Sam looked around to find out that all the other candidates also arrived along with him and has same looks of surprise as him.
Moriya looked at all the candidates and since there are all of them present, he sighed in relief.
But he noticed something else.
After the initial surprise, everyone has a guarded expression as they looked suspiciously at each other.
He immediately understood what the matter is no matter how weak a person's performance is they should have at least gotten something inside the palace and now they are guarding it like a precious treasure.
Moriya cleared his throat and said.
"Don't worry everyone. Your things are yours and yours alone. Unless you are willing to share them yourselves, nobody is going to force you to hand them over, at least not on this Thunder god temple's territory. I promise you that with the honour of our temple on the line."
Then only some people calmed down a bit.
Then Moriya continued.