The final examination day of Year 1 is approaching every moment while Mariel was diligently reading her textbooks, five subject textbooks were taken out for tests along with memorizing the important content of each chapter precisely.
"This word must be connected here, and this sentence is used with this sentence." Mariel memorized the lesson content with determination.
Knock! Knock! There was a knock-on Mariel's door.
"Come in." Mariel replied.
"Would you like to take a break? Hot herbal tea and snacks for you." Claudia said, holding a plate of hot baked cookies and a glass of tea.
Mariel took a break from studying by eating delicious cookies and drinking herbal tea that made her stomach feel very full and relieved stress quite a bit late at night.
Claudia caressed her daughter's head affectionately and seeing Mariel intently reading her textbooks made her think of herself as a young girl who also read textbooks for the basic test at final term.
"You reminded me of when I was your age. Every day I stayed in my room reading my textbooks and took the tests until I pass them all." Claudia said.
"So, what score did you get in the exam?" Mariel asked.
"I got 1st person at highest score in the exam, all 3 years of basic education, my dear." Claudia said with pride.
"What about Dad?" Mariel asked.
"Oh, his placed 2nd in the final exam, losing to me by a few points. Normally, we always study and compete, but he always loses to me." Claudia said with a smile.
"I will do the exam and get first place of highest score." Mariel said confidently because she wanted to prove to Deric and Claudia what she could do.
(That's right, I was very determined to get 1st in the exam after I was born in this world. If I had an opportunity to study, I would do my best. And I heard that Claudia got 1st in the exam, I would be like her as well.) (Chai thinking)
"Alright! Then I will give you a reward, if you get 1st in the exam." Claudia boosts Mariel's morale.
"Okay, Mom." Mariel responded eagerly.
Several weeks had passed until the day of the annual Basic Knowledge Exam. All Year 1, 2, and 3 students have prepared very hard before this exam.
Deric and Claudia dropped Mariel off at school and wished her luck on today's exams. Mariel chatted with her friends before entering the exam room with a bright smile on her face. The others prepared as well. As they approached the exam room, Frederick stopped by to greet Mariel as well.
"Good luck with your exams, Mariel. Let's see who can take first place." Frederick said.
"You too, but I won't give it to you for first place too." Mariel said with a smile while Frederick himself smiled in return as well.
The exam is filled with a very stressful atmosphere. The students all took the exam with determination. In the morning, there were exams for all 3 main exams, consisting of mathematics. Science and Kale language. Then, at lunchtime, the students ate lunch and rested for a full hour, then woke up to take the exam for the remaining 2 subjects in the afternoon. That is the subject of invention. The students must assemble the equipment as written on the test with all the materials and parts in front of them. And then they end with the history exam that has the most contents. It made each students felt stress a lot.
Mariel took the exam with confidence and believed that she would get the highest score. In the evening, Deric and Claudia came to take her home and asked about today's exam.
"I'm sure I'll definitely take first place." Mariel said confidently.
"Very good, Mariel. You must be confident like this but no matter how many scores you get, it is considered that you have done your best because the results are a result of your own intention to read the books." Deric said.
"But I believe you can do it." Claudia said, stroking Mariel's head affectionately.
They returned home and received letters in the evening. So, Deric opened it, read it and it turned out that Segal had sent it.
"Segal will come back to visit us on this weekend. It's good to be able to prove how much his training skills have improved." Deric said.
"I would like to see Brother Segal's sword and shield technique as well." Mariel said.
After everyone finished eating dinner, they all went into the bedroom to rest. Mariel was fast asleep, exhausted from taking exams all day.
The next morning, every family arrived at school early in the morning, excited to receive their children's test scores. Mariel's family also greeted the families of the other students and embraced Frederick's family.
After that the teacher then announced the names of each student to go out and receive their scores. Each of the 5 subjects will have a full score of 100 points, for a total of 500 points.
Most of the students got scores of more than 350+ points or more. It indicated the intention of each student to read the textbooks very well.
Other students named announced by their scores, Mariel was very excited until...
"Mariel De Stella!" The female teacher was the last person in class 1-2 to call out her name.
Mariel stood up and walked towards the front of the group of first year students. Frederick had just recently received the results of his self-examination from the male teacher. He sat and watched her with others.
"Well done, Mariel." The teacher handed her a sheet of test scores with a smile.
Marielle took the exam score sheet and looked at it. She saw the results of all 5 subjects as follows.
