My Summons Are Special

44. Special Exams

“this. a little bit… it seems like you did Simple.”

“yes. approximately… I wish it was more seasoned.”

“approximately… It’s made that way, so there’s nothing I can do about it.”

“… … stop it.”

Stella started shaking her fists as she watched Noah and Shira start to tease her.

When did they become so close, the breathing between the two was no joke.

Ian, the main culprit of this division, is pretending not to know and humming… … .

‘annoying… … .’

I wanted to slap one on that smiling face. It really pissed me off that I couldn’t.

Seeing that Stella’s hand was shaking, Shira realized that her patience was slowly reaching the limit, and refrained from teasing her.

“Ah, where am I not a true man? I don’t want anything special, so I just need to be good-looking and summoned.”

“… … Are there many around you?”

“Around me? Oh, yes, I did- Did I say that Ian wasn’t engaged? Ian, will you marry me?”

“no.”

“Ah- I’m sorry.”

Of course, I said that I would refrain, but I didn’t say that I would quit. However, since it was an ambiguous level of stimulation for anger, Stella could not do this or that, and only moaned inside.

‘Why did a speech mistake come out-!’

She’s never had my mouth so resentful. Stella, who was touching her lips with a tuk-tuk or fork, felt the eyes of other children looking at her, and immediately put the fork down.

It was a shameful act. It wasn’t about nobility. You should always be careful in front of others.

Stella, who was determined to do so, finished the meal aristocratically and waited for the other children to finish their meal with her back straight and immobile.

“Oh right.”

And then, Noah, who was waiting for his stomach to go out after eating, looked at the children as if he had suddenly remembered and opened his mouth.

“Did you see the bulletin board? It looked like he was doing something like a test.”

“Ah- Ranking match?”

“ranking… I’m? What is it?”

“Noah, you don’t know.”

As Stella said so, she realized that Noah was a commoner. They forgot for a moment because their usual attitude towards them was comparable to that of royalty.

She disclosed information handed down because she was a nobleman, which Noah, a commoner, could not know.

“Soon, there will be a survival test for all grades.”

“Why is that a ranking match?”

“That’s why we rank them in the order of the longest remaining.”

“Is it just about surviving long?”

“Surviving itself is strong.”

The Survival Exam was one of the Academy’s biggest events, where all students, regardless of grade or level, gathered together and held at the same time.

“There is a rule that simply strong alone can never win.”

“What are the rules?”

“I can summon a pet for thirty minutes a day.”

In the ranking match, the magic tool accurately checks the time, and if the time exceeds that time, it is immediately eliminated from the test.

Because of these conditions, the teachers were able to control even if so many students gathered in a group.

Ian, who was listening to the story next to him, did not feel much interest in the test itself.

It wasn’t an event in the game, and it was because I had an intuition that winning 1st place didn’t help me much.

And as if Ian knew what he was thinking, the hip-heavy system moved.

—Side Quest.

[Achieve Ranking 1st]

Rewards: Admission to the Imperial Treasury, Emperor’s Interest

“Well?”

It was a system window I haven’t seen in a long time. It was a system that didn’t feel good because he always said what he had to say and disappeared, and the reward only showed what he had earned. … .

‘The treasury of the empire?’

There was interest. Very interested.

* * *

In the afternoon, Oliver, who entered the classroom for class, looked around the children and gave another notice.

“I’m sure you’ve seen it already, but there’s a special exam next week.”

The children already knew what the test was. A closed exam in which the contents and the date were all disclosed.

Of course, that information was only passed on to nobles with vested interests, and not to commoners who discovered hidden talents and became summons… No one pointed out that fact.

It felt like I was watching a test genealogy that the insiders looked at each other, so I smiled bitterly from behind.

‘I wouldn’t be able to win alone either.’

According to the genealogy, there are several conditions for the special examination.

You cannot summon a pet for more than 30 minutes per day.

Food and bedding are sourced locally.

Direct attacks between cadets are prohibited.

If you break the rules, surrender, or become unable to test, the Magic Artifact will immediately disqualify you and expel you from the testing room.

What was important was the first rule.

You cannot summon summons for more than 30 minutes.

‘Whoever sees this… High-level summoners are snipers.’

If it weren’t for these conditions, the 3-star and 4-star Summoners would churn around and wipe them all out.

If there is a time limit, you cannot move recklessly. What if you met another cadet when the time ran out? Because it was a drop out.

‘Insa is an advantageous rule.’

It was an annoying rule. Is it a game to win if you have many friends?

After class was over, the children began to gather among themselves. I already acted as if I was going to form a team like in the last test.

As I looked at the children with a sense of déjà vu, they began to look at me with slightly hostile eyes.

‘what?’

However, after realizing that they were not reaching out to Shiira as well as me, I understood the children’s strategies.

‘If you become a 3-star Summoner Love Team, you won’t be able to win anyway, so you’re going to exclude 3-star Summoners?’

It wasn’t a bad strategy. This test was also a condition where I couldn’t stand alone.

