"You mean you applied to use this Guidance spell for academic exchange?"
At the Caster Association, Jia Xiu was applying for permission to use a spell he had developed himself.
It was the control spell Guidance he had come up with during the registered caster exam—the one that made people raise their hands and cry if they couldn't answer a question.
Because the Association had determined that it might spark religious controversy, it had been classified as restricted.
As a result, whenever Jia Xiu wanted to use his own spell in public, he first needed the Association's approval.
"Yes. Tomorrow, I'll be participating in an academic exchange event. I need to demonstrate this Guidance spell as part of an academic discussion."
Jia Xiu explained with a perfectly straight face.
"Your academic exchange event wouldn't happen to be the Grand Five-Academy Tournament, would it?"
"Please don't look at this tournament so narrowly. It is indeed a competition, but it's also a great opportunity for students from different schools to learn from one another. I believe it has both a competitive and an academic exchange aspect."
"And when you say you'll demonstrate it, you don't mean you're going to use it on the other contestants during the tournament, do you?"
"Exchange, exchange. How can it be an exchange if only one side takes part? This is all necessary academic activity."
The Association official in charge of approving restricted spells narrowed his eyes and stared suspiciously at Jia Xiu, who was talking nonsense with a straight face.
"Thump!"
A "NOT APPROVED" stamp landed on Jia Xiu's application form.
"Why? It's my own spell, and I'm not even allowed to use it in a school tournament!"
"It's not that you can't use it. You must use it slowly, use it well, and use it