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Mu Liuyue and Wen Li made an appointment to meet at ten o'clock the next morning.
As soon as she walked out of the office door, she saw a little girl waving at her.
"Hiiragi, this way!"
Wen Li wore a long skirt with flame patterns today. Her long hair was tied up with a headband of the same style. She looked bright and cheerful, like a lively little sun.
Her smile was always contagious, and Mu Chuyue couldn't help but smile as well, trotting towards her.
It was the first time for both of them to see each other wearing clothes other than field training uniforms, and they looked at each other with curiosity.
"Happy birthday, Hiiragi!"
Wen Li took a step forward and handed the beautifully wrapped bag to Mu Shuyue, "This is a gift for you."
"Thank you." Mu Liuyue took it with some curiosity.
She opened the bag and found two pieces of paper that looked like tickets inside. They were thick and looked particularly colorful under the effect of the colorful laser.
It says "Starry Fantasy Festival" ticket.
"I spent a lot of effort to buy the ticket!" Wen Li's eyes were full of excitement, looking bright, "This is a rare event in Jingjiang City, Hiiragi must go with me to see it!"
The date on the ticket was today. Before Mu Liuyue could answer, Wen Li pulled her away.
It was not until he arrived at the scene and sat in the audience that Mu Huoyue finally had the chance to come back to his senses.
Just by looking at the name, she thought that the "Starry Fantasy Festival" was an event like a beast taming show, but she didn't expect it to be an offline competition of the "Starry Battle Club".
Among the various types of beast taming competitions in Dayan, club battles are commercial competitions that are different from official competitions such as college leagues. They have fewer battle restrictions and a freer battle atmosphere, and are very popular among ordinary people.
For a beast taming battle enthusiast like Wen Li, going to watch stage performances or concerts that young people like is certainly not as good as watching exciting offline battle competitions.
This birthday gift is Wen Li’s love shared with her friends.
Club battles usually do not impose any restrictions on the level of the beastmaster or the skills of the pet, so you can often see cross-level and cross-race challenges, reverse attribute battles, and other unconventional tactics that you won't see in textbooks.
Mu Huoyue had watched many videos of club matches before, but this was his first time to watch a match offline.
The Xingyao Battle Club is one of the top clubs in Dayan, with many popular star players.
This time, the Starry Fantasy Festival is to warm up for the upcoming national competition and to build momentum for the team's players in advance.
The event lasted for three days, with more than twelve star players arranging battles.
The tickets Wen Li sent were for the next day, and now the first match of this morning is about to begin. The atmosphere is very lively.
The battle site was in the very center of the venue, with the audience seats arranged in a funnel shape. It was estimated that the number of people watching the game was over 10,000, and everyone had an expression of excitement and anticipation on their face.
Wen Li, who was beside Mu Huiyue, also looked towards the battlefield with sparkling eyes.
The two beastmasters who entered the venue were both frequent visitors to club battles.
Chang Le, a master-level beastmaster, uses a mature Ice Sabertooth Tiger, a medium-sized monarch of the Ice Element, as his pet.
Mu Chuyue had some impression of this pet. It was one of the special evolved forms of the [Ice Sabre-toothed Tiger], which was the predecessor of the white tiger. It possessed a rare rebellious attribute and was a medium-level imperial race of the fire and ice systems, the [Frost Flame Tiger].
The other was Zuo Ying, a high-level beastmaster who had just been promoted. She used her signature pet, a mature-stage [Magnetic Alloy Bell] of the high-level thunder warrior race.
This is one of the many evolved forms of [Lilim], and it is said to have a new high-level [Intelligence] attribute evolved form. With the background of artificial intelligence technology, its potential has greatly increased, and it has become one of the popular pets in recent years.
Both sides took their positions and the battle began soon.
Although it was a warm-up exhibition match, both sides did not hold back at all and started with a fierce confrontation of B-level skills.
The Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger launched an earth-shattering [Ice Storm], and the energy fluctuations even overflowed the battlefield, pounced on the surrounding audience seats, and heavily crashed into the pre-set protective layer.
Dangerous moves kept hitting the protective layer of the audience seats, causing loud explosions, but the audience members standing nearby were not afraid at all and responded to the fierce battle with even more enthusiastic shouts and applause.
Many of them waved the winning and losing cards they had purchased for betting and loudly supported the chosen Beast Tamer.
