To commemorate his second year, Machu followed the trend and at the end of the year, he went to a magical new place in Atlanta called the "Photo Studio".

In the "photo studio", Machu paid a silver coin and twenty copper coins with a bleeding heart—you know, this is a lot of money, more than the price of Madame Gianna, and a little more can be found with Miss Julia for dinner.

But either way, after paying the money, Machu got the right to stand in front of a wacky instrument.

In front of a triangular stand, Machu struggled to widen his eyes and smile as he thought was the brightest he could be, as instructed by the person next to him, and tried to hold it for three seconds.

"Click!"

In a dazzling glow, Machu ended the expensive consumption and was told to come and pick up the photo three days later.

Three days later, early in the morning, Machu left the warm bed and hurried to the photo studio, where he saw the so-called photographs.

On the thin, half-palm-sized piece of hard paper, he was prepared but still amazed to see that his smile three days ago was clearly printed on it. Even in black and white, people can't help but marvel at how similar they are – more like the most skilled painters.

This one silver coin and twenty copper coins are really worth the money...... Machu sighed as he returned to his dormitory on the main campus of Atlanta, carefully tucking the photo into a printed book.

After that, Machu took out this photo from time to time to enjoy, looked at his smile on the photo, and couldn't help but think that his life in the new year will definitely get better and better.

And it turned out - he was wrong - very wrong.

On the day of the photo, because he spent one silver coin and twenty copper coins, although he was smiling, he was actually in a bad mood.

Compared with the next year, this day was in a bad mood, but it was a rare happy day.

The reason is no, just because the University of Atlanta has been restructured.

Machu doesn't know much about the restructuring. However, my personal experience is that the courses studied and the research conducted have suddenly become much more difficult, and there are many more assessments. If you fail three consecutive assessments, you will be warned. If you get three warnings, you will be dissuaded.

If the assessment is only related to whether he can master the course content, Machu is not too worried. However, what he hates about the restructuring is that some courses are not only judged by whether they have mastered the course content, but also compared with the rest of the people - the university administration says that the educational resources are limited, and only a relatively good group of people can stay.

For example, in the Holt Paleolinguistics course assessment, he was examined with 187 people, and the total score of the exam was 100 points. If he does not reach 60 points, he will definitely be assessed as failing, but reaching 60 points and above does not mean that he will definitely pass, it depends on how many scores the rest of the people have.

Specifically, his score must be in the top 90% of everyone to pass, strict to the top 75%, and loose to the top 95%.

Under this premise, he and all those who took the exam together competed not only to master the knowledge, but also to ensure that he did not master the worst. In the extreme case, if the whole class scored 100 points - a perfect score, then he only needs to do a question wrong and score 99 points, and he will also fail.

This situation repeated nine times, and he was forced to leave the University of Atlanta.

This forced him to study hard, desperately to catch up with the people who competed with him, and then he finally found out how bad he really was.

As mentioned earlier, he was in the University of Atlanta examination and had just reached the qualification line to enter the University of Atlanta. In a sense, his luck is stronger than his ability.

Except for a very few lucky people who were lucky enough to enter the University of Atlanta like him, the rest of the students were simply monsters in Machu's eyes, with a sensitivity to all kinds of knowledge beyond imagination, and a super memory, understanding, and logic.

Many of these students are from aristocratic backgrounds, and they have been educated by many tutors since they were young, and compared to him, they are not at the starting line at all.

At this time, Machu was glad more than once that he had chosen spell linguistics in the first place.

With his language skills, he barely managed to fall last in various language exams, but occasionally fell into the danger range of the bottom 5%, and was recorded as failing twice - one more time, and he was warned.

In order to avoid being warned, in order to avoid being persuaded to retreat after three warnings, Machu gritted his teeth and studied hard day and night, using twelve points of strength to study and study.

This year, he lost almost all means of entertainment, devoted all his time to studying, and even the habit of going out to dinner with a lady every week changed, and became only seven times in two months.

In this way, it is difficult to get through the year.

At the end of the year, Machu spent two silver coins and sixty copper coins to take a color photograph in a photo studio that had only become popular in recent months.

Looking at himself more clearly in the color photos, Machu looked at his past year and suddenly realized one thing, that is, there was no future for him to continue struggling to learn.

Although he has a certain learning ability, compared to the rest of the people in the same discipline, he is really not strong, and compared with people in spell chemistry, spell biology and other disciplines, he will be killed in seconds. Therefore, no matter how hard he tries, the assessment results are only between passing and failing, and he can't even reach a good one.

In this way, it is almost impossible to stay in school in the third year.

Although not being able to stay in school does not mean that there is no way out, according to the consensus of many students in the university, the way out is much narrower.

After more than two years of establishment, the University of Atlanta has become an integral part of the entire Atlanta City, the entire sarin, and has some fame throughout the continent. If you leave the University of Atlanta and get a good job or apprentice to a wizard, it's not too hard.

But if you stay at the University of Atlanta, you'll obviously get more.

After all, the University of Atlanta has only been established for more than two years now, and it has grown to this extent, and who knows how terrifying the future will become. Staying at Atlanta and becoming a permanent part of Atlanta is a great possibility of transcending classes.

You must know that there is no shortage of aristocratic children on the campus here, and the connections that they have gained just by staying are not simply measured by money.

But then again, how easy is it to get the qualification to stay in school?

Machu is not confident, his best assessment score in the course is the top 52%, and only when the average assessment score reaches the top 10%, there is some hope.

Then he had to look for some other way.

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