Chapter 739 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 6

Chapter 739 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 6

The testing instruments were all arranged around the main testing platform. The test results would be magnified and projected onto a screen above the main platform, allowing everyone present to clearly see every student’s results from each testing station.

The testing instrument was a white, square platform. On one side of the platform stood two vertical white measuring scales — one connected to the innate psychic power testing helmet, and the other connected to the Mirror Explorer aptitude testing bracelet.

By now, the first student from their class to be tested had already stepped onto the platform and put on the helmet and bracelet.

Two beams of light — one gold, one silver — immediately appeared at the base of the two scales and began rising, eventually stopping at their respective high points. The corresponding scale readings showed “51” and “32.”

“Innate psychic power 51 points, Mirror Explorer aptitude 32 points. Tsk! What a shame — the Mirror Explorer aptitude is a failing score. Can’t get into the Mirror Explorer class, and self-study won’t yield any exploration gains in mirror space either.”

Mo Lan heard the students ahead of her commenting.

Both the innate psychic power and Mirror Explorer aptitude tests were scored on a scale of one hundred, with fifty being a passing grade.

Only those who passed both could enter the Mirror Explorer class.

Mo Lan watched as that student stepped onto the testing platform full of hope, only to be pulled down by a teacher in tears.

People like him were truly not few in number, looking across all the testing stations.

Of the first batch to go up, only half met the Mirror Explorer class admission standards.

Among that half who met the Mirror Explorer class standards, those who could meet Deer Cry Middle School’s Mirror Explorer class enrollment standards were even rarer.

That’s right — Deer Cry Middle School’s Mirror Explorer class also had its own enrollment standards.

The combined score of innate psychic power and Mirror Explorer aptitude had to be at least 140 points to qualify for Deer Cry Middle School’s Mirror Explorer class.

Deer Cry Middle School’s fourth and fifth years only had Mirror Explorer classes — there were no ordinary classes.

Every year, among all the talents in the entire Deer Cry Mirror whose combined aptitude scores exceeded 140 points, if not one hundred percent, then ninety-nine percent would enroll at Deer Cry Middle School.

Each person who stepped onto the testing platform got their results in less than a minute, and regardless of whether their aptitude was high or low, they couldn’t linger on the platform.

There were thirty-two people ahead of Mo Lan at Testing Station 2, and in no time at all, all thirty-two had finished their tests.

Of those, fifteen were celebrating that they could continue staying at Deer Cry Middle School, eight were lamenting that they’d have to go to a lesser school’s Mirror Explorer class, and nine wore expressions as if the sky had fallen — they were the ones who had failed the test and couldn’t enter any school’s Mirror Explorer class.

“Mo Lan! You’re up!” The supervising teacher looked at her. “You know what to do, right?”

Mo Lan nodded, stepped onto the testing platform, and put on the helmet and bracelet.

Immediately, she felt a surge of energy emerge from both the helmet and the bracelet, probing toward her mental sea and her body respectively.

The energy heading toward her mental sea was an unfamiliar psychic power, and the moment it arrived, Mo Lan’s own psychic power instinctively resisted it.

At the same time, the innate psychic power measuring scale shot to its peak in an instant. Mo Lan could even hear gasps of shock from the teacher and classmates behind her.

She hurriedly reined in her psychic power — just barely managing not to crush the unfamiliar psychic power outright, which would have caused the measuring scale to overload.

It was then that she also recognized what the other energy emerging from the bracelet was.

Even though it had been made extremely gentle, Mo Lan would never mistake those energy fluctuations — it was spatial power!

It kept boring deeper and deeper into her body, and the more it penetrated, the faster the silver light on the Mirror Explorer aptitude scale surged upward, reaching the peak in no time.

Fortunately, once it hit the peak, no more spatial power flowed out from the bracelet.

Mo Lan quickly removed the helmet, took off the bracelet, and hopped down from the testing platform.

“Perfect scores in both innate psychic power and Mirror Explorer aptitude!”

“A born Mirror Explorer!”

“Even the Mirror Lord only had a perfect score in Mirror Explorer aptitude back then!”

“It’s that bookworm from Class Three — how can she be so lucky!”

“How is it her? Why isn’t it me?”

“It’s not too late to go make friends with her now, right?”

……

Looking at the complicated gazes of her classmates, Mo Lan quietly sighed to herself.

The Witch Academy really was special after all!

When she had similarly caused a sensation with an aptitude test there, her fellow Witch classmates were genuinely happy for her. But the classmates before her now wished they could take her place.

Even without using mind-reading magic, just looking at these young people’s faces, she could tell that those who were truly happy about her test results were pitifully few.

For a while, the area around Mo Lan became lively again.

Many classmates came over to talk to her and congratulate her.

Mo Lan had only a two-word reply for all of them: “Thanks!”

Nothing more than that. Everyone who came asking for her transmission mailbox number left empty-handed.

She had originally planned to go back to the class waiting area to sit down and continue watching the others test, but the people approaching with all sorts of ulterior motives completely killed her interest.

It wasn’t until the teacher escorted her toward the VIP room in the spectator seating area that Mo Lan finally got a moment of peace.

“Teacher, do you know what the Mirror Lord wants with me?”

“It should be something good! Just go and don’t worry.”

Mo Lan knew that her test results could be called a sensation across the entire mirror without exaggeration. It was perfectly normal for the Mirror Lord to want to meet her. She suppressed the questions in her heart, and under the teacher’s encouraging gaze, walked into the VIP room alone.

Inside the VIP room were only the Deer Cry Mirror Lord and a middle schooler about the same age as Mo Lan.

Mo Lan knew who he was — Wang Jingnan, the only son of the Deer Cry Mirror Lord, Wang Qiming.

He was also a student at Deer Cry Middle School and had been among the first batch of students tested today.

If Mo Lan’s memory served her correctly, his innate psychic power was 82 points and his Mirror Explorer aptitude was 91 points.

That score, even at the Deer Cry Middle School testing station, put him among the very top tier. Getting placed into Deer Cry Middle School’s Mirror Explorer Class One shouldn’t be a problem.

“Classmate Mo Lan, you’re here?” Wang Jingnan stood up and welcomed her in, acting familiar as if he’d known her for ages.

The Deer Cry Mirror Lord also looked at her, his face wearing a warm, kindly smile.

Compared to how he’d looked in the newspaper photos last year, the Deer Cry Mirror Lord had aged considerably more. Standing beside Wang Jingnan, he looked less like his father and more like his grandfather.

It seemed the reports about the Deer Cry Mirror Lord being seriously injured were not unfounded rumors after all.

Mo Lan could sense that his psychic power was far weaker than her own — roughly at the fifth-tier level at best.

The last time the Deer Cry Mirror Lord had publicly disclosed his strength — before the injury rumors — he had been at eight-star, ninth-dan level.

But the star rankings for Mirror Explorers in the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins that Mo Lan had read about in the Otherworld Archives didn’t correspond the same way to the Explorer tiers of the Well of the Sky!

The psychic power of an eight-star, ninth-dan Mirror Explorer corresponded to the mid-fifth-tier, roughly equivalent to about 490 million Mana in magical power.

But judging from the psychic power fluctuations of the Deer Cry Mirror Lord before her, he had at most the equivalent of about 310 million Mana worth of psychic power.

Had his psychic power level declined, or had the star rankings for Mirror Explorers in the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins changed over time from what they used to be?

Mo Lan hid the questions in her heart, dutifully playing her introverted and reclusive persona. She called out “Mirror Lord” once and then said nothing more.