"Professor Gibson, Please I would like to know how one gets eliminated?" Blake asked but for some reason and it caused many to instinctively gulp.
With Blake having the greatest mana control in the school, Blake was seen as the most likely to pass the exercise even if others were to fail, meaning he was asking the question for another reason.
From Blake's history, he had been known to dislike teams because he saw them as liabilities, but that was for those that weren't his close friends. Also, the commotion he had caused the previous week had increased their fear of him, causing them to come to the conclusion that he wanted to eliminate the other 9 students.
The truth was that they were right. Depending on how his team reacted in the first minutes of the exercise, Blake had plans of eliminating them.
[You know that asking that question gives everyone the wrong impression and that would cause them to attack you.] The system couldn't help but face-palm.