nagpurpolice Chapter 408 : Law of Growth
Chapter 408 : Law of Growth
「Save me！」The speed of the Thorny Vines was terrifyingly fast. In less than a moment, more than ten vines surged up from the ground one after another, like emerald-green pythons, coiling tightly around Daisy-Hathaway’s body. Her cries grew broken and intermittent as she struggled for breath.
「Where on earth are these Thorny Vines coming from!?」
From her cry for help to the forced activation of the 【Anti-Magic Ring】, Daisy-Hathaway had less than ten seconds.
This sudden turn of events sent the contestants scattering like startled birds.
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「Ah——！」
Another scream echoed. A dark-skinned male contestant was suddenly ensnared by the Thorny Vines erupting from the ground.
The moment the vines bound him, swarms of venomous insects—black mist-like in their numbers—swept toward him, encircling him tightly.
「Who came up with this stage!? A venomous swarm and Active Magical Plants in ambush—are they trying to make every contestant fall here!?」
Seeing the male contestant caught between the vines and the swarm, even rivals could not help but feel a pang of sorrow at his miserable fate.
After all, the next victim could easily be them.
「Plop—」 As the male contestant was forcibly ejected from the 【Bonsai Secret Realm】, his 【Anti-Magic Ring】 fell to the ground, just like Daisy-Hathaway’s.
Yet, even though the rings lay within reach, no one dared risk taking them.
「Look over there！」
Just as the atmosphere grew heavier, a contestant’s sudden cry drew everyone’s eyes.
Daisy-Hathaway’s fallen 【Anti-Magic Ring】 was picked up by one of the Thorny Vines, which immediately retracted back into the earth.
Elsewhere, a similar scene unfolded. The ring dropped by the male contestant was snatched by a crimson beetle preparing to fly off with it.
But before it could escape, more than ten Thorny Vines burst from the ground, striking like shadows, shredding the beetle into fragments and reclaiming the ring.
「They’re fighting over the 【Anti-Magic Ring】！」
The abnormal behavior of both swarm and vines made the truth clear. These were not trial obstacles at all—they were being controlled.
When the second ring was seized by the green vines, silence fell over the contestants.
But inside, every heart surged like a storm-tossed sea.
They all shared the same burning question: who was controlling the vines?
「So it’s her—
Janna Roland！」
Not far from the Meditation Array, hidden inside a hollow tree, Kumbu-Thornspike—now in the form of a dragonfly—was manipulating the venomous swarm through the power of the 【Fragment of the Law of Insect Speech】.
Among the contestants of the 【Transfiguration Trial】, Kumbu-Thornspike was the fourth to possess an A-level talent—【Insect Speech】—and he also secretly held a matching Law Fragment.
With the fragment’s power, he easily gained control of all venomous insects in this zone, using their vast numbers and wide distribution to spy on every contestant within the 【Thorny Plane】.
But there was one he could not find—
Janna Roland.
It was as if she had sensed his surveillance. No matter how he directed the swarm, her trace eluded him.
「So, she’s the one hiding the deepest—」
Another dangerous player, one who, like him, secretly possessed a 【Law Fragment】.
「I didn’t expect that besides myself and Hela, there would be another who also holds a fragment…」
Staring at the clearly manipulated vines and swarms, Louisto-Tulan—the wielder of the 【Fragment of the Law of Burning】—looked grim.
Beyond the shock of new information, the realization carried with it a bitter sense of defeat: 「There is always someone stronger.」
「It seems the only way through… is to break through head-on！」
Suppressing his tangled emotions, Louisto-Tulan’s eyes sharpened. He began chanting, and in an instant, flames wrapped around him as he once again transformed into the form of a blazing 【Phoenix】.
But unlike when he had the volcano’s dense fire elements to amplify him, this time his Phoenix form came only at the cost of pouring out massive amounts of magic power—reckless and desperate.
「Screeeech——」
A piercing cry split the air. Wrapped in searing orange flames, Louisto-Tulan, in his Phoenix form, charged forward with unwavering resolve, tearing through both vines and swarms to break free of the poison mist.
「Janna Roland, I truly didn’t misjudge you.」
Hidden in shadow, Hela-Helheim watched the emerald vines sprout endlessly from the earth. Unlike Louisto-Tulan’s grimness, her eyes shimmered with strange light.
From the start of the trial, Hela-Helheim had been watching Janna closely. Every secretive move Janna made had fallen under her gaze.
Now, while Kumbu-Thornspike’s insect swarm failed to detect her, Hela knew exactly where Janna hid.
A few minutes earlier, while others transformed into stones, insects, or birds, Janna had quietly transformed into a single unremarkable vine, hidden among the branches of a Thorny Vine tree.
To mask herself further, she had caused several identical vines to sprout around her.
Thus, although Hela knew Janna’s approximate hiding place, she could not distinguish which vine was truly her body.
「Swish—swish——」
The vines writhed, leaving countless afterimages.
After harvesting two contestants’ points, dozens more Thorny Vines erupted like pythons hungry for prey, lunging toward the other participants.
In an instant, screams filled the 【Bonsai Secret Realm】 once more, echoing endlessly without cease—