The evening and night after the crucible was as fast as it was short.
After arriving and eating real food, Jules spent his evening doing core cultivation and feeding the Egg.
He also had a short chat with Lucas to know what his mysterious roommate was doing during the Survival Crucible.
Using an excuse that he was fit for battle as an Engineering Major, Lucas claimed he stayed hidden most of the crucible, only hunting E and F ranks to survive.
The young man found a hidden zone in the Crucible and stayed there.
Jules wondered how much Lucas wanted to remain hidden.
At this rate, Lucas's rank would drop to a rank that proved insufficient to be free.
If he kept underperforming, his rank would fall below the threshold for independent privileges—unless, of course, that was his intent all along.
Having this in mind, Jules recalled that with Lucas's real core stage, the young man had a lot of control on what rank he wanted to be.
