Nial couldn't care less about having fewer opponents in the second round.
With only around 150 other Runiciers in the second round, everything would become much easier for him.
This was especially the case since he received six hours to fix the flaws in his runic armaments, or some of them, at least.
Not everything was fixable in six hours, and the duration was definitely not long enough to fix all the Tier-0 runic armaments he created or the 10 Tier-1 runic armaments he made.
Nonetheless, Nial used his time to equip all the 10 Runic puppets with special equipment. Nial even got to know that he could change the Runic puppet's 'occupation', which was basically a change in their mindset and their tactics.
A total of 6 Runic Puppets were focused on close-range, three were long-range combatants and one was a Supportive character.
