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It was because of Lucy’s sudden behavior in the examination room.
She was walking confidently toward the dragon, with the will to fight.
Andreyan, who was watching her with a cold sweat, checked her movements again with a feeling of doubt.
Lucy was walking forward slowly.
Her direction was not toward the entrance of the maze, but toward the dragon, and her fingertips were gathering magic power.
Nine times out of ten, she was trying to launch a preemptive attack.
Andreyan doubted his eyes.
Trying to fight the dragon was the craziest thing he had ever seen in his time as a proctor.
The dragon was not placed there to be caught in the first place.
It was just there to test one’s courage, and it was like a boss monster that was made impossible to catch.
And in order to remind the examinees of this, the ‘dragon’ was placed there on purpose to give them a strong sense of intimidation.
The Saryong is the ‘Academy Director’s’ personal servant, and boasts the strongest fighting power among the summoned beasts raised at the academy.
Its power is beyond imagination, and even the faculty considered it impossible to win in a one-on-one match.
Faced with such an enemy, the true purpose of the test was to overcome fear and see that the Saryong had no hostility towards him.
‘Did he lose his reason because of fear, or if not…
In the urgent situation, Andreyan’s thoughts were spinning like crazy.
‘Pitch-black magic’, ‘Satan’s daughter’, ‘Fireball of abnormal power’, he quickly came up with one hypothesis based on the extraordinary appearances she had shown in the practical test just a little while ago.
‘Did he really think he could win…?’
While he was racking his brain about this and that hypothesis, the other faculty members were raising their voices, saying that the test should be stopped immediately.
Even if it was a summoned beast that was bound, it could reflexively counterattack if attacked.
What if the princess got hurt?
If something went wrong, all of the people involved could be beheaded.
Soon, the teachers, who felt chills down their necks, decided to immediately stop the test.
2. Lucy hesitated for a moment.
The dragon just stared at her quietly, not showing any aggressive behavior.
With that obedient attitude, she also vaguely realized that ‘the test might be about defeating the dragon?”
When you think about it, it’s obvious.
Judging by its size, the undead dragon in front of her was at least level 50.
There was no way that they would ask children with an average level of 10 to 20 to catch such a thing.
‘If that were the case, there would be a pile of corpses over here by now!
In a prestigious academy, there would be no way that they would commit such a cruel act that would make ‘even Satan say this is a little….
Therefore, the content of the test is not about defeating the dragon.
So what is the real content of the test?
As I was thinking about that, I suddenly remembered what Gwen had said.
[The trials often feature taming demons.]
‘This is it.’
From what I’ve studied, the ability to communicate with demons is also one of the qualities of a wizard.
In other words, this exam is a test of a wizard’s qualities by taming a demon dragon.
In addition, the difficulty is that the demon dragon with a dirty appearance was left as a summon.
It wouldn’t be easy to approach it after seeing that fierce expression.
Lucy concluded that.
At the same time, she was smiling triumphantly at the fact that she had figured out the examiners’ intentions.
‘This is truly a prestigious academy.
I didn’t expect them to give me such a high-level question.
After drawing that conclusion, Lucy strode towards the demon dragon again.
Now that she understood the intention of the exam, solving it would be easy.
Of course, since illusion was the optimal skill for taming a familiar.
Meanwhile, the dragon that was watching Lucy with its head up tilted.
As expected, there was no attack at all.
If I approached like this and used a skill, it would be game over.
It was the moment when I was about to use ‘brainwashing.’
An unknown magical power was detected, and soon seven beings were transferred from the surroundings.
It was none other than the supervisors.
As soon as they were transferred, they all began to protect themselves by covering them wide.
Lucy was dumbfounded by the sudden intrusion.
The fact that the examiners had barged into the exam meant that something was definitely wrong.
Therefore, ominous thoughts began to creep into her head, wondering if she had made a mistake.
“Isn’t this dangerous..?”
