The King of Beast Trainers
Chapter 600 - 384 Restart the Elemental Era!_1

Chapter 600: Chapter 384 Restart the Elemental Era!_1

The college student invention competition, despite appearing less high-end due to the term "college student," is in fact not so.

Beyond their teaching duties, universities also carry out research tasks, and many exceptional college mechanists can even attain Level 5 or 6, only 1 to 2 levels below the legendary mechanists who are the Republic’s top combat forces.

As such, these elite students are also core members of many university research projects. Due to their specialized areas of study, sometimes even the leading legendary mechanists need to consult them about certain issues.

To say their inventions are worthless couldn’t be further from the truth as many elite college mechanists can even create mechas and battle jets...

The annual College Student Invention Competition, which draws widespread attention, is also a contest among over a hundred universities in the Star-Moon Republic that offer mechanic series programs.

To help students achieve better results, many top figures in mechanics would even step in to provide guidance to particularly talented students, making what seems to be a competition among college students in fact a competition of the deeper resources of each university.

"The Mechanical Era is all about convenience."

At the CK Research Institute, as the competition drew nearer, Lu Ran and the team, having completed their invention, took a brief rest.

These past ten-plus days had been tiring for Liu Hua and 18th and the others, even with the Six Paths Flower slowing down the passage of time and occasionally shutting off the Hell Path.

Clearly, even a legendary entity like the Six Paths Flower couldn’t withstand the drain of toying with time.

Fortunately, in the end, they succeeded.

Additionally, what made Lu Ran feel more comfortable in the Mechanical Era was that the venue for the "College Student Invention Competition" was not in "reality."

It was within the "Mechanical Mystical Land."

And, more importantly, the main "judges" were not "human mechanists," but "super artificial intelligences."

Once the competition started, all contestants could enter the Mechanical Mystical Land through their university’s teleportation entrance. Each person, upon entering, would be allocated to an individual area.

Only the contestant would be in this area.

This area was also monitored by a super artificial intelligence and simultaneously live-streamed.

Contestants were required to present their inventions in a monologue in this area.

Then, during the presentation, the super artificial intelligence would rank the contestants’ inventions in real time according to certain criteria, with everyone’s ranking changing every second.

Until everyone had finished presenting, the final ranking would be permanently locked in.

This was the "Initial Ranking."

Next are the "Viewer Voting" and "Expert Panel" phases. The top 100 inventions selected by the artificial intelligence would be open to votes by viewers watching the live stream. In addition, a panel of 10 legendary mechanists would take into consideration "viewer voting" results and combine their own expertise to make minor adjustments to the rankings.

The ranking that followed would be the final ranking.

This meant that during the competition, there was no need to wait for each contestant to present their invention one by one. Tens of thousands of contestants would present simultaneously, and the super artificial intelligence would summarize the rankings in real time for everyone to discuss.

This saved a considerable amount of time.

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As the time for the invention competition drew closer.

Capital Mechanical University was among the top five in the mechanic series within the Star-Moon Republic.

Before the start of the competition, Principal Deng of Capital Mechanical University, along with several leaders, held a pre-competition discussion about the event.

"Whether our Capital Mechanical University can achieve excellent results in this ’College Student Invention Competition’ mainly depends on these three individuals."

"Yu Su has been improving the ’Space Jump Device’ for two years. This year, there’s been significant progress in the results. After improvements, even unarmed ordinary people can achieve a certain range of teleportation using the Space Jump Device and withstand the load caused by mechanical space movement."

"If we can reduce the cost in the future, it could be used in the ’Disaster Protection Domain,’ for the evacuation of ordinary people during disaster events."

The audience nodded, acknowledging that while the strategic significance was not very high, and the value to ordinary people might not even cover the cost of such a device, this was, after all, only a college student invention competition. An invention that could help the safety of the general public and allow them to feel "cared for" was bound to draw many votes affecting the final rankings.

"Li Xingyao, a prized student of Ke Chuanqi, has participated in the invention competition for three consecutive years and obtained top ten rankings each time. This year, his ’Hidden Dragon Armor’ is expected to secure a spot in the top ten!"

"The Hidden Dragon Armor is a special piece of equipment developed from the abilities of the extinct Dragon Clan’s Hidden Dragon, with its primary function being the concealment of one’s presence. It seems to be a common ability, but the Hidden Dragon Armor has achieved a breakthrough in cost and function, reducing the cost to a range affordable to core mechanists. During testing, the Hidden Dragon Armor reportedly allowed a Level 5 Beast Trainer to evade detection by a Level 70 Overlord and steal resources from its lair without being noticed!"