Devdar ignored the weaklings around him and said, "First, about your competitors, there are four of them left, apart from you. Two have already advanced to level 125, and I was hibernating in my dimension, waiting for the rest of you for the final stage of the competition for my inheritance."
This didn't come as a total surprise to Minos. Given the spatio-temporal distortions of his universe, he had already imagined that some of his competitors had lived much longer than him in the interval when he had been busy with Qhava and the problems connected to her. He also expected that some others besides the two enemies who had come to him would have fallen, leading to only the five current competitors—counting him.