32 – Think of this test as a real test

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Think of this test as a real test

We all gathered in the largest lecture hall in the academy for the basic tactics test.

Not just one class, but when everyone from class A to class G gathered, the wide lecture hall was completely filled.

It was familiar to take the test of one lecture at a time to prevent leakage of test questions, but it is not common to cram all classes.

Normally, even if the time is the same, each class divides the location to take the exam, but Rai asked for understanding from the other instructors and gathered them all in one place.

Since all the celebrities from each class are gathered, the academy students are busy watching them without even thinking about preparing for the exam.

The classroom is noisy when those who have the magical power to attract people around them, such as Violet and Sojeta, who are said to have the best talent, Diana who is popular, Emilia the princess, and Aria the goddess, are all in one place.

“Sit down!”

Rai storms open the door and walks to the podium shouting at the academy students. Since there are too many academy students, a few academy staff come in to assist them.

As the academy students sit down and stare, Rai smiles and says,

“It’s nice that it’s all together, so it’s noisy. The staff will help prevent cheating. This is Mr. Brown with a knife in the stomach, this is Mr. Dudley with a hole in the head, and this is Mont Blanc. Do you like cheesecake, Mr. Tania…”

As soon as they returned, Brown and Dudley, who sacrificed themselves to save the princess, were supervising the basic tactics test.

Brown was still staring straight ahead with sleepy eyes, but Dudley, who was introduced to him as having a hole, turned his head away in embarrassment. When Lai introduced the employees one by one, talking about their personal preferences, the confident employees looked away in embarrassment.

“Hana likes teddy bears, so half of her salary…”

“Ah! What if I told you that?”

“Yes? You like it?”

“No, I like it…”

The employee called Hana dyed her face red and bowed her head. Her cute, pigtailed appearance and her shy appearance touched the hearts of her male academy students, and her popularity rose.

While the public executioners are looking at different places, Rai hangs a large map on the blackboard. Sincere Dudley and Tania quickly helped him and made it visible to all the academy students.

In a mountainous terrain with nothing special, the academy students stare at the map. It’s related to the test, so it’s better to learn it as soon as possible.

Shaking his hands and looking ahead, Rai speaks as the staff hand out blank sheets of paper to the academy students.

“The test time is set at 3 hours, right? The time limit for the test is set at 1 hour, but you will use all 3 hours, so keep that in mind.”

Listening to Rai who doesn’t know what to do with two hours left, Philia removes all her belongings, leaving only her writing utensils on her desk. Each student at the academy prepares for the exam and waits for Rai to give a problem.

Lai, who has a somewhat mean smile, hangs a disc under the map. As if it were a magic tool, the disc neatly sticks to the map built like a wall.

“You are the commander of the advance party. It is a composition that can be seen anywhere in the world with 50 knights and 1000 ordinary infantry. Their skills are also mediocre.”

The academy students concentrate so as not to miss any of Rai’s words.

The conditions he says are written on the blackboard one by one by Brown in elegant letters.

“But you say the enemy main force arrives here? The enemy main force is about 20,000. I don’t know the composition of the troops. Our stupid main force is scheduled to arrive in at least 4 hours. Stop the enemy main force arriving in an hour on this hill. You have to occupy it to gain an advantage in battle.”

Rye marks the top halfway up and looks back.

“I think this test is a real battle. You guys just need to come up with tactics to block the enemy’s main force that will arrive in an hour. The test is also exactly one hour long. After completing the tactics, submit them to me and go back to your original position. Atmosphere.”

Rai pulled out a pocket watch that had stopped at 12 o’clock, showed it to the academy students, and turned it on. As soon as the second hand starts to move, as if time has returned to normal, the academy students raise their writing instruments in unison.

Rai laughs single-singly as he sees the academy students alternately looking at maps and papers with scary eyes.

“Oh, by the way, you can discuss it among yourself.”

“……”

As if time has stopped again, the academy students look up at Rai all at once.

“Why? It’s a real battle? Does a commander come up with tactics alone without listening to his adjutant? But you know that both sides have to give permission? It’s cheating to copy someone else’s tactics.”

“……”

“What are you doing? Tick-tock tick-tock time flies.”

At Rai’s words, half of the academy students lowered their heads again and focused on the exam, but the rest looked at each other.

No matter how much we can discuss each other, this is a test. It would be nice to stick to those with good grades, but why would they want to be with them?

Of course, the atmosphere that the academy students took the exam by themselves was established, and it was difficult for anyone to step forward.

“I want to go with you. Who wants to go with me?”

Diana jumps up and raises her hand to recruit participants.

She has a lively smile, but her eyes are looking intently at Rai. Lai, who was sitting on the podium and eating cake, said nothing, but met her eyes and smiled the same way.

Diana, who has good grades and is bright, has declared it openly, but her classroom is quiet because there are many hesitant academy students.

Hagwon students who want to join but hesitate are worried about other people’s eyes. If she dares to step out, it is impossible not to say that she will beg Diana to raise her grades.

