Elite Mages’ Academy (Web Novel)

Chapter 400: Examination Results Announced

Xiao Lin had a lot of free time after the exam, so he drew out a very thick book from the shelf before taking the magic flying carpet to the reading area.

He spent half an afternoon reading that, but the books about mixed races were all about Planet Norma’s races. As a multi-racial world with humans, orcs, elves, and the like, the problem of mixed races would certainly exist, like how the combination of Chinese and foreign families on Earth had long become commonplace. In fact, many still found such mixed races hard to accept on Planet Norma, especially when it came to the more traditional individuals.

The reasons for that were very complicated. Some of them could be traced back to historical reasons. For example, it was almost impossible for the elves and the orcs because the two were completely opposed to each other in terms of aesthetics and values. Another example were trolls and human beings, who have long feuded in a perennial war. There were also other congenital reasons.

Xiao Lin frowned when he read that. Since the book itself was translated from Normese by Earthlings, those statements were very vague. After thinking for a while, he quickly understood that it was about genes. Of course, the concept of genes did not exist for the Normans, but they have gradually realized over the years that mixed-blood can easily affect the blood of the next generation.

There were advantages and disadvantages with that kind of influence, but it was difficult to judge accurately. In some areas, mixed-race children would be regarded as a symbol of uncleanness, and even some Normese countries had laws that disallowed inter-ethnic marriages.

Xiao Lin thought of Ibeiya again, the mixed-race who claimed to be half-Norman human and half-vampire. Although she did not explicitly mention anything when Xiao Lin asked about her childhood, he could tell that Ibeiya’s identity led her to face discrimination everywhere when she was young. It was a very saddening situation, as she was forced to remain anonymous.

In any case, the impact of interracial marriages between Normans was limited to a person’s own ability. However, Xiao Lin never saw the slightest statement of shortened life spans even though he went through the entire book.

In other words, only Earthlings and Normans—regardless of which Norman race—could produce offspring with a very short life expectancy. The few words that Song Junlang said to him made Xiao Lin overthink, as it was difficult to say that the issue was too serious or too minor.

If Earthlings want to gain a foothold in Planet Norma, doing so by themselves was simply not enough. They could not just get Earth’s entire population to migrate all at once either. However, reproduction was a matter of course in order to perpetuate their rule in Planet Norma, especially since those who had reached Silver-rank were not able to return to Earth anymore.

So far, practically all the academies—including Dawn Academy—encouraged intermarriage among Earth’s people. They did not support intermarriage between Earthlings and Normans, but did not restrict it either. Xiao Lin could even imagine how many mixed-blood children like Gu Xiaoyue and Hammerhead existed as of then.

After spending the whole afternoon in deep thought, Xiao Lin only managed to get a general understanding of the mixed-race situation in Planet Norma. During the subsequent two days, Xiao Lin continued to soak in the library but still came up with nothing. The issue of interracial marriage between Earthlings and Normans were not included within the books, which undoubtedly left him quite disappointed.

The announcement of their comprehensive exam results came on the back of Xiao Lin’s failed investigation. The specific time for the announcement had long been announced on the forum. No one was loitering out anymore when the clock neared 10am. Whether they were feeling confident or not, they were all sitting in front of the computer and anxiously waited for the announcement of the results.

In fact, everyone had a rough idea of the actual combat assessment’s results, but what really worried them was undoubtedly the written test. Among them, the multiple-choice and short-answer questions were automatically graded by the computer, but the final essay questions were manually graded, hence the delay for two or three days.

When the time on the automatic clock jumped to 10am, everyone quickly clicked open their files. After a few minutes, the dormitory doors all opened, with cheers and complaints coming from the corridors and lounges. The noise was a mix of happiness and sadness.

Xiao Lin looked at the computer screen, but his expression was a bit strange. There was no direct score for the test results and was instead replaced using grades. His scores were as followed:

Basic melee assessment:

Basic Swordsmanship: S

Basic Physique: S

Basic Body Techniques: S

Overall score: S

Comprehensive score of basic spells: B

Basic subjects written examination:

Multiple-choice: S

Short-answer questions: S

Essay questions: D-

Overall score: B+

The final result was that Xiao Lin successfully passed the exam. There was a reminder sign next to the score, indicating that the ranking of the freshman exam would be announced on the top of the forum in half an hour. Many people also knew that in advance. In order to encourage everyone to learn and cultivate their competitiveness, Dawn Academy adopted a ranking mechanism that any people detested.

Of course, Xiao Lin is not concerned about that. Although he expected to pass the assessment, the score puzzled him because the comprehensive actual combat assessment of basic spells was only given a B, which was not very high. Xiao Lin was very unhappy with that.

In comparison, the basic melee assessment—where the military’s examiners clearly demonstrated their intent to give him a hard time—still gave him the highest S evaluation after being impressed by Xiao Lin’s strength. Xiao Lin’s impression of them improved slightly, because at the very least, they dared to admit their failure, unlike the Mage Union who clearly held a bit of a grudge against him by giving him that B.

It did not matter that much though, because Xiao Lin did not pay too much attention to all that as long as he passed. Another puzzling aspect was the essay part of his written test, which was only given a D- evaluation. For the record, that was lower than the bare average! In the previous monthly exams, the lowest evaluation Xiao Lin had ever gotten was a C-, and a D evaluation further showed that his answers were way off the mark, or equivalent to rubbish if one were to describe it a little harshly. Was the D- evaluation alluding to the fact that Xiao Lin’s answers were worse than rubbish?

The high scores of the short answer and multiple-choice questions had reached the passing standard and pushed his final comprehensive evaluation higher, but Xiao Lin was still not very happy about it.

The announcement of the exam rankings had already begun. Xiao Lin clicked in and had a look too. The first place was actually Chen Dao, whose spell score was an S and the written tests were also an S. The second place was Cheng Ming, who got an S in the melee test, but only obtained an A+ in the written tests. Meanwhile, Gu Xiaoyue was at third, with everything a perfect S except for her spell evaluation, which was only A-.

How could Gu Xiaoyue’s spell evaluation be inferior to Chen Dao’s?

Absolutely ridiculous!

It went without saying that the forum exploded. As for Xiao Lin’s own ranking, he was a long way off due to his written test scores and the B he got for his spell evaluation. At the moment however, fretting over his grades was the last thing on his mind and he dialed Gu Xiaoyue’s number at once.