Online Game: Starting With SSS-Ranked Summons-Chapter 354: Superior Rank

Jasmine raised her hand, gravitational fields bending around her like invisible shields. The thorns slowed, stopped, then reversed direction as she inverted the local gravitational pull.

Using its own attacks against it. Excellent adaptation.

The Thornback Sovereign's green eyes widened as its projectiles returned with doubled velocity.

It twisted away from most, but several found their mark, black sap spraying from puncture wounds.

First blood to Jasmine.

"Your turn," she called out, confidence building with each successful technique.

The creature's response was unlike anything Arthur had witnessed before. Instead of attacking directly, it pressed both hands against the ground.

What is it doing—

The entire clearing began to change.

Nearby trees started changing shape, their branches closing together to form a cage-like canopy.

Roots erupted upward, creating barriers and obstacles that turned the battlefield into a three-dimensional maze.

It's controlling the environment nearby... It's changing the rules of engagement to its favour.

"Clever," Jasmine admitted, studying the transformed arena around them. "But two can play that game."

She closed her eyes, reaching out with her senses.

Gravitational fields were everywhere—in the ground beneath their feet, in the air around them, in the very matter that composed the living cage.

When her eyes opened, they blazed with understanding.

"Let me show you what mountains feel like."

Oh, this is going to be spectacular.

Jasmine raised both hands skyward, fingers splayed as she reached for forces that dwarf human comprehension.

The gravitational field above the Thornback Sovereign began to compress, intensify.

She's creating a localised gravity well. Artificial mass.

The creature's massive body was driven to its knees as invisible weight pressed down from above.

Its carefully constructed environmental advantages became liabilities as increased gravity made every movement exponentially more difficult.

Now for the finish.

Dark energy flowed from Jasmine's position, her Saintess abilities activating to complement the gravitational prison. The Thornback Sovereign's life essence began flowing toward her in visible streams.

Perfect combination. Control and execution.

But superior-rank bosses didn't earn their classification by giving up easily.

...

Here comes its desperate move...probably it's last one.

The Thornback Sovereign's green eyes blazed with final defiance as magic coursed through its bark-covered body.

Its wounded body trembled, not from weakness, but from the sheer power building within its core.

[Forest's Wrath]

The ultimate ability activated with terrifying mana usage.

Every tree branch in the clearing, tens of them, suddenly turned toward Jasmine like accusing fingers. The Sovereign's territorial control reached its absolute peak, transforming the entire forest into a living weapon.

Oh shit.

"Master!" Mercury's warning came too late.

The branches attacked as one unified force, moving with speed that defied their nature.

They weren't just swinging—they were hunting, seeking, coordinating like a hive mind focused on a single target.

There are too many... I can't deflect them all.

Jasmine's gravitational fields flared desperately, but even her abilities couldn't create barriers in every direction simultaneously. She was about to be overwhelmed by sheer numbers.

A massive oak branch, thick as her torso, whistled toward her head from the left.

Duck!

She dropped low, feeling splinters shower her hair as the branch passed overhead.

Two more from the right, crossing patterns designed to catch her no matter which way she dodged.

No ground-level escape.

Panic flared in her chest as branches closed in from all sides. The gravitational prison holding the Thornback was failing as her concentration shattered.

Think! Father's memories...what would he do?

Time seemed to slow as instincts kicked in.

If you can't fight them horizontally...

Understanding exploded through her mind like lightning.

Go vertical.

Jasmine reached down with her gravity manipulation, not to create barriers or weapons, but to fundamentally alter her relationship with the planet beneath her feet.

If gravity pulls down, then I'll make it push up.

She inverted the gravitational field around her own body.

The effect was something that none expected...instantaneous and exhilarating.

Jasmine shot upward like a launched arrow, her feet leaving the ground as anti-gravity propelled her toward the canopy.

The attacking branches whistled harmlessly through the space she'd occupied milliseconds before.

I'm flying. Actually flying.

The sensation was indescribable.

Not magical levitation that fought against natural forces, but true mastery over gravity itself. She wasn't defying physics—she was rewriting them on a personal scale.

From her aerial position, the battlefield looked completely different. The Thornback Sovereign's forest maze seemed small, manageable.

Its territorial advantages meant nothing when she could simply rise above them.

Arthur watched her fly with shock. He didn't expect her to pull such a move whatsoever.

He smiled before muttering, "She's good..."

The Sovereign craned its neck upward, its green eyes wide with shock. Its ultimate ability had been perfectly countered by a technique its opponent had literally just invented.

Time to end this.

Jasmine hovered twenty feet above the ground, gravitational fields swirling around her like invisible wings.

The power coursing through her veins felt limitless, almost intoxicating.

From this height, everything is a target.

She raised both hands toward the creature below, combining her gravity talent with her own dark healing class

The space above the Thornback Sovereign began to warp visibly as Jasmine compressed gravitational forces into a concentrated field.

Not the pressure she'd used before, this was the weight of mountains against it.

Surrender or be crushed.

The creature's massive form was driven into the earth with irresistible force. Its bark armour cracked under impossible pressure. The carefully maintained forest transformation began to collapse as its creator's concentration shattered.

Now for the finishing touch.

Dark energy lanced downward from her position, blood magic finding its target's blood that was all over the floor. The Thornback Sovereign's life essence began flowing upward in crimson streams, defying gravity to reach her outstretched hands.

A few seconds passed by, and the Thorback Sovereign was nothing but a dead branch scattered in the jungle.

Jasmine descended slowly, savouring the controlled flight as gravitational fields lowered her to the forest floor gently.

Arthur approached with open admiration.

"Jasmine...that was very cool. You discovered aerial combat in the middle of a fight."