Fire-Breathing Ants

Karos instinctively turned to look in one direction, only to meet the Lava Brotherhood's bald wizard's meaningful gaze. The latter quickly turned his face away, while Karos's expression rapidly darkened.

"Crack, crack—"

Within the secret realm, the final two mirrored platforms suspended in midair gradually rose and slowly drew closer, as if they were about to merge.

Two figures stood at opposite ends of the platforms.

One was a young man clad in a crimson robe, a wild and sinister smile on his face. His body seemed to be trembling slightly, and his hands hanging at his sides kept twitching.

But only those familiar with him knew that this was not fear or nervousness. It was the manifestation of intense anticipation, excitement so great that it made him tremble.

A madman.

Obadiah!

By this point in the inheritance selection, details of the young man's identity had gradually spread.

He was no nobody. On the contrary, he came from a renowned and illustrious family within the Lava Brotherhood. The bloodline inherited within that family had practically upheld nearly half of the Lava Brotherhood's reputation in the Jade Southlands!

And the previous inheritor of that bloodline... still stood at the peak among the Lava Brotherhood's younger generation of wizard geniuses.

Compared with Obadiah, his opponent appeared far more ordinary.

An obscure young genius from the Ring of Law.

Though he was likewise an exceptionally gifted prodigy, the abilities he had displayed throughout the competition had constantly shattered others' understanding of the limits of his talent and strength.

But how could an ordinary genius like that be compared with a "madman" who possessed a bloodline that could not be judged by common sense? Not to mention the obvious disparity in their spiritual power cultivation.

Under rules that prohibited the use of magical equipment,