“What... was that?”One of the applicants could not help but ask, his voice filled with confusion. The others remained silent, still trying to process what Luke had just done and what it had even been for.They had seen him close his eyes for a few seconds, then casually pick up an apple and throw it toward a stall near the far end of the market. And now, he was walking in Vincent’s direction, smiling to himself as if he were quietly pleased.Only when Vincent announced that Luke had passed did it finally click in their minds. Luke had already eliminated the threat. And that realization only made things more confusing.‘He passed? He already took down the attacker? Was it the one he hit with the apple?’ they all wondered.Some of them were immediately stunned by the thought. That would mean the attacker had been positioned at a distance. None of them had expected that Luke’s scenario would involve a long-range threat.Still, many found it hard to believe. The idea itself sounded absur