Cooldown Time (Part 2): The Hidden Threats

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Then the next day after the first stage of the tournament, the first round of the next stage was about to start.

All of the first-round matchups were scheduled to start at exactly 12 noon (in-game time). And since all of the battles were scheduled to take place simultaneously, most of the players that wanted to watch the battles were forced to choose which one they were going to watch.

Of course, the live audience were not included in these since they already bought the tickets of the battles that they wanted to watch; and there was no refund for it.

Given these, everything was already set in motion; all of the viewers and audiences were already waiting for the battles to start, and they were impatiently anticipating the battles that they had chosen to watch.