The attention across the square soon returned to the tower.
Now there were only two known young geniuses still inside.
Helen and Zich.
However, this time, the crowd did not get to see another clearance update.
When the teleportation light appeared, Helen Magnus walked out with her head lowered. She did not look at the staff members coming forward to meet her and instead raised her head, searching for her name on the stone monument.
The line belonging to her had already gone dark.
Helen stood there, her fingers slowly tightening.
Before entering the Trial Tower, she had certainly considered the possibility that she might fail, but she had spent far more time imagining what she would say to her father if she managed to surpass the record he had set back then.
She had rehearsed those words in her mind more than once.
Now, she would not get to use a single one of them.
"Helen."
A familiar voice came from ahead.
