No one spoke.
The final scoreboard hovered above the arena.
Five categories appeared beside each of the four remaining competitors.
Then—
the numbers began to reveal themselves.
Song Jia looked up.
For the first time since the competition began, even Sun Xun stopped smiling.
The chief official raised his voice.
"The final score is calculated from five trials."
"Each trial carries a maximum of one hundred points."
"Five hundred points total."
He looked toward the four finalists.
"Participants eliminated in earlier rounds retain their individual trial results in the official records, but only competitors who reached the final stage remain eligible for overall victory."
That clarified one concern immediately.
Ding Jin's excellent Character score, for example, remained recognized.
But because he had been eliminated during the Formation and Array trial, he could no longer win the entire competition.
The same applied to the others.
The final four were:
Song Jia.
Sun Xun.
