The moment they saw his result, the three men in charge of reading it out couldn’t immediately find the right words to say, even the head envoy who had led their group couldn’t help letting his usual smile fade when he noticed how hesitant they were to announce the grade, he started to feel that maybe Alec had one of those unusual grades that surpassed Takeda.It wasn’t until they finally found their voices and read it out that he understood why they had stalled.Alec Gordons—the winner of the competition, the one he had placed in third, had somehow been graded as a mage with F-rank potential, though he didn’t particularly like Alec, however; he had never imagined the boy would end up with anything lower than Dragov.“Does he have some kind of hidden injury that has worsened over time and damaged his foundation or did he use performance enhancing drugs which is making it impossible for him to advance further? Because what else could make someone be graded as F-rank talent?” the head e