Chapter 399 Elemental Tide
“Roar—”
Because all of this happened in a flash, Maguire-Storm, whose attention was always on the swarm of insects behind him, did not notice Jia Na's series of actions.
Of course, Maguire-Storm also did not notice that a “grass seed” with no magical fluctuations and no abnormalities had silently appeared on his trouser leg.
“There’s even this move?”
At this moment, Gavin-Tuer, sitting in the audience, watched Jia Na's series of actions on the curved large screen, while feeling anxious for Jia Na, he also sincerely praised her sudden quick wit.
“Miss Jia Na’s move is truly too wise!”
Goblin Billy, also sitting next to Gavin-Tuer, couldn't help but applaud when he saw Jia Na's “high-end operation.”
However, unlike the optimism of Gavin-Tuer and Goblin Billy, Lilith-Meg, who knew that the Elemental Tide had not yet begun, still frowned and stared intently at Jia Na on the screen.
“Whoosh—the wind howled, and with Maguire-Storm’s unparalleled flying speed, in a short while, he had already left the other contestants far behind.
“It’s a Meditation Array!”
Jia Na, still maintaining her grass seed form, felt Maguire-Storm’s speed gradually slow down, and then she saw a meditation array with a radius of about ten meters in the clearing in the center of the forest.
“Plop—”
Just as Maguire-Storm was about to fold his wings and land, Jia Na's form changed again, directly transforming from a grass seed into an inconspicuous emerald green butterfly, and took the opportunity to fly from Maguire-Storm’s trouser leg to the nearest tree.
“Has he entered a meditative state so quickly?”
Perhaps the high-speed flight just now consumed too much of Maguire-Storm’s magic power. The moment he transformed back into human form, he immediately sat cross-legged in the center of the array. Without even a minute’s delay, he directly entered a shallow meditative state, absorbing the surrounding wind Element magical particles.
Seeing this, Jia Na, transformed into a butterfly, flapped her wings again and discreetly landed behind a relatively thick tree.
Immediately, Jia Na’s body grew larger again, and silently, she completed another transformation, turning into an inconspicuous oak tree, hiding in the forest.
“Whoosh—”
Just as Jia Na was recovering her magic power in her tree form, suddenly, a sound of rushing air echoed from above the forest.
In a short while, Louis Tor-Turan, who had also transformed his arms into crimson wings, returned to human form and landed on the meditation array not far from Maguire-Storm.
As the first to arrive at the meditation array, Maguire-Storm, seeing that the newcomer was Louis Tor-Turan, merely raised his eyes slightly and continued to meditate.
Louis Tor-Turan, whose magic power consumption was also considerable, simply glanced at Maguire-Storm indifferently, and then sat cross-legged on the meditation array, beginning to recover his magic power.
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh—”
As time gradually passed, contestants arrived at the meditation array one after another. Jia Na roughly estimated that only less than forty people ultimately entered the meditation array.
Compared to the fifty-five people at the beginning of the Metamorphosis Trial, it was more than a fifth less.
“No, Kunbu-Poison Spine and Hai La - Herheim are not in the array.”
Kunbu-Poison Spine, who was the first to detect the incoming swarm of insects, even if he was later overtaken by Maguire-Storm, it was impossible for him not to have arrived here by now given his speed.
After all, unlike Jia Na’s slow flying speed in her butterfly form, Kunbu-Poison Spine’s transformed form was a dragonfly, known for its extremely high flying speed in the insect world.
Not only that, Hai La - Herheim, one of the favorites to win the championship, also did not appear in the meditation array. Therefore, Jia Na could easily infer that she and Hai La - Herheim had the same plan: to hide in the shadows and wait to see how things unfolded.
“Whoosh—inhale—whoosh—inhale—”
Alternating sounds of breathing constantly echoed in various corners of the meditation array. Because the trial had just begun, all contestants, upon arriving at the meditation array, tacitly sat within the array, seizing the time to recover their magic power, with no intention of fighting each other.
Overall, up to this point, the relationship between the various contestants was relatively peaceful.
“Rumble—”
Just as everyone was peacefully recovering their magic power, suddenly, a booming sound resonated from the sky.
Immediately after, the Element magical particles, which had been docile, seemed to lose control at this moment, beginning to riot without any warning.
“Damn it, I just started meditating!”
Due to the magic power riot, contestants who entered the meditation array later, just as they were about to recover their magic power, had no choice but to withdraw from their meditative state.
And this situation undoubtedly worsened the condition of those contestants whose magic power consumption was already significant.
“Rumble—”
The enormous booming sound continued to echo above the forest. As the sound grew louder, the rampaging magical particles gathered into a colorful torrent that blotted out the sky, instantly engulfing everything in the forest.
“Is this the Elemental Tide that John Jones spoke of?”
It was as if everything had been reshaped; the trees swallowed by the colorful torrent began to constantly twist.
In a short while, the trees crumbled, and the vast expanse of trees that had seemed endless moments before completely vanished, replaced instead by a giant valley surrounded by sprawling mountains.
“Dear audience, what you are about to witness is the second phase simulated by the Bonsai Secret Realm after entering the Elemental Tide—the Storm Valley, which is also one of the famous wind Element landscapes of the Element Soul Secret Realm—”
Under John Jones’s introduction, all the audience members present simultaneously looked towards the Glory Arena, where the Bonsai Secret Realm had been completely transformed.
The lush green forest scene from the previous second had, in the next second, transformed into a deep valley.
And this truly miraculous transformation was undoubtedly a display of skill for most ordinary audience members who had not had much exposure to magic.
Under this immense visual impact, many audience members could not suppress their surging emotions and began to passionately discuss with those around them.
For a time, the Glory Arena, which had been relatively quiet, became somewhat noisy.
“Professor McGonagall, was the change just now also caused by an illusion?”
