Since the squad from Bai'an City arrived in Fangting City, a week had swiftly passed.
Thanks to the presence of Erald Sparrow and Asou Haruka, the interactions between the two teams did not cause much of a stir, and the influence of the new team quickly faded into nothingness.
At least that was the case on the surface.
As for what was happening behind the scenes, how the girls were preparing for the upcoming test, harboring their own thoughts and taking certain actions, that remained unknown to anyone.
For Erald Sparrow, she only knew the movents of the Fangting City squad.
Following Xia Liang, Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan also expressed their willingness to take part in the assessnt and accept the challenge.
However, unlike the case with Xia Liang, communicating with these two children was evidently more difficult. Lin Xiaolu was acting stubbornly, refusing to say much as if locked in a contest with soone. Regardless of whether Erald Sparrow spoke gently or made strict demands, Lin Xiaolu would rely apologize with her head down, completely avoiding communication.
Bai Jingxuan, on the other hand, did not see the danger in "participating in the assessnt," and peculiarly, her view seed to have no issue. Considering her previously demonstrated capabilities when facing the out-of-control Black Ash Dawn, Erald Sparrow was more concerned about the safety of the other candidates.
Thus, with the team mbers' wishes unified, what remained was naturally how to prepare for the upcoming test.
As previously arranged with Asou Haruka, Lin Xiaolu followed her in secret, aiming to master so new technique before the test.
Xia Liang learned a few basic spell techniques from Erald Sparrow and was currently studying the Favo Rune, providing feedback on her learning progress every other day.
As for Bai Jingxuan, her obsession with becoming stronger seed to have softened a bit after her recent birthday party, so Erald Sparrow took advantage of the situation to slow down her magic power training and instead began tutoring her on cultural studies.
This was not a sudden whim but a plan derived from many evaluations of the current situation.
She hoped to find the ti to send Bai Jingxuan back to school.
On her birthday, Bai Jingxuan had told Lin Yun that she "hoped to care about more people."
In that context, the words were rely an expression of her feelings, but objectively speaking, they also provided Erald Sparrow with an alternative way to ease Bai Jingxuan's identity crisis.
Without question, to ensure healthier growth for Bai Jingxuan, returning her to school life, allowing her to embrace the identity of a "student," a "child," would be preferable to letting her imrse herself in fights with Remnant Beasts.
If she could make more friends at school and have more people in her life to care about, this would likely foster more human self-awareness in Bai Jingxuan and might benefit her control over the magic power in her body that leaned towards that of Remnant Beasts.
Of course, all this depended on whether Bai Jingxuan could really enjoy school life upon returning.
Considering the treatnt Xia Liang had received at school due to family issues, if Bai Jingxuan faced similar problems, it was hard to imagine how bad things might get.
Kids' cruelty and exclusion often co without reason; if she was simply sent back to school unprepared, it would just be pushing her from "the fight against Remnant Beasts" to "the fight against social dynamics."
Therefore, it was necessary to proceed with utmost caution. Not only was academic preparation before enrollnt important, but also the student body and atmosphere of the school, the philosophy of the teachers and administrators, and whether a temporary enrollnt would be too conspicuous and draw attention—all these aspects needed careful consideration.
Coincidentally, most primary and secondary schools were approaching the end of a term. It was now the second half of December, and it wouldn't be long before the term ended and students entered a long vacation, so enrollnt at this ti was clearly not practical. Erald Sparrow still had ti to think things through before making plans.
She kept these thoughts to herself, not even explaining them to Asou Haruka. And Bai Jingxuan, who was receiving nightly cultural lessons from Erald Sparrow, did not realize the complexity of what her "mother" was considering.
Ti slipped away quietly in such an atmosphere.
Soon, the agreed day of the test arrived as expected.
The ti was still Sunday, and the location was the underground training room of the stronghold. Considering the limited destructive power of the test itself, and that the training room had been designed with so level of magic power isolation in mind, it was actually safer than going out to find a venue.
As for the opponents, they followed the principle of fairness and impartiality. Six pieces of paper with numbers were thrown into a box, and the "self-proclaid fair and just" Fairy, Moco, served as the witness. Each side drew lots to determine their opponents.
Finally, the matchups were as follows:
Little Brocade versus Shy Plant;
Bai i versus Bai Ji;
Bo Xue versus Wooden Lily.
It was hard to imagine that despite it being a normal draw, half of the people did not look pleased with the results after drawing.
The fact that Lin Xiaolu was matched up with Bai Ji seed coincidental at first glance, but upon further thought—considering at least two of the three people from the Bai'an City squad wanted to fight her, whether she drew Bai Ji or Wooden Lily, it was considered an encounter filled with personal grudges—it turned out there was only a one-in-three chance that personal vendettas would not play a role in the matchups.
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