Chapter 182

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Chapter 182

Luna eagerly took it from Jane, flipped it open, and read two lines. A dreamy expression appeared on her face. "Fantastic! I think the archmage is just like this."

In Jane’s newly started article, the aloof archmage rarely smiled or spoke, even to her personally chosen and only student. However, whenever Sylas lagged behind, the archmage would stop, turn around, and glance at her. The shy little fairy would stumble and run up to catch up.

Luna smiled and said, "But did you make our clever and intelligent little fairy seem too clumsy? She looks like an ugly duckling! Would she really be so clumsy? She even gives people lessons by beating them up!"

Jane smiled and replied, "That’s just how the little fairy is in front of us. Isn’t it natural for her to be different in front of someone she likes? Would she be worried about not performing well and being criticized by the teacher, and become hesitant? I think she would. So I wrote her that way. I think she will change a little after getting to know the archmage better in the future."

"Hmm… What about this? Sylas was clumsy at first, which made the archmage quite dissatisfied. He even regretted taking on such a clumsy apprentice, as she didn’t seem as good as she appeared at the time."

"But when she started working and saw how dedicated and focused Sylas was, it was truly amazing!" Jane immediately interjected. Sylas’s performance in class was outstanding. She could answer any question effortlessly, and her classmates even stopped bothering to look things up and simply enjoyed listening or daydreaming in class with her. The teacher didn’t even have to worry about attendance anymore.

"The archmage will definitely like her. I think she will attract Sylas," Luna, who usually only liked older men, sometimes found herself unable to resist such allure.

"She’s attracted by this… gentle yet hot-tempered, innocent yet determined temperament," Jane admired.

Suddenly, a voice whispered in their ears, "Excuse me, ladies, I think writing about her secret physical attraction to her teacher will make the character more conflicted and tense."

The two little girls jumped in surprise and quickly got off the sofa. Fenika had somehow walked up behind them and reached over the sofa to grab their shoulders.

"But… but Sylas is just an innocent little one… Wait, what did you overhear us talking about?"

"Did you talk so loudly? Are you telling stories based on real people? I’m very interested. Stories based on real people don’t have to be exactly like real life. If you strictly follow real life, many stories wouldn’t happen. Do you think Eilan will really have something with her succubus?" She gave an example.

The two girls asked fearfully, "Wh-what? There’s a circle like Eilan and succubus???"

Fenika nodded, "Yes, there are. There are about fifty to sixty people in all the bookstores in the whole continent, but only I am writing. As you know, stories about women falling in love with women have a narrow audience and can’t be published. I just write in my spare time."

Luna said, "I feel convinced. After all, we can’t see what the little fairy is thinking. If it’s like what Fenika said, it feels more emotional!"

Jane opposed, "No, I insist. My Sylas is a pure innocent flower that’s not afraid of wind and rain."

Fenika clasped her hands together and smiled, "Then let’s write separately, shall we? I’ll show you what I wrote next week."

"W-wait, do you really know who we’re talking about?"

Fenika raised an eyebrow, "Why, isn’t it Sylas and Archmage Xerath?"

"Ah, yes, so please don’t tell Sylas, okay?"

Fenika gently patted her on the back and said, "Don’t worry, I understand the rules. I definitely won’t tell the humans. It’s the two of you who should be careful."

Luna looked satisfied and said, "Great! We’re now a group of three. I’m going to take a few new books home to read." She picked two books from the new book counter (the only ones she hadn’t read yet), paid for them, and went back to school.

However, even though they were new books, she found the first page to be boring. She put the book down, feeling bored. She then took out a notebook and, seeing that no one was around, secretly wrote a few words.

Every letter she received made Sylas very excited." But she deleted that sentence, feeling hopeless about her plain and boring writing style. Then she thought, "I can write down everything I see next to Sylas and share it with my friends. Let’s see how they use this material.

After making this decision, the documentary-like writing didn’t seem as boring anymore.

Sylas was completely unaware that she had become the protagonist of some interesting stories. She had already told Xerath that she might not be able to go home during the summer vacation because her exams were in the second half of the summer. After the exams, there were only twenty days left of the holiday. Instead of going home and being ignored by Xerath, she decided not to go home on purpose and see if Xerath would miss her.

