—"Candidates watching from outside, please move aside. Next person in."
Through the door, the examiner's voice from inside the testing room carried clearly into the corridor outside.
Compared to the grand maze used for the first assessment, the testing ground for the second assessment was undoubtedly much plainer—it was merely a classroom within the Silver Gallery.
Though as an educational institution directly under the Kingdom, the Silver Gallery's classrooms were far from ordinary. They possessed two defining traits: they were large, and there were many of them.
They were large because their interiors had generally undergone spatial expansion, allowing them to accommodate bulkier equipment when necessary.
There were many of them because these classrooms were normally assigned by subject. Each class had anywhere from five to seven classrooms for different subjects. And in order to uphold the ideals of personalized, elite education, even the equipment used by these reserve Magical Girls training at the Silver Gallery was assigned one per person rather than shared.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this high-investment preparatory education that Magical Girls from the Silver Gallery made far greater average contributions throughout their careers than colleagues from ordinary backgrounds, and their numbers in the Kingdom's five institutes far exceeded those of Magical Girls from the Material Realm.
Of course, such future matters were still rather distant for the candidates currently undergoing their practical assessments. For a more immediate example, one had to mention Mint's Carry Ranking again.
Ranked first on that list, and considered by Mint to be the strongest Magical Girl in this year's assessment, was Cotton Tree, who came from the Silver Gallery.
Going further, if this so-called Carry Ranking were expanded and its fifty names categorized by affiliation, then "Silver Gallery Faction" would certainly be the most frequent label. Only after it