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When they were awoken the next cycle, the sergeants skipped the run and allowed the cadets to get cleaned up and have a relatively slower start. They all had endured their lessons incredibly well, and so were afforded this little luxury. Afterwards, they jogged over to the sparring gymnasium, where
"As for your accusations of cadets Freya and Zhulong, rest assured that their medical data confirms them having human DNA. Synthetic DNA is engineered to be flawless, while human DNA has… natural errors. Chaos is necessary for evolution. These two very clearly have errors in their genetics. There is
Sergeant Elyn helped Eva up from the mat, who was still a bit unsteady on her feet. A part of her felt a little guilty at having to knock her down a notch. But her worries subsided when she saw Eva's grin. "Thanks, sergeant," she said. "I learned quite a lot these past few seconds." Her throat wa
As she passed one of them, she gave him a shove and pushed him into his buddy. They stumbled out of the fight for a few precious seconds. But now she was in the clear and out of the encirclement. In front of her, two of the cadets pressed their attacks. One swept his leg low, while the other kicke
All the cadets around them were wide-eyed. Four of the jealous cadets were pretty much done, their groans echoed all around. Not only that, it had only taken Eva a single strike to neutralize each of them… What a monster. Sergeants Elyn and Akim, too. And Chengli. All monsters. The jealous cadet
At the other end of the base, two incredibly tired cadets sat in a very dark and spacious room a hundred meters below the surface. Next to them was a mecha that looked substantially different from the training mecha elsewhere in the base. Its lines were curved, and every extremity ended in dangerou
Their squadron's dropouts numbered only three. Two of them dropped out midway through the month, when they realized they just weren't cut out for Eva's brand of torture. They didn't have the stamina to keep going. So, the sergeants signed their papers and let them on their way. Another one dropped
Sergeants Elyn and Akim roused their cadets once more with fervor. This time, no-one grumbled or dragged their feet. Instead, their eyes were filled with steely determination. All of their hard work and training boiled down to this. Hell Week had finally arrived, and they were all ready to face it