Wizardry System - Chapter 67

The surroundings changed and Chris was back inside the waiting room.

“Good job Chris. It seems that even the diary was extremely happy with your results,” Prometheus said.

(Author’s Note: While in most other cases, Prometheus’ dialogues are in apostrophes instead of quotation marks, in the waiting room, I’m going to put it in quotation marks simply because it’s not like Prometheus is talking to Chris inside his head.)

“How are the girls doing?” Chris asked not caring too much of what the diary thinks of him.

“Well… it’s not going so well,” Prometheus said. “They’re children. The Slytherin test tests your resourcefulness and the girls haven’t even lived a quarter of their life yet. Without any experience in the real world, I’m surprised that you did so well,”

‘Hmm… it looks like neither Prometheus nor the diary figured out I was from another dimension. Unexpected, but good for me I suppose,’ Chris thought.

“So what do you think are the chances that the girls would pass?” Chris asked.

“Well… from what I can see, 40% maximum and that’s really stretching it. It’s more like 25%,” Prometheus said.

“Well, that’s better than I expected. I expected something along the lines of 5-10% judging by how you were speaking,” Chris said.

“Luckily, the two of them are extremely intelligent and learning along the way. Essentially, they’re forcefully taking this test using their talents. Luckily, the Slytherin test allows people to do that,” Prometheus said.

“Is it alright if I took a peek?” Chris asked.

“No, I can’t let you do that. Only the founders, the diary, and I can view your exams. I don’t have the power to do anything except tell you the contents of the exam. Well that is until you fail the exam. You can view Hermione and Kristine’s test as a spectator if you end up failing. Oh and Salazar Slytherin would like to have a word with you as you have completed your exam. After his words, I’ll tell you about the next exam,” Prometheus said.

Soon Salazar sitting on his throne appeared in front of him similar to that of a hologram.

“While I do not like you as you decided to ally yourself with those Muggle-born witches, I do commend you for passing my exam with flying colors. You created wealth from almost completely nothing not with luck, but with the help of the people and resources around you. Even in the end, you have convinced your friend to do something to make sure that the results skewed in your favor,” Salazar said. “For the sake of my life, you better do well on your next exams. I am prideful, but I am not stupid. My test was the first one and the ones ahead especially the final one will be extremely difficult more than you could ever imagine. Even I found my exam to be relatively difficult especially for kids that do not even know how to use the most basic of spells,”

Salazar disappeared and Chris chuckled.

“What a weird way to wish me luck,’ Chris thought.

“Alright are you ready for your next exam?” Prometheus asked.

“Go ahead,”

“Alright, like I have stated before, the Slytherin test was the easiest test out of all of them. However, it wasn’t easy because of the qualities Salazar was looking for, but because you had knowledge of what you had to do,” Prometheus said.

Chris quickly realized what Prometheus was going to say.

“Don’t tell me-,”

“Yes, you won’t have knowledge of what you have to do for the next three exams,” Prometheus said. “When you wake up after entering the exam, it’ll feel like you were dreaming and so during the exams, you’ll forget what you have to do. If you did have the knowledge that this is an exam, the next 3 exams would be extremely fake and easy,”

“Well… That escalated the difficulty really quickly,” Chris said.

“This is the test for the diary. However, what I can say is that these tests should be much shorter and if you have the right qualities, much easier than the Slytherin exam. So it isn’t the worst. However, even with this in mind, the tests should be extremely difficult especially for a child like you. Now that I explained everything I can, I shall only ask you a question. Will you be morally right or strategically right?” As soon as Prometheus finished asking his question, Chris’ surroundings changed once again and he fell into deep sleep.

…

“Slept tight Chris?” The girl asked.

“Well Kristine, considering we’ve been getting chased for a couple of days, I think I’ve slept well this time around,” Chris said as all the information started to flow back into his head.

“Well I believe that most of us have woken up,” Kristine said. “We have to get a move-on. You-Know-Who’s army is closing in on us and if it wasn’t for Neville and dozens more stalling some time, we wouldn’t have time to rest at all,”

“I know,” Chris said. “Wake up everyone who’s sleeping, we have to get a move on. If we’re able to get to the main force, we’ll be able to trap in You-Know-Who and his army. Luckily, we’re not too far from them and should be reaching them by tonight,” Chris said.

“Alright Commander,” Kristine said in a sarcastic tone before telling the rest of the people guarding Chris to wake everyone up.