After the Star Lord said that, another eighteen or so contestants backed off.
In the blink of an eye—
Only seventeen of the eighty people who stepped up at the beginning were left.
Nine of them were from the five best academies. While a lot of geniuses had passed the tests and advanced, most were from the five best academies.
However, they were five different organizations, each had merely one to two candidates left.
Su Ping and Oasis Gray were the only ones left from the Amir Royal Academy.
Apocalypse, who was slightly weaker than Oasis Gray, knew that she couldn't possibly be the champion after seeing those two had stayed, so she simply backed off.
On the other side—Goddess of Light, Dragon Devil, Sword Maniac and the other second best students in their academies also decided to call it quits. They knew it was impossible for them to win when the best students of their academies were still there, unless they cheated!