Alex took his time walking to the center, going at the same pace as his family. Even then, he ended up being faster than many of the people who had joined this challenge. By the time they had crossed the sixty-meter mark, more than half the people had begun taking things slow as well.
Alex had yet to feel anything more than some harmless touch on his mind, but many were beginning to feel what they could only describe as a headache.
An hour passed, by which point the ones far in the front had already crossed well past the hundred-meter mark, now slowing down as they struggled to go through the rest of the way.
At the same time, the Divine Soul appeared once again and spoke to the masses.
"The first hour has passed, so everyone still within the first ten-meter mark will now be disqualified."
Alex looked back and found no one there. Everyone was much far ahead by now, so no one was disqualified at all.
