With the severe injuries, the 2nd year students had sustained from elemental cannon. It was certain that they would have died if they had done nothing.
The problem questions that were on everyone's mind were why didn't the supervisors act and why hadn't Blake's team been disqualified?
"The rule states that we can't attack anyone, but we didn't. They were just in our way." Blake chuckled, not giving a shit if the 2nd year students were dead or not.
Before the city barrier was taken down, the students had been asked to position themselves, but none of them was allowed to stay in front of another. This was to prevent a situation where they fire spells at each. So whoever decided to leave their selected position acted at their own risk.