Abyss
#13
Next day.
62 Students have successfully passed, but only 41 students remain and prepare to take the second level exam. Unlike before, the second stage exam took place inside the room.
Not long after, Xeon with a mask of binary number symbols entered the room, instantly some students immediately sat on the table – table that had been provided.
"Hey, how are you. Are you resting comfortably? " Xeon gave her a greeting.
“It's good,” Just a few answers.
Afterwards, Xeon began to explain about her test system, "The current exam is a normal test, answering only a few prepared questions.”
Hearing this, the tension of the students began to diminish. Nothing else and nothing because they are still thinking about the test of death as it was yesterday.
"The rules of the exam are very simple, each question has a score of 1 point. You who managed to collect 100 points, you will be considered a pass," continued Xeon to give an explanation.
"The problem will be sent to your Abyss System, then the answer procedure, you can synchronize on the table as you like in the Center Point Hall, you can write the answer on the table and immediately send it."
"Points can be seen in real time, but remember, when you are wrong in answering, then your points will be reduced by 2 points. Be wise in choosing."
"Limited 12 hours from now and happy Work." Xeon.
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In the test, there are 1000 questions with a high level of difficulty. At least one question has an answer of 1 to 2 pages. Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Astronomy, Biology, History, and Logic. Only 100 questions using Abyss Language, while the remaining 900 problems use 9 different languages from various countries in the world.
Those who understand the nine languages are certainly more helpful, while those who do not understand, of course, every problem will be a nightmare.
It seems that the students have begun to choose the problem to be solved.
About Math
1. A badminton club has 35 members consisting of 15 boys and 20 girls. The club will form 10 mixed doubles pairs. The many possible ways to form 10 mixed doubles pairs are...
2. A store sells four types of confectionery flavors: mango\, orange\, durian\, and coffee. For sample purposes will be selected at most 3 flavors of mango\, at most 3 flavors of orange\, at most 2 flavors of durian\, and at most 2 flavors of coffee. The number of ways to choose a sample size 5 is....
3. A test consists of 10 questions. Each problem is given a round value and at least 5. If the first problem should only be given a value of 10 or 15 and the total test value is 100\, the number of ways to give the test is....
Alchemy
1. Chloride ions in a sample are determined indirectly using the AAS technique. In the initial step the chloride is precipitated as silver chloride by adding an excess solution of silver nitrate. The filtered precipitate\, while the excess silver ion concentration is determined by the AAS method. Into 10 mL of chloride sample solution and 10 mL of standard chloride solution of 100 ppm each added 25 mL of silver nitrate solution in the extraction flask. After the process of equilibration\, the precipitate is separated from its filtrate. Each sample filtrate and standard is then aspirated for the measurement of silver ion uptake. Filtrate blanket is made the same as step for sample and standard\, without chloride solution (10 mL aquades only). The absorption data is as follows.
A Blanko = 0.02
A standard = 0.570
A sample = 0.511
a. Calculate the concentration of chloride in the sample
b. What happens when the sample contains calcium and phosphate ions, in addition to chloride ions to be assigned? How to handle it?
c. If a 12 ppm silver solution shows an 8% absorption signal, calculate its atomic absorption sensitivity.
Etc.
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2 Hours had passed since the examination began and the points that Nine had managed to get amounted to 9 points, still few if you have to collect 100, even 10% of it has not arrived.
Although no one was watching the test, no one dared to talk or cheat, all of them were focused on answering and collecting 100 points immediately.
Time goes on, matter by matter begins to be answered. Until the end, 4 hours of time had passed, but the number of points Nine could earn was only 20 points.
When they, the students were focused on doing the problem, suddenly one of them stood up, "I think I'm the first one, it's very tiring" he said as he left the room. When he heard her voice, she was a woman.
Some of the students who were watching started to whisper.
"Whether he was joking, this kind of thing only takes 4 hours."
"He's really great, the points I can collect are only 40 points."
"How can it be that for only 4 hours he is able to finish it?"
Their reaction seemed to be disbelief accompanied by a sense of astonishment, but not long after, another stood up, but he did not say anything, he just walked out.
"I give up, it's free if I continue" said one of the students.
