Take the Dragon Kingdom, for example.
The Double Ten Plan.
Everyone could attend middle school and high school for free.
Everyone could reach level ten, then undergo the class advancement ceremony and take the class advancement college entrance exam along the way.
Combat academies across the country, whether first-tier or second-tier, could all be allocated resources.
Evil organizations, however, did not operate that way.
They were like people raising venomous insects in a jar.
They gathered orphans living in unclaimed lands, or those who had endured chaos and all manner of complicated circumstances.
Then they threw them into a camp and made them slaughter one another.
Those who survived earned the chance to advance to level ten.
That was the first round of selection.
The second round of selection...
After their class advancements, once they had acquired some basic skills, they were made to slaughter one another again.
Those who emerged victorious this time were seedlings with combat talent.
But combat talent alone was not enough.
Their innate talent also had to be powerful. Anyone with an innate talent below B-rank was thrown into a cruel Secret Realm and left to fend for themselves.
Several months later, they would check again. If they had survived, it meant that although their innate talent was lacking, they would still become somebody once they grew stronger in the future. That was considered barely passing.
Only those monstrous geniuses with good talent and ruthless hearts would be gathered by evil organizations for specialized training, with vast resources poured into them.
To put it bluntly...
For evil organizations to cultivate talent, one had to endure round after round of brutal selection. Their resources would not go to waste.
When countries cultivated talent, there were naturally genius class-advancers, but also ordinary class-advancers.
Those ordinary class-advancers attended