Chapter 118:
Right then, he gave his response to the examiner's question, and that response left even more of them stunned than his victory had moments before.
"What would be the point of keeping the method to myself?" Lucuis's voice carried across the hall with calm certainty, as if he were explaining something so obvious that he could not understand why anyone would need to ask.
"If I did that, if I simply solved my puzzle and walked away without showing anyone else how it was done, then wouldn't that just make all of this incredibly boring? What is the point of an examination if there are no others around to compete with?"
" What value is there in winning if you have eliminated everyone else from the contest before they even had a chance to truly participate?"
His words landed among the assembled examinees like stones dropped into still water, sending ripples of reaction spreading outward in every direction.
