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Lu Ai fell to the ground, staring blankly at the fallen guava flower, and had not yet recovered from the shock.
Let the little cloud dog use shadow steps to twist the guava's roots into a knot...
Can this level of tactics and execution really be accomplished by a high school beastmaster and his growing pet?
And the final Moon Explosion... Even if Guava Flower is not a pet with a strong physique, it has at least been strengthened by C-level wood resources, and it can be taken away in one shot.
The absorption tactics that Lu Ai was so proud of had no room to be used against Mu Chuyue. It seemed as if his top spot on the first day's points list was fake, as he had no power to fight back against the contestants who were ranked outside the top 20.
However, if you think about it carefully, you can see that contestants like Mu Shuyue and Wen Li deliberately lowered their rankings.
Knowing this clearly, Lu Ai tried his best to improve himself and gain an advantage on the first day. However, he did not expect that the defense line built by Guava Flower would still be vulnerable in front of these monster-like powerful contestants.
"...I lost." Lu Ai sighed and walked forward to pick up his contracted pet.
"Compared to the guava fruit, I think the absorption tactic is more interesting." Mu Liuyue also picked up the little cloud dog, touched its head and gave it praise.
She looked at the guava flower in Lu Ai's hand, thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps you should consider letting the guava flower learn stronger defensive skills, Lu Ai."
Lu Ai raised his head with a look of surprise. In the previous battle, he also realized the limitations of absorption. Mu Liuyue's suggestion was exactly the direction of improvement that he had previously overlooked - to enhance Guava Flower's defense method and avoid the possibility of being broken by the opponent in a single blow during a battle.
"Thanks--"
Before he could finish his words, his whole body suddenly froze in place. The guava flower also sensed the sudden danger, and it struggled to open its eyes and stretched out its thick roots to try to protect the beastmaster.
A sharp light narrowly brushed past Lu Ai and attacked the black-haired girl standing in front of him, but Mu Huiyue was faster. The shadow under her feet suddenly surged up and turned into some hard substance, blocking the sharp light.
Bang!
The sharp light fell on the ground, and the metallic color on the surface gradually faded, revealing a smooth interior, which was a long and narrow plant leaf.
C-rank wood attack skill: Leaf Dart. The proficiency is very good, which can be seen from the degree of hardening of the leaves.
Mu Liuyue looked unhappy and looked in the direction of the attack.
"Sorry, sorry, did I interrupt your post-war communication?"
A brisk female voice sounded, and a girl in field training clothes stepped forward. On her chest was the logo of the Unzhou Log Research Institute and the competition number "5".
A thin Forget-Leaf Grass followed beside her, with residual light from using skills lingering on its leaves. After being stared at by everyone, it shuddered and moved its slender roots to hide behind the Beastmaster.
Mu Shuyue knew her. She was the seeded player who appeared in the inventory video in Kumasi, the talented researcher at the Yunzhou Log Research Institute, Lin Lin.
Her contracted pet is not any of the ones that have appeared in the video, but the most common and weakest wood-type supernatural creature in Yunzhou, the Forget-Leaf Grass.
【Name】：Forget-me-not
【Attribute】: Wood
[Racial Level]: Low Elite
[Growth Level]: Childhood Stage 6
[Talent Core]: Growth (Wood Element D Level)
[Normal hidden energy value]: 869P
[Introduction]: Wood-type extraordinary creatures widely distributed in Yunzhou. They grow by absorbing energy through growth skills and gather in groups near sunny land.
After reading the information on the bracelet's encyclopedia, Mu Liuyue was slightly surprised.
To be honest, apart from the little skeleton, this was the first time she encountered someone else who used an extraordinary creature of a lower elite race as a contracted pet, especially in a competition that gathered elite high school students from all over the country.
Lin Lin smiled and continued, "But after watching the fight just now, I'm also very excited now... Can you fight with me, Mu Shuyue?"
"Don't agree to her, Hiiragi!" Wen Li shouted indignantly.
What blood boiling? If you really want to have a good fight, you wouldn't challenge Mu Huoyue when she has just finished the fight and has no time to recover!
"Meow!" Yan Xi Miao arched his back and let out a fighting cry.
