About two hours later, Nico Ross successfully completed the homework that Teacher had left for him.
It seemed like the efficiency hadn't changed much, but only he knew the difference. If it weren't for the Force-Feeding Artifact, it would have taken Nico three days to learn the same amount of knowledge - nearly twenty times longer than his three-year-old classmates, who only need two hours.
If it were the old version of the artifact, he would need about four hours, double the time taken by his little classmates.
Before Nico had the artifact, and the others didn't have the new brain-link technology, his learning efficiency was only about 10% of an average person, taking ten times as long to learn the same thing.
The new artifact with built-in "Teacher Vivian" leveled the playing field between him and his classmates with the new brain-link technology.