Chapter 1071 – Mo Lan’s Headmistress Routine 3

Chapter 1070 – Mo Lan’s Headmistress Routine 3

The young witches filed up one by one to collect their individual talent reports, then solemnly signed their names on the enrollment contracts.

This year’s cohort consisted of seven hundred and twenty new students. Divided into classes of thirty, they formed twenty-four classes in total.

Each class was led by its assigned Teaching Headmistress, filing in orderly fashion to the long tables in the first-year section to take their seats.

In the blink of an eye, only the four Headmistresses’ true forms remained on the elevated platform.

Mo Lan stepped forward, her gaze sweeping slowly across the hall below. The faint murmur of conversation and curious whispers died away in her wake.

“Students, beginning this academic year, the teaching arrangements and academic year plans for all grade levels will undergo a series of important adjustments and reforms.”

She raised her hand lightly, her sleeve rippling upward, and in an instant, a card appeared on the table before every young witch.

“This is the student card issued exclusively to each student by the Academy. It is a limited card that functions only within the Academy’s demiplane and has already been bound to your enrollment identity.

From now on, nearly everything related to your studies, daily life, and communications within the Academy will be conducted through it.

Through your student card, you can access the Mo Lan at any time, call up the Academy’s panoramic map, view detailed academic year plans and personal class schedules, remotely browse and transcribe borrowed magical texts from the library, or watch instructional videos recorded by Teaching Headmistresses.

Additionally, it has a built-in internal communications network for the Academy, supporting real-time contact between enrolled students.

Now, please follow the built-in beginner’s guide on the card and familiarize yourselves with its basic functions!”

A buzz of excitement swept through the hall. The young witches picked up the cards before them—some gingerly touching the castle emblem on the card’s surface, others already following the guide’s instructions and pressing a fingertip gently to the center.

Ripples spread across the card’s surface, and a semi-transparent light screen projected upward, hovering above the card.

【Welcome to your student card. Please follow the guide to complete initial setup.】

Another light touch, and a clean, intuitive function menu appeared before their eyes:

【Newcomer’s Guide】,【Academy Map】,【Academic Year Plan】,【Class Schedule】,【Library】,【Contacts】,【Exam System】,【Learning Space】,【System Settings】…

The young witches each began exploring on their own.

The first-year newcomers mostly just curiously tapped through each icon, reading the contents of the 【Newcomer’s Guide】, 【Academic Year Plan】, and 【Class Schedule】—after all, they had no idea how their seniors had previously studied and lived at the Academy.

Among the upper-year witches, however, the reaction was far more dramatic.

Witches in nearly every grade level noticed that the academic year plan had significantly more content, and their class schedules now included entries they had never seen before.

What surprised them even more was that many magic practicum classes no longer listed locations within the castle or the core region. Instead, the location was uniformly marked as: “Learning Space (tap to enter five minutes before class).”

Even the fourth and fifth-year witches, who had already moved out of the Academy Dormitory and begun field training in the Academy’s inner and outer regions, discovered a new course called “Survival Game” in their academic year plans.

Class times were not fixed—only a note reading “Game type, rules, and rewards announced one hour before class begins”—and the location likewise pointed to “Learning Space,” with an additional note: “Automatic teleportation upon scheduled time.”

The same word “rewards” also appeared in the 【Exam System】 interface.

Beyond the unit tests corresponding to required courses and the monthly and annual exams with fixed schedules, the system now included “Independent Challenge Exams” designed around elective readings and the library’s magical tome collection.

Theory-based book assessments were still completed through in-system tests, while practice-based book assessments required entering the “Learning Space” for hands-on evaluation exams. Each challenge offered different completion rewards based on the book’s importance and study difficulty—most being Gem Coin Cards of varying amounts.

For young witches who were penniless and would need to support themselves once they left the Academy, this was the most practical reward of all.

Just as the young witches were struggling to process these changes, buzzing with discussion, the light screens on all student cards flickered simultaneously, and a pinned notification popped up:

【Attention all witches: The day after tomorrow at 10 AM, an online Academic Year Briefing will be held via livestream in each grade-level group. Those with questions about the academic year arrangements may send their questions to their Teaching Headmistress, who will compile them and address them collectively during the grade-level briefing. PS: Teaching Headmistress contact information can be found in “Contacts.”】

Today was Friday, and classes wouldn’t begin until Monday—the young witches still had two days to rest and adjust.

Once the notification appeared, the rising tide of discussion in the Great Hall gradually subsided. With a clear channel and time for answers, the young witches’ anxious hearts settled somewhat.

They turned to operating their student cards, searching through the contacts for their class’s Teaching Headmistress, or quietly discussing with friends which questions they should raise.

Just then, Mo Lan’s voice rang through the Great Hall once more:

“Alright, everyone’s seen the notification, yes? Whatever questions you have, the Teaching Headmistresses will answer them one by one during the livestream the day after tomorrow.”

She smiled faintly, her gaze sweeping over all those young faces below—still touched with childishness, yet written with earnestness.

“Now—” Mo Lan’s tone turned light and playful as she raised her hand and snapped her fingers crisply. “It’s getting late, and after a busy evening, it’s time to enjoy some good food.”

The instant her fingers snapped, a radiance of magic rippled outward like water, washing over every long table.

One steaming, fragrant dish after another appeared out of thin air.

“I hereby declare—the enrollment banquet has officially begun!”

The aroma washed over them, a feast for both eyes and nose, and every young witch’s attention was irresistibly drawn to the delicacies before her.

The upper-year witches knew full well how rare such a lavish meal was. They cast aside their concerns about new courses and dug in with gusto.

“Wow—!”

Somewhere among the newcomers, someone let out a small exclamation of delight.

But aside from the few tables of first-years seated close to the upper-years, most newcomers failed to notice their seniors’ remarkably enthusiastic eating pace.

After the enrollment banquet concluded, the second-year witches spontaneously took it upon themselves to lead the first-year newcomers out of the Great Hall, down the mountain path from Academy Mountain toward the Dormitory district. The fourth-year witches set up tents outside the castle and began a “stargazing ritual.” The third and fifth-year witches, in their most dashing poses, came whooshing past on broomsticks.

Atop the clock tower of the Academy Castle, Mo Lan stood with Vasida, Sylph, and Lilith, watching it all unfold.

“After all these years, the traditions on enrollment night still haven’t changed!”