When Venn stepped forward and stood beside the other three initiates, he saw that there was a grail in front of them as well.
Similar to Venn's, their grails were empty too.
From the looks of things, it seems that the initiation ritual was just getting started.
The strange phenomenon led Venn to the conclusion that the timing of his arrival was too perfect, especially when he had arrived late to the annual meeting according to the old granny. Hence, he had a guess that the current situation was probably the work of the AI system in the game.
As long as a player enters the orphanage within the stipulated seven days period and answers these NPCs' questions perfectly, he or she will be met with the same exact scene regardless.
That was the only explanation he could come up with.
While Venn was thinking about the details of the quest, the hands of the woman who was wearing the red fox mask never stopped moving.