Chapter 33

"Ding~ Your pet, Storm Eagle, has slain a Black-Iron Low-Grade Gray-Tooth Rabbit! Experience +3!"

"Ding~ Your pet, Storm Eagle, has slain a Black-Iron Mid-Grade Gray-Tooth Rabbit! Experience +10!"

"Ding~ Congratulations, Master! Your pet, Storm Eagle, has successfully evolved to Black-Iron High-Grade!"

Five days later, Su Yang heard the system notification—Storm Eagle had finally accumulated enough experience and leveled up to Black-Iron High-Grade!

All the ferocious beasts in this wasteland had been cleared out by beast tamer teams; only Black-Iron level beasts remained.

Su Yang had never encountered a single Black-Iron Top-Grade ferocious beast, and even Black-Iron High-Grade ones were extremely rare; had Storm Eagle not been a flying-type pet with vision far surpassing ordinary beasts, Su Yang would have found it nearly impossible to even encounter one!

On this wasteland, Black-Iron Low-Grade ferocious beasts were still the most common.

So for three hundred experience points, Su Yang spent five days.

But was Storm Eagle's leveling slow?

Of course not!

Among all first-year students' pets, most were still Black-Iron Low-Grade.

A beast tamer's growth was actually very slow.

The graduation standard for students at Qixing City No. 1 High School was to raise their pet's strength to Black-Iron High-Grade within three years.

Yet even so, there were always beast tamers who failed to graduate each year!

Clearly, how difficult it was to improve a pet's strength!

Su Yang's rapid growth owed much to the experience-based leveling system of his pet cultivation system!

"Liiii!"

Storm Eagle, sensing its own power increase, soared joyfully through the sky.

Sometimes diving into the cloud layer, sometimes skimming the earth…

When it calmed down, it landed before Su Yang and affectionately rubbed its head against his face.

Besides Su Yang, Storm Eagle allowed no one else to get close.

After eating a Gray-Tooth Rabbit, the sun was nearly set.

"It's getting late; we should head back!"

Just as Su Yang was about to leave, Storm Eagle tapped him with its wing.

Su Yang asked curiously, "You want to take me for a test flight?"

Storm Eagle nodded, then rubbed its head against Su Yang's face again, almost begging.

"Fine! But don't grip me too tight!" Su Yang warned. "And don't fly too high—if you can't carry me, I can still land safely."

Storm Eagle flapped its wings and soared back into the sky.

Su Yang stood still, arms outstretched, shouting loudly, "Come on!"

Storm Eagle dove, extended its talons, seized Su Yang's shoulders, and lifted him into the sky!

Su Yang opened his eyes and watched the ground recede as the cloud layer drew nearer…

"Is this what flying feels like?"

The gale battered his face, making it hard to breathe.

"Liiii!"

"Whoa! Stupid bird! Stupid bird! Don't fly too high! Don't fly too high!"

Only when Storm Eagle descended slightly did Su Yang finally exhale in relief.

Generally, for a pet to carry its tamer in flight, it needed at least Bai Yin or Golden rank—and it had to be a large flying beast.

Su Yang's flight, besides being somewhat clever, relied most importantly on Storm Eagle's uniqueness!

Su Yang's Storm Eagle was far larger in size than other birds of the same rank!

And more importantly, Storm Eagle's mastery over wind energy!

After battling many Black-Iron Mid-Grade mutated sparrows in the wasteland, Su Yang discovered that Storm Eagle's Black-Iron Mid-Grade wind blades dealt ten times the damage of ordinary ones!

Even when ordinary Black-Iron Mid-Grade mutated sparrows' wind blades struck Storm Eagle, they rarely inflicted real harm!

Greatly enhanced wind skill effects, greatly increased wind skill resistance!

This was the true power of the mythic talent "Child of the Storm!"

Storm Eagle was, in essence, the natural nemesis of most wind-type ferocious beasts!

At that moment, Su Yang spotted what looked like a battle in the distance.

"Let's go take a look!"

From afar, floating in the air, Su Yang saw a swarm of fiery red Jin Gang ants frantically chasing a group of young beast tamers.

After days of exploration, Su Yang now knew there was a Jin Gang ant nest in the wasteland, and each day, ants were dispatched to forage for food.

Cautious by nature, Su Yang had never approached the Jin Gang ant nest, because every ant nest had flying ant guards.

If there were few flying ant guards, Su Yang wouldn't mind.

But the problem was, flying ant guards were elite forces of the nest—powerful, and when they appeared, they always came in hundreds or thousands, densely packed!

Su Yang glanced at the group of Jin Gang ants—twenty-one in total.

The strongest was one, Black-Iron High-Grade; the other twenty were a mix of Black-Iron Mid-Grade and Black-Iron Low-Grade.

Those classmates being chased were truly pitiful!

"Run! They're catching up!"