Ana looked her next opponent up and down carefully. The man also looked at Ana carefully.

‘ he suddenly asked Ana. His tone was soft and sweet as a woman's, making Ana shudder and cringe.

‘ Ana sneered, her spitefulness stemming from her discomfort.

The man understood at once the implications of Ana's words. He became angry at once, but immediately rubbed his face with his slender hand, as if to soothe an ache. In contrast to his annoyed expression, he said in a gentle voice,‘

Upon hearing his words, Ana became speech less. The corner of her mouth twitched. She replied ‘ Ana couldn't help but look around, noticing the absence of a beast.

the man said and made a rather flamboyant gesture with a matching pose.

All of a sudden, Ana felt a strange force faintly coming from the air. She was still unable to determine it's source accurately.

Suddenly, Ana felt a constricting tightness around her whole body. Both her hands and feet seemed to unable to move. Then she heard a hissing sound again.

A moment later, Ana saw a thick python looming over her. She looked up and studied it carefully. From it's body, three snake heads with women 's faces had crimson tongue. Three pairs of eyes staring unblinking at her coldly.

Just now, the man had deliberately talked to her, so that he could let his war beast take the opportunity to come closer to Ana and launch a surprise attack against her.

Ana was quite annoyed at this devious tactic and decided it was time to even out the score.

‘ Ananta, it's time for you to come on the stage!’ Ana pursued her lips, letting forth a sharp whistle.

All of a sudden, accompanied by a furious cry, a beast shadow suddenly jumped onto the stage. It had strong body and an imposing manner like the head of beasts.

The audience gasped at the sight of this magnificent creature.

‘ It turns out to be a three star war beast...’ as soon as Ananta came on stage, it immediately attracted the attention of every one present.

However, the most confused person present was Priest Dean.

He scratched his head, utterly perplexed.

Ana 's opponent paled at the realisation that Ana's war beast was not inferior to his at all.

Ananta immediately rushed to Ana as soon as it came on stage. It made a vigorous leap, opening it's gigantic mouth. It bit the Medusa, causing it to let go of Ana.

Then Ananta began to wield it's greater power. With one paw. It pressed the Medusa down to the ground and launched violent attacks against it.

At that moment, the crowd was also surprised to see that Ananta was so powerful. It never occurred to them that Ana could have such a powerful three star war beast, which was another shocking surprise to them.

Ana, who had just regained her freedom, immediately shot her opponent an evil smile.

Then she shouted loudly,‘ You wanted to make a fool of me, didn't you? I'll beat you right now to an extent that your mother won't recognise you’,

‘ How dare you be so arrogant? You are at fifth grade of mortal stage, which seemed to be slightly inferior to me. Our war beasts are both three star, so I definitely have an edge over you ’, her opponent retorted angrily.

‘ You think I'm at the fifth grade of mortal stage? Really? Take a look for yourself!’ Ana 's face beamed with pride. She slowly raised her left arm and dragon spirit mark on it suddenly flashed. Then, her whole body was covered with a pale halo.

All of the spirit manipulators gasped, knowing full well that the emergence of the halo represented the fact that a spirit manipulator 's strength had already reached beyond the fifth grade of mortal stage.

‘ This is.... This is the sixth grade of mortal stage..’

‘ Oh my god, she has already improved to the sixth grade of mortal stage, hasn't she?’

‘ She is too strong! It only took her less than two months to turn from a useless waste to a royal spirit manipulator at the sixth grade of mortal stage!’

The whole square was filled with people's excited cheers.

The crowd was jubilant, yelling and cheering. What an unexpected and yet welcome surprise!

In an instant, the atmosphere of the whole square transformed entirely.

It was all because of someone who had been regarded as a useless waste by everyone from the very Beginning.

She was so powerful now! They all stared at her, noticing that her figure had grown so tall! In the face of her great power lay endless possibilities for her and her Empire!

‘ That is the strength of the sixth grade of mortal stage! What happened? How could she have reached the sixth grade of mortal stage...’ Priest Dean was stupefied by what he had just seen.

‘ Humph! Who used to accuse Amelia of being a waste? Are you seeing this? In just a span of two months, she had already reached the sixth grade of mortal stage. Even the eldest Prince, Edgar wasn't able to achieve that when he was Amelia 's age’, Lena said as she beamed with joy. Meanwhile, she threw a scornfully glance at Priest Dean. She always disliked him for being mean towards Amelia.

‘ What? She did all of it in two months!?’ Erica, hearing what Lena said, was completely startled. If she didn't see it for herself, she probably wouldn't believe it to be true. She had to admit that even she couldn't make that happen in a span of two months.

