Although some people chose to give up, they were only a drop in the ocean compared with the staggering total number of participants.
This left some people disappointed.
Once the number stabilized, walls of light suddenly appeared across the arena, dividing the crowd into sections like the squares of a chessboard-exactly one hundred, no more and no less.
"All right, let's begin! Oh, by the way, if you die in the melee, you won't really die. You'll just be disqualified."
Without wasting any words, Su Yu announced the start of the competition.
That was far too efficient-so fast that nobody had time to react.
The first person to react immediately began attacking everyone around him indiscriminately.
It was a foolish move.
Almost everyone around him immediately ganged up on him.
But his actions also made everyone realize that the melee really had begun. Now, everyone around them was an enemy!
Tony and the others sprang into action too.
They first moved toward the edge while observing their surroundings.
When they spotted the masked men in an adjacent section, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Who knew whether those masked men could see the bigger picture?
But judging by how those two masked men had lost their minds and attacked Tony outright, they would most likely choose to fight them to the bitter end...
In that case, in a melee like this, they could practically consider themselves eliminated already...
As it was, the situation was actually somewhat unfavorable for them.
After all, the Avengers were all famous figures.
The people around them seemed to share a tacit understanding: they would drive out this most threatening group first, then fight among themselves.
All kinds of attacks flew wildly, but most landed on the Avengers.
The one silver lining was that these