The upset in the very first match finally plunged this group into an utterly chaotic, utterly disorderly phase.
In Jiang Han's group, three people had the ability to contend for qualification.
Lilith was the likeliest to qualify.
Nanazawa An was the second likeliest.
Finally, Annie Caldwell had the third-best chance of qualifying.
In other words, these three formed the qualifying tier, their strength utterly crushing every other Witch in the group. By convention, Lilith should have first trampled the weaker opponents, then fallen into hard-fought battles with Annie and Nanazawa An.
With the rounds continuing like that, the three of them would eventually enter tiebreakers with extraordinarily high records, or one of them would fall just short and be eliminated.
Theoretically, that was how it should have gone.
But Lilith had suffered an upset in her very first match. That meant that if she failed to readjust her condition, she would likely be knocked out early. And if Lilith's mentality exploded and she went out ahead of schedule, several more Witches with the strength to qualify would suddenly emerge in this group stage.
Chaos.
After defeating Lilith, Jiang Han stayed in the lounge with Du Lingxuan to watch the performance of the "Lilith wheel" (in group stages with huge numbers of participants, the top ten Witches were all called [Wheel Slots], because each round meant fighting more than twenty or thirty matches). For less powerful Witches, [Wheel Slots] were a burden, but for the strong, they were an advantage.
Because their feel for the fight, mental state, and bloodlust would all carry over.
If things kept going smoothly, such Witches would only grow stronger as they fought.
"This is a new theory."
Du Lingxuan explained the mysteries of [Wheel Slots] to Jiang Han.
When she was quiet, the adorable Xuan