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Did something unexpected happen...?

Still, this situation wasn't all that surprising...

The area where the Tree of Knowledge stood.

Faced with the cages in the upper region beginning to collapse from top to bottom.

The vast majority of the contestants remained remarkably calm, showing no signs of panic.

Even as they watched the dangerous beings they had imprisoned escape and go berserk, they did not grow particularly tense.

Years of sealing and every possible means of repeated weakening had long since widened the gap in strength between them and their captives.

As a result, even if those beings successfully broke free, they posed no great threat to the contestants.

And beyond that.

Their escape had itself been one of the possibilities the contestants had anticipated.

By anticipated, this did not merely mean the prisoners breaking free on their own.

It also meant some individual or group deliberately releasing them.

There was no helping it.

There were far more than one or two contestants with something seriously wrong with their heads.

Whenever they had an episode.

There would naturally be people who wanted to release the prisoners and stir the pot.

Perhaps for the thrill of it.

Perhaps for profit.

When they lost their minds and started making trouble, there was not necessarily any particularly practical reason behind it...

Having something seriously wrong with their heads was, in itself, the best reason.

Thus, even though countless prisons throughout the upper region were collapsing at once.

Each contestant remained unflustered in the face of upheaval.

None of them found it especially surprising.

Their minds automatically drew up a long list of people who might have done such a damn thing.

And before long, that list of suspects had come to include nearly every contestant...

Every contestant looked suspicious as hell.

Some whose