Under everyone's shocked gazes, Eve nodded. "The Academy Competition includes not only students, but also young instructors under the age of thirty."
"What does that mean... Students and instructors fight together? How could we possibly win?"
Ally pursed her lips.
Not necessarily...
Eve glanced at Lin Mo before answering her question. "Most of the time, students and teachers won't compete together. They'll be on different tracks, and both will be scored... Only after advancing to the elimination rounds will there be a format where students and instructors team up."
"Interesting..."
Lin Mo raised an eyebrow. It seemed this competition would be quite challenging after all.
"However, based on the experience of previous years, let alone advancing, it would already be considered an excellent result if our Doria Kingdom could survive the first three rounds of the preliminaries."
Eve added.
"Mm..."
Lin Mo nodded, unsurprised.
During the Hunting Competition, he had gained a rough understanding of the contestants from other kingdoms. Those people, who were not even the very best in their respective kingdoms, were already quite strong. The strongest among them was roughly on Eve's level.
That meant the strongest geniuses in those kingdoms... especially in a major kingdom like the Lonia Kingdom, were probably around level 13 or 14.
The Empire's geniuses would be even stronger, perhaps already above level 15.
The difference in accumulated strength between small kingdoms and major kingdoms was still very obvious.
With the strength of Doria Kingdom's younger generation, it truly would be difficult to compare.
Of course, this time was different.
Lin Mo had even thought this competition would not be particularly difficult before, but with instructors added into the mix, things had changed again.
There were not many people who could become academy instructors before turning thirty. Those who managed it had