Kapitel 30: Mission Eligibility Test(1)
When the roaring died down, there was pin drop silence yet again.
"Proceed to the testing area. There will be 3 tests: PP, reflexes and comprehension. You must meet the minimum criteria to proceed. Let the testing commence. I shall see you all in the mission briefing area, given that you pass."
There was a great rush as everyone started to move toward the testing area at once. Lance was separated from Darius and Entsy as he tried hard not to fall.
"Watch out, newbie". A sinister voice floated into his ears as a shoulder bumped into his back causing him to fall on his stomach. When he tried to immediately get back up, a foot pressed down on his back preventing him from doing so.
"I saw your fluke result. The faction leaders told me to cripple you if I can, but I told them you are nothing but a fly to me. Just a fly which I can squash at my mercy. You better hope you fail the test, because if by luck I get the same mission as you, I will personally make sure you fail. Remember that, weakling. Don't go strutting around just because you could pull out a big PP from your ass."
The foot moved away as the owner mixed into the crowd and faded away from sight.
Lance could never forget that voice though. Apollo.
The damn kid dared to call him a fly!
Well, flies can kill, thought Lance. He gritted his teeth, dusting off his clothes and walking towards the testing area.
A huge open area was cleared of greenery as numerous machines and rings were set up. The batch size was in the thousands, so the testing area was also as large as a football stadium.
The machines were standard PP testing machines. The rings though, were filled with humanoid robots wrapped in leather. They looked sort of creepy as the head was the same large eye that Lance had seen and interacted with before.
As Lance had already broken through, he passed the PP test smoothly even though his IN still hadn't been discovered. If he hadn't broken through, he would definitely have failed. In the bottom groups i.e the groups who had trained only for a month, the standards were lower for passing the test but the number of people who passed was only 70%. The rest hadn't managed to breakthrough and their IN hadn't been enough to bridge the gap. Of the 70%, 30% were people who hadn't broken through but had impressive INs which gave them enough of a power boost to pass all the tests, some even with flying colors.
It must be noted that there were many types of cultivation methods. Lance, for instance, was following the standard IE manual. There were many initiates who had come from ancient clans on earth from various countries which still carried forward their tradition. Bloodlines were just a form of INs. These initiates with specific bloodlines or specific INs used their own customized manuals which in some cases took longer to breakthrough but gave a lot of improvement in power and speed even before breaking through. Other INs directly raised the body statistics to enable the initiate to pass the test.
The reflexes test was simply the humanoid figure rushing forward and using a martial art to attack the initiate. The initiate had to dodge as many strikes as possible. There was a minimum number of strikes that had to be dodged in at least one of the three tries that they had been given.
Regardless of the martial arts used, the overall speed of the strikes were the same. Due to breaking through, Lance's mind functioned faster than it had before, allowing him to see the strikes more clearly and move his body more agilely, as it had also become smoother.
The problem was, he hadn't had a chance yet to get comfortable with it.
Wöchentlicher Energiestatus
-- Power-
Rangliste 
-- Power-
Stein