Niya sat at her desk, attentively listening to the teacher's lecture and taking notes. Due to her inadequate talent, Niya couldn't cultivate magic, so she worked even harder than ordinary people to study cultural knowledge, hoping to compensate for her shortcomings in this area.
As a result, Niya's academic performance in cultural subjects had always been the best in the class. However, in the Roland Continent where strength was paramount, cultural refinement could only serve as a backdrop to one's studies, unable to compare with real combat prowess.
Unfortunately, Niya had always been a complete failure in combat. But now, with Yann by her side, everything was uncertain.
"Students, this academic year has come to an end, and all courses will be concluded. Three days from now, each grade in the academy will hold its own assessment. Success in the assessment will result in promotion to a higher grade, while failure may lead to repetition or even expulsion," said the teacher who specialized in elementary alchemy after class. "For this assessment, no magical items or magical pets are allowed to be used. Any use of auxiliary tools will be considered cheating."
After pausing for a moment, the teacher added, "Of course, students specializing in alchemy or herbalism may opt out of the combat segment, but everyone else must participate."
With that, the teacher left the classroom.
No one was surprised by this news; they had known the assessment was coming.
Everyone believed the assessment would be easy because as long as they won at least three matches out of ten, they could be promoted. Winning three out of ten matches wasn't unreasonable.
Everyone except Niya didn't pay much attention to the assessment. But what about Niya? She had repeated a grade once!
That time, she lost all ten matches! She became the laughingstock of Sacred Heart Academy.
Although Niya now had Yann as a super assistant and many magical items, these things were prohibited for the sake of fairness in the competition. Using them would result in immediate expulsion for cheating.
Unaware of Niya's dilemma, behind her, Riley wore a malicious smile.
Riley could already foresee how Niya would be humiliated under the arrangements of Aksei and Clark.
Without her peculiar undead warrior pet, Niya was still just a complete failure of a magician! She would surely repay the humiliation she had received!
Ironically, claiming that Niya humiliated Riley would be a huge joke. If it weren't for Riley deliberately provoking Niya, why would Yann have acted like that? Moreover, if Niya hadn't coincidentally encountered Yann in the cave before, she would have been killed by the monsters inside! What's even more annoying is that Riley didn't see anything wrong with her actions; on the contrary, she thought she was perfectly justified.
After returning to the dormitory after school, Niya slumped over the desk, her cheek resting against it as she turned her head to look pitifully at Yann.
"Whimper..." Niya made meaningless noises from her mouth.
Yann was sorting through his memories.
"Whimper..." Niya made meaningless noises again.
Yann continued to organize useful knowledge in his mind.
Hmm, the design drawings for an aircraft carrier? Forget it, there's no steel or engines here. Royal-grade magic, "World-Engulfing Flames"? That's too sensational, dismiss it. The manufacturing method for a vibrator?? Oh! This is very useful, I need it!!
"Whimper whimper..." The manufacturing methods for over ten thousand aphrodisiacs? Well, how did Yann's mind end up with such stuff? Oh well, for the sake of recycling and promoting population growth, Yann had to keep it.
"Hey! Can't you see I'm like this? Don't you care at all??" Yann completely ignored Niya, which annoyed her. She had tried to be cute, but ended up showing it to a blind person!
How could Niya not be angry?
You know, Niya had never shown such behavior in front of others. Naturally cautious, she didn't want others to see her like this.
"Ah, um, what's wrong?" Startled by Niya's disturbance, Yann snapped out of his thoughts and twisted his tentacled body to look at her.
Yann was getting used to this tentacled body of his. Truth be told, apart from looking a bit ugly, the tentacled body was actually very useful!
When doing something, Yann no longer had to worry about being too busy; he could simply generate multiple tentacles from his body and multitask. And because of Yann's imperial-level spiritual power, multitasking was a breeze.
If Yann had possessed this ability in his previous life, he wouldn't have had to worry about homework anymore!
A rosy hue appeared on Niya's snow-white face, making her look like a plum blossom blooming in the snow.
"The end-of-term assessment, the end-of-term assessment is coming in three days," Niya emphasized the word "assessment."
"Assessment, then let's just take the assessment. You can handle the cultural subjects yourself, and I can participate in the combat segment on your behalf, guaranteeing you a championship," Yann, a first-rate individual, didn't even consider these first-rate kids a threat.
"The academy doesn't allow the use of magical pets or magical items during the end-of-term assessment. Using auxiliary items will be considered cheating and result in expulsion," Niya's words furrowed Yann's brow—or whatever brow he had.
This is really troublesome. If Niya can't participate or use magical items, she'll still fail this time, experiencing the pain of repeating a grade once again.
Yann had long known about Niya's grade repetition.
After contemplating for a while, Yann spoke up, "I do have a solution, but it's a bit peculiar. I don't know if you'll agree to it... I guarantee that using this method will temporarily give you magical power."
"What method?" Niya asked curiously. As long as she could generate magical power, even if only temporarily, it would be fine!
"It can generate a temporary magical power value of up to fifth tier in your body and will continue until you use it up."
"What method? Tell me quickly." Yann's secretive and evasive attitude irritated Niya. Why didn't he just say it straight out! What's the point of all this!
"It's... it's... come closer, I'll tell you."
Niya leaned in, and Yann whispered in her ear, "Like this... and like that..."
"No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no... No!!!" Niya suddenly jumped back, repeatedly waving her hands, her face flushed red, saying many "no" in a row.
What method made Niya blush like this?