Chapter 184: Is it really funny that every single witch is targeting me?

The story must begin with Charlotte’s fourth-year promotion examination.

Saint’s Calendar, June 999.

The promotion examinations for the first three years of Starsea Magic Academy were generally simple, requiring only written tests and practical magic exercises to pass.

However, from the fourth year onward, the difficulty of the promotion examinations began to increase exponentially.

Many witches were held back for several years because they were unable to pass the promotion examination.

This time, the promotion examination location was arranged near the Mist Forest, fifty li from Tsumuguri City.

Early in the morning, the witches taking the examination gathered in groups on their magic broomsticks and flew to the Mist Forest to participate in the examination.

The proctor for this examination was the Starsea Magic Academy’s Second Instructor—Sista, the Frost Witch.

She was a witch who usually wore a kind face but whose thoughts were completely inscrutable.

Ever since Charlotte’s third year, when she accidentally shattered Tsumuguri City’s large defensive barrier with a Crimson Judgment Bullet during the Ice Wolf Clan incident, this squinty-eyed instructor would frequently approach her and ask questions. Even Instructor Mashiro, who was constantly causing trouble for Charlotte, often warned her not to get involved with this person.

Unfortunately, at this time, Instructor Mashiro was in charge of the first-year promotion examination, which was Shaula’s grade, so she couldn’t stay here to monitor Sista’s every move.

After all the witches for the examination had gathered, Sista announced the details of the promotion examination.

Each witch received an envelope containing the item they needed to find within the Mist Forest. If they returned with the item, they would pass the promotion examination.

However, the Mist Forest was different from other forests. For ninety percent of the year, it was enveloped in a thick fog. It was easy to get lost deep inside, and in the worst cases, one couldn’t even see their own hand stretched out in front of them.

Of course, the difficulties facing them were far from over. Before this, two other instructors had already infiltrated the Mist Forest. They would do their best to obstruct every witch they saw. To avoid being found by them, the witches had to meticulously conceal their presence.

Even more importantly, only the first one hundred witches to return with the corresponding item would pass this promotion examination. Even if a witch returned with the item before sunset, if her rank was outside the top one hundred, she would fail and have to retry next year.

The number of witches participating in this examination was close to three hundred, meaning the pass rate was only one-third, making the elimination rate very high.

Therefore, the witches participating in the examination immediately viewed each other as enemies.

After Sista announced all the rules of the examination, Charlotte instantly became the target of hostility from all the witches present.

After all, this promotion examination was extremely advantageous for witches with high magical talent. If these ordinary witches didn’t gang up on the high scorers, they might not be able to pass this cruel examination at all.

Magic attacks, like a battle in the Middle East, exploded all around her. Fireballs, ice pillars, lightning, and sandstorms roared around her, giving Charlotte no chance to fight back.

Charlotte could only scramble to her feet and become the first witch to rush into the forest covered by thick fog.

Fortunately, hidden by the fog, the witches who were frantically targeting the high scorers soon lost their target.

But this didn’t mean Charlotte’s ordeal had ended there.

The witches, forming small groups, continued deeper into the forest. They all shared a consensus: once they found Charlotte’s trace, they would do their best to focus-fire her and prevent her from easily finding the item she was looking for.

Therefore, Charlotte would constantly run head-on into other witches, who would immediately bombard her with magic, forcing her to flee in panic.

At this point, one might ask, why did Charlotte keep taking hits? Why didn’t she fight back? Being targeted by three hundred witches at once might justify not fighting back, but being chased by only five or six witches without fighting back was inexcusable.

To be honest, Charlotte wanted to fight back too. She hated being constantly chased.

Besides, she could easily defeat five or six witches at once, or even ten.

However, if she did that, her promotion examination might be instantly voided.

The item she needed to find was a very small, inconspicuous, and extremely rare mushroom. If she were to cast a counter-spell casually, she might accidentally destroy the mushroom she was looking for.

It was already difficult to observe anything in this foggy forest. Charlotte didn’t want to fail the promotion examination and be held back for decades like those grandmas who had been failing for years.

Therefore, Charlotte focused all her attention on examining every inch of ground, desperately avoiding conflict with other witches. When she saw other witches, she immediately fled, giving them no opportunity to cast spells on her.

However, as more witches entered the forest, Charlotte soon found herself cornered. She didn’t want to enter the deep part of the Mist Forest so soon, because she was only an apprentice witch. It would be difficult to find a safe place in the deep forest; once discovered, she would be dead.

She had already sensed two very strong magical signatures in the deep part of the forest, which were likely the instructors Sista spoke of.

Compared to being chased by these witches, she definitely did not want to be beaten into a pulp by those instructor-level witches.

Just as Charlotte was running out of options, a familiar voice suddenly came from not far away.

“Senior, come here quickly! This place is absolutely safe, meow!”

It was Yuffie’s voice.

Seeing the familiar pink-haired witch waving at her from the bushes nearby, Charlotte ran toward her without thinking twice.

She then fell into a deep pit, nearly splitting her butt in half.

Before she could cry out in pain, Yuffie suddenly covered her mouth, gesturing for silence.

Following that, the group of witches chasing Charlotte ran past above them.

“Where did that girl go?”

“I couldn’t even see her just now; how did she disappear so fast?”

“This fog is such a hassle! If not for this fog, we would have definitely caught her here!”

“Alright, let’s keep searching! She must have run in this direction! Hurry up and chase her!”

Leaving those words, the witches ran off into the distance and quickly disappeared.

Noticing the witches were gone, Yuffie released Charlotte’s hand.

“Senior, how was it? It’s safe here, meow!”

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