Long before the battle with Lu Ai, Mu Huiyue had asked Ellen to secretly deliver a fire-attribute fruit. By now, Flame Attack Cat had recovered most of its strength, and it might be a bit of a stretch for it to fire another Fire Meteor, but there was no problem in fighting.
"I'm not planning on taking advantage of this, okay? Besides the little cloud dog, you also have a contracted pet, right, Mu Shuyue-san?"
Lin Lin looked at her shadow meaningfully. The pet that had just blocked the flying leaf dart was obviously not the little cloud dog.
"If I'm not mistaken, it's your main force."
Upon hearing this, everyone present showed a look of surprise. Two contracted pets in the growth stage meant that Mu Chuyue was already a level 3 beastmaster. No wonder he was able to defeat Lu Ai so cleanly.
Wen Li was also stunned. There was indeed a pet lurking in the shadows that brought the fruit that allowed Yan Xi Miao to recover. She thought it was an auxiliary pet that was good at hiding, but Lin Lin said that it was Mu Liuyue's main force?
Mu Chuyue looked at Lin Lin, and the shadow under his feet fluctuated and became darker.
Ellen is not afraid of any challenge, but Lin Lin's attitude is a little strange, as if she chose to appear at this time to provoke her to take on the battle with her strongest force.
Judging from the data alone, this Forget-Leaf Grass is even weaker than Eren in the secret realm. Its normal hidden energy value is only a pitiful 869P, which is not even as much as the consumption of a C-level skill.
But it clearly has another card up its sleeve.
The Bureau's illustrations cannot detect skills other than the talent core. Forget-Leaf can learn the C-level skill, Leaf Dart, so its normal hidden energy value must be more than three digits.
Mu Huiyue guessed that the reason why 869P appeared was due to the influence of some special skills that could change the normal hidden energy value.
"Woof." The puppy in her arms suddenly nudged her with its nose and jumped to the ground.
Mu Shuyue was slightly startled, "White Fang... do you want to continue fighting?"
White Fang placed all four of its paws on the ground, its body standing straight, with its fluffy cloud-like tail wrapped around its back. It turned its head and gave the Beastmaster a handsome and determined look.
"Woof!"
(My turn isn't over yet, it's not time for Ellen-senpai to come on stage yet!)
White Fang possesses the D-rank skill Physical Fitness, and is much stronger than its peers. The last battle did not take as much toll on it as it seemed.
Mu Huoyue thought for a moment and followed Bai Ya's wishes.
Although I don’t know what Lin Lin is planning, it’s always a good idea to disrupt the other party’s intentions.
The beastmasters on both sides agreed to fight, and the recording terminal with small wings flew over again, popping up a video frame dedicated to recording the game, which displayed the avatars of Mu Huiyue and Lin Lin.
Without any time to rest, the second battle began directly.
"Let's start." Lin Lin still had a smile on her face and snapped her fingers in the air.
"Forget-Leaf Grass, inverted space, switch on!"
Following her instructions, the five petals on top of the Forget-Me-Not Leaf Grass all opened up, emitting an angelic halo that gradually expanded until it enveloped the entire battle area, then turned into a point of light and dissipated.
Everyone present felt an indescribable change. For a moment, it seemed as if all past cognition had become blurred... or even reversed.
The weak becomes strong, the strong becomes weak; the dimensions of judgment and the standards of measurement are completely reversed in this special space.
Bai Ya shook his head uncomfortably, and didn't seem to be affected too much, but Mu Liuyue's heart sank.
The feedback from the bracelet's atlas showed [Unknown], which meant that the skill Lin Lin called [Inverted Space] had not yet been registered in the Affairs Bureau's atlas, and was a completely new skill that had never existed before!
The skill level, effects, and attributes are completely unknown, so one can only make judgments based on actual phenomena.
Thinking of the strange cognitive changes just now, Mu Huiyue adjusted her bracelet and sensed the two pets fighting on the field again. The result displayed made her open her eyes slightly.
The White Fang has become a low-level elite race, with a normal hidden energy value of less than 2000P.
The Forget-Leaf Grass has become a medium-level warrior race, with a normal hidden energy value of 9980P, nearly five times that of the White Fang.
It's as if the ability values of both parties are reversed.
Fortunately, the attributes and skill tables did not change. Mu Shuyue frowned slightly and looked forward: "White Fang, can you still use Moon Explosion?"
