Looking up, he realized the silhouette perfectly matched the man they had met just moments ago.
He offered a bitter smile and gave them the answer.
"He's the candidate who came to answer the test today. He brought a completely new tower-style structure and shattered the Record in one fell swoop.
"And the Upper Limit of his building is far beyond that. It can reach at least—*at least*—a thousand times the baseline!"
A thousand times. That was a terrifying achievement worthy of a Level equivalent to an Academy director. It was an unprecedented, monumental breakthrough.
Since the establishment of the Academy of Sciences, excluding the founding Nine Heroes, no latecomer had ever achieved such results in any field or joined the Academy directly as a director.
But at this moment, Hou Congwen couldn't care less. Gritting his teeth, he mentally exaggerated the number, bumping his estimate up by another three hundred times.
