The Essence Mastery round began.
By the time they reached Soul Mastery, there had already been some struggles even amongst these geniuses. Setting aside Sylas, who breezed through it as though there was no effort needed at all, it took the others hours to finish their rounds. The only reason their ending times were so low was because of the divisions that took place afterward.
Honestly speaking, Sylas wasn't even sure of the reason for the divisions in the first place. It made his record look far closer to the others than it should in the first place.
But Sylas didn't believe that things like this were put in place without reason, so he chose to just store this information at the back of his mind as the next round started.
The highest-level Secret Realm Sylas had entered was actually the Soul Secret Realm. It could be said that this was the very first time he was seeing the Essence Secret Realm test in the first place.