Free Web NovelChapter 2651: Chapter 2652: Situation Reversal
The Great Crown Prince was getting anxious as well; clearly he had already anticipated the outcome.
"Follow the route I tell you!" Ye Luo immediately sent a voice transmission to the Great Crown Prince.
The Great Crown Prince’s Mana moved at once, and just then, the Mana of those other princes had already closed in. The Great Crown Prince’s Mana narrowly, perilously, avoided their encirclement and entered the maze.
Yet the route Ye Luo pointed out for him simply didn’t stand up to scrutiny; it looked exactly like a dead end!
But the Great Crown Prince grit his teeth and actually chose to believe Ye Luo!
Because he knew that even if he managed to walk out of the maze, there would definitely be a few princes’ Mana waiting for him there! By then, failure would be inevitable. The outcome of the previous rounds had already proven this!
However, as time passed, the Great Crown Prince’s eyes lit up, because the route he had thought was a dead end was actually becoming clearer and clearer.
The other princes’ brows furrowed as well. They only knew this Formation well, but as for the situation inside, they naturally couldn’t see clearly; otherwise, why would the Great Crown Prince be stupid enough to make this bet with them?
Still, they were very familiar with this Formation already; they had many tactics thoroughly figured out and weren’t overly worried, continuing to wait for the Great Crown Prince at the exit!
The Great Crown Prince was well aware of this too. After all, no matter which route you took, you had to pass through that inevitable chokepoint! At that time, wouldn’t the outcome be the same?
Only, he had no other choice now. Every step his Mana took was incomparably difficult. Without Ye Luo’s command, his Mana would immediately be forced out!
Very soon, under Ye Luo’s direction, his Mana actually doubled back!
This left the Great Crown Prince somewhat at a loss. The rules of this match were indeed that whoever was eliminated first would lose! Moreover, the comparison between them was even more special: they had agreed that if the eldest son lost three rounds, he would naturally be deemed defeated, while for the remaining rounds, no matter which prince lost, it would all count as the Great Crown Prince’s victory!
Otherwise, why would the Great Crown Prince agree to such stakes! In truth, he was fairly confident in his own intellect. He believed that even if these people joined forces, he could at least defeat one of them; in that case, his chances of victory were still quite high!
He hadn’t expected the situation to turn out like this!
"Channel your Mana to the maximum!" Ye Luo growled.
Immediately, the Great Crown Prince’s Mana surged to its limit!
"Attack!"
With Ye Luo’s Divine Sense transmission, the Great Crown Prince’s Mana suddenly collided with one prince’s Mana!
Or rather, the Great Crown Prince was completely launching a sneak attack!
Because those princes’ Mana were all waiting for the Great Crown Prince’s Mana to appear, none of them were using their full strength. Even so, several princes together could easily crush the Great Crown Prince’s Mana!
Hit by this ambush, that prince immediately panicked. His realm was indeed higher than the Great Crown Prince’s, but the problem was that within this Formation, his Mana was far inferior to the Great Crown Prince’s!
In almost an instant, that prince’s Mana was forced out.
By the time the other princes reacted, it was already too late!
"Haha, referee, announce the result!" The Great Crown Prince suddenly burst into laughter, venting quite a bit of the pent-up frustration in his heart.
"The Third Prince of the Southern Demon God’s Hall is slightly inferior!" Ye Luo announced on the spot.
Only, more than half the people present now looked at Ye Luo with icy eyes.
"Hmph, there are still two rounds. Great Crown Prince, you’d best pray for yourself!" the Third Prince replied coldly.
Next, the atmosphere in the arena turned gloomy, because since the Great Crown Prince had already won one round, it was very possible for him to win a few more. For those princes, the situation on the field was already slipping out of their control.
The match continued!
This time, the Formation was actually completely different from before—in other words, the princes had secretly switched the Formation!
The Maze Formation was entirely different from the last, even more obscure and inscrutable. One could say this Formation was several levels higher than the previous one. To fully figure out the maze, one would at least need a long period of contemplation. Of course, the stronger this maze was, the more exits it had. The princes’ encirclement of the Great Crown Prince’s Mana would be much harder, because they had no idea from which exit his Mana would emerge!
Of course, they did not believe the Great Crown Prince could easily pass through this maze! Moreover, this Formation had another trait: if you couldn’t make it through the maze within the time of half an incense stick, you would be forced out!
And these princes understood this Formation very clearly; they had long since prepared specific routes and methods to walk out of the maze!
As soon as the Great Crown Prince’s Mana entered this Formation, his expression naturally changed. He immediately realized that the Formation was different, and he was completely at a loss before the maze in front of him, because on the surface, this maze didn’t have any viable paths at all!
Because even the so-called paths were filled with deadly peril! Without going through multiple failures, it would be impossible to feel out a way through to the exit!
Now, the Great Crown Prince could only pin his hopes on Ye Luo.
"Move as I say!" Ye Luo’s Divine Sense came again, sounding like celestial music to the Great Crown Prince!
Though this Formation was much more advanced, it was nothing to Ye Luo, because with the Clairvoyant Eye he could clearly see the mechanisms within the maze. To him, these mechanisms were essentially nonexistent. So in fact, compared to the previous one, this Formation was even simpler for Ye Luo!
After all, the key to the previous Formation lay in how to avoid the princes’ Mana interception. He hadn’t expected those princes to panic and actually switch to a Formation like this.
The princes’ Mana were advancing slowly within this maze. Even with experience, they had to be extremely cautious. Also, they couldn’t inject too much Mana here, because the more Mana they used, the harder it was to control and the easier it was to trigger restrictions. Thus, each prince had only injected a single wisp of Mana.
However, Ye Luo had demanded that the Great Crown Prince directly use his strongest Mana! Over this, the Great Crown Prince couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat. Even though this was his first time entering the Formation, he could already see some clues: the stronger the Mana in this Formation, the more it was like courting death!
Of course, for now he could only follow Ye Luo’s instructions.
After that, under Ye Luo’s command, the Great Crown Prince’s Mana began to move.
Every time it passed by a restriction, it was just right—sometimes his Mana brushed past a restriction by a hair’s breadth! This made the Great Crown Prince’s heart leap into his throat, because if he lost one more round, he would already be defeated.
