[C]ardinal to [B]ishop

Approved! As your Guildmaster, I will also be the one to give you the prompt for your exam, which will be 1,000 words of either:

Personal plot and/or character development of your own choice

OR

You receive order to pursue an emergency mission in Magnolia. A dangerous S rank dark mage that was defeated in combat has been admitted to a local hospital and has recently awoken from their coma, ever since then causing nothing but trouble. Today, however, the situation finally escalated. The mage attacked the hospital staff and killed several of them, taking a group of others hostage and barricading themselves in the hospital under threat that all of the hostages will be killed if the Rune Knights are called, making exorbitant demands they want to be met. Your job is to take out this dark mage and stop their rampage by any means you chose. Be aware that while the mage is high ranked they are also still wounded, but nonetheless highly aggressive. As soon as they notice that someone is trying to take them out they will begin killing the hostages. The actual specifications of this mage, as well as their magic, are up to you.

Approved! Welcome to B rank