After dinner, Candle walked into the castle hall early.
Every time night fell, Teacher Scroll would give a lecture in the hall. Unlike the aristocratic academies in the big cities, the students who came to listen were all witches of the Witch Cooperation Association.
But she wasn't the first one to arrive at the "classroom", Evelyn was already sitting at the long table and waving at her.
"Did His Highness Roland recently give you any tasks?" Candle had just sat down when Evelyn couldn't wait to ask.
She remembered that when she had just arrived, she had dryly called him Lord. Candle secretly laughed in her heart, "Yes, he asked me to use my ability on some grotesquely shaped metal lumps, solidifying them at room temperature, but I don't know what use they have."
"Is … is that so," her eyes dimmed, "His Highness still hasn't asked me to do anything."
"Is there no regulation on the content of the practice?" Candle asked strangely.
"No, I just casually practice by myself," Evelyn shook her head, "He only occasionally asks me to taste the newly formulated liquor."
"Maybe this is what His Highness likes. You have been in a tavern, so you are very familiar with the taste of all kinds of wine. There aren't many witches like this. "
"But you don't need a witch to taste wine," she protested, "A Golden Dragon's salary is enough to hire a professional winemaker."
"Uh …" Candle patted the other's shoulder, "I think His Highness definitely has his own plans."
"Scroll also comforted me like this, but even I don't know what I can do with this ability, I can't just turn water into wine out of thin air … Is it to make the best wine to sell? But the commoners can only afford to drink poor ale, and the nobles have different tastes. " Evelyn put her chin on the table, and said in frustration, "Moreover, the wine His Highness makes is getting more and more … unpleasant. I have suggested adding water or fruit juice to blend, but he only seems to want to make the strongest wine."
Candle didn't know what to say for a while, in this regard, she and Evelyn could be said to be in the same boat. After going to Sleeping Island, they could only do chores most of the time. As the fish oil became more abundant, solidified candles became dispensable. Lady Tilly even forbade drinking.
In the early days, when life was tight, the resources were often distributed according to one's ability. Sometimes, Candle could only get a grilled fish that was not covered with salt. She didn't think there was anything wrong with this practice, and she was also willing to give more food to the witches who consumed a lot of magic power. But the fact that witches were divided into different groups and had a vague sense of rejection made her feel a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, Lady Tilly took good care of them and apologized for this method of distribution. She also promised to adjust it when the resources were abundant in the future, so the witches did not reject them too obviously.
But in Border Town, this kind of situation had almost never happened. The witches all sat at the same table and enjoyed the meal together with His Royal Highness, wearing the same clothes and using the same things … The most important thing was that, regardless of whether they were powerful or not, they all regarded each other as a whole, which could be seen from their daily interactions. Although she had only been in Border Town for a short period of two weeks, she had already deeply felt this point.
They really regarded each other as their own sisters.
This made Candle feel very envious.
When all the witches sat down one after another, Teacher Scroll came in holding a stack of white paper, "Today I won't teach you new content, I will conduct a comprehensive test on what you have learned."
"What is that?" Lightning was the first to raise her hand.
"Coo coo?" Maggie followed closely behind.
"You have been studying for three months now, so His Royal Highness thinks it is necessary to test your learning results." Scroll laughed, "All the questions have been listed on these papers, divided into three parts: Kingdom Language, Mathematics, and Nature. There are a total of sixty questions. If you answer correctly, you will get points, and if you answer incorrectly, you will lose points … Of course, if you don't understand the questions, you can't raise your hand to ask. I believe that you have already mastered the basics of reading and writing, otherwise even if you know the answer, you will not be able to answer. " She paused, "By the way, His Royal Highness said that only those who answer more than half of the questions correctly will be able to enjoy the weekend afternoon ice cream dessert. If your score is lower than this limit, you will be disqualified from afternoon tea."
Candle heard a clatter behind her, turned around, and saw Nightingale with a dumbfounded look, the charcoal pen that had fallen to the ground had broken into two pieces.
"In addition, His Royal Highness also specifically said that the five witches from Sleeping Island are not included, so you can stay with everyone to answer the questions, or you can take a day off." Scroll looked at Candle, Evelyn, and the others, "No matter what the final score is, you will be able to enjoy the delicious afternoon tea."
"Phew," Evelyn patted her chest, turned her head and whispered, "I can't even recognize the words, I thought the ice cream would definitely be gone."
Honey and Lotus very happily got up and saluted Scroll, then left the hall.
In addition to Sylvie, who was not feeling well, didn't come, so only she and Evelyn were left among the Sleeping Island witches.
"Do you want to stay?" Candle asked in a low voice.
"I want to try," the other nodded, "Didn't His Royal Highness Roland say that knowledge can make my ability evolve? If I don't put more effort in this aspect, I'm afraid I will never be able to match them. " She revealed a sly smile, "These days after class I have been practicing calligraphy in my room, Lily and Mystery Moon have also taught me how to read and write some commonly used words."
Mentioning this, the frustration in her tone suddenly dispersed a lot, and her eyes became sparkling, which made Candle couldn't help but raise the corner of her mouth.
"Is that so, then I will also try."
…
"Your Royal Highness, the results of this test have come out," Scroll handed the summary sheet to Roland.
"You've worked hard," the recent new discoveries in the North Slope Mine made him puzzled, and it was even difficult to concentrate on his daily work, so he simply shifted his attention to something more relaxing, "Hey, Nightingale's results actually passed?"
"Yes, and her score is even among the top, among them, she got a full score for the Kingdom's Language," Scroll said with a smile, "After all, most of the questions you gave are very simple, and she already knows how to read and write, so compared to the witches who have to learn from the beginning, she is naturally much better."
"Tsk, tsk," Roland smacked his lips, "I thought that this test would make her eat less sweets." Before his voice fell, he felt his shoulder being pinched hard. "In short, the results look good, all the members of the Witch Union scored more than 60 points, it seems that your education is very effective."
"This is also inseparable from their efforts."
Roland looked down, "Only two witches from Sleeping Island participated in the test?"
"Yes, among them, Evelyn scored five points, Candle 36 points, the latter should have a certain foundation, the majority of her points came from the Kingdom's Language," she replied.
Only two weeks of lessons, they were already able to get points from the part of the test that wasn't written, the individual quality of the witches was really amazing, worthy of the continuous improvement of magic both internally and externally. His own witches were also equally outstanding, like Lily, Hummingbird, Mystery Moon and the others, they had only used three months to go from being illiterate to basically mastering reading and writing, this alone had surpassed most ordinary people.
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