There are only ten days left until the end of the school year.

During the day, I spent my free time secretly practicing magic in the woods.

Even if you have the ability to cast magic, you have to increase your proficiency, right?

A sword is useless, and your strength can't go up.

Anyway, I now have a new skill, fantasy magic.

I haven't figured out what its specific usage is for the past few days, so I've classified it as chicken ribs.

Leave this alone for now.

It's so cool to have magic.

I can unleash fireballs to hit my targets, and I can throw wind blades to take out weaker monsters nearby.

I can even use earth-based magic to build an earthen house that resembles a beach fort.

Although I was a little younger, and I was out of the age of playing with mud at an early age, I always felt a sense of accomplishment in doing so, as if I had completed a work of art.

Finally, the day of the end-of-school assessment has arrived.

The day came easier than I expected.

Because the time flies so fast, so fast that I don't even realize that today is the day of the assessment, so I feel that this day is very simple.

I've been taking time out lately to practice magic and even sneak out at night.

Physically and mentally exhausted, I felt more confident and not the slightest bit of apprehension in my heart.

With the idea that I was the main character, I thought that I would definitely be able to pass the final exam.

"Randy, you have to come on, grandpa always has hope for you and always believes in you.

No matter what the result is, you just have to work hard! ”

Before heading to school, Siluya and I said goodbye to Grandpa Rodney.

I felt a heaviness when I thought of Grandpa Rodney's hopeful eyes.

I don't want to let him down.

With the opportunity, I don't want to be a waste.

"Randy, are you alright?"

Siruya, who was beside me, called me, and I looked at her with my head down in thought.

"What's wrong?"

"Today is the day of the assessment, you must have been preparing hard lately, right?"

"Well, almost."

"No wonder you have dark circles."

Silua said, pointing to my eyes.

I noticed that she looked a little strange, or rather sullen.

"What's the matter, do you have anything on your mind?" I asked.

Siruya shook her head and asked me in turn, "Is there something on your mind?" ”

I was puzzled and shook my head.

"Why haven't you been with me lately, you can't even play with me." Siruya asked me with a look of courage finally coming up.

I thought about it for a moment and said, "I've been preparing for the exam recently, so I don't have time to accompany you."

And we're not kids anymore, it's boring to play or something. ”

"That's ......"

Siruya clenched her little pink fist and lowered her head.

I don't understand her thoughts, I just think she's still a child, and it's inevitable that children will be playful, and they don't know what is important.

This may be the difference in mentality between her and "adults" like me.

I focus on the results of the assessment, and playing has no meaning for me, so I must pass it today!

"Siluya, are you sure you can pass the assessment?" I asked.

"Hey, this ......" Siruya hesitated, as if she was thinking about how to answer me.

I guess she didn't want me to feel lost, after all, I was more than a little bit different from her magical talents.

After spending so much time together, I recently discovered that she was a very talented child in magic, otherwise she wouldn't have performed healing magic that day.

Assessment or something, she should be able to pass easily.

"Siruya is very sure, right, I think you are very powerful!"

"I didn't ...... No, I'm about the same as you, Randy. ”

Siruya didn't dare look at me, obviously lying.

As an "adult", my heart will not be so small.

She's my friend, and I'm really happy for her to have such a high level of magical talent.

Entering the academy, I saw that on the playground, all the fifth-grade students were standing in a rectangular array, waiting for the orders of the teachers on the hosting platform.

I also belong to the fifth grade, and unlike in my previous life, I am not a primary school student.

How many unfamiliar faces are there?

They probably aren't teachers at this school.

On the stage, I noticed a few teachers I hadn't met before.

Most of them were richly dressed and elegantly behaved, and at first glance they came from the city.

"Why are you two late, today is the day to take the assessment!"

The dean's scolding voice came, and the middle-aged man from the Mediterranean seemed to be very concerned about this assessment activity.

It's like a leader coming to inspect it, so I'm angry at the two of us who are late.

"Which class are they from, the head teacher?"

"I'm sorry Dean, they're my students!"

Zelorella stood out of the teacher's queue very embarrassed, pointed in the direction of class 03, and said to me and Siluya:

"Randy, Silua, you two hurry up and join the team!"

Siluya and I trotted into the line, at the end of the line.

The fifth grade is divided into three classes, and each class has more than 20 students.

