Chapter 410: Overwhelming Dominance
“Miss Jia Na also possesses a Law Fragment!?”
Unlike the contestants inside the Potted Landscape Secret Realm who were kept in the dark, the audience of the Glory Arena, with its 360-degree curved screen projection and John Jones’s comprehensive commentary, knew almost immediately that Jia Na could “manipulate thorns.”
Consequently, everyone began to speculate what kind of Law Fragment Jia Na-Luo Lan, as the contestant who had consecutively eliminated Maguire-Storm and Daisy Hathaway, actually possessed.
Was it the Thorn Manipulation Law? Or the Plant Manipulation Law? Or perhaps some other, more advanced Law power?
So far, there were four contestants capable of wielding Law power: besides Maguire-Storm and Louis Tor-Turan, compared to Kunbu-Poison Spine, who was suspected of mastering the Insect Language, Jia Na’s Law power was undoubtedly more potent.
At the beginning of the fourth stage, Kunbu-Poison Spine’s performance was also very impressive.
From summoning insect swarms to driving them to attack the contestants—if Jia Na hadn’t intervened midway, he would have been the biggest beneficiary of this round.
However, when dozens of thorns, like emerald green giant pythons, burst from the ground to encircle other contestants, Kunbu-Poison Spine’s Law power seemed slightly inferior.
After all, those thorns not only attacked the contestants but also launched attacks on the insect swarms attempting to snatch the Magic-Sealed Rings nearby.
Precisely because of this, in addition to the contestants who faced the thorns as if facing a formidable enemy, the insect swarms originally controlled by Kunbu-Poison Spine also developed fear and showed signs of breaking free from Kunbu-Poison Spine’s control after several large groups were whipped to death by the thorns.
Therefore, in this Law confrontation battle, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Jia Na undoubtedly held an absolute advantage, completely overpowering the Insect Language Law controlled by Kunbu-Poison Spine.
“A miscalculation.”
Facing the situation where his insect swarms were retreating under the thorns’ onslaught, Kunbu-Poison Spine, hidden within a tree hollow, couldn’t help but let out a long sigh.
The Law Fragment Kunbu-Poison Spine possessed was merely the Insect Language, not Insect Control. Therefore, when the insect swarms gradually lost control due to large-scale deaths, Kunbu-Poison Spine was unable to intervene further.
Secondly, the trial scene for the fourth stage was primarily dominated by plants, represented by thorns, with poisonous miasma and insects being secondary components.
Precisely because of this, the insects living here were ordinary insects with nerve-paralyzing toxins, and this toxin was ineffective against thorns, which also possessed toxicity.
Furthermore, Jia Na’s absolute control over these thorns also made it impossible for Kunbu-Poison Spine’s poisonous insects to contend with them.
“The Law power she possesses is definitely not an ordinary Subordinate Law Fragment—
Bang!
Just as Kunbu-Poison Spine was still thinking, suddenly, more than a dozen thorns silently crawled into the tree hollow where he was, and with lightning speed, attacked Kunbu-Poison Spine.
Seeing this, Kunbu-Poison Spine, knowing his whereabouts had been exposed, no longer hid. The moment the thorns attacked, he immediately transformed into a fire ant, like the one that swam in the lava in the previous round, and used his mouthparts, capable of melting metal, to sever the surrounding thorns.
“I can only force my way out!”
Kunbu-Poison Spine, who hadn’t yet figured out how his whereabouts were discovered, immediately abandoned the tree hollow after severing the thorns, and once again chanted a spell, transforming into a fist-sized dragonfly, rapidly flapping his wings and flying into the sky. “With Maguire-Storm’s Magic-Sealed Ring, I now have ninety points.”
Relying on unexpected sneak attacks, coupled with the extremely poor condition of other contestants due to excessive magic consumption in the previous stages, Jia Na managed to collect six Magic-Sealed Rings in just a few minutes using the power of the Growth Law Fragment.
Soon, the remaining contestants who discovered that the thorns were being manipulated also had no choice but to transform into high-flying creatures, circling in the air, not daring to land for a moment.
However, maintaining a transformed state for a long time was merely a difference between “dying early or dying late” for some contestants who had little time to recover magic in the meditation array and whose magic had already been overdrawn.
So, not long after, two more contestants fell from high altitude due to magic exhaustion, activating their Magic-Sealed Rings with regret and leaving the Potted Landscape Secret Realm.
Adding these two Magic-Sealed Rings, Jia Na had now collected nine Magic-Sealed Rings in these stages, tying for first place with Louis Tor-Turan, who also had nine Magic-Sealed Rings.
At the same time, as time gradually progressed, the few remaining contestants also started to realize what was going on.
Even by process of elimination, everyone could figure out that the culprit behind this “thorn disaster” was Jia Na-Luo Lan, who was hidden somewhere!
“Ah—”
Another scream echoed. A contestant who had secretly transformed into a loach and hidden in the swamp due to excessive magic consumption was, as expected, found by Jia Na and surrounded by more than a dozen swarming thorns. He had no chance to struggle before his Magic-Sealed Ring was forcibly activated, and he left the Potted Landscape Secret Realm.
“That’s the tenth one.”
After dealing with this contestant, Jia Na finally surpassed Louis Tor-Turan with an advantage of ten Magic-Sealed Rings, becoming the undisputed number one among the current contestants.
“Rumble—”
Just as Jia Na was waiting for the next contestant to “fall” from the sky, the rumbling sound signaling a change of scene resonated.
“Is it time already?”
As the rumbling sound echoed once more, the plant magic particles that had filled the Potted Landscape Secret Realm rapidly disappeared.
Soon, the Law power controlled by Jia Na quickly receded, and her body also transformed back from its thorn form to human form.
“Next, the Andrew-Gump Transformation Trial will usher in its final stage, which is also the most difficult and most exciting stage.”
As soon as John Jones’s voice fell, a colorful torrent, like a tsunami, surged once again in the Potted Landscape Secret Realm.
In an instant, the surging Elemental Tide swept through every corner of the Potted Landscape Secret Realm, causing the elemental particles within the secret realm to once again fall into a state of frenzy.
“Finally, the last stage has arrived—”
For some reason, even though only an hour and a half had passed, Gavin-Tuer had a misconception that a long time had gone by.
