The rank challenge form was two pages. He filled it in at the registration hall before the morning queue built.
Name. Current rank. Evidence of performance exceeding current rank classification. Requested reassessment type.
For the evidence section he listed three things: the combat review record from his first week, which the board already had and which showed his body rank sitting between Steel and Predator at D-Rank official. The zone nine kill log from two days ago. And the Path Compatibility Analysis output from the Mantle Cat engagement, which he requested be accepted as supplementary technical evidence.
For the reassessment type he wrote: extended evaluation, Stone Path assessor preferred, output density rather than volume measurement.
He submitted the form.
The clerk read it, looked at the zone nine kill log reference, and reached for a different stamp than the standard receipt stamp. She pressed it twice.