"Woof?" The little cloud dog didn't understand and immediately tried to use the Moon Explosion skill.
However, it was extremely difficult to gather the dark energy around it, like a lighter that couldn't be lit. After several clicks, it was unable to condense into a moonburst energy ball.
"Woof!?"
(Why can’t I release Moonblast!?)
The white-haired puppy was a little flustered. Mu Shuyue understood and comforted it, "It's okay, White Fang. Your other skills should still be usable. Just treat it as if you were back at the breeding base."
"Woof..." Bai Ya looked back at his beastmaster and quickly calmed down.
The sudden decline in strength left it at a loss, but as Mu Huiyue said, even in its infancy, it was never afraid of fighting and challenges.
Mu Chuyue breathed a sigh of relief. At present, the effect of the inverted space was only to change the racial level.
White Fang should have more skills than Forget-Leaf, so even if the races are reversed, White Fang's normal hidden energy value is higher than that of Forget-Leaf of the same level.
Even though the Forget-Leaf Grass has become a mid-level warrior race, its normal hidden energy value still does not exceed ten thousand.
However, as the normal hidden energy value decreases, the energy in White Fang's body is unable to support it to use B-level skills, so it cannot use Moon Blast.
"You found the key point so quickly... You are indeed an excellent student." Lin Lin watched Mu Chuyue's expression change. "But the gap in talent is not so easy to make up. As the son of a legend, you should understand this better than anyone else, right?"
"Forget-Leaf, use Leaf Dart!"
Countless rotating flying leaves appeared in the air, more than ten in number, and attacked the little cloud dog at an extremely fast speed.
"White Fang, Shadow Step to get out of the way!"
Before Mu Chuyue finished speaking, the little cloud dog's figure disappeared from the spot, and then flashed and jumped along the shadows in the field.
The angle of the last one was particularly tricky. Seeing that he could not dodge it, Bai Ya turned around and used his Ice Claws. The cold claws knocked the metallic leaves to the ground.
Even if the energy and racial levels regress, the combat awareness and skills that have been formed will not disappear, and it is not impossible to win across racial levels.
White Fang had already realized this. You have to know that before his evolution, Senior Eren was just a small skeleton of a low-level elite race. However, except when he deliberately avoided fighting because he didn't want to be bitten, White Fang had never really defeated him in a battle.
"Use howling!" said Mu Liuyue.
The little cloud dog raised its head and howled, improving its own condition while also exerting a certain degree of suppression on the enemy.
Although the racial levels have been reversed, the howling of the low-level elites has little effect on the Forget-Leaf Grass of the middle-level warriors.
Lin Lin's voice came: "Another flying leaf dart."
The sharp blades with a metallic luster cut through the howling aura and came straight towards White Fang.
White Fang, who had dodged once, used Shadow Steps with ease, taking advantage of the shadow cast by the falling leaf darts to cleverly go around the side of the Forget-Leaf Grass.
"A sneak attack!"
When preparations for the attack were made, Mu Huiyue's instructions were also conveyed simultaneously.
The feeling of being one with the Beastmaster physically and mentally was extremely refreshing. White Fang transformed into a dark stream and attacked the Forget-Leaf Grass at lightning speed.
The thin-looking grass seemed to be trembling a little, but it did not dodge or evade, and took the sneak attack from the little cloud dog head-on.
The sharp claws almost cut through the tender grass stems, but instead of juice spurting out from the broken parts, darker grass stems stretched out.
These thin roots spread out like blood vessels and eventually condense into thick vines.
A huge and gorgeous flower grew out of thin air from the broken part of the Forget-Me-Not. Its size quickly surpassed that of the original body. The closed petals opened, revealing a huge cavity inside and a circle of fangs covered with saliva.
More grass stems formed a root system with a mottled bark, supporting this huge and deformed Rafflesia flower.
"Well, Huahua's appearance is indeed cuter." Lin Lin nodded with satisfaction.
"White Fang—" Mu Chuyue shouted.
As soon as the flower stretched out, White Fang had already sensed something was wrong and tried to retreat using Shadow Step.
However, the Forget-Me-Not - now it should be called the Forget-Me-Not Rafflesia - was faster than it. Its thick vines stretched out like a snake and directly tied up the little cloud dog that was nearby.
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