Chapter 142: Test me. Prove me wrong.

[The final test will now begin.]

[Assessing the individual's present data…]

[Assessing the individual's physical, mental, and spiritual information…]

[Assessing competency…]

'The final test has begun.'

[Assessing memories of the individual.]

[Conclusion: there is a conflict in the memories of physical and spiritual bodies.]

[Assessing taming method.]

[The traces of the Affinity based taming method are found.]

[The traces of the Matter based taming method are found.]

[The traces of the Empathy based taming method are found.]

[The traces of the Nature based taming method are found.]

[The traces of the Probability based taming method are found.]

[The traces of an unknown taming method are found.]

[Conclusion: No set taming method affinity has been detected.]

[School of taming has been left blank.]

'The system did not understand the kind of taming method I used based on my present memories alone.'

The conflict arose when it found distinct memories in my spiritual body than what was present in my present body.

The conflict must be there because of the memories from my past life.

[Assessing the bonded beasts.]

[Beast bond detected: 1.]

[Bonded beasts detected: 3.]

[System conflict detected.]

'Again, my body did not lose the energy decay syndrome even though I gained the ability to use magic and energy. My taming method would remain the same and based on string theory.'

Beyond that, the system that has been intriguing me all this time should not be too strict. The way these conflicts are arising one after another also tell me how the system is trying to dig deeper instead of focusing on just one error that arose because of me.

[The system will now try to understand the conflict's reasoning and solve it based on gathered data.]

In the past, I was never put in a school of taming because of my inability to tame beasts and this time, I don't think the system can assign me to any particular school because of how different my taming method is.

'What I want to see now is how the system will understand these conflicts.'

[A separate codex has been opened for the individual: Prism Von Ignasis Sungrade.]

'Hmm?'

This was pretty unexpected.

The Codex was something like a book in the system's Akashic records. Each student that has ever been part of the academy had their information included in a common record that was meant for the students.

The same was true for the teachers, the scholars, the professors, and the beasts that are present around Stanox.

Each of these codex are assigned a separate set of resources that are used when the people need anything from the system.

And, the rankings exist exactly for the allocations of these resources.

[You have been removed from the present rankings of the system.]

[A separate Data Value has been assigned to you.]

The higher the rankings the more resources you can use within the system. And since the system is pretty much the operational function of the academy, having a separate codex of your own puts you on par with the Deans of a school or the headmasters themselves.

'But it's also not that simple.'

When you are assigned a separate Codex, you are also separated from a general resource inventory that has countless useful tools that have been built up within that repository over the centuries.

'One of the reasons you don't get your own codex without significant achievements is exactly this.'

From here on out, getting anything within the system, for us, would become several times more complicated.

But then again, this also means the system will treat us as an entity that must be evaluated differently from the rest of the student or scholar base.

[System has found peculiarities with you that matches with certain entities on the general records.]

Now that the system has separated me from the people present within the academy as teachers or scholars, it was comparing me with the help of its historical data.

'This included not just the headmaster and people of her time, but every important entity that has existed since the dawn of the academy system which has a separate Codex of their own.'

[System conflicts have been resolved with the help of comparative Codex values.]

'This is also unexpected.'

Stanox is basically the birthplace for the three of the five schools of taming that exist within this world… until now.

If the system has picked up the particular elements that match somewhere with those founding figures, then I guess this is a good sign.

[Unique Codex: <Prism Von Ignasia Sungrade> will now receive value evaluation.]

From this point on, the main part of the last test starts.

[You have been excluded from every school of taming and arts due to the method of your taming inconsistency.]

[You will be allowed to select Three (Core) subjects as a mandatory learning experience for your first year in the academy.]

I will get to choose what I want to learn from hundreds of subjects that I can learn in the academy.

I was at least put into the School of Knowledge because of how smart I was the last time, but this time, there is no particular school that restricts me.

[As someone with a Separate Codex value, you will be given unique privileges, however, you will be restricted from using the common system features unless appropriate data points have been presented.]

The data points were the same thing that decided one's rankings in the academy.

However, unlike the students and the lower ranking scholars, as someone who possesses a separate codex, the system will give him something like a salary in the form of mandatory resource allocation.

That will help him get ahead of the others within no time.

[You will not be categorized as a Student because of your previously obtained scores.]

Now, the system was putting me into the main category.

[You will not be categorized into the A.Lecturer category because of your Stat values.]

[You will not be categorized into the Lecturer category because of your Stat values.]

[You will not be categorized into the P.D.R.F. category because of your Stat values.]

[Because of your Stat allocation value and unique Codex registration, you will be categorized as a Lecturer.]

The system had reached this conclusion based on all the available data.

[Do you accept the assigned categorization?]

But that was not everything the system can do for us test takers. The question itself was a chance for us to bargain with this near omnipotent, omniscient system.

"No." I shook my head and stared at the endless darkness that I was surrounded by, the darkness that was hugging each part of my body.

[You have declined the automated system categorization.]

[The system finds a further categorisation unfair according to the existing academic limitations.]

It would be absurd for someone to get the lecturer rank from the moment they enter the academy.

At least in the last thousand years, that has never happened before.

The highest that one has achieved during their entrance exam is the rank of a post doc research fellow.

I know stretching it from here is of no use but then again, I am not just a student. I have all the experience that I need to be a Professor, and I can prove it.

"Then test me, system."

The system believed that I am wrong to ask for what I should rightfully have.

"Prove me wrong."

But just how much can it limit me for the sake of the academy's stability?

[Request accepted…]

I wanted to find the answer to that question, so I asked the system to push me to the limits that it can handle right now.

[A Deep Individual Testing will now commence.]

The moment the system announced the decision to test me further, the darkness around me cleared up and I was standing in the middle of a grassland that seemed like a very, very old version of the academy mountain that I have known until now.

[Memorial analysis will run simultaneously with aptitude tests.]

Numbers, stories, words, sounds, sensations that felt too foreign and too familiar at the same time passed throughout my mind, body, and soul.

The way the system was asking my deeper mind questions and the way it securely extracted answers that it needed to test just how much further it can push my rankings was all the core of this process.

It did not hurt me, but it surely consumed more resources from the system than it usually does.

'It's a good thing that there are several divine power sources the system can use as an energy backup.'

It would need it for what it is doing right now.

But then again…

[The deep analysis has been concluded.]

The system isn't looking out only for me but for the entire world and the way this academy affects that world.

[You will be assigned to the position a (Reader).]

That was the best the system could do for me right now as someone with almost zero actual achievements or recognitions.

[All the extracted data files will be added to the system's evaluation isle.]

[You will be tested by the Headmasters and Deans of the academy for your competency to hold the position shortly.]

[Additionally, the system has assigned a unique title to you.]

That was the most unexpected thing, I must say.

[Title: <The one beyond levels and ranks> has been obtained.]

The title that we receive was not the same as what the calamities have.

And that… is something I have to be grateful for right now.