From the side's of Lirian, it didn't matter whether, it was the group of zealots or the elites from the family that were following the emperor's orders, all of them were stunned out of their minds.
The current turn of events seemed completely none-sensical to them.
One second the candidate all gathered together and spoke with each-other, the amazing thing to all them was the friendliness that all the candidates had to each-other was a shocking surprise to all of them.
In almost every other batch of candidate's, the candidate were rather unruly with each-other and always trying to out do each other, but from the atmosphere that this group gave of it was clear that they were close group of friend before they were candidates.
But then the argument began, and it was a little more reminiscent of what a real batch of candidate looks like, but then to their surprise in the middle of the fight Lirian cancelled the expedition.