Chapter 24 Good Luck

Everyone came back to life at once. Although they were not sure that they were the ones assigned to the same group, they at least had a good hope. They did not need anyone to direct them. They called their friends to stand in a circle and finally looked eagerly in the direction of Edith.

Human potential is truly endless.

Edith watched the tearful examinees' eyes light up in an instant, and couldn't help but sigh at the alluring benefits. She ignored Tuttle who was still in a trance, and walked quickly to the middle: "Wait for me to count down to three seconds. After the countdown, everyone should use all their strength to release attack spells, but remember to protect yourself and don't get hurt."

"Three, two—"

Tattle came to his senses at this moment. The good study habits he had developed since childhood made him quickly accept the fact. He shrugged helplessly and quickly joined the team that was casting the spell.

The other party has taken all the limelight. No matter how he tries to make up for it now, Edith's score in the entrance examination will be higher than his. It is better to go with the flow and show his goodwill. It will also be helpful for his future to make friends with a genius with a shallow foundation as soon as possible.

"one!"

At Edith's command, colorful magic threads whizzed away from the tips of everyone's wands and rushed towards the invisible illusion barrier.

......

Dense forest, Central Waterfall, 1pm.

"It seems that I can't wait for others for the time being."

The boy who pulled Bell away leaned against Joyce's seat and yawned in boredom: "President, why don't you just not make up the hundred and open a teleportation array for the fifty of us so that we can go back and celebrate the carnival earlier."

Bell, who was standing aside politely, listened to his disrespectful words and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

But Joyce didn't seem dissatisfied. She lazily leaned back in her seat, barely raised her eyelids, and gave the boy a look: "Amy Walker, you've gone too far this time."

She had just finished reprimanding the group of nobles, telling them not to try to help the children cheat, but her own nephew turned around and used a spell to trick away the candidates who had honestly completed the test content based on their own abilities - another piece of public opinion that needed to be dealt with, and a hassle.

Fortunately, Amy did not cheat, and the nobles could only curse her verbally, but could not find any real fault. It was good to let those innocent students be deceived, so that they would be more vigilant in the future.

It's just that Amy's face of never having experienced any setbacks is really annoying...

Joyce was thinking aimlessly, and the magic threads spreading through every corner of the dense forest suddenly sensed something wrong. She paused for a moment, then smiled with a hint of amusement.

Wow, just as he said, he actually met his match.

"Are you so sure they won't come out?" She leaned against the backrest of the chair and looked in her nephew's direction with interest. "You are very confident in your magic circle."

"It's not enough to rely on myself alone, we still have Miss Bell." Amy saluted exaggeratedly to the white-haired girl beside her, shocking her so much that she stepped back repeatedly. "Miss Bell's control of magic is superb, I am ashamed of myself; of course, I also have to thank the dozen or so students who are still giving their magic now."

Bell: "...Thank you, I don't deserve it."

Amy was used to Bell's bad manners. He turned his head and raised his eyebrows at his aunt: "Don't worry about your Walker family's bloodline. They won't be able to break my magic circle even if they take three days."

Joyce didn't respond, but silently manipulated the chair and pulled Bell back ten meters away.

Amy: “?”

Before he could ask Joyce what was going on, a powerful, scorching air current blew towards him, and the deafening sound was mixed with the howling of his teammates.

"Captain, the magic circle is broken!"

Amy's companion, who had been standing by and providing magic power, was caught in the air current and hung on the tree. He tried to spit out the leaves in his mouth and reported the result that Amy had seen.

"Didn't I tell you to report any problems you have at any time?"

"Too fast, Captain!" The companion wanted to cry, "There is no sign that the magic circle has been broken - all the magic materials are in place, there is no opposing formation, the magic circle was blown up in an instant..."

"How is that possible!"

Amy was speechless—but he soon realized where this "maybe" came from.

"——This piece of shit stole our cage!!!"

The explosion of the magic circle directly split the hill in the middle. The first group of people who broke free from the illusion went straight through the barrier and rushed to the real central waterfall. Unexpectedly, when they looked up, they ran into their mortal enemy - Amy, a black-haired boy who had just jumped into the teleportation array with a cage and disappeared after everyone had "got a glimpse" of him.

For a moment, they even forgot to ask for Edith's reward. They were so angry that they rushed forward shouting and started punching and kicking Amy.

Everyone has basic knowledge of magic. A magic circle has just been destroyed. The concentration of magic is too high. Casting a spell again will easily cause a second explosion. This common sense saved Amy from the pain of spell bombardment, but it also made him unable to rely on spells to help himself out of trouble. He could only curl up helplessly and try to protect his face with his arms: "Don't hit my face, don't hit my face!"

No one paid attention to what he was shouting. Everyone vented their anger for ten minutes without any scruples. During this time, many people recognized the "accomplices" hiding nearby and beat up the guys who provided the magic power. After ten minutes, Joyce estimated the injuries and reluctantly withdrew her gaze from watching the show. She cast a spell to quiet everyone down. "That's enough." She said lightly, "Now, those who need to hand in their tasks can do so."

Everyone turned around and looked eagerly at Edith again, nervously hoping that their group would be recognized and receive a demon-eating bird.

Edith felt the burning gaze, raised her eyebrows slightly, and took the cage with fifteen birds from Lynch: "I'm sorry, there was an accident with the demon-eating bird."

Everyone was stunned for a moment. They were really allergic to the word "accident" and did not dare to think about what Edith would say next.

