Chapter 08 - The False Meritocracy

[Be silent! All participants, gather in the center of the square.]

While we were talking, the examiner had arrived at the test site.

[My name is Bubhara, and I will be responsible for this school’s entrance test. Then I would be grateful for your full cooperation.]

The examiner called Bubhara, had the appearance of a middle-aged fat man in his late thirties.

Therefore, this man is an examiner for our test.

He looks like a person who hadn’t undergone training before, can he really evaluate our ability accurately?

[Our school follows the philosophy of “Meritocracy” . Therefore, we will not make you participants take a simple stupid written test, the evaluation of passing and failing, will be measured only by the result of two practical tests.]

Meritocracy, huh?

That’s my favorite word, but most of the participants who have been accepted to this school before, seem to have been all high-ranking nobles.

Thinking like that, the authenticity of this test is still quite questionable.

[Well, I want you to see what I prepared for your test right there.]

Finishing these words, Bubhara pointed to a “Target” that had been built on the grass field.

Hm.

Looking at it, it looks like a simple metal target, but what kind of test will he perform with that?

What will be the obstacle in the admission test of the Royal Academy of Magic, which is considered the most difficult in the whole country?

When he thought about it, I get really curious about him.

[If you managed to hit the target with magic until then, you passed. If you can’t, you failed. So, what do you think? Very simple, isn’t it?]

What is this? Just need to get it right?

What the hell is this old man saying exactly?

[From here on, each of you can only use your spell sometimes, to try to hit the target.]

I think anyone can do that, if they simply activate their spell and aim at the target location.

At least for me it’s simple, since I know many spells as long as I can remember.

[This is impossible…! The target is too far away, don’t you think!?]

[As one would expect from the Royal Academy of Magic, the level of difficulty of the admission test is incredibly high.]

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What the hell are these guys talking about?

As this can be considered far away, at best he is only 20 meters away.

What is the goal of reaching a target that is not moving?

First of all, what is the goal of hitting a target that is motionless?

There is not a single opponent who stands still, in a real battle.

As always, I don’t understand what the nobles are thinking exactly.

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