New Student Placement Test (1)
“Don’t come any closer.”
“what?”
“Don’t come close within this radius.”
A day to supervise new students’ exams.
The winter break was already halfway through. I had become somewhat accustomed to a life where I couldn’t use my magic power, and I was nearing the end of preparing materials to expand my cabin.
In fact, all the major things that need to be done before the start of next semester have been taken care of, so if this exam supervision is completed well, there will be no further problems.
It was at this point that I gave my body strength and went to work at Assistant Professor Claire’s lab with the intention of getting it over with quickly.
Among the bachelor’s scholarship students, I was probably the first to arrive, and the only person who came into view was Anis, who was checking the magic engineering supplies alone in a corner of the lab.
When I tapped her shoulder and said she was happy to meet me, Anise jumped like a grasshopper and stretched the distance to the window behind the professor’s chair beyond the main table in the lab.
Then he takes a deep breath and looks at me intently.
“Why all of a sudden?”
“Um… I smell. I don’t like the smell of sweat. Please don’t come closer.”
It is a school that values appearance so much that a clause on maintaining dignity is written into the school rules. Cleanliness management is thorough. At least I’ve never been criticized for my clothes or appearance.
I smelled my sleeves to see if they had loosened up a bit because of the vacation, but there was nothing special.
“It doesn’t smell.”
“And something about his eyes? his energy? something doesn’t suit me. Anyway, please don’t come closer.”
I was even more dumbfounded by the sudden and visibly wary appearance.
Since he was such a smart guy, I thought there must be a reason for everything, so I roughly shook my head.
Then, I swept up the documents on top to clean up the messed up lab table.
This was because I felt like if I didn’t do some basic organizing before Assistant Professor Claire came, the lab would be in chaos again.
The fact that Anis, who was thorough in everything, didn’t organize these basic things meant that she was too busy to even pay attention to that, so she was determined to help as much as she could.
Most of them were documents to be discarded after the processing deadline. After gathering all kinds of documents and finally picking up the folders lying around in the corner, the amount was quite heavy.
– Boom!
Before I could properly file the documents, the lab door opened and Assistant Professor Claire confidently entered.
“Anyeon-!”
After giving a lively morning greeting in a more lively manner than the students, Assistant Professor Claire put down the snack box from breakfast time on the table.
“Do you want a scone?”
Assistant Professor Claire laid out the snacks on the table and asked Anis for some tea.
Anis was checking the magical engineering supplies for the test. When I slowly held out my hand, Anise faltered and held out the document she was checking. It looks like the person is trying to spread the distance as much as possible, place one hand firmly on the chest, and extend the other arm to pass the document. Anyone who sees it will think that there is a wild beast in front of them.
I roughly accepted the documents. The process itself is already familiar, so there is no need to explain it in detail. It is just a simple inspection task.
“Students Clevius and Onyx are here too! Since all the test administration staff have gathered, I’ll go after organizing it!”
Assistant Professor Claire quickly sat down on the professor’s chair with a snack in her mouth and laid out the final exam plan neatly on the table.
“The exam location is Orun Mountain, as we announced in advance. Since there are four people in our academic management staff, each of the four people can take the pre-assigned directions one by one to the north, south, east, and west and inspect them. If a safety accident occurs or cheating is discovered, immediately go to Jeonseo-gu, which has been provided in advance. You can report it to me. As for the test management rules, you can judge whether or not there is cheating according to the documents provided… Well, I can’t help but wonder how amazing and systematic the new students are at cheating… You should never look at them just because they are cute juniors. !”
After saying that, Assistant Professor Claire started chewing on the scone again.
I am full of energy today. It might be because I went on a long-awaited vacation for a few days after working dozens of hours of hard work.
Normally, I am a person with such high tension, but after staying up all night for a few days, I become a corpse, so my personality seems to reset periodically.
“And a new student you must always be careful of! Saint Clarice! She is not an easy person to meet, so I will brief you in advance on how to look like her. Long silver hair that goes down to your waist, red eyes, and a red bow hairpin on the side of your head. If you happen to run into her, look as much as possible. “You know how to be polite, right?”
Basically, Sylvania is a place that values learning more than noble status.
Any level of status difference tends to be reduced in the name of classmates.
Of course, that doesn’t mean there aren’t crazy commoners who treat nobles too much, but at least they can’t expect to be treated as respectfully as in the mainland.
However, there is a clear limit to such unwritten rules.
Anyone whose status exceeds that line must be treated with courtesy, even if they are a lower-class student.
Of course, it was not so easy for someone of such noble status to enter the school, so this unwritten line felt very ambiguous… but it feels like things have become a little clearer with the admission of Princess Fenia last year.
If you are a princess or a saint, you must follow the example of a subject unless you are a senior professor within the academy.
So, please be careful in advance to avoid making any mistakes.
In fact, it is even more difficult to tell the difference. Clarisse, a saint who stands in front of the public, looks more like a saint than anyone else. … Unfortunately, she is fake.
