
“Go!!” there was the sound of a girl screaming from the left side of Gaju's dormitory room.
Shortly after, Gaju heard a loud bang on his door. Lazily, Gaju stood up from his bed and walked towards the front door. He opened the door and saw three boys standing in front of his room.
“Hi Three Seven, we're Koga's men. He wants to stay in this room. So you have to go somewhere else. You got it?” said one of them who Gaju knew numbered Two One.
“You're Two One right? There are no rules on the island that allow us to exchange rooms with each other. I'll move if the Manager tells me, but if other than that, I don't want to,” replied Gaju while closing the door.
Gaju walked back to the bed and laid himself there. He had a quick glance towards the three children earlier. Two One, Two Three and Three Three Three. The three Candidates had already affiliated themselves with Koga, the candidate with the strongest punching power.
Once the cumulative ranking results come out how many more will join the group. Gaju then closed his eyes and tried not to ignore the sound of a bang that was still heard from the front door of his room.
He did not know and did not want to know what the reason for the three Koga sneaks asked him to exchange rooms. Although he suspected that Si Koga was intending to approach the Three Eight. When Gaju imagines Koga and the Three Eight in combination, one acts as an attacker and one acts as a thinker, Gaju complains inwardly.
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As the sun was about to set on the 61st day, a notification message entered the communication device on Gaju's wrist. Gaju guessed that it was the ranking announcement that they had first received since on the Island.
From the beginning Gaju did not know that he would not enter the top three in either the category of Intelligence or Physical, but he was also curious about the rank holder.
Gaju waved his hand over his communication device then a hologram appeared above it. And a red text is seen burning on the six photos of children displayed there.
“Congratulations to the highest ranking winner for this first test.”
“Category Intelligence Attribute, each will receive one genetic serum Brain Enhancement.”
“First Rank, Three Eight. Intelligence Cumulative Score \= 2.85. Knowledge \= 0.95 points. Memory \= 0.90 points. Analytic \= 1.00 point.”
“Second Rank, One Eight. Intelligence Cumulative Score \= 2.75. Knowledge \= 0.90 points. Memory \= 0.95 points. Analytic \= 0.90 point.”
“Third Rank, Three Five. Intelligence Cumulative Score \= 2.75. Knowledge \= 0.90 points. Memory \= 0.90 points. Analytic \= 0.95 point.”
Gaju took a deep breath as he looked at the three names. Three names that she believes will take center stage and attract other children into their group. But when Gaju saw the cumulative grades of One Eight and Three Five, he realized that they were the same, but maybe the Program views the sub attribute ‘memory’ as more important than ‘analytic’ so put One Eight on top of Three Five.
Gaju then turned his attention towards the ranking of the Physical Attribute and activated his list. Just like before a congratulatory note in red is seen above some photos of the children who scored the highest for Physical.
“First Rank, Empty Three. Physical Cumulative Score \= 2.75. Strength \= 1.15 points. Speed \= 0.80 points. Agility \= 0.80 point.”
“Second Rank, Empty Five. Physical Cumulative Score \= 2.55. Strength \= 0.90 points. Speed \= 0.85 points. Agility \= 0.80 point.”
“Third Rank, One Seven. Physical Cumulative Score \= 2.50. Strength \= 0.90 points. Speed \= 0.80 points. Agility \= 0.80 point.”
As expected, the first rank was held by Koga. Now the nickname of the strongest Candidate was held by him. But Gaju glimpsed at the attributes owned by the second rank, Empty Five and he realized that Empty Five turned out to have Speed above Koga.
Gaju smiled, if they both duel, victory could not be ascertained, although cumulatively the value of Koga is far above Empty Five, but both have advantages in two different fields.
Gaju then uses his finger and chooses to see the test results for himself. The manager tries to provide as fair an opportunity as possible to each candidate. Therefore, each candidate's attributes are not accessible to the other candidates.
Except perhaps the cumulative score held by the highest ranking. And Gaju also realized that even though their attribute value was announced for the highest scoring attribute, but for the partner attribute was not announced at all.
For example for Koga, his Physical Attribute was clearly announced, but his Intelligence was completely inaccessible. Gaju also realized, the purpose of announcing the highest scoring attribute is so that each candidate can compare their own scores with the highest scorer.
Soon, a line of numbers and values emerged from Gaju's communication tool.
“Name \= Three Seven.”
“Intelligence Cumulative Score \= 2.55. Knowledge \= 0.90 points. Memory \= 0.80 points. Analytic \= 0.80 point.”
“Physical Cumulative Score \= 2.3. Strength \= 0.70 points. Speed \= 0.80 points. Agility \= 0.80 point.”
Gaju did not care about the value of his Intelligence, but he instead focused on his Physical value. When he saw the 0.70 point mark in Strength, Gaju smiled bitterly. He has to do something to improve his physique. There's no other choice. If he wants to survive on the island.
Only the three highest ranked children would obtain the Muscle Enhancement genetic serum to accelerate the evolution of his physical strength. And as the Professor put it, each injection of serum will add genetic ability by 0.1 point.
The addition of that ability does not apply cumulatively, but applies to each subattribute. For example, Koga, who now has a Physical Attribute of 2.75 points, after he gets a Muscle Enhancement serum shot, his ability will increase to 3.05 points. Because each subattribute will increase by 0.1 point. Strength increased by 0.1 point, speed increased by 0.1 point and Agility also increased by 0.1 point.
Imagine if they were the highest scorers were invincible and get genetic serum every two months. Then there will be no more healthy competition on the Island. Easily the six monsters that were now obtaining the highest ranking would dominate the other candidates.
And Gaju believes, whoever created this island does not want it to happen.