Chapter 370 – The Exam Sorceress

Chapter 370 – The Exam Sorceress

Some of them had already turned eighteen and were now adults, while others were still a few months away. Their need for sleep had decreased dramatically compared to before.

Basically, three or four hours of sleep a night was enough to fully recharge.

If they really compressed it, they needed at least two hours.

Late at night, the young witches were still sitting in the classroom, yawning as they worked through problems. Mo Lan couldn’t help but seize the opportunity of asking the Guardian Headmistress a question to remind everyone:

“Headmistress, can we take the Practice Quiz Cards back to the lounge to work on them?”

“You may. As long as you keep the quiz light-screen in privacy mode and don’t discuss any exam-related content with others, you can work wherever you want!”

The young witches were tired of sitting too. Watching Mo Lan get up and leave the classroom, they all gathered their things and prepared to leave as well.

Since they couldn’t discuss exam-related content, the young witches couldn’t really say anything to Mo Lan. They could only stare at her mournfully whenever they hit a problem that drove them to the brink of collapse.

Mo Lan felt like she was sitting on pins and needles. She could only hurry back to the big bed in the lounge and sleep with the blanket pulled over her face.

She went to bed early, slept her fill, then got up to continue working. On the morning of the 28th, when the other young witches had just finished their first pass and were going back to check the questions they couldn’t answer, Mo Lan had also completed one full pass through the exam.

However, Mo Lan’s “one pass” meant she had answered every single question correctly.

She went ahead and submitted her exam for grading.

Since they were mostly multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions with fixed answers, the card’s automatic grading was very fast.

In less than a minute, her score was out.

Unsurprisingly, it was a perfect score.

The question bank contained within the Practice Quiz Cards necessarily tested knowledge she had already mastered. Even though she hadn’t personally overseen every single question, it was perfectly normal for her to get them all right.

Looking around the lounge at the young witches frantically searching through their outlines and Grimoires for answers in front of their quiz light-screens, Mo Lan felt a twinge of guilt.

So she didn’t dismiss her Practice Quiz Card, letting the quiz light-screen float there while she picked up her Grimoire and flipped through other books, blending in with the frantically studying young witches in a show of solidarity.

On their first pass, the young witches had answered very few questions with confidence. Many required looking up answers afterward, and there wasn’t much time left before the exam ended.

By now, they didn’t even have time to glance at Mo Lan for stress relief when they encountered difficult problems.

Mo Lan, on the other hand, was finally able to relax.

She ate when she should eat, drank when she should drink, and slept when she should sleep.

In the entire lounge, she was the only one radiating an aura of complete ease.

At noon on the 29th, every young witch except Mo Lan was still in the lounge, using every last minute to frantically search for answers. Several of them had even pulled all-nighters the previous evening.

When the clock struck twelve and time was up, Madam Amisha appeared directly in the lounge.

The instant she materialized, the quiz light-screens in front of every young witch locked into the grading interface.

The young witches stared at the words “Grading in progress” on their screens, their hearts in their throats.

But since it was an open-book exam where they could look up answers, the accuracy rate for questions they had actually attempted was quite decent.

They had a rough idea of how many questions they’d completed, so when the final scores came out, there wasn’t too much of a gap from their expectations.

Essentially all of the young witches scored above 70.

Mo Lan was the only young witch to score above 95, earning a reward of 1 Purple Gold Coin.

The exam had been far too massive this time. Many young witches hadn’t even managed to start a third pass to fill in their gaps.

The second tier consisted of Cheryl, Sylph, and Vasida—all three scored in the 80 to 90 range and received a reward of 10 Magic Gold Coins each. The remaining young witches all scored above 70 but below 80, and each received 1 Magic Gold Coin as a reward.

“The graduation exams have now all come to a close. Everyone’s scores are passing, but merely passing isn’t enough.

You need at least 80 percent accuracy to avoid making critical mistakes on essential common knowledge once you’re out in the Wilds.

Those who didn’t score high enough—after you leave the school, make sure to review and fill in your gaps, and reinforce your theoretical knowledge.

Tomorrow evening at eight o’clock, the graduation ceremony will be held in the Great Hall. Please attend on time.

After the ceremony, you will be teleported to the vicinity of Witch’s Town, where you can rest and recuperate for a while before deciding on your next steps.

Until then, you can go gather some more Breadfruit to make travel rations, or head to the library to transcribe some books… In any case, cherish your remaining time at the school!”

After Amisha finished speaking, she teleported away from the lounge.

Mo Lan seized the moment while the young witches were still processing the emotions of their imminent graduation, and before they could react, she dashed to the bed and buried herself under the blankets.

This was the most comfortable spot in the entire lounge for taking a beating.

Sure enough, just as she predicted, the moment she hid herself away, Vasida let out a shriek that made her hair stand on end: “Mo! Lan! You sure kept that secret well!”

The young witches instantly recalled all the bitterness of studying and taking the exam. Now that it was over and they could relax, that didn’t stop them from settling old scores!

Twenty-seven young witches surrounded the “lump” on the bed.

Mo Lan, buried under the blanket, shouted in her own defense: “Everyone would have had to take the graduation exam whether or not there were Practice Quiz Cards! At least this saved you from flipping through thick stacks of papers!”

But the young witches wouldn’t listen to her excuses. They yanked the blanket off and went straight for her ticklish spots.

As they attacked, they muttered under their breath.

“Practice Quiz Cards—how did you even come up with something like this! Who wants to take exams and do practice problems for the rest of their life!”

“The Exam Sorceress—future generations of young witches will remember you well!”

“Ha ha ha! Wait—wait until after you graduate, and the knowledge you memorized saves—ha ha! Saves your life, or earns you money, ha ha! Then you’ll voluntarily—ha ha! Voluntarily do practice problems!”

Mo Lan barely managed to get that one sentence out before she was laughing too hard to speak.

Finally, when the young witches tired themselves out from all the roughhousing, they let her go.

Twenty-seven young witches lay sprawled across the big bed in every direction, twenty-six of them sporting faint dark circles under their eyes.

The only one without dark circles had her hair tangled into a complete mess, strands haphazardly plastered across her face. Her beautiful witch’s robe had become thoroughly wrinkled.

Mo Lan stared blankly at the ceiling.

They really hadn’t held back! They’d tickled her for a full half hour.

Now they’d all fallen asleep the moment their heads hit the bed, leaving her alone—her whole body weak from laughing, yet her mind completely wired. She couldn’t sleep, couldn’t get up, and just lay there on the bed like a corpse.

She lay there and lay there, and at some point fell asleep without realizing it.

Fortunately, when she woke up, the young witches didn’t dredge up the exam business again.

In their remaining time, they were all busy making final preparations for graduation.

Some were picking Breadfruit to stock up on rations, some were at the library transcribing books, and others were browsing the Card Shop to select cards for purchase.

Once midnight passed, the Card Shop’s graduation event went live.

The limited-time graduation gacha pool with boosted drop rates opened, and the Card Shop’s limited-time 40%-off discount began.