I stumbled upon a somewhat familiar figure standing in the other class teams not far away.

"Huh, is that her?"

After recalling for a moment, looking at the red-haired girl, I remembered her name, Lilith.

It turns out that she and I are classmates.

"Hey, Dean Brian, there was a student named Randy just now, and he's the kid who can't do magic?"

A young man in a purple robe caught my eye.

Being named by him in public, I felt a little weak-hearted.

"Well, it's him."

Brian replied with some embarrassment.

"Oh, that's right, a child who doesn't know magic, can only be described as waste?"

"I think so, too, although children who don't have magical talent can choose other professions.

For example, a swordsman or a fighting spirit master, but in such a remote place, few people can afford to change jobs! ”

"It seems that this child is destined to fail the assessment and eventually become a low-level farmer, hehehe!"

The strange teachers on the stage mocked me in front of everyone, which made me a little unhappy.

After all, a few adults come to taunt me as a child, which is really not very authentic, although I am psychologically an adult.

"Hahaha, Randy was named and ridiculed."

Sauron at the front of the queue turned around and grimaced at me, and the other students gave me contemptuous glances, and for a moment, I became the target of everyone's attention.

Seeing this, I could only bow my head and fall silent.

"Ahem...... Today is a special day, you have been in this magic academy for five years.

Both the teacher and I, as the dean, felt reluctant to ......"

"I'm sorry, I'm late!"

Looking up, I saw Dean Brian, who was speaking, interrupted by a young man who had arrived in a hurry.

I cast my eyes on the man and saw that he was covered in mud and dust.

What is more special is that he has a pair of gray dog ears.

Is it subhuman?

"Well, I'm sorry, this teacher, may I ask who you are?" Brian said as he touched his shiny head.

"I'm the director of the Kokoa School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Wayne, you should have received my letter, I'm here to recruit students!" Wayne explained.

"It turned out to be someone from Kekoa School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, I didn't expect someone to come all the way here to recruit students......"

"I heard that this magic school is on the border of the empire, not much better than the backcountry."

"Hey, it seems that it's very difficult over there, as the director of teaching, he personally came to the territory to recruit students."

The rest of the strange teachers were talking loudly and unabashedly, as if everyone in the city was like this?

The man named Wayne walked into the podium line.

The rest of the teachers seemed to dislike him, and I don't know if it was because of racial discrimination or if he had a habit of cleanliness.

"Ahem, where did I just go?

Oh yes, I remembered......"

Dean Brian said a lot of sensationalism, like a graduation ceremony, as if it wasn't time yet.

A few words from his back caught my attention.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you must have thought about a question before.

That's why our academy is called the Academy of Magic, not the School of Magic?

Actually, it's because ......"

Through Brian's explanation, I learned that the original reason why the academy was called the academy was because it only taught magic.

Because magic is the most basic skill on the continent, it is something that every child must master in the early stages of learning.

School of magic is different.

When you go to a magic school, you have to learn not only magic as a skill, but also fighting and swordsmanship.

When you graduate again, you can choose a university with a different major.

It sounds similar to the previous life, similar to applying for different majors.

There are not only magic universities in this world, but also swordsmanship universities, fighting spirit master universities, and even beast tamer universities......

The amount of information is simply too much.

After Brian finished speaking, several strange teachers explained their intentions one after another—admissions.

In order, what they said was nothing more than something praising their respective magic schools.

I have no idea how many years of history there are and what are the names of the magicians, swordsmen, etc., but I have never heard of them......

I had experienced a similar scene in my previous life, so I saw it thoroughly.

Nine times out of ten, they are boasting about themselves, and the purpose is to attract other students, and after completing the assessment, they will join the magic school they represent.

So I always put on a flat face during the process, but the other students are different.

I observed that from time to time there was a look of interest on their faces, attracted by a certain topic that they were talking about.

When it was Wayne's turn to give an admissions speech, the others didn't seem to be very interested.

It is in great contrast to the speeches of the previous teachers.

I'm only now realizing why those teachers were talking loudly to Kokoa School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in front of everyone.

While taunting there, they want to achieve an effect that makes everyone think it's bad.

Sure enough, Wayne's speech didn't attract much attention.

After all, who wants to go to a junk school that has neither a good reputation, nor a good environment and abundant resources?