Chapter 58

Audrey unconsciously bit the end of her pen, her delicate and charming little face becoming wrinkled. After a long while, the little fox looked up at the ceiling, her heart filled with confusion.

Who am I? Where am I? What was I supposed to be doing?

Sob, sob, sob, these questions are too hard; she really doesn't know how to do them.

In the past, Audrey had always felt that she could at least be considered a genius; after all, everyone around her praised her like that, and she had always learned the skills her two mothers taught her instantly.

Although such aptitude certainly wasn't as peerless as others boasted, she thought it shouldn't be too bad, and among her peers, she could be called excellent.

And because of this cowardly, shy personality, she had always spent her time hiding at home reading books; therefore, she was quite confident in her knowledge reserve, and even her sister didn't know as much as she did.

So now, can someone tell me why I can only do half of these questions?

Audrey looked at the large blank spaces on the test paper in her hand, her eyes becoming even more confused.

So, Second Aunt, are you sure you didn't take the wrong test paper? Is this really a freshman entrance exam, and not some Sage's introductory test?

Looking at this test paper that covered knowledge from almost all nine major factions, the little fox was truly confused.

Was it because she had been hiding at home for too long that the times had changed? Could it be that little witches nowadays have such a broad knowledge base that they need to be proficient in all factions from a young age?

But such a doubt had barely emerged before it was rejected by Audrey's reason.

After all, being proficient in all factions is something only Sages can achieve. If everyone could do it, wouldn't Sages be worthless?

Anyway, the little fox roughly estimated that with her talent, if she had been studying without eating, drinking, sleeping, or resting since birth, then theoretically, she, who was sixteen this year, should be able to get a perfect score today.

But who could do such a thing? It's impossible for anyone to be able to do that...

Right???

Audrey shook her head, originally wanting to stop herself from letting her imagination run wild, but as she turned her head, she inadvertently saw the classmate next to her who was also taking the exam.

Honestly, she didn't really like this classmate, and could even say she was a bit afraid. After all, this classmate's attire was simply the textbook definition of a problem student; she might as well have written "I am a bad student" on her face.

This was clearly the type of delinquent girl who didn't study hard at school and only knew how to fight, skip classes, and date all day long.

For such a delinquent, even a normal witch student would keep their distance, let alone someone with social anxiety and autism like Audrey.

Actually, she had already started to regret it the moment she ran over to sit next to this classmate in a fit of anger to take the exam, but later, the test paper was too difficult and attracted her attention, so she forgot for a moment.

But now that the test paper couldn't be completed, once her attention drifted, the little fox immediately became nervous again. She started blaming herself for choosing this table that was so close when there were so many ordinary lab tables in the workshop.

However......

At this moment, the delinquent classmate opposite seemed to be doing the experimental questions. Besides the normal written questions, this test paper also had two experimental questions: one required the student to build a basic mechanical puppet, and the other required the student to command puppets to build a small architectural model.

For Audrey, building a mechanical puppet wasn't a difficult task; she had already mastered it and handled it easily, but commanding puppets to build a house.......

As an artist who had spent her days learning dance and singing, what the heck did she know about architecture?

The doll theater originally required stage settings, and this prop manufacturing would barely involve some basic architectural knowledge, but Audrey was a half-blood of a nine-tailed fox and a succubus; her illusion talent was maxed out, and she could handle any stage with a single illusion, so she didn't need to prepare any extra props at all.

Audrey used to be smug about her illusion talent, but now, facing this architecture exam, she was completely dumbfounded. With no other choice, she could only command her puppets to build blindly.

The puppets that were vivid and lifelike when performing songs and dances were clumsy when building a house. Even though she was thinking of building a floating villa manor in her mind, the final product was.......

The little fox looked at the square matchbox in front of her and fell into deep thought.

At which step did I go wrong?

And turning her head to look at the delinquent classmate next to her.......

Hiss, wait, what did I just miss?

It was only a turn of the head, and although the delinquent classmate had just been preparing to make a puppet, the lab table next door had already turned into a construction site.

Dozens of miniature versions of those giant god puppets she had just seen in the hall on the ground floor were busy moving bricks on that tiny construction site.

And looking next to the construction site, dozens of small alchemy furnaces were already neatly lined up. Although these alchemy furnaces, which were obviously made on the spot, looked a bit rough on the outside, their effects seemed quite good. As those small Giant No. 3s, which had transformed into vehicles, dumped various building materials into the furnace entrances one by one, fire soon erupted inside the furnaces, and various building materials like bricks and glass emerged from the furnace exits.

So, I only lost focus for ten seconds, and what did I miss?

Audrey looked at the bustling construction site next door, then looked at the multi-layered matchbox in front of her, and a series of question marks suddenly appeared on her little head.

And turning her head to look again.

Good heavens, this construction site had changed its look again.

That delinquent classmate seemed to dislike the low efficiency of those small puppets that could switch freely between vehicles and human forms, so those puppets were dismantled, and the metal materials used to make those giant god puppets were thrown into the alchemy furnace and refined into conveyor belts.

Then, the overly cumbersome armor of the Giant No. 2s was all stripped off, which made the Giant No. 2s, now without the burden, even more agile. As for the stripped armor, it was recycled and rebuilt into sorters.

Sorters were set up at the exit of the alchemy furnace, the sorters sent the refined materials into the conveyor belts, the conveyor belts sent the materials to the construction site, and finally, the agile, unarmored puppets on the construction site started working with the materials.

And some other strange machines were pinched out by the delinquent classmate, such as a strange car with two huge solid wheels, a strange car with a flexible mechanical arm, a strange tower that stood high with long arms and lifting claws, and so on.

Several small mechanical puppets climbed into these strange machines, and then operated them to start working.

Breaking ground, laying foundations, pouring mud, tamping earth, applying mortar, erecting frames, setting up scaffolding, wrapping dust-proof cloth.....

When the movement inside the dust-proof cloth dissipated, as the cloth strips were pulled away, a whole miniature palace appeared before the little fox's eyes.

And those mechanical puppets that had finished their work were now lining up to jump into the alchemy furnace. After a burst of fire, one beautiful doll after another was reborn from the alchemy furnace.

They started walking into the palace, each performing their duties: some sat on the throne, some acted as ministers, some played the harem, and some performed songs and dances, presenting a scene of a miniature kingdom.

Ah, this.......

Audrey, who had witnessed all of this, only felt that she had seen a deity. Her little mouth was open, her charming fox eyes were wide, and she only came back to her senses when the voice of that delinquent witch reached her.

"Teacher, I'm done, handing in the paper."

She heard the delinquent classmate say this.

This made Audrey subconsciously look at the other person's test paper, but the delinquent classmate noticed her gaze at this moment and immediately covered the test paper with a vigilant expression, looking as if she were afraid of being peeked at.

Audrey: "........"

The little fox, who had been treated like this for the first time in her life, could no longer care about being angry, because in that hurried glance, she had already seen the dense writing on the other person's test paper, without a single blank space.

So, this person knows all the questions?

That's impossible, how could that be; she must have written it blindly.

But.....

Looking at the lifelike miniature kingdom on the other person's table, Audrey fell into silence.

After a long while, the little fox looked up at the ceiling again.

She started to feel that her family must have been lying to her all these years. She probably really wasn't a genius; on the contrary, she might be an idiot. Otherwise, how could she be inferior even to a delinquent girl? And the gap wasn't just a little bit; it was despairingly large.

..... Little fox is depressed......