Even without that, the practical exam had been put on hold due to the abnormal phenomenon.
If she didn’t get a significant result in the last exam, she had a bad feeling.
“Princess, I’m sorry, but what on earth were you trying to do just now?”
The first to speak was a man named Andreyan, who had been the supervisor of the practical exam earlier.
He had a stern demeanor with narrowed eyes, and it seemed that he was going to scold her.
Lucy hesitated to open her mouth, the other person was the supervisor, and if she said something wrong here, she would really be stamped as a failure.
As she hesitated for a moment, Andreyan asked first, as if he was trying to poke her in the face.
“You… were you trying to fight?”
“Yes, but I stopped when I saw that the opponent had no intention of attacking.”
“Then why did you approach the dragon?”
“That…”
What should I say here?
Should I honestly say that I approached it because I thought the trial was about ‘taming the demon’?
That won’t do.
If the content of the test really was about ‘taming the demon’, the supervisors wouldn’t step in and intervene.
‘If I say that I misunderstood the content of the test, I might get in trouble. I think it’s best to just calmly pass over the problem here.’
“I just approached it because I thought there might be another intention behind the trial.”
“Weren’t you scared? The opponent was that dragon, a demonic beast that can take life with just its breath.”
“If it’s a summoned beast from the academy… it wouldn’t attack a test taker so easily, and it also seems a little cute.”
“Cute, huh? A dragon…?”
At the unexpected addition of ‘the dragon is cute’, all the testers except Andreyan hesitated.
Only then did they realize, ‘Oh no.’
Even the most hideous dragon, the dragon, was cute.
Even when he thought about it, it was an absurd answer.
“So what you’re saying is that you knew that the dragon wouldn’t attack you, and you also thought that the dragon was cute?”
Andreyan asked her intentions again in a manly manner.
There was no going back on what she had already said.
Lucy gave up and nodded silently.
Then, there was silence for a moment.
Lucy, who had been mumbling the words ‘ruined’ in her mind, soon tilted her head.
“Hahaha!”
Andreyan, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly burst into laughter.
He was laughing heartily as if he had been hit with a punch.
“That’s right, that’s right, hahaha!”
“Why are you doing that?”
“Oh, that was rude, don’t worry about it.”
“??”
“Anyway, this concludes the exam.
Thank you for your hard work today.”
Andreyan, who had let out a refreshing laugh to himself, announced the end of the exam.
At the same time, an alarm bell rang in Lucy’s head.
During the exam, the proctor had personally recommended that the exam be ended.
This must have been a bad situation.
‘I’m screwed.’
Regardless, Andreyan was walking toward the exit of the exam room.
Two days after the exam.
Lucy was lying in bed, feeling dejected.
She had a bad feeling.
Three of the practical exams (the magic power management and magic power measurement trials) had been postponed midway.
Furthermore, there had been no contact from the academy since then.
Lucy let out a helpless sigh in confusion.
Of course, she didn’t necessarily want to enroll in the academy.
It was just one of countless options.
However, there was such a thing as prestige.
Until just a little while ago, she had shown Rubia some confidence in the exam, but what if she failed here?
There is no shame like this.
‘Who would have thought that I would be caught in the practical exam?’
Clank.
While I was feeling so wronged, Rubia came into the room holding an envelope.
A sense of ominousness came over me.
It was because of the Edem Academy seal on the letter.
“Lucy, a notice with my exam results just arrived.”
“Um, leave it there and go.”
“No way. It’s probably a notice of acceptance, so I need someone to congratulate me.”
“No..”
Lucy held back her words.
Hiding it wouldn’t keep it hidden.
In the end, she had no choice but to open the notice in front of Rubia.
Crack.
She took out the notice.
The pressure rose exponentially because of Rubia, who was preparing to applaud in front of her.
The notice that she took out said…
“Huh..?”
“Why are you doing that?”
“It says I passed.”
And not just any acceptance, she was the top student.
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