Felicia who was next to Erica also had the same startled look on her face.

‘ Yes, it only took her two months to reach sixth grade of mortal stage from the first grade. Basically before two months she was in first grade of mortal stage’ Lena explained in details with great pride.

They all kept thier silence but thier mind raced wildly. If what Lena said was true, it only proved that Ana was definitely a peerless talent among the spirit manipulators.

‘ As the right full heir to the most precious blood of the Holy Dragon Empire, she really does live up to her reputation.... Your Majesty, you really gave us a big surprise....’ Felicia who was well known for her High standards couldn't help but exclaim after everything they just saw.

‘ Preceptor Felicia, you flatter me! My daughter Amelia works very hard but she is not talented’ the Emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire said modestly. As her father, the emperor felt like he never had a sufficient understanding of his own daughter.

‘ If she had not been qualified to be regarded as a talent, then our Magic Phoenix Empire should feel ashamed for our lack of genius like her’, Felicia said honestly.

The emperor said nothing as a smile flickered in his eyes.

In the battlefield, when the man saw that Ana's strength was at the sixth grade of mortal stage, he suddenly felt a little scared. Yet, before he could figure out a new skill to use against Ana, the next moment, Ana had already rushed towards him.

In a state of panic, the man desperately cried ,‘ Medusa...’ obviously, out of instinct, he wanted to summon his war beast to protect himself.

However, all he heard was a painful roar from Medusa. He saw that Ananta holding Medusa in it's mouth and threw it on the sky. As a result, it flew out of the square and within a split second, fell to the ground with a loud thud.

( A/n: poor guy... Rest in peace)

Losing his last resort, the man suddenly turned pale as a piece of paper. Apparently, he had lost all his momentum and was no longer in the right condition to fight. In the end, he had no other choice but to surrender.

At that moment, the audience suddenly cheered as loud as they could. As citizens of the Holy Dragon Empire, they were very excited to see Ana's out standing performance at such a critical moment. Her victory had won three points to thier Empire. As a result now the score was tied at six.

Therefore, the next fight was about to be the final match.

Since both Ana and the last contestant of the Magic Phoenix Empire were at the sixth grade of mortal stage. Thier fight would be an intense. At that moment, everyone in the audience was lost in thier thoughts. But they all had glimmer of hope that they could claim the final victory for thier Empire.

‘ Your Majesty, it is very rare for us to witness such a wonderful contest. To make the contest more attractive, we, the Magic Phoenix Empire will no longer hide our Trump card from everyone ’, Felicia said abruptly.

Once Felicia was done speaking, she immediately nodded at Erica.

Erica, as Felicia 's best disciple, knew what her master was talking about at once. She then got up from her seat and disappeared to fulfill her request.

‘ Preceptor Felicia, I am confused. What exactly are you talking about?’ the emperor asked out of curiosity.

‘ Be patient, Your Majesty, you'll find out in a second ’, Felicia responded.

The final contestant finally showed up on the ring and stood infront of Ana with a three star war beast with her. It's shape was like a wolf but it's face looked like a fox.

Ana found it was waging it's three very bright and thick red tails and the aura it was excluding was no inferior to Ananta.

‘ I didn't expect you to be the youngest among all the seven phoenix spirit manipulators ’ Ana said after talking a careful look at her opponent.

The gurl looked about sixteen years old.

‘ Erica told me that I don't need to hold back in our fight. If I succeed in defeating you, she will give me a red spiritual crystal as a reward. So I'll make it certain that you lose to me’ the big eyed girl said with a naive tone.

‘ Little gurl, what is your name?’ Ana asked.

‘ Tasha Tian’, the gurl answered briefly.

‘ Tasha, are you sure you can defeat me?’ Ana asked folding her hands across her chest. In her mind, her real strength was seventh grade of mortal stage where as Tasha was at sixth grade. As long as Ana exerted her full strength, Tasha would lose without a doubt.

‘ Erica was right. She told me you would underestimate my strength. But I'm telling you before we begin, I am not at the sixth grade of mortal stage. My master told me that I needed to hide my real strength a bit so that the people from the Holy Dragon Empire wouldn't have to experience a crushing defeat ’, Tasha said naively as she winked her big eyes.

After comprehending her words, Ana was alarmed and her facial expression changed abruptly.

Earlier, Ana had been wondering why she couldn't see the phoenix spirit manipulators with some marks on thier arms. It turned out that they also had marks but different parts of thier bodies.

At that moment, due to increase in Tasha 's power, she could no longer hide her spiritual marks anymore.