After several rounds of confrontation, the atmosphere became increasingly heated.
The Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger has powerful attack power and attacks very decisively, while the speed of the magnetic alloy bell is strange. Combined with some strange spiritual skills, the two sides are evenly matched for a while.
Mu Huoyue watched the battle for a while. When the Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger endured the electromagnetic damage and broke through the defense network of the magnetic alloy bells one after another, she had already predicted the outcome of the battle.
Almost at the same time, Wen Li's voice also sounded, with a hint of disappointment in her voice.
"Ah, it really doesn't work... I was optimistic about the Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger."
Mu Huiyue looked at her friend. At this moment in the battlefield, it seemed that the Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger had the upper hand. Immersed in the loud cheers of the audience around them, the two of them seemed somewhat out of tune with each other.
"Wen Li, do you think the Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger will lose?" Mu Liuyue asked.
"About three rounds at most." Wen Li shook her head. "The ice layer can withstand the damage of the ultimate move and break through the opponent's offensive. This was once Su Luo's specialty as a phantom beast user."
"But this tactic must be based on the [Courage] characteristic of the Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger and the unique bonus condition of the Beast Taming Talent Contract."
"If I were Zuo Ying and I were to stand up to this situation, I would definitely laugh out loud."
Before Wen Li finished her words, the magnetic alloy bell activated the electromagnetic waves, and the originally scattered defense network returned to its original state and tightened again, covering the Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger.
The battle situation took a sudden turn for the worse, and the magnetic alloy bell launched an attack, defeating the opponent cleanly and neatly, securing the victory for the Beastmaster.
There was an uproar in the audience.
Mu Huoyue withdrew her gaze. Her judgment was similar to Wen Li's. The Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger would definitely lose in this round of confrontation.
The [Courage] trait will make you fight more courageously after taking damage, increasing the power of your skills, so actively resisting damage and counterattacking is a very reasonable tactic.
However, regarding the Fiery Ice Sabertooth Tiger on the battlefield... Mu Huoyue guessed that its characteristic was not courage.
Its performance in battle is more in line with the usual impression of an ice-type pet: it is steady, cool, and has excellent predictive ability of the battle situation.
But he is not the type who burns himself out and becomes more courageous after setbacks.
The original evolved form of the Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger is the [Frost Snow King], a low-level imperial race of the same ice type.
Only a very small number of Fiery Ice Sabertooth Tigers with the characteristic of [Courage] who can survive the fission and internal conflict brought about by the paradox attribute and accommodate the fire attribute can evolve into [Frost Flame Tiger].
The most famous example is naturally the Frost Flame Tiger that evolved into the mythical beast White Tiger.
After Su Luo became the champion of the first world championship, the beastmasters who had contracted the Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger were influenced by her and moved closer to the Frost Flame Tiger in terms of tactics and training methods.
Chang Le hoped that his Fierce Ice Sabertooth Tiger could evolve into a Frost Flame Tiger so much that he even suppressed the original characteristics of his pet and insisted on making it use the [Courage] tactics on the battlefield.
Such a combination certainly cannot beat Zuo Ying and the magnetic alloy bell who have good cooperation.
After the first battle, Wen Li seemed a little unsatisfied and looked at the people around her.
"What do you think, Hiiragi?"
She has not forgotten that this ticket was a birthday gift for her good friend.
"It's different from watching live broadcasts on mobile TV or watching games at school. The atmosphere is very strong and it's quite interesting."
Mu Shuyue thought for a moment and continued, "...But it also makes me want to fight. Compared to being in the audience, I really want to be on the battlefield."
"Right!" Wen Li clenched her fists, her eyes sparkling. "When I first came to watch the game, I thought so too. It would be great if the person on the battlefield was me."
"It was from that day that I made up my mind that I preferred fighting to beast taming performances. I wanted to be a beast tamer who could fight with a partner, rather than a performer who inherited a dance."
"I want the whole world to see my fight, just like Su Luo the Beast Master."
Mu Shuyue smiled and said, "Let's work hard together."
"But you really like Su Luo the Beast Master, Wen Li." Mu Huoyue said.
Although the No. 1 champion is very famous, Su Luo has faded out of the public eye for many years. It is rare to meet a young person like Wen Li who knows all her past tactics like the back of her hand.