The heaviness continued until Edith pulled out a dozen more cages from behind her like magic.

Joyce: “?”

Amy: “!”

The waiting crowd: “!!!”

Edith shrugged. "Now you don't have to choose. Every group has one."

The team that allied with Bell and his team didn't cure their own birds. They just handed in the cages that they had swindled from other groups and left their own sick birds lying around.

Just now, while everyone was obsessed with fighting, she asked the team members to go around and pick up all the sick birds, and force-feed them medicine to cure them one by one. "But these birds still need some time to recover. The team that got them is better to stay for an hour or two to make sure the ones they hand in are healthy." She casually pulled the things in front of her and waved to the crowd: "Each group sends one person to line up in front of me."

Everyone took the cage stupidly, and one after another they put their fingers into the gaps, only to react with howls when they were bitten by the birds inside.

Just...solved it?

All they have to pay is to cast a painless attack spell and wait a little bit?

Did that girl named Edith really not want anything and just hand over such important test results to them?

"What are you standing there for? Hand in your paper!"

After Edith gave the things, she rushed to Joyce without saying anything and handed in her group's cage. Although Lynch was alone, he still submitted a cage alone, hoping to get some extra points.

She turned around and found that most people were still there. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to get enough people to teleport, so she quickly asked everyone to hand in their papers.

The group of people who seemed to be floating in the clouds quickly stepped back to the ground and came forward one after another to hand in the cages. One girl was even traumatized by the training. Even when Joyce took the initiative to reach out, she still held the thing tightly in her arms and said nervously: "Tell me quickly, we have been in this dense forest for so long, is it very hard?"

Joyce: “…”

Joyce: "For all the hard work, I should throw you all into the Monster River and let you soak for a month!"

She thought her words were very destructive, but she didn't expect the team in front of her to burst into tears of joy. Many people hugged each other and couldn't stop cheering: "That's great, it's really President Walker, that's great!"

Joyce: “?”

I don't really understand today's young people.

But at least, after she scolded people, the team moved much faster. Many people threw their cages away without any worries and surrounded Edith without looking back.

For the first time in his life, Joyce felt left out.

On the contrary, after living a new life, Edith was still not used to the feeling of being surrounded, not to mention that this group of people included many young masters and young ladies who had never expressed gratitude to others. The words she said in her awkward state were no less than a horror story.

Fortunately, this state did not last too long. Edith felt hopeless for a short while before Joyce opened the teleportation array and returned to Boyunis College.

"The exams are over and the results will be announced after the school starts. But before that, those who pass will receive admission letters." Before the teleportation array was put into operation, Joyce briefly explained the next arrangements and gave a fairly sincere smile.

"Good luck to you."

…

"It's just the two of us?" Her feet touched the ground again, and Hedda turned her head drowsily, surprised to find that she was no longer in the crowd, but alone in the room with Edith. She stuck her head out of the window and saw the Turner family's carriage parked not far away.

"They're probably afraid of causing a commotion." Edith didn't think there was anything wrong with it. "Many people played dirty tricks on me during the exam, and they must have accumulated a lot of resentment. If they were to meet again after being teleported out, and sparks flew, would those big families still be able to save their reputation?"

It is better to keep them apart. When you go back, your family will persuade you and suppress your resentment. Then you can maintain superficial peace when you meet again.

"What a shame." Heda smacked his lips in dissatisfaction. "What I want to see is a fight."

Seeing the two people walk out of the room, the servant at the door bowed and took a few steps symbolically. Hedda put on her ladylike airs again and nodded slightly. When the servant turned around, she immediately turned her head and whispered to Edith: "I bet the butler is sitting in the carriage."

Edith: “?”

Seeing the other person's puzzled expression, Heda patted his head and explained, "It's the tradition of Beunis College. After the entrance examination, the family must come to the scene to pick you up. It means 'regardless of whether you can be admitted to the college, the family is always willing to accept you' - it's ironic, isn't it? Even though they care so much about the result, every household still has to pretend to be generous."

"But those things in my house don't even bother to put in some superficial effort, so I guess it would be good enough if they could send a housekeeper."

Hedda was right.

The Turner family's butler was standing on the other side of the carriage. When he saw the two people coming, he immediately went to greet them. Hedda finally smiled a little - the old butler was one of the few people in her family who would care about her.

The butler was asking about her well-being while Edith stood beside the carriage, bored, her mind gradually going blank.

In terms of family, there seems to be no difference between herself before and after reincarnation. Both her parents died, and the only people she cared about in her previous life seemed to be her mother's good friend Mary and her student Shelly. The former was unmarried and childless. She was a teacher at first, who taught her swordsmanship. After her mother died, she helped her a lot and almost became a second mother; the latter was a sensible and obedient junior. She lived with her for the first few years after she was brought back, filling the empty house after losing her mother, and giving her a goal to avoid mental disorders caused by excessive loneliness.

Apart from that, there are a few peers in the lab with whom I have a good relationship, but they are just friends and not family.

Edith sighed.

Aunt Meili had always taken care of me as if I were her own child. She didn't dare to think about how much of a blow her death would have on me. After sending off a friend and her child who had been friends for many years, anyone would be devastated.

--etc.

Edith looked up suddenly, annoyed that her brain was becoming less and less useful recently.

Shelly might be under surveillance, and going to identify her might get her into trouble, but there's no such thing as Mary!

Now that I'm back in the capital, I can use tomorrow to go out and tell the other party that I'm not dead - I can also get back a lot of my "inheritance".