บท 17: Hidden Assessment

Chapter 17 Hidden Assessment

Author: M_W Cancer

Grammar Checker: M_W Nomral

At the moment, the Silver Mage Academy is holding an opening ceremony to introduce fresh new students to the Mage Academy. However, unlike other Mage Academies, the opening ceremony held at Silver Mage Academy was held inside a huge stadium.

Yes, it's a stadium. Not a big gym or a huge hall, but in a huge freaking stadium.

Fortunately, Leo and Cassandra had gone touring around the Silver Mage Academy a few days ago, so they were able to quickly find the stadium the moment they arrived at the Mage Academy gate.

With how plenty of stadiums Leo and Cassandra had found around the Silver Mage Academy back then, they would surely be late today if they didn't learn of each of the stadium's purposes.

This time around, the Second Prince wasn't bluntly showing off how rich and powerful he was, nor how prestigious was the Silver Mage Academy with a huge stadium just for the fresh new students opening ceremony in the Silver Mage Academy. He only did such a thing with the sole purpose in mind of being able to accommodate all the enrolled students in a single place.

With thousands of students enrolled at the Silver Mage Academy every year, the problem of where to accommodate them would follow. So, the Second Prince had made such a huge stadium to fix this problem.

Arriving inside, Leo soon saw a student representative for this new batch of juniors in the middle of the stadium, introducing all the school facilities, the rules, the reward system, etc... about the Silver Mage Academy.

The school representative's name was Elizabeth Snow. Her beauty was on the same level as Cassandra. But unlike Cassandra, who had disguised herself to become conservative. Elizabeth on the other hand was a natural-born conservative. Her every movement was that of a lady born from a respectable Noble Household and not a mere act.

Regardless of how the entire stadium was so huge, Elizabeth's voice in the middle of the stadium could still be heard loudly and clearly by all the students throughout the entire stadium. This was only possible because she had cast a Sound Amplifier Spell in her voice, which then allowed it to become as loud as possible for everyone to hear in the huge stadium.

Luckily for Leo and Cassandra, they arrived at the stadium when the opening ceremony was just at the introductory part.

Leo and Cassandra were trying to quickly catch their breath when they came inside while also looking around the area for a place to sit.

With a stroke of luck, Leo quickly grabbed Cassandra's hand as he pulled her towards two empty seats in the somewhat far location to their right from their current location.

As soon as they sat in their seat, Leo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief knowing that it wasn't that bad even though they were a bit late. With how huge the stadium was, the two of them being late would surely go unnoticed, right?

That's what they thought...

Above the stadium, there were hundreds of rooms. Inside each of these rooms were hundreds of teachers of the Silver Mage Academy, observing all the fresh new students who had newly enrolled in the Silver Mage Academy.

When new students walked inside the stadium, they were immediately assessed from top to bottom and from every inch and edge of their entire being. Their information was also constantly being received by all the teachers through the Admission Office.

This was only possible because all the student's information was immediately gathered by the Admission Office soon after they finalized their enrollment to the Silver Mage Academy. So, it became very easy for the Silver Mage Academy teachers to rate all the fresh new students.

This sort of assessment was done on purpose so that no bad seed would be accepted unknowingly by the Silver Mage Academy.

Although the hundreds of teachers present couldn't possibly evaluate how powerful exactly all the present fresh new students were seated in the stadium, that was still not a problem since their way of assessing was instead done by observing the student's character.

The teachers of the Silver Mage Academy don't care about just how strong a Mage is nor how high their potential is. If the Mage present in front of these teachers was not a good person, then they would automatically be deemed useless no matter how powerful they could become.

This was how the teachers of the Silver Mage Academy accessed people from the very start of their establishment. For them, "What's the use of power if the one who possesses it doesn't know how to wield it?"

The Second Prince once told them, "What do you think was the difference between Strength and Violence? People may think that Strength and Violence are just the same since when a person uses strength they will be doing violence, and when they do violence, they will also be required to use strength."

"But in fact, these two words are different. Obviously, these two words with somewhat the same meaning are called differently because it has different meanings," The Second Prince let out a short laugh.

"For me, it would be called Strength if the person uses it in the right way, and it would be called Violence when a person uses this Strength in the wrong way. I, the Second Prince, want to promote the meaning of Strength and not Violence!"

After the Second Prince's speech at that time, all of the teachers of the Silver Mage Academy immediately changed their viewpoint in choosing the students for the Silver Mage Academy. They don't look into the power of the Mage anymore, but instead their character; how they act, their attitude, their temperament, morals, etc...