Not satisfied with what was said, he then stood up, "Rather than you spending time, you better follow me out," he continued teasing, but no one was affected. By taking advantage of the time left, everyone refocused and began to answer questions for questions.
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Time continued to run, one by one they started out, either because they had gained 100 points or because they could no longer answer.
9 Hours of time had passed and Nine had only earned 37 points, still very little when compared to the time spent. On the other hand, it looks like a student managed to get 90 points, but he chose to go out, not because of deliberate but from the available questions, this is the limit.
Until at the end, there was only 1 hour left and only 3 people were still in the room, including Nine.
"Finally, it worked too, with time left I thought it would fail" said one of the women. Not long after, he came out.
The remaining time is only 5 minutes, seen a person get 99 points. If he was right, he would earn 100 points and successfully pass. But unfortunately, in the last – minutes, the answer was wrong and ended in failure.
On the other hand an unexpected thing happened, in the remaining 1 minute, Nine managed to gain 100 points and successfully passed this exam.
After the end of time, the second exam ended.
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Shortly after the end of the 2nd exam, Seen Xeon saw her Abyss System, of the 41 students who took the exam, only 11 people managed to pass, while the remaining 30 were declared failures.
Of the 11 students, Xeon's eyes were on one of the students, looking at the history of the questions answered, the student answered all the questions provided by the system, with the mechanism of calculation, with the mechanism of calculation, one of 300 questions to get minus 600 points, and correctly answer 700 questions to get 700 points.
"I did not expect, about – about what I have made as a joke, " Xeon creeps. “It turns out there are humans like you? Nine,” he continued.
Seen on Xeon's Abyss System, the 11 Names List that had passed on the second exam.
*\~ List Name \~*
1. Seya Aura Zesta - 100 Points - 242 Minutes
2. Ezair Edel Venosa - 100 Points - 250 Minutes
3. Yuen Jery - 100 Points - 420 Minutes
4. Queen Jerea - 100 Points - 500 Minutes
5. Azka Efexy - 100 Points - 510 Minutes
6. Qteel Nakey - 100 Points - 580 Minutes
7. Xuna Derry - 100 Points - 590 Minutes
8. Yuna Geyta - 100 Points - 670 Minutes
9. Qeela La Zenta - 100 Points - 680 Minutes
10. Eraa Hegyu - 100 Points - 718 Minutes
11. Nine - 100 Points - 719 Minutes
*\~.\~*
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After the test, Nine went back to the library, but tonight looked different. The figure of a woman wearing black cape was there, looking for a book in her catalog. Not long later, the woman was facing behind, as if – if she had felt the presence of Nine.
Truly, the woman looked extremely beautiful with blue hair and eyes as blue as the horizon. Like a princess, her face was flat with no expression, her hair was stretched long to the back like a waterfall, she wore a casual white dress that extended down to her knees. That woman, her name is Enma.
Enma did not speak at all, after picking up one of the books, the girl went straight to the empty table, on the other hand Nine just fell silent, none of them started the conversation.
From the beginning, Enma had only read one open, a novel entitled Princess in the Deepest Continent, while Nine who was not far from her occasionally glanced.
"Do you know what the story in this novel looks like," Enma opened the conversation, as if – were aware of what Nine did.
"... " But in return, Nine was silent.
"A long time ago there was a princess who suffered the destruction of her country because of betrayal, in that despair, a brave man suddenly came to her rescue." Enma started telling stories.
"After everything that happened, the man went to achieve a dream, but before his departure, he had made a promise with the princess."
"The promise says, in the deepest continent the princess will always wait for the man, waiting until the man keeps his promise."
"However do you know what happened? Days change, months change, years change, but the man never returns and the princess can only wait without certainty."
"Until this novel ends, they still haven't met."
After explaining everything, Enma then looked at Nine and asked, "If there was a sequel to this novel, would they be able to meet? "
"Depends on how Authar wrote it." Nine replied.
“Iya, you were right, “Enma bowed and then closed her novel.
Nine and Enma were like frozen ice, as long as they were in the library, they spent more time in silence. Eventually, Enma left the library.
After Enma got into the room, the room looks faint because of the minimal lighting. Enma faced the window, staring at the full moon while holding her blue ruby-eyed necklace.
In her solitude and in her grief, Enma said, "I believe that day will come, surely you will not break the promise."
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