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Arthur watched in silence, and stunned.

- And which one? - Asked with a gentle smile - Enlighten us.

“Why go against the ruling family when you can become an empress and rule.

- Did you come up with it yourself?

- No, it was my father who suggested it. I will marry Atrur, he, of course, is not handsome, but what can not be tolerated for the good of relatives. Then I will bring my relatives closer to the court, and they will occupy all the best posts at the court. And then, I will become a widow, before that you and his parents will leave the world. And I will be able to marry again, already for my beloved, who is waiting for me, and he will ascend the throne with me.

- Bravo, what wonderful plans. And what is your sweetheart's name?

- Alex Shores.

- Familiar kind. Arthur, what are we going to do with an ambitious girl?

It was pitiful to look at Arthur. He has matured, there is no other way to say it.

"I'm getting stomach cramps from your potion."

She handed him another vial.

- Drink, but you still have to visit the restroom. What should I do with her?

- I don't know. It's hard for me to think.

- Alika, you'd better stay in your room. Arthur needs to be alone for now. He will visit you later.

She escorted the girl and posted guards at her door. There is no other way out of this room. No wonder I brought it here.

- Do not let anyone in or let anyone out.

Found Nikita and Talia. I told them about the revelation of the girl.

− Original. What did Arthur decide?

“He is not up to her yet, he is still suffering from the effects of the love potion.

- Clear. But for a strong love potion, at least imprisonment for a long time with working off on the outskirts of the capital is expected. And at the very least, the death penalty.

"I remember I talk about it every year in my potions class." And still there are people like this Anika. What are you thinking of doing?

- I'll talk to my son, he will make the decision. He is the future ruler. But most likely, only the girl will be punished, although there will be an investigation and this will not cast a weak shadow on her family. But they can also renounce it. And we will not be able to attract a second family without evidence.

They were able to talk to Arthur only in the evening. He decided that the execution was too radical, so far he is not ready to send the girl to her death. Decided to let him work better, on the border with the deprivation of magic. And so that he would not be bored for a long time, the next week I brought my future student.

- Ba, who is this? – asked Arthur, watching the girl who had quickly disappeared in his room.

- Laira, maybe Ira, from one branch of Maura.

- Is she related to me?

- No, I clarified. She will live with us for a couple of months before entering the academy. She will study to be a healer.

“Yeah, that is potions and healing. This is your department.

“Yes, but I only teach potions, other teachers teach healing. Did you like the girl?

- Yes, I did not have time to consider her, she immediately ran away.

- You can still do it. She is very pleasant to talk to.

− Uh-huh, and runs fast.

- You look, communicate, but she was only eighteen years old.

- Adult. And you have already become a mother at this age, - she showed him her fist - I understood the hint, - he immediately raised his hands in a protective gesture. - And what academy are you going to field practice with this time?

- With two, I decided to impoverish them and sometimes it is useful to change places of practice. True, it will be such a crowd that I somehow feel uncomfortable. We need to think about how best to organize it all.

True, both rectors convinced me that it would be better to have a crowd of students from two academies in one place. And like this it will be easier for them to look after and control. Moreover, besides me, there will be six more Potions teachers and eight combat magic teachers.

- Gentlemen, rectors, you considered how many people it would be. Two hundred nerds, only.

- And the same number of guys from the combat faculty from two academies.

“Nightmare, it’s like one small village.

- So the place for sorties will be near a small town and not far from the village. And so and so useful for a week to live in nature. Moreover, we will be located next to the forest.

In the evening I went to check on Evgeny. A week of his forced rest had already passed. A friend lay on the bed staring at the ceiling.

- How are you?

- Sleep well. Can I get out of bed now?

- Even necessary. But don't abuse the vigor potion like that again. And I wanted to complain.

- What's wrong already? he asked with a smile.

- I will soon have an on-site practice with two academies at once, each with five courses and two faculties. In short, two hundred students and a handful of teachers. We will live in nature near the forest between a small town and a village.

- Probably also in tents?

- Yeah, I haven't slept in a tent for a long time.

- Hmm, what if we make a tent with an expansion of space. It looks small, but inside it is large and spacious. In these, children can sit well. I won’t say that it’s comfortable, but it’s still better than many small camping tents or tents. And in such tents it is easier to create the desired temperature.

- Can you do this?

- Yes, easily! I have been persuaded here for a long time to go to teach artefacts.

- So go, it's interesting to see how the children get what you tell. And you had a student.

− Yes, but I like to be mobile and not be called to the schedule like you are at the academy. I decided to take some students. You liked Laira of Maru for Arthur. And I liked her brothers, smart guys graduated from the faculty of artifactors. I invited them to become my students. True, we did not really have time to talk, you sent me forcibly to rest.

