Chapter 278 (2/2)
Isabella posed the biggest danger as she was from the main house that Beatrice wanted to go against. It would be a direct slap to Isabella's prestige if someone like Beatrice did better at an aptitude test. It would probably bring various problems with it, he knew how those passionate youths operated.
'I understand great spirit…'
'Also you can stop calling me great spirit, it was funny at first...just call me Leigong.'
'But great spiri…'
Beatrice was a bit surprised by the sudden request to drop the honorifics. This was a world based on strength, so being respectful to a strong summoned spirit like she had was a must.
'It's fine, we are partners and partners need to be on a first-name basis!'
'I could never be foolish enough to refer to a heroic spirit in such a way…'
'Well, you will have to. Otherwise, I'm not going to answer your calls.'
This revelation caused Beatrice to sweat slightly. If her summon refused to be called during the test then she would end up in the lower class for sure. It could be even worse and they could call her even being a spirit summoner in question.
Beatrice had to begrudgingly accept Zhang Dong's request.
'Great Leigong… Mr. Leigong?'
Though it appeared that it would take some time for her to drop some of those honorifics. The place the test would be taking place was a large hall. With them were about two hundred other students. If Zhang Dong compared it to his previous world the numbers were quite small. When it came to sect testing the disciple number was always in the thousands of people.
The teacher continued the long-winded explanation of the tests that they would be going through. The first one was quite identical to what his own sect was doing just on a lesser scale. They would bring out some kind of measuring device that would show them how much mana each student had.
After that, they would test the elemental affinities of the spirit by having the summoner channel their energies into another device. The user of the spirit would have their mana be altered depending on their summon. Beatrice here would probably be shown as a lightning user.
The first ones that took the test were the students in white robes with the prince being first. It was clear that they didn't want the high nobles to be stuck standing around and waiting for others. The device that was measuring the mana pool looked like a regular round crystal ball. It was placed in the center of some kind of magic circle and a number would light up above it. This number was the person's level of mana.
Zhang Dong looked through Beatrice's eyes as a green-haired youth walked over to take the first test. He even noticed the shouts of praise from the noble ladies at the side, this guy was clearly the biggest young master here. The hand was placed and after a moment a number appeared above it.
”489 points for prince Ludwig…”
The people from the side started cheering out, in Zhang Dong's eyes this youth wasn't really anything special. After training Beatrice for a few days her mana pool had reached a certain threshold that wasn't that far off from this so called prodigy.
'She'll probably surpass him in a month or two… for now it's fine for her to be slightly weaker…'
The people started going through the test and he took note. It was important for Beatrice to be slightly below the top students. It would be best if she made it in at the last spot but that would be a big gamble.
This green-haired prince was somehow able to keep the top spot, the person from the main family that Beatrice was cautious of achieved a result of 411 and she was the third-best from the bunch. There was another youth from a ducal house that received 443 points.
Most of the students in white uniforms had results between a 100 and 300 with the top reaching slightly over that. From his discussion with Beatrice, they would need to get from 150 to 200 to be sure. A person of lower status had to show more talent than a family that could buy their way in.
The students in the black robes mostly hovered below the one hundred mark with a handful going beyond it. In time Beatrice was in front of the measuring device by Zhang Dong's calculations if he didn't interfere she would get slightly more than a 100 points. There was a way to boost that result with the help of a certain technique he developed thanks to the books. The problem with this was that he didn't have much time to test it out and this would cause the first blunder to occur.
”Beatrice Hohenberg.... 7…. 798 points…”
The whole chamber got quiet after seeing the number above the device. No one could believe that a lowly daughter of a baron had more mana than a member of the royal family or from a ducal hose.
On the inside of this here blond girl, there was a certain Patriarch scratching his head, not sure about what went wrong.
'Well… uh if you do bad at the other test your rating should go down… probably…'
He called out while shrugging, Beatrice on the other hand dropped her head down as she was feeling too many gazes on her face. She clearly didn't expect her super glorious summon to make a mistake like this.