Enrollment Exam Great Demon King

Dongfang Chen set off toward the Imperial Capital with Ye Xin Xia and Mu Ningxue.

As Dongfang Chen's most devoted Cotton Quilt, Ye Xin Xia naturally chose to apply to the same magic academy as him.

Ye Xin Xia's first awakened element was Healing, a unique type of Light Magic that all academies competed to recruit.

So she planned to wait until Dongfang Chen picked his preferred school before choosing the same one.

However, Ye Xin Xia didn't intend to enroll this year, since even if Dongfang Chen got into a magic academy, he'd take a year off. She decided to wait until the following year to take the exam instead.

In truth, with Dongfang Chen's Innate All Element talent and his focus on the Space Element, he could easily enter any magic academy in the country through special recruitment.

But the system required him to personally take the admissions exam, which ruled out any chance of slacking off.

After arriving in the Imperial Capital, Dongfang Chen spent two days being lovey-dovey with Mu Ningxue.

Then Mu Ningxue returned to school to report in.

Dongfang Chen went straight to the Imperial Capital Magic Academy for the admissions exam.

Most magic academies followed a standardized process for their admissions exams.

It included a Magic Knowledge Written Test, a Star Dust Star Map Strength Test, and a Combat Test.

The Magic Knowledge Written Test was a bit tough for Dongfang Chen. Even though he'd lived in this world for eighteen years, his thinking was still dominated by his pre-transmigration mindset.

Some common-sense facts about the Magic World struck him as absurd.

For instance, everyday electronics like computers and phones were built around Magic Array Diagrams, which completely baffled him.

Thankfully, after Ye Xin Xia tutored him, Dongfang Chen used his formidable Soul Power to forcibly memorize the material, and he passed the Magic Knowledge Written Test by the skin of his teeth.

The Star Dust Star Map Strength Test went without saying.

It was rare for anyone to reach Novice Level 3 by exam age, so someone like Dongfang Chen, an Intermediate Level Mage, passed with zero pressure.

The final Combat Test was also a breeze for him.

The opponent in the Combat Test was a Summoned Beast belonging to an Intermediate Level Summoning teacher.

Using a Commander Level Summoned Beast for the test was already a high-difficulty exam.

But when Dongfang Chen unleashed Intermediate Magic—Space Rhythm, the examiner teacher practically knelt before him.

He'd poured countless effort and money into raising that Commander Level Summoned Beast, and he couldn't let some student casually slaughter it.

Besides, if this student had Intermediate Level Space Element cultivation, why didn't he say so earlier! The Imperial Capital Magic Academy might be the top-ranked school in the country, but a prodigy like him was more than qualified for special recruitment!

The exam went smoothly, but the system didn't send any notification, so Dongfang Chen knew the Imperial Capital Magic Academy wasn't the so-called "Jia Nan Academy" the system referred to.

Looks like he couldn't go to school with Xuexue after all.

Dongfang Chen turned and left without a hint of hesitation.

This left several teachers from the Admissions Office stunned.

Someone actually got into the Imperial Capital Magic Academy and chose to give it up? What was he thinking?

After leaving the Imperial Capital, Dongfang Chen went to Hangcheng.

He'd originally planned to head to the closer Magic City, but since Tang Yue had moved from Bocheng to Hangcheng, as a Hangcheng Locals, he naturally had to treat her well.

Tang Yue was also a Hangcheng Locals, but ever since she joined the Hangcheng Lingyin Temple Judgment Department, she'd been traveling everywhere.

So she'd hardly ever had a chance to properly enjoy Hangcheng.

The tour guide duty naturally fell to Dongfang Chen.

During their outings, Dongfang Chen casually helped Tang Yue complete a mission and obtained a Fire Element Spirit Seed, Mei Yan.

As for Fire Element Spirit Seeds, Dongfang Chen had already outgrown them.

The flames he refined through Fen Jue were at least Soul Seeds at their worst.

Since Tang Yue already had a Spirit Seed herself, Dongfang Chen casually tossed this little Mei Yan to the Dongfang Family.

As for Mofan, Dongfang Chen could only wish him luck in finding a new Spirit Seed.

After spending a few days in Hangcheng with Tang Yue, he headed to Magic City to take the Mingzhu Magic Academy admissions exam.

During his time in Hangcheng, Dongfang Chen also squeezed in time to take the Hangcheng Magic Academy exam, but unfortunately, it still wasn't the so-called "Jia Nan Academy."

Dongfang Chen thought he'd have to travel across the entire country to find the system's "Jia Nan Academy," but he didn't expect that right after finishing the Mingzhu Magic Academy exam, a prompt appeared.

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[Congratulations, host, on successfully completing the Jia Nan Academy admissions exam. Please request a one-year leave of absence from the school to complete the task!]

Dongfang Chen was stunned. He hadn't expected Mingzhu Magic Academy to be "Jia Nan Academy." If he'd known, he would've come to Magic City for the exam first.

Seeing Dongfang Chen spacing out, the teachers at the Mingzhu Magic Academy Admissions Office felt a bit uneasy.

This examinee had become famous across all the academies' admissions offices recently.

He was famous not only for his monstrous magic talent but also for his "willfulness."

After hearing that this examinee had been admitted to the Imperial Capital Magic Academy with the top score, he turned around and left without any intention of actually enrolling there.

When he went to the Hangcheng Magic Academy instead, the principal of Hangcheng Magic Academy couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

A genius student like this, instead of attending the Imperial Capital Magic Academy, comes to our Hangcheng Magic Academy? What a steal!

But the principal of Hangcheng Magic Academy never expected that after Dongfang Chen passed their admissions exam, he would also turn around and leave just the same.

This infuriated the principal of Hangcheng Magic Academy.

The problem was that Dongfang Chen wasn't a special recruit; he had passed the regular admissions exam fair and square.

Whether he chose to attend or not was entirely up to him, and there was nothing they could do about it.

Now, this guy had come to their Mingzhu Magic Academy again, and once more achieved the top score in the admissions exam. Could it be that he would...

Seeing Dongfang Chen lost in thought, the teacher from the Admissions Office asked with a sense of unease.

"Dongfang student, what do you think of our Mingzhu Magic Academy? Although our school ranks slightly behind the Imperial Capital in terms of reputation, we're no worse in teaching quality or resource allocation."

Dongfang Chen snapped back to reality.

"No Problem, I'm willing to enroll at your school."

Upon hearing Dongfang Chen's affirmative answer, several teachers from the Admissions Office couldn't help but tear up with joy. Great, this year's admissions performance was secured!

"But I have one request."

"Whatever request you have, just say it!" the Admissions Office teacher said excitedly.

Dongfang Chen said with a slightly awkward expression, "I'd like to take a year off, is that okay?"

"Huh?"