The next time the gang goes back to the assessment room, they find that it's packed with people watching a mecha competition. It's not just the mechas, though: there's also the "hacker and virtual specter," who's "unsurprisingly good with operating them" . The group decides to follow the "friend" into the room to watch his progress. The assessment site is "at some ruins" , and the "triple attack" didn't move very fast, but the "Florian specter" did manage to avoid all of the obstacles. This is the first time he's been able to pass the "fundamental operations" assessment, which is a series of tasks that assess a person's agility. The boss asks why the assessment is different from the "Leopard Mecha's" terrain. The terrains are randomly selected, which means that each assessment has its own difficulty. If the terrain is different, the difficulty won't vary as much.