Chapter 6: Tentacle Slime
While her opponent was bewildered by the Giant Moonlight Rabbit, the star patterns in Lian Xing’s eyes twinkled, as if she had seen her long-deceased mother. The Giant Moonlight Rabbit, this was the beginning of everything, the first evolution. As long as the Moonlight Rabbit was in Lian Xing’s hands, even the seemingly ordinary Flexibility Enhancement talent could be turned from trash to treasure, becoming a terrifying superweapon!!!
[Battle Begin]
The countdown ended, and the barrier between the two sides disappeared. The medium-sized arena map was much wider than the previous arena in the ranking battle, with a distance of over a hundred meters between the two sides. It was a perfect environment for a ranged Mechanical Species to shine.
The moment the battle began, Starlight Academy’s #1 Beauty aimed her green sniper rifle at the giant rabbit over a hundred meters away, wondering how she could possibly lose at this distance.
Lian Xing didn’t seem worried. She stood on tiptoe, patted the Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s bottom, and encouraged it casually.
“Alright, bunny, let me see how agile you are~~~”
“Eek!!!”
“Bang!!!!”
Along with the Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s cute cry, an ear-splitting gunshot echoed across the arena. The bullet fired from the Mechanical Species Eight-Legged Spider’s muzzle, a green blur, crossed most of the map in an instant, arriving before the Moonlight Rabbit.
With a “Whoosh!”, sensing the threat of death, the Giant Moonlight Rabbit instinctively ducked and dodged, the bullet narrowly grazing its head.
Then, before it could catch its breath, another barrage of gunshots followed.
Surprisingly, facing the overwhelming hail of dark green bullets, the seemingly vulnerable Giant Moonlight Rabbit swayed its massive body, nimbly weaving through the rain of fire. It passed through the hail of bullets unscathed. The rabbit’s large and cumbersome form now displayed an unexpected grace and ease.
Even when occasionally hit, it only lost a bit of fur. Its actual body was much smaller than its fluffy exterior suggested, with the fur accounting for a third of its apparent size.
Seeing this, Lian Xing nodded thoughtfully.
“Hmm, not bad so far. The Flexibility Enhancement talent is quite suitable for the Giant Moonlight Rabbit…”
“Not too good, but not too bad~~~”
Although she said that, Lian Xing knew very well that it would still be difficult to defeat her current opponent with its current combat power.
As expected, as the distance between the Giant Moonlight Rabbit and the Eight-Legged Spider shortened, the situation became more dangerous. Several times, it barely avoided having its head blown off.
This was unavoidable. After all, beyond seven steps, speed was key.
Within seven steps, both speed and accuracy were crucial!!
Most Biological Species evolution paths were late-game bloomers. Being beaten to a pulp by Mechanical Species in the early game was common.
After a dozen seconds, as the distance between the two sides shortened to within 50 meters, the pretty girl with green twintails stopped holding back and activated her combat skill.
[Blue Quality Combat Skill: Rapid Fire]
“Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!!”
In the next second, as her finger squeezed the trigger, green flames erupted from the Eight-Legged Spider’s muzzle, firing like a Gatling gun.
The overwhelming barrage of bullets covered the entire map, instantly turning the flashy Giant Moonlight Rabbit into a bloody mess, leaving no room for evasion.
A Gatling sniper rifle, seriously!?
Facing this terrifying firepower, let alone the newly evolved Giant Moonlight Rabbit, even Lian Xing’s previous Moonlight Drive would likely have lost.
[Starlight Academy’s #1 Beauty, Victory!!!]
[Strongest Moonlight Rabbit, Defeat, Loss Prevention Card used to negate the loss]
An unsurprising defeat…
Soon, the map before Lian Xing faded, and her consciousness returned to the virtual battle space lobby.
The Giant Moonlight Rabbit had reverted to its small and weak form, hiding in Lian Xing’s chest, trembling with tears in its eyes. Even though it was just a rabbit, with an underdeveloped brain and no cerebellum at all, it knew very well that it had become much weaker.
However, Lian Xing’s reaction was completely different. After stroking the Moonlight Rabbit’s back to comfort it, she nodded with satisfaction.
“It seems I don’t need to waste the other two Loss Prevention Cards. One match is enough. I’ve pretty much figured out the effect of the Flexibility Enhancement talent. The Giant Moonlight Rabbit’s current combat power is only about seven or eight times weaker than the Moonlight Drive…”
“But it doesn’t make much difference. I can start the real enhancement now!!”
Youlan Academy, Trading Area.
Just like every online game had a marketplace for players to set up stalls, this world naturally had a trading area specifically for Beast Tamers. Whether it was pet beasts, combat skills, pet food, evolution information, or even the Beast Tamers themselves, everything could be traded here.
At this moment, in a corner of the trading market, under the scrutinizing gazes of passersby, Lian Xing, who was…standing around, rubbed the swaying golden buns on her head with a deadpan expression.
“Are you for sale?”
After a while, a petite lolita girl finally mustered the courage to ask. Despite being less than 1.4 meters tall, her words were surprisingly bold.
“Sorry, I’m not for sale…” Lian Xing shook her head flatly, seemingly accustomed to this phenomenon.
Seeing this, the petite lolita left disappointedly.
After that, Lian Xing rejected three more inquiries before finally waiting for the person she had contacted.
A blue-haired woman with two fishtail-shaped twintails hanging on either side of her head walked over, dripping water like a wet rag. Her long, white, and delicate legs soaked a large part of the market street before she stopped expressionlessly in front of Lian Xing.
Up close, it turned out that those eye-catching, plump fishtails weren’t a hairstyle but actual fishtails, wet and slimy, tangled and knotted with her hair.
Yu Bo, the second-ranked Supernova of Youlan Academy, a core member of the Youlan Battle Team, and a human-pet hybrid.
“Lian Xing, it seems you’ve finally made the right decision…” Yu Bo said coldly, her demeanor like an unattainable snow lotus.
However, her habit of spitting water while talking was rather…unpleasant.
Lian Xing was directly sprayed with water. She forced a calm expression, suppressing her twitching face.
“Mm…” Soaked, Lian Xing lowered her eyes and nodded reluctantly.
She didn’t really want to sell the Blue Quality combat skill Splitting Laser to this woman. Every time they traded, she would be sprayed with water, slimy and sticky like tentacle slime, making her feel nauseous. It was also difficult to wash off.
But Yu Bo’s offer was simply too high. Moreover, Splitting Laser perfectly complemented her lineup and build. Months ago, she had already increased her offer to three times the usual price for a Blue Quality combat skill.
However, since Splitting Laser was the core of the Moonlight Drive build, Lian Xing’s predecessor had never considered selling it.
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