I don't want to be a dragon maid!

A long corridor paved with special bricks and stones, next to which is a courtyard full of various flowers, and a fragrance is carried by the wind.

The walls were gray and white, and there was a desk that smelled faintly of wood and a blackboard nailed to the wall.

The only difference from the academy is that elves occasionally appear on the walls, and textbooks sometimes float by in the corridors.

Shelley found Class 13, opened the door, and walked in expressionlessly.

The classroom was already full of people, waiting for the moment of the exam.

Shelley saw her seat and had just taken her stationery out of her backpack when she heard whispers from the side.

"Look at that guy, everything he does is made up of silver-haired maids."

"This is so childish. It's a maid toy. Is this girl a little girl or a spoiled young lady?"

"Don't you guys think these stationery items look a bit like the pretty maid by the door?"

The perceptive Shelley heard the whispers and puffed out her cheeks slightly.

I curse that stupid maid so she won't have toilet paper and won't be able to bargain when buying groceries!

Just as Shelley was viciously cursing Noah, she noticed a gaze fixed on her from ahead.

Shelley looked up and saw Alice sitting in front of her, looking at the doll backpack in Shelley's hand with a slightly cold gaze.

Shelley was even more annoyed. She reached out and hugged the maid's backpack to prevent the maid from seeing, while she stared at Alice, giving her a murderous look.

Alice glanced at Shelley, then turned away, ignoring her.

Their behavior completely disregarded Shelley.

Faced with the other party's indifference, Shelley slowly withdrew her gaze. Sure enough, she still had to face Alice. She was still somewhat unsure of herself and needed some time to adjust her mindset.

Time flew by, and the door opened again. A beautiful woman with brown curly hair and glasses floated in, carrying a large stack of test papers in her left hand and a wine bottle in her right, while constantly burping.

"Good morning, students! The weather is really nice today!"

The drunken beauty smiled and greeted everyone, swaying from side to side, which terrified the students below.

"It's actually Teacher Bella."

The students below gasped in surprise. They looked at the drunkard on the podium with eyes that held not contempt, but shock and delight.

"Stri Bella, ranked twentieth among the continent's magicians, is a great magician skilled in water magic. It is said that she recognized and signed a contract with the water elf among the twelve elves, thus mastering some unknown ancient magic. During the vampire turmoil hundreds of years ago, she killed the vampire duke."

Shelley was also shocked. She dug out all the information about Bella from her mind and concluded that she was a great mage, second only to a grandmaster of magic, but...

Bella, so drunk, didn't look like a great magician at all; she looked more like a hostess who had just come from a nightclub.

The great magician was a drunkard who drank in broad daylight...

This left the students present, including Shelley, with a sense of disillusionment.

"Class, what were we supposed to do again... Oh, I remember now, today I'll be your supervisor, and we're going to take a test, hiccup!"

Ms. Bella let out a burp, leaned on the lectern, took out the stack of test papers, and said lazily.

"Within the incantation of this exam paper are ancient characters with powerful magic. Your task is to find these ancient characters within the exam paper and then find the corresponding characters from me..."

Before she could finish speaking, Ms. Bella stomped her foot, and rows of ancient characters emerged from behind her like ants, filling the entire classroom.

"Find three Cs, five Bs, and eight As. Whoever gets the best score will receive the most rewards from me. I have set up a detection magic circle in the examination room. If your magic power exceeds a certain value, it will be considered cheating. If anyone gets a score below C, they will receive a failing grade from me."

Bella took a sip of her drink and then said with a grin.

"My evaluation can determine which class you'll be placed in. Do you have any questions?"

"Teacher, what is the reward?"

A student raised his hand and asked curiously.

"It's a special reward prepared for you new students, something we magic professors specially made for you."

"That's what Ms. Bella said."

"Teacher, what would be the grade if I could get more than eight characters?"

Alice slowly raised her hand and said expressionlessly.

"Eight or more is an S grade, but in the past thousand years, only five people in our school have achieved an S grade. The last one was a great sage more than two hundred years ago..."

Bella explained.

"Looks like there will be one more person today."

Alice said calmly.

These words drew gasps of surprise from the students. They all turned to look at Alice, their eyes filled with a mixture of fear and envy.

Shelley looked at Alice, whose face remained as indifferent as ever, as if she were stating a matter of course.

"Heh heh, quite the boast, huh? Aspiring hero, huh? Then let me see how strong you really are! The test begins!"

Bella turned the hourglass on the podium over, and the papers in her hand fell neatly on everyone's desks. All the students immediately picked up their papers and began to decipher them.

Shelley looked at the dense text on the paper and breathed a slight sigh of relief. Although these spells were difficult to decipher, they were still easy for this magic-loving girl. All those years of experience reading at home hadn't gone to waste!

