The more they oppose, the more it shows that I am doing the right thing

Bishop Morgan revealed a tender and satisfied smile as she watched the saints below with great interest. For Bishop Morgan, no matter how low the enrollment target was set, the bishops would only blame Merlin, who was responsible for the written exam questions. Since there was already someone to take the fall, it meant she could play however she wanted.

Moreover, if the difficulty of the exam she created was lower than that of Merlin, it could attract criticism from outsiders, who might insinuate that her abilities were inferior to Merlin, the old virgin, whose questions were more challenging!

This was something Bishop Morgan could not accept.

This is a career transition exam... An Su revealed a thoughtful expression as he began to analyze the intention behind the questions.

Although subjectively speaking, Bishop Morgan came up with this question purely to kill them off, at least there had to be some logic to the deaths.

Being a saint is just the lowest-tier vocation within the faith factions. Once one reaches the medium tier as an enforcer, one can choose a new career.

The Seven Great Churches have the same system. One can simply choose a new faith; after all, believing in any of the Seven Gods is essentially the same, but most saints choose to serve in their original church and faith.

The advantage is that it’s more relaxed and familiar, but the disadvantage is also clear,

Saints specialized in a single faith become rigid in combat and can be easily anticipated by foes familiar with the combination rules of their magic, while the magic of two faiths brings more complexity. If one masters all seven faiths, they’d become irresistibly powerful, like a hexagonal fortress.

An Su hadn’t expected Bishop Morgan to specifically design an exam around this, and he couldn’t help but be impressed by her thoughtfulness.

But the difficulty was beyond imagination; becoming that powerful would require unimaginable resources and time, and in the real world, it meant exceptionally high requirements for innate talent.

A buzz of discussions broke out among the saints,

An Su could understand the feelings of the many saints even more now. This was like being a humanities student who had dedicated three years to study, only to be given a science exam on the day of the test...

"Silence."

Bishop Morgan said softly, her voice not loud, but somehow it seemed to carry the weight of an imperative rule, making all the saints simultaneously close their mouths and become quiet, and the entire hall fell into a deep silence for a moment.

She watched the saints with a smile,

"Now, I will announce the specific rules of the exam."

As soon as she finished speaking, An Su felt a strong fluctuation in his vision. The sunlight twisted and spun, strands of light intertwined, and eventually formed a paper thin as cicada wings, which floated down in front of An Su.

This paper had no mass and appeared almost transparent, emitting a warm, ambiguous hue; it was an exam instructions sheet.

[Respected Mr. An Su Moningsta (16), greetings, your examination number is 16, and your test location is the fourth division of the Seven Gods Hall]

"...No need to emphasize being sixteen," An Su frowned.

[This exam assesses the subject of ’Practical Application of the Seven Faiths’]

[Proportion of exam scoring: forty percent]

[Exam Instructions: The Alchemical Array will generate seven Nether rooms. Upon entering a room, it will disable all of your magic and equipment, and your Rank will be forcibly limited to ’Third Rank’. Each room corresponds to one of the seven random faiths, and each will provide magic books that you need or may need for that particular faith, as well as Alchemical Materials.]

[Each room has a specific Nether task. After completing the task in one room, you can earn ten points and qualify to enter the next room. If you fail once, die in a room, or fail to complete the task within the specified time, you will exit the Alchemical Array and the exam will end.]

[Qualification requirements: seventy points (full score), thirty points (passing).]

An Su skimmed over the rules, revealing a contemplative expression.

Similar to the last exam, this one also emphasized ’equal conditions’ to some extent.

The subject of the last exam was ’Distribution and Use of Spell Slots and Magic Power’.

It involved using an Alchemical Array to replicate the examiner’s body entirely, achieving the exact same conditions for all participants.

This time, the exam seemed to learn from the previous one, not replicating the examinee’s body completely but instead restricting all their magic and even forcibly lowering their Rank to the Third Rank.

Seven rooms, corresponding to seven faiths.

