SCAM!!

"Candidate Yoring took 54 seconds to defeat the monster!" shouted Sinish, the middle-aged man overseeing the battle game.

After defeating the monster, Yoring came out from the large portal through a portal that appeared in front of him inside the trial domain.

"Not bad! He managed to defeat it under one minute; that's above-average performance according to all statistics from previous battle games."

"Too bad that the betting limit is only 20,000 Etons. Welp, I still won some despite his small scaling odds on winning, so it's good."

The audience started walking while Sinish spoke the second name.

...

One by one, candidates went and defeated the monster. 

After an hour, It was finally nearing the end as Huarin's name popped up before Athan's and Lily's.

Seeing her walking towards the portal door, the audience remembered that she was one of the three candidates who arrived here very late.