Was it really possible that the nightdemons had managed to find over two hundred competitors and defeat them in the span of ten minutes? Of course not. In that case, whence came their points?

It came from those competitors who were subordinate to the nightdemons, or those who knew they wouldn't be strong enough to get a good placement and wanted to develop good relations with the nightdemons. Indeed, this was likely how the top eight teams had managed to get all their points.

After all, Earth's team was strong and lucky, and even then, they had only managed to secure fifty points or so within the first ten minutes, and that only because one of the teams they fought off had already defeated another team.

No matter how strong a given team was, even with exceptional luck, the most points it would be able to obtain from actual fighting within ten minutes was around a hundred.

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