Neither Felix nor Julius dwelled on the issue any longer. After all, these were Star Alliance's rules. What was the point of racking their brains over it when nothing would change?

…

A week passed. When Felix woke up, Argent spoke, "Mr. Zeller, the preliminary round has officially ended. Both towers are now open. A total of 201 people survived the preliminaries."

Felix couldn't help feeling moved. As expected, only about 200 people had passed—this competition really was brutal. Without wasting time, he headed toward the towers.

He hadn't gone far when he ran into Helen, who clearly seemed to have made a full recovery.

"Felix," she called out.

She had a sincere smile on her face as she ran to his side.

Felix said, "It seems like your luck held out."

Without the emerald bed for healing, it would have been very difficult to deal with Helen's injuries.

"Yeah. Now that the towers have appeared, surviving the preliminaries was definitely worth it. But I won't be participating