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It was the end of December, and as the weather gradually turned colder, the atmosphere in the school gradually became more lively.

The most anticipated grand event at the end of the semester, which is also the final exam for the freshman combat department - the [College Combat Preliminary Tournament] is finally about to begin.

The courses of the combat department were all completed a week ago, leaving the students with enough time to train and adjust on their own to prepare for the upcoming competition.

Mu Huoyue returned to the small apartment she rented, her consciousness sank into the beast-taming space, and she made a periodic summary of what she had gained this semester.

Her beast taming space has reached level 5, and she can contract three mature pets. She has also unlocked five talent skills through the World Tree: [Battle Resonance], [Energy Bonus], [One-way Interaction], [Event Preview], and [Energy Condensation].

[Battle Resonance] can instantly increase the power of your pet's skills during combat. [Energy Bonus] and [Energy Condensation] are both long-term status enhancement talents that can continuously increase the contracted pet's dark hidden energy and skill power, while also concentrating the skill release path and improving your perception of skill evolution.

[One-way Interaction] and [Event Preview] are both functions for the "Elf Ranch Story" system. The former allows her to bring the ranch resources harvested in the Beast Taming Space to the real world, and the latter is an advance preview of the card pool activities.

You will gain a huge amount of resources in an activity card pool, which will greatly improve your strength and is very cost-effective.

For this reason, Mu Huoyue saved up all the spiritual spring water drops obtained this month and did not draw cards immediately, intending to save them until the next event depending on the situation.

Unfortunately, since the last [Specially Recommended Summoning of Harvest Season], the system has not yet released the theme and time of the next event.

So far, four ranch facilities have been developed in the Beast Taming Space.

In addition to the [World Tree] representing the Beastmaster himself, there is also the lv.2 [Training Ground], as well as the lv.1 [Farmland] and [Rest Hut].

White Fang likes to stay in the [Resting Cottage] the most and moves all his favorite toys there. The [Farmland] is Harvey's exclusive territory and all the seeds are growing prosperously.

However, in the past month, the most commonly used facility by pets is still the [Training Ground].

Mu Chuyue intentionally controlled the upgrade speed of the three pets, and this week they were training with the main goal of "subtraction".

She clicked on the details interface of the [Training Ground] and chose to view the latest information of the three pets.

【Name】：Ellen (Card Soldier)

[Attributes]: Dark, Undead

[Racial Level]: Low-level monarch

[Growth Level]: Maturity Stage 1

[Talent Core]: Shadow Stealth (Dark Rank B)

[Skills]: Intimidation (Dark B-level), Netherfire (Fire B-level), Bone Blade Piercing (Dark B-level), Summoning the Dead (Undead B-level), Corpse (Undead C-level), Calcification (Steel C-level), Soul Tremor (Undead C-level)

[Normal implicit energy value]: 152023P

After successfully breaking through the mature stage, Ellen gained two more B-level skills, and his normal hidden energy value reached 15wP.

The evolved B-level skill [Summoning the Undead] can summon skeletal undead with entities in the death fog. Using the projection of some skills allows Eren to have diverse tactics.

[Name]: White Fang (Frosty Night Fighting Wolf)

[Attributes]: Dark, Ice

[Racial Level]: High Monarch

[Growth Level]: Maturity Stage 1

[Talent Core]: Midnight Echo (Dark A-level)

[Skills]: Lunar Eclipse Impact (Dark A-level), Shadow Hunting (Dark A-level), Moonlight (Dark B-level), Ice Slash (Ice B-level), Frost Blessing Armor (Ice C-level), Strong Physique (Steel C-level)

[Normal implicit energy value]: 184528P

Bai Fang still remains in the first stage of maturity. With the help of [Strong Body], his normal hidden energy value has reached 18wP, which is close to the strength of the second stage of maturity.

The training of [Subtraction] during this period was very successful. White Fang could accurately control the power and consumption of [Eclipse Impact] and [Midnight Echo]. The proficiency of [Shadow Hunting] also increased sharply. During the battle, even Eren couldn't tell which one was the Moon Shadow.

【Name】：Harvey (Scarecrow)

[Attributes]: Dark, Wood

[Racial Level]: High Monarch

[Growth Level]: Growth Stage 8

[Talent Core]: Straw Man Substitute (Wood Element B Level)

[Skills]: Devil Face (Dark A-level), Harvest (Wood A-level), Malicious Taunt (Dark B-level), Crow Feather Storm (Dark B-level), Corrupted Fruit (Wood C-level), Wood Thorn (Wood C-level)

[Normal implicit energy value]: 91258P

Harvey also remained at the eighth level of the growth period, during which time his training focus was also on skill proficiency.

The C-level skill [Wood Thorn] was originally a status skill that needed to be activated when used. Mu Huiyue hoped that Harvey could use [Shadow Stealth] like Eren did, and turn the status skill into a daily state that can be maintained for a long time.

This way, during combat, there is no need to issue specific instructions to use skills. As long as the opponent launches a physical attack, they will be counterattacked by [Wooden Thorns].

When Harvey is stationed in the [Farmland], he will try his best to maintain the [Wood Thorn] state throughout the whole process.

