After a fierce series of battles, all the qualifiers from every regional division of the Earth group in the World Martial Arts Tournament had finally emerged.
When Son Goku was teleported back to the rest area, it was already the seventh day. There had been too many powerful fighters in his division, including quite a few aliens whose strength was comparable to his own.
In the rest area, Son Goku saw a gloomy-looking Yamcha, a proud-looking Lazuli, and an expressionless Piccolo.
Besides them, there were more than half a dozen aliens, including two combat-type Namekians, an Octopus Person who could use telekinesis, and a Slime Person whose body resembled jelly.
As for Earth's humans, aside from Son Goku in name, there were another six or seven people. They were not fighters or Martial Artists from traditional Earth, but security personnel from the first group to join the Blue Star Group.
After all, although Akamai gave both sides a fair chance to fight, that did not mean he would directly send Earth's weaklings to battle the powerful members of affiliated civilizations.
If the Earthlings performed too poorly, it would only fuel the ambitions of the affiliated civilizations and give them the dangerous idea that humanity was nothing special and could be replaced.
The Tuffles of old were a cautionary example.
When the Saiyans fled from other planets, the technologically advanced Tuffles took them in. But as time passed, the Saiyans discovered that the Tuffles could only rely on technology and possessed pitifully weak combat power.
As the Saiyan population grew, they desperately needed more resources. The problem was that the resources and land provided by the Tuffles were limited, causing the Saiyans to set their sights on the Tuffles.
Akamai was not one of those people whose heads were filled with