The situation reversed abruptly. The balance of the three-way stalemate was completely shattered, and Kylen and Sylvia were instantly trapped in a desperate situation.
Cheers at the Stellar Plaza surged wave after wave. The real-time odds of Brandt winning the championship soared from 1:4.5 to 1:1.5.
The precise teleportation brought by Spirit Body Dissociation and the lake water gush of the Mythic Class Abyssal Relic, Riverside Beast Contract Academy had clearly been preparing for this battle for a long time.
Standing upwind, Brandt gripped the Lakeward Chalice tightly, his tone arrogant:
"Surrender! Just now I was waiting for reinforcements. What were you waiting for?"
Behind him, Nia and the other six contestants from Riverside Beast Contract Academy summoned their contracted creatures one after another.
Relying on the Celestial Tortoise's shell, they formed a tight defense line, not fearing Avelia's Primordial Assimilation at all.
In their eyes, as long as the Lakeward Chalice was activated, this duel would be settled.
However, the crimson goo on Avelia's back suddenly surged.
More than a dozen arm-thick goo tentacles wriggled out, with tiny blood coagulation crystal thorns condensed at their tips.
She raised her hand and aimed at the golden Mystic Shield, and scarlet energy spots suddenly flickered on the shield's surface.
Sylvia instantly understood.
At this moment, they had to temporarily join forces to stop the activation of the Lakeward Chalice:
"Spirit Space Severance!"
Three waves of spatial distortion suddenly collided with the Celestial Tortoise's shell.
Taking advantage of this momentary interference, Avelia had already condensed the blood droplets Kylen had shot on the shield earlier into shape.
"Eternal-Crimson Lance!"
Crack.
Brandt stared in disbelief at the crack on the Celestial Tortoise's shell.
Those attached blood droplets, boosted by the scarlet energy spots, had transformed into a crimson goo lance with astonishing penetration power.
Boom!
The lance pierced through the Celestial Tortoise's shield and directly stabbed Brandt's right arm.
The intense pain made him groan involuntarily, and the Lakeward Chalice in his hand almost slipped away.
He had never imagined that the Heavenly Mandate Mystic Shield, hailed as absolute defense, would be shattered.
He never expected that Avelia could turn scattered blood droplets into a lethal weapon.
At the critical juncture, Avelia controlled the goo tentacles to reach for the falling holy grail.
Brandt endured the pain, activated Piercing Impulse, and slashed at the tentacles. At the same time, he stretched out his left hand in a hurry, trying to grab the relic again.
This brief stalemate bought time for the other side.
The five contracted creatures that Avelia had dominated earlier with Primordial Assimilation, two Desert Scorpions, two Frost Giants, and one Snow Spirit Fox, suddenly went crazy and rushed fiercely at Nia and the others.
Anyway, these were temporarily dominated creatures.
Kylen did not hesitate at all, letting them exchange injuries for lives to break through the defense line.
Although the Desert Scorpions fell first due to environmental discomfort, they bought a chance for the Frost Giants and the Snow Spirit Fox, successfully holding back the main force of Riverside Beast Contract Academy.
Brandt's eyes turned fierce. He no longer cared about the ownership of the holy grail and forcibly activated the Lakeward Chalice: "If that's the case, let's die together!"
The bronze holy grail covered with water patterns soared into the air, and a massive amount of abyssal lake water poured down.
These holy waters, blessed by lake spirits, were said to dissolve all abyssal evil forces.
In the extreme cold of the Blizzard Calamity, the lake water instantly froze into a towering snow wave, sweeping toward Kylen and Avelia as if to bury them completely.
Avelia held nothing back. She clasped her hands together, and the crimson goo tentacles behind her danced wildly. All the blood and goo under her control gathered in an instant:
"Crimson Wall!"
Boom!
A violent explosion erupted from the ground. A crimson goo blood wall tens of meters high rose from the ground, colliding head-on with the surging snow wave.
The moment the blood and goo seeped into the ice and snow, those inanimate ice shards actually began to be assimilated.
Just like dominating inanimate objects before, Avelia was going to bring this Thousand Lakes water under her control.
Exclamations erupted at the Stellar Plaza.
A bizarre scene was unfolding: the snow wave that was supposed to drown Kylen and Avelia actually changed direction under the traction of the goo blood wall, turning into a reverse ice and snow torrent that swept toward Brandt and the others.
"Impossible! This is a Divine Era Legacy. How could you possibly control it?" Brandt was horror-stricken.
He could not understand, no matter how hard he tried, that the relic he had high hopes for had become a weapon for the opponent's counterattack.
A faint sneer curled on Avelia's lips, and her crimson goo tentacles swayed gently: "So what if it's an Origin Relic? In front of a true Origin Sequence, it's just a toy that can be manipulated at will."
Whoosh whoosh.
The reversed ice and snow torrent swept Brandt into it.
The Celestial Tortoise quickly shrank its shell to protect him, but it was still knocked back repeatedly by the torrent, and the cracks on the shell became more and more dense.
Nia hurried forward to support the blood-spitting Brandt, her eyes filled with disbelief. The genius she had always admired was actually in such an embarrassed state.
Brandt coughed up a mouthful of blood, his chest heaving violently: "Stop them... I have a second contracted creature!"
The contestants from Riverside Beast Contract Academy perked up. That's right, they still had a trump card, and they still held the numerical advantage.
Moreover, Avelia's figure had obviously shrunk a bit after resisting the relic and controlling the torrent. She had clearly consumed a lot and would inevitably be unable to sustain it later.
But at that moment, long howls that shook the mountains tore through the wind and snow. In the face of these successive roars, the piercing cold wind seemed so weak.
"Roar!"
Everyone's hearts trembled, and they turned their heads to look behind Kylen one after another.
From the shadows, countless beasts slowly walked out: humanoid spirit-like Spirit Tribe, Four-Winged Pythons lying on the snow spitting cold-resistant flames, Two-Headed Griffins hovering in the air, Frostmark Giant Elephants galloping through the ice crystal pine forest, Specter Yakshas flapping their wings and holding tridents.
The number was probably no less than 2,000.
What was even more shocking was that these beasts belonging to different races did not kill each other. Instead, they were in perfect order, with red light of domination flickering in their eyes.
Although their realms were generally not high, most of them were at the One-Star Awakening Realm.
After all, the Abyssal Simulation Domain did not generate high-level beasts. But this huge number was enough to form an overwhelming force.
This perfectly aligned with Kylen's plan. Although his Primordial Blood Pact could not effectively control high-level beasts for the time being, it could easily dominate low-level creatures.
Kylen looked at the embarrassed Brandt and curled his lips into a faint smile: "You asked me what I was waiting for?
Are those scumbags behind you the so-called reinforcements? Open your eyes and look. This is what real reinforcements look like!"
Shock! After a moment of dead silence at the venue, the Stellar Plaza erupted into thunderous exclamations.
Sylvia also widened her eyes. She finally remembered that during the entrance test, Kylen had used blood to dominate beasts and created an amazing record.
At first, she and Imperial Contract Academy both thought that Kylen could dominate at most about a hundred low-tier beasts, and most of them were driven crazy rather than precisely controlled, which was not a threat. But now it seemed that he was simply a walking natural disaster.
Just then, an untimely system announcement sounded in the sky, breaking this suffocating confrontation:
"Contestant Kylen from Saint Laurent Academy dominates 2156 beasts. Points +21560!"
At this moment, the contestants, still trapped halfway up the mountain, unaware of the changes at the summit, looked at the suddenly soaring number on the scoreboard and showed expressions of disbelief, as if they thought there was a bug in the system.