Chapter 405 Shadow Magic Wolf
“Roar—”
The battle over the lava lake continued. Louis Tor-Turan, who had transformed into a Phoenix, was like a king galloping through a world of fire. Using the power of the Burning Law, he continuously besieged Maguire-Storm.
Maguire-Storm, who was being targeted, had long lost his initial arrogance. While struggling to dodge the splashing lava, he finally opened his mouth to make peace with Louis Tor-Turan.
“Luis Tor, instead of wasting all your energy on me, you might as well save your strength to deal with others, damn it!”
As sparks once again scorched Maguire-Storm’s feathers, the ferocity in his eyes, from the double consumption of stamina and magic power, was almost overflowing.
“After I deal with you, I will naturally go and deal with the others.”
Regarding Maguire-Storm’s symbolic compromise, Louis Tor-Turan continued to attack him on his own, showing no intention of holding back.
At the same time, while all the contestants were using various methods to cross the lava lake, there was still a small number of contestants who, due to having consumed too much magic power in the previous trials, had not yet taken the next step and remained holed up within the meditation array on the floating rock.
“Howl—”
Just then, a sharp wolf howl suddenly echoed from within the meditation array.
A huge Shadow Magic Wolf, nearly two meters tall, appeared without warning in the center of the meditation array and, with extreme speed, began to tear at the other contestants.
“It’s Hai La - Herheim!”
Watching the Shadow Magic Wolf slaughtering like crazy, Matthew-Grayrock, who had dealt with Hai La - Herheim many times, quickly recognized that the Shadow Magic Wolf’s true form was Hai La - Herheim transformed.
“Howl—”
Hai La - Herheim, who had not consumed much magic power in the previous rounds, finally began to make her move in this round. Especially when facing other contestants with little magic power left, she was unstoppable and met no resistance.
“Hella, doing this will only accelerate your magic power consumption. In the end, none of us will be able to leave the floating rock.”
In just an instant, five contestants had already activated the Magic-Banning Ring’s defense mechanism under Hai La - Herheim’s attack and were forcibly teleported out of the Bonsai Secret Realm.
“Ah—”
Facing Matthew-Grayrock’s incessant chatter, Hai La - Herheim completely ignored him, directly kicking him into the lava, leaving only Matthew-Grayrock’s scream.
“Hmm?”
Seeing that Matthew-Grayrock’s Magic-Banning Ring did not float up for a long time, Hai La - Herheim merely frowned slightly in confusion, but quickly shifted her attention to the other two contestants.
“If I eliminate you, I’ll have eighty points.”
“Run!”
Listening to Hai La - Herheim’s cold, emotionless words, the remaining two contestants also knew that if they continued to stay on the floating rock, they would only be making a wedding dress for others in vain.
Therefore, instead of sitting here and waiting for death, it was better to take a gamble with their remaining magic power; perhaps there was still a glimmer of hope.
“Deformation Art!”
Without further hesitation, risking magic power backlash, the two remaining contestants quickly transformed into two birds and flew towards the opposite bank of the lava lake.
“Howl—”
Watching the two contestants preparing to fight with all their might, Hai La - Herheim was not in a hurry. Instead, she arched her body, then lightly leaped, using the Shadow Magic Wolf’s powerful inherent jumping ability to directly rush towards the closest contestant in the air.
“Crack—”
Just as the Shadow Magic Wolf’s gaping maw was about to bite the contestant, a crisp sound suddenly echoed from the floating rock.
Immediately following, a dense, spiderweb-like crack quickly covered the entire floating rock, and orange-yellow lava continuously gushed out along the fissures, accelerating the floating rock’s sinking speed.
“Hella, I hope you like my gift!”
Due to the premature collapse of the floating rock, Hai La - Herheim had no choice but to exit her Shadow Magic Wolf form and revert to her human body, thereby reducing her weight and landing on a relatively intact floating rock.
“You did a really good job, Matthew.”
Looking at Matthew-Grayrock, who was still transformed into a pangolin but was covered in hard rocks, a dangerous glint flashed in Hai La - Herheim’s eyes.
“It’s just, you seem to have forgotten something—”
Whoosh— Her figure flickered, like a ghost. Just as Matthew-Grayrock was still basking in the glory of his feigned weakness, he suddenly felt his vision go dark. Immediately after, a sharp pain shot from Matthew-Grayrock’s collar.
“You—”
Looking at the extremely ferocious, huge head in front of him, Matthew-Grayrock’s face was filled with terror.
“Watch your shadow.”
Crack—
As the last words left Hai La - Herheim’s mouth, the Magic-Banning Ring on Matthew-Grayrock’s body was activated accordingly.
Immediately after, Matthew-Grayrock was forcibly teleported out of the Bonsai Secret Realm amidst a scream full of unwillingness.
“Eighty points.”
After retrieving the Magic-Banning Ring that Matthew-Grayrock had dropped, Hai La - Herheim followed the shadow and jumped back onto the crumbling floating rock.
“It seems this place is no longer suitable for recovering magic power.”
As Hai La - Herheim, who possessed A-rank Dark Affinity, her plan was actually very simple.
First, she would use the advantage of her magic power not being heavily consumed in the first few trials to eliminate other contestants whose magic power was clearly insufficient to cast Deformation Art.
Then, she would continue to stay on the floating rock, recover her lost magic power, and before the floating rock was completely eroded by the lava, she would use the Shadow Creature’s advantage of being able to cast Shadow Stealth to leave the floating rock.
However, due to the variable of Matthew-Grayrock, Hai La - Herheim’s plan also deviated accordingly.
Therefore, Hai La - Herheim had to temporarily halt her magic power recovery progress and leave the sinking floating rock early.
“Caw— Her body rapidly shrunk, and in a short while, Hai La - Herheim transformed into an all-black raven. With a hoarse cry, she flew towards the sky above the lava lake where fire was splashing…
“Damn it! This place is completely surrounded by flames, I can’t fly across at all!”
On the other side of the lava lake, the contestant who had transformed into a bird-type magic beast, after barely dodging the erupting lava and flying to the edge of the lava lake, found a wall entirely made of flames blocking everyone’s path.
“Boom—”
With a violent explosion, Louis Tor-Turan, who was originally chasing Maguire-Storm, suddenly turned around and flew rapidly towards the contestants blocked by the flame wall on the bank of the lava lake.