In their opinion; good people are equal to a bright future, while bad people are equal to a dark future for the Human Race of the Celestial World. The strength of a Mage was not the basis of their potential for them anymore, but whether those Mages could bring a bright future for the Human Race or not.

Because of the War of Races, Humans can't afford to have any internal fight. Though there were still some small to medium-sized internal fights, those were still something easy to handle.

However, if the Human Race carelessly groomed a bad person hence making them powerful enough. It would surely become the reason for the destruction of the entire Human Race internally. History in the Celestial World has long since proven some races were also destroyed in such a way.

This was something not only the Silver Mage Academy wanted but also all the Mage Academies built in every Human Kingdoms and Empire.

At this moment, inside the room, some teachers would nod and shake their heads from time to time. A nod from a teacher means that the student they were currently assessing was accepted and shaking off their head means rejected.

At Silver Mage Academy, it doesn't mean that the moment a student finalizes their enrollment in the Admission Office, they would then automatically be accepted at the Silver Mage Academy, henceforth becoming an official student of the Silver Mage Academy.

If that were indeed true, then there'd be no purpose for the other ten Royal Mage Academies to continue existing, as everyone would undoubtedly flock to the Silver Mage Academy solely because it was under the ownership of the Silver Royal Family.

What these teachers were currently doing was called Hidden Assessment!

All the Top Ten Royal Mage Academy of the Silver Kingdom have this so-called Hidden Assessment that no students, even if they have any internal relation and connection within the Academy, would know.

Every time a Mage Academy accepts the enrollment of a student, there would still be this final assessment to decide who would become an official student of their Academy and who would be rejected.

The purpose of this Hidden Assessment aside from separating the good seed from the bad seed was also to see which student was worthy of grooming.

Naturally, the teachers needed to take into consideration the fact that different students have different minds, hence they established this system to decide whether the student was compatible with the teaching style of their Mage Academy, whether they could meet the needs and wants of a student, etc...

If not, then the student must personally look for another Mage Academy where their talent is best suited. And in the case that they can't, then that simply means it is their fate.

In the case of the Silver Mage Academy, their Hidden Assessment this time around was specifically done while the opening ceremony was ongoing. They did it this way so that the students wouldn't be able to notice anything suspicious, hence fully achieving their Hidden Assessments purpose.

With an hour-long boring discussion, the teachers would surely see sooner or later how these students discipline themselves. If the students knew that the teachers were checking on them based on their character, they would surely just pretend. The purpose of their assessment would then be deemed useless if that was the case.

At this moment, inside one of the rooms, a teacher in his forties was currently paying close attention to Leo and Cassandra.

A while ago, just after Leo and Cassandra had entered the stadium, this teacher had immediately noticed them. He already shook his head in disappointment though due to them being late.

He thought in his mind, "There are students who would still dare to come late in such an important ceremony?!"

This teacher's name was, Marvin. He is a 4-star Mage of the Silver Mage Academy. Despite a few wrinkles, he could still be deemed handsome.

To become a teacher at Silver Mage Academy, an applicant needed to become a 4-Star Mage. Hence, teacher Marvin's rank was the lowest rank of a teacher at Silver Mage Academy. But despite that, nobody dares to underestimate him. Although his rank barely passed the minimum of the Silver Mage Academy, he is actually one of the best teachers.

"Get me the file of these two!" Teacher Marvin suddenly ordered his assistant at his right side as he pointed toward where Leo and Cassandra were seated.

The assistant nodded his head quickly in response after taking a glimpse towards where Leo and Cassandra were with his eyes which he had cast with an Eyesight Enhancement spell. In only a few seconds, he had already handed teacher Marvin two folders about the information of Leo and Cassandra.

Quickly browsing the folder, teacher Marvin was soon astonished to see that the two students were actually recommended by Sword and Magic.

It immediately piqued teacher Marvin's interest. After all, a student recommended by the Sword and Magic organization would surely be someone special, right?

Teacher Marvin hurriedly went to grab his assessment notebook and pen from the table on his left side as he started his assessment of both Leo and Cassandra.

At this very moment, Leo and Cassandra were currently focusing all of their attention on listening to the student representative's speech.

Leo and Cassandra's exploration last time didn't allow them to gain a lot of information about the Silver Mage Academy. So, since Elizabeth was giving them a lot of useful information this time, they would, of course, pay all of their attention to her.

While Leo and Cassandra were paying all their attention though, they weren't aware that at this very moment, there was someone hidden who was deciding their future based on all of their action.