The Established Class test began quickly.
The first phase threw materials at Grey that required more than memorizing whether something conducted energy or held a load well, forcing him to account for interactions between materials, processing methods and situations where one property became a weakness instead.
Grey swept through them almost as quickly anyway, his hands moving across the holograms in continuous motions while answers locked into place faster than Hollen could finish checking the previous one.
The blueprint phase finally pushed the Face count into the thousands, but that barely registered after the things Grey had been building recently. He rotated the mech once, stripped away three unnecessary layers with a gesture, then identified its primary function, the secondary systems feeding it and the type of Spirit that would make the entire thing work without wasting half its design.
The flaw phase lasted less than a minute.
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