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It wasn't that Atticus was trying to keep information from the other youths; quite the contrary, he simply felt it would be useless for them to know. What would them finding out do? Nothing.

So he hadn't deemed it unnecessary for them to know about the objective.

And each of the Ravenstein youths knew better than to tell the other youths what he didn't ask them to.

Atticus ignored the confused looks on all the youths' faces and focused his gaze at the terminal, waiting for it to continue.

After a few seconds, it did.

[The next step will be explained to you students in due time. You are advised to spend your division points now before moving to the next step; you won't be able to utilize them through out the next step's duration,] the AI voice advised, and suddenly another display materialized beside it, showing another timer already counting down from two minute.

It was clear they were given 2 minutes to decide what they wanted to do.