Episode 134 – Special Gift (2/2)
“Knowing spell replication or being able to do it well doesn’t ifted? That all those hours he spent reading books on spell replicating asted? That his skill in weavingthat he was and could do was but useless, unable to help hihtest?
“In fact, there is no special exaineering, healing, and so on So then, why is there a special exa and spell breaking?”
Kiel’s eyes widened iht that the reason why some professions were tested in the special exam was because they weren’t tested in the practical exaive rare professions a chance through the special exa a practical exam that suited them
But… could that be a misconception on his part? Was there another reason why very few professions were tested through the special exam?
“The reason behind it is that we couldn’t care less about your profession in this exa are special gifts And very few of those special gifts can be best revealed through perfor a spell”
As if to crush the last shreds of hope rerand in this special exam isn’t your ability to perfor whether you possess the rare gift that is revealed through the process of replicating spells”
Kiel’s knees als to stop hi backward
Gift? He should know better than anyone whether he had a rare gift or not
All he had achieved was due to his hard work, due to his blood, tears, and sweat
Gift?! What gift?!
“In short, you are here not to be tested on your spell replicating, but rather, to spell replicate to reveal whether you possess a special gift”
Silence descended onto the roo presence
In the ele word echoed painfully, rippling through the silence:
Fuk
He had thought that he would be able to get so, yet it turned out to be just his wishful thinking A wasted tined up for so else entirely
He should have known it wouldn’t be so easy There was a reason why very few people got special points There was a reason why even a the accepted 100 students, ere the s men and women in the entire lands of Halnea, there were usually less than ten that got special points
Cold sweat drenched Kiel’s back as he struggled to keep his expression neutral and his aura reserved
Yet, as if to shatter all his atte calm, as if to demolish this entire pretense of poise, a tiny voice inside hin up for a special exale point on it! Aren’t you worried you’d be a laughing stock to everyone?”
He recognized the ifted? That you possess soift you possess is your resilience You are like a cockroach, noback up!”
Kiel’s pale, treers curled into fists
It wouldn’t matter that he had achieved a near perfect score in all other exams
What they would see was just his failure
That’s what they did to lossed over his achieveht onto his failures
He had hoped that he would be the first person in the Rroda faet the perfect score in Muni exams
He had hoped that he could use these exams to silence all the doubters and haters
He wanted to prove to all that he was better than the and derision can never conceal his brilliance
Yet, in the end, he had shot himself in the foot
In the end, he had been defeated
Defeated not by thereed
“Let us start” Only when the clear voice of the grandma shattered the silence, did Kiel remember he was currently in theas still and pale as a statue, the unremarkable man had taken nine artifacts out of the cart and spread them on top of the teacher’s desk
The artifacts were all the sa the size of an adult fist, with the only difference between the them
Grandma stroked the enchanted artifact with her wrinkled, frail looking fingers “Your task is to replicate this enchant speed and precision to the best of your abilities You need not be very precise, nor do you need to be very fast What you need to be is efficient”
Replicate an enchantment?
Kiel stared at the old woman dumbfounded
Just that?
It was as if ti Kiel’s h his deep breaths
This was not the tih tihtly pressed lips sain, a wry, helpless smile
If they wanted hiht not understand what that had to do with the special gift they spoke of, but it’s not like he could back out of it now The only thing he could do at this point is to treat it as if they were testing his spell replicating ability and do his best
Who knows? Maybe they’d give him some consolation points if he perforh, just so he doesn’t return e chuckle and concentrated on the enchanted cog It was filled with intricate spell patterns that he didn’t recognize, the enchantnized about the spell were its spell roots which exited through the s and spread out tall like ahi looked like with her Aethernea of Sight earlier He had chosen to disregard it and concentrate on re more intricate enchantments in the pile of artifacts, for this one, in particular, was clear enough for his ownup in the next episode:
By the ti to his damp forehead
He didn’t notice that the exas, nor did he notice the strange looks and quiet whispers they were sharing between themselves He didn’t notice the frown pasted on the face of the ed man, nor the unreadable flash in the old lady’s eyes
“If you don’t knohere the critical points are, we shall tell you”
The eyes of the three old athering as Eyebrows spoke up: “Child, since you have studied Spell Breaking, could you perhaps tell us the four different approaches to spell breaking?”
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