"Simulating opponents and environments of varying intensity is the core standard by which we assess actual combat ability.
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Quite a few people have already come to test themselves ahead of time. See that enormous light screen in front of the tower?
It displays, in real time, the floor positions of those inside the tower as points of light. Kains Radiance of the Radiant Clan reached the fifth floor in the last test. He is acknowledged as the strongest among our batch.
Pato Ironscale of the Maka Clan, that silver-armored kid from the Monroe Family, and I all got stuck in the latter half of the fourth floor."
Lauen's tone carried a trace of helplessness, as well as yearning for higher levels.
"Reaching the fifth floor is already considered the best?" Li Wen sized up the gigantic tower radiating intangible pressure, sensing the vast energy contained within it.
"Extremely difficult!" Lauen said firmly. "In previous training camps, anyone who reached the fifth floor was a top genius. Even over several hundred years, there might not be one person who could break through to the sixth floor.
"The seventh floor? That basically exists only in the legends of training camps located in the core territories of high-level empires. As for the eighth and ninth floors—never have I heard of any reserve member succeeding."
His words brimmed with reverence for the difficulty of the Heaven-Piercing Tower.
At this moment, Instructor Blood Edge also gave a concise introduction to the rules of the Heaven-Piercing Tower.
They would enter in batches of one hundred. All encounters inside the tower were virtual projections, but the sensations were no different from real combat.
Final results would be evaluated comprehensively based on the number of floors cleared and the