The Medallion

"Oh, the Flaming Shell..." Lance muttered suddenly, his face changing expression.

"Father, what's the matter? What are you talking about?" Isis quickly came to her father's side, concerned as she noticed the emotions flashing across his face. She wondered what he was thinking of and why that caused such changes.

"From what we're seeing here, the new morphology that Rocky's spirit-manipulated beast has changed into bears a striking resemblance to the Flaming-shell Tiger!" Lance replied, unable to conceal his surprise at the spectacle.

"Wait, do you mean the Flaming-shell Tiger, the one at the seventh grade on the ranking list of spiritual beasts?" Isis asked in surprise.

"Although they both differ in appearance from one another, I'm pretty sure that the new morphology that Rocky's spirit-manipulated beast has transformed into is the Flaming-shell Tiger. I've only seen it once before, impressive," Lance remarked, his tone flat and noncommittal. Yet he was still unable to prevent the expression of surprise on his face.

"Oh, I see. Could it be possible that Rocky's spirit-manipulated beast is a descendant of the spiritual beast and the war beast?" Isis surmised out loud. And there was a distinct possibility of it: under normal circumstances, the most of the powerful war beasts were born from the spiritual beasts and the war beasts. And such an offspring would almost certainly have inherited some abilities and characteristics from its spiritual beast parent. Because of that, they could be much more powerful compared to other beasts.

"Well, probably," Lance nodded contemplatively, his expression still noncommittal.

"However, even if Uriah, Rocky's the spirit-manipulated beast, has upgraded itself, it might still be unable to help Rocky to win the competition. It's been hurt badly as far as I can see. Once Dunn orders his spirit-manipulated beast to attack Uriah again, and he himself takes the opportunity to attack Rocky, then there will be little chance of winning for our favored fighter. It's certainly an unfortunate situation," Lance murmured as he looked at Rocky through the Illusory Mirror. From the look on his face, he was clearly concerned.

"Commander in Chief, competition time is running out." The officer who was in charge of timing the competition reported to Lance. He had paid strict attention to the limited time frame of the contest all this time.

Seeing that Uriah had now transformed into another powerful morphology, Rocky took out the bottle of magical saliva from his silken bag in a hurry. He swallowed two drops of the magical saliva as quickly as he could. Before Dunn could notice and be startled by the sudden change from Uriah, Rocky took that moment to process the spiritual power within his body and put the magical saliva to use immediately.

a twinge of doubt and hesitation. But he kept it all to himself, remaining confident and steeled outwardly, as all his focus went to defeating Rocky in this contest. He decided to hold Uriah through his Razor-claw Wolf Bear, which should stop

sound in the air. Its sharp claws sliced through the air in a speedy and powerful attack towards Uriah, preparing to deal a critical blow. Uriah's eyes opened wide and the upgraded spiritual beast sensed the attack. The flame which surrounded its entire body flared up in a flashing prominence. Uriah looked like it was enveloped with rippling, eternal flame. And the fires that surrounded its whole body kept expanding, growing like a brushfire. At the sight of that beast galloping right to it, Uriah fearlessly

bay and unable to come closer. Although Razor-claw Wolf Bear was still looking at Uriah menacingly, pouring its strength into fighting him, it was evident that it was unable to move closer to Uriah's position. Soon, Razor-claw Wolf Bear was losing

different from what it used to be, with far stronger powers than ever before.

vicious purple in rage. However, he pulled himself together and determined that he would

attack. Rocky still hadn't moved, giving off the appearance that he'd been seriously injured. And for Dunn, this was the perfect moment to

was standing just one second ago. Meanwhile, Rocky had felt a strong

materialized in front of Rocky as a ghost, with one of his arms enveloped in spiritual light. The spiritual power emitting from him had transformed

his bloodshot eyes focused on the kill like the

body as he rose to the

he mounted the ninth grade

up three grades for anyone. Ever since Rainbow Glow Unicorn had moved to where Rocky stayed, it had brought Rocky rare treasures many times in order to get the magical saliva from him in exchange. Rocky only found two rare

was only one step beyond to the Heavenly Stage, a level previously considered an unreachable realm for countless ordinary spirit manipulators. He didn't want the undue attention of jealousy or

had come to shove and he felt that he wouldn't be able to

or to finally show his true strength. But

force to the chest, a star shaped light surged before Rocky, replete with the power of the Earthly Stage's ninth grade. Rocky had waited for precisely this moment to time his release and fight head-on