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.

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 hurt and seemed unable to

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

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 Uriah's position. Soon, Razor-claw Wolf Bear was losing ground, with the smell of its burnt fur wafting in the air. It was simply too difficult for the

Razor-claw Wolf Bear, Uriah was now completely different from what it used to be, with far stronger powers than ever before.

in rage. However, he pulled himself together and determined that he would still be the

hadn't moved, giving off

a truly murderous expression on his face, Dunn instantly vanished from where he was standing just one second ago. Meanwhile, Rocky had felt a strong energy trace heading towards him, with a true killing aura. Furrowing

as a ghost, with one of his arms enveloped in spiritual light. The spiritual power emitting from him had transformed into endless swords, surging all around his arm. With this razor weapon, Dunn swung his arm straight at Rocky's

bloodshot eyes focused on the

spiritual power surrounded his whole body as he rose to the eighth

until he mounted the ninth grade of the

in order to get the magical saliva from him in exchange. Rocky only found two rare treasures with the same power level as the middle grade Dark Heaven Egg. And each of them was the equivalent of one grade power in the Earthly Stage.

power at the Earthly Stage's ninth grade to others 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 undue attention

come to shove and he felt that he wouldn't be able to beat Dunn with the power of the eighth grade

were only two choices left for Rocky: to admit defeat or to finally show his true strength. But he'd decided

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