"What?"

"He has been taken out?!"

"Rick?"

"What the hell did he do?"

"Apparently, he was choking a guy on the street. Most likely, that guy was someone who had been paid off in order to piss him off."

"Damn it."

"They are dirty."

Jean’s expression turned dark. It looked like the other party was trying to lower their number as much as possible.

Jean said, "We need to recall everyone into the hotel and make sure they’re not leaving until the competition begins."

"What?"

"We’re not going to be some caged birds or anything."

"Now we know their plans, so we just have to maintain our calm."

"That’s right. As long as it’s nothing harmful, we shouldn’t be disqualified."

Jean gritted his teeth. Even though he was in charge, all these people were the muscles he got from other sources. They weren’t as cooperative as the Libation Fiesta with Stefany.

Jean couldn’t control them completely.

"All of you, stop!" Jean stood up, trying to stop them from making a foolish decision.

"Sorry, but we aren’t going to stay here as you said."

"We’re not your subordinates."

Three people snorted and left the room. Several others were thinking about going away, but they didn’t do it immediately.

In the city, Vina was going around, circulating their money around.

Vina looked around and called Clovis. "It seems the plan is working. Their relationship is not that good, so I will try to pick one or two more guys." 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"Good. By the way, I have an additional task for you. Considering they have to be in this city to join the competition, I am sure that the Tier 9 human will also be there. Can you try to find his location?"

"I will try, but I can’t guarantee anything. The information about the Tier 9 human is closely protected. And the country won’t be willing to give it up."

"I know. However, we need to take our chances."

"Okay. I’ll see what I can do. I guess we will have to continue to the second phase of our plan."

"Please."

Vina smiled. She finally had the time to enjoy this chaotic situation. Her role was simple. Because she wasn’t a part of the competition, she could use their money to do many things.

...

Knock.

Knock.

Someone knocked on the door. A middle-aged man opened the door and found another punk.

"Yo, old man. Take this." The punk tossed the cake he had brought into the man’s face.

Out of reflex, the man tilted his head to avoid it. However, the cake still fell inside the room.

"Ooh. You’re good, but you can’t do anything to me, old man!" The guy snorted and rushed away.

"You..." The man gritted his teeth and raised his hand, wanting to slap the punk.

The punk was already taking a step back and raising his arms to protect his head, but the middle-aged man suddenly stopped.

"Yo, the girl said I can do anything I want with you and you can’t do anything to me. It looks like it’s true." The punk laughed and opened his fly. "I’m going to pee in front of your room!"

The middle-aged man couldn’t contain himself anymore. He never thought he would be so humiliated like this.

He abruptly grabbed the punk by the neck and slammed him against the wall. "You..."

The punk choked, but all of a sudden, several people appeared around him.

"Let him go."

"As of right now, you are disqualified."

The middle-aged man was trying to release his power, but these people were Tier 8 humans as well. In that instant, they surrounded him, restraining his body.

"Step back and release the kid."

The middle-aged man realized that if he didn’t release the kid, these men would come to break his arm or something.

So, he had no choice but to release the kid.

The kid coughed a few times, but he suddenly laughed while running away. "So, it’s right. You are nothing, old man!"

The middle-aged man was gritting his teeth, but he couldn’t do anything with all these people around.

The worst one was actually in Jean’s room. He had gotten himself a suite for everyone to use, but because he wasn’t capable of controlling them, some of them stayed elsewhere.

Nevertheless, there were still plenty of people inside the room. There was much harassment coming from the outside.

"Yo. Scared?"

"How about this letter?"

They started from shouting to slipping a letter through the small slit underneath the door.

They were so annoying that some people couldn’t contain themselves anymore and just walked out the door. They didn’t beat anyone, but they were changing their accommodations.

Unfortunately for them, they ended up falling for other tricks. In the end, four of them ended up falling for this trick, causing them to be disqualified.

In other words, their team had to fight with sixteen members while Clovis would fight with twenty members, or twenty-three members if the beasts were included.

However, Clovis wasn’t done yet.

On the last day, Vina couldn’t help but smile after receiving the call. "So, we can begin the last plan?"

"Yes! Catch them all!" Clovis was also excited about the idea.

Vina immediately delivered the final attack.

In a peaceful street, two people suddenly approached a man.

"Mr. Watsen. You are under arrest." These two people turned out to be undercover cops. They immediately cuffed him.

"!!!" There was a law that they could put someone under arrest for 48 hours, so it could only be delivered on the last day. If the person escaped, he might have to hurt some people, which would disqualify him. If he resisted the arrest, he would hurt them as well.

And it didn’t stop there.

"Room service."

Jean raised his head while furrowing his eyebrows.

One guy was ready to open the door, but the other party didn’t wait. They suddenly forced open the door and rushed in.

"Police!"

"Hands in the air!"

"Get down!"

"!!!" Jean widened his eyes in shock. He realized that the opposite side was paying the dirty cops.

The man in front of the gate suddenly rushed like a bull and stopped everyone from entering. "GO!"

Jean and the others realized that the place had been compromised. They had to leave and stay elsewhere as they had to leave the city in the morning.

With this, their members had been reduced to fourteen. And Clovis had just managed not only to reduce their number but also to make them lack sleep and be full of frustration, basically not in a state to compete.