451 Unexpected

One hour quickly passed in the Formations Guild as Rean talked with everyone else. Eventually, Turin, Saya, Zako, and the other elders came out to give their results.

"We are pleased to see the many inventions displayed during the last phase. Except for three of them, we had quite some conflicts between who would be the other seven. After all, we only have ten slots available."

"Anyway, we had a total of 37 elders overseeing the exam this year, so we used a voting system to decide the first ten places. We only did one pass of votes for each position. For example, all elders voted on who should be in the first place. Then, all of us voted again to decide who would be in second place. That's how we came up with our decisions."

"If you are not in the top 10, don't think that your work was not worth it. Except for a few cases, most of the formations shown in the last phase deserve to continue being developed."

"Very well, let's start.