In the forest, Mors Ulve, the capital of the Empire of Reedo, prepares for the brain-to-brain and transformation experiments that will be required to complete the experiment. He is worried that the results will not be as good as they could have been, and that Reedo himself will die if the experiments are not carried out. The eight candidates for the top-rank exam will now compete in a tournament. Each round ends when a competitor loses his or her life. The winner of the tournament will absorb the winner's placenta. Nated enters the arena, and he is shocked to see that he has transformed three days in a row. He has no idea how to use his power to defeat the opponent, and wonders why he has not been able to do so in his first match. He wishes that he could go and subjugate the savage tribes in the north.