Part 1: Free pass

From MC's Perspective:

Inside the 80th pod chamber,

An hour later, I was able to recover the purple essence slightly above half of the reserve. I know this was not enough.

But the 2nd group's duel is coming to an end. Among the 10 in the group. 5 warriors won the duel. And the remaining 5 lost the duel.

Even if they lost a one duel then there is no chance to proceed to the next stage.

On the duel platform,

The announcer looked at everyone before saying,"We have 5 winners now. One of them will be randomly selected to pass this round. The remaining 4 will fight each other in 2 duels."

"Later the winner of the 2 duels will join one who got randomly selected. Among the 3 of them, one person will again be randomly selected to pass the stage to take the spot in the final duel."

"The remaining 2 will fight against each other to get the remaining spot."