[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-armed-witch":3,"chapter-armed-witch-armed-witch-chapter-56":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Armed Witch",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2353596,4604,"Chapter 56: Hell Exam","armed-witch-chapter-56",56,"\u003Cp>Dorothy curiously regarded the eccentric college professor before her, intrigued by the Eight-Eyed Witch’s evolution template.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yay, it’s a spider girl—perfect, this is thrilling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She even silently cheered inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even among witches, those who choose demons as their evolution template are undoubtedly ruthless, for power and character always influence each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Witches can gain template bonuses from other races through evolution, but during this process, they inevitably absorb the influence of that power, subtly shifting their personalities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, angel witches tend to be arrogant, dragon witches are naturally combative, while demon witches almost always have vile, unruly, rebellious, and chaotic personalities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This influence isn’t particularly severe, and as witches grow stronger, its effect gradually weakens—by the time they become Great Witches, they’re nearly completely immune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But given the heritability of witch Tianfu , young witches whose values and personalities aren’t fully formed remain highly susceptible to inherited innate influences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is precisely why the witch world places such heavy emphasis on education: witch academies don’t just teach these young witches how to better wield power, but also how to resist the instinctual impulses that power brings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stronger the race template, the stronger its reverse influence on the witch—thus, witches who evolve using the Three Great Catastrophes as templates have always been hotbeds of problem children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, angels and dragons are relatively manageable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Angel witches merely look down on others, act superior, and easily get ostracized or fail to make friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dragon witches are even easier to handle—these little dragon brats simply have too much energy; letting them vent in the dueling grounds keeps them calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But demon witches…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demon power stems from desire, from chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demon witches who inherit this power likewise revel in indulgence and provoking chaos; they often go too far, doing whatever they please, losing all restraint when excited, caring only for their own pleasure—truly the worst of the worst, with astonishing destructive potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, witch society has always feared demon witches, as their personalities easily spiral to extremes; during the era when the God-King and Dragon-King ruled, they even considered banning witches from evolving using demons as templates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the current Witch-King is the Demon-King herself—the most powerful demon witch—who profoundly embodied the principle of using demons to defeat demons. Leveraging the rigid hierarchy of demon society, she used her supreme permission rights to enact the Demon-King Code, applicable to all demon witches, placing a safety chain around their necks, drastically reducing the threat posed by demon witches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, due to entrenched prejudices, most witches still fear demon witches, terrified these powerful beings might lose control and go mad—this is precisely why, the moment the spider witch revealed her identity, all the delinquent students fled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nowadays, nearly all demon witches live in clusters within the Demon-King’s private witch territory; wild demon witches in the outside world are rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dorothy held no prejudice against demon witches—not because of some peculiar taste, but because she’d grown up living alongside them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her stepmother Anne and sister Alice were standard demon witches; both had evolved using the vampire template.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To be honest, when Dorothy first met Alice as a child—just three or four years old—that little girl was an incredibly gloomy troublemaker, yet now she’d been thoroughly tamed, radiant and upbeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, demon witches aren’t as terrifying as legends claim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This spider witch teacher could only scare those unfamiliar with demon witches; to Dorothy, she was completely ineffective—she was definitely passing this course today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Teacher, please begin the exam. I’m ready.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the spider teacher visibly startled by her, Dorothy spoke again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……The young witch awaited expectantly…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh… oh…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noerose was thrown off by this unconventional little witch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She began to wonder if she’d been away from the battlefield too long, cooped up in the academy doing research, losing her intimidation factor—how else could a mere child now fail to frighten her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But fine, spirited indeed. Since this little one has such courage, let her try.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spider witch, still appearing a gentle older sister with eyes closed, smiled warmly—she decided to grant this courageous little one an unforgettable exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hehe, as she’d said before, this course isn’t some dump where anyone can enroll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, this course remains so deserted not because no one wants to enroll—on the contrary, many apply each year—but very few actually pass the assessment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Automated Mechanical Civil Engineering, as the name implies, is a composite discipline born from the fusion of mechanics and architecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s just the broad categories; further Xifen  involves soul studies, mechanics, puppetry, alchemy for automation, and elemental magic, transformation magic, spellcraft, mathematics, structural mechanics for civil engineering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, this course is utterly beyond the reach of newly enrolled young witches—it demands exceptional breadth of knowledge, innate talent, and even artistic sensibility, with an extremely high entry threshold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, when she first established this course, she never intended to recruit outside students—it was merely a ploy to secure funding from the school. But due to school regulations requiring all courses to accept external applicants, she reluctantly devised this grueling entrance exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the difficulty? Naturally, it’s pushed to the absolute exam limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She merely selected a few questions from each subject involved in Automated Mechanical Civil Engineering and stuffed them all into a single test.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Individually, each question isn’t particularly hard—it’s within the theoretical grasp of young witches—but the sheer number of fields covered makes it impossible for any young witch to complete the entire exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(It’s like taking a few questions from every subject—math, Chinese, English, politics, history, physics, chemistry—and cramming them into one test, all at the difficulty level of the final, hardest problem on a math exam.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This way, even the school’s review committee can’t fault her—technically, the exam is passable by young witches, so if she can’t recruit students, it’s clearly because this year’s cohort is just incapable, not because she’s slacking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After doing this for years, her course naturally scared off all students; now, few brave souls dare challenge her hellish exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this year, her adorable niece arrived—Dorothy knew her niece’s talent and ability well enough to barely meet the course’s entry requirements, so finally, her course could open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This way, she could finally answer the growing impatience of the student council and school committee over her salary-only, work-free behavior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hence, she’d just rudely scared off those students earlier—she was too tired to waste time; with her niece Audrey as a guaranteed admission, her annual quota was already met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since this little witch, with her bold makeup and sleazy vibe—clearly not a good student—showed such courage, let her face my hellish exam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come in then. I hope you still have this courage when you see the test.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spider witch smiled, opening the door behind her, eyes half-lidded and chuckling.\u003C\u002Fp>",1134,"2026-06-21T03:49:44.850Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b6724ba1443fc9faaa2d7622fef008019928128fb0cae659c8c6a863a970f9e8","armed-witch-chapter-57","armed-witch-chapter-55",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Farmed-witch-cover.jpg"]