My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 576 - 386: First in Palace Examination_1

Chapter 576: Chapter 386: First in Palace Examination_1

Owen Bertram’s face was as calm as water. This was the first time he felt danger after entering the Hundredfold Path! However, he remained unperturbed. The current situation, compared to previous risks he had faced, how could it disturb his peace of mind as Lord Abbott!

Crack! The second halo in front of Owen Bertram broke open, closely followed by the third. Owen Bertram’s hands were moving so fast they were practically invisible. Accompanied by a crisp cracking sound, the third halo also shattered, and both men stood at the same starting line once again.

But Leroy Baker was still slightly in the lead, having solved half of the fourth halo. He continued to agitate Owen Bertram by saying, "You’re too slow, you’re really too slow!"

Crack! The fourth halo broke open, the spiritual light flowed into the central fireball, and a column of fire pushed towards Owen Bertram, forcing him to a stone slab. The terrifying heat came head-on, blowing Owen Bertram’s hair and even singeing the tips, which eventually turned into ashes.

"Accept your fate, with the help of Lord Eight Hills Mirror, you stand no chance against me!"

The fourth halo in front of Owen Bertram also shattered with a crack, barely levelling the playing field between the two warriors. But he seemed to fall a bit further behind compared to earlier, Leroy Baker’s progress on the fifth halo was a bit faster than Owen Bertram’s.

Yet Owen Bertram remained unruffled and in this uphill battle, in his eyes still showed unwavering confidence.

The turning point arrived at this moment. As the fifth halo appeared in front of Owen Bertram, he pointed his finger and countless rays of spiritual energy flowed into the halo. Following a cracking sound, the fifth halo was instantly broken!

The halo’s energy flowed into the central fireball and pushed the column of flame towards Leroy Baker, penetrating the area of the fifth stone slab. Leroy Baker’s face was filled with disbelief. How could he and Lord Eight Hills Mirror be surpassed? He had been ready to throw more provocative words their way only for them to be suffocated in his throat.

Ever since Owen Bertram had cracked the first halo, he had the unwavering confidence to pass this test. It was not because the Emperor had provided him with a "cheat sheet" beforehand — he hadn’t even looked at it and had given it to Leroy Baker. Owen Bertram, of course, had no intention of using such a trick to win the Palace Examination.

However, it was because the first halo had the structure of a fire talisman.

Following that, the second halo was a water talisman, the third was a metal talisman... Owen Bertram only needed to wait for the appearance of a wood talisman halo. Regardless of how far behind he was, he had confidence that he could immediately turn the tables!

Owen Bertram’s knowledge of talismans all came from the Annotations on the Pre-Heaven Wood Talisman Collection. Other types of talismans he had picked up by being around them, but when it came to wood talismans, it could be said he was unrivalled.

As expected, the fifth halo turned out to be a wood talisman. With one point of his finger, Owen Bertram shattered it, from falling behind to taking the lead.

Upon the emergence of the sixth halo, Owen Bertram broke it open at full speed. Under these circumstances, Owen Bertram was in no way inferior to Eight Hills Mirror. It was only now that, swamped, Leroy Baker had no time to pay attention to Owen Bertram, let alone spout grandiose words like before.

Crack!

The sixth lightning talisman halo was broken, its energy flowed into the fireball, and with a big boom, the column of fire moved into the range of the sixth stone slab! Meanwhile, Leroy Baker was soaked in a cold sweat, which was dried up quickly by the heat from the fireball. He found that the man from the Wood Dynasty was cracking the halos at an increasing speed!

He became flustered and cried out in his heart: "Lord Eight Hills Mirror, what’s the matter, are you worse than a cultivator of the Wood Dynasty? You’re such a disappointment. I’ve sacrificed everything for this, is all I get a failure? This is truly pitiful and shameful!"

Eight Hills Mirror was also provoked, the golden light in his eight eyes becoming incredibly dense, and from it stretched out imperceptible tendrils, evoking an extremely uncomfortable feeling. Looking at this scene was like being infiltrated by evil energy.

In such a state, his decoding speed increased significantly, but Leroy Baker had already become haggard, with dishevelled hair, bloodshot eyes, and sharp teeth, looking like a ghost!

Crack—

Finally, Leroy Baker and Eight Hills Mirror solved the sixth halo, pushing the column of fire towards Owen Bertram. However, Owen was about to crack open the seventh air talisman halo.

Leroy Baker yelled out in a strange cry: "Lord Eight Hills Mirror, please try harder, otherwise, how can you justify wanting to use my soul!"

Eight Hills Mirror’s golden tendrils emitted more vibrant and dense energy, but it was too late to reverse the course of the event. Owen Bertram suddenly shook his hands, and the seventh halo shattered! The column of fire rushed towards Leroy Baker’s space, the intense heat forced him to keep retreating, his back heavily hitting the wall. Then the fire column quickly followed up, and it was about to swallow him. The so-called "sacrifice for the country" and heroic spirit in his heart utterly collapsed in the face of impending death. He yelled: "I give up! I quit!"

The fire column abruptly stopped, then slowly pulled back. The same happened to Owen Bertram.

Leroy Baker was breathing heavily, showing his completely sharp teeth, drooling a substance of unknown composition which corroded small pits in the ground as it dripped.

When the fire column entirely retracted into the central fireball, Leroy Baker suddenly knelt on the ground. Subsequent gusts of wind surrounded him as he quit the competition, and he was expelled from the Hundredfold Path.

Owen Bertram saw that after Leroy Baker was sent away, the wall behind him had disappeared, revealing the passage to the next level. He walked around the central fireball and entered the passage.