“I’ll be there with you!”

With a tone as if participating in a holy cause, Sesset jumps to his feet and runs to Diana with her test papers. The three sets are so well-behaved, but she is also at the top if her grades alone are taken into account.

When the two joined, the academy students with low grades did not dare to interfere, and the academy students with similar grades to them pondered whether to join that group.

“Tick-tock, tick-tock, time goes by~”

As Rai lights the fire, Aslan gets up and approaches Seiban.

“Hey, why are you coming to me?”

“Let’s do it together.”

“What are you two idiots doing?!”

“You’re better than me though.”

As Delan, who is friendly with the two, sits there without saying anything, as if he had been there from the beginning, Seiban looked at the two in amazement and began to devise tactics together, shaking his head.

As the number of gatherings begins to increase, the academy students wake up to find someone they can trust instead of planning tactics.

The atmosphere of the exam, which should have been quiet, has turned into a market version, and countless noises such as voices seeking people, expressing opinions, and opposing voices spread throughout the classroom.

Dudley came to prevent cheating, but when he saw the messy classroom, he couldn’t help but stare at Rai with a blank face. Hana, still her newcomer, sits next to him and secretly eats her cake, froze in surprise, but Dudley can’t afford to mind her.

“Isn’t it a familiar atmosphere?”

“……”

It’s a mess, but Rai laughs. True to his word, she is all too familiar to Dudley.

Before he suffered an incurable leg injury, he was in the military and attended countless tactical meetings.

Ordinary people mistakenly believe that tactical meetings are generals gathering to exchange opinions in a polite way, drink hot tea, and come up with great strategies without the slightest hindrance.

A tactical meeting filled with such dreams and hopes does not exist in reality.

Tactics Chambers assume countless situations and fight countless objections. We have to come up with complementary tactics accordingly, and make dozens of plans again while coping with situations that are unlikely to happen in the big stem.

There is not a single person in the meeting who does not speak loudly, and by the time the tactic is nearing completion, everyone is tired and in a daze pours tea into a teacup soiled by dozens of uses.

My tongue isn’t normal anymore, I can’t even taste it, but my mind can’t stand it unless I drink or eat something.

As such, tactical meetings are complex and painful. Thousands and tens of thousands of lives and the future of the country depend on this one decision.

As Rai said, the crowded lecture hall resembled a tactical meeting. Dudley looked respectfully at Rai, asking if he had expected such a thing, but Brown, who had nothing to do, was dozing off in an inconspicuous corner.

Academy students gathering to devise strategies, private academy students silently taking exams, etc. Are seen in the classroom, and there are more instructors snooping outside due to the noise.

Thanks to Lai who gathered the academy students in one place, all instructors except him were able to take a break for 3 hours.

At the unusual test atmosphere, some looked disgusted, and some smiled warmly as they reminisced about the old days.

Instructors who thought he would get angry when Bright, the deputy principal, came, tilted their heads as he left without saying a word, but instructors from the field noticed that Bright, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, smiled slightly.

When the time set by Rai is almost over, the students who have filled up his test papers turn them in to him one by one and return to their seats.

Rye started reading the exam papers given by the academy students on the spot and looked over most of the exam papers without moving until Dudley told him that the exam was over.

As everyone sat and looked at him, he said with a smile.

“Then, the test is over. There is no peak score, to tell you in advance.”

“Why not?”

When the academy student, who had written down his own tactics, asked, Lai rummaged through the stack of test papers and took out his test papers.

“Occupy the high ground and build a temporary fortress using all troops, whether knights or soldiers. There is not much time, so the type of fortress… I spent a lot of time.”

“The point is to build a fortress that will stand in the way even if the enemy destroys it. To be precise, it’s not a fortress, it’s a barricade. If I build a building on the terrain I checked, it will block the enemy’s movement even if it is destroyed…”

“Okay, can you build this before the main enemy arrives?”

Rai shows his exam paper and asks. After a brief pause, the academy student answered with a lack of confidence.

“It’s close, but you can build it.”

It’s not certainty, it’s an expectation. Hagwon students who were taught to use an affirmative tone when talking about tactics felt that words without confidence were a hopeless plan.

“Okay, I’ll assume you’re not an ordinary soldier, but the Mariseille Corps of Engineers, who specialize in augmentation. That might be enough. But, I mean… It took 55 minutes for you to figure out all your tactics?”

The submitted time is written at the top of the test paper. Lai, who pointed there with his finger, said while looking at the academy student.

“Didn’t I say the enemy main force would come in exactly one hour? I spent 55 minutes planning a strategy, so now the Mariseille Corps of Engineers only have 5 minutes left? I can’t even cut down a tree, let alone a pole.”

“……”

Not only the academy students who were refuted by Rai’s nasty smile, but also the other academy students got goosebumps on their backs. All of their tactics were useless, according to him, as most of them submitted while running out of time for the exam.

Rai told me to think of it as a real battle throughout the exam, and kept telling me that time was running out. The test time was also 1 hour, which is the time when the enemy’s main force arrives. Everything he said had this in mind.

