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Chapter 137: Officer Candidate Selection part4

The officer candidates’ classroom was set aside in one wing of the royal palace. From the moment they volunteered, officer candidates were treated as soldiers.

There was another reason for choosing the palace—a reason the candidates themselves hadn’t been told. To human eyes, Iris’s body was indistinguishable from flesh and blood; in reality, it was only a remote terminal controlled by her AI core in orbit. Her working range had to be limited to spots with good communications. And so, through that chain of circumstances, exactly twenty students had been gathered in a corner of the palace.

Ruth stepped into the classroom. That single step was enough for her to register instantly that there were twenty people present.

That was because Ruth’s perception had been augmented by nanom.

As a prerequisite for their training, all the officer candidates had already been injected with nanom. Essential information had been burned into their memories. At