Marielle De Stella, room code 1-2, number 002
Score results for all 5 subjects are as follows:
Mathematics 99/100
Science subject 95/100
Intermediate level of Kale language 96/100
Creative invention subject 100/100
Ancient History 94/100
Total 484/500 points, ranked 1st among all first-year classes.
Mariel had an extremely excited expression on her face. Then a noticeboard appeared from behind the teacher. Mariel's name was number 1 in the first year. 2nd place was Frederick's, and 3rd place belonged to Mariel's classmate Shiki.
Other friends also congratulated Mariel. Frederick himself did not forget to come and congratulate her as well.
"You are very talented but next year I definitely won't give up and I would be the winner. I lost to you by only 2 points." Frederick said, showing himself the exam results with a total score of 482/500 points.
"You are good too. Next year, let's do this again." Mariel said.
(This is how I felt. I got 1st in the exam and received congratulations from everyone, whether it was friends, teachers, and other people's parents. Especially from my parents) (Chai thinking)
"Excellent! Mariel." Deric said, patting his daughter's head with happiness.
"You did it! you did it very well, my dear." Claudia said, kissing her daughter's right cheek with joy as well.
"Mom, I'm embarrassed." Mariel blushed slightly.
The head teacher then gave a lecture on next year's study plan. As well as discussing various approaches with parents and offering additional ideas to improve teaching and learning. At noon they ate lunch together, then had a meeting in the afternoon and all the people went home in the evening.
After returning home, Segal rode the carriage and arrived at the house. Both Deric, Claudia, and Mariel embraced Segal with love and care.
Segal was now even taller. His face was covered with a few scars. It indicated that he got very hard training.
"My sister was very good, getting first place in the exam and I also practiced shield-sword technique skills until I had this." Segal praised Mariel and opened a large bag to reveal a silver shield and a sword which were beautiful large silver color of them.
"Wow! Brother Segal's sword and shield weapon was big." Mariel was stunned by Segal's shield and sword weapon.
While they were looking at the shield and sword, Claudia brought out a large gift package from the bedroom on the second floor and brought it to Mariel with a smile on her face.
"A gift from Mom and Dad. For your first place in exam." Claudia said with Deric standing behind her and smiling.
"Thank you, Mom and Dad." Mariel accepted the wrapped gift with a happy expression. The wrapping was like that of an item, but it was quite light.
After unpacking, it turned out to be a new silver sword, looked round and had a very beautiful shape. It's lighter than the old one too.
"Wow, Mariel's new sword was really beautiful." Segal also came to look at it and touch the sword.
"Much better than an old one. I would be much more agile when fighting." Mariel said while swung her new sword back and forth. It made her feel very satisfied.
"Come on, let's practice!" Segal said as he picked up his own sword and shield.
They turned to look at Deric at the same time. He immediately realized what they needed.
"We'll find out, kids." Deric also felt excited and picked up his own magic wand.
All of them walked outside the house. Segal and Mariel had their weapons ready and began accelerating their magic power in fighting.
Segal was holding a sword and shield, then casting fire spells at the ready to fight. Mariel stood behind holding a new sword, accelerating her fire magic, and healing magic as well.
Deric was ready to fight because his children's skills have developed so far. So, he cast a field of ice magic all over the area, then cast a large ice spear and prepared to attack them.
"Come on in, kids!" Deric said.
"Let's fight, sis!" Segal shouted.
"Sure, brother!" Mariel responded.
They charged at Deric and fiercely slammed the fire magic power from the Great sword and silver sword. As for Deric, he defended himself and shot back at them without showing any fear.
*The sound of magical power hit so loud. *
The battle was full of excitement. Mariel kept healing herself and Segal, but this time everything was different because Segal's movements and attacks were very different from before. Defense and counterattack were much more effective than swordsman class because it was a balanced line of attack and defense. The attacks might do less damage, but the defense had increased significantly, and it helped Mariel to use less healing magic too.
Mariel began to have more freedom in her fight because Segal was defensive against Deric's ice magic attacks and allowed Mariel to continue attacking until Deric had to stop his attacks.
"Very interesting! This was the perfect fight." Derick said with a smile on his lips because in front of him was that of offense and defense formation, he wanted to have seen more about the combination of sword class and shield-sword class too.
Normally, the attack combo of these 2 types were already to a certain perfect but Mariel had the healing magic skill which helped in another way, allowing the two of them to continue attacking both offensively and defensively nonstop.