The Radiance Room will definitely test tasks related to Holy Light, the Order Room will test tasks related to Order... and you need at least thirty points to pass, which means you must pass at least three rooms, including your proficient room and two completely unfamiliar rooms.

And this is the most ideal scenario; no one can ensure they encounter their strongest room first,

Plus, if you die once, you’re out and can’t continue to take the test; you won’t be able to complete all of it.

If your luck is bad, you will have to pass through three completely unfamiliar rooms in a row to pass.

For example, the Order Church’s muscle-bound men might draw the Healing Series room, and the dainty White Priestesses of the Healing Series might end up in the Alchemy Room... It’s like science students taking art exams, or arts students taking physical education, the whole point is to crossover disciplines.

The theoretical models of different faiths, the composition of Magic Circuits, the creation of magic, the combination of spells... they’re all completely different!

This time, the questions in the exam were indeed difficult, far surpassing the previous exam in complexity.

For the master of unique tricks, it was as if a bolt of lightning had struck on a clear day.

"Meow?"

Luo Xiaohei, who was lying on An Su’s shoulder, widened his eyes in disbelief, staring hard at the text and then violently shook his tail. He plopped his paw against An Su’s cheek fiercely, hoping to snap out of what he hoped was a dream.

Over this past month, she had only learned Holy Light Magic!

An Su looked at his pathetic Golden Finger and sighed softly. He hadn’t expected that the Golden Finger would fail him even before the exam started.

Nearly every saint showed a face of utter despair, all except for An Su, who wore a faint smile on his lips.

For him, the rules of the exam were actually an advantage.

After playing over a dozen cycles in his previous life, where he’d tried different schools of thought in each cycle and had dabbled in the professions of all seven faiths, he was already a jack-of-all-trades. Now, picking things up again would certainly be simpler and easier than it was for the average saint.

The only variable now was the questions Copper Smelting Bishop had set up in the room... Experience tales at NovelBin.Côm

Having gone through the exam rules, An Su continued to read on, trying to analyze the examiner’s intentions.

[Note: The Church’s education is currently in a critical period of development, focusing on improving quality and comprehensively enhancing the ability to cultivate talent. Entering the new era, in order to implement the spirit of Bishop Merlin’s speech at the third Church conference, we use the ’Seven Virtues’ as our core and Merlin’s spirit as our guiding ideology to train high-quality versatile talents; thus, we have designed this exam subject.]

[The only standard for a perfect score is to surpass your limits]

As An Su browsed through the handbook, he noticed it lacked a publication date; the words "guiding ideology" sloppily written on each skewed page. Unable to sleep anyway, he scrutinized it for a long time before finally discerning the words hidden between the lines—the entire book was essentially saying "take the blame."

Morgan wanted Merlin to take the blame for her!

An Su sighed softly.

Luojia also frowned slightly as she read the exam instructions. She wasn’t flustered; the advantage of being a Little Saintess is having a broad range of knowledge and an insatiable curiosity. So, she too had studied the different faiths of the Seven Great Churches.

Suddenly, she tiptoed and raised her hand but found herself blocked by several burly knights. She hopped vigorously to get a better view, and Bishop Morgan, who was on the high platform, noticed the commotion over here.

Oh, another child.

But this one was half a year older than the little cutie, An Su—not perfect.

Showing extra tolerance for minors, she unveiled a gentle smile, "Do you have a question?"

"May I ask, how should the order of the seven rooms be arranged?" Luojia inquired.

This question hit the nail on the head. If one started in the room of their own faith, at least they could secure the basic points for a guaranteed pass. Having that advantage, yet if the earlier rooms were all unfamiliar, it would surely spell doom.

That wouldn’t be fair.

The saints all revealed a look of sudden realization.

"Good question," Bishop Morgan chuckled, "Please rest assured, fairness is one of the seven virtues of the Church, and we will certainly guarantee absolute fairness and justice to select the children beloved by the gods."

"Can you be more specific?"

"To be specific," Bishop Morgan said solemnly, "it will be decided by drawing lots; the order in which each participant enters the rooms will be determined by lot."

She emphasized:

"The gods do not like children smudged with eyebrow pencil."