Once Alex saw that his opponent had failed, he was ready to go back to finishing up the next recipe. However, he was distracted by the fact that next to Faithseeker's name, there was a 100%.
'I thought I was the only one,' Alex thought, but Faithseeker was not the last of it either. Aethersage's name showed up with another 100% as well.
'What the…?'
Alex could believe that there were more than him in the competition who could make Pill Clouds right from the start, but to do it without anyone else realizing that they had done it was what surprised him.
'Do they know about the Ritual Oaths too?' Alex wondered. His master didn't know about it, so he was certain it wasn't a prevalent idea. But if it was, then…
'No, maybe Faithseeker would know it, but not Aethersage,' Alex thought. He realized that the likelier truth was that the barriers were made in a way that the participants were not disturbed by any new phenomenon outside.
