1211. Chapter 1206 Another Battle Mode (Two in One)
Upon hearing this, Tingbao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something very serious. He couldn’t help but call out,
“Tingting?”
Will he compete alone from now on?
“Yes,” Qiao Sang said, “Didn’t I tell you yesterday? This competition is for solo competitors only. Beastmasters are not allowed to participate.”
“Tingting?”
Tingbao cried out anxiously.
Could Lubao accompany him during the competition?
“No,” Qiao Sang said coldly, “Lubao needs training too. He has his own things to do.”
“Tingting…”
Tingbao’s eyes suddenly glazed over, as if he had heard some terrible news.
He couldn’t imagine life without Lubao in this weather.
“Xunxun~”
Little Xunbao, thinking that Laoliu was afraid to compete alone, called out affectionately, saying that Lubao didn’t have time to accompany him. “Big Brother, I’ll accompany you. I have a substitute, so I don’t have to worry about missing training.
” “Tingting?”
Tingbao turned around and called out.
Can you become cold?
“Xunxun~”
Little Xunbao shook his head.
Tingbao looked away, his eyes still blank.
“I know you’re afraid of the heat,” Qiao Sang said with a smile. “I’ll leave you a cooling item, but you’ll have to take it away during the competition. Let Little Xunbao accompany you, and you can just give it to him when the time comes.”
The competition instructions contained much more information than what could be found online. One of the rules stated that during the competition, items and spiritual patterns could not be used; otherwise, it would be considered a violation and the competition would be lost.
Tingbao was young and illiterate, so he really needed someone to accompany him. Since he didn’t have the time, Little Xunbao was undoubtedly the perfect choice.
“Tingting?”
Tingbao’s eyes lit up again, and he called out eagerly.
What cooling item?
“Little Xunbao, find me a cooling item,” Qiao Sang said.
Back when she was on Chaoxiu Star, she had cleared out several item stores, many of which had cooling items.
“Xunxun~”
Little Xunbao nodded, took off the ring, enlarged it, and burrowed his entire head into it to search.
After about five minutes, Little Xunbao emerged from the ring, holding a box and handing it to his beastmaster.
Qiao Sang took it, opened the box, and found a hairpin inlaid with blue beads.
With the appearance of the hairpin, the temperature around them suddenly dropped a few degrees, and the air became cooler.
A hairpin… Qiao Sang was silent for a moment, then pinned it on Tingbao’s head and asked,
“How is it? Is it much cooler?”
“Tingting!”
Tingbao nodded happily.
“Remember to take it off during the competition,” Qiao Sang reminded again.
“Tingting.”
Tingbao nodded.
Seeing that everything was arranged, Qiao Sang began to scan the area, searching for opponents.
There were many intermediate pets, and of all the competitions currently open to intermediate pets in Huachang City, the Pet Free Points Competition was undoubtedly the highest level and offered the best rewards. Almost all the intermediate pets in the city participated, and many beastmasters heard the news and brought their pets to participate.
Qiao Sang glanced around and saw that many of the intermediate pets were wearing points recorders.
She quickly selected her target and said, “Tingbao, challenge that electric cat to a duel.”
She simply wanted to see how the duel unfolded, so she naturally needed to find one that could be concluded quickly.
Competition rules stipulated that the Beastmaster could not interfere in any matters of the competition. Even invitations to battle had to be initiated by the pets themselves, and the invited pets could not refuse.
The points recorder recorded the entire process, and if a pet refused a duel three times, it would be disqualified.
Tingbao didn’t know who the electric cat was, but it followed its Beastmaster’s gaze and spotted it. It immediately twisted its body and flew to its side, calling out,
“Tingting.”
The electric cat paused, stunned by Tingbao’s image, and a hesitant expression appeared on its face.
It couldn’t recognize the pet’s species, but it could tell it was a dragon-type pet.
As the electric cat hesitated, passersby and pets stopped, looked over, and shouted,
“Promise it! Promise it!”
“Battle! Battle!”
“Competition! Competition!”
Although the pet free points competition was not high-level and the participating pets were only intermediate, its six-month duration, the fact that it could be played anytime, anywhere, and the prizes for the champion made it a hot topic in Huachang City, keeping it a hot topic. Everyone in Huachang knew about it, including pets.