“Because she’s a White Tiger.” "Wen Li scratched her cheek embarrassedly.
"Hiiragizuki, do you know the Four Symbols of Da Yan?"
Mu Chuyue nodded. The Four Symbols are the nicknames for the four mythological totems: the Azure Dragon, the Black Tortoise, the Vermillion Bird, and the White Tiger. In modern times, they refer to the pets of four advanced imperial races.
The Azure Dragon is a member of the Gongtianxingjiao clan and has a close relationship with the patron saint of the sea, the mythical race, the Sea-covering Dragon.
The Suzaku is a member of the Vermillion Flame Bird family, and has a close relationship with the Sun Phoenix, a mythical race and the patron saint of the Great Flame.
Xuanwu is a member of the [Black Salamander] family and is the regional patron saint of Hongzhou. Some of them have evolved into a miraculous fantasy race.
The White Tiger is a member of the Frost Flame Tiger family, but more specifically refers to the White Tiger of the Miracle Fantasy Race. It is a unique individual born under the unique talent of beast taming and contract, and is the contracted beast of the fantasy beast master Su Luo.
The theory of the Four Symbols is just a name summed up by mythology enthusiasts in later generations. In essence, there is no special connection between these extraordinary creatures.
"My family has always been said to be the descendant of the Suzaku family, so it is inevitable to compare it with the other four symbols."
Wen Li looked at the battle field in the center of the venue and spoke slowly.
"I have always believed that it is my innate responsibility to inherit the Sacrifice Dance and contract the Cinder Sparrow, until I saw the White Tiger's Phantom Beast Master."
"The free, passionate White Tiger standing on the battlefield, she made me see another future that I want to have."
There was a look of longing in Wen Li's eyes. No matter how much time had passed, she always remembered the shock she felt when she first saw the white tiger.
"So when Goddess A Luo rescued me on the island, you don't know how happy I was, Hiiragi."
The little girl held her face with her hands, showing a happy expression, "She hasn't changed at all, she is exactly the same as when I saw her ten years ago."
Affected by the accident, Wen Li's memory of the Nuyan Xuanwu was very vague, but she remembered Su Luo's god-like knife very clearly, and she never forgot it after waking up.
The two talked for a while, and the second battle was about to begin.
Mu Huoyue relaxed herself and enjoyed the fight like the audience around her, feeling the warm emotions on the scene.
She and Wen Li guessed the outcome of the second battle. This time they had different opinions, so they made a bet.
In the end, it was Mu Huoyue who won this small victory.
Facts have proved that when Wen Li did not know enough about fighting pet beasts, Mu Liuyue had a better insight into the battlefield.
After the game, the two walked out of the venue together, and Wen Li still looked a little reluctant to leave.
"How did Hiiragizuki finally know that the Swamp Giant Crow would be defeated?"
Wen Li faced Mu Shuyue and walked backwards a few steps, unable to suppress her curiosity. "Its attributes clearly had an advantage, and the situation at that time was more conducive to the performance of the Swamp Giant Crow."
"The last round of special moves has exhausted its physical strength, but the Swamp Crow is a pet with excellent physique. It is not easy to show the influence of the characteristics of the mud. At that time, it should have eased its offensive and waited for the next opportunity, but it still followed the instructions of the beastmaster and rushed forward."
Mu Shuyue replied, "I guess its beastmaster didn't notice it either."
Wen Li showed a slightly surprised expression and did not notice the beastmasters on the battlefield, but Mu Liuyue was able to discover this clue that could affect the outcome of the battle.
"If you know your pet well enough, you can do it, too." Mu Shuyue looked at her and said, "In the first match, the Fiery Ice Sabertooth Tiger, didn't Wen Li see that it had already reached its limit after taking the damage from the electromagnetic waves?"
"It's also important to understand your opponent's pet..." Wen Li thought thoughtfully.
When it comes to the tacit understanding between pets, she and A Miao are confident that they are not inferior to anyone.
But after witnessing Mu Chuyue's battles, Wen Li realized that pre-war knowledge reserves are equally important, and this is also the basis for Mu Chuyue's powerful insight.
She still has a lot to learn in terms of beast taming and fighting.
"Since Hiiragi won, can I treat you to ice cream?"
Wen Li smiled and skipped a few steps, then returned to walking beside her friend, "I remember there was a delicious restaurant near the venue..."
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