Chapter 60: Teacher's Kindness and Student's Filial Piety

"Huh? Does this teacher have some kind of serious illness?"

Dorothy looked with some confusion at this spider teacher who had suddenly become somewhat cautious and even slightly respectful in front of her, unable to understand what was going on in her head.

"Teacher, so did I pass the exam?"

She asked.

"You passed, and it was a perfect score, but are you really not some plainclothes inspector sent by the school to monitor the colleges?"

Noerose still felt a bit uneasy, and she confirmed it dryly.

This kind of thing had happened more than once in the past. The School Committee and the Student Council always had little geniuses coming up with all sorts of bizarre ideas to cause trouble. Even the Academy Head herself would sometimes come for a secret visit when the mood struck, wandering around the academy and pretending to be a student to attend classes. This kind of thing was really scary, okay?

If this delinquent student was really a plainclothes envoy sent from above, then given her double-standard attitude earlier, she would likely have her salary docked, and her research funding for the next few months might be cut. She couldn't help but be nervous.

Dorothy: "..."

If you don't do anything wrong, you don't fear a ghost knocking at your door. Teacher, what exactly have you done to be so afraid of being investigated?

"I'm really not."

She explained patiently.

"But this isn't scientific. Let me check your information first. Name: Dorothy. Age: 16..."

Noerose took out the list of applicants the school had sent her and found the information for the delinquent student in front of her. But the more she looked at this information, the more she suspected it was fake.

You're telling me someone with this level of knowledge reserve is 16 years old? Impossible, absolutely impossible...

Normally, to possess this level of knowledge reserve, even for a genius who never forgets what they see and learns everything at a glance, it would take at least 30 years of study.

"But this is magic, isn't it? Teacher, for us witches, everything is possible. Besides, your test paper is really quite average. I originally thought it would be harder, but it's just all basic questions. It's just that the subjects covered are a bit broad. Fortunately, I read a lot of miscellaneous books in my spare time and know a little bit about all nine major factions."

Seeing the spider teacher's fussing, Dorothy spoke directly.

"Magic? Uh, do you have a talent for accelerated learning?"

Once reminded, Noerose finally reacted and asked in shock.

If you were to ask what kind of talent is most precious to a research witch, all research witches would give the same answer: a talent that can accelerate learning or improve intelligence.

After all, the vast majority of research witches are scholars walking on the Path of Omniscience, and for scholars, how to master more knowledge faster and better is their eternal pursuit.

It's just a pity that these two types of talents are extremely rare, not much better than the recognized rare Space-Time talent. Moreover, most of them are of relatively high rank, basically starting at SR, and the difficulty of evolution is extremely huge. Without some opportunity, it is basically difficult to obtain.

Therefore, a witch who is lucky enough to integrate this kind of talent is almost the darling of the Path of Omniscience, a cheater born with a learning hack. Their progress speed can be a big chunk faster than their peers, and for more perverted ones, being several times faster is not impossible.

Oh my god, did I really pick up a treasure?

For a moment, the Spider Witch felt the happiness of being hit by a mountain of gold falling from the sky.

After all, normally, this kind of genius witch is basically booked by the bigwigs of the Path of Omniscience before enrollment, directly fighting to take them as disciples; there are very few who slip through the net.

And even if there really are such wild geniuses, they usually sign up for popular majors like Prophecy, Alchemy, or Potions. After all, those big majors have strong faculty, a good learning atmosphere, and are more conducive to their growth.

And what major is mine? Automated Mechanical Civil Engineering. Although those in the know understand that this is a high-difficulty composite major, when all is said and done, it's still a major that teaches people how to mix concrete and build houses. After graduation, the path is still to go to construction sites, belonging to the simple and unadorned labor class, which sounds a bit lackluster.

In terms of popularity, her major can't compare to those popular majors where you can enter high-end laboratories immediately upon graduation, get high salaries, have high social status, and be surrounded by various bigwigs with ample learning opportunities.

