"Terrifying, absolutely terrifying!" Your teaching team is screaming about it every single day.
They are less like teachers and more like a group of intelligent auxiliary tools, specifically designed to highlight key knowledge points, arrange various books downloaded to your virtual space, and provide you with the fastest reading experience.
[You spend six hours a day, without fail, in the virtual pod. At 15x speed, that's ninety hours. It's not that you can't handle the high speed, but the quality of Changqing University's simulation pods is limited to a maximum of 15x speed.]
On March 7th, the registration phase for the first freshman mecha battle competition began.
This is where your chance to be accepted by top vocational colleges and transfer from a bachelor's degree program to a vocational college lies!
The First Freshman Mech Battle Tournament (Virtual) is open to all newly enrolled students, including highly skilled and knowledgeable senior college students, and even lower-level college students with lower levels of skill and knowledge.
[The registration requirement is one realm.]
[The basic cultivation score for the first stage of a realm is 600. Even if you just casually fill out a 1500-point exam and get over 400 points, you can still get into a good vocational college.]
However, there are always some people who only care about strength and not wisdom, so in the end, they have no choice but to go to university.
[Of the graduating class at Changqing University, 7,000 students fall into this category. The other 9,000 students didn't meet the cultivation requirements and had to score above 480 on the cultural exam to gain admission (the maximum score for the cultivation level cultural exam is 500).]
Many students broke through to a higher level within two months of enrollment, significantly outperforming some who broke through earlier but were not as academically gifted yet still gained admission to junior colleges.
From this perspective, Evergreen University is indeed a top-tier university, and some of its students are no less capable than some vocational college graduates.
After you and Xu Wen greeted each other, you lay down in your respective virtual pods.
[This is a unified assessment across the entire airspace. As an internal operator, you were assigned a basic, low-spec mech as soon as you entered the virtual space.]
[The other realm only has one medium-sized exoskeleton.]
[These new students will then go through elimination rounds, selection rounds, and tiebreakers, etc. Each time they defeat a corresponding opponent, they will be allocated points, which can be used to upgrade their exoskeleton or mecha, competing until the very end.]
"Like a pigeon."
The reward for the top 10,000 participants is a mech that has been enhanced in the virtual space.
You carefully reviewed all the competition rules.
This is extremely unfair to a first-rate external martial arts master.
They start with exoskeletons with a functional level of 1, while those at the second level start with mechs with a functional level of 30,000.
Although a second-stage newcomer may not be able to fully utilize the mecha's capabilities, simply standing still is like a solid wall that even an exoskeleton couldn't break through in ten hours.
[In the virtual space, a tall, humanoid mech stands in front of you, its chest open. You sit inside, placing your hands on either side, and are then automatically enveloped by the activated material within the mech's cockpit.]
[Soldier, a standard low-end second-realm mech, standing eleven meters tall and weighing 263 tons. Functionally, it can tolerate a maximum of 20% over-limit; it cannot operate when resonance drops below 0.1%.]
[This time, you also used magic to deceive the virtual pod, suppressing your true nature. Therefore, the body that appeared in the virtual space was just a normal peak-level Inner Manipulation Master.]
But that's enough.
[Your control surged into the mech like a tidal wave; almost instantly, you completely took over this "soldier," achieving 100% resonance!]
This means you can unleash 100% of its potential, reaching a staggering 30,000 power, comparable to the combat strength of a late-stage Celestial Realm cultivator!
[If it were other internal manipulation masters at the first or second level, even if they could achieve 100% resonance, they wouldn't dare to do this, because the energy consumption for the mech to move would be too great, and their manipulation power wouldn't be able to withstand it for more than a few seconds.]
[In the first round of the elimination tournament, a two-meter-tall humanoid exoskeleton appeared before you. It wasn't one of the other contestants from the first realm, but rather an intelligent AI generated within the virtual space, used in the earlier elimination rounds to ensure absolute fairness.]
"To prevent the second-best in the world from encountering the best in the world as soon as they leave the village."
Yun Shou stroked his chin: "Letting AI with a fixed strength take the field eliminate most of the players, while also providing a basic understanding of each player's strength based on the timing and methods of their kills. This method is indeed quite good."
[Faced with the oncoming humanoid exoskeleton, you thought for a moment, and the soldier-type mech, as if it were your own body, kicked the exoskeleton to pieces.]
[The humanoid AI exoskeleton has a functional level of 1 and possesses certain combat skills. The AI minions in this first round alone can eliminate 10% of the participants.]
[The message displayed shows that you gained 1 point after defeating the exoskeleton, which can be used to upgrade your mech.]
However, the various enhancement packages next to it cost at least 500 points. A quick glance revealed that even buying a single module and installing it yourself would cost over 100 points, and simply buying some useful materials would cost over 10 points.
This 1 point is used by participants in the first realm to strengthen their exoskeletons.
[Second round of the elimination tournament: A bear-type AI with a performance level of 1.2.]
[Third round of the elimination tournament: A dog-type robot with a performance level of 1.5.]
[Up to the tenth elimination round, a claw-type exoskeleton robot with a capability of 5.]
It's like a Licker from Resident Evil lunging at you, and the gap between you, piloting the mech, and it is undoubtedly a hundred times greater than the difference between a tyrant and a Licker!
He raised one hand, grabbed the other person, and with a slight exertion, crushed it into a lump of scrap metal.
[Your score has now reached 100 points, and you are now in the halftime break phase. The small amount of mana you previously consumed has been fully restored.]
A long list of interfaces unfolds before you, displaying various rankings and showing that you are the first contestant in the entire airspace to pass the elimination rounds.
There were approximately 600 billion participants in total, with over 80% of college freshmen choosing to register, including about one million in the second realm.
They all started with the same mechs, and in the elimination rounds, they all instantly killed the AI opponents. Many were racing to get their names on the leaderboard.
[The first-place finisher destroyed ten AI robots in just 7.46 seconds, the ten-thousandth-place finisher took 8.03 seconds, and you are currently at 77 seconds. At this point, some contestants are still locked in a fierce battle with the humanoid exoskeletons in the first stage.]
However, while your speedrun ranking is a bit low, you've created a terrifying gap between yourself and the second-place finisher on other leaderboards.
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