Some trainees seeing Hollows for the first time were so terrified that their limbs went weak, and they could not even hold their swords steady. Before those Hollows, they could only stretch out their necks and await death.
If not for the Fifth Division Shinigami stepping in, those trainees would have already perished in the Hollows' jaws.
Still, some trainees quickly regained their composure after their initial panic. Even if they could not kill the lesser Hollows they encountered, they could swiftly escape and preserve their lives.
If they encountered other trainees while fleeing, those who knew one another would even form teams to face the pursuit of those lesser Hollows together.
Generally speaking, two reasonably capable trainees could reliably defeat a lesser Hollow.
Even if they were weaker, three to five people working together could kill lesser Hollows without suffering injuries.
Before long, the more than one hundred lesser Hollows lured in by the Hollow bait on the first day had been divided up and eliminated by the trainees.
The strong fought alone, a single sword in hand, standing above the rest.
The weak gathered into groups of three or five and could likewise secure victory steadily.
In addition, colorful fireworks shot into the sky one after another. These were the distress signals Ailin had previously instructed the Fifth Division Shinigami to distribute to the trainees.
Once they set off the distress flare in their hands, the nearest guarding Shinigami would immediately rush to its location and rescue the trainees in danger.
However, those trainees who used the distress flares would also become failures in this assessment. They would no longer have a chance to enter the Gotei 13 and could only be assigned to serve in the Hueco Mundo Expeditionary Force, spending the rest of their lives fighting