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.

Uriah's upgrade. At the sight of its highly strengthened morphology, he could not help but feel 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 it from assisting Rocky in fighting back. Then, he could take the chance to pool all his strength to give Rocky one last blow, thus finally defeating him. Everyone carefully watching could clearly see that Rocky was in great danger as he was already badly

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

And at Uriah's end, the flames surrounding his body kept Razor-claw Wolf Bear at 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

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

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

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

he was standing just one second ago. Meanwhile, Rocky had felt a strong energy trace heading towards him, with a true killing aura. Furrowing his brows, he braced himself to counter-attack.

The spiritual power emitting from him had transformed into endless swords, surging

roared with his bloodshot eyes focused on the kill like the devil himself.

spiritual power surrounded his whole body as he rose to the eighth grade of the Earthly Stage. And furthermore, the spiritual power

until he mounted the

the ninth grade of the Earthly Stage. Barely three months earlier, he was close to the sixth grade. Three months was considered too short to go 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

just yet. It was well known that the ninth grade of the Earthly Stage 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

shove and he felt that he wouldn't be able to beat Dunn

for Rocky: to admit defeat or to finally show his true strength.

struck him at full 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