"You were being watched, you know," Maya added, glancing over her shoulder. "Not just by instructors… but by the Technol Eyes."
"Technol Eyes?" Morca asked, brows slightly raised.
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Maya gave a faint nod. "Yes. A monitoring network controlled by the Monument Tower. It's connected to every trial candidate's wrist device. It identifies anomalies... Outliers. People who shouldn't exist on paper… yet shake the foundation of standard metrics."
That's when it dawned on Morca – he now understood how the academy could 'rescue' those lucky enough not to die before the trial's time frame ended. It also made sense how they kept track of candidates scattered across the dungeon. Then, something ticked in his mind – What did she mean by 'outlier'? But before he could ask, Maya continued.
