Saving Energy

Everyone chuckled at her attempts, but Lyra was already pushing her limits.

To ace the entire course, she might just pass if she used her superpower to boost her body. But superpower particle detectors were scattered throughout the course, so cheating wasn't an option.

She had to push her speed while saving energy for the rest of the exam. She took twenty-six minutes to finish, getting overtaken repeatedly.

A perfect score for this event was twenty points for ten minutes. She ended up with four.

The intelligent robots processed the data quickly, and within two minutes of her finishing, the rankings were out. She dropped from second place to somewhere in the middle.

She made a name for herself, but not in a good way.

Out of thirty thousand candidates, only two hundred would be chosen this year.