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As Orion moved farther away from the trio, even while protocol guided him, his mind continued replaying scenario.
As exciting as the trial sounded, it was terribly inefficient, students that deserved to study in the academy or had the talented could be rooted out by the more talented and those with inferior talent would find ways to sneak in.
It was a brutal game of strength and chance, and unless you were overly talented or powerful up to a certain extent, there's always a degree of risk.
Then again, it could be what the academy wanted, maybe the whole point wasn't to pick the best 5000, maybe they didn't want all the students to be impressive, adding the mediocre creates a certain dynamic.
'That has to be it,' Orion thought.
