Well, though most of the answers were one-line things or even one-word stuff, some of the complicated ones asked for more than just one of these magic papers.

And with the small time I had to finish this, I would never care for the handwriting.

There were magic items they can use if they couldn't understand these things so, it wasn't any of my business.

The supervisor was already tired of passing the pages to me and it really shocked this normal employee that anyone could write like I did these past three hours.

And even after knowing all the answers, I had barely made it in time.L1tLagoon witnessed the first publication of this chapter on N0vel--Biin.

This should be enough to tell just how absurd it was that there were countless people who had solved this stuff even before the time limit.

And the record holder.. one of the late saints in the known history that most probably reached the realm of a [Lord] could just be called a monster to have finished this stuff in an hour.

'Was that even possible? One hour? Just how the hell did he even write this much stuff in the short time they had?'

The reason I could never actually call myself a monstrous genius was the existences like him, as well as the countless unknown ones that no one knew about.

Maybe there could be someone or something in this world that can solve this measly paper in minutes or moments if they wanted but, that was just a faraway imagination.

I was just a soon to be twelve years old kid and just being able to finish this stuff in three hours was a miracle on my end.

And I didn't know if Rein could solve the whole thing or not but, I already knew she would have gotten bored after 150 and left the stuff as is.

Anyway, I was finished in this normal one-room class with a single bench and a table before me.

And the employee who was to supervise me, not that anyone would even need to cheat or actually cheated in this one.

They were here just to give the paper and pass the required sheets when needed.

And then take the answer sheets and submit them to the higher-ups, and in our cases to the branch manager himself.

Branch manager of the empire's capital... he was a powerful person.

A light attribute mage and destruction series master, someone known throughout the nations as the (Mage Of Light Pillar), sir Lucius.

He was a good person, someone actually better than the headmaster.

And from what mom said, he was acquainted with grandpa and Rein's grandparents so, he would directly know of all the situation just from the letters.

So, I didn't have anything to worry about in that case.

Rein and I will have a chance to meet with him after our practice so it would be fun~.

It was still around [3:21] so we had enough time before going out and having some fun.

And after paying that much, I believed that our great receptionist could arrange some things and push our names forward in the queue for the practical exam.

This was the last day of the weekend so, I don't think there will be many examinees before the two of us.

Putting the arranged piece of paper and the question paper, I handed it to the man who just blankly stared at me for what the hell I was doing all this time to finish things so late.

Well, he can take a look if he wanted in those papers, not that I believe he would understand even the normal answers of one single word.

Well.. not my problem.

The one to check the answers would be the branch manager and then the council, and I knew even if his eyes were good at deciphering the words written, he would be more than capable of knowing the right magic circuits and mathematical formulas.

This should hopefully be enough because though it didn't mean much to score full marks to others, those who actually do.. receive the <Mark Of Wisdom> with their adventurer's ID license.

And that thing would be quite useful in the future when I get into some unwanted, plot-driven conflict with some noble house of a different race in the academy and outside.

The gift from the headmaster would be the last resort, but, as the holder of this badge, I would have the special privilege of asking for help from any branch manager of the association.

And I didn't believe anyone, be it noble from empire or other nations, would ever want to go against the association.

So, this was a pure win-win on my end.

And now that this small paper was complete, and I knew my dear friend would be mad that I wasted three whole hours, we can finally finish the stuff with the ranking match and go out.

'Well... I would only be using physical archery and she would only be using her normal water magic, so... maybe <D> should be a good starting rank.

Something amazing in itself for the young-looking ones like us.'

There might be spectators and maybe sir Lucius will be watching with surveillance devices too.

Well, at our full strength right now, getting <A> rank would be the limit for both of us, even after using most of our strength.

And naturally, exerting the full, core, and all strength was impossible in a normal 'test' for either of us.

Just using a part of it was more than enough for normal people like examiners.

Anyway, I will just ask sir Lucius about it after the 'thing' and it would be alright as long as we can go out before the evening with our IDs so, that was the plan for now.

'Let's go see who is the lucky one to take our test...'

I was excited, no doubt about it.

And this was definitely going to be fun~!

But before that.. Rein.