Chapter 24 – To Get an A 1 (1/2)
Chapter 24 – To Get an A (1)
Entrance of Loran Academy, heavy traffic.
The day of the actual combat drill was finally here.
The students who passed the selection test gathered at the academy. They will be led by the teacher to Black Lake Forest in the southern part of Lombard Kingdom to participate in the exciting and stimulating actual combat drill.
Black Lake Forest was one of the few large jungles in Lombard Kingdom. Among them, demonic beasts ran rampant and it was full of dangers. Although there weren’t any particularly high-level demonic beasts, the cold-blooded hunters who hid in the dark could easily kill anyone who got too complacent.
According to rumors, there was a strange lake in the deepest part of the forest. The lake was a horrifying black and emitted a deadly miasma. It was difficult for normal people to reach, but it was a good place for demonic beasts to live. It was called Black Lake and the forest was hereby called Black Lake Forest.
The mission for this actual combat drill was to go to the deepest part of Black Lake Forest, find the Jackalwere camp, kill the leader and completely eliminate this pack of cunning Jackalwere!
A while ago, this group of Jackalwere who should have stayed in the forest suddenly rushed out of Black Lake Forest to attack nearby villages, then they fled back to the depths of the forest to hide. They were ferocious and despicable, they burned and looted, many innocent villagers have suffered. In order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, they must be completely eliminated!
Originally, this kind of work should have been left to the Holy Light Church and the kingdom’s army. However, the Holy Light Church seems to have encountered something troublesome recently, so members of the church have been rushing to the south. They did not have the manpower to take care of such trivial matters. If one wanted to mobilize the army, the procedure was very complicated. It must be approved at various levels and leaders would have to be found. When the order is finally given, who knows how many more people would die.
Therefore, the principal of Loran Academy volunteered to take over this job that no one wanted to do. They would send students to hunt the Jackalweres, eradicate the problem at the root, and at the same time conduct the actual combat drill, killing two birds with one stone.
“Let’s go!” under Teacher Woos guidance, the grandiose hunting team set off.
Loran Academy was one of the best academy in Eileen. They hired more than 10 carriages, some were for students to ride on, and the others pulled the luggage. It could even be said that it was rich and overbearing. If you looked from far away, someone may even think that a large-scale mercenary group was carrying out an expedition.
There were more than 20 students participating in the actual combat drill, as well as attendants, school workers, and teachers. In addition to Woos, the academy also sent a number of teachers to accompany for protection, the weakest being an advanced sixth-level magician, there were even a few muscular warriors ——
They were teachers from the warrior department, each carrying a giant weapon bigger than themselves. They were tough and stocky, had tanned skin and their fists were larger than sandbags. They looked very reliable.
However, students couldn’t relax their vigilance.
During last year’s actual combat drill, Loran Academy’s Magic Department students teamed up to capture a fifth-level demonic beast —— the Flame Boar, which was widely circulated in the academy. The adult Flame Boar is very large, almost as big as a house. Ordinary magical attacks have no effect on it. If you don’t work together and properly cooperate with each other, it was absolutely impossible for the students who had an average of second-level magic.
The students paid a painful price to catch the Flame Boar. They also had a party of around 20 students, there were 9 minor injuries, 3 serious injuries, and one of them even became disabled because of his injuries and could no longer accumulate magic, forfeiting the possibility of becoming a magician.
At that time, the protection from the academy was not inferior to today’s, it was also a grandiose squad, but after all, it was an accident. The teachers will try their best to protect the safety of the students, but if it is not a matter of life and death, the teachers will never rashly intervene during a battle.
This time, Teacher Woos said more frankly.
“No one can protect you in a real battle! Your life is your own, you control it! If you don’t want to die, show me some spirit!”
Only by walking on the edge of life and death can these magical rookies really grow into a real magician! Risk and sacrifice are necessary.
There might be cowardly students who believe that as long as they are cautious and careful, he doesn’t have to work hard and will be able to tag along and can easily pass the actual combat drill, but that’s wrong, very wrong!
Why did the students risk injuries and danger to catch the Flame Boar in the actual combat drill last year? Were they all lunatics who were not afraid of death? No, because that was the test they had to complete!
The actual combat drill was not a trip for fun, it was a graded test!
The accompanying teachers were not only responsible for protecting the safety of the students, they also had another more important task —— to grade the overall performance of the students during the actual combat drill!
From the instant the student gets onto the carriage, the actual combat drill has officially started ——
Throughout the entire trip, the teachers will record the performance of each student: Such as, whether or not they had a quick enough response time to an emergency, whether or not they cooperated with a team, whether or not they had a leadership temperament, etc…
After the actual combat drill, each student will receive a final score, which was divided into five levels: A, B, C, D, and E. There was also a unique S-level special evaluation, which was specially used to recognize students with outstanding performance.
Students who receive an A level or higher evaluation will undoubtedly become the focus of the teachers from then on. They will get more resources and grow faster than others! Moreover, only students with a grade A or above can qualify for the Academy Tournament in the second half of the year!
In contrast, an evaluation below D level represents a failure, obtaining a D is tantamount to being told —— you may not have the innate gift and talents necessary to become a great magician, it is better to give up early.
As for E level? A student who gets E is equivalent to getting a notice of withdrawal —— consciously scrambling home is the only way out.
It was in order to get a higher rating that last year’s students attacked the Flame Boar with their lives on the line. Whoever was afraid of death and hid at the rear, would likely get an E-level evaluation and then be expelled from the academy!
Even if they knew perfectly well that their life might be in danger, they still have to face it head on!