White Fang was completely unaware of this, and at the end of one day's training, he tried to sneak into the [farmland] to chew on the wooden stakes as usual. However, he was badly injured by the [wooden thorns] and almost had his teeth knocked out.

Well, now senior bone frame can't bite at all, and little brother wooden stake gets a mouthful of thorns when he bites it, and White Fang loses all its happy teething sticks.

The aggrieved white wolf ran to the beastmaster and acted coquettishly, showing Mu Liuyue its minor bruises.

Mu Chuyue held back her laughter and tried to comfort him for a while. Isn't there still the little prop [a complete bone] that White Fang loves very much in the [resting hut]?

White Fang, who has grown into a Frost Night Fighting Wolf, said that bone toys are Little Cloud Dog's favorite. For it now, a moving and active teething stick is more fun.

For this reason, it has to train harder and improve itself. Once it can easily catch Senior Eren in the shadow, or ignore the slight damage from the Harveywood thorns and bite them hard, it will be a happy wolf again!

…

After making all the preparations, Mu Huiyue went to meet her good friend Wen Li.

With the blessing of the [Burning Blood] talent, Wen Li successfully broke through to the 4th level of Beastmaster not long ago. The Flame Cat has reached the ninth level of growth, and the newly hatched Fire Velvet Moth has also reached the sixth level of growth.

This growth rate is considered to be far ahead among beastmasters of the same level.

Wen Li's talent for taming beasts is like that of a good student who is extremely biased in one subject. While restricting the properties of the contracted pet, it also brings unparalleled bonuses to the fire-type pet.

Soon it was the day for the [High School Battle Preliminary Tournament] to begin.

Although it is called the [Qualifying Round], it is not a preliminaries for other large-scale competitions. It is said that it was originally a preparation for a large-scale commercial league jointly held by colleges and fighting clubs. Later, it was replaced by the national competition and evolved into a stage prepared for freshman beastmasters in colleges and universities.

The preliminaries were held in the capital city of Jingjiang, at the venue borrowed from the Xingyao Battle Club's competition field. More than 600 freshman beastmasters from more than 15 beastmaster colleges across the country participated.

Mu Huoyue and Wen Li once went to the Xingyao Battle Club's competition venue, which was a luxurious arena used for commercial leagues and could accommodate more than 10,000 spectators at the same time.

Looking back, she had experienced many battles after becoming a beastmaster, but she had never fought in a beastmaster battle in such a truly eye-catching battlefield.

Not only her, most of the freshmen who have just entered the combat department have never experienced such a big stage. Just thinking about it makes people excited.

This is also the original intention of setting up the [College Battle Qualifiers] in a commercial luxury battle venue, so that the talented young people who truly love beast taming battles can truly enter the public eye from this moment on and experience the fun of battles.

After learning about the venue of the preliminaries, Wen Li felt a little emotional. When she went to watch the game with Hiiragi during the summer vacation, she had hoped that the day would come when she would stand on the battlefield.

I didn't expect that my words would come true and such a great opportunity would come so soon.

"Hiiragi, do your best in the competition! We'll see you at the top!" Wen Li raised her fist to her friend.

"Well, good luck in the game." Mu Huoyue also stretched out his hand and bumped fists with his friend.

…

The college battle qualifiers adopt a full single elimination system. There are more than 600 beastmasters participating in the qualifiers. There will be four rounds of preliminary battles in the early stage. After the 32 to 16 candidates are decided, the schedule will be open to the public, and the birth of the champion will be witnessed under the attention of the public.

Taking into account the differences in strength between schools, the qualifying organizing committee drew up a list of seeded players in advance.

The Beast Tamers on the list only need to participate in the fourth preliminary round, starting from the top 32 and moving upwards.

This mechanism is also to protect ordinary Beast Tamers from encountering top players too early and getting performance evaluations that do not match their abilities.

Mu Huiyue saw her name on the list of seeded players.

Most of these names are from the five major universities, and many of them are familiar faces that I have met during the national qualifying competition.

However, Mu Chuyue did not see Lin Lin and Han Ruoyun. Neither of them were students majoring in combat and did not participate in this preliminary round.

The first three rounds of preliminary matches will be held on the first and second days. Mu Huoyue lost interest after watching a few of them.

Although they have entered university, the combat awareness of most freshman beastmasters is still based on the crushing of racial level, growth level, and normal hidden energy value. Their moves are basically based on attack skills, and it is rare to see those who can make good use of attribute restraint relationships.

Mu Huoyue was able to win a battle of this level when he was in high school.

As it turns out, those on the list of seeded players are the ones she needs to focus on.

She immersed her consciousness into the beast taming space, and would spend the two days waiting for the opening in meditation feedback at the [Training Ground].

Finally, on the third day, Mu Huoyue received information from his first combatant.

She raised her eyebrows in surprise, not expecting that this was someone she knew.

He Yu is a first-year beastmaster from the Combat Department of Hongzhou University.

The person Mu Shuyue recognized was not him, but his pet, which happened to be the [Cowardly Mushroom] that appeared in the Thunder Fruit display project.

Now it has evolved into [Timid Mushroom], but the characteristic of Night-Flickering Firefly is still retained, which is its biggest killer in battle.

Mu Huoyue suddenly felt some expectations. She would experience the effect of the Thunder Fruit on the beast taming talent and its actual combat effect.

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