bookandnovel Chapter 749: Hype
Chapter 749: Hype
For a moment, the entire arena fell into an eerie silence.
After two or three seconds, the commentator’s voice rang out across the arena, filled with shock, confusion, and disbelief: “This… this move looks like… yes! It’s a super-tier skill, Ice Field Domain! Ice Aipalu used Ice Field Domain! That’s right, Ice Aipalu! I just received information about this mysterious beast… but that’s not important now! What’s important is that Ice Aipalu just used a super-tier skill! A General-level beast just used a super-tier skill!”
“My god! This is absolutely the most jaw-dropping scene I’ve witnessed in my entire commentary career!”
“A super-tier skill! Elder Muzao didn’t even have a chance to fight back! Both the Giant Devil Vines and itself were instantly frozen within the Ice Field Domain!’”
“This match is entirely a one-woman show by contestant Qiao Sang!”
From stammering at first, the commentator had risen from his seat, spittle flying and face flushed red, getting more and more excited as he spoke.
As his words ended, the crowd erupted, instantly exploding into noise and chaos.
“Give me a moment, I need to calm down. Wait, no! I can’t calm down at all! Can someone tell me why a General-level beast is using a super-tier skill?!”
“Ahhh! Ice Field Domain! I actually saw Ice Field Domain in a match for contestants under 35!”
“Oh my god, I thought I was hallucinating!”
“Is that really a General-level beast?! I don’t believe it!”
The audience, who had a decent grasp of beast master history, had never heard of a General-level beast mastering a super-tier skill. The disbelief was so strong that everyone began doubting everything.
“It’s real…”
In the stands, Dorothy finally snapped out of her shock, murmuring, “Ice Aipalu… a dual water-ice attribute General-level beast from Blue Star. It’s a nearly extinct species…”
“Nearly extinct?” The person beside her looked at her strangely.
“How do you know that?”
Dorothy gazed at the arena, her voice distant.
“I’m Qiao Sang’s classmate…”
Classmate? The person beside her smelled gossip.
“Which school?”
“Y-Yulianton University.” Dorothy replied honestly.
“What?! Qiao Sang is a student at Yulianton University?” The person’s voice suddenly shot up.
Everyone nearby turned to look.
“Yulianton University? Isn’t she a celebrity?”
“No wonder she’s so amazing, she’s from Yulianton!”
“Students from Yulianton don’t even need to be celebrities.”
“Wait, am I the only one who noticed the key point? Yulianton University… Qiao Sang is definitely not just 16!”
“Does it even matter if she’s 16 anymore? Just based on that Ice Field Domain, I’m completely won over!”
Dorothy took a deep breath and raised her voice: “She is 16! She skipped grades and enrolled early at Yulianton. She’s only a freshman!”
The front row of Zone A abruptly fell silent.
Other areas continued to buzz with heated discussion.
In the contestant zone.
Pirite was utterly dumbfounded. He hadn’t been prepared in the slightest. It felt like that time in school when someone told him: “Our school just had a 16-year-old who contracted four beasts, three General-level, one High-level, and two of them are completely new forms that have never been seen before.”
Or when his son once told him: “Dad, I found true love on Flame Sky Star. He’s a guy. So I used a Morph Beast to change my gender. Sorry.”
Yeah… it was that level of shock.
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On the field.
Lubao looked at the frozen battlefield before her, her tail twitching slightly.
A mechanical-type referee beast flew in from outside the arena to check on Elder Muzao.
“Wait!” Qiao Sang noticed its movement and quickly called out.
The mechanical-type beast instinctively froze in place.
“Contestant Qiao Sang is stopping the referee, why is that?” The commentator was recovering from his excitement.
“Could it be that Ice Aipalu hasn’t fully mastered Ice Field Domain, and she’s afraid the referee might get hurt? What a thoughtful-”
“Gigantice Spike!”
The commentator’s voice cut off abruptly.
“Lu Ai!” Lubao called out.
Boom!!!
A gigantic ice spike, as tall as a mountain, materialized above Elder Muzao’s head, and then came crashing down, creating a thunderous impact.
The ice spike shattered into four massive pieces.
The ice field vanished entirely. The temperature returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
Only the unconscious Elder Muzao, buried under massive chunks of ice, served as proof that everything just now had really occurred.
Qiao Sang calmly nodded to the mechanical referee, indicating it could now come and make a judgment.
Lubao only had enough energy to maintain Ice Field Domain for about 20 seconds. Qiao Sang couldn’t be sure it would last until the referee arrived.
