The Familiar Beast Manual that Qiao Mei read last night described the restraint relationships between the five major Familiar Beasts.

It's similar to the Five Elements restraint relationships she'd heard about in modern times, because the five major beast companions also belong to these five elements—White Wolf (Metal), Green Snake (Wood), Black Tortoise (Water), Vermilion Bird (Fire), and Yellow Colt (Earth).

Therefore, the order of restraint is: metal restrains wood, wood restrains earth, earth restrains water, water restrains fire, and fire restrains metal.

Ao Cang's thunder...

Qiao Mei stroked her chin as she watched the several familiar beasts slowly taking shape in front of Ao Cang. The moment she saw what they looked like, she was instantly stunned.

According to Shang Duojin, the attacking machine will generate three types of mimicry familiars, meaning there can be a maximum of three mimicry familiars at any given time, not...

Shang Duojin was dumbfounded and stammered as he counted the number of familiars present.

"One, two, three, four, five, six?!!"

"No, how come there are six? Is there something wrong with the machine?!"

That little black dragon with the same mimicry and attribute as Ao Cang is understandable, and the familiar beast that counters him is the gold-type white wolf, which is also understandable. But why is it that the familiar beasts he can counter include the other four types of familiar beasts besides the white wolf?

Qiao Mei and Shang Duojin stared at each other, both completely bewildered, not understanding what was going on.

So Shang Duojin had no choice but to stop the machine and run an antivirus scan.

He killed the poison four times, but the number of mimic beasts that were born was still the same. He refused to believe it and told Ao Cang to come down first, while he sent Lei Ting up to try.

But when Thunder went up, everything showed up normally. Thunder was a little green snake, which belonged to the wood element, and the mimicry beasts that appeared were all correct. There were only three mimicry beasts: the little green snake, the little white wolf, and the little yellow horse.

In other words...

Shang Duojin stared in shock at the red-eyed girl with long, naturally curly hair that reached her waist: "Lord Ao Cang... he can actually counter four attributes?! That's incredible, my goodness!!"

This wasn't written in the book because Ao Cang never had the chance to leave the Awakening Domain to become someone's familiar. Qiao Mei glanced at the little black dragon wrapped around her neck, her red eyes gleaming: "Whether it is or not, we'll find out by trying. Cang Cang, it'll be the same later. You should lower your rating to C first, and then go all out when you start over."

Ao Cang nodded the dragon's head, climbed off Qiao Mei's neck, and returned to the range of the attack machine.

Qiao Mei noticed Shang Duojin's confusion and explained the reason in general terms. Then she watched Ao Cang begin their basic exchange, starting with his simulated form.

The little black dragon in its initial form can only use three moves: electric shock, dragon tail critical strike, and electric ball.

When Ao Cang fought against another version of himself who was much weaker than him, he found it very easy. However, remembering what Qiao Mei had told him to lower his rating first, he was defeated after enduring one electric shock and two tail attacks from the mimicry little black dragon. He then went to face the remaining five mainstream familiars.

To save time, he chose four familiars that he could counter the second time. He easily made the illusion of defeat. After the machine cleared away the little green snake's basic skill, Poison Mist, he walked towards the gold-type little white wolf that countered his attribute.

The little white wolf in its initial form has three skills: Charge, Sonic Roar, and Golden Domain Lockdown.

When facing it, Ao Cang was no longer as careless as before. Because of the innate restraint, his dragon body inevitably felt a sense of suppression when facing the mimicry little white wolf.

Somewhat like an animal encountering its natural enemy, almost every dragon scale on its body hardened with tension.

The little white wolf could ignore Ao Cang's lightning relatives, so when it charged, it was not afraid of Ao Cang's lightning strikes and electric balls at all. It directly knocked the little black dragon, who had been in a state of ease, to the ground. The dragon's body dragged a long mark on the ground, and the dragon scales became mottled due to friction. Qiao Mei's heart tightened and she felt very sorry for it.

"Awooo!!~" Seeing Ao Cang being knocked down, the mimicry little white wolf became even more determined to fight and continued to unleash a sonic roar at him, making Ao Cang's entire dragon head buzz and leaving him extremely dizzy.

The dragon, which had originally intended to stand upright, couldn't even get up for a long time. Now, it didn't even need to pretend anymore; it was judged as defeated by the attacking machine.

[Overall rating is being determined... Attack rating is - C.]

After the mechanical voice faded, all the mimicry-like familiars created by the attack machine were also absorbed into it.

Qiao Mei quickly stepped forward and picked up Ao Cang, who was lying disheveled on the ground. Her red eyes were filled with worry that was almost overflowing: "Cang Cang, how are you? Do you want to go and rest for a while?"

Ao Cang's life points were too low, he couldn't even exert one ten-thousandth of his previous strength, and he had made himself into this miserable state, causing his only believer to worry. After his golden dragon eyes were filled with feelings of inferiority and guilt, he shook his dragon head: "No need, I can still do it. Let's start over and do a real rating."

His dragon scales were scratched, making him look a bit ugly, and his dragon head was still a little dizzy, but otherwise, he was actually alright.

Seeing that he had gotten up again, Qiao Mei fed him a bottle of recovery fluid that she had bought from the familiar beast shop yesterday, which restored him to about 70-80% of his condition, and his scratched scales became brand new again.

After doing all that, she watched with concern as he re-entered the attack machine's coverage area.

Shang Duojin, like Qiao Mei, looked at Ao Cang with a worried expression.

Fortunately, this time when he returned to the arena, Ao Cang showed great fighting spirit. When he reached the White Wolf challenge again, he was no longer as disheveled as the first time.

Although it wasn't as easy as dealing with his own mimicry familiars or the familiars he was able to defeat with every move, he at least knew to change his strategy, using his agility to dodge the little white wolf's charges and wear it down.

Qiao Mei was worried that Ao Cang might lose his fighting ability due to the little white wolf's sonic roar, so she reminded him, "Cang Cang, remember to interrupt it with Dragon Tail Critical Strike before it uses its sonic roar! Dragon Tail Critical Strike has nothing to do with lightning familiars, so it should be useful!!"

Ao Cang thought the same thing. When the little white wolf was being toyed with by his agile dragon body and was exhausted, and was about to use a sonic roar in anger, he quickly approached it and, before it could react, delivered a critical hit with his dragon tail. The dragon tail whipped the wolf so hard that its head was spinning and its head was covered in yellow stars.

Having arrived here, the outcome had already been decided. Qiao Mei glanced at the machine and saw that it had reached an A rating. She then asked Shang Duojin if the highest attack rating was S.

Shang Duojin looked admiringly at the little black dragon, who was panting heavily from exhausting himself trying to avoid the little white wolf's attack. His round eyes turned into starry eyes of worship as he nodded vigorously.

"Yes, yes, as expected of Lord Ao Cang! His speed and attack are both A-level, so his defense must be pretty good too!"