Chapter 140: Final Exam
Bell-Moonshadow remembered very clearly that it took her a full half a month to barely reach the introductory level when she learned this Witchcraft. Jia Na, on the other hand, seemed to have skipped the introductory step entirely and directly advanced into the proficient stage.
"Has anyone ever told you that your Witchcraft talent is very strong?"
"Yes, people have always said that, and I've always known it clearly."
Looking at Jia Na's rather calm expression, Bell-Moonshadow had actually long been used to it.
However, Bell-Moonshadow's true meaning was not just limited to the narrow scope of basic Witchcraft. It was that for extremely difficult subjects like Metamorphosis and Contract Studies, Jia Na also seemed to be able to easily achieve complete mastery.
This made Bell-Moonshadow very confused.
So much so that, for a long time, Bell-Moonshadow mistakenly thought that Jia Na actually had three Wizard Talents.
And she suspected that the third Wizard Talent was an A-grade Talent that allowed her to quickly master all Witchcraft.
However, according to her apprentice file, Jia Na was just an ordinary apprentice who happened to have two B-grade Talents, and even her background from the Lower City was unremarkable.
"I remember, that ordinary apprentice named Andre-Green seems to come from the same Lower City as Jia Na—and his talent also seems quite good—"
Shaking her head and cutting off these pointless speculations, Bell-Moonshadow's gaze couldn't help but turn back to Jia Na beside her.
"What are you doing?"
Seeing Jia Na suddenly take out a notebook and start writing, Bell-Moonshadow couldn't help but frown in confusion.
"Vivian has been in seclusion at home recently, so I'm making notes of the key points of the lessons she missed in advance, to make it easier for her to study at home."
"You've—been organizing notes for her all this time?"
Looking at Jia Na, who was currently lowering her head, calmly and diligently organizing notes, Bell-Moonshadow felt inexplicably a bit blocked in her heart.
"Yes, but it's paid; it requires academic credits."
Hearing Jia Na's reply, Bell-Moonshadow's tense expression suddenly relaxed.
"That's a good way to earn academic credits."
"Well, as long as she can seriously review using my notes, she won't fail the final exam."
The sound of writing continuously came from the quill pen in Jia Na's hand. Looking at the delicate and neat handwriting in the notebook, Bell-Moonshadow, who had been peeking from the side, suddenly said:
"Can I rent your notes?"
"As long as Vivian returns them to me, of course."
Letting out a light breath, after finishing organizing the class notes, Jia Na put the notebook into her thorn bracelet and then took the time to reply to Bell-Moonshadow, her potential customer.
"Alright, I hope you will practice this Witchcraft diligently when you go back, and I hope to see you here again next semester—class dismissed."
"Goodbye, Professor Margaret—"
Watching Professor Margaret leave, the apprentices in the classroom no longer chatted and laughed as before, but were enveloped in a heavy gloom.
Besides worrying about failing the final exam and having to repeat the year, some who still hadn't broken through to ten points of spiritual power and couldn't even be called a Wizard Apprentice were already showing despair. The dark circles under their eyes were enough to show their anxiety during this time.
"I'm going to the library later, do you want to come?"
"I—will go."
"Let's go then."
These past few days in class, because Vivian wasn't there, Bell-Moonshadow had been sitting with her instead.
Don't let Bell-Moonshadow's tough talk during the apprentice sparring fool you. In private, she was a person of few words. She was also used to being alone. Besides Jia Na herself, she rarely saw Bell-Moonshadow talking to anyone else in the class.
The night wind was cold, and the stars twinkled.
Turin, in late October, was gradually entering the end of autumn, and the night air was no longer as dry and hot as in the previous months; it had quickly turned cool.
"There are only two weeks left until the official exam—"
Bell-Moonshadow, who had agreed to come to the library together, couldn't sit still for even an hour. She awkwardly greeted Jia Na and left the library first.
Seeing this, Jia Na merely nodded and continued to immerse herself in the fulfilling feeling of rapid reading using Reading Magic. It wasn't until nine o'clock, when her spiritual power was exhausted from prolonged use of Reading Magic, that Jia Na reluctantly returned the books and left the library.
The cold night wind blew again. She tidied the hair blown messy behind her back. Accompanied by the screeching of Ravens, Jia Na didn't linger but hurried back to the dormitory for her daily, unfailing meditation practice. November 15th, weather, cloudy.
On the day of the exam, perhaps the grievances of the apprentices at the Turin Wizard Gathering Place were too heavy, causing the magic particles on this day to be extremely turbulent, even to the point of affecting the weather.
"Drip—drop—drip—drop—"
At this moment, in the vast classroom, looking at the exam time on the classroom clock that was already more than halfway through, Jia Na put down her pen and effortlessly finished the fourth set of cultural subject exam papers.
"Elvish, Ancient Magic History, Basic Biology, Basic Herbalism—well, there should be no problem."
The exam time was from 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM, a total of four subjects, with only one hour for each subject.
Moreover, each subject's paper was graded out of 150 points, with a large number of questions. Besides two-thirds objective questions, there was also one-third subjective questions. It greatly tested the test-taker's ability to comprehensively grasp knowledge.
It was very difficult to score well.
But fortunately, Jia Na, who had been baptized in the exam-oriented education of her previous life for more than ten years, found the test papers in front of her no challenge at all. Before 10:30, Jia Na had already finished all the questions and entered the rest period.
"You're not allowed to leave the exam hall early—. Although it's a measure to prevent cheating, it's not very humane. 'Caw—there is still one hour left until the end of the exam, please hurry up and answer the questions, all candidates.'"
Just as Jia Na was silently complaining in her heart, the Raven Messengers, serving as the "invigilators" for this exam, were standing on the podium at this time, monitoring all the apprentices in all directions with extremely sharp eyes.
The exam rules at White Coral Academy were extremely strict. Besides having four Ravens assigned to each exam hall for invigilation,
before entering the exam hall, each apprentice would also be subjected to a physical search by a Raven.
Any item related to the supernatural was strictly forbidden from being brought into the exam hall. Even the "tanuki robe" that Jia Na always wore was not allowed in the exam hall.
Therefore, today, Jia Na was wearing the standard issue wizard robe given by the academy before to take the written test—