The unknown dragon pet and the electric cat were both wearing points recorders. Even if one couldn’t understand their conversation, one could tell from their expressions that they were inviting them to a battle.
“Electric cat! Promise it!”
“Electric cat! Promise it!”
“Electric cat! Don’t be a coward just because it’s a dragon pet!”
More and more people and pets stopped and gathered around.
As the cheers rose, the electric cat’s hesitant expression suddenly turned proud, as if to say, “How could I be a coward?
” “Electric,”
it barked, confirming that it was a duel.
He then took several steps back, creating some distance between him and Tingbao, then raised his paw and pressed the button on the score recorder.
Instantly, a virtual screen appeared above him.
It displayed:
[Species: Electric Cat]
[Level: Intermediate]
[Scores: 168]
[Ranking: 1000+]
Then, the virtual screen vanished.
There’s actually such a thing… Qiao Sang’s eyes lit up at the sight.
No wonder it requires such a large deposit. It has so many functions, and you can even directly see your opponent’s points and ranking.
1000+, that should mean you’re ranked above the thousandth place…
Is this the start? Tingbao subconsciously glanced in the direction of his own beastmaster.
“You press it too,” Qiao Sang said, gathering his thoughts.
“Tingting.”
Tingbao reacted for 0.1 seconds before pressing the button on the score recorder on his paw.
A virtual screen suddenly appeared above it:
[Species: Thunder Dragon]
[Level: Intermediate]
[Scores: 0]
[Ranking: 1000+]
It seems that contestants ranked after the thousandth place aren’t counted. Showing the exact ranking… Qiao Sang thought.
Meanwhile, the people and pets around him exchanged bewilderment.
They couldn’t believe a dragon-type pet had a score of 0.
But everyone quickly realized:
“Maybe this pet called Thunder Dragon just registered.”
“That’s for sure. Judging by the name, it might have electric attributes. With such powerful attributes, if it had registered earlier, it wouldn’t have won a single match.”
“I think so too.”
Amidst the chatter, the virtual screen vanished.
Then, a pet, only about 50 centimeters tall, wearing a referee’s badge and a miniature miniature bracelet, pushed through the crowd and landed between Tingbao and Electric Cat.
“Vegetables.”
The pet wearing the referee’s certificate cried out, then pressed the bracelet on its paw. A translucent, unobstructed barrier appeared around Tingbao and Dianliu, just the right size for a low-level pet competition. Tingbao
looked around curiously.
The referee’s bracelet can divide the field into corresponding sizes according to the level of the competition, which has the effect of preventing people and pets from entering.
It’s not that this barrier has the ability to prevent people and pets from entering, but when the barrier appears, everyone will tacitly stay outside the barrier and not intrude.
Qiao Sang is now not completely unfamiliar with the situation on Yantian Star, so he recognized it as a referee bracelet unique to Yantian Star at a glance.
It seems that there is no fixed referee for the pet free points competition. Anyone with a referee certificate should be able to serve.
Come to think of it, if there were a fixed referee, with so many mid-level pets battling at any time, how could they possibly handle it?
As the thought flashed through his mind, the pet wearing the referee’s badge glanced at Tingbao and Electric Cat, then his gaze fell on the hairpin on Tingbao’s head. He called out,
“Vegetable!”
Tingbao then remembered the cooling item on his head, removed it, and threw it toward his beastmaster.
The hairpin pierced through the barrier, and Qiao Sang reached out and caught it with precision.
Many people and pets noticed.
Then, the pet wearing the referee’s badge blew the whistle hanging from its chest.
“Ya Ya!”
“Xun Xun!”
Ya Bao and Xiao Xun Bao excitedly shouted “Go Lao Liu!
” “Qing Qing!”
Qing Bao instinctively joined in.
But the next second, his body froze.
Just then, his clone had vanished…
“Qing Qing…”
Qing Bao sighed and reactivated his clone.
“Electricity!”
At the same moment, Electric Cat transformed into a flash of yellow light and swiftly rushed towards Tingbao.
This speed would have seemed unbelievable to ordinary eyes, but from Qiao Sang’s perspective, it was as if in slow motion. She could clearly see the trajectory of the electric cat’s movements, its facial expression, and the direction its eyes were fixed on.
“Bang!”
“Electricity!”
