Wizard: Building a Golem Legion From Zero-Chapter 42 - 41: Before the Promotion
On the Apprentice Public Forum, the thread titled "Allen Caught Cheating" was still at the peak of its frenzy.
Countless people were scrambling over each other to mock the flash-in-the-pan "Academic God" with the most scathing language imaginable.
No one believed the claim that Allen had taken nine exams.
"The cheating mutt finally got caught? I told you so! What do they use Isolation and Interrogation Room 3 for? For questioning spies and Black Wizards! He’s just a new student, and he was in there for that long. How could it be for anything good?" 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
"The poster above is spot on! I’ll bet a hundred Magic Stones that Weisren has already been hauled away by the Disciplinary Committee! He tried to take a shortcut to the top by cheating and ended up crashing and burning. LMAO."
The next second, a red announcement, even more blindingly conspicuous than yesterday’s, was pinned to the most prominent spot on the forum.
[**Title: Announcement Regarding Apprentice Allen Wesren’s Joint Examination Day 2 Results**]
[Examination Results]:
[*Wizard Codex and Ethics*: Perfect Score]
[*Mathematics and Magical Geometry*: Perfect Score]
[*Ancient Languages and Document Interpretation*: Perfect Score]
[*Introduction to the Elements*: Perfect Score]
[*Fundamentals of Astrology and Divination*: Perfect Score]
[Additional Examination Results]:
[*Basic Potions and Toxicology*: Perfect Score (Comment: Perfect-grade product at the apprentice level)]
[*Magic Material Research (General Theory)*: Perfect Score]
[*Magical Creatures*: Perfect Score]
[*Meditation Magic (Universal Edition)*: Perfect Score]
[Attachment: Scanned Copies of All Nine Exam Papers]
The moment the announcement was posted, a bomb designed to obliterate all sound and thought seemed to detonate inside the mind of every apprentice online.
Apprentices who had been loudly pontificating about him being "caught cheating" just a second before were frozen—mouths agape, fingers hovering in mid-air, minds utterly blank.
Mockery, doubt, schadenfreude... all these emotions were pulverized the moment they saw the additional results from the afternoon—another clean sweep of perfect scores.
One day. Nine subjects. All perfect scores.
This fact crashed down on them like an insurmountable mountain, lodging in their throats and leaving them unable to breathe.
The forum fell into a silence that was even longer and more profound than the one from the day before.
Then, the discussion exploded like a volcanic eruption.
"Nine perfect scores?"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I could believe he took five exams, but how could he possibly take another four practicals? It defies all logic!"
"Logic? You want to apply logic to a monster? I opened up his potions paper... Oh my god... The Calming Draught he concocted has a purity of 97.3%! The textbook standard for an ’excellent’ product is only 95%! And the comment, ’Perfect-grade product at the apprentice level’—that’s a handwritten note from a professor!"
"Quick, look at *Magical Creatures*! On the question about predicting the behavior of the Three-Eyed Raven in extreme environments, he not only accurately predicted the three possibilities acknowledged by the mainstream schools of thought, but he also provided a fourth one—a discarded theory based on records from ancient texts! What’s even more terrifying is that he assigned a specific probability to each possibility, with reasoning so thorough it was impossible to refute!"
"His answers for *Wizard Codex and Ethics*... My scalp is tingling just reading them. Could a first-year student really write something like this?"
"Is he a monster?"
The voices of doubt still lingered, but they were noticeably weaker.
Because this time, all nine exam papers were there for all to see. Every word, every line of logical deduction, was laid bare for everyone, capable of withstanding the most rigorous and nitpicky scrutiny.
Victor Horn sat in his dorm room, his face a dark mask as he stared at the announcement on the forum.
He clicked open the *Mathematics and Magical Geometry* paper. When he saw the incomprehensible array Allen had constructed on the distorted spatial model, his fingers began to tremble uncontrollably.
He was taking that course himself, and despite his prestigious wizarding lineage, he couldn’t even understand the question.
And yet Allen... not only understood it but had provided a perfect solution.
In the face of that exam paper, he felt as if the talent he prided himself on, the glory of his family, had been torn to shreds and turned into a pathetic joke.
「In Lecia’s office, on the top floor of the Administration Center.」
Lecia sat behind her desk. Floating before her were projections of Allen’s exam papers for all the general courses, showing both his answers and the process he’d used to arrive at them.
She had already reviewed them three times.
Every single one was flawless.
The "Calming Draught" from *Basic Potions and Toxicology* had a purity of 97%, and the procedure was executed without a single mistake.
For *Magic Material Research (General Theory)*, his material identification was completely accurate. He had even clearly noted details only mentioned in advanced textbooks.
His behavioral prediction in *Magical Creatures* was built on rigorous logic with a precise conclusion. It read more like a research paper from a seasoned scholar.
Lecia’s gaze lingered on the exam paper for *Wizard Codex and Ethics*.
On the ethical dilemma question regarding "infant sacrifice," Allen’s answer was chillingly ruthless, yet irrefutable.
He had adopted a purely Wizard’s perspective, stripping away all personal emotion and leaving only the purest form of rules and logic.
It was a textbook "Wizard’s" answer.
But for a first-year student, a young man from a mortal royal family who should still be burdened by a great deal of worldly sentiment, such an answer... was unsettlingly mature.
This meant his mindset had already completed its transformation into that of a pure Wizard.
Lecia lifted her head, her gaze passing through the enormous floor-to-ceiling window to the sky outside, which was stained crimson and gold.
She was reminded of the son of an Advanced Wizard from one hundred and seventeen years ago, who had used the Crown of Wisdom to complete his basic apprenticeship in just half a year.
