The golden powder cleared out all of the puppets that were left and the Control Toad wasn’t able to do a thing.
The very last thing that it tried was releasing the black worms in an attempt to preserve some kind of force to protect it, but it all failed against this golden powder.
In the face of the golden powder, the Control Toad wasn’t able to do a single thing.
All it could do was watch as the last of its puppets were purified by the golden powder.
Eventually, it was completely surrounded.
There was a mist of golden powder around it and in front of it was Lin Fan’s water wall, so there wasn’t a single place for it to go.
All it could do was cower against the wall with a look of terror in its eyes.
After making sure that the elders and disciples were alright, Lin Fan turned his attention back to the Control Toad.
But when he did, he couldn’t help revealing a surprised look because there was a notification that appeared. Or rather there was a notification that appeared a long time ago, but he had been too focused that he hadn’t seen it.
It had been a long time since he saw something like this since he had faced mostly human opponents and spirit beasts that were already under the control of someone else.
[Control Toad (Youth) is filled with fear of you and reveres you. Affection has increased by 10.]
This was a notification that had appeared several times throughout this entire fight, but he had been too busy to notice them.
And at the very end, there was a different notification that appeared.
[Target for taming has been detected. Does the host wish to tame the Control Toad (Youth)?]
It had been a long time since he had used his Love Gauge Taming, but Lin Fan couldn’t help being tempted by this.
After all, while the Control Toad’s power could be considered despicable, it was certainly very useful. It was just as useful as Greeny’s abilities, but it was different from them to a certain extent.
He didn’t fully understand what the Control Toad’s abilities were, but he was certain that he would have a use for them.
Not to mention, there was a limit to how many puppets Greeny could have.
If he could double that with the Control Toad, there was no doubt that this would be useful…
So after a long period of hesitation, Lin Fan thought, “Yes.”
As soon as he thought this, there was a light that appeared around the Control Toad that only he could see. Even the snitch just floated there without noticing a single thing.
After it was gone, the Control Toad suddenly changed its behaviour.
At first, it didn’t seem to understand what had happened to it.
The first thing that happened was that the fear in its eyes slowly disappeared.
It didn’t know why, but it didn’t seem to fear this human that had just terrified it anymore. In fact, it felt like there was some kind of special bond that had been formed with this human that made it want to get closer to him.
The Control Toad didn’t move at first and just looked around itself, but then it took a slow first step towards Lin Fan.
When the snitch saw this, it suddenly released a mist of golden powder around itself as if it was about to attack the Control Toad.
This caused the Control Toad to flinch, but it didn’t back down. Instead, it looked at Lin Fan as if it was asking for help.
Lin Fan just grabbed the snitch and brought it back in front of him.
When he released it, the snitch started moving in an agitated manner, as if it was asking Lin Fan what he was doing.
Lin Fan just calmly said, “Hold on, it’s alright now. There’s no need for you to do anything, let me take care of it.”
The snitch didn’t stop moving in the same agitated manner.
It was as if it was telling Lin Fan that he couldn’t look down on this Control Toad and that he should take it out as soon as possible.
But Lin Fan shook his head and said, “Just trust me and let me take care of it.”
The snitch didn’t stop moving around, as if it couldn’t talk to Lin Fan anymore.
Before it could do anything rash, Lin Fan suddenly created a ball of water around this snitch.
The snitch froze when it found the ball of water around it before suddenly floating around in an even more agitated manner. If it wasn’t for the ball of water around it, it would have slammed itself right at Lin Fan.
Such obvious movement made it clear what the snitch was trying to say.
“What are you doing?!”
It couldn’t be more clear what the snitch was asking as it moved around like this.
Lin Fan just looked at it and calmly said, “Just trust me. I just want to make sure that you don’t do anything rash, so I locked you up for now. Watch and see what happens, I’ll let you out after.”
The snitch kept moving around in that same agitated manner as if it didn’t believe Lin Fan, but there was nothing that it could do since Lin Fan didn’t release the ball of water.
Instead of the ball of water, Lin Fan released the wall of water in front of him.
If the Control Toad wanted, that was its moment to run away.
The snitch was trapped, so the golden powder was slowly dissipating away.
At the same time, the wall of water that had trapped it was gone as well.
As long as it jumped, it would be able to dash past Lin Fan and escape.
But it didn’t do that.
The Control Toad just remained there, staring at Lin Fan with a strange look in its eyes.
Lin Fan took a step forward before reaching out with his hand. He held his hand forward, as if he was reaching for the Control Toad.
When the Control Toad saw this outstretched hand, it didn’t know what came over it. All it knew was that there was this strange sensation inside of it that wanted it to jump onto that outstretched hand.
The Control Toad didn’t know where this sensation was coming from, but it became harder and harder for it to resist this sensation.
So in the end, it couldn’t help jumping forward and landing in Lin Fan’s hand.
After it landed in Lin Fan’s hand, it just stayed still for a few seconds before suddenly bending down towards his hand. After coming up to it, it started rubbing its face against Lin Fan’s hand.
Lin Fan couldn’t help revealing a bitter smile when he felt this since this was a very strange feeling, but he still reached out his other hand to pat the Control Toad on the head.
It seemed that his taming skill was still working.
Not to mention, this was a Control Toad that had reached 100% affection through all of the fear that it felt towards him. He was certain that this Control Toad wouldn’t betray him in the end.
After he picked up the Control Toad, he moved back over to the snitch.
The snitch had stopped moving and just floated there as if it was staring at him.
Lin Fan could guess what this snitch was thinking, so he raised the hand with the Control Toad up and put it in front of the ball of water so that the snitch could see it.
The ball of water was transparent, so the snitch was able to get a proper view.
But as Lin Fan raised the Control Toad up to the ball of water, it couldn’t help cowering back as if it was afraid of what was inside.
When it was right in front of the ball of water, the snitch inside also started to move around again as if it was agitated. It really seemed to be moving in an aggressive manner, like it wanted to attack the Control Toad.
But Lin Fan kept the ball of water up so that it wasn’t able to do anything.
Lin Fan waited for it to calm down a bit before saying, “Calm down and listen to me. I need you to understand something.”
The snitch still moved around like it was annoyed with him, but it calmed down enough to listen to what he had to say.
Lin Fan looked right at it and said, “I have control over this Control Toad now, so you don’t have to worry. It won’t do anything without my command.”
As soon as the snitch heard this, it started moving around in an agitated manner once more. It was as if it was telling him that he was crazy for thinking that he could control such a beast.
But Lin Fan did what he could to calm the snitch down.
He didn’t know what else the snitch would be able to do for him, but he didn’t want to lose the snitch here.
At the same time though, he didn’t want to have to sacrifice the Control Toad just for the snitch.
So he needed to find a way to get them to calm down and work together.
After a long time, the snitch finally stopped moving in that same agitated manner and it seemed to have calmed down enough to talk.
So Lin Fan released the ball of water.
As soon as he did, the snitch went forward and released a spray of golden powder.