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A new batch of trainees has graduated from the academy and entered various global bases to begin one to three years of intensive training. During this period, they will grow into junior agents and start undertaking various missions.

This process has become institutionalized. Everyone enters this system filled with aspirations; they think it's cool. And yes, it is indeed cool—but it's also very tough. The academy filters out the first batch of people, and then the base training eliminates another portion.

In the end, the remaining individuals amount to roughly seven out of every thousand—meaning that, out of one hundred thousand applicants, only seven hundred manage to become agents. Yet, as many people say, fortune comes with risk; the treatment agents receive after qualifying is unimaginably lucrative. Despite the dangers, jobseekers continue to flock without pause.