Grace had countless things to plan, places to visit, and people to contact during that relatively short window, enough to overwhelm any sane person.
Yet, none of that ever touched Liam. His job was to salvage whatever he could from the unusable pile, meaning he had no reason to move from the underground warehouse.
Rank 1 concoctions were hardly practice for Liam at that point. Extracting valuable properties and turning them into concentrates was even a lower branch of alchemy, so the job did little to improve his skills.
However, Liam finished going through the pile before the time to depart arrived, so he spent those remaining weeks handling his own businesses, basically entering secluded training.
Also, Liam was standing next to a huge pile of ingredients. Many rank 1 ones were for the tournament and the products he had to concoct there, but everything else was his to purchase.