However, the strategy had one pitfall.

‘What if three-star Summoners get together?’

I got up straight away and headed to Siira.

She was playing alone, fiddling with something like clay.

“… … Shira?”

“yes? Ian? why?”

“What is that?”

“Slime. fun. Do you want to play with it too?”

She wasn’t even an elementary school student, and seeing Shira playing with slime, she sighed.

Having struggled to hold back my breath, I told her what the other children were thinking and suggested that they form a team together.

However, upon hearing that, Shira let out a sigh as if worried and shook her head.

“Isn’t that going to happen?”

“why?”

“I’ll find out when the exam day comes.”

“Well, wouldn’t it be better for us to form an alliance for now?”

“Ahahaha- it would be useless-.”

As if she knew something, Shira smirked.

However, he did not reject my offer.

Once I made an alliance with her, I returned to my place with peace of mind.

On the other hand, she began to wonder why she had to say that. And that ambivalence was not resolved even after school.

“It won’t go the way you think.”

After school, Stella met to propose an alliance, and said the same thing as Shiira.

With intense doubts, I asked her why. She explained the reason as if it was natural.

“Does the teachers not know that the three-star Summoners can never be stopped when they unite?”

“… … What are you going to do?”

“Yeah, that’s why, last year, the number one ranking was taken by a two-star Summoner.”

“No, it’s a bit… … .”

Hearing her words, I was deeply troubled. Thinking about how to win the survival test… … .

* * *

Time passed, and the day of the survival test came.

I’ve come up with several strategies just for today, but I don’t know how many of them will work.

‘In practice, things often change.’

When I came to my senses, put on my school uniform, and headed to the classroom, the atmosphere in the school was already heated.

The children were a little excited that they would soon be participating in a kill-and-death trial.

Overheated atmosphere – Oliver, who appeared in the middle, stood in front of the school table and smiled as if he liked the eyes of the children.

“Today is a special exam day. So everyone can go to the auditorium.”

After that, the children got up as a group and headed towards the auditorium in an orderly fashion. The cadets from the whole school had already gathered in the auditorium.

No matter how noble you are, if there are such a large number of people, it will inevitably be noisy, but the inside of the auditorium is quiet without a sound of breathing.

Bump, buzz-.

As soon as all the children were seated, the principal stepped onto the podium of the auditorium.

Standing on the podium, she glanced at the children for a moment before bursting into laughter. Then he opened his mouth into the microphone.

“Today is a special exam day. Some cadets know roughly what the exam is, and some cadets don’t.”

At her words, some children murmured in bewildered voices, asking if the information was known.

The principal ignored those voices and continued the conversation.

“Does not matter. Because in practice, victory is not achieved solely by the superiority of information. Use your wits freshmen. Destroy with experience Seniors.”

After giving her brief advice, she finally began to explain the rules of the exam.

“The rules of the exam are simple. Whoever breaks this bracelet first takes all of the opponent’s points. Isn’t it simple?”

“… … Principal, you forgot one.”

“Oh, and if you attack each other directly, you will be eliminated. Other than that, let’s figure it out. More than.”

As soon as the principal’s words were finished, the wizards invited from the tower for today came and hung bracelets on the children’s wrists one by one.

It looks more like a smart watch than a bracelet. It was an artifact manufactured by the Magic Tower and a magic tool to protect the cadets in an emergency.

The wizard, who filled his wrists with artifacts, spoke with a gentle voice.

“Now, if you wait for a while, we will move to the exam room.”

“… … Is it teleportation magic?”

“yes? Well, you can do that.”

The wizard shook his head, answering similarly to my question. It was teleportation, and a technology that did not exist on Earth appeared.

The children were spitting gibberish with their neighbors as if pounding at the fact that they could experience magic they had never experienced before.

After confirming that the artifacts were worn on the wrists of the cadets, the principal opened his mouth lightly.

“Okay, then, let’s start the test now.”

The principal’s voice was greatly amplified and covered the entire auditorium.

From now on, it’s survival – the children waited for the test to start quickly with nervous faces.

And after a while, the light from the bracelet enveloped us.

“… … here.”

When I woke up, I was alone in an unknown forest. And only then did I understand what Stella and Shiira had said.

‘It’s just that you put them all away from each other.’

If so, there is no point in cooperating in advance. The odds of wandering through the woods looking for other children wouldn’t be very high.

Beep-!

A beep sounded from the bracelet. When I looked down and checked the bracelet, the words [30:00] came to mind on the bracelet that was flashing green.

‘This is the time limit… … .’

Fortunately, I was able to hide the remaining time by setting it separately.

The remaining summoning time was valuable information to hide, so I immediately changed the settings to hide the time and looked around.

“by the way… Do you want me to find something to eat?”

It was funny. There’s no way that’s possible with modern people.

As I was struggling with how to get food, a cadet appeared with the sound of rustling of the bushes.

“uh?”

It was a green tie, a senior in second grade.