Whispering Verse

In the falling snow, on Friday, the third day of the year 1854, the five members of the group were half looking forward to and half worried about the year-end exam, but it arrived as scheduled.

In the early morning of this morning, Priest August, Dr. Schneider, Luvia and Dorothy arrived at No. 6 St. Teresa Square early. After the five people took out the spare tables and chairs from the basement, they set up the examination room in Room 2 on the second floor, and then anxiously waited for the examination to begin.

Of course, since the examination venue was placed in Room 2 on the second floor, theoretically, Shade could cheat by entering the [Hall of Secret Keepers], but he did not do such a bad thing.

Compared with the summer exam, Shade has been promoted from the second ring to the fifth ring, the doctor has been promoted from the fifth ring to the sixth ring, Luvia has been promoted from the third ring to the fifth ring, and Dorothy has been promoted from the fourth ring to the fifth ring. , all four of them need to take promotion exams, among which Sha De skipped a grade and entered the fourth grade. Although Luvia also improved her level by two ring wizards, she did not choose to skip a level.

Among the five people in the group, Priest August was the only one who did not need to take the promotion exam, so he became a relatively leisurely person during this winter exam week. In addition, the old priest's mentality has always been very good, so before the college's invigilators arrived, he comforted the other four people not to be too nervous.

Shade didn't have much nervousness at first, but when he heard the priest say this, he became nervous inexplicably.

Like last time, Shade still didn't eat much breakfast before this exam, but he fed Mia in advance to prevent the cat from causing trouble at noon. Of course, the probability of this is very small, after all, little Mia is still very sensible.

The exam started at nine o'clock. Before that, everyone was sitting on the sofa in Room 1 on the second floor. No one wanted to enter the exam room early. While Shade was waiting, he thought about St. Byrons' anti-cheating methods, and then thought about Dorothy and Lesia.

Obviously, the academy failed to discover the connection between the souls of the two girls. Therefore, theoretically speaking, if you are not afraid of excessive loss of mental power, or if you specifically choose the "Red Butterfly Day" where the exchange does not cost too much, then Dorothy can completely exchange her souls with Lei during the exam. Xia's body went to find the answer.

After all, although the exams scheduled for local correspondence students by Zalas Liberal Arts College are also this week, they are not on the same day.

Thinking of this, he looked at the blonde writer lady, who tilted her head to look at Luvia's divination results and didn't notice Shade's eyes.

Accompanied by silence and random thoughts, the time came to 8:50. Dr. Schneider stood up first, and so did everyone else. The blue-eyed psychiatrist wears a very formal white shirt and tie in the warm house. He coughed, which meant he had something to say:

"I don't need to say that everyone knows the significance of this exam. Once we all pass the exam, it means that our group has the qualifications to go to St. Byrons."

Blue eyes looked at everyone in turn:

"Although we don't plan to leave in the next few years, it still has a very important representative significance. The time is almost up, so I won't say more, let's go."

Judging from the doctor's expression, he still doesn't seem to have much confidence in "Aether Mechanics" at this moment.

Five tables are evenly spaced around each other in a ring, and five chairs are placed in the open space in the middle of the tables, so that everyone faces outside. At the same time, a water basin is placed in the middle of the five chairs, which forms the projection ceremony of the college. Farther along the wall, in the four directions of east, west, north and south, are four chairs used for the ceremony, which is convenient for the professors of the college who are responsible for the examination. Appear.

Little Mia, as a mascot symbolizing "luck", was placed on the windowsill by Shade to bask in the sun. The cat lay on the soft cushion. Although it was a little angry because all the rings had been "confiscated", considering that it seemed that Shade could be seen all day today, the cat showed special docility.

At nine o'clock, as the parchment for the projection ceremony was thrown into the basin, a cold and biting wind gradually began to blow in the room with the closed doors and windows. The wind blew through the shirts of Shade and the doctor, the gray robe of the priest, and the long black skirts of the two girls.

In the wind, four transparent figures appeared on the four chairs. The five people preparing for the exam stood up to welcome them, and the teachers who were invigilating the exam also smiled and nodded to them.

As expected, Professor Garcia, the deputy dean of the School of History, still appeared this time. He was sitting on the chair on the east side. On the south and north sides were Associate Professor Sarah Horns of the School of Folklore, where Dorothy belonged. , and Professor Earl Gulliver of the Mechanical College to which the doctor belongs.

The latter also appeared and served as the invigilator during the summer exam week.

