Chapter 90 – The Advent of Workbooks

The young witches didn’t yet know what exams were.

But when the stack of books beside Lady Amisha was distributed into their hands, they quickly learned what workbooks were.

They were thick volumes of homework!

Paired with the theory course textbooks, every chapter in the textbooks had corresponding preview exercises, review exercises, and extension exercises in the workbooks.

One glance was all it took to know that this homework was far more involved than a summary essay you could essentially copy from a recording.

What kind of earth-shattering catastrophe was this!

“The content of the monthly exams will come from the textbooks, the workbooks, or knowledge points covered in class.”

Amisha continued:

“From now on, we won’t be using essays to help everyone review. Instead, you’ll consolidate your learning through the workbooks, and monthly exams will test what you’ve learned.

Those who perform excellently on the monthly exams will be rewarded with gold coins.

Those who fail the monthly exams will be rewarded with an extra workbook.”

These exams from the Earth world really were a wonderful thing! She’d never thought of it before—that you could assess the young witches this way.

From now on, she’d never have to worry about young witches not taking their theory courses seriously.

The young witches’ vision went dark.

They truly wished they had never woken up yesterday.

How had Lady Amisha come up with such a terrifying idea in just two weeks?

Those workbooks were so thick, and failing that exam thing meant being “rewarded” with an entire volume. Just hearing about it made their heads spin.

Was this really a reward and not a punishment?

“Oh, and Moira doesn’t have to do the preview and review workbook assignments,” Amisha added.

“Why not?!” the young witches demanded in bewilderment, almost as one.

Mo Lan had a good memory, so not having to write essays was one thing—but she didn’t have to do the workbooks either?

“Because the workbooks for Fundamentals of Magic Theory, 《History of Witches》, and World History were written by her. The witches from the Council and I proofread and reviewed them, and we didn’t make many significant changes.

The fact that she could produce books like these proves she already has a complete understanding of the content in Mo Lan had a good memory, so not having to write essays was one thing—but she didn’t have to do the workbooks either?

“Because the workbooks for Fundamentals of Magic Theory, 《History of Witches》, and World History were written by her. The witches from the Council and I proofread and reviewed them, and we didn’t make many significant changes.

The fact that she could produce books like these proves she already has a complete understanding of the content in 《What Exactly Is Magic》Mo Lan had a good memory, so not having to write essays was one thing—but she didn’t have to do the workbooks either?

“Because the workbooks for Fundamentals of Magic Theory, History of Witches, and World History were written by her. The witches from the Council and I proofread and reviewed them, and we didn’t make many significant changes.

The fact that she could produce books like these proves she already has a complete understanding of the content in 《What Exactly Is Magic》, 《History of Witches》, and 《The Changing Ages of the Continent of Valen》.

If it weren’t for the extended Q&A segments in class, she wouldn’t even need to attend these three courses,” Amisha said. “Of course, she still has to take the monthly exams.”

The young witches’ gazes shot toward the figure sitting in the center of the front row like sharpened arrows.

So this was what she’d compiled based on her past-life experience! Between the workbooks and the exams, what kind of terrifying world had she come from!

Mo Lan guiltily lowered her head and stared at her book as if trying to bore a hole through it.

She swore—rewarding a workbook for failing an exam was absolutely not her idea!

That was definitely, absolutely the Headmistress’s own creative flourish!

“You’ve all been asleep for two weeks, and who knows if you still remember what you learned before. This week’s theory classes will be spent completing the workbook exercises for the content you’ve already covered!

Whatever you can’t finish becomes homework.

Next Monday’s Fundamentals of Magic Theory class will have the first monthly exam, and the exam covers those chapters you’ve already studied!”

Lady Amisha finished speaking and sat down. “Begin!”

Today’s Fundamentals of Magic Theory class had been directly transformed into a workbook session.

No matter how much the young witches complained, the workbooks had invaded the first-year classroom with lightning speed.

Resigned to their fate, they opened their workbooks and began working through the exercises.

Their earlier suspicions proved correct—these really were harder than the essays!

In terms of difficulty, you could write an entire essay just by listening to the recording, with absolutely no thinking required.

But these workbook assignments made you want to flip back and forth through the corresponding textbook chapters over and over again.

Sometimes you still couldn’t even find the answer.

In terms of time, they’d gotten so practiced at essays that one took only half an hour.

Just the preview exercises for a single workbook chapter already took more than half an hour.

While the young witches were locked in battle with the workbooks, Mo Lan was called up to the podium by Lady Amisha, who handed her a small pouch.

“The Council has decided to add your books to the library. This is your reward.”

Mo Lan opened it and saw the pouch glowing with crimson light.

So excited that she moved in a flash, she hurriedly cinched the pouch shut.

Crimson gold coins! She’d only ever seen them in 《Young Witch’s Primer》.

The world of Valen had many different currency systems, popular among various races and nations.

But only magic gold coins, magic violet gold coins, and magic crimson gold coins were universally accepted across all races and regions of Valen.

Crimson gold coins were the highest denomination of magic coins, and their production costs were extraordinarily high.

How many people in Valen went their entire lives without ever seeing a single magic gold coin, let alone magic violet gold coins or magic crimson gold coins?

And one crimson gold coin could theoretically be exchanged for one hundred violet gold coins, or ten thousand magic gold coins.

The exchange rate between magic gold coins and ordinary gold coins depended on the conditions where the ordinary coins were issued.

But all transactions involving magical items used magic gold coins.

Because only the value of magic gold coins came from the coins themselves, rather than being assigned by any nation or power.

Mo Lan only knew that a single magic gold coin was an energy-storing magical artifact.

One magic gold coin stored 1 Mana worth of energy and could instantly restore an equivalent of 1 Mana to any spellcaster.

One magic violet gold coin stored 100 Mana and could instantly restore an equivalent of 100 Mana to any spellcaster.

One magic crimson gold coin stored 10,000 Mana and could instantly restore an equivalent of 10,000 Mana to any spellcaster.

Magic gold coins were a spellcaster’s extra mana bar.

So the more spellcasters a race had, the more prevalent magic gold coins were.

But currently, only angels, demons, dragons, witches, and humans knew how to produce magic gold coins.

And in this one pouch, there had to be at least a dozen or more.

“Twenty crimson gold coins,” Amisha told her the exact number.

Mo Lan: “!!!”

Twenty! This was an astronomical sum beyond her current imagination.

If she were an ordinary witch, this amount of money would be enough to live lavishly for over a hundred years.

The Council was really generous!

“Seventeen of those are your reward for contributing knowledge. The other three are payment for helping review and guide the compilation of workbooks for other grade levels’ theory courses.”

As Amisha spoke, a large pile of books appeared on the desk. “These are the workbooks I’ve compiled for other theory courses over the past few days. I need you to look them over and check whether the question design methods and angles are appropriate.

I’ve included the original textbook passages as well. You still have room in your Grimoire, right? I’ll transcribe them in for you. Take a look as soon as you can!”

Mo Lan: “!!!”

She had compiled seventeen textbooks in one week.

And the Headmistress, in two weeks, had not only submitted the textbooks to the Council for review but had also written all the workbooks for every other grade level’s theory courses.

The key difference was that what Mo Lan had compiled was knowledge she already possessed.

But the Headmistress had to first familiarize herself with the reading-based teaching methodology and the workbook question design approach before she could even begin writing!

Oh, right—there wasn’t just one Headmistress.

Who knew how many Headmistresses had burned the midnight oil together to produce all of this?