The more they fought, the more fun it was. Deric tried to attack them, but he had to defend himself most of the time.
"Take it!" Segal used the ultimate Flame Great sword magic and Mariel used the ultimate Flame Sword as well. The fire magic power of the great sword and the sword combined to form a large flaming sword magic that attacked Deric until it was close to him.
"Ultimate Ice Wall!" Deric had to use his other techniques to defend himself. As he cast a large wall of ice in front of himself and got hit by large fire swords magic, both of magics had to dissipate at the same time, causing a tremor throughout the area.
After Hundreds of attacks, vigorously pounding each other. Finally, Deric had to use his greatest skill and used it for the first time. Fifty ice magic swords were cast behind Deric's body, ready to pierce his children completely.
"Greatest skill! Ice Magic Swords to Conquer the Enemy!" Deric shouted triumphantly.
The ice magic sword stabbed at Segal, who was shielding with all his might and Mariel who was behind him as a support healer.
But everything was not as expected. Deric's ice magic was so strong that Segal's advanced shield skill couldn't resist it. Mariel also received a wound from the ice magic swords, causing them to lie on the ground in defeat.
"Still losing as usual, but you all even made me have to use my greatest skill. I might accept that you were all better than before. That's enough for today. Let's continued with other activities and then eat dinner." Deric said, leading the way back into the house.
"Your skills were very good. You resisted my dad's greatest skill and made us not hurt too much." Mariel turned to praise Segal.
"Your skills improved a lot too. Keep practicing! In the future, we will be able to defeat our father Deric." Segal said.
All of them restored their own magic power until it returned to their original state. Then they went fishing and looking for medicinal ingredients in the forest next to the house together until they got a lot of it.
Mariel herself rode her beloved unicorn, while Segal rode Deric's horse. They chatted a lot as they rode into the fields together. The relationship between siblings was stronger than before.
"In the future, after you graduate from a high school for magic, you will begin your mission to gain fame. Let's gather as a party team. As for me, I intend to train my sword and shield skills to the highest level as well." Segal said.
"Alright, brother! I will try so hard, and I won't let you down." Mariel replied.
"Very good, little sis." Segal rode his horse close to Mariel and kissed her gently on the right cheek. causing her to feel a little embarrassed.
"Brother!" Mariel said.
"Lol, my younger sister was cute, that's all." Segal laughed with delight.
When it's evening, they all ate dinner together outside the house and looked at the natural atmosphere in the evening together. The various dishes that Mariel and Claudia cooked together were delicious.
Deric saw that Segal is starting to become a young man and invited him to drink beer for the first time.
"Don't let Segal drink too much. It is his first time. He'll be drunk and unconscious." Claudia said with concern.
"It's okay. He just must try it." Deric said.
"It is ok. I just drink a little." Segal replied.
But everything wasn't like that. After drinking a lot, they were drunk, talked a lot and had fun.
"I told you and you wouldn't believe me. They all got drunk." Claudia said while looking at them.
"It was ok, Mom." Mariel said.
"Alright, I was ready for it, let's competed like men, Segal, Hic*" Deric, who was drunk, invited Segal to compete.
"Sure! Father Deric, Hic*" Segal responded with a loud burp.
Deric and Segal gathered to gossip and laugh happily. Then they asked Claudia to go into the house and brought two sets of medium and large towels each.
They all undressed and wore medium sized towels covering their lower bodies together. Then they also walked down to the stream where Deric used his ward to cast skills to fight against Segal, who was holding a shield and defending and countering in their fighting.
The combat looked extremely intense as both were drunk. Shooting magic power to the opponent in a random way, causing everyone to laugh and have fun.
"Deric! Segal! Be careful of towels falling off. It won't be good for that things to show up!!!" Claudia said and worried because she was afraid that Mariel would see something like that.
"Oh, it's okay, Mom. I'll try to get used to this." Mariel replied with a laugh.
(Of course, I'm also a man. Just like this, it doesn't make me embarrassed, but it's fun. It also has such a good atmosphere.) (Chai thinking)
Both mother and daughter sat and watched the men fight with each other with such drunken until they forgot the time. Laughter was so soothing that family bonds were much stronger than before.
After that, Deric and Segal walked up from the river, then took a shower and went to bed while they felt exhausted. Mariel and Claudia helped each other to wash the dishes, then took a shower and went to bed later.