For the first time in eight years, the little beast had rebellious thoughts.

Maybe not, she thought, feeling disappointed.

Because of this, she also had to start preparing for her exams. The exams would take place on campus, but Snowfall Yard would still be closed during the summer break.

Usually, students choose the simplest Water Element Envoy Test to practice. Water is a gentle element that is easy to control and doesn’t cause any disasters. The syntax of water elementals is regularly taught in schools, which makes the test relatively easier compared to other Element Envoy Tests, both in written exams and real battles.

If you live in a city where one of the seven advanced schools is located, it’s easy for you to take the test. You might even be able to get one of the four colored silk threads before entering the advanced school. But if your home is far from these seven schools, students won’t choose to spend the extra money. Instead, they will take the test during the summer vacation after entering the advanced school.

Caroline plans to take the Water Element Envoy Test together with Sylas during this summer vacation. Swis also wants to stay and accompany his sister. Luna, being a space mage, doesn’t have any related subjects, so she naturally decides to go home and play.

During the month of exams, children only think about how to plan their summer vacation and often ignore the impending exams.

This year’s exams don’t include any subjects from Sauran, which is quite refreshing. Although Sylas has many courses, the most important one, Portal Design, doesn’t require an exam. However, the final assignment for drawing the diagram is coming soon. Luna complains in the dormitory that she doesn’t have time to review because the diagram evaluation and the rhetoric and logic exam are too close. Sylas doesn’t understand and says, "Can’t you start reviewing before the diagram evaluation?"

"Don’t you have to draw the diagram before the evaluation?"

"You can finish it a week in advance."

"You’re killing me!"

Sylas says seriously, "Starting from today, don’t go out for dates at night. Just spend a little time each night drawing, and you’ll finish it quickly. You’ll have at least two weeks of free time to review."

"And what about the model?"

"The model is very fast."

"But I still don’t have any ideas… How can I reduce the size of the Portal?"

Sylas said puzzledly, "What other ideas do you need? Didn’t the teacher say to use embedded gems for amplification?"

"What happens next?"

Sylas lowered her head and wrote a few equations on the paper. "Like this, you calculate these two values, which are limited by size and price. Therefore, you can then calculate the most reasonable value and choose the type of gemstone. The only thing left is how to draw it beautifully. Why haven’t you finished calculating?"

Luna sat down angrily, grabbed the paper and looked at it for a while. She hugged her head in frustration and returned to her own desk. Sylas made it sound easy, but the gems that can be compressed in size are very expensive and have significant side effects. They need to be offset using other methods. The stones that have a stable effect are too big and heavy, and they can’t achieve the maximum reduction. I really don’t know how this monster calculated so quickly and came up with a final solution.

However, her pride as an elder made it difficult for her to set aside her face and copy Sylas’s homework, so she spent a night pondering in distress.

Exams came and went one by one, and the time became more and more. Sylas spent her leisure time reviewing elemental spells and syntax (she signed up for four exams in one breath). The witchcraft experiments in the activity room stopped and turned into an elemental syntax laboratory. The terror markings on Spider Shirley were replaced by a target, and it scurried around the room with the target, making "chomp… hehehe" sounds. The spells of the two candidates could basically hit it.

Sylas wanted to please Shirley, so she gave it many live mice. Each one was stunned and stuck in its spider web as a down payment. Later, Shirley associated live mice with being hit, so whenever it saw a live mouse stuck in the spider web, it couldn’t help but hide behind Mrs. Slote.

To prevent excessive spell damage, many devices have been added to this activity room. For example, there is spatial magic that fixes the positions of objects, and there are spell defense formations. All of these were completed together during leisure time.

Since Sylas became famous after the second duel, she often encounters people looking for a fight on the road. Some people can be found in the Sauran Party’s membership roster and they would be humiliated by Sylas for a long time (with a red Shame Mark lasting for twenty days) and punched (now she has learned to equip her fists with frost armor, which is not sharp). However, if someone comes to fight her, she just throws the opponent out of the dueling ring (with a white Shame Mark lasting for five days).

Of course, these are just some ordinary daily lives. Today, something unusual happened when Sylas and Luna were on their way to a review class. They were walking on the floating staircase from Spring Hall when suddenly someone pushed Sylas from behind, causing her to fall from a great height.