A Narrow-Eyed Nobleman Is Always Misunderstood

Chapter 47 – Interim evaluation? What is it?

The incident of Rodren’s body disappearing, but curiously, I haven’t been contacted since that day.

Since Lady Elizabeth hasn’t contacted me since that day, I decided not to worry about the matter anymore.

According to rumors, there were rumors that a saint and a saintess had visited the imperial palace.

Well, even if the saint and the saintess actually visited the imperial palace, it didn’t matter to me.

What was important to me now was the interim evaluation that came a few days later.

The Royal Academy takes an evaluation twice a semester.

Interim evaluation is an evaluation conducted in the middle of a semester.

The evaluation at the end of the semester is called end-of-semester evaluation.

I don’t know why I dare to leave the intuitive word “Test” And say “Evaluation”.

And as the evaluation day drew closer, the blood on the cadets’ faces disappeared, and they could see that their vitality was drying up.

“Hey… long time no see. Alberto.”

Even Ruel, who usually praised himself for being confident in his stamina, was voicing tiredness.

“Ruel? No, what the hell are you doing all dying like this?”

“The mid-term evaluation is mainly written…….”

“Ah.”

For reference, a written test is taken for the mid-term evaluation, and a practical test is taken at the end of the semester.

The academy claims to have put the written test in front of the students so that they have enough time to prepare for the practical test.

However, these answers are meaningless to the cadets, and even now, many cadets were studying all night in the library and dormitory preparing for the written exam.

“Everyone is having a hard time.”

“You are only relaxed. I envy that look.”

I couldn’t say anything when Ruel looked at me and said he was envious.

It was true that I was relatively comfortable compared to the other cadets.

“Ugh, as expected, sword experts are on a different level from us.”

What Ruel was talking about was me and their bodies.

Ruel and his friends, who were being taught swordsmanship by me, were all on the level of Aura users.

And, even among the same Auror users, there was a certain degree of difference in their physical abilities.

It is a concept that cannot be quantified, but if it is expressed in numbers, it is as follows.

Those who set foot in the world of martial arts, whether with a sword or a spear, are called ‘beginners’.

A person who has entered the stage of a beginner has a skill of 1, and when he raises it to 100, he reaches the level of a ‘normal user’.

The realm of this normal user was originally written as the word user without the word normal in front.

However, the gap between normal and auror users widened as people who realized aura came out of normal users, so existing users became normal users, and those who realized aura became aura users.

Thus, you can think of the stage of being an Auror user as a different stage from ‘sword user’, ‘spear user’, ‘lance user’, or ‘martial arts user’.

Anyway, a person who has reached the level of a beginner will enter the level of a normal user through experience and training.

Anyone who awakens an aura here becomes an aura user, and those who do not stay in the realm of a normal user forever.

The term ‘user’ is the same, but there is a big difference between Auror users and general users.

The mana used by wizards and the aura used by martial artists were essentially the same power with no significant difference.

However, if there is a difference between aura and mana, it is the difference between directly affecting the body or not.

Omitting complicated explanations, to put it simply, wizards have to use magic by calculating various formulas, so their brains develop, and martial artists improve their overall physical abilities.

If a normal user could swing a sword a thousand times, it was said that an auror user could swing it five thousand times.

Then why did Ruel say that sword experts were different from them?

Compared to people who reached the level of normal users, those who reached the level of aura users were like superhumans.

And that also appears in aura users and aura experts.

If the ability of a normal user is set to be 1, then it can be said that an aura user is about 3 to 4.

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And, an Aura Expert, even a beginner who has not yet been trained, will have a whopping 20 abilities.

Here, when you reach the intermediate level, your ability increases to 40, and when you reach the advanced level, it increases to 80.

And if you become an Aura Expert Master, your physical abilities will rise dramatically and exceed 400-500.

Thus, even if you become an Aura Expert, a body that can recover enough physical strength with a little rest is created, and this was a part that Aura users could not follow.

Of course, this is a numerical implementation of what I felt, so there may be subtle differences.

No matter what, it meant that there was a huge wall between the realm of an aura user and an aura expert.

Because Ruel standing in front of me is an Auror user, unlike normal users, he could have endured without sleeping for a much longer time, but now it seems that he has reached his limit.

“Are you very tired?”

“I guess so. Haam……. Still, we’re on the better side. Can you ask the attendant to bring you at least some fatigue pills?”

