SPOILERS BELOW
The MC gets a iron heart as his reward which is useless in this book but everyone else get an item that helps them in the tournament so he loses by a hair literally a fraction of a second if only he got a usefull item to boost his skill like everyone else did he would have won the fight and would have been qualified to continue now in the book after this his literally watching everyone else fight the story is focused on everyone else also being underworld doesn’t have to same power when we first met one now its like there slightly stronger then gold