‘ She is at the seventh grade of mortal stage....’ Ana glanced at her and immediately detected Tasha 's strength.

When the people watching the contest saw this, they were also alarmed and dumbfounded.

They initially thought it would be a close match. However, before they could even begin the fight. The drastic change had broken thier glimmer of hope.

‘ Preceptor Felicia, who exactly is this phoenix spirit manipulator..’ the emperor also witnessed the entire change.

‘ Her name is Tasha Tian. As the most talented girl among the new phoenix spirit manipulators. She only comes second to Erica, my best disciple. Tasha is also my final disciple.’ Felicia obviously wanted to win back some honor.

For some reason the Emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire felt that there might still be some hope.

He was not alone in feeling this way. Almost everyone present seemed to be expecting another miracle.

Ana looked at Tasha, whose whole body glowed faintly with spiritual light.

Suddenly, Ana burst out laughing, her eyes growing cold,‘ It seems that you are better than I thought little gurl. Why don't I also show you my real power ?’ As she spoke, the dragon spirit mark on her left arm flickered suddenly. At first, it was sixth grade of mortal stage, but in the blink of an eye, the spiritual light increased dramatically, reaching the seventh grade of mortal stage.

The entire place broke out in a frenzy.

‘ The seventh grade of mortal stage! What? How!?’

‘ She has also reached the seventh grade of mortal stage!’

‘ Oh god, is she still Human? She is much more powerful than we ever imagined!’

‘ She deserves to be recognised as the royal spirit manipulator who had fused with the Holy Dragon Bead. Her power is amazing!’

All sorts of cries of surprise followed.

The Emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire and others were surprised to see Ana 's strength improve once more.

Felicia appeared to be worried. She hasn't expect Ana to hide her strength at seventh grade of mortal stage.

‘ She indeed has the blood of the royal family ’, Felicia said deliberately, shooting a meaningful look at the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire.

At this moment, the Emperor couldn't help but let loose a smile. His daughter was winning glory for the Holy Dragon Empire. If not for her, thier Empire would have certainly been disgraced then and there.

‘ Unbelievable..... The seventh grade of mortal stage!!’ Priest Dean couldn't believe his eyes .

‘ Is she still the Amelia I know?’ even Lena, who has been happy before was utterly surprised.

Ofcourse, she didn't know that the real Amelia was long gone and she has been replaced by one of the best and most credible genetic scientist in the modern world.

Edgar 's heart was filled with jealousy and his eyes flashed with a malicious glint. He couldn't believe that his little sister was stealing the spot light now.

The original good for nothing suddenly become his biggest rival.

His father's silence at Felicia 's words regarding to successors had infuriated him, while simultaneously scaring him. He couldn't allow such a threat to exist.

By this time an evil idea had arisen in Edgar 's mind.

At this moment, the charming figure standing in the crowd slowly took off her cap and showed her beautiful face. She stared closely at Ana and said to herself,‘ It took only half a month from the fourth grade to the seventh grade of mortal stage. What methods did she use to cultivate herself? Even with the power gathering crystal and miracle liquid, it's still impossible to make such an amazing progress’,

She was Marcia, the very same person for whom Ana was able to participate in the contest.

Marcia had discovered Ana's hidden strength of fourth grade of mortal stage when she tested her nature. She gifted Ana many useful items. She was keen to see what surprises Ana could bring her.

And now, she was very satisfied with Ana's amazing performance. She smiled to herself, knowing that her decisions had been proved to be right all along.

At the centre of all the commotion.

Tasha was shocked that Ana had the strength of the seventh grade of mortal stage. For a long time, she thought that no new manipulator could be stronger than her.

However, today she came face to face with a royal spirit manipulator who had matched her power.

‘ I must defeat you. I'm sure I'm better than you’, Tasha suddenly put her hand on the Three tailed fox beside her.

The beast turned into a red light and gradually fused with Tasha.

Everyone who watched this scene was stunned.

‘ Spirit possession... A spirit manipulator at the mortal stage who can even conduct spirit possession!’ Exclamations broke out.

Spirit possession was that kind of where magic, where the spirit manipulator could fuse with the spirit manipulated beast and posses the power of them. However, this was very dangerous process, once the spirit possession was carried out, if the spirit manipulator can't control the power, thier lives could be in danger.

So, Tasha was taking a huge risk here.

A/n: Hey! do you have the popcorn with you?

See, I'm such a lovely, sweet,nice and sexy author ( ꈍᴗꈍ).

Reminding you guys to bring the popcorn. Oh! And bring some for me too please..(◍•ᴗ•◍).