[ "ROAR—!ROAR—!ROAR—! How dare you play tricks on Bear King?!"
After realizing it had fallen into a trap, the Spearback's mind was completely filled with rage. With a furious roar, it raised a massive paw and swatted directly at Rover.
Yet, faced with this, Rover merely maintained his calm smile, without making even the slightest defensive posture. ]
〜Exposure Chat Group〜
Yangyang, Chixia: "Rover, watch out. ⦍WorriedJinhsi.jpeg⦎"
Changli: "No need to worry. If that attack could truly hurt him… I'm afraid that is precisely what he desires~ ⦍SmilingJinhsi.jpeg⦎"
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[ "BOOM—! BANG—! BOOM—! BANG—! BOOM—!"
Accompanied by an earth-shattering explosion, the result turned out just as Changli, who was watching, had described.
As the dust settled, Rover shook his head with a slight tinge of disappointment… He then looked at the Spearback King, who had been launched flying into the distance, expressing a bit of regret.
The creature had merely received a double-strength counterattack of its own full-power strike. It seemed that tasting the flavor of a Solaris bear paw wouldn't be happening anytime soon.
"Idiot. If combat were truly allowed here… the moment you entered, you would already be dead."
Inferno Rider, who now served as the Spearback King's third elder brother, stepped forward to check on it… Only after verifying that its life wasn't in danger did he refrain from holding back a snort and a mockery.
From this, one could also see that a bear's defense was truly extraordinarily tough. After all, it had taken a double-strength force of its own full-power strike head-on.
"Clap~ Clap Clap~ Clap Clap~ Clap. What a marvelous spectacle indeed. Looking at it this way, it was quite fortunate that I didn't try to seize the initiative first."
Cristoforo clapped his hands as he stepped forward to say these words. It was hard to tell whether he was offering praise or sneering in sarcasm.
However, his purpose had clearly been achieved, as everyone present couldn't help but become extra wary of Rover.
After all, looking at it through Cristoforo's phrasing, it really did seem as though Rover had set a trap to screw people over.
"You can eat whatever you want, but you can't just speak nonsense."
"Did I ever claim from start to finish that the standalone giant pumpkin was Aalto?"
"You should know that what I originally intended to say afterward was… that giant pumpkin might have been deliberately placed there by Aalto to confuse everyone."
"Who knew that guy would be so impatient, rushing ahead just to swallow all the rewards for himself?"
Rover shrugged nonchalantly. Though he didn't care much about Cristoforo's small antics, that didn't mean he didn't hold a grudge.
He was already secretly scheming in his mind how to play a trick on this gloomy, dark writer.
To be honest, if the Spearback King's attack had managed to hurt him just now… Cristoforo wouldn't be standing here talking at all anymore.
Of course, Cristoforo had naturally counted on this exact point, which was why he dared to step out and speak like that right now.
To put it simply, at this moment… Cristoforo was completely fearless.
"So you're saying… some of the things that look suspicious might actually be deliberate decoys placed by Aalto?"
"If that's really the case, then who could possibly find him?"
Cartethyia clenched her small fists indignantly. It wasn't hard to hear from her tone that… she felt Aalto was simply far too cunning.
"Hmph. That might not be so! Let me perform a divination."
"Aalto might be affected by the chat group and cannot be divined directly, but if it's just divining these ordinary objects…"
Iuno let out a tsundere hmph, then closed her eyes and began her divination.
Seeing that she possessed such an ability, the group pinned their hopes on her.
And right at this moment… above in the sky, streaks of purple lightning began to condense one after another. The scale of the gathering storm was so grand that it instantly caused everyone to knit their brows.
"RUMBLE—! BANG—! BANG—! BOOM—!"
When the lightning struck down, it rapidly condensed… eventually shrinking to the size of a fine needle, striking directly at the Spearback King's crotch.
"ROAR—!ROAR—!ROAR—!AWOOO—!AWOOO—! "
This caused the Spearback King, who was originally unconscious, to spring straight up like a corpse coming back to life, emitting a wail that made everyone involuntarily feel pity.
In the end, it rolled its eyes back, foamed at the mouth… and slumped back into a dead faint once more.
However, it was precisely this scene that made everyone instinctively tense their bodies… especially Iuno, who had already experienced the punishment of lightning.
Everyone silently agreed that nobody wanted to trigger a trap card like that… Fine, strike with lightning if you must, but why target the most vulnerable spot on the body?
In particular, the slight smell of something burnt was a constant reminder to everyone… that all of this was real and actually happening.
"Mmh. I found it. Right here… yes, right here… this seems to have an interaction with that Aalto."
A short moment later, Iuno reached out and pointed toward a nearby sack of wheat ears… Everyone looked over with joy.
However, when they saw what Iuno was actually pointing at, everyone's faces instantly turned dark.
"So, out of such a huge sack of wheat ears, one single grain might be transformed from Mr. Aalto?"
"There are at least several hundred thousand grains in there… How are we supposed to pick out the correct one?"
The underlying meaning behind Augusta's words was subtly hinting that Iuno could perform another divination…
It would be best if she could directly divine the specific grain that Aalto had transformed into.
Iuno could naturally understand such an implicit hint, but achieving this much was already her absolute limit.
She rolled her eyes, annoyed at Augusta, then subtly and softly shook her head without making a scene.
"Is that so… Cristoforo, your ability seems to be writing or rewriting scripts, right~?"
Rover also stared at the massive sack of wheat ears. After realizing it was impossible to pick out the correct grain from it, he immediately recalled Cristoforo's ability.
"??? You… your memory has been restored?"
Cristoforo looked at the Rover in complete astonishment. His ability had never been exposed publicly… There was no way the other party could know after losing his memory.
Seeing this, the others also turned to look at Cristoforo in surprise. If what the Rover said was true…
Then this guy was indeed an extremely troublesome person to deal with. Unconsciously, everyone raised their guard against Cristoforo.
"No, I haven't. As for how I know… do you think there's a possibility that someone told me?"
"However, such things are not important right now. You should use your ability to rewrite this huge sack of wheat ears."
Rover deliberately kept him in suspense, planting a seed of suspicion deep inside the other party's heart without clarifying things.
Instead, he deftly redirected the topic back to the current challenge. ]