Chapter 56 Rank

The examiner who took the second entrance exam, excluding Anya, he is the only person who knows my true powers as of now. The same very person was standing behind the podium right before my eyes.

He had stormed into the classroom followed by the loud noise of the doors slamming into the wall hence he already was the center of attention.

He took a while as he glanced over each and every student, making sure that everyone was paying attention.

"Okay now, everyone listen to me. My name is Ryfin Jekar, and from today onwards, I will be the instructor of class 1B. It will be great if you follow the rules and regulations of this academy and not do anything that'll bring shame to the name of Zaforths magic academy."

A firm smile remained on his face as he introduced himself to the whole class. The man in question had short blonde hair and leaf green eyes, and I just found out that his name was Ryfin, Ryfin Jekar.

I looked through my memory in the hope to find a clue about him and, nothing was there. There's no such person in the novel of loli_pop, or anyone of similar resemblance.

The only possibility left was that he was a mob character who never appeared in the novel. The more I think about it the more sense it makes.

After all, the protagonist Leon was assigned to Class 1A, and the all events that occurred were centered on him and his class.

Though he was not alone, there were some other characters just as important as Leon and they also played an important role from time to time.

I had to look for them later. Since I need to keep tabs on each and everything, I made a mental note of it.

"Now, let me call out your names and take the attendance," said Ryfin, putting a register on the podium.

Then he called out the names of the students and marked something in his register.

While he was doing that I was doing my own thing. Whenever he said a student's name I looked at the person whose name was called and studied their face and appearance.

Since this was class B, not A, most of the students here were mob characters who weren't even mentioned in the novel. Though I knew this, it was not an absolute, maybe this world was not a direct copy of that novel but a bit similar to it.

"Zero Blanks"

"Present!"

As I said present, Ryfin paused for a second and stared at me, then curling his lips upward, a smile formed on his face as he wrote something in the register.

'I hope he isn't planning on causing more trouble for me.'

The attendance was done and in the end, I didn't find anyone who can be described as the main character or even a side character.

'So…I'm really inside that novel, I guess?'

I want to think about it and research more but it can wait.

"Now, this is your first day so I'm not going to start easy. We can come to the lessons and practice later but first I need to know what you're capable of," Ryfin stated. Right after, he took placed a ball-like thing on the podium.

I saw him bringing this thing along when he entered the classroom though it was covered in a white cloth.

"I will be testing the strength of each of you, and by that, I mean your rank. One by one you will come and place your hand on this ball and it will tell me your rank. This ball of made by a crystal specifically made to measure mana, hence according to your rank and the size of your mana pool this ball will change its color," he explained as he removed the cloth, revealing a translucent crystal ball.

"The ball till turn green for G rank and a darker shade of green for rank F. The higher your rank is the deeper its color will change, ending with black color for rank S. Though I doubt anyone here would be S rank."

"Come one by one starting from the right side of the first row."

He isn't doing this intentionally, is he? I mean, to blow my cover and reveal my true rank? This indeed was another trouble.

The students went and put their hands on the crystal ball, according to their respective rank the ball changed color.

I was observing this from far, and the majority of the students were E ranked which was slightly above average. I remembered that Anya was the only E ranker in my home city but here E rank was common.

And this was understandable actually since they are all mob characters having an average rank makes sense.

p "You, come here. It's your turn," Ryfin mentioned, pointing toward me.

'Ah shit! How should I get out of this mess?'

I thought that but I did have a plan in mind. If this world was the novel then the concepts and techniques which worked there should work here as well.

If so then I know exactly how to handle this.

I rose from my seat and made my way to the podium. I stood a step or two before Ryfin and looked at him, pretending to be oblivious to what to do.

"Here, place your hand on this and channel your mana," he mentioned.

"Okay, I understand. I'll just do that."

He was staring hard between the crystal ball and me which showed he was curious about how I'll do this. He knew I wanted to hide my strength to not be the center of attention but this test can blow my cover in an instant.

Ignoring his stare, I raised my hand and put it on top of the ball. A moment later the ball changed color.

"I-Its, yellow. Your rank in E," he commented as he observed the ball.

"Can I go now?" I asked in a totally respectful manner.

He nodded and then I went back to my seat. Judging from the look on his face I can tell he was taken by surprise. After all, the crystal showed my rank E even though my rank was B.

Now, how did this happen?

It's simple. I used the information from the novel and used it to my advantage.

According to that, the crystal changed its color by measuring the amount of mana that flowed into it. In short, the more mana you give it, the darker its color will change.

Normally you channel your mana in your hand and then to the crystal, allowing it to measure your mana pool. But what I did there was instead of channeling my mana toward it, I reduced the mana flow in my hand.

Because of it, the mana it received was equal to that of an E ranker hence my rank was shown E.

Normally this type of thing won't be possible for a beginner but I was able to do it because I was already using elemental magic for a while now, hence I had pretty good control over my mana.

And that's about it. Somehow I was able to tackle this safely.

Though I still have things I need to do and people I need to check on.