“No cheating! This is just an assessment of your first-year elemental power fundamentals and vampire history. It’s time to test what you’ve learned; there’s also a university exam next month. Don’t try to cross your eyes and peek at other people’s papers. Violators will have their entire year’s credits revoked.”
The chief invigilator stood at the front, his tone icy, and the students were like stunned geese.
The chief invigilator nodded with satisfaction and looked at An Xiaoyi.
“Professor An, please hand out the test papers.”
An Xiaoyi took the test papers and handed them out one by one.
The so-called test papers looked more like little notebooks, very pretty and exquisite.
Inside were questions about elemental power fundamentals, simple multiple-choice and true/false questions, while the vampire history questions were free-response essays.
He observed the students; they looked only three or four years younger than him.
These students came from all over the world, with different complexions and beliefs.
Saint Antiona was the largest and most resource-rich elemental power school in the world, always producing geniuses.
They were all future elites in the fight against vampires.
“Professor, Professor, I’m Dorothea’s sister! My sister always talks about you!” a blonde girl spoke up when An Xiaoyi was handing out the papers.
She looked very similar to Dorothea, almost identical in silhouette.
“You two look very much alike, I can hardly tell you apart,” An Xiaoyi said, carefully choosing his words.
However, it didn’t seem to achieve the authoritative effect he had hoped for.
“Can I take a picture? Dorothea really likes you.”
The blonde girl took out her phone, opened the camera, and was about to stand up to take a picture with him in front of everyone.
“Alright, Miss from the Felice family, I can understand your desire for handsome men. Who wouldn’t like a handsome, intelligent, and yet youthful and adorable Professor An?” The chief invigilator interrupted her, giving a stern warning.
“But this is an examination. Do not engage in any activities unrelated to the exam, except for going to the restroom. For celebrity photos, I suggest waiting until the evening; that’s the real social time. But I hope it’s after eight o’clock, because before eight o’clock, I want to take a picture with Professor An first.”
An Xiaoyi awkwardly finished handing out the test papers, knowing that the chief invigilator’s last sentence was purely a tease.
After handing out the papers, only boring waiting remained in the library.
An Xiaoyi smiled in response to the chief invigilator’s gaze and sat on the sofa at the very back.
At first, he diligently watched the students to prevent cheating.
After almost an hour, his gaze shifted to the front, and he was surprised to see the chief invigilator actually lying on the sofa, asleep…
Meanwhile, the students had already started whispering, flipping through cheat sheets, and peeking at each other’s papers, completely disregarding the invigilators’ supervision.
“No way,” An Xiaoyi murmured.
He stood up, ready to catch a cheater, and with quick eyes and hands, caught a student who hadn’t managed to hide their cheat sheet in time.
He was about to say something when he looked at the chief invigilator, who was still asleep, and noticed something was off.
He didn’t rush to announce the student’s exam invalidation but instead carefully reviewed the test questions.
Sure enough.
More than half of the exam questions were indeed related to elemental power fundamentals and vampire history.
He had previewed the first-year textbooks, and these questions were indeed first-year knowledge.
However, the latter half of the questions went beyond the scope.
They were all history questions.
They weren’t first-year knowledge points; they were like Olympiad math problems.
To be precise, they were deep-level questions that required accumulated knowledge to analyze and deduce.
These were the true questions of the exam.
As for the first part of the questions, the chief invigilator didn’t care at all.
Most power users have excellent memories, so they could easily write everything down by rote.
An Xiaoyi relaxed, pondering the questions under the nervous gazes of the surrounding students.
“In 1664, the Vampire Grand Duke of Europe, Féleistre Fillis, personally murdered his own kin. He acted cruelly, yet shed tears, and in his solitude, committed suicide.”
“Reflecting on his life, evaluate his tears.”
This was the question. An Xiaoyi took a deep breath. Rather than a history question, it was practically a political one.
According to currently public vampire history, Féleistre Fillis was a man who spent his entire life in contemplation.
Intelligent and astute from a young age, he was skilled at concealing himself.
At twenty-one, he entered the social circles of human nobility, becoming a widely discussed new aristocrat.
At twenty-eight, he joined the Church and became a glorious Holy Knight, yet he also aided a nation in overthrowing the Church.
He was then made a Grand Duke by the emperor who ruled most of Europe.
From then on, he completely disguised himself as a human duke, becoming one of the most powerful humans in Europe at the time.
During this period, he eradicated many vampires.
No one ever suspected the Duke’s true identity, and that emperor was Emperor Geoffrey the Great, now listed as one of humanity’s ten legendary demon hunters.
Emperor Geoffrey trusted Grand Duke Fillis immensely, even entrusting his orphaned child to him in his later years.
It was on the very night of that entrustment that he was personally murdered by Grand Duke Fillis in the courtyard.
The longsword used in the murder is still in a museum today.
From then on, the Fillis vampire family finally surfaced.
Almost everyone believed Grand Duke Fillis’s true purpose was to usurp the throne, achieving the ultimate goal of monsters—to transform this world into a paradise for monsters, with humans living under the rule of highly intelligent monsters, meaning pure-blooded vampires.
But in reality, Grand Duke Fillis merely removed Emperor Geoffrey’s crown and did not ascend the throne.
He returned to his castle, and instead of rallying his restless vampire kin, he massacred his entire family.
After killing his blood relatives, he ultimately chose to commit suicide in a human body.
To this day, he remains a mystery, and people are still trying to investigate his motives.
This is the vampire history concerning Grand Duke Fillis.
This history is not detailed in the first-year history textbooks at Saint Antiona, making this question entirely beyond their scope.
The Executive Bureau now has a special department dedicated to researching vampire history.
People firmly believe that to deal with vampires without always being at a disadvantage, one must understand the hidden history of these monsters.
An Xiaoyi pursed his lips, now understanding.
This exam was, in fact, a random deduction concerning the unknown parts of vampire history.
By utilizing the students’ thoughts and abilities, they would obtain a wide variety of answers.
Students would use existing history and then use their imagination, much like an AI generating ten million random deductions, with one result always nearing the truth.
The other questions were similar.
They were all either absent from currently published vampire history or completely unrelated.
For example, the known historical data of a certain vampire count was very vague; he lived for only 30 years from birth until his eradication, with almost no records of his deeds, except for a mention that in his last hunt before being eradicated, he stuffed an apple into the victim’s mouth.
The question then was to write about what the vampire count might have experienced during his life.
Students could only use the act of him stuffing an apple into the victim’s mouth during his last hunt as a hint.
The latter half of this exam actually had no answers.
Saint Antiona School was more complex than An Xiaoyi had imagined.
He closed his eyes, also attempting to think about the question concerning Grand Duke Fillis.
He had an ancient book at home with relevant records: Grand Duke Fillis never revealed his true monstrous form, even to his own kind; he seemed to intensely dislike his identity as a vampire.
An Xiaoyi frowned slightly, vaguely hearing an ethereal whisper.
He put down the test paper and looked up, puzzled.
Seeing that the invigilating professor didn’t pursue it, the student next to him was overjoyed.
But soon, his eyes became blank.
Besides him, all the students’ eyes became blank.