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"Are you done yet?" Lucius asked as he saw Kael look up from the ten rocks.
Kael gave him a meaningful look before nodding. "Done," he said.
"Let's get started, then. We'll go through them one by one. Sound good?"
"Sure." Kael proceeded to call one of the experts to ask him to carefully cut open these fossils to see what was inside.
Since these were rocks containing intact fossils, only an expert could cut them open. And the one he called was a member of the Morwen Family, who specialized in precise cuts using his own magic.
He was a man of trust. Kael didn't want to cheat. He was going to win as fairly as possible.
Lucius said nothing about this. It was irrelevant.
The ten rocks were numbered by the person in charge of cutting them, and then one was placed in front of both competitors.
