The combat assessment facility was brutally functional despite Sparkshire's usual architectural opulence.
Massive training hall with reinforced floors designed to withstand higher -level impacts. Equipment stations arranged in systematic progression—strength, speed, awareness, endurance. Observation platforms where Academy instructors catalogued performance with enhanced perception and recording devices.
This is where theory meets reality, Bright thought, surveying the assessment layout.
The candidates were divided into groups of twenty, cycled through stations in rotating order, their performances measured with precision that left zero room for ambiguity or self-deception.
STRENGTH ASSESSMENT - STATION ONE
A metal sphere sat on reinforced platform, its surface etched with measurement matrices that glowed when activated by soul force. It was a simple test—lift the sphere, hold it steady, let the equipment calculate maximum weight capacity.
