The audience silently sighed at Starfire's outstanding talent and courage. In fact, this sort of choice wasn't unique to Starfire; many teams that entered the second level before her had encountered similar situations.
But the vast majority would not choose to engage in direct combat, since the number of team members was too crucial; even though resurrection was possible, it could only happen once, not repeatedly.
So most teams would take the tough approach, some emerging victorious, while others, facing overwhelmingly powerful opponents, were directly scattered and defeated.
Quite a few teams were unlucky enough to face such fearsome adversaries, leading to their immediate annihilation.
In reality, after each team entered the passage and walked for some time, they could discover forks in the path; there were many choices available to players.
