The next morning, the individual competition continued.
The first qualification had already removed a large portion of the original field, although eliminated participants had not been pushed out of the event itself.
Many of them were already inside the training districts, working on the exact weaknesses the qualification had exposed.
For those who had qualified, however, two individual stages remained.
The first qualification had tested whether they could function when the obvious solution stopped working.
The second would test whether they could keep functioning when the situation itself refused to remain stable.
The third would determine the final individual rankings.
After that, the competition would move on.
Lucien had no intention of spending months determining who could stand on the most impressive podium.
There were far more important lessons waiting.
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The public rankings had expanded overnight.
Anyone with a communication device could access them.