It is a fact that is not revealed at this time, but the real saint Clarice has been replaced with another student. The girl who goes to school under the guise of Clarice is a double with all kinds of physical disguises and counterfeit magic.
The real saint is a student named Kylie Ekne, who is assigned to first-year class C. Of course, it’s a pseudonym.
She is an innocent-looking girl with chestnut-brown hair who changes her appearance and lives disguised as an ordinary student in order to enter Sylvania.
He even claims to have a false identity, saying he is from a noble family in an unknown small country on an island in the eastern part of the continent.
This fact is revealed only before the final scene of the third act, but this is another shocking twist, so I was quite surprised when I first saw it. In fact, my status is not that great, but I should have been suspicious from the moment I entered the Ofilis building with a free pass.
The only people who know this are the principal, Obel, the 3rd dean, the chief maid of the Ofilis building, and the top figures in the Telos Church.
It is such a perfect deception that even the guards guarding the lieutenant do not notice the camouflage. You have no idea how long it took to prepare.
I applaud the saintess’s intention to enter Sylvania and have the opportunity to learn, even to that extent, but it will be difficult for her to graduate peacefully as she would like.
Clarisse, the saint of disbelief, is in charge of ending the final scene of Act 3, ‘The Battle of Lucy’, in which all the big names join forces and attack.
Without her, Tailly cannot learn the sword saint style ‘God Killing Sword’, which is used to cut down the evil god Mebula, the final boss of Act 4.
Since he is a very important person, I just hope that he gets along well without any problems.
“Anyway, all situations other than these are written in the manual, so apply them well at the time and respond, and if you feel like you need to ask about details, send Jeon Seo-gu! I will always be waiting at the top of Mt. Orn! So that’s it now, right?”
Assistant Professor Claire glanced at the time and nodded.
“Then, all we have to do is go up the right mountain, install all the welcome magic items, finish inspecting the altar, and wait for the students to lead us! Now, let’s finish the snacks and then leave!”
*
I know the result.
All freshmen are eliminated from the placement test.
In fact, there is no such thing as elimination because it is the relative evaluation anyway. Not a single person entered class A, but to some extent, they are distributed in order of grades.
Since it is not a story experienced directly by the main character’s generation, it is only briefly mentioned in the main scenario of
As Assistant Professor Claire failed to control the difficulty of the placement test, not a single first-year student made it to Class A…
Eventually, the number of Class B students who received good grades during the semester and wanted to be promoted to Class A increased. .
It is in the ‘Joint Combat Practice’ episode that the first-year students’ sense of competition for the first time to win the Class A title reaches its peak and explodes.
This time, the main character generation, as seniors, participates in joint combat practice with the first-year generation… Despite the class emphasizing the friendly competition aspect, the first-year students become serious and combative.
This is because the differential grades awarded in the joint combat practice class have great weight in class reassignment in the future.
So, the first-year students assigned to a combat class with the second-year students try to win by any means possible, regardless of whether they are seniors or not. Not only that, he randomly challenges people to duels outside of class to get extra points… but he gets stopped at Tailley’s line.
In fact, it is just an event to confirm the growth of Tailly, which has become sufficiently strong over the past year.
It is also an episode where the feeling of looking at a junior from the perspective of a senior is very moving.
Nevertheless, it is an episode that cannot be taken lightly… This is because in this episode, Clarisse, a saint who was hiding among the crowd, takes notice of Tailly.
“Uh huh.”
Halfway up the mountain.
Assistant Professor Claire, who was leading, was in the front, followed by Anise. And then Onyx-senpai was climbing up behind him, followed by me and Clevius.
Assistant Professor Claire was climbing up carrying a bunch of documents for grading, and the rest of the students were following behind, clutching a bunch of welcome magic engineering supplies.
In principle, magical engineering supplies that are sensitive to magic are prohibited from being transferred using telekinetic magic. In fact, unless it is a completely precise product, no major problems will occur, but it is usually moved by hand just in case.
No matter how gentle the mountain is, carrying this much of a load will be difficult.
The male members, all of whom were on scholarship, were following along without much trouble, carrying a lot of luggage, but Anise was out of breath as if she had reached her limit.
“Hey, if you’re having a hard time, give me a few. You keep getting pushed back.”
Each of the large semi-disc shaped magic engineering supplies is quite heavy. If you go up there carrying a lot of these things, even men will be out of breath. Even though it was a much smaller amount, I thought it would be too much for Anise, who is small in stature, to climb the mountain carrying such a load.
The anise that keeps rising ahead of me is slowing down little by little, so everything is being delayed.
I passed by senior Onyx, who was sweating profusely, and joined Anise next to her. Then, I quickly picked up a few magic engineering supplies that Anise was holding and placed them next to me.
“Ugh..Ugh, thank you, Senior Onyx. It’s already too heavy… ugh!”
Anise turned her head and tried to express her gratitude, but when she saw my face, she was startled and took a step back. I almost lost my footing, but managed to regain my balance and ended up dropping a few magic supplies.
– It’s a hit!
Clevius snatched the magic engineering supplies from below as they rolled along the floor. Anyway, he is the chief of the combat department.
