After a very close competition, the royal team was able to qualify for the second round. Even with the bad cooperation between the team members, the royal team had a lot of people and most of them were quite powerful too. Not only that but the other teams competing with them were also badly hurt by the demon attacks while going up the mountain. Those were the reasons why they were not able to defeat the royal team.
But this outcome did not make the prince to be happy. He was not an arrogant person but he still needed to maintain the prestige of the royal family. Barely qualifying for the second stage of the trial was not a good look for the absolute top of this world. So finally the prince started to get serious and tried to manage his group for the first time.
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