Just as the electric cat was about to strike Ting Bao, Ting Bao’s tail suddenly glowed silvery-white, raised high, and swung down fiercely, slamming heavily into the opponent’s body. There was a loud noise, and the electric cat screamed in pain.
Dust flew.
When the dust settled, the electric cat was found unconscious, lying on the ground.
The pet wearing the referee’s certificate came over to check on the electric cat, then blew the whistle again, declaring the match over.
The next moment, virtual screens appeared above Ting Bao and the electric cat simultaneously.
[Species: Thunder Dragon]
[Level: Intermediate]
[Points: 1]
[Rank: 1000+]
…
[Species: Electric Cat]
[Level: Intermediate]
[Points: 167]
[Rank: 1000+]
Both teams’ points changed.
The virtual screens disappeared.
The people and pets around them fell silent for a moment, then scattered, their expressions of boredom fading as they chatted.
“I thought there would be a fierce battle.”
“Electric Cat was pretty good for a mid-level pet, but I didn’t expect it to be defeated so quickly.”
“A dragon-type pet is a dragon-type pet. It crushes opponents of the same level with a single strike.”
“What a shame, it only has one point now. If this Thunder Dragon had registered earlier, it might have had a chance to compete for the top spots.”
“Ya Ya…”
“Xun Xun…”
The excitement on Ya Bao and Xiao Xun Bao’s faces faded, their voices abruptly fading.
The match was over, and they too felt it was boring.
The pet wearing the referee’s certificate turned off its referee bracelet and turned to leave.
“Ting Ting!”
Ting Bao eagerly approached his beastmaster and called out.
Qiao Sang handed over the cool hairpin and said,
“This is basically how the competition works. Once you’ve accumulated three points, you can invite three opponents to battle simultaneously. This way, you can accumulate points faster.”
After a pause, she added, “Or, once you’ve accumulated two points, you can invite two opponents at once, but don’t invite more than three.”
In her opinion, among pets of the same rank, Tingbao had a chance of winning against two or three at once, but more than three would be difficult.
Tingbao quickly pinned the hairpin back on his head. Feeling the sudden drop in temperature around him, he finally felt like recalling his beastmaster’s words. Curiously, he called out,
“Tingting?”
Could this competition even involve multiple opponents?
“Yes,” Qiao Sang said. “As long as you have a certain number of points, you can invite multiple opponents to battle together. It’s just you, alone, against them all. This mode is quite challenging. If you lose, you’ll lose points based on the number of opponents you invited. If you win, the same applies: you’ll gain points based on the number of opponents you invited.”
“If they win, each one of them will gain one point. Generally speaking, in this battle mode, few pets actively invite each other, but those invited will almost certainly accept.”
“Please note that you can’t invite more opponents than your points allow.”
Qiao Sang had just learned this from reading the printed competition instructions. The official website didn’t have such detailed information, or perhaps it did, but she hadn’t noticed it.
This battle mode explains why registration was open for six months during the competition. Any qualified contestant had a chance to catch up and climb the rankings.
“Ya Ya!”
Ya Bao was excited.
He heard that he could invite multiple opponents at once, and he loved this battle mode.
“Ya Ya…”
Then, a thought struck Ya Bao, his excitement vanished, and he sighed.
It’s a pity that it can’t participate in this competition…
“Tingting.”
Tingbao digested it for a while and nodded, indicating that it understood.
It is much smarter than Yabao. How could Yabao have such understanding ability when he was this age… Qiao Sang sighed inwardly, turned to look at little Xunbao, and reminded:
“Take good care of Tingbao and bring him back at seven o’clock in the evening.”
“Xunxun~”
Little Xunbao nodded.
As he spoke, he stretched out his two short toes and rubbed them.
Qiao Sang was silent for a moment, took out his wallet, handed it over, and said:
“Don’t play, you can buy some food, and the main task is to keep an eye on Tingbao and take him to find opponents for competition.”
“Xunxun~”
Little Xunbao took the wallet and nodded happily.
“Qingqing…”
Qingbao was concentrating on controlling his clone, and didn’t want to follow little Xunbao as much as before.
“Then I’ll go do the task first, you have a good game.” Qiao Sang said to Tingbao, picked up his phone, opened the navigation, entered the location of one of the tasks, and turned to leave with Yabao and the others. (End of this chapter)
