He yelled, "Phase II of Blood-Burning Manic Change!"

Within the same breath, his viscera and tissues started to burn madly, while his huge body grew slowly. His muscles began to swell and his strength gradually increased. In each stage of the Blood-Burning Manic Change, Lawrence boosted his power by 3%, so in the second stage, Lawrence boosted the power to 6%.

Boom…

Suddenly, one of his legs doubled in size, followed by the other leg, arms, and other parts of his body, all of which adhered to that same pattern. Seeing that Lawrence had activated the second stage of the Blood-Burning Manic Change, the crowd cheered once again.

"The second stage of the Blood-Burning Manic Change! Lawrence is doing his best!"

"Good! The first stage was able to completely suppress Steve, so the second stage will certainly defeat him!"

"I used all of my wealth to bet on you to win, Lawrence, so you must win!"

"Lawrence! Lawrence!"

...

More than eighty percent of the crowd was shouting Lawrence's name. Many of the soldiers, all of who, had paid a lot of money to bet on Lawrence's victory, were shouting the most frantically of the bunch!

At this time, Lawrence's strength was growing. In fact, it now exceeded 410 points! His body, including his legs, hands, and chest had already doubled in size! Once his skull expanded, his strength would rise by another 3%!

At this moment, Steve felt the Star of Hope on his chest suddenly heat up. Steve's eyes felt as if they had just been p.r.i.c.ked by two needles! As it was extremely painful, Steve could not help but close his eyes, then open them again.

At that moment, an invisible airflow flew out of Steve's mouth and went straight into Lawrence's skull before flowing throughout Lawrence's whole body. It was then that Steve suddenly remembered Vivien's "lucky kiss" from earlier!

The stinging pain lasted only for a moment, about two quick blinks. As Steve closed his eyes again and opened them again, he found that his lips were the same as before. Lawrence also looked the same.

It was as if he had hallucinated the entire scene involving the airflow and the Star of Hope's heating up! Steve was unsure if he had actually seen the airflow, or if it was really just an illusion!

As Steve was still pondering this, Lawrence's eyes suddenly turned red. At the same time, one of his ears doubled in size, while the other ear remained unchanged.

"Ah ah ah..." Lawrence suddenly held his head and screamed. At that moment, the surge of power within his body ceased. It appeared that even that powerful airflow was weakening!

"This is not good! Lawrence's second step has failed!"

"He failed to transform, which led to the cessation of the Blood-Burning Manic Change ahead of time!"

"Why did this happen?'

"No! G.o.d, you've got to be kidding me! Lawrence was going to win. Why did the transformation fail?"

...

As Lawrence's second stage in the transformation had failed, which was unexpected to everyone present, they all began to shout out in dismay. But, this provided the perfect opportunity for Steve to fight back!

"It's my turn!" Steve yelled. "Now, take my punch!"

Steve clenched his fist with the Blessed Ring of Earth. By this time, the Blessed Ring of Earth had acc.u.mulated sufficient power to exert its maximum rebound effect!