Chapter 281: Isn't This an Ice-Type Skill?

Lubao jumped down from the Exploding Ape, ignored everyone's gazes, and walked over beside Qiao Sang, the very picture of cool aloofness.

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Qiao Sang suddenly recalled how hard Like Ya Bao had tried to keep a poker face during the Hundred Stars Tournament, and couldn't help sighing inwardly: Sure enough, there's a fundamental difference between a poker face and genuine cool aloofness…

Lubao walked over wanting to leap into its beast master's arms, and had just made the preparatory motion of a jump.

Qiao Sang saw this and quickly called out to it:

"Wait a moment, don't jump! You still have one more match to fight!"

At this point Lubao's four limbs had already left the ground; hearing this, it immediately did a sharp U-turn and landed facing the other direction.

Even in such an awkward situation, it still maintained its cool aloof posture.

"Lu."

A water-type pet beast with the Meltwater trait, and not even from the Yuhua region — the pet beasts this girl contracted are all so high-class… Sun Boyi took a deep breath, steadied his emotions, and continued the procedure:

"Both sides, please send out your next pet beasts."

For a competition of the level of the National Campus Beastmaster League, in the interest of fairness and impartiality, as the tournament progresses from provincial to divisional to the grand finals, the referees also upgrade from Level 2 referees to Level 1 referees, and finally to national-level referees.

In addition, a mechanical-type pet beast specialized in data analysis would be added as an assistant referee.

Its main job was to handle the procedure, record the match time and results, and also check the positioning of the contestants and pet beasts before battle.

With no assistant referee now, Sun Boyi had to take on both roles, also doing the assistant referee's work.

At the edge of the field.

The Gao San school team members saw the result of the first match and started heatedly discussing it, each chiming in.

"He Datao lost so badly…" Chen Jia sighed.

"It's good that he lost, I always felt attacking an endangered pet beast wasn't right." Xu Yixuan said.

Chen Jia: "…"

At this moment, a boy wearing a white jacket suddenly asked: "What was that skill that Frost Luqiya used when it jumped onto the ground and disappeared?"

A boy who hadn't spoken until now, with a gloomy look, opened his mouth: "It's not a skill, it's the Meltwater trait."

The boy in the white jacket was stunned: "Meltwater trait?"

"It's a trait that allows it to merge its body into water; it's quite rare among water-type pet beasts." The gloomy-looking boy said seriously: "From the start, Frost Luqiya's purpose in using Water Gun wasn't to attack, but to create water on the ground."

"If it didn't conceal its form and used Water Mist right in front of the Exploding Ape, there was a risk of being interrupted, and the Water Mist just produced wouldn't completely block the line of sight, so He Datao could have responded."

"From the very beginning, the rhythm of this battle was in Qiao Sang's hands."

After saying this he paused, then concluded: "This junior, she's a bit shady."

The people listening on the side couldn't help nodding repeatedly, deeply agreeing.

When they had just entered the school team in their first year of high school, they were still little newbies — how could they have come up with such underhanded tactics!

"He Datao just isn't good enough." Chen Jia also offered a summary.

"Even if it were us going up, we probably wouldn't do any better." Xu Yixuan said: "You saw this junior's battle record during the new student strength showcase this year."

"Not to mention that in just one month this junior's Treasure Seeking Ghost has already evolved into a Treasure Seeking Demon, and she also has an endangered Frost Luqiya now, and not to mention the type matchup."

"Just look at the two high-level skills, Mars Rain and Dark Shadow Control — let alone our school, there's not a single person in any school team in the entire Zhejiang Sea Province whose pet beast has learned skills of this caliber."

Chen Jia nodded: "That's true."

"Are we really going to be substitutes?" The boy whose hairstyle made him look over 180cm tall asked with a mournful face.

"No." Xu Yixuan shook her head.

The boy's spirits lifted, and he turned to look over with burning eyes.

Xu Yixuan continued: "Zhang Dezhou, have some confidence, drop the 'we' — only one person is going to be a substitute, and that would obviously be the weakest among us. Could I possibly be worse than you?"

Zhang Dezhou's body swayed, he took a step back, looking as if pierced by ten thousand arrows.

So painful! Mommy, my heart hurts so much!

Equally heartbroken was He Datao.

His Exploding Ape hadn't even gotten to show its heroic, extraordinary side! How did it lose?!

Heartbroken as he was, the match still had to continue.

He Datao took a deep breath and summoned his second pet beast — Wind Wither.

According to the match rules, after the first match ended, the winning side could swap pet beasts, or feint by recalling their pet beast into the Beastmaster Codex first, then summoning it back out when the referee announced the start of the second match.

However, Qiao Sang didn't do this.

Of course, in a 2v2 match, this was allowed.

Wind Wither, this is going to be tough… Qiao Sang looked at the pet beast before her, her mind racing as she thought of a strategy against the enemy.

She wasn't unfamiliar with this pet beast, especially its speed.

After all, during the marathon back then, Ye Ranran's Wind Wither had overtaken dozens of runners in a row, finishing its leg in sixth place overall.

Although Lubao's speed had improved a lot through training, compared to the famously fast Wind Wither, it was clearly still not enough.

"The only way to possibly keep up with Wind Wither's movements is to use Rain Prayer combined with the Carefree trait to boost Lubao's speed. Sigh, if only the match field were a Water Field, I wonder what the field conditions will be like by the time of the National Campus Beastmaster League…"

As Qiao Sang's thoughts flashed through her mind, Sun Boyi announced the start of the second match.

"Continuous Air Blades!" He Datao waved his chubby hand and shouted quickly.

Wind Wither's advantage lay in speed, so naturally one had to win through speed!

"Wind Rest!"

Whoosh!!

Wind Wither flapped its wings and swiftly rose to mid-air above the training field.

Its speed was like a TV drama playing at 5x speed.

Then its wings kept flapping, and dozens of blades formed from air shot toward Lubao at extreme speed.

Beside the field.

Xu Yixuan couldn't bear to keep watching.

Any person with half a brain would know who had the better chance of winning between a water-type companion beast whose speed was limited on land and a Wind Wither famed for its speed.

This was an endangered companion beast — what if it got hurt? Would that guy He Datao get taken to the police station… After all, they'd trained together for over two years, so Xu Yixuan was still a little worried about He Datao.

But she then remembered that Binglu Kiya's beast tamer was Qiao Sang, and figured Binglu Kiya probably wouldn't end up too miserable.

So Xu Yixuan covered her eyes with her hands, then spread her fingers apart to peek through a crack at the center of the field.

"Lu."

"Lu…"

"Lu!"

At first, Lubao dodged with ease, but as the wind blades' attack speed picked up, its expression grew serious.

Although the density of the wind blade attacks wasn't as great as during the Gravel Scatter training, the attack power and speed were nothing gravel could compare to.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The wind blades struck the ground, leaving crack after crack.

Just then, Qiao Sang shouted: "Run while using Fine Snow on the ground!"

Fine Snow?

For a moment, He Datao was dumbfounded — wasn't that an ice-type skill?