Chapter 868: The judgment panel
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"The students this time around are quite something…"
"Around 40% of them found out the secret test question before their papers. That's quite a number."
"People call it the Golden Era but only now do I understand what they really mean by that."
"Especially some of the unique ones. The captains of the houses that people don't yet know about."
"Right!? Just like in that captain or Dark society! How can a mage move like that?!
She defeated creatures that weren't even supposed to be taught by the students."
"She's captain for a reason alright?"
There was quite a fuss in the control room filled with various judges that the headmaster himself had picked for this test's evaluation.
Some of them were new to this whole grading process while many of them had been here in the past.
"They are your students, right?"
"I'm just a subject teacher. I don't teach them individually."
There were class teachers of all the classes present among these graders and the vice headmaster was here as well.
She had been away due to some important work but she had come back a while back, and now she was here with them, looking at the students.
And, though the tests had just started, all of them were surprised by how well the students were doing at the moment. Read latest stories on mvl
"That girl made quite a fuss outside but I can't believe she figured out something so unorthodox."
"Who made that problem again? Was it master Farmak or was it Elder Aaron?"
"It was actually the headmaster himself who fixed that problem. In fact, the headmaster has prepared everything this time around.
From the test papers to the extra tests.
You can just tell that by looking at the numbers of special tests there are."
The vice headmaster of the academy, the master of all weapons, was smiling while looking at the special screens present all around this spherical room.
There were screens all around them and they were observing all the students individually as well by their respective groups.
It might not seem like a lot of work, it at least might lot look anything efficient with all these screens and so few people, but… things were going smoothly in this place.
"It's fun how he made those difficult tests, but I didn't expect there would be so many people that would actually solve those problems."
She seemed happy to all the sixty people currently present in this big place.
There were various groups assigned with specific tasks, and one of those tasks was to analyse the actions of certain special cases.
These specific special cases included people like the princes and princesses of important nations, the captains of the houses, as well as individuals that were recommended by the teachers.
There were not many who usually caught the eyes of the teachers but, if there was someone that they focused on, then it would at least be people on the same level as the boy affiliated with Heliox, or the youngest master alchemist of this world.
These people were unique already but being famous wasn't the reason they were on the list of special students that required dedicated observers.
It was their talent and the abilities that they had shown until now.
"Haha, continue your good work everyone."
The headmaster himself wasn't here right now since he had more important things to look after.
Some of them already knew about the grand conference that would be held a few weeks from now, so they could tell he would be busy with the preparation of that event.
"Look, they are starting the tests now."
Many of the students had already started with their papers but many had not done so since they had been busy with the extra tests.
Just figuring out the existence of this special place was enough to give them a bunch of extra credits but completely completing them was a different matter altogether.
The headmaster was going to reward them personally for their achievements so they did not have to worry about grading their special achievement.
They had the job to evaluate the performance of the special targets on the list so, now that many of them had finished the special test, they were moving on to the actual test.
"Separate the individuals in a group of three for personal evaluation. Don't stick to the normal criteria and pick one that you see fit."
There were a limited number of people grading these thousands of students so they had to be efficient in their place.
All their grades were going to be confidential and the students weren't going to know anything about them until the result dates.
The headmasters and the teachers will make corrections to the scores partly after they turn their own grades in, however, these changes are pretty uncommon.
"Yes! I'll have the captains of wisdom phoenix so others don't have to!"
"Sir?"
The house captains were amazing individuals as they all had expected.
They knew what they were doing and many of them had received the special extra point tests, so watching them was an exhilarating experience for them as well.
Among them, the captains of the wisdom phoenix were something that, though eye catching, were not something appealing enough for someone of the highest standard among them.
They were smart but one was playing around before entering the main exam door room, while the other was doing something crazy in her designated test area.
Both of them had just started with their tests and even the evaluators found it difficult to accurately calculate their achievements.
It wasn't easy for someone to see the question present under the platform, it wasn't easy for someone to calculate the magic circle like he did and not many might have seen through the expanding space.
He had good eyes, which was given as he was an archer. But even the captain of his was doing crazy things…
Even teachers weren't expecting this level of performance in the very first test of the academy.
The students that they had only taught until now were actually showing them what they had learned as well as what they were capable of themselves.
Evaluation of this level was no easy task, so if one of the most experienced people present here was going to take up that job, they knew what kind of responsibility they were going to have.
But he was fine with it.
"Don't get distracted by little things! Keep up the work!"
He wanted to see what more these two had in store, so, even though his expertise lay in details of various things, he was going to give his time to these two.
He didn't think it was a bad idea anyway, so he reassured others, and also got to work.