"Huff, huff, I can't go on."
"Hang in there. The quest rewards are waiting for us. Hold out, you brat. Don't drag us down."
Halfway up Snow Mountain.
Li Zheng and the others struggled to climb, their legs trembling. They had clearly reached their physical limits.
Behind them, combat instructor Kuang Sha watched coldly.
"If you can't hold out, you can quit."
Hearing Kuang Sha's cold, utterly emotionless advice, Li Zheng and the others gritted their teeth and immediately picked up the pace.
Once everyone had assembled that morning, they had begun preliminary physical training.
Before that, Kuang Sha had distributed suppression bracelets, which could detect the strength of their flesh and automatically adjust the restrictions once worn.
These were precisely what made their climb so difficult.
The very first stage of the assessment was already more than they could bear.
In modern society, humans had long since been freed from physical labor. Robots controlled by the Bio-Brain performed all the heavy work. When had they ever suffered like this?
But thinking of the generous rewards for completing the quest, they encouraged one another and kept going.
Looking up toward the summit, they saw that most of the Alien Races' reserve trainees were already nearing the top.
Behind them was only Instructor Kuang Sha, following in midair with his arms folded.
"With willpower as pathetic as yours, I truly don't understand what Broken Star saw in you. He actually used the Heavenly Talisman Race's slots to secure your admission to the Phase One Training Camp."
Li Zheng and the others said nothing, continuing to endure Kuang Sha's occasional mockery.
From his words, they could tell that the God of Wealth had paid some sort of price to get them into the training camp.
That was also one of the reasons