At night, in the hotel arranged by the National Team.
Although several teams were from the Imperial Capital and their schools were also in the Imperial Capital, they were absolutely not allowed to go home. The National Team had to manage everyone together, so the participating students were all assigned rooms in one hotel.
For two full days, Jiang Xiao's team assessed the other forty-two teams.
Some teams were eliminated on the spot, and there were a great many of them. A few individual students from certain teams, however, were pulled out and asked to participate in the next stage of the assessment.
Thankfully, Li Weiyi and Qian Zhuang, led by the two senior students on their team, made it into the second round. After being reviewed by the examiners, they were temporarily allowed to stay.
But no one knew whether they could fight their way into the finals. After all, there were only three main teams and two substitute teams.
As for Jiang Xiao himself, he had made an absolute fortune over the past two days.
Forty-two teams. 4,200 Skill Points.
What did that mean? Added together, it was actually more than the Crescent Moon Medal had given him. Damn this rigid Inner Star Map! How could an assessment mission be compared to a Crescent Moon Merit Medal? Jiang Xiao was the classic kind of person who held his bowl in one hand and cursed before even putting down his chopsticks.
It was simply the worst of the worst! "I made so many Skill Points. It'd be painful not to spend them." Jiang Xiao propped up his pillow against the headboard, leaned back, and rhythmically swung his toes back and forth.
By the window, Gu Shi'an clearly heard Jiang Xiao's muttering, but he had no idea what Jiang Xiao