Chapter 480 - Taming the Platinum Ring - 4
The second platinum ring turned out to be easier for completely different reasons than expected.
Zhao had expected to have to dodge the mobile creatures of the vine forest, but soon realized the beasts were too busy fighting each other to pay him any attention.
The ecosystem was in an intense warfare.
The ’Dragon Egg’, symbiotic fusions between trees, animals, and sprouts looked like mountains constantly crashing against each other, living structures fighting for some reason. The conflict was brutal, each representing a different strategy for dominating the new mana concentration place.
Zhao flew between epic battles, observing how they struck and confronted each other, affecting control over mana intersections.
Victory meant access to prime mana nodes; defeat meant stagnation and longer waits again.
"It’s really like flying through a war zone," he murmured, dodging ’shrapnel’ from a spine projection that had been aimed from one competitor to another.
The creatures were so aggressive with each other that a small intruder simply didn’t register as existing. Zhao took advantage of the chaos, flying uninterrupted while staying as far away from conflicts as possible.
The battles were too focused, too intense for the combatants to spare attention for anything that wasn’t an immediate threat to their new territorial claims. Zhao was beneath their notice, a gnat flying through a battlefield of titans.
The journey through the second ring took hours, but was notably less stressful than the first. His only challenge was navigating around battles without getting caught in crossfire.
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The third platinum ring was also abnormal as it greeted him with disturbing silence.