Chapter 97 Mental Witchcraft
Listening to Bell-Moonshadow's abrupt words, Jia Na, who was looking down at her book, merely raised her eyebrows slightly, then immediately looked up and smiled at Bell-Moonshadow.
"Winning and losing are temporary. There's no need to get stuck on it. Besides, the last match was the most difficult one I've won so far."
Looking at Jia Na's calm smile, Bell-Moonshadow lowered her head for a moment, somewhat afraid to meet her gaze directly.
"Is that true?"
"I don't lie."
She pursed her lips tightly. After a moment, as if a heavy stone in her heart had suddenly dropped, Bell-Moonshadow raised her head, ready to say something, only to find that the other person had refocused her attention on the textbook, completely ignoring her rich inner turmoil.
"So I'm the only one who was agonizing over it—"
The morning light was faint. Through the glass window, a not-so-bright ray of sunshine gently fell on Jia Na. She was like a painting exuding the breath of early spring. Just looking at her quietly could make one involuntarily calm down.
"Oh, right, that Rose Family apprentice who's always hanging around you, why didn't she come today?"
After a brief daze, Bell-Moonshadow regained her composure. Looking at the empty seat next to Jia Na, she realized that the female apprentice who had always been inseparable from Jia Na was unusually absent today, which made Bell-Moonshadow a little curious.
"You mean Vivian? She's been on missions recently, so she took leave and didn't come—and she's never just hung around me, we're friends."
"Hmm—friends?"
Listening to this unfamiliar word, Bell-Moonshadow, who had undergone rigorous training in the Lunar Shadow Family since childhood, had always trained alone.
Even before her Wizard Talent awakened, it didn't affect Bell-Moonshadow, who possessed pure dark elf blood, from receiving the most professional physical training since childhood.
She knew that whether it was hiring the best physical training teachers or constantly purifying her dark elf blood with potions, these were resource advantages that other branch apprentices with thin bloodlines like Anna-Moonshadow could not enjoy.
Behind these advantages, however, lay desperate physical training during long, lonely nights, and the resentment from being openly and secretly ostracized for taking resources from other family members.
Her thoughts drifted a little. Shaking her head, Bell-Moonshadow, who usually didn't have the habit of previewing before class, opened her book today for a rare occasion, imitating Jia Na, and forced herself to look at the basic knowledge she had always disdained.
"Good morning, apprentices."
"Good morning, Professor Margaret—"
Underneath the loose clothing and flowing, messy gray ear-length short hair was still a gentle-faced, straightforwardly smiling, slightly plump face with a hint of plateau blush.
"How well have you mastered the Wizard's Hand I taught you last class after class?"
Looking at the apprentices with various expressions below the stage, some confident, some looking down, Mary-Margaret mercilessly called a male apprentice whose head was almost under the table to the podium.
"It's you, come here and demonstrate the Wizard's Hand. If I'm not satisfied, I think you know the consequences."
Unlike Mary-Margaret's kind and friendly appearance, her teaching style was always known for its strictness and seriousness. If an apprentice's performance didn't meet her expectations, forget about the usual class grades; they would be heavily deducted.
"Okay—Professor."
Seeing that he had been called by name, the male apprentice with a mournful face walked onto the podium as if resigned to his fate and began to stutter the spell.
"Wrong! Did you really practice seriously after you went back?"
"Professor, I—"
"Alright, your name is John, right? Five points deducted from your usual grade. I will ask you specifically next class. If you don't want to continue to lose points, I suggest you don't be lazy."
"Yes—yes, Professor."
Watching the male apprentice return to his seat with a dejected, kéo face, Jia Na actually hoped she would be called upon.
After all, according to Mary-Margaret's style, apprentices who performed poorly would have points deducted, but apprentices who performed well would also have points added. For the sake of her final grades, Jia Na didn't mind adding a little more academic credit.
"Next, you! The female apprentice in the red wizard robe in the back row, come here and demonstrate the Wizard's Hand."
The first fifteen minutes of the class were spent in tense and exciting roll calls. It wasn't until Mary-Margaret stopped calling names and opened her textbook that the nervous apprentices below the stage finally let their hearts, which had been in their throats, gradually settle back down.
"Your performance makes me very dissatisfied. If this is the progress, I don't think those of you who haven't even mastered the Wizard's Hand need to learn the next Witchcraft. In the quiet classroom, only the sound of Mary-Margaret turning pages remained. And those apprentices who obviously hadn't learned the Wizard's Hand just now lowered their heads even more, not daring to breathe loudly.
"Turn to Chapter Four—"
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"Today we are going to learn about mental Witchcraft, and the Witchcraft I am going to demonstrate this time is the most practical one among apprentice Witchcraft: Reading Magic."
It's actually Reading Magic!
Having previewed in advance, Jia Na naturally knew that the basic Witchcraft to be taught in this class was in the mental domain. She had thought that even if Mary-Margaret taught on the spot, she would only teach low-level Witchcraft like Mental Perception.
But unexpectedly, Mary-Margaret was far more generous than Jia Na had imagined. She actually directly chose the popular Reading Magic among mental domain Witchcraft, which would save the academy how many jin sule! "Fortunately, I didn't spend money to exchange this Witchcraft in advance."
Because she usually took on Purification tasks for older apprentices, Jia Na had learned a lot of money-saving tips from those older apprentices. For example, during the first year, try not to exchange for general Witchcraft.
Witchcraft like Wizard's Hand, 【Shrinking Spell】, Mental Perception, 【Polymorph】 etc., are usually taught for free in the Basic Spells class, so there's no need to spend unnecessary money to exchange for them.
Therefore, Jia Na, who kept the lessons in mind, has not actively exchanged for even a single general Witchcraft so far.
However, Reading Magic is a popular Witchcraft with a high number of exchanges on the magic crystal wall exchange list on the first floor of the Magic Tower. Even though it is a general Witchcraft, previous older apprentices have always used their academic credits to exchange for it, and they have never heard of a Professor teaching it for free.
"Finally, there's a chance to get something from the academy—"