Shelley quickly deciphered a spell and obtained one of the characters, but when she looked up, she saw that the character had been taken out.

Damn it! Looks like I can't choose the easy one, it's too easy for someone else to snatch it.

Shelley grabbed her hair in frustration. Helpless, she had to find an even more difficult spell. This time, it took five minutes to decipher. When Shelley looked up, the text was still floating on the ceiling, untouched.

It seemed that choosing the more difficult option was the right thing to do. Shelley breathed a sigh of relief. She recited the incantation, and a protective magical shield appeared on her hands, signifying that she could take the word.

Shelley reached out her hand towards the word, and just as she was about to take it...

With the other hand, from another direction, the words in front of her were snatched away.

Shelley felt a chill run down her spine. She instinctively took the examinee's name and discovered that it was none other than the indifferent Alice.

Alice noticed Shelley watching her, and she waved the words in her hand at Shelley with a mocking smile.

"You're too late, this is mine!"

Chapter 112 The Battle for Words!

Anger, sadness, frustration...

A variety of emotions welled up in Shelley, but she quickly suppressed them.

There's no time for such unnecessary emotions now; the sand in the hourglass is slowly falling away.

Shelley immediately returned to her position and began to analyze the next problem.

Faster, even faster than before!

This was Shelley's requirement for herself, but just as she solved the puzzle and was about to obtain the text, Alice would suddenly appear from the corner and easily snatch the text away from Shelley.

After taking the words, Alice was not in a hurry to solve the puzzle. She turned around and watched Shelley's every move with a calm and malicious expression.

Shelley finally understood: Alice was truly a genius; she had already broken those spells long ago…

But now, in order to target me, she is watching my every move, trying to figure out what spell I am breaking, so that she can snatch the spell from my hands and make Shelley do all the work.

Shelley gripped the pencil tightly in her hand, biting her lip, her heart filled with resentment.

This guy is targeting me, this woman...this woman...

Shelley's last shred of hope for Alice was shattered; now she had to figure out how to break free from this predicament...

Shelley took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down, and then looked up at the words floating on the ceiling.

A thought suddenly popped into Shelley's mind: if she could break the spell and gain the right to obtain the text, could she know in advance whether she had obtained the spell based on the text?

After all, some of these words floating on the ceiling were quite far from Shelley, while others were very close, practically right in front of him.

Reverse engineering is something that seems impossible to others, but Shelley believed she could do it!

She wasn't a genius, but she understood these words better than anyone else!

Each and every word has been painstakingly researched!

Shelley touched her chest, looked up at the words floating above her, and judged from their writing style which dynasty and kingdom they came from.

Knowing these things, Shelley could easily figure out which spell it was!

Using this reverse method, Shelley quickly deciphered a character in front of him.

Shelley breathed a sigh of relief and immediately reached for the text. At that moment, Alice noticed Shelley's actions and immediately got up from her seat and rushed over...

It's just a pity that there's still a certain distance between the two; Shelley is determined to win this literary prize!

Shelley thought so, and her hand had already touched the words.

In an instant, Shelley suddenly heard a small explosion, followed by a sharp pain in her fingertips, as if she had touched a branding iron.

Shelley instinctively pulled her hand back, and in that instant, Alice reached out and took the word in her hand. She looked at Noah and said calmly.

"Not bad, you've come up with a slightly interesting idea, but it's too easy to see through."

After saying this, Alice let out a cold laugh and turned back to her seat.

Shelley felt like her teeth were being ground to dust, and she had an urge to smash Alice's head with a giant hailstone.

Of course, it's impossible to do that now. The most important thing is to find a way to break the deadlock!

Shelley looked at the fingertips of her right hand. There were no wounds, but a wisp of smoke was floating on them.

These are the marks left by a fire magic attack...

Fire magic? Teacher Bella said there's a magic detection array set up in the exam room; once it reaches a certain value…

Wait, a certain value? If the magic used doesn't reach a certain value, the magic detection array won't react at all.

Shelley immediately understood that there was a hidden rule in this exam: as long as the score did not exceed a certain value, it would not be considered cheating.

This is not only a test of a magician's skill in breaking spells, but also a test of their personal control over magic.

Shelley silently focused her magic on her eyes, and sure enough, she found herself surrounded by tiny, condensed elemental spheres, each one smaller than a word, and easily overlooked if one wasn't paying attention.

Of course, Shelley's side has mostly fire elemental orbs, which presumably all belong to Alice.

On the surface, everyone is solving problems, but secretly, each candidate has already started to sabotage their opponent.

Suddenly, a glimmer of light appeared on the desk in front of us, and a magic circle appeared on the ground, flashing intermittently.