As Hopecrest Mech Academy continued to embrace their War Squires, its mech cadets started to make a name for themselves.
Whenever they competed against each other in both formal and informal competitions in a virtual practice setting, the Hopecrest cadets quickly started to win more battles.
The improvement was not that obvious at first. Even though Mickey and the rest mainly relied on the MSTS to conduct their simulation training, they could not use it to connect to conventional virtual training environments.
The cadets were all forced to hop inside their old and shabby simulator pods in order to compete in the periodic virtual exchange sessions.
It was only after a couple of months had passed that the Unicum Group finally spent a portion of its limited budget on acquiring a batch of newer simulator pods.
The group was able to save a lot of money because it no longer had to invest in new training mechs.
