At the foot of Snow Mountain.
Reserve Students wearing suppression bracelets had their Physical Fitness suppressed to roughly the same level.
This was done to ensure fairness in training and to also add to the difficulty of training for the more capable students.
The talent gap between different races is huge, and without the suppression bracelet limiting them, the gap between clans would significantly widen at the early stages.
The training camp places a higher emphasis on the Reserve Students’ willpower.
However, even with roughly the same Physical Fitness, there was still a significant disparity in performance amongst the different clans when it came to the high-intensity physical training of climbing Snow Mountain.
Among them, the Four Eyes Clan and the Night Hawk Clan’s new Reserve Students performed the best, being the fastest to reach the peak during the warm-up climb and the fastest to descend.
The worst performing was undoubtedly the Player Clan.
They panted like bulls while climbing, cursing continuously with an aura of invisible resentment around them.
But during this climb up Snow Mountain, the new members of the various clans who descended past the still hard-climbing Player Clan did so with a shoulder brush, a stark contrast to their initial attitude.
When Li Zheng and others first arrived at the training camp, they faced disdain and contempt here, with other clan students making no effort to hide their disdain for the weak strength of the Player Clan.
But after a week of devilish training, their attitudes towards the Player Clan had completely changed.
They also realized that this was a group they should not provoke.
The Four Eyes Clan was the best example. If Kuang Sha hadn’t ruled these two days that inter-clan brawls were not allowed during mealtime, the Four Eyes Clan students might have been carried back to their clan lands by now.
In terms of hunger resistance, the beasts of the Player Clan were considered the best in the eyes of the other clans in the training camp.
The price of provoking them was preparing to enter a period of intense hunger endurance training in the following days.
"My God, my legs are trembling from exhaustion, these beasts can really climb."
"More tiring than going to work, the only motivation keeping me going is the canteen. After the climb, I’m going to eat a ton."
"Stop talking nonsense and climb up quickly, I don’t want to be eliminated in the training camp."
After ending the morning training and going through the Restoration Room and the canteen for food therapy, the refreshed Li Zheng and others gathered at the training field.
The Chief Combat Instructor, Kuang Sha, announced a new training program at this time.
Mental Endurance Training.
Kuang Sha stated that when facing the Horror Black Tide in the future, it would be inevitable to suffer corruption damage from the Black Tide Power.
This is an extremely painful curse erosion, and if one cannot withstand it, they will be completely corrupted, turning into a zombie-like existence.
To continue living after being infected with the Black Tide’s corrupt energy, one needs not only medical intervention but also a strong willpower to support them.
This is because one of the damages caused by corruption directly affects the mental level.
After introducing the training program, Kuang Sha led them to the training camp’s Spiritual Shock Room and had various clans enter the room in turn for testing.
While waiting their turn at the end, Li Zheng and others listened to the agonizing screams from inside the room with complex feelings.
The game’s settings are that senses such as taste, smell, hearing, touch, and other perceptions are reflected 100%, while pain can be attenuated to a minimum of 10%.
This setting allows them to greatly exempt themselves from pain feedback in any injury.
A player once posted a detailed practical test on the forum regarding the 10% pain attenuation.
It stated that for light cuts or scrapes in the game, which are minor and easily bearable by a normal person, players with reduced pain perception would hardly feel any feedback.
For muscle strains or mild sprains, typically accompanied by minor tissue damage, the players could continue activities with only slight discomfort.
And for minor burns or scalds, limited to the superficial layer of skin, players can bear them relatively calmly, with the pain feedback feeling like it’s coated with an insulating layer, similar to a feeling of local anesthesia during a tooth extraction - painful, but still tolerable.
For severe punctures, fractures, internal organ damage, and fatal wound injuries, the players can clearly feel the pain feedback, which is at the limit of what they can endure.
And the current maximum pain a player can endure as explained by a forum player is during the gene seed strengthening process.
According to that unfortunate player’s description, even when the feedback was reduced by 90%, it was still a pain that made him feel like every cell in his body was burning.
He barely made it to the end of the strengthening, almost at the cost of his life.
What Li Zheng and the others were unclear about was the level of pain feedback experience they were about to endure in the Spiritual Shock.
Anxiously waiting, a member of the Brass Clan came out of the room looking weak.
Li Zheng and the others entered the Spiritual Shock Room with an uneasy feeling under Kuang Sha’s watchful eyes.
The room was small, with two different colored complex Array patterns engraved on the floor and the ceiling, and many purple Energy gems embedded in the ground and walls.
With the metal door closing, a symbol appeared on the wall in front.
After Guidance Analysis translation, the symbol represented the number: 1
The Array beneath their feet lit up, enveloping Li Zheng and the others in its light.
During this process, Li Zheng and the others did not feel any discomfort.
Seconds later, the number changed to 3, but they still did not feel any noticeable change.
As time went on, the number continued to rise.
When the number reached 38, Li Zheng and the others suddenly felt as if an invisible hand was gently stroking their consciousness, bringing tingling sensations.
The number reached 68.
The tingling turned into a slight piercing pain, but they were still within a tolerable range.