And since grass-type beasts often had healing skills, if Elder Muzao managed to recover even slightly, Lubao, whose energy was nearly spent, would be at a severe disadvantage.
To avoid that, she had to defeat Elder Muzao within those 20 seconds.
Fortunately, within the Ice Field Domain, Lubao reigned as the queen of ice. She could cast any ice-type move at will, without needing two fully mastered skills to create a perfect combo as other joint techniques did.
The advantages of Ice Field Domain were obvious. But there were weaknesses too, namely, the more ice skills used during the domain, the shorter its duration.
The main issue was still energy and proficiency.
But to deal with a beast of the same rank and a countered attribute like grass, it was more than enough.
“So the earlier attack from contestant Qiao Sang wasn’t over yet.” The commentator didn’t seem embarrassed at all as he explained what had just happened.
The mechanical referee beast came up to Elder Muzao, observed for a while, then picked up its whistle and blew it.
“The result is in! Let’s congratulate contestant Qiao Sang for winning this match and successfully advancing to the next round!” The commentator announced passionately.
Applause erupted like a tidal wave, growing louder and louder.
In the end, it roared like thunder, deafening the ears.
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On the Way Back.
Pirite had been holding it in for a while, and finally couldn’t help but ask, “How did your Ice Aipalu learn the Ice Field skill?”
“She used an Awakening Orb.”
Qiao Sang didn’t hide anything and said, “It awakened the skill during its evolution into Ice Aipalu.”
“Awakening Orb…” Pirite was a bit dazed.
If it was with an Awakening Orb, then… it wasn’t entirely impossible…
In history, there had been cases where a beast awakened a transcendent skill through an Awakening Orb.
However, that beast was already at the King level at the time.
Even for King-level beasts, being able to use a transcendent skill was still an extremely rare case across all of history…
For a General-level beast, this was absolutely the first case…
Pirite suppressed the urge to immediately email the Imperial Beast University and said, “Go back and get some good rest. The preliminaries last for two days, so your next match isn’t until the day after tomorrow… If any media tries to interview you, refuse them. Don’t waste time on them.”
Qiao Sang nodded.
“Okay.”
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10:01 PM.
Qiao Sang returned to the villa.
Her match time had been in the middle of the day, and she hadn’t stayed to watch the others, so she came back relatively early.
Dinner had been kept warm. Qiao Sang quickly filled her stomach, went to her room, half-laid on the bed, pulled out her phone, and planned to contact the Body Forge Bug to come earlier.
As soon as she took out her phone, she saw 99+ messages.
Qiao Sang opened them and saw they were all about her match tonight.
In addition to classmates from Yulianton University, there were dozens of messages from her high school classmates at Sainan High School.
Qiao Sang began replying to them one by one.
Suddenly, she saw a message from Hulis: [Qiao Sang, you’re competing in the Beast Tamer Star Tournament?!!]
[Oh my god, it’s really you!]
[Oh my god! Are you even human?! Your Ice Xilu evolved! And it can use the super skill Ice Field Domain?!]
[Reply when you see this! You’ve gone viral online! This is the perfect time to promote our beast item brand!]
Viral? Qiao Sang froze for a moment, then opened the trending
Then he jumped onto the bed, found a comfortable spot, lay down, closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep.
“Gang Slice.”
At that moment, Gangbao, who had been silent the whole time, let out a cry.
What about her?
Qiao Sang: …
She patiently replied, “There are still several days left in the tournament. Your turn will come.”
As she said that, she suddenly thought of something and asked in surprise, “You like matches too?”
“Gang Slice.”
Gangbao shook her head.
She didn’t care about liking or disliking, she just knew that matches meant battles, and battles made her stronger.
…Damn. Qiao Sang suddenly felt she wasn’t as hardworking as her own beasts. She immediately opened the contact info for the Body Forge Bug’s beastmaster and scheduled a session.
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The Next Morning.
Qiao Sang woke up on time, washed up briefly, and went to the living room.
When she saw the figure busy in the kitchen, she froze, then said in surprise, “Vice Principal, you’re actually home!”
Liu Yao turned and smiled: “The book you gave me was really useful. Saved me a lot of time, so I don’t need to be out as much lately.”
Qiao Sang smiled.
“I’m glad it helped. Actually, you can just tell me what you need, I might not know everything, but I can always ask the mentors.”
Liu Yao smiled and didn’t continue that topic. Instead, he asked: “You joined the Beast Tamer Star Tournament?”