NOVGO.NET Chapter 336
Xue Jing returned to find that the half-hour preparation countdown before the event had almost come to an end.
“Mr. Xue, Jingqiu still seems to be out of it. What should we do?”
Fu Jialin reported to Xue Jing, gesturing towards Ye Jingqiu who was half-lying against a metal tree.
Looking completely dazed and intoxicated.
After thinking for a moment, Xue Jing said, “Please help her walk with Zhong Wei. The compulsory movement task will be issued soon, and it’s not clear yet how long the move will take. We can’t afford to delay.”
Hearing this, Fu Jialin nodded in agreement with another female student named Zhong Wei, “Yes, Teacher.”
A while later, Cao Sini approached Xue Jing and whispered,
“Mr. Xue, it’s started.”
She stretched out her hand to show Xue Jing her wristband that was vibrating non-stop.
[Current Task:
Forced Movement Task: Please move to Zone B2 with all squad members, remaining time 7:59:42]
Seeing this, Xue Jing opened his white examiner wristband, operated it for a bit, and located the map.
The map on the examiner’s wristband showed the position of himself and all his students underneath; currently, they were all in Zone C3.
The distance to the Zone B2 required by the forced movement task wasn’t too far; at least on the map, it seemed to be only three zones away.
“Do we need to move immediately, Mr. Xue?”
Chen Xingyan, standing aside, asked.
Xue Jing hummed in affirmation, “Let’s head straight there, and we’ll talk upon arrival. Estimate roughly the distance… Everyone, move towards the target zone in the formation we set up earlier, and if we encounter danger…”
After giving many instructions, Xue Jing nodded to Chen Xingyan, who then began to command, and all the students started moving towards Zone B2.
Ten minutes later.
“… this gravity, it’s fine when I’m still, but once I start moving, it’s much more tiring than I thought.”
He Han spoke as he caught his breath slightly.
Most of the students felt similarly exhausted.
“If we start fighting with other squads, it’s hard to imagine how tiring that would be.”
“Stop complaining, Mr. Xue said that this is just because our bodies haven’t adapted to the environment yet. It will feel much better once we’ve adapted.”
“It feels like Mr. Xue has a lot of experience… He wouldn’t be like some shonen manga protagonist who went through some kind of brutal training under several dozen times gravity, would he, ha ha.”
Following behind all the students, Xue Jing moved along the tall metallic plants, keeping a distance that allowed him to take in everyone’s condition at a glance.
Unlike the students who were struggling to adapt to the gravity, all his movements were effortless, as if he were on Earth Star without any difference; the nearly triple supergravity of the Steel Tree Sea seemed like nothing to him.
This wasn’t just due to his physical strength but also because he persistently undertook weight training with Dragon Horn every day.
Now at Lv7, Dragon Horn allowed him to endure gravity over thirty times normal every day. His body had long since adapted to these harsh conditions. The Steel Tree Sea’s less than triple gravity felt almost nonexistent to him.
“Most people are currently in the stage of adapting to the environment of the Intersecting Boundaries. At this moment, even if candidates encounter each other, they’re more likely to avoid confrontation.”
Xue Jing’s eyes revealed contemplation.
“But for us examiners, it’s a different story…”
The Extreme Martial King’s actions had established a tradition of talented young people serving as examiners in the Martial Arts Examination, therefore, although young, the examiners in this joint examination had strength on a different level from most students.
Even if they had not previously experienced supergravity environments, their inherent abilities allowed them to quickly adapt to this level of gravity.
And the relationship between the examiners… was not one of peaceful coexistence.
As long as their students achieved a good overall result, the young examiner would be considered to have successfully emulated the Extreme Martial King and would receive a considerable addition to their résumé and honors that would make their future path much smoother, with many conveniences and doors opened to them.
Thus, although it was not explicit on paper, the Martial Arts Examination was not only a test for the candidates but also for the young examiners.
In other types of Martial Arts Examinations, relations might be more amicable, but this joint examination, akin to a battle royale, was completely adversarial both among the candidates and among the examiners.
Because all the joint examination grading methods were based on ‘final score rankings’.
What does that mean?
It means that the ranking is critical, the score itself is not the most important thing!
Even if you have very few points, as long as you make others’ points fewer than yours, you achieve a good result!
With zero points granted upon leaving the examination, the simplest and most direct method is naturally to knock down or even kill others, reducing the number of people who survive to the end as much as possible.
One more point means defeating a thousand people? Defeat everyone and you won’t need to score at all!
And this involves some game theory too, such as examiners being able to attack each other.
If this were to happen, the students who relied on the examiner would naturally panic and become desperate. Without protection in times of crisis, their life security would lose some guarantee, and the death of this mental support in an unfamiliar environment would bring great emotional impact.
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Therefore, in this kind of joint examination, a strong examiner was extremely important to the students… This was why Chen Xingyan and the others initially resisted Xue Jing because they did not understand him and were afraid his outsider abilities were insufficient.