Professional-level battle tables were everywhere, with many students watching the battles, exhibiting superior strategic skills.
Besides this,
According to Howard Yates, students with researcher talent could apply for different project resources if they were not good at fighting.
Failure was not a big deal, no compensation was required, but it would be tougher to apply next time, most people only got one chance.
However, if they managed to yield certain results, they would receive more school credits and resource investment. The school would even help them apply for patents, which would be promoted throughout the United Alliance by the Imperial Capital!
In addition, there were numerous excellent Eco-Mysteries in various domains. These were not faux-environmental systems constructed with mechanical equipment like Gary Smith used, but actual parts of secret realms forcibly torn away, shrunk, and placed inside the school.
These could be used in exchange for school credits.