The reason professor Mack had said that secret so openly was because it was too late for any of them to go back to the array inscribing process and if someone was foolish enough to do so they wouldn't finish before time.
"We can't decide without seeing the others, but you will surely get bonus points for being the first to complete a perfectly functioning sword." Professor Tacitus said to Blake.
'Patience isn't one of my virtues, but if this is what I get for being 1st so be it.' Blake thought as he took a seat and waited.
[I guess we overdid it…] The system chuckled.
The exams accounted for more than half of the semester's points so he couldn't take any chances. If he was to flop at this time of the semester it would have been better, he didn't try at all.