Chapter Four: Scissors for Ten Minutes

You aren't carrying an armory. You're arranging music in real time.” “The Bureau experimented on mimics for decades,” Bai Qi said. “No one could cut a crucial moment. Publish this, and the families will steal it before erasing its inventors.” Lin pointed to the resource-war rules. “Then make the theft a public contest.” Students could trade ability-training data for points. Dynasties kept theirs secret; poor students often sold a lifetime of data for medicine. Lin posted an offer: Class Zero would borrow one training session, not own the ability. Anyone bringing a gift rated combat-useless would receive an optimized public score and half the resulting points. The post drew three hundred insults in ten minutes.