"I've received news from the Crown Prince, he's about to return to Yujing City." Cheng Lian was dressed like a fairy, with a happy smiling face, she told the good news to Song Xiangru.
​