The reason she hasn't been able to recruit students for so many years, besides her test papers being too difficult, is actually partly because there really isn't any good source of students. Those who sign up for her major are all the leftovers from other majors. Which of those true proud daughters of heaven would be bored enough to come and learn how to mix concrete?

Well, this is probably the same reason why she hasn't been able to get married for so many years. The ones who like her, she doesn't like; the ones she likes, don't like her. It's difficult.

But now it seems that fate still loves her quite a bit. She had already given up resistance and was lying flat as a salted fish, but suddenly such a big treasure delivered itself to her door.

Am I having a change of luck?

Noerose thought with some surprise.

And Dorothy just nodded at this, confirming the spider teacher's guess, but she didn't explain any further. After all, the two weren't familiar yet, and detailed information about talents had always been a private secret among witches; they wouldn't reveal it casually unless the relationship reached a certain level.

She did indeed have the ability to accelerate learning, but it wasn't an innate talent, but an acquired specialty she had evolved herself.

【Multiple Thinking (SSR): You are born with the ability to multitask. Through training, this talent has been enhanced. Now you possess the ability to process multiple different things simultaneously.】

How should I put it? This talent is like directly upgrading Dorothy's thinking circuit from single-threaded to multi-threaded. Nowadays, she can multitask three ways, doing three different things at the same time in one unit of time. If combined with Transformation spells, she can directly transform into three heads and six arms, then hold three books with six hands, and learn three different kinds of knowledge with three heads simultaneously.

This is not just an improvement in learning efficiency; this talent is also a quite powerful combat talent. After all, others can only cast one spell at a time, but you can cast three simultaneously.

Moreover, three isn't the limit. Recently, with the increase in mana, Dorothy feels that her fourth thinking circuit is about to condense successfully. By then, her learning efficiency will be able to accelerate even more.

Undoubtedly, this is an outrageously powerful ability. Generally speaking, if you want to evolve this kind of ability, don't even think about it without spending over a hundred thousand Mana.

However, the evolution consumption of talent specialties is always related to the person's talent direction. The more talented a witch is in this field, the less mana it costs to evolve the corresponding specialty, and the higher the discount.

Dorothy probably evolved this talent inexplicably because she was a transmigrator and was considered to have two souls in one body after transmigration. The total cost of evolution was only a little over 1000 Mana.

Hmm, rounding it off, it's equivalent to freeloading.

And because of this talent, she had a unique advantage in fine control of mana, and later she successfully freeloaded the specialty of Mana Control (SSR).

Anyway, buy one get one free, it's truly cost-effective.

But thinking of this, Dorothy looked at the seemingly unreliable spider teacher in front of her and began to worry whether she could withstand her exploitation.

And Noerose, who was targeted by the treasure bestowed by heaven in front of her, still didn't know what would be waiting for her in the future. She just reached out and pressed the delinquent student's shoulder with extra happiness.

"Classmate Dorothy, you are admitted. Don't worry, I, Noerose, will definitely cultivate you into a talent useful to the Witch World. I swear in the name of a dual master of Puppet Studies and Architecture."

"Mm-hmm, okay, then I'll leave it to you from now on, Teacher."

Dorothy was also very happy; she also felt that she had picked up a treasure.

Good heavens, you can't judge a book by its cover. This Witch Academy is truly full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. I never expected to encounter a dual master in just a random major. This is good, this is wonderful. It seems there is no need to consider changing teachers in the short term.

Don't worry, Teacher Noerose, I will squeeze out everything in your stomach at four times the speed.

Thus, for a time, the teacher was kind and the student was filial, and the scene was so warm.

Only the forgotten Audrey looked at the teacher and student holding hands in front of her, feeling completely out of place.

Sob, sob, sob, Second Aunt, it turns out I am the redundant one.

... The little fox is self-isolating again... ===== CHAPTER 61 =====