Chapter Three: Class Zero Takes the First Floor

Ten minutes before the Training Tower opened, Qi Jin sealed all four entrances to the first floor. Burnlines hid in the walls, floor, and stairs. His teammates possessed Blinkstep, Vector Deflection, Stone Skin, and Heat Sight. Family coaches had refined their formation for six years. Class Zero folded paper birds in a maintenance room. Tao Xiaobei hardened two hundred of them. Chen Mo listened to the tower's bones. Su Mi counted to a tenth of a second. “The northeast beam reaches fatigue at second seven. Birds draw Heat Sight. Lin takes the maintenance shaft. Bai Qi remains here.” “I'm a team member,” Bai Qi protested. “You're our safety line,” Lin said. “If the plan fails, only you can let someone run ten seconds on a broken bone.”