‘That’s mean.’

Philia frowned slightly and was dissatisfied. Although she keeps giving hints, she mostly thinks it’s a test and she pulls out her best answer just in time.

However, she had to think about everything from planning tactics to preparing as the main unit arrived an hour later.

Philia is dissatisfied with the despicable trap, but she couldn’t express it because he was right.

“I thought at least one guy would notice, but unfortunately, no one is there. Now, the main unit has arrived.”

As Rai said, Hana and Tania put several disks on the top of the map. The disk displaying the type of enemy soldiers was an elite unit.

The number of knights was also superior, and the academy students frowned at the main unit composed only of elite soldiers.

“Isn’t the difference between military forces too great?”

“Yes, if it were me, I would have run away as soon as I saw it. This is why it is said that an army without scouting is a gathering place of fools. But there is no opinion that you sent scouting out of your tactics? Weren’t you the advance team? You wrote that you don’t know what this is, so why didn’t you send me a scout?”

At Rai’s words, the academy student shuts up again.

Everybody only cared about defending the high ground according to the given conditions, and didn’t even think about sending scouts. The test results alone showed how narrow their field of vision was when they only cared about the inside of the map.

“I’ll tell you the score right away, if you have any complaints, tell me. Let’s start with Class A. Felix, with this force, it will break through right away, 40 points. Hougea Delman, long-distance sabotage operation with only knights is fine, 75 points. Marvin Crayon, Did you work with Felix? 40 Points. Eian…”

As soon as he calls out the score, the academy students look at him without a word.

The best of Class A is Hougea Delman. The academy students were dumbfounded that only 75 points were the highest score. There are academy students who protest and refute the midpoint score, but they are all smashed by Rai’s words.

“After waiting in a detached unit at the expected movement point, the opponent’s rear is disturbed. It’s not bad, but with this troop, the moment they enter the rear, they lose their lives. Besides, since it’s a mountain hike, once they hit and run, they all scatter or they all search together, or one of the two.”

“Making scarecrows and inflating them. Even if I thought about it right away and put it into practice, I don’t know how much I could make in an hour, but do you boil soup for mana detection? When was this a tactic? “

“Destroyed by the power of the mighty Imperial Army? Do you want to be destroyed by me? Did you hear the tactics?”

As the academy students were attacked one after another, there was no academy student to refute anymore, but the academy students complained with a voice of bolmen because the score was too low.

“In the end, it’s a force that can’t be defeated. Shouldn’t we call this a problem?”

“That’s right, I can’t win. The correct answer is to scout, retreat, and complete any tactic, no matter how crappy it is, in time. There are three of these. You didn’t do anything even a country vigilante could do. So you want a high score?”

As the academy students who objected to the problem shut up, now only Rai’s voice talking about the score remains in the classroom.

“Violet… Sojeta and you two really only know swords. Violet, you have the same 15 points as Sojeta.”

Two idiots who have the talent to rise to the position of the strongest, but only know their individual strength, receive the same score side by side. This time, Rai, who sees her Diana’s test papers, smiles provocatively at her.

“Diana Deshbella, 85 points. Aren’t you protesting?”

“No, I like lycan, so I won’t.”

Diana smiled brightly and shook her head. A score of 85 was a very low score for Diana, who scored 100 in all subjects, but her score of 85 is the highest score on the Basic Tactics Test.

The academy students who secretly expected her to stand up to Rai, who beat her academy students one after another, feel sorry for Diana when she accepts her score.

Rai, who called out the scores of all the hagwon students, gave her test paper to Dudley and smiled brightly at her hagwon students.

“It was fun playing with the kids. Please make it fun again next time.”

Lai, who always cursed at herself in her basic tactics lectures, feels relieved when she sees the miserable expressions of her academy students.

She was a kid who didn’t even know the former of tactics, and she talked about garbage with Elliott’s tactics written in books.

Each of her academy students reacted differently when they saw Rai leave with her taunting words.

Dudley, who was in charge of organizing, smiled bitterly when various reactions came out, such as angry hagwon students, shocked by his tactics that he couldn’t even keep to the basics, and hagwon students who were still staring at the map hanging on the blackboard.

It’s the first time I’ve been with Rai, but I can see why she’s talking so much about him at the academy.

Only do controversial things. The contents of the test were also beyond imagination, and we discuss tactics with them face to face. It is difficult even for an instructor to engage in tactical battles against hundreds of people unless they have a fair amount of confidence in their abilities.

Besides, I don’t know why he leaves after saying something that upsets the academy students.

But with just this test, the academy students learned a lot. Even though the exam is over, there are those who exchange opinions with other hagwon students thinking about tactics, and there are hagwon students who scribble tactics on paper alone.

Lai’s ability to take even exams as part of his education suited him as an academy instructor he admired.

However, it is unknown how Bright will react to the miserable scores of the academy students.

Looking at Dudley with a bitter yet thrilled expression on his face, Brown sneaks out of the classroom and is caught by Hana.

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