Chapter 357: Constantly Growing Youths (1/2)

“Did he actually manage to learn a skill which can defeat the crystal demon?”

Ayrin’s eyes widened in shock.

Everyone watched as the reddish-purple sapling contorted and transformed into an extremely strange looking vine.

The vine was dark green in color and was covered with long downy hairs, making it look like a long green fox tail.

Countless slender roots writhed as the foxvine immediately tore itself out of the metal fragment covered ground and attached itself onto the crystal demon.

“I’ve done it!” Stingham exclaimed as he let out a sigh of relief.

He could clearly sense that the foxvine’s slender roots had already fully taken root within the crystal demon.

“Boom!”

The air around the crystal demon shook as a green gas spewed out from its hands.

“The crystal demon has copied Stingham’s skill! How will Stingham deal with it?” Ayrin shouted nervously.

“Wahahahaha…” Meanwhile in the crystal ball, Stingham stuck his hands at his waist and laughed with glee.

“You idiot, I rolled around this entire time and only found this one usable seed. So even though you have copied my skill, there isn’t a way for you to use it!”

Stingham continued to laugh as the green gas released by the crystal demon slowly faded away without any effect and cracking sounds began to emanate from within its body.

“Crack crack crack…”

The crystal demon shattered into countless shards. These shards liquified into droplets and then recondensed into their original crystalline forms within the ground.

“What is he doing now?” Rinloran said in bewilderment as Stingham did not head immediately towards the exit which had appeared.

Instead, Stingham stood in place and looked around, as if to make sure no one was watching.

After several seconds of this, Stingham cautiously began pocketing the Demon Transforming Wax Crystals on the ground.

“This idiot… does he truly think no one would discover his actions! And why take the crystals of all things? Those crystals are completely useless outside of this domain!” Rinloran shouted as black lines appeared over his face.

“Hahaha, Stingham is pocketing some of the Demon Transforming Wax Crystals?” Ayrin and Chris couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

“This child is a little too…” All the referees and medical masters were speechless.

At this moment, Belo and Moss successively appeared in their field of vision. The medical squad quickly ran up to the two of them and began treating them.

“Brave warrior Belo! Brave warrior Moss! You guys are so strong!” Ayrin shouted as he waved his fist excitedly towards the two.

“Stingham!”

As Stingham appeared a couple of moments later, several referees shouted his name in unison as they scolded him, “Take out the Demon Transforming Wax Crystals. You are not allowed to take them with you.”

“Eh? I’ve been found out!”

A look of frustration appeared on Stingham’s face as he took several crystals out from within his robes.

“Eh? Rinloran, why is your face so ugly? Did you suffer a heavy injury?” Stingham abruptly asked upon noticing Rinloran’s dark expression as he handed the crystals over to the referees.

“Idiot! It’s all because of you!” Rinloran seethingly replied as he shot towards Stingham and chopped at his neck

“Of Morgan and the others, still not a single person has come out. Mister Clancy, can we obtain the Heart of Fury now, or must we wait for them to come out?” Ayrin asked at this time.

“You guys can have it now,” one of the other referees replied immediately, albeit with a complex expression on their face.

None of them had imagined that Holy Dawn Academy’s team was so much stronger than the other two teams.

Dragon Breath Academy and River Bend Academy’s teams had both encountered difficulty in the previous trial, and thus had only just entered this one. It was likely that they would need to wait at least another half an hour for the first members to appear.

“Heart of Fury?”

Stingham and Rinloran immediately quieted down.

“Just what does the Heart of Fury look like?”

Stingham immediately rushed to the front of the stone pillar which held the box containing the Heart of Fury.

The six youths huddled together around the pillar.

“So it really does look like a heart,” Ayrin exclaimed.

Upon opening the box, a heart shaped fruit appeared before them. The outer skin was blue and felt similar to a mango’s skin. A powerful energy could be felt beating within.

“Is this really a fruit? Why does it look like the heart of an evil demon?” Stingham muttered to himself. Afterwards, he abruptly asked a referee, “Hey mister, since we came out so early, and because all six of us passed, shouldn’t we be rewarded further? Say, why don’t you give us another half of the fruit?”

“Idiot!” Rinloran shouted as he felt an urge to kill once more.

“Don’t be greedy. Considering the six of you, just this one Heart of Fury will be more than enough to reach your limits,” Leonardo replied.