Chapter 695: Chapter 623: The Semifinals are Underway
The semifinals of the Immortal Gate selection were in full swing, and the atmosphere on the scene was still buzzing. Whenever an excellent score appeared, it always attracted the attention of the cara, and if an extraordinary score erged, exclamations waved like a tide.
Anhu TV station reporters weaved through the venue, sprinting forward at a speed comparable to that of a 100-ter sprinter whenever they spotted a contestant with an excellent rating. The cara operator, carrying the bulky cara, also moved swiftly.
“Hello sir, I am a reporter from Anhu TV station. May I ask you…”
“Sorry, no ti, please excuse .”
A triple rejection left the tall female reporter with her microphone hand frozen mid-air, and she chuckled dryly, “It seems this contestant prefers to keep a low profile. Let’s try interviewing soone else.”
“Hello…”
“Can’t.”
Tall female reporter: “…”
Flip the table! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
However, as her gaze swept around, she saw that every contestant seed to be in a hurry.
There was limited ti in the semifinals, and it was impossible to participate in all eighteen tests entirely. It was also a sign of intelligence in assessing which tests could yield more points for a contestant under such circumstances, and every contestant wished they could take part in even one or two more tests, decisively abandoning even the chance to show off.
Occasionally, a few contestants who were willing to answer questions would do so only when they reached the next queue and were waiting for the assessnt.
Tens of minutes had passed, and the tall female reporter was panting, her bun trembling up and down from shallow breaths while sweat had completely soaked her collar.
Other reporting teams from Anhu TV station were exhausted; this year’s contestants really couldn’t be served.
Thus, the station changed its strategy. Instead of chasing after those who perford excellently, they decided to wait at a good spot and focus on capturing the performance of so potential contestants.
“Dear viewers, I am currently in the willpower test area.
Willpower is inherently an existence that’s very difficult to define, yet the Immortal Gate has its way of asurent, possessing a unified standard.”
The tall female reporter stepped aside, and the cara lens zood in, focusing on one of the demon statues.
“The demon statue you see is a facility for willpower testing. The Demon’s Gaze has an extraordinary oppressive force that can instill a sense of fear in people’s hearts, and the contestant’s task is to withstand that gaze for a certain period of ti.
Enduring for ten seconds is considered passing, eighteen seconds earns an excellent rating, and withstanding thirty seconds can make it extraordinary.
Everyone knows that the score weighting for the willpower test is 3.5, aning that achieving an extraordinary rating can earn a high score of 10.5, which is comparable to the score for passing ten ordinary tasks! Of course, so far, no contestant in the willpower test has achieved an extraordinary rating. The longest any contestant has held on is twenty-five seconds, and it’s said that not even veterans who have been through battlefield skirmishes can last ten seconds.”
The female reporter was comnting when multiple contestants took their turn, yet most lasted only five or seven seconds before retreating.
It wasn’t that these contestants were weak; almost none of those who passed the preliminary selection were diocre, but this willpower test was much harder than the previous ‘black house test’—’Demon’s Gaze’ is now a regular training item for the Awakeners under Green Shadow.
Willpower test was one of the most watched events in the semifinal assessnts, yet no contestants sustained for over ten seconds in the following few minutes, leaving the overall assessnt process lackluster, causing the female reporter’s expression to falter.
She had no choice but to change the topic:
“Everyone, look at the eyes of the demon statue. They are very expressive, especially as the duration of the contestant’s endurance increases, the demon’s eyes beco increasingly brighter… Oh, look at the stone pedestal beneath the statue; it seems to have so small script engraved on it…”
The cara lens slowly zood in, and the female reporter stared intently, whispering:
“When you stare into the Abyss, the Abyss says: ‘What are you looking at?'”
Female reporter: “ow ow ow?”
She could not find a way to continue.
Just then, her gaze caught a contestant with golden hair and violet pupils, possessing a distinctive foreign appearance compared to the people of Anxia Country.
“He is a mber of the Violet Royal Family, a family naturally born with violet pupils.”
The female reporter rembered that this Violet had achieved decent scores in several previous tests and imdiately instructed the cara operator to aim the lens at him.
Other things aside, under the genetic optimization of the Violet Royal Family over hundreds of years, that beautiful face alone was worth focusing the cara on.
Violet paid no attention to her surroundings as she stepped forward, positioning herself two ters in front of the demon statue.
Wiping the sweat from her forehead, her purple pupils locked gaze with those of the demon.
For a mont,
an invisible pressure enveloped her, and all other things seed to fade away, leaving only the demon’s eyes that continued to enlarge in her sight.
Beads of sweat erged on her forehead, and a growing fear in her heart made her almost want to look away.
However,
Violet Nina remained steadfast.
Her complexion grew paler, yet no trace of fear appeared.
Five seconds, ten seconds, fifteen seconds…
“My god, twenty-five seconds, a new record!”
The exclamations from the female reporter and the surrounding contestants simply couldn’t reach Violet Nina’s ears; she was as if in a completely sealed space, unperceiving of the flow of ti.
Finally,
Sigh~
On the demon statue, those eyes which had shown a distinct red light dimd and returned to normal.
Violet staggered a bit as she broke out of her concentrated state.
And the ti,
stopped at forty-two seconds!
Elsewhere, in the Perception test area.
Within a circular area with a twenty-five-ter radius, nurous tiny fountain holes intermittently ejected columns of water.
Ten contestants in the test area dodged the water spouts clumsily.
Being hit by the water spouts three tis ant regrettable elimination.
The water spouts erupted without any pattern; one could only notice them by a slight sound just before they sprayed. However, the gymnasium was extrely noisy, and with ten contestants crowded in a small area, they further interfered with each other.
It wasn’t long before they were all eliminated.
Batch after batch ca forward for the test, and batch after batch left in disappointnt. Only occasionally did a few receive a passing evaluation, proving the difficulty to be even higher than the willpower test.
A blind girl stepped into the test area. Her plain appearance didn’t stand out among the contestants at first, going unnoticed as if she were invisible. However, as contestants were progressively eliminated, the girl gradually caught everyone’s attention. She was not fast, yet she seed to possess foresight, moving away from the fountain holes just before the water erupted.
By the ti the ninth contestant was eliminated, she had not yet been wet by the water spouts.
Only as the ti progressed, and more water spouts erupted simultaneously, did the blind girl finally find it unavoidable and got defeated.
Another extraordinary one!
At the sa ti,
in the Practical Combat test area, a young man wielding a long spear ascended the steps.
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