The barrage of attacks increased when these martial artists saw the Beast king move within the formation. Although they knew they were no match for it, they still had to at least subdue it. None of them knew the accurate location of the Life restoring plume fruit.
The martial artists that saw the Life restoring plume fruit only said they saw it with the Beast King, and that alone cost them some of their members. The people here didn't have any clue where the Life restoring plume fruit was so their only hope of finding it was to capture the Beast King.
