Chapter 304: I Don't Have Time to Watch

Holy crap, you can't just randomly lose focus during a battle!

Li Kun's blood pressure instantly spiked, so furious he nearly spat blood on the spot.

He had never seen someone so sinister and cunning, so shameless and despicable, so full of tricks!

He might as well have a giant "shady" character written across his face!

Dog!

So dog!

Qiao Sang had no idea the other person was cursing her out wildly in his head. Right now she was feeling a bit regretful—she should have just had Ya Bao attack directly earlier. Moving the opponent out of bounds didn't count for points…

"This Qiao Sang is so young, yet she has quite a few tricks up her sleeve. I think the kid from Restart Beastmaster High School's mentality is going to crack a bit next." A leader from one of the schools in the spectator seats said.

The entire Area C was neither big nor small.

The leaders sitting in the audience were basically all beastmasters who had received feedback from their pets. As long as they focused their attention on the center of the field, they could completely hear the conversations of the competing contestants inside.

"The way this match is going, I can't even tell what level my two kids are at."

"One is too weak—their pet lost without even getting a move off. One is too strong—basically one move and the opponent's done. The kid from Restart Beastmaster High School isn't worth researching. Qiao Sang from Holy Water Middle School is worth paying attention to, though. Unfortunately, at the rate things are going, by the time she meets our school, we probably won't even get to see her true strength."

Watching matches isn't for nothing.

The people present were leaders from the 8 schools in Group A2. Besides showing their regard for the National Campus Beastmaster League, they had another purpose: to observe the contestants and see if there was any useful intelligence.

For example, the contestants' combat styles, what skills their pets had, and which aspects of physical fitness they emphasized.

In short, far more detailed than the intel being passed around in the student groups.

"This Flame Hearing Dog has speed and attack, and its coordination with its beastmaster isn't bad either. I'm afraid there aren't many people in Group A2 who can be her opponent."

"Don't forget, according to the data, she still has two more pets."

The few who had been discussing instantly fell silent.

What's even the point of discussing? Asking to feel bad?

Just then, Wang Weidou, who had been listening with pricked ears on the side without joining in, spoke up: "You're wrong. It's not that there aren't many people in Group A2 who can be her opponent."

As the vice principal of Yicheng Beastmaster High School, ranked second in Group A2, Huang Yong asked with a smile: "May I know who will have the honor of being Qiao Sang's opponents?"

Just as he was preparing for the vice principal of Holy Water Middle School to call out their school's students by name, Wang Weidou said: "What I mean is, it's not that there aren't many people who can be Qiao Sang's opponent—it's that there isn't a single person in Group A2 who can be her opponent."

Huang Yong: "…"

While the people in the audience were talking, the last contestant from Restart Beastmaster High School walked to the center of the field.

The mechanical-type pet wearing a referee's badge blew the whistle signaling the start of the match.

This time it didn't move to a spot more than ten meters away, but symbolically rose two meters into the air and stopped.

"Kuakuakua."

The mechanical-type pet looked down at the red-and-white figure on the field.

Better stay closer, otherwise the match would just end again right after starting. Back and forth like that—what a hassle.

Qiao Sang won without a doubt. Ya Bao used two Sparks in total—one to send off each opponent.

It wasn't that the opponent's pet just stood still as a target. It was just that after the opponent's pet dodged, Ya Bao would use telekinesis to turn the Sparks around and send them after the target again, like a tracking navigation system.

In the area where the leaders sat in the spectator section, except for Wang Weidou who was grinning from ear to ear, everyone's expression was a bit ugly.

Gao San had been held twice, so all schools had a certain understanding of the contestants from other schools.

Apart from one named Xu Yixuan who was stably in the top three of the province, the other two from Holy Water Middle School were around the top 30 level.

The rankings in this range fluctuated greatly.

Between 50th and 10th place, as long as you prepared targeted tactics and put in the effort, who got 50th and who got 10th was anyone's guess.

With a bit more effort, breaking into the top ten wasn't impossible.

After all, it had all happened before.

Not to mention others, just look at last edition's Zhang Shiming from Yicheng Beastmaster High School, who rose suddenly from 48th place to the top 24 in the province.

When some people's rankings go up, naturally others' go down.

Originally, all the school leaders present still had hopes of their schools achieving good rankings in this edition of the National Campus Beastmaster League.

But then Holy Water Middle School produced someone like this.

Although Qiao Sang didn't use many moves, besides the Flame Hearing Dog she still had two more pets. As long as those two pets' strength didn't drag her down, anyone with eyes could see that Qiao Sang making the provincial top ten was a sure thing.

This meant every student's ranking from the schools present would be pushed back by one.

After the referee announced Qiao Sang's victory, a middle-aged man in black clothes in the audience silently stood up and left.

Strangely enough, even though he was clearly sitting in the front row where standing up would block most people's view, not a single person looked his way, as if he didn't exist at all.

The middle-aged man came outside the field, cautiously looked around, then pulled out his phone.

"Hello, Principal, it's me."

"The student named Qiao Sang that Holy Water Middle School inserted into the school team is quite strong. The intel about her having a Flame Hearing Dog is true. As for her other two pets, she hasn't summoned either of them."

"Her Flame Hearing Dog has the Psychic-type attribute in addition to Fire-type. In terms of skills, Spark has already been mastered to the level of mastery. It can teleport, and its proficiency with telekinesis isn't low either—it can control mastery-level Sparks to change direction."

"Qiao Sang's commanding so far doesn't show much—she's just one-shotting her opponents."

"But her tactics are a bit interesting. Two or three sentences and she broke one opponent's mentality, and it wasn't even trash talk."

"All of this needs to be prepared for in advance. I recorded video of her match and sent it to your phone. Have Ding Yanjing and the others take a look."

"I think with her points, there's a high chance she'll run into our school's Ding Yanjing."

"Of course, I have full confidence in Ding Yanjing."

"I wonder how your side's match is going?"

……

"We're already done." High in the sky, on the back of a Flying-type pet with a wingspan of eight meters, a man with short stubble on both sides of his cheeks spoke with his phone on speaker:

"All three won big. Each person got 18 points."

"Oh right, did Xu Yixuan from Sacred Water Middle School compete? If not, go check on her match later. I'll hang up here first—I'm rushing to eat."

After the man hung up the phone, he turned his head to look at the three youths behind him and said:

"You all heard that. After we eat later, go back and watch that video."

"Principal, I don't have time to watch—my Valley Tail Flower is about to evolve." The youth who spoke was lounging leisurely on his beast pet's back, gazing at the sky, a lollipop dangling from his mouth.