Chapter 372 Results are out

Despite having made thorough preparations with Delphinium before the exam, Bai Jingxuan still felt her throat tighten when her secret was suddenly revealed. She stood frozen in place, her thoughts as tangled as fallen leaves swept by a storm.

She pretended to be calm and looked at the other person, but she couldn't say a word of explanation.

"Do you know that you are a shifter?" The examiner's questions came one after another, leaving her no chance to breathe.

"I...should..." She swallowed, trying to buy herself some time to think, but this self-deception was obviously useless. Her chaotic thoughts were like a knotted ball of thread. The harder she pulled, the tighter the knot became.

"If you knew what your background was, perhaps I could give you a more detailed report on your magic equipment, but if you didn't know, it would be a pity." Fortunately, the examiner did not seem to be a strict person. Even though Bai Jingxuan showed a very unnatural nervous expression, she only thought it was because the candidate was in the examination room and did not associate it with other levels.

Perhaps it was because Bai Jingxuan was still young, and even among the candidates who were mostly underage girls, she looked much more immature, so no one would suspect her at the first time.

"What a pity...why?" Bai Jingxuan instinctively repeated the other person's words.

"Knowing your detailed displacement information will help analyze the relative unique performance of your magic suit. If our team deduces that your displacement has a benign effect on your magic suit, we may be able to improve your potential score."

The examiner explained to himself, "Your true form is manifested at a very low level. Based on the equipment here alone, I can't tell whether this is due to insufficient development or a negative impact from your magic power deviation."

After hearing this, Bai Jingxuan finally relaxed a little.

The other party can determine that she is a shifter, but cannot determine her background, so this matter still has room for explanation.

"...I know I'm a Displacer, but no one has ever examined my specific situation."

So, Bai Jingxuan, as she had planned beforehand, confessed a half-truth: "I don't even know what the 'background' you're talking about is. I'm sorry."

This sentence can be said to be completely consistent with Bai Jingxuan's background as a "magical girl from a small city in the material world."

The concept of background color is still a rather obscure concept after all. Most magical girls' understanding of this concept only remains at the level of "knowing that there are such people as shifters."

Even in the magical kingdom, only research institutes conduct in-depth research in this field, and there are no widespread applications to date. Therefore, a magical girl from a small town really has no reason to know about this.

Of course, all these inferences are based on the premise that the examiner does not know cornflowers.

As long as he doesn't know cornflowers and doesn't know the actual meaning of "Fangting City" in Bai Jingxuan's candidate information, then Bai Jingxuan's statement will naturally be unbreakable.

So, what if this examiner knows Cornflower, or even the relatively core members of the research institute, and knows that Cornflower is now stationed in Fangting City?

This way there is actually no need to worry.

Because the core members of the research institute naturally knew where they stood, even if they heard the loopholes in Bai Jingxuan's words, it was impossible for them to expose it at this juncture.

"—That's true. Then let's not waste time on this issue."

After hearing Bai Jingxuan's reply, the examiner's attitude did not change at all, and she still looked very serious, but it was obvious that she was convinced by this statement.

"Let's move on to the next test. Follow me to that piece of equipment over there."

Bai Jingxuan breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

She knew that she had passed this hurdle.

The testing process went smoothly after that. After confirming her identity as a Displacer, the two examiners were no longer surprised by Bai Jingxuan's unusual qualities. Clearly, in their eyes, it was natural for Displacers to have abilities superior to those of ordinary people.

Just like that, after a few minutes, all the test data about Bai Jingxuan's magic suit were presented on the light screen in front of the examiner.

[Capability specification: Level 3]

[Action range: Medium]

[Application areas: Broad, especially suitable for team combat and logistics support scenarios]

Development Potential: Medium (Results may be distorted due to the fact that the offset background color was not checked)

Stability: Low

【Overall rating: Briza-】

First of all, the range of "Heavenly Sound" is that it can only affect the area covered by the music box music, and as the distance becomes farther, the music volume becomes weaker and the effect will be reduced.

Then there's the application scenario. While the ability to activate magic and biological limbs isn't particularly rare, being able to affect others, with no loss of effectiveness as the number of people increases, greatly increases its value. Most crucially, it offers a slight healing ability to the True Self. While the effect is minimal and insufficient to save colleagues near death due to the shattering of the True Self, it can help the wounded regain their combat capabilities. This is extremely rare in the entire history of the nation.

As for development potential, according to the examiner, "low degree of true manifestation" is often a reflection of insufficient development of the magic suit. However, considering that Bai Jingxuan is a shifter, the base color shift will also affect the value, so in the end only a medium evaluation was given.

As for the degree of stability, it depends on the magic power occupied by the magic equipment ability, the anti-interference ability of the magic equipment ability, and the degree of dependence on the user's status.

According to the examiners, Tianyin's performance in this project was even worse than some candidates rated as Dryas level.

Not only does Tianyin require constant power, but as the number of objects it affects increases, its power usage also increases. Its ability itself is also strongly linked to music; once the music is disrupted or obscured by other sounds, it loses its effect.

From this point of view, as long as the enemy finds a way to deal with it, Tianyin's ability will be easily cracked. From this point of view, its stability is very poor.

To sum up, although Bai Jingxuan's magic suit showed capabilities and applicability far exceeding the ordinary "single-piece type", it was dragged down by other data and ultimately only barely broke through the C-level evaluation and reached the B-level.

The so-called B- means very simply: Bai Jingxuan needs to win a game in the subsequent battle to truly upgrade her score to B.

Bai Jingxuan herself didn't feel anything about this assessment. After all, she was lucky to have made it through the test without being detected as having residual beast magic.

Besides, in her previous battles, the magic suit's ability had never accounted for a very high proportion of her strength, so she had never considered her magic suit to be very powerful. Now receiving a B rating was actually in line with her expectations.

In her opinion, the fact that her magic suit could help relieve her mother's injuries had already demonstrated its greatest value.

When she walked out of the examination room and told Lin Xiaolu and others her scores, everyone's reactions were different.

Hua Zhu was surprised to learn that Bai Jingxuan received a B- rating for her "single-piece" magic suit, but she quickly regained her composure and said, "Cornflower's students are indeed different from ordinary people."

Bo He asked with some schadenfreude whether her background had been exposed, but Bai Jingxuan glared at him and he shrugged to show his innocence.

As for Lin Xiaolu, in addition to congratulating Bai Jingxuan on "passing the test successfully", she was actually much more relieved about her own prospects in the magic suit test.

"We both have single-piece magic suits. I was worried that we'd only get C rank now."

She said, "Since you can get a B-rank, then I should have a chance of getting higher than a C-rank, right?"

After these words were spoken, Bohe and Huazhu beside them didn't feel anything, but Bai Jingxuan immediately looked at Lin Xiaolu with an expression as if she had seen a ghost.

"What's wrong?" Bai Jingxuan's expression was too obvious. Even Lin Xiaolu couldn't ignore such an obvious reaction, so she asked back subconsciously.

"No, I think your magic outfit, young...senior, is probably different from mine." Bai Jingxuan thought for a while before expressing her opinion in a somewhat tactful way.

"Well, after all, mine can be deformed, so it is indeed a little more powerful than ordinary single pieces, right?" Lin Xiaolu said with self-righteousness.

After she said this, Mint and Huazhu beside her also began to look at her with expressions as if they had seen a ghost.

"...What's going on with you?" Lin Xiaolu finally felt that something was wrong.

However, before the others could explain anything, the door in front of them opened again -

——"Candidate number 20000103931 is admitted."

This time, it was Lin Xiaolu's test number that was called.

(End of this chapter)