Throughout the time Alex's team prepared for the last hours of the trial, the number of trial takers had drastically gone down to a mere three hundred.
There had been a thousand of them at the start, yet seventy percent of them had been wiped out—the culprits responsible were usually the Rank 4 Boss Monsters, who were now actively closing in on the last few survivors.
Theron, the one who initiated the formation of an alliance to eliminate Alex's group, had no idea that a vicious monster had locked onto them. It was too late by the time they realized it, but fortunately, the monster didn't eliminate them right away.
However, they were still unable to relax. They were constantly on the edge, rendering them incapable of falling asleep.
Dread shrouded them every time they closed their eyes. They couldn't help but feel like the Stonehide Tyrant was merely waiting for them to break before it finally went for the kill.