After the first [Mana Core Badge] was discovered, the rhythm of the entire Third Enclosed Ecological Zone changed completely in almost a single minute.
New students who had originally been hunting magical beasts in the outer areas, searching for resources, and slowly accumulating screening evaluation points according to their own plans all took out their maps.
Even those temporary teams that had clearly stated at the beginning that they would not participate in the badge contest could not help but start recalculating distances, because something like core cultivation qualification was not something ordinary points could compare to.
As long as there was a chance to seize one, even if they had done nothing for the previous few hours, the greatest gain of this screening would already be in hand.
Of course It was only "seizing."
That was still far from enough.
The badge had to be held until the screening ended.
