When Leon and Alice reached the main hall, they found the whole area empty.
"Where did everyone go?"
Alice muttered while looking around.
'Fuck.' Leon cursed in his mind.
Glancing at Alice, he quickly said,
"Don't tell me we're late?"
In Eclipse, the one thing that is never forgiven is a lack of punctuality.
But Leon was sure he arrived in time.
"Oh, great."
Alice showed no sense of guilt.
Just as they were in the midst of panic, a voice called out to them.
"Why are you two just standing there?"
They both turned to the source.
One of the Invigilators walked to their side.
"Everyone else was waiting for you in the Resonator room."
The invigilator filled them in.
To proceed to the next step in the examination, the allotted groups had to go to the Resonator room along with their chosen book.
But because Alice and Leon took their sweet time, the others had already been taken to the next phase, leaving the two of them behind.