“Don’t you have to be careful?! What if it breaks down…!”
After saying that, Clevius threw the two magic engineering supplies he had picked up onto the bundle he was holding. Anyway, I don’t think he’ll lose his strength.
“I’m sorry… Ed, I didn’t know you would catch up with me.”
It’s so hard that even my ears are completely red and I’m struggling to breathe. I looked Anise up and down and frowned.
Anyone could see that Anis was overdoing it. After spending a few days here, I get the feeling that Anis Heylan is strangely enthusiastic about everything.
It’s not that I can’t understand that psychology. When you live in a corner, you become afraid that you will fall behind even if you become a little lazy.
I, too, have suffered from overwork due to falling into that mentality.
When I think about it that way, I feel like I want to break Anise’s stubbornness because she doesn’t really seem like someone else’s story.
Rest is also part of work. If you don’t know that obvious fact, long-running is difficult no matter what you do.
“You should take a break and then come up. I’ll be working on the installation first.”
“What what?”
“Everyone has no complaints, right?”
After saying that, I glanced at the two people following me. Senior Onyx and Clevious nodded roughly.
Anise was holding about fifteen magical engineering supplies. I took them one by one and threw one towards Clevius and the other towards Onyx. The two accepted it without any hesitation and placed it in their arms. After checking it, I placed one on my arm.
As we repeated distributing them one by one, Anis soon had nothing in her hands.
“Now wait a minute…! Why didn’t you ask…!”
“I told you to rest.”
I told Anis straight like that. I don’t have the stamina to support it anyway, so forcing myself to do it only becomes a burden.
While fixing the magic engineering supplies, I slipped one hand out and dragged Anise by the shoulder and pressed her down on a nearby rock.
Anise was breathing heavily, looking up at me with a dumbfounded expression on her face.
“Take a break when you need to rest. You’re the only one losing.”
After saying that, I shook my head once and signaled to the others.
In fact, it is almost embarrassing to even call it a mountain. If you climb up for a few more minutes, you will soon reach the summit.
*
“I’ll come back after scattering some magic stones, and the two of you work on installing magic engineering supplies in an appropriate location. They said we’ll arrive after lunch, so we’ll have quite a bit of time.”
Assistant Professor Claire said and smiled.
“Thank you all for your hard work. After the installation work is completed and the section in charge is confirmed, we can begin the supervision work. The operation itself is not difficult, so it will only take about 30 minutes to complete the installation at the pre-planned location.”
Clevious took a deep breath and put down his magic engineering supplies. It was the same for me and Onyx.
The number of magical engineering supplies itself had decreased considerably. This is because several checkpoints along the route were installed in advance.
“Whew… I can’t believe low-level illusion items weigh this much… If it’s a higher grade than this, it’ll feel like carrying a rock.”
Senior Onyx sighed heavily and sat down on a nearby rock to wipe his sweat. Clevius seemed to have not been as tired as he thought, and after drinking some water to quench his thirst, he was twisting his body around.
He has that much stamina and a high level of swordsmanship, but when it comes to actual combat, he gets scared, so just looking at him from the outside makes him a truly strange person.
When you think about your past history of living your whole life as a failure and being treated as a failure by the Nortondale family, the best swordsman on the continent, you should nod your head… Well, that’s the story that Tailley will solve.
I took a break and looked at the view from the top of the mountain.
A majestic altar stands right on the open plain. The huge monument is full of unknown characters. It is so huge that it should be called a pillar rather than a monument.
The end of the monument, which stretches straight into the sky, has been cut off.
This is the ‘Altar of Change’, which is the stage for the final battle of Act 3.
I close my eyes and think back to that time.
A sky full of dark clouds. An archmage called a rare genius is looking up at the clouds.
The eagle-headed apostles of the god Telos flap their huge wings and cover the sky.
The god announces the end of Aken Island, and the magician who is trying to kill the god’s apostle and the party trying to stop the magician finally face each other in front of the altar.
A girl wearing a large witch’s hat speaks softly, with the glowing pillar behind her.
I don’t believe in God.
“Hey! What are you doing there? What! You!”
Suddenly, Senior Onyx shouted and I suddenly came to my senses.
“What is it, Senior Onyx?”
“Oh no… I thought there was someone at the top of the altar just now… hmm… I guess I was looking at it wrong…”
Who could possibly be climbing on the majestic, massive pillar left at the top of this mountain?
Still, I looked around just in case, but I couldn’t see the shadow of anyone of note.
“Ugh… I guess it was really hard to come up here. I’m just seeing all this nonsense.”
Senior Onyx tilted his head and sighed.
“Let’s quickly install the magic equipment and finish the exam. If we finish this, there won’t be anything else to do until the vacation is over.”
It takes a lot of effort for it to be the last job.
Grumbling like that, we got up from our seats.
We had to be busy to welcome new students on time.
“…hey.”
Senior Onyx, who had been gathering a few magical engineering supplies to install them, suddenly straightened his head.
“I think a few of these are broken… aren’t they…?”
