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Chapter 83: Meeting in the finals
In the early morning, warm, gentle sunlight shone from the east.
The semifinals would begin that morning, and the final champion would be decided that afternoon.
Unlike its usual bustling atmosphere, the assessment area was exceptionally quiet that day. Although it was already the last day of the Freshman Assessment, no students were there to watch.
Shrek Academy's assessment system protected the privacy of each student's martial soul abilities as much as possible, especially those of freshmen whose abilities had yet to take shape. Thus, assessments held before the first year were never opened to other Outer Court students to watch in person.
Only after these freshmen advanced to higher years and became familiar with one another would the assessments gradually open to spectators.
Ultimately, this was to prevent students who lacked sufficient ability and were eliminated during the freshman or first-year stages from casually leaking information about Shrek Academy's students to outsiders, where people with ulterior motives might exploit it.
Of course, cases like Huo Yuhao secretly watching from far away were another matter. After all, no one paid attention to his martial soul's abilities. Who could have known that he could see what was happening in the assessment area from such a distance?
All freshmen who were not participating in the assessment continued attending lessons in their classrooms. Only the four semifinalist teams, twelve freshmen in total, were present in the assessment area that day.
But fewer students did not necessarily mean fewer people. Almost every Outer Court teacher without a class to teach had gathered in the stands to watch.
The four freshman teams stood side by side below the stands. The Outer Court's director of studies stood before them with the drawing box in his hands and said solemnly,