Chapter 52: Public Exhibition Match, Lian Xing’s Debut!! p2
White Maple Academy.
Five girls in White Maple Academy uniforms were waiting in the same training room. One of them, an orange-haired girl, was wearing a black thigh-high stocking on one leg and a white lace garter on her other, bare leg, clearly someone…experienced…in…certain activities.
This orange-haired girl’s ID was Nimble-Fingered Xiao Kui, a familiar face to the viewers. At this moment, Xiao Kui was…showing off…her new stocking outfit in front of over 600,000 viewers. Normally, her livestream would have at most 100,000 viewers, but today was White Maple Academy’s team building event, and Captain Aurora’s fame had attracted a large number of fans of the Ten Greats.
“Is everyone ready?”
“Feed your pet beasts. We’re about to start the instance!!!” Aurora, the girl with braids and a slightly…rustic…aura, ordered in a serious tone.
Hearing this, Xiao Kui stopped showing off and quickly fed her Thundering Violet Lightning a Mid-Tier crystal, getting it into top condition. Today, White Maple Academy was challenging the infamous… cuckold instance, Dragon Emperor City. They had practiced several times before, and led by Captain Aurora, the five core members could defeat the first three bosses, but they were stuck on the fourth.
Today, their vice-captain had a breakthrough in her lineup, acquiring a new Arcane Art that could counter the fourth boss, so they were eager to challenge Dragon Emperor City. After all, defeating a new enemy significantly increased a pet beast’s Training Value!!!
However…
As they opened the instance page, ready to teleport, they all froze. Seeing the text on the first line, Xiao Kui’s jaw dropped, her tongue almost falling out.
[1. Commander-Tier Lair — Starry Plains, Completion Record — 17 minutes 52 seconds]
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“Huh???”
“What does that mean? What does that mean???”
“17 minutes 52 seconds? Everyone, am I seeing things!?”
“Is someone cheating again? Officials, please do something about these lawless Mechanical Species Beast Tamers!!!”
Although Xiao Kui’s dumbfounded expression was embarrassing, no one in the livestream was paying attention to her anymore. Everyone was stunned by the instance record. Starry Plains was the most popular and challenging instance, and almost everyone, except for a few casual players, had experienced it, so they knew how difficult it was.
17 minutes 52 seconds…not even a fraction of the previous record!!!
It wasn’t even enough time to just run through the instance, right!?
No…
Wait, it was enough time. Lian Xing had even wasted two minutes chatting with her teammate…
“Ban the cheaters!!!!” Finally snapping out of her daze, Xiao Kui opened the Starry Plains instance’s comment section. She expected to see a flood of complaints, but instead, she found an official announcement.
[Pinned: After reviewing the recording, the player who set the new instance record was not cheating.]
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“??????????”
Below the pinned comment were endless question marks. Honestly, it was hard to understand the officials’mental state today…
17 minutes 52 seconds…and they concluded that there was no cheating?
Xiao Kui naturally didn’t believe it. She opened the instance record, and as expected, the player who cleared it had used a fake name. Just like the trending Super Golden Wheel, if it were a real ID, she could click on it and view the player’s profile. But with a fake name, the account was inaccessible…
[First Moonlight Rabbit]
This was the fake name used by the player who set the new record.
But…why did that name sound so familiar…?
Was this kind of uninspired naming style trending?
Prefixes like “Super,” “Invincible,” “Strongest,” or “First,” followed by the Juvenile Species form of their main pet beast.
Super Golden Wheel, First Moonlight Rabbit, Strongest Moonlight Rabbit…
Wait!!!
Suddenly, Xiao Kui’s pupils constricted.
She remembered Super Golden Wheel’s lineup.
Moon-Embracing Jade Hammer…?
Golden Wheel…?
Wait, wasn’t the Moon-Embracing Jade Hammer’s Juvenile form…the Moonlight Rabbit???
And speaking of the Moonlight Rabbit and Golden Wheel combination…Xiao Kui couldn’t help but think of that golden-haired, bun-wearing, stocking-clad girl in the Youlan Academy uniform, the one who had teamed up with Silver Dragon, one of the Ten Greats…
Although back then, it had been a Giant Moonlight Rabbit and the Golden Wheel hadn’t been mutated.
But their Juvenile forms were the same, right!?!?!?!?
“Xiao Kui, what are you doing? Don’t get distracted. The Captain has called you several times. Hurry up and enter the instance!!!” one of her teammates reminded her.
However, Xiao Kui had no interest in training anymore. She had something to confirm.
“Captain, I’m sorry, but something urgent came up. Please ask a substitute to replace me!!!”
With that, Xiao Kui quickly left the team space, leaving the other White Maple Academy members confused.
What was going on?
Running away at a time like this…was Xiao Kui crazy…?
As expected, Captain Aurora’s expression darkened. Xiao Kui was in big trouble.
The last time Xiao Kui had a lapse in judgment, she had been punished with a three-month ban on certain activities…
She wondered how long the ban would be this time?
The other members couldn’t help but feel a bit schadenfreude.
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“Xiao Kui, what are you doing? I’m going to unfollow you…”
“Just a casual viewer here, only watching for Captain Aurora. I’m out~~~”
“Xiao Kui, you…little newborn…!!!”
Back in her private training space, Xiao Kui ignored the barrage of insults and opened the livestream channels, searching for Youlan Academy’s channel. Youlan Academy wasn’t currently broadcasting any matches, so she scrolled to the past records and quickly browsed through their previous matches. Xiao Kui herself was the one who had defeated Youlan Academy’s main team 3-1 in the main tournament last year, and she had been bragging about it ever since, so she was quite familiar with their lineup.
