[Location]: Academy of the Ward of District [REDACTED], Library
[In accordance to Academy protocol under Ward protocol MEOY-A6, all academy attendees are to be under observation until the examination.]
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[Attention all examinees, the Library will now remain open 24/7 to accommodate all your academic needs for the upcoming examination, please make the best of your time here as if your very life depends on it.]
[Examinees] …
[Well it does, it does so very much. Happy studying!]
[Examinee A-26] …Ok. Lets go over this part again.
[Examinee A-23] I object, there’s no need for repetition. considering the remaining content we have left to cover.
[Examinee A-50] …How much content is there left to cover?
[Examinee A-23] Theoretically, or exactly?
[Examinee A-50] What do you even mean by that man?
[Examinee A-23] Theoretically as in if we were to optimize our intake of the content to an understandable level. Exactly as in the exact number of pages and chapters to cover.
[Examinee A-50] Hit me with the theory.
[Examinee A-23] As of now it is 2:23 am, we have been in the Library for about 48 hours straight with minimal rest or sleep. During that time, we have covered approximately 50 chapters of content containing about 100,000 words per chapter. We still have about 100 chapters with about 200,000 words per chapter left of content to cover, as the subjects have an incline in complexity the further you read on. I propose speeding up our learning process immediately by skimming each chapter for their core parts within the next 72 hours with minimal sleep or rest to even have a chance on the examination.
[Examinee A-50] Are you shitting me? Another 48 and then some with how many chapters?
[Examinee A-23] As I said about-
[Examinee A-50] Yeah, I know, the question is can we last that long in the first place. It may have been a few at first, but more and more examinees are starting to lose their damn minds trying to understand this stupid- OW WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?
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[Examinee A-26] That was a favor, did you forget that insulting the book or academy property will instantly get you shattered? If you’re going to get shattered at least have it be for something worthwhile.
[Examinee A-50] Like trying and failing the examination? It looks like its heading that way for all of us mate.
[Examinee A-26] Maybe not. There is one thing we can try, though I’m sure you won’t be a fan of it.
[Examinee A-50] And that “it” is…?
[Examinee A-26] The Cognize pills, along with the Jolt pills both made by Med Corp that the academy has given us free access to. We’ll go with the plan of skimming the 100 chapters using the Jolt pills to keep us awake and alert for the next 72 hours and beyond for the examination. Once we finish skimming, we will take the Cognize pills to gain a full understanding of the core concepts we studied so we can move from there and hit as many practice problems as we can for the next several days. If needed we might have to take an additional pill or two to keep going.
[Examinee A-23] I agree with it, we will be able to make significant progress to raise our fairly low chances of covering the content to a barely acceptable level of passing.
[Examinee A-50] So its come down to this huh? Throwing away our natural capabilities that have brought us this far and leaving it all to pills to decide whether we get shattered and thrown out to the Backways or not? You don’t feel any hint of concern of the risks or what this implicates for our futures?
[Examinee A-26] This one always seems to always have silly concerns, right?
[Examinee A-23] Agreed, with naivety I might add. Perhaps that might come with him being the 50th ranked.
[Examinee A-50] Wha-
[Examinee A-26] Listen. With what’s at risk here we can’t afford to worry about things such as natural capability, in fact, for us its something to be loathed and discarded, or augmented if you will. Because for even us at the 20th ranked it is simply not enough to compare or compete with the monsters that are 1-19 who can take absolute pride in their innate abilities. They’ve already finished the book. We’re struggling to even reach half and understand it. This is beyond our “natural capabilities”.
[Examinee A-23] For the examination we must use every resource at our disposability to our advantage, the risks associated with using them is a minimal concern. As long as we are accepted by the Ward via the academy into the Corporation and remain shielded, any and all means are acceptable.
[Examinee A-26] Yes, although we have taken some risks into account. There's a reason why we’re taking Cognize pills after we’ve read the content. If you take the pill without having specific knowledge in mind beforehand…
[Examinee A-34] AH! I SEE IT! I CAN UNDERSTAND IT ALL! EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!!!
[Examinee A-26] …The pills will expand your understanding on every thought in your mind causing you to ascend to a higher plane of thinking before immediately crashing your mental frame.
[Examinee A-50] …Mm
[Examinee A-23] With that factor taken into account it is currently 2:38am. Let us resume our studies.
[Examinee A-50] Sure, sure whatever, hand me the pills or whatever the fuck. It doesn’t matter as long as we make it in the end. Right?
[Examinee A-23] [Examinee A-26] Yes.