So I Became a Witch and Started Doing Daily Quests

Chapter 412 : Final Showdown

"Everchanging Form—Facing the massive octopus tentacle that lashed toward him, Kumbu-Thornspike was not in the least bit anxious. In just an instant, he transformed into a massive leech, its body conical, covered in numerous vertical black stripes, and stretching nearly a meter in length.

At the very moment the tentacle was about to strike him, the black leech suddenly leapt forward, fastening itself firmly onto the tentacle. Its mouthparts dug in, voraciously sucking out the octopus’s blue blood.

"What disgusting thing is this!?"

The contestant who had transformed into a deep-sea octopus grew furious and panicked. No matter how much he shook, he couldn’t dislodge the bloodsucking leech, and a revolting, unsettling discomfort spread throughout his entire body.

"Whinny—"

Elsewhere, with a piercing neigh echoing, Louisto-Tulan—who was being chased by a deep-sea shark—transformed into a giant albatross. Its hooked beak curved sharply downward, its nostrils tubular and set apart, its legs and tail short, but its wings stretched to an impressive ten meters wide.

"Rip—"

As soon as Louisto-Tulan completed his transformation, the albatross viciously jabbed its sharp, hardened beak into the shark’s body.

With just one strike, crimson blood gushed from the wound, streaming into the surrounding waters and dyeing the sea red.

"Ran away?"

Just as Louisto-Tulan prepared to press his advantage, the contestant in shark form suddenly dove deep into the sea, refusing to engage the albatross in direct combat.

"Crackle—"

While Louisto-Tulan still hovered, waiting for the shark to resurface, a flash of violet lightning tore through the depths.

When the glow subsided, a five-meter-long, pitch-black deep-sea eel emerged from the waves, its entire body wreathed in electric arcs.

"Hela?"

Though the figure had transformed into a marine creature, the dense aura of darkness still allowed Louisto-Tulan to recognize her instantly—Hela-Helheim.

But when he sensed the contestant who had taken shark form vanish completely from the sea’s aura, Louisto-Tulan’s gaze toward Hela-Helheim grew heavy with dread.

"When did she master marine transformations?"

Having clashed with her many times in past transformation competitions, Louisto-Tulan knew Hela-Helheim’s favored forms well. Aside from shadow creatures, her strongest specialty had always been undead forms—

"Hm?"

As another surge of violet lightning crackled around Hela-Helheim, Louisto-Tulan, circling in the skies, noticed something sharp:

The deep-sea eel she had transformed into was no living creature at all—it was a skeleton shrouded in dark elemental power.

"As expected, an undead creature!"

Though surprised, he found it unsurprising. Yet what he hadn’t expected was that this undead eel, beyond enhancing itself with dark elements, could even wield the electric-discharge ability it had possessed in life. This realization made Louisto-Tulan’s heart grow heavy—

"She isn’t here."

While Louisto-Tulan analyzed Hela-Helheim, the woman herself was instead preoccupied with the sudden disappearance of Janna-Roland.

"Could her strategy in this round be hiding?"

Her suspicion wasn’t baseless. Logically speaking, Janna, who specialized only in plant transformations, would find it wise to conceal herself in this trial.

Yet Hela-Helheim did not believe that in these deep seas, Janna could rely on mere plant transformations to endure to the end.

"Don’t tell me she really transformed into seaweed and sank into the depths?"

But the ocean’s pressure was immense. A forced dive would only accelerate mana consumption, a pointless sacrifice—

"It’s a vortex!"

Just then, a contestant’s cry interrupted her thoughts.

Looking over, she saw a massive whirlpool forming nearby, its suction growing rapidly.

"Crackle—"

As several contestants tried to break free of the sea and take flight, lightning split the night sky once more, nearly striking them down.

"A vortex, lightning… will a tsunami come next?"

While fleeing opposite the whirlpool, Hela-Helheim quickly realized the reference point of this trial’s setting.

It was none other than the 【Elemental Soul Secret Realm】’s most infamous—and most perilous—【Calamity Domain】!

"Rumble—"

After the blinding flashes came deafening thunderclaps.

As the only contestant flying above the sea, Louisto-Tulan, caught in the heart of the raging storm, struggled to maintain his composure.

"La—La—La—"

Just as every contestant’s nerves stretched taut under the storm’s might, a voice suddenly drifted through the chaos. A song—enchanting, celestial, bewitching—cut through the thunder, whispering in their ears without warning.

"Why is there singing here?"

Meanwhile, in the 【Glory Arena】 spectator stands, the audience who had been watching every moment widened their eyes in disbelief, staring up at the circular sky-screen.

Minutes earlier, when the 【Bonsai Secret Realm】 had shifted entirely into the 【Endless Sea】, most spectators had fixed their attention on the three frontrunners: Janna-Roland, Louisto-Tulan, and Hela-Helheim.

As expected, Louisto-Tulan, master of avian transformations, had countered assaults by turning into an albatross—an expert at long-distance flight over oceans.

Meanwhile, Hela-Helheim, now in the final stage, shed all pretense and fully revealed her hand—

Transforming into a "Deep-Sea Undead Eel", a formidable "Electric Eel" capable of devastating shocks.

Her devastating electrical strikes, paired with the undead’s tireless endurance, allowed her to dispatch the shark-form contestant in mere moments, seizing his 【Anti-Magic Ring】 with ease.

Though the 【Endless Sea】 was dangerous, without interference from a 【Law Fragment】 wielder, the overlooked contestants now had their best chance to maximize their transformation prowess.