The hall remained silent now.
Not because everyone had suddenly become comfortable with Liam's rank, but because the footage gave them no room to dismiss what was being said. Some students who had felt satisfied moments earlier now found themselves watching with reluctant tension as the screen displayed the kind of first day most of them would not have survived.
Regulus continued, "You also accomplished something no other student managed during this assessment. You restored part of your Myst reserves within a heavily unstable zone. Even if the amount was small, the act itself required focus, control, and an understanding of Myst flow that many students here still lack. The environment was working against you, and yet you adapted."