The ‘fatigue pills’ that Ruel is talking about here are not products distributed in the market, but made and sold by practical departments.

Unexpectedly, there were rumors that the Practical Department was making quite a bit of money by selling fatigue relievers every evaluation period.

The price was cheap enough to be purchased for a single coin.

I also bought and tried it out of curiosity, but it was much more effective than the fatigue relievers on the market.

At the same time, the price is only one silver coin, so it can be said that it is an extremely good item.

In the market, I had to pay five silver coins to buy a product that was less effective and had side effects.

“Certainly, we are better than commoners in that respect. Rather, I think you should rest a little, right?”

From what I can see now, Ruel should have gone in and rested right now.

It seemed that if I didn’t take a little rest, the balance in my body would be broken and it would be difficult to use my aura.

“I know what you mean, but the subject of this written test is a very difficult one.”

However, because of the difficulty of the written test, Ruel didn’t seem to have time to take a break.

“Was it a very difficult problem?”

Since I don’t know what the problem is in the written test, I asked Ruel what the problem was.

No, did I ask you to solve some kind of mana formula calculation problem as the subject of the written test?

“This is a really difficult problem. Huh… ? Wait a minute, so you haven’t prepared for the evaluation until now?”

In response to my question, Ruel instead threw a question at me in reverse.

I nodded my head at Ruel’s question.

Isn’t that obvious?

“I am a sword expert, so the written test is exempt.”

It was because he was exempted from the written examination at the Royal Academy.

The evaluation of the Royal Academy was, in the end, to allow students to gain experience so that they would not be embarrassed even if they went through actual battles after graduation.

In my case, I was given the privilege of being exempted from the written test, probably because of my solid skills as an intermediate level sword expert and my ability not to be pushed even against the current Imperial Knights.

“Ugh, do you know you really want to punch me with that word?”

“However, even if the written test is exempted, the practical test must be taken. In addition, I will take the exam in a more difficult way.”

“Mmm, I didn’t think of that.”

Of course, nothing is free in this world.

Instead of being exempted from the written test, I had to participate in the friendly festival in the fall, and I had to take the practical test at the end of the semester in a more difficult way than other cadets.

If a general practical test is a match against a professor, then cadets like me who have been exempted from the written test will be given the task of hunting powerful monsters.

For reference, the monster I had to catch was the ‘Magma Drake’, a monster that lives in the volcanic region.

“Or, would you like to get an exemption from the written test and go hunting for magma drakes with me?”

“Uh, no no. I’d rather prepare for the written test than catch the magma drake.”

It sucks. I tried suggesting it implicitly, but Ruel was frightened and waved his hand.

If I just follow you, I’ll take care of it, but I got scared and backed away, so there was no room for me to offer more.

“Yes. Then I hope you prepare well for the rest of the exams.”

“Where are you going?”

“I am on my way to get information about Magma Drake in order to pass my end-of-semester assessment.”

“Ah, that’s why you were going to the library.”

After hearing my explanation, Ruel seemed to understand why I was going to the library.

“Okay then, see you after the exam.”

“Let’s do that.”

That’s how the two of us parted ways at the entrance of the library.

At that time, I remembered the anti-fatigue pills Nina had given me.

‘Bocchan. If you are tired from studying, be sure to eat it. Okay? If you don’t eat it and spoil it, please give it to someone else. OK?’

“Ugh, who should I give this to?”

I thought about giving this to Ruel, but I couldn’t even approach and talk to Ruel, who was already walking far away.

“Hmm? Prince Alberto.”

“Ah, Lady Elizabeth.”

Just in time, Lady Elizabeth spoke to me.

Seeing that he had a plain face without makeup and wearing glasses with high prescriptions, he looked like a model student.

“Skinny Young master, what did you come here for?”

“I came to get information about the magma drake.”

“I see. Then suffer. Hmm…….”

Lady Elizabeth yawned loudly as if she was very tired.

I didn’t really need fatigue pills, so I took out two bottles of fatigue pills from my pocket and held them out to Lady Elizabeth.

“Take it.”

“This is… Isn’t that a fatigue reliever?”

“Eat. Because it’s something I don’t need. The refusal is over. Then… ….”

I placed two bottles of blood remedies in Lady Elizabeth’s hands as if I were passing them off.

Since it was a gift from her friend, I hoped she would eat this and prepare well for her evaluation.