A month has passed since passing the integration exam.
Dressed in uniform as usual, I take a packed bag of textbooks and head from the student dormitory to the school building, which is a five-minute walk.
I wonder what class you're giving me today......
Since the beginning of my student life, I've had so much fun every day.
The students' dormitories were full of well-minded guys and even more study-keen students.
Here it is divided into lower, intermediate and advanced classes for each academic year, but every class of students is seriously encouraged to study every day.
Though students in lower classes, this is the highest educational institution in the world.
Other magic colleges have the highest level of strength.
I honestly think it's amazing that you don't lack effort every day even though it is.
I love hard-working people.
So I like all students attending this college.
I'm sure the other students think the same way I do.
Sometimes we argue, but every class of students is basically close.
I arrived at the school building while I was thinking about that.
I open the door to Group F for two years and take a seat.
By the way, Group A is advanced, Group B to C is intermediate, and Group D to F is lower.
It seems that the grades of the promotion exams, which occur twice a year, make it a mechanism by which classes are divided.
And today is the day of the promotion exam.
For me when I enroll and the sun is shallow, my first chance at a promotion I've visited......
I've studied hard for this day, and I got enough sleep last night.
I did what I had to do, and all I had to do was come to the exam.
"As we all know today, we're taking the promotion exam. Stay with me!
My voice echoed in the classroom, which was somehow surrounded by tension.
There are two promotional exams: the Written Exam and the Practical Exam.
Do you think you will comprehensively judge your knowledge and skills as a wizard and assign them to advanced, intermediate and inferior levels?
Magic studies have been indispensable since I was a little girl, and so far I've been able to keep up with the classes...
But this is the first time you've had a real exam like this.
What the hell kind of problems do you get......
As he softened his writing device on his desk, he handed out a problem sheet and an answer sheet.
I went to all of them and said, "Well, here we go!" and announce the start of the examination.
The answer form was so surprisingly marked with letters that it could be said that it was almost black.
The time limit is 120 minutes.
By then, we have to solve the 100 questions written here….
I hope I can get all the questions right......
Anyway, I can't stay like this.
I just started solving the problem.
- First question.
"Draw the firebomb (fireball) rune correctly"?
Fire bullets are elementary magic, and runes are simple.
That's about 10 seconds to draw.
- Second question.
"Draw the Rune of Universal Healing (Heavens Cure) Right"?
Vientiane healing is the finest magic of the optical system, but the structure of the rune itself is not that difficult.
However, there are many loons that resemble the magic of the optical system... and if you don't study the optical system well, you might not know which one.
Well, if you draw careful of the fine differences, you won't be wrong... all the time, I could draw.
- Third question.
"Write three full names of the new magic discovered within fifty years and its discoverers"?
This is easy.
The question is who to write...
The answer field is small, and should I write down the one with the shortest name possible?
And, well.
At that rate, I'm going to solve the problem.
... Done.
I left more than half the time until the end of the exam, and I finished answering all the questions.
The sound of running a pen on paper is ringing, and my classmates still seem to be on their way to solving it.
Maybe we were in a little too much of a hurry.
...... but isn't this rather less challenging?
Without any jamming at all, I solved it to the end......
... Well, but, yeah.
There's no way the Elstadt School of Magic promotion exam is this easy, and I'm sure most students will get a full score.
I mean, the real battle is to refrain from practical exams after this.
I carefully checked the answers and waited for the end of the exam.
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"Yes, that's it!
At the end of 120 minutes, he signaled the end of the exam.
At that moment, my classmates sigh like the thread of tension is broken.
"Something wrong with this one, wasn't it hard?
"And there were so many problems, weren't there?
"I couldn't solve half of it..."
"Too little time, right? At the end of the day, I wrote a proper answer box."
"As we all know, this written exam is for measuring situational judgment. The ability to instantly identify problems you can solve, problems you can't solve, and deal with them calmly is indispensable to a wizard."
In explaining his position, his classmates were convinced, "I knew it." "I thought so."
... What, did you?
One of my classmates was surprised.
Indeed, for wizards who can fight demons, the ability to identify the difference in power between themselves and their opponents and to instantly determine whether they should fight or flee is important.
But I didn't think you had that intention in your current written exam.
Because it seemed easy (Zako) for me to have all the problems...
"Wow, Ash-kun's answer section is amazing."
"Good. Anyway, I tried to fill all the answer boxes, but it wasn't just me... I hope we got each other right with one question or another."
Girls sitting in left and right seats peek at my answer sheet and say that.
"Then it's our annual pull time next. To come to pull in order of attendance number. When we're all done pulling, we're off for lunch."
After collecting all the answer sheets, he said so.
"Screw you?
I'm quite the girl in the seat - Mr. Nina.
"That was your first time, Ash-kun. Uh, the lottery says," Contents of the practical exam, "" Venue, "and" Name of one student in the same grade. "If the student is on his side, the color of the lottery is' blue ', and if the student is an enemy, the color of the lottery is' red '."
Mr. Nina tells me politely.
"And when the lottery is red, at that point, the content of the practical exam will be a one-on-one serious battle with the students who were written on the lottery."
I see......
For example, if the exam content is "Work together to defeat the faculty", the color of the lottery is blue, and the contribution in the battle with the faculty also increases or decreases the score given?
"One of the D-F classes pulls the lottery, and only one of the A-C classes has a name on the lottery."
That said, Mr. Nina sighs.
"I pulled the red lottery on my last exam, and my opponent was Mr. Efa... I'd like to at least fight one of the intermediate classes, even if it's blue or red."
Nina speaks truthfully.
I don't know who that 'Mr. Effa' is, but I guess he was too generous for Nina.
"Ash. Pull the lottery quick. You have the best attendance number."
He prompted me to come forward.
And as my classmate's gaze gathered, I pulled the lottery.
The lottery that was bi-fold was - 'red'.
At this point, you mean there's no cooperative play?
I open the lottery on the spot.
Exam venue is the Third Arena.
And the opponent's name...
"Two Years Group A, Fermina Hermish, or"
"" "" "" Fermina Hermish!? "" "
The moment I snapped softly, my classmate made a scene.
Is he that famous, Mr. Fermina?
When I took my seat with that in mind, the classmates sitting around me had turned their sympathetic gaze.
"Ash, you don't have any luck. By the way, I can't believe it's Mr. Fermina..."
"There's next time!
"That's what I'm saying, but thanks, Ash! Thanks to Ash-kun's pull on Mr. Fermina, my chances of fighting an advanced class are down!
Mr. Nina is pleased.
I knew it was an advanced class at the point in Group A, but Mr. Fermina seems to be one of them.
We were to compete seriously in such a wizard and important promotion exam setting.
As my classmates say, maybe falling down is the normal reaction.
But I think I'm lucky.
I can compete seriously with advanced classes.
In battle, I might learn some tricks about using magic.
"Wow, I'm in a serious battle with Mr. Noir... My bad luck, what's going on...?
Nina takes a seat looking like she's about to cry.
"Well, you pulled them all off. I know some people don't, so I'll explain, but the moment you guys pull the lottery, the other student gets a lottery with your name on it. Anyone who draws the Blue Lottery may have an operational meeting with their partner during lunch break. Whoever pulls the red lottery may also conduct hostile inspections. Make yourself comfortable. That's it, I wish you guys a good fight!
That's how I entered my lunch break.
It's that moment.
"Ash, are you there?!?"
In the classroom, a girl's voice echoed.