Chapter 56: 56. The Devil's Exam Paper
Dorothy looked at the very individualistic academy teacher in front of her with some curiosity; she was quite interested in the evolution template of this Eight-Eyed Spider Witch.
"Oh, yes, it's a Spider Witch! This is good, this is exciting."
She even cheered a little in her heart.
Even among Demonesses, those who dared to use demons as an evolution template were absolutely ruthless, as power and people always influence each other.
Demonesses can gain template bonuses from other races through evolution, but in this process, they will inevitably be affected by the power, which will cause a certain deviation in the Demoness's personality.
For example, Angel Witches are mostly arrogant, Dragon Witches are mostly naturally belligerent, and Demon Witches are basically quite nasty, unruly, disobedient, and all of them are quite chaotic and amusing.
This kind of influence is not that serious, and as the Demoness's strength increases, this influence will gradually weaken, and after becoming a Great Witch, they can basically be completely immune.
However, considering the inheritability of Demoness talent, Little Witches whose values and personalities have not yet been completely finalized are still very easily affected by inherited talents.
And this is why the Witch World places such a strong emphasis on education. The Witch Academy, in addition to teaching these Little Witches how to better use their powers, also teaches them how to resist the instinctive impulses brought by this power.
The more powerful the racial template, the stronger the inverse influence on the Demoness. Therefore, Demonesses who use the three Calamity Races as evolution templates are always the hardest hit areas for problem children.
Among them, Angels and Dragons are actually a little better.
Angel Witches are at most disdainful of others, always aloof, easily ostracized, and unable to make friends.
Dragon Witches are even easier to manage; these dragon cubs are just too energetic. Letting them vent their energy more in the dueling arena will make them behave.
But Demon Witches…
The power of demons comes from desire and chaos.
Demon Witches who inherit demonic power also enjoy indulging in desires and causing chaos. They are often overly free, doing whatever they want, and when they get carried away, they don't care about anything else, only their own happiness. They can be said to be the most mischievous among mischievous children, with astonishing destructive power.
Because of this, Demoness society has always been quite wary of Demon Witches. The personalities of these Demonesses can easily go to extremes. In the past, during the reign of the God King and the Dragon King, it was even considered to prohibit Demonesses from evolving with a demonic template.
Fortunately, the current King of Witches is a Demon King. As the most powerful Demon Witch, the Demon King profoundly illustrated the principle of using demons to defeat demons. She utilized the strict hierarchy of demonic society to issue the Demon King's Code, applicable to all Demon Witches, with her highest authority. This placed an additional layer of restraint on the unrestrained Demon Witches, greatly reducing their harmfulness.
However, even so, due to past ingrained impressions, most Demonessesare still afraid of Demon Witches, fearing that these powerful individuals might lose control and go mad again. This is also why, as soon as this Spider Witch teacher revealed her identity, all those slacker students were scared away.
Currently, most Demon Witches basically live in groups within the Demon King's private witch Territory. Wild Demon Witches in the outside world are not many and are relatively rare.
However, Dorothy had no prejudice against Demon Witches. This wasn't because of her unique preferences, but because she had lived with Demon Witches since she was a child.
Her stepmother Annie and younger sister Alice are standard Demon Witches. Both mother and daughter's evolution template is the Bloodline, commonly known as Vampire.
To be honest, when Dorothy first met her younger sister Alice as a child, the three or four-year-old loli was an incredibly gloomy naughty child. But now, she has been disciplined by Dorothy to be obedient and particularly sunny and positive.
From this, it can be seen that Demon Witches are not as terrifying as the legends say.
This Spider Witch teacher could only scare those who didn't know much about Demon Witches. For Dorothy, she was completely ineffective. She was determined to pass this major today.
"Teacher, please start the exam. I am ready."
Looking at the Spider teacher who was instead startled by her, Dorothyspoke again, requesting.
...Little Witch, eagerly anticipating...
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"Oh, oh…"
Noe Rose was instead flustered by this Little Witch who didn't play by the rules.
She began to suspect that perhaps she hadn't been to the battlefield for too long, staying cooped up in the academy doing research every day, and thus her deterrent power had weakened. Otherwise, how could she not even scare a Little Witch now?
But very good, very spirited. Since this Little Ati is so brave, let her try it.
The Spider Witch, who still looked like a gentle older sister even with her eyes closed, revealed a very kind smile. She decided to give this very brave Little Ati an unforgettable exam.
Heh heh, just as she had said before, her major wasn't some kind of garbage dump that any random person could enter.
In fact, the reason why this major was so deserted was not because no one was willing to apply. On the contrary, quite a few students applied every year, but very few could truly pass the assessment.
Automatic Mechanized Civil Engineering, as the name suggests, is a composite major, a new discipline born from the fusion of mechanics and architecture.
These are just two broad categories. If further subdivided, Automatic Mechanized Civil Engineering involves content such as soul studies, mechanics, Puppetry, Alchemy, and so on. Civil Engineering also involves content such as evocation, transmutation, spellcraft, mathematics, structural mechanics, and so on.
All in all, this major is actually not an area that these newly enrolled Little Witches can delve into at all. It places extremely high demands on students' breadth of knowledge, talent, and even artistic cells, with extremely high admission thresholds.
In fact, when she chose to open this major, she didn't intend to recruit externally; it was just to make it easier to ask the school for funding. But unfortunately, school regulations stipulated that all majors must recruit externally, which is why she reluctantly came up with this problematic admissions assessment.
As for the difficulty of the assessment, well, that was naturally pushed to the upper limit of exam difficulty.
Well, she merely selected a few questions from each subject involved in Automatic Mechanized Civil Engineering and then stuffed them all into one exam paper.
The difficulty of these questions, when viewed individually, is actually not high; they belong to a level that Little Witches should theoretically be able to encounter. However, because they involve numerous fields, it makes it basically impossible for any Little Witch to complete the entire exam paper.
(It's roughly like picking a few questions from all subjects—language, math, foreign language, politics, history, physics, chemistry, etc.—and putting them all into one exam paper, with all difficulties controlled at the level of the final challenging question on a math exam.)
Hmm, this way, even the school's review committee couldn't do anything about her. After all, her exam theoretically did offer hope for Little Witches to pass, so she certainly wasn't lazy for not recruiting students. This was purely because the current batch of students was truly inadequate.
And after doing this for a few years, her major naturally made all students retreat in the face of difficulty. Now, very few brave souls dare to challenge her hellish exam.
However, her beloved Little Ati came this year. She was aware of her niece's talent and ability, which were barely enough to meet the admission requirements for this major. Therefore, her major could finally open for business.
This way, she could finally give an explanation to the Student Counciland the School Committee, who were becoming increasingly impatient with her for only taking a salary and not doing any work.
Therefore, she had been so impolite just now, directly scaring away those students. She was already too lazy to waste time. Anyway, with Little Ati Audrey as a safety net, her quota for this year was met.
But since this Little Witch, who was so young yet wore such heavy makeup, looked so frivolous, and clearly wasn't a good student, was so brave, then she should experience her hellish exam.
"Then come in. I hope you'll still be so brave when you see the exam paper later."
The Spider Witch smiled as she opened the door to the room behind her, squinting her eyes and chuckling.
I went back to my hometown today. Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice ancestor worship, and I don't have a computer. I typed this one chapter on my phone for half a day, it was too difficult.