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Chapter 614 - 172: "Smart Technique

The information provided by Emerald Sparrow did indeed have an effect on the second day of the written exam.

During the first exam on the second day, which was the "Residual Beast Analysis" exam, under the deliberate investigation by the invigilators, a portion of problematic magical girls were quickly identified.

During the exam, dozens of magical girls were caught using malicious magic techniques. Although this number is not significant among thousands of examinees, it is still a number not to be underestimated.

These magical girls indeed used a technique called "Chaos Technique" during the assessment, which can slightly affect others' memory and decision-making without being noticed. Due to its weak effect and inability to be enhanced by higher magic power output, it has low practical value in combat. Moreover, it has a high practice cost, making it an unpopular technique among unpopular techniques, and typically, no magical girl would bother practicing it.

These caught magical girls were undoubtedly young girls, the oldest being seventeen and the youngest fourteen. Under the stern questioning of the invigilators, they quickly, tremblingly confessed the truth:

A month before the exam, the graduating students had spontaneously formed many online communities with this year's exam as the discussion topic. In these communities, someone marketed "Smart Technique," claiming to have a niche technique that can make the user alert, quick-thinking, memory-activated, and hundreds of times smarter.

Most magical girls naturally regarded these seemingly unreliable advertisements as jokes or scams, but there were some naive individuals who truly believed the promotions, paid, and obtained this so-called "Smart Technique."

In subsequent research of the technique, those magical girls who bought the "Smart Technique" either abandoned it midway due to high practice costs or, after succeeding, felt it ineffective, considered the merchants as scammers, and publicly criticized their IDs in the community, inadvertently helping subsequent candidates avoid the pitfall.

However, there were indeed quite a number of magical girls who came for assessment in the Kingdom this time. Among them, some "chosen ones" not only learned this technique but, perhaps due to psychological placebo effects, genuinely believed they had become smarter.

Yes, this "Smart Technique" naturally had no effect on making one smarter because it was actually "Chaos Technique."

Thus, these individuals, who learned Chaos Technique but believed they could become smart, confidently entered the examination hall and, using the technique's weak magical power fluctuation, employed it during the exam.

There were naturally no issues on the first day because neither other examinees nor the invigilators anticipated someone committing such self-damaging yet not very self-beneficial acts. Even if dozens used this technique simultaneously in the exam hall, the final result wouldn't significantly lower the passing score except for adversely affecting the magical girls impacted by the technique.

However, on the second day, the problem was discovered not just by Fangting City's team. In fact, most examinees affected by the technique noticed the anomaly, among them knowledgeable team leaders who could identify the Chaos Technique and report it to the Exam Institute.

Thus, the "Residual Beast Analysis" exam turned into a game of "catch the thief."

The uninformed regular examinees were influenced by the Chaos Technique unknowingly during the first half, rendering them unable to write the answers correctly. In the second half, they witnessed their peers being taken away by invigilators, only to surprisingly find their minds clearing up, allowing them to complete the answers normally.

As for the "cheating candidates" caught, due to the severe consequences of their actions, they were all marked as failing, had a significant amount of their contributions deducted, and were banned from partaking in qualification certification assessments for three years.

Nevertheless, considering a considerable number of them had no intent to harm and were first-time offenders, misled by others, the Exam Institute did not impose the harshest punishment. As long as these magical girls performed more tasks and contributed to city protection, bringing their contributions back to normal values, they could still participate in qualification certification assessments three years later. However, if they dared to cheat again, these specifically marked magical girls would likely face imprisonment.

Of course, handling it to this point was not the end. Because those examinees affected by the technique understandably saw their scores reduced, many who might have passed the written test faced the risk of elimination. Meanwhile, historical qualification assessment exams never had retakes.

To solve this issue, Emerald Sparrow rushed to the Magic Branch after submitting her paper that morning. Under her initiative, the Green Faction swiftly leveraged its connections, implementing an unprecedented decision with efficiency uncharacteristic of the Magical Affairs Institute: arranging a unified supplementary exam for those affected during the exam, allowing any candidate who felt they underperformed on the first day to participate. The questions would change, but the difficulty remained, with only the supplementary exam scores being tallied.

This meant that if a magical girl opted for the supplementary exam to try to enhance her score but performed worse than the first time, her official score would become the lower supplementary score, preventing candidates from using this as a way to score higher.

Thus, the rewards and penalties for this matter were clearly defined. However, this was only half-finished, as a more crucial issue confronted the Magical Affairs Institute and others:

Who exactly was selling the "Chaos Technique" in the examinee community, or rather, who were the people behind it?

The candidates caught using the technique in the exam hall were undoubtedly mere pawns, used as tools without participating in the actual planning. Those attempting to spread the Chaos Technique, disrupting exam order, were the true targets the Magical Affairs Institute and Research Institute needed to track down.

In fact, this was one of the reasons the Green Faction's "supplementary exam" strategy received unanimous approval, as another faction showed even more enthusiasm about this matter than the Green Faction.

That faction was the Crown Faction.

The written qualification assessment only lasted two days, after which there would be a day's break before commencing the main event of this assessment—the practical portion.

At that time, the Queen would truly come to the assessment site for a grand observation, accompanied by many from the royal court. For these Crown Faction magical girls, safeguarding Her Majesty's viewing experience and thoroughly rooting out those with malevolent intentions was part of their duty.

In exchange for helping the Green Faction, they requested to handle the interrogation of the cheating candidates, promising not to use violence or torture and ensuring the safety of these magical girls' lives, but also vowing to extract all possible information from them.

On that note, the second day of the written qualification exam ended amidst a tense and serious atmosphere.

Of course, some people were quite happy, namely those candidates who, after completing the "Kingdom Law and Task Behavior Standards" exam, received the news of the supplementary exam.

— "Great, this way I should be able to rank among the top in the written exam!"

As for a certain magical girl who, one moment, was brooding in the Colorful Cloud Wetland and the next, upon receiving the Exam Institute notification, erupted in a steroid-fueled shout...

"Let me show you my power, so I can catch the Queen's attention early and become a star contestant!"

Well, honestly, whether it was Xia Liang or Bai Jingxuan, they both looked at Lin Xiaolu with expressions of "here she goes again." However, Emerald Sparrow, who had spent a busy day managing this issue, was somewhat comforted to see her daughter bounce back with renewed vigour.