“So now you can contact them.

Eugene went to practice with me. Expand camping tents will be already in place. Everyone looked at him with undisguised curiosity. And they were delighted when he started expanding the space in the tents. He has already taken several camping tents on which he has already hung an extension of space. The rest was done on the spot. As a result, we had one tent for teachers and four for students, divided into boys and girls. At the same time, when you enter the tent, it looks like a barracks in terms of location. The children slept in sleeping bags. And thanks to what Eugene did, the floor in the tents was warm, soft and slightly springy, and it was very pleasant to walk on it barefoot.

For teachers, the tent inside was divided into two parts - for men and women. Fortunately, over the years of work at the academy, I taught the teachers to respond to me calmly and not to apply to the academy and on-site practice according to their status.

The first day we set up tents and settled down. And explored the area. The first course sketched and described a given list of herbs. So far, the senior courses have only looked at where, what grows and wrote down what they found and what it can be used for. The guys from the combat department warmed up, ran, sometimes interfered with my nerds and drove them crazy. Toward evening, they sparred among themselves. And at lunchtime and in the evening they prepared food together.

Already when the children were sent to rest, she approached Eugene. He was diligently writing down something in a thick notebook.

- Are you going to sleep?

“I also thought about taking a sip of vigor potions and working at night,” he said without a second thought.

- Eugene, will you be put to sleep again for a few days? Or maybe you've developed an addiction to the potion? Perhaps it is worth noting in the instructions - that it is addictive.

"It's not addictive, it's just very debilitating," said Marta, a Potions teacher at Mariysk and a former student of mine. - I checked it myself. For five years of study, I drank it before the session almost every day. After the session, I went to bed, couldn’t get myself out of bed for a week, and slept all day long, interrupted only by food and some needs. And if you often take it from him, your head starts to hurt mercilessly.

- Well, apparently I'm not so hooked, - he said with a smile.

And he looked at me so slyly.

“I know several ways to quickly put me to sleep,” she said sternly. One of them is a blow to the head with a stick.

“Knowing you, it’s more like a hospital bed,” Zhenya said cheerfully. "Alright mommy, I'm going to bed."

He took a sleeping bag and lay down near the fire.

- Why not in a tent? Rick, the martial arts instructor, asked him. He was the first to go on duty.

“It’s better to sleep here, and the vorlaks will come right now.”

And the truth approached me Zee and Smoke.

- They fled, - I said calmly - well, take a walk, guard the camp for one thing. Zhenya, how did you know that they would run away?

- While they were gathering, they watched, and their muzzles were too cunning. And not the first time they run after you.

“Maybe it's for the best. And I don’t like that bandits appear in every practice.

As soon as I appeared in the tent, a question came to me in the female half:

- Do you and Evgeny meet? - and all the girls of the teacher look at me with such curiosity.

- No, - she said calmly, I can’t be angry with my already adult students.

- But you communicate with him like a spouse or brother and sister.

“We’ve known each other for a long time, that’s why we communicate well,” she said with a slight smile. He is, by the way, still single.

- We know, - the teachers from Runit sighed - we ran after him while studying with you. And he does not look at anyone, as if girls do not interest him.

- Strange, - she said, already lying on the sleeping bag. - We need to talk to him. Find out why he is still alone. Okay let's sleep. And then from experience I know students like to fool around and then we will not be able to sleep.

Surprisingly, the night passed quietly. My nerds were almost all asleep. Only a part that became friends with the guys from the combat course walked all in the same tent almost all night. And in the morning there was a depressing sight of not getting enough sleep and swollen faces from excessively drunk alcohol.

“There will be someone to experiment on the girls,” she said calmly.

The boys instantly howled. Some already knew from experience that this could end very badly and get lucky if you just have to sit in the camp toilet.

- Some of you were already scientists. They could also remember what would happen in the morning, apparently the girls had few unsuccessful experiments on us in the past years. And then they wouldn’t drink this time. Beauty girls, your task, as usual, is to remove traces of alcohol poisoning and remove swelling. The Healing and Potions instructors will make sure you don't screw up too much. And the martial arts instructors will make sure that our test subjects don't crawl too far and try to escape. You girls have an hour, the time has come. The first course does not prepare anything, but fulfills the task that was given back in the academy.

Girls from both academies first of all sorted the guys into suffering from alcohol poisoning and not. They counted and began to calculate how much potion they needed. Then they quickly split up, who was looking for what herbs, and who was cooking what.

“I always admire how quickly they divide up the work and divide into teams,” Rick told me. – It can be seen that you train them at lectures.

− Animals are trained, and it is a common practice for them in practical classes. Send sober guys to look after them. Something worries me. I feel that there will be bandits this time as well.