As for the woman sitting on the chair on the west side, she is wearing a red women's official jacket and a black skirt. She does not look very old. This is Miss Tris, the secretary of the Student Management Office. She smiled and nodded to the five people, and then Professor Garcia continued to speak. It seemed that he would preside over the exam.

This is not the first time for the five members of the group to experience the exam week, and they are quite familiar with this process. Professor Garcia took out the parchment, coughed and announced:

"Sixth Era, Universal Calendar 1854, Friday, the third day of the Newborn Month. The college received the examination application from Bill Schneider's group and will conduct the winter examination at nine o'clock in the morning."

In the silence of others, he announced everyone's test subjects one by one. When it came to Shade, he wisely only read five subjects and said "waiting for subjects."

The five people confirmed their respective exam items, and then the parchment rolls were handed out, and the exam officially began.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner. Starting at nine o'clock in the morning, Shade was writing furiously while discussing with "her" and answering the questions on the parchment paper.

Priest Augustus was the first to finish the exam. In fact, there were only a few subjects left in his second-year exam, and he also gained the right to have lunch. The second person to finish answering was Luvia. It was already one o'clock in the afternoon. The purple-eyed girl rubbed her wrist and handed over the parchment with the answer written on it.

The doctor and Dorothy ended their examinations at half past two almost at the same time. Although they should not be distracted, Shade still looked at their expressions when they stood up.

Interestingly, Dr. Schneider, who originally thought he would be in big trouble, actually looked relaxed. Instead, Dorothy hesitantly handed in the test paper. Shade, who was now very familiar with the blond female writer, could tell at a glance that she was very nervous at this time.

During the summer, Xia De took eighteen exams at once, writing from 9 a.m. to 4:21 p.m. Although this time it was a skipping exam, he only had to take seventeen subjects. After all, the first grade had the most courses and the basic courses were too concentrated.

But despite this, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, when the setting sun had already made little Mia's fur on the windowsill shine, before he sighed and finished the last period, letting the ink spread on the parchment.

All test subjects had to write their answers on the same parchment roll, so at this time, Shade lifted up all the parchment papers that had drooped to the ground, checked the answers to each item in turn, and then submitted the test paper.

He knew that his answer must not be perfect, and he would definitely find errors and omissions upon careful inspection, but at this time, he was not in the mood at all:

"it is finally over"

The four invigilators temporarily left the meeting and disappeared into the room. Shade also stood up and picked up little Mia, who had been very well-behaved all day. Then he pushed open the secret door on the wall and came to Room 1.

"It's over. Let's take a half-hour break before announcing the exam results and the end-of-school evaluation for 1853."

Shade sighed and said to the doctor. The doctor was sitting on a separate sofa, holding the side of his face with one hand and nodding, looking like he was mentally exhausted. Priest Augustus sat opposite him, reading from a small book. That is of course not the number of school exams, but the promotional pamphlets of Dawn Church. Luvia and Dorothy were sitting on the couch together. The purple-eyed girl was conducting fortune-telling with a serious expression. The writer lady looked at the pile of books on the coffee table with some dejection, seemingly confirming her answers. .

"Doctor, how do you feel?"

He pulled up a chair with the cat in his arms and sat in front of the fireplace. He yawned when he sat down, so little Mia also yawned. Seeing Shade looking down at it, he slapped Shade's cheek with his tail. wrist. The doctor felt that he had the urge to yawn, but he successfully endured it:

"It feels okay this time."

He said with unconcealable joy on his face. Shade then looked at Luvia, who had already revealed the third card:

"It seems that our team's fortune is very good today, but there may be some minor surprises, but it's not a big problem."

This sentence made Dorothy even more worried. She seemed to want to ask Luvia more carefully about the divination results, but in the end she just sat there without saying a word as if she had resigned herself to her fate.

I returned to the exam room at the right time. When the five people sat down, the four professors had also returned.

It is still Professor Garcia who announces the results of the exam. The exam will not give a score, but will be rated in five categories: "excellent", "exceeds expectations", "passing", "failing" and "terrible".

What reassures everyone is that everyone passed all elective and compulsory exams during the winter exam week, which naturally included Dr. Schneider's "Aether Mechanics". Although it was only a "passing" evaluation, he did pass the exam for this elective course and was allowed to take further courses.

And just as Dorothy expected, three of the nine required courses in the exam were rated "passing", which meant that her previous worries were completely normal.

It’s not that Miss Writer didn’t review carefully, nor is she bad at taking exams, she just seems to be a bit unlucky.