The sheer, monolithic scale of Noah Ark's Zone 1 Military Training Ground-D23 was enough to stifle the breath of anyone stepping onto its reinforced composite floor. Within the vast military sector of the sanctuary, there were at least thirty identical training facilities, each engineered with cold, spatial precision to comfortably accommodate ten thousand soldiers simultaneously without a single bottleneck in deployment logistics.
On this particular morning, Ground-D23 was packed to a suffocating density with a sea of humanity that hummed with a tense, vibrant energy. These five thousand individuals were the razor-thin percentage of survivors who had successfully navigated the grueling, unforgiving gauntlet of the Ark Combat Group's entry assessment.
