So I Became a Witch and Started Doing Daily Quests

Chapter 406 : The Eliminated Marquell

“Dong—”As Marquell-Storm’s 【Anti-Magic Ring】 rolled to the ground, the nearly three-meter-tall 【Ogre Flower】 quickly shrank.

In just a moment, the petals faded away, and before everyone’s incredulous gazes, Janna, who had transformed into human form, calmly picked up the fallen 【Anti-Magic Ring】 and stored it into the interdimensional space attached to her own 【Anti-Magic Ring】.

“It was her—”

Still reaping points above the magma lake, Louisto-Tulan was equally stunned when he saw Marquell-Storm being eliminated in an upset.

Although in the magma lake stage, Louisto-Tulan had forced Marquell-Storm into an extremely miserable state, as old rivals who had frequently “torn into each other” in various 【Transfiguration Trials】, Louisto-Tulan was very familiar with Marquell-Storm’s methods.

Aside from the trump card 【Fragment of the Law of the Hurricane】, it was Marquell-Storm’s unmatched speed advantage after transformation that always gave Louisto-Tulan a headache.

Therefore, in this stage, Louisto-Tulan’s core goal was not to eliminate Marquell-Storm, but rather to consume as much of his magic power as possible, thereby weakening his advantage in the next stage.

After all, Louisto-Tulan understood clearly that unless Marquell-Storm’s magic power was completely exhausted, his flames could never possibly touch him. But now, watching Janna walk composedly into the new 【Meditation Array】 by the magma lake shore, Louisto-Tulan still could not believe that Marquell-Storm had been eliminated so easily by her.

So much so that Louisto-Tulan began to wonder if he had overestimated Marquell-Storm, and that in truth, his magic power had long since been depleted. Had it merely been his own misjudgment that allowed Janna, the “fisherman,” to profit?

At this moment, as the center of everyone’s attention, whether inside the 【Bonsai Secret Realm】 or outside of it, all eyes fell squarely on Janna.

Some scrutinized, some dreaded, some guarded, and some doubted—

Only when Janna had already sat within the 【Meditation Array】 and begun recovering her magic power did others finally withdraw their gazes.

In fact, not only Louisto-Tulan, but quite a number of others also believed that Janna’s elimination of Marquell-Storm was purely thanks to Louisto-Tulan’s effort.

Even if Janna had shown a few brilliant moves in the previous trials, as a plant-type apprentice who only specialized in transforming into various plants, most people still did not think highly of her.

Plants had the advantage of incredible endurance and low magic consumption, but the lack of mobility and strong dependence on environment were also the most significant flaws of plant transformations.

Therefore, when the third stage of the 【Transfiguration Trial】 turned out to be a volcanic magma environment, even Gawen-Tull, who was quite familiar with Janna, did not have much confidence in her.

After all, as was well known, extreme environments were always the greatest enemies of most plants.

Especially extreme heat or extreme cold—both posed extremely unfavorable conditions for participants who specialized in plant transformations.

Fortunately, with the 【Flame Vine】, which granted complete immunity to fire, Janna had once again managed to survive.

But what about the later stages?

So far, the environments generated by the 【Bonsai Secret Realm】 had already included forest, hurricane, and flame. This meant that future stages might very well select new arenas from frost, water, or shadow elemental environments.

And those were precisely the types of environments where plant transformations had absolutely no advantage.

Accompanied by the sound of long, steady breaths, the storm of speculation surrounding Janna gradually subsided, and she smoothly entered a shallow meditative state.

Though it did not show on her face, Janna’s current magic power and stamina were both already near the danger line, and her condition was deteriorating badly.

Just minutes earlier, when she had crossed the magma lake in the form of a 【Flame Vine】 and just reached the shore, she had already been in poor shape. Otherwise, she would not have been so wary of Hela-Helheim.

As others had speculated, for a plant-type apprentice like Janna to survive in such an environment, completely opposite to her own nature, was undoubtedly a huge drain on her magic power.

Fortunately, the natural advantage of low magic consumption in plant transformations, along with Janna’s 【Precise Control】 talent allowing her to make meticulous use of every bit of magic, had enabled her to endure.

Thus, up to this point, until she encountered a trial environment more suitable to her, she planned to focus on steady development and not actively provoke conflicts.

Until she saw Marquell-Storm.

Besides being a plant-type apprentice, Janna was also a summoning-type apprentice with extremely powerful perception.

Especially after she acquired the 【Danger Perception】 talent, her environmental awareness—and even her sixth sense—had greatly increased.

When Marquell-Storm broke through the wall of flames in what appeared to be an extremely miserable state and landed not far from Janna, thanks to her high perception and the feedback from 【Danger Perception】, she instantly confirmed that Marquell-Storm’s condition was indeed very poor, and he was not merely putting on an act with Louisto-Tulan.

So, after two seconds of thought, Janna made a decisive choice. She immediately transformed into the 【Ogre Flower】, famed for high agility and explosive power, and took advantage of the stealthy nature of plant-type magical beasts to quickly sneak up to Marquell-Storm. Suddenly, she erupted from the ground and swiftly ended him.

From decision to action, the whole process had taken less than ten seconds.

But it was precisely that decisiveness which allowed Janna to eliminate one of the most threatening contestants in this 【Transfiguration Trial】—and to avenge herself for what had happened in 【Storm Valley】.

“You really are strong.”

While Janna was still meditating to recover her magic power, a low, husky female voice sounded not far from her.

Looking over, she saw Hela-Helheim, who had also entered the Meditation Array, staring fixedly at her, those dark violet pupils filled with probing curiosity.

“Thank you.”

At Hela-Helheim’s inexplicable praise, Janna, who did not wish to start a dispute with her for now, simply gave a faint smile before closing her eyes again and returning to shallow meditation.

“Rumble—”

As the remaining contestants one after another entered the Meditation Array, soon, the roaring sound of the 【Elemental Tides】 representing the third stage rang out once more.