Maybe the simulated enemies were really made of foam, thought many of the students and even the technicians who generated the models.
But if that were true, then how come everyone else was stuck facing beasts that felt like metal monstrosities and reinforced boulders? Because the struggle was very real.
It was Luca's first time seeing an exam like this—and the first time they would use the largest, most state-of-the-art training arena in the Academy.
This was a division-wide test, and it showed.
The freshmen were pitted against sophomores in a high-stakes arena, surrounded by simulated beasts, spiritual pressure fields, and debris meant to emulate a real battlefield.
A hundred freshmen versus a hundred sophomores per batch for a total of five batches.
To pass, freshmen had to reach the finish line and steal one of the sophomores' three combat tokens on the way there.
