Chapter 409 Growth Law
“Help! Help me!”
The thorns wrapped around her quickly. In a moment, more than ten thorns emerged from the ground, one after another, like emerald green pythons, tightly coiling around Daisy Hathaway, making her voice intermittent due to suffocation.
“Where did these thorns come from!?”
From calling for help to having her Magic-Sealed Ring forcibly activated, Daisy Hathaway took less than ten seconds.
This sudden change caused all the contestants to scatter from their original positions like startled birds.
“Ah—”
Another scream was heard. A dark-skinned male contestant was also tightly bound by thorns emerging from underground.
The moment he was entangled by the thorns, the poisonous insects, like a black mist, flew over immediately, also surrounding this male contestant.
“Who came up with this stage!? Poisonous insect attacks combined with active plant sneak attacks, are they trying to make all contestants fail this stage!?”
Watching the male contestant surrounded by thorns and poisonous insects, even though he was a competitor, seeing his current miserable state inevitably evoked a feeling of sorrow for a fellow creature.
After all, the next target of attack might be them!
“Clatter—” As the male contestant was also forcibly exited from the Potted Landscape Secret Realm, his Magic-Sealed Ring, like Daisy Hathaway’s, fell to the ground.
However, facing the Magic-Sealed Ring so close, the surrounding contestants had no intention of risking a grab.
“Look quickly!”
Just as the atmosphere became increasingly tense, suddenly, a contestant’s startled cry once again attracted the attention of others.
Looking over, they saw that the Magic-Sealed Ring dropped by Daisy Hathaway was actually picked up by one of the thorns. Immediately, that thorn quickly burrowed back into the ground.
Meanwhile, a similar situation was happening on the other side: the Magic-Sealed Ring dropped by the male apprentice was picked up by a red beetle, which was preparing to fly away with it.
However, before the red beetle could leave, more than ten thorns burst out from underground, turning into streaks of afterimages, directly smashing the beetle into pieces and reclaiming the Magic-Sealed Ring.
“They are fighting over the Magic-Sealed Ring!”
Observing the highly illogical behavior of the poisonous insects and thorns, all the contestants quickly realized that neither the swarm of poisonous insects nor the thorns that abruptly appeared from underground were obstacles specifically set for this stage; rather, they were being manipulated by someone.
Therefore, upon seeing the second Magic-Sealed Ring also snatched by the emerald green thorns, all the contestants strangely fell silent for a moment.
However, unlike the quietness on their faces, at this very moment, the heart of every contestant was like a stormy sea, unable to calm down for a long time.
At the same time, they all shared the same question: Who was controlling the thorns?
“It’s her—
Jia Na-Roland!”
Inside a tree hollow not far from the meditation array, Kunbu-Poison Spine, transformed into a dragonfly, was currently using the power of the Insect Language Law Fragment to continuously manipulate the poisonous insects within the miasma.
As the fourth contestant in the Transformation Trial to possess the A-grade Talent Insect Language, Kunbu-Poison Spine actually also controlled an Insect Language Law Fragment, which shared the same name as his talent.
With the power of the Insect Language Law Fragment, Kunbu-Poison Spine almost effortlessly gained control over the poisonous insects in this area.
He utilized the large number and wide distribution of the poisonous insects to monitor all contestants within the Thorn Plane.
However, there was one person Kunbu-Poison Spine simply could not find, no matter how hard he tried.
Jia Na-Luo Lan seemed to have detected his surveillance in advance; no matter how he controlled the insect swarm to search everywhere, he could not find her aura.
“It seems she is the one who hides the deepest—”
A formidable character, like him, who also possessed a Law Fragment but had never revealed it publicly!
“I didn’t expect that besides Hela and me, there would actually be others here who also possess a Law Fragment.”
Looking at the thorns and poisonous insect swarm nearby, which were clearly being artificially manipulated, Louis Tor-Turan, the controller of the Burning Law Fragment, already had an extremely grim expression on his face.
In addition to the discrepancy in information, this feeling of “there’s always someone better, there’s always something beyond” also made Louis Tor-Turan somewhat uncomfortable.
“It seems that to pass this stage smoothly, I can only force my way through!”
After composing his complex emotions, Louis Tor-Turan’s eyes gradually sharpened. Immediately, he chanted a spell, and in an instant, Louis Tor-Turan once again transformed into the Phoenix form, enveloped in flames.
However, this time, unlike in the volcanic magma environment where he had the amplification of abundant fire elements, Louis Tor-Turan’s transformation into the Phoenix form now was entirely at the cost of consuming a massive amount of magical power, risking everything.
“Chiiang—”
A bright cry resounded once again. Enveloped in scorching orange-yellow flames, Louis Tor-Turan, transformed into a Phoenix, resolutely broke through the encirclement of thorns and poisonous insects, flying towards the outside of the poisonous miasma.
“Jia Na-Luo Lan, I truly didn’t misjudge you.”
Hai La - Herheim, hidden in the shadows, observed the emerald green thorns continuously growing from the ground around her. The emotions in her eyes were not as heavy as Louis Tor-Turan’s; instead, they held a peculiar glint.
As Hai La - Herheim, who had been continuously observing Jia Na since the early stages of the trial, she had actually witnessed many of Jia Na’s hidden actions.
Just like now, for Jia Na, whose traces even Kunbu-Poison Spine’s insect surveillance couldn’t find, Hai La - Herheim knew very well where she was hiding.
Just a few minutes ago, while others were transforming into rocks, insects, birds, and other creatures, Jia Na had secretly transformed into an inconspicuous thorn, hiding on a thorn tree.
Immediately after, to prevent others from discovering her, several identical thorn vines grew consecutively around Jia Na.
Therefore, although Hai La - Herheim could roughly know Jia Na’s hiding place, she could no longer distinguish which of those thorn vines was the original body Jia Na had transformed into.
“Swish, swish—”
The thorns twisted, leaving a trail of afterimages.
After successfully collecting points from two contestants, dozens more thorn vines rapidly emerged from the ground, like man-eating pythons, attacking the other contestants.
For a time, the entire Potted Landscape Secret Realm echoed with the screams of various contestants, which lingered on and on—