The first team consisted of the classic High-Tier trio and two useless members.
As for the second team.
They had been personally eliminated by her White Maple Academy team in the qualifiers!!!
Xiao Kui anxiously browsed through dozens of friendly match records but found that both the first and second teams had the same members as last year. There was no sign of Strongest Moonlight Rabbit.
What was going on with that Strongest Moonlight Rabbit?
She could easily defeat her, she knew Silver Dragon, one of the Ten Greats, but she wasn’t a member of Youlan Academy’s team?
“What’s going on? I don’t understand Xiao Kui’s sudden obsession with Youlan Academy’s battle records.”
“Xiao Kui, stop being weird. Do something normal…!!!”
“Wait, I think I get it. Xiao Kui suspects that Strongest Moonlight Rabbit, the one in the Youlan Academy uniform, is actually First Moonlight Rabbit, right?”
“LMAO, Xiao Kui, don’t flatter yourself. Just because someone can easily defeat you doesn’t mean they can clear Starry Plains in 17 minutes!!!”
“To clear Starry Plains in 17 minutes, you need a pet beast at the peak of Commander-Tier. Both of Strongest Moonlight Rabbit’s pet beasts are Mid-Tier. How could they be the same person?”
Although the livestream viewers had started speculating about Strongest Moonlight Rabbit based on Xiao Kui’s behavior, they had only seen the Giant Moonlight Rabbit and the pre-mutated Golden Wheel.
They couldn’t possibly connect Strongest Moonlight Rabbit and Super Golden Wheel to First Moonlight Rabbit.
After all, in just a week, even with rapid growth, that was impossible.
But Xiao Kui was stubborn. She knew that no normal person would choose such names!!
And, three appearances, all using throwing attacks, with matching Juvenile forms, there was a high probability—
That they were all the same person!!!
At this moment, Xiao Kui, who had been rapidly searching through Youlan Academy’s past records, stopped. A new livestream appeared on the Youlan Academy channel page.
[Youlan Academy VS Qingliu Academy, Public Exhibition Match, Countdown: 10 minutes]
Seeing this title, Xiao Kui’s breath hitched. She clicked on it without hesitation.
Youlan Academy, Team Training Room.
Facing the livestream cameras, the first team members looked nervous. They were about to be publicly humiliated in front of both their own academy and the opposing academy!!
Without Captain Qi Dong, how could Youlan Academy possibly defeat Qingliu Academy?
There were over 2,000 viewers in the livestream channel, mostly current and recent graduates of the two academies.
“I can’t bear to watch. I heard Captain Qi Dong resigned. Our academy is going to lose badly, right?”
“Heh, she probably just ran away before the league. She must have realized she hasn’t improved at all and would just embarrass herself again, so she gave up!!!”
“Beauties, let’s just enjoy the first team members’ nervous expressions. They probably know they can’t win, right!?”
“Shut up, keyboard warriors. If you’re so knowledgeable, why aren’t you on the core team?”
“Classic. You have to be a chef to judge a fridge, right?”
“At least they’re the same age, and being on the core team means they’re stronger than you. Any problem with that?”
“r023ncr0239c54c12”
“@!CFgf23c5ft21nc “
Soon, the livestream chat devolved into a chaotic mess of censored insults.
However, amidst the chaos, many noticed something strange. For some reason, the number of viewers in Youlan Academy’s livestream was skyrocketing, quickly jumping from a couple thousand to over forty thousand.
Even the Youlan Academy livestream staff were confused, unable to find the cause. Only when the new viewers started spamming insults at Xiao Kui did they realize the truth…
Xiao Kui, a core member of the White Maple Academy team, Nimble-Fingered Xiao Kui, was actually using her popularity and Captain Aurora’s fame to promote Youlan Academy’s exhibition match…!!!
This was peak insanity.
Meanwhile, the Youlan Academy first team members in the training room were oblivious to the situation, focusing on the upcoming match, mentally rehearsing their strategies.
The Dean of Youlan Academy, with fiery red hair, stood at the door, looking at the petite Chi Yan with anticipation.
“Daughter, tell me about your newly awakened system. Is it a lottery system? A check-in system? Or…the popular pet beast simulator system?”
“You said you could definitely win against Qingliu Academy. The match is about to start. What’s your secret!?”
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“Old hag, can you please stop reading those novels?” Chi Yan’s lips twitched.
Her mother could come up with such ridiculous ideas just from her saying she had a guaranteed way to win.
If she really had a simulator system, the first thing she would simulate would be the destruction of Youlan Academy!!
“Then what is it? Can’t you give me a hint!?”
“Wait, are you trying to get back at me?”
“Do you want to ruin Youlan Academy’s reputation? Think about the bigger picture, my dear daughter! If you win this match, I’ll be your slave for life! I can even go back to my…old job…to earn resources for you!!!”
“Get out!!!” Chi Yan shouted, blushing, silencing her shameless mother.
After a long silence, she finally calmed down.
“I don’t have any of those stupid systems you’re talking about.”
“I just invited a guaranteed win…”
As Chi Yan’s cold words echoed, the door to the training room opened under the watchful eyes of the livestream viewers.
Then, in the Youlan Academy livestream, now with almost 100,000 viewers, under the excited gazes of Xiao Kui and Forever 16.
A familiar golden-haired girl with buns and starry eyes peeked in cautiously.
“Beauties, am I late?”
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