Chapter 3: The written tests
After meeting Mangel and Nelia Cades went to the exam sites, his first test was about mathematics.
The math test took place in a wide hall filled with simple wooden stools and tables with four-sided tests, which included things like Pythagoras theory, although they did not call it that, as they did not have a ehetrian known as "Pythagoras".
Overall it included rather simple equations, as it was not supposed to be peculiarly difficult.
Cades wrote the test and had a pretty good feeling about it, because artificing had a lot to do with exact and rather complex equations and calculating how much energy is going to last something for exactly how long.
His second test, written in the same room, was about alchemy, the art of concocting magical consumables such as edibles that would strengthen oneself or a powder that would explode as soon as it came in contact with water, earth or even air.
He didn't have any problems with that one either because an artificer had to know what material would be able to interact with what material and if that reaction could be explosive and harm them, his mom had forced him to study that for his own safety long before he was allowed to begin his work at artificing and magic.
His third test started directly, with barely any break, as it would be for a long time in this school.
It was about basic magic theory, nothing too difficult and especially easy for Cades, as for example the flute already utilized a lot of intermediate magic theory so this was really just the basics of the basics for him.
After a short break in which he went to the library, a big room full of well....books and looked around to see if he got all his answers right, which he did in most cases, he went back to the test room to write the itril test.