Chapter 314 — The Lucky One Crushed by a Slime

Red Pupil chirped a "mi," ignited its sunflame power, and became a blade of orange-red sword light flying south.

As for Susu, it had no such speed—only one grade faster than Ginseng Baby. Within the team that ranking was only natural: Chongchong had teleportation, Eleven and Red Pupil had max-level speed-type species skills, so Susu could hardly compare. But set outside the team, its speed was still terrifying.

It was an elemental creature after all. Once one mastered elementalization, one was basically a flying expert—nothing like the pace of Ginseng Baby painstakingly gathering grass blades into wings.

"Ning!!"

With a "swoosh," Susu compressed its vast water-element power into its body and launched itself forth as an ultra-high-speed water lance, instantly becoming a blue afterimage like a meteor fired at incredible speed, hurtling ferociously toward the direction it was to guard.

Because Susu had come in last in the previous intra-team tournament, Shi Jin, to look after it, had simply handed it a free kill. The area where they had just detected contestants—that was the north, exactly where Susu was headed!

"Eh!!!!" At that same moment, the sight of Shi Jin summoning all of his beasts in one breath and dispatching four of them—including the formidable Overlord-species Dream Butterfly and Jiuli War Beast—stunned every viewer and made the host-commentators curse aloud in shock.

He... he had actually scattered his beasts out???

Was he going to let his beasts go find people to fight on their own???

"Contestant Shi Jin—after summoning all his pet beasts, he actually sent out four of them, leaving only a Ginseng Baby at his side! What is he trying to do!"

In the contestant seating of Lingdu University, the ten elites competing in the team event, along with several hundred teachers and students, all stared in astonishment at the water slime that had become a blur of watery light, shooting northward—toward Li Qiu. For a moment, their minds could not catch up.

The other pet beasts were fine—within a certain range there were currently no contestants, no active fierce beasts—but the water slime was rapidly closing in on Li Qiu.

That water jet's speed was actually much faster than the Tornado Sparrow's had been a moment ago!

Swish!

In no time, the water slime Susu had shot up above Li Qiu. Then it slammed down to the ground, staring down its enemy!!!

The sudden arrival of this creature made Lingdu University's captain Li Qiu and his Tornado Sparrow, who had been hiding on the ground quietly observing the situation, look over in shock—and then they saw what had landed on the ground... a water slime?

"Wh-what's going on." Li Qiu and the Tornado Sparrow stared at the water slime that had appeared out of nowhere, utterly dumbfounded.

A water slime?

Since when?

At this moment, in the valley walled by mountains on all sides, Li Qiu stood on the ground, the Tornado Sparrow beside him—the two had already dismounted—and the water slime had landed right across from them, facing them in a standoff.

Watching the water slime Shi Jin had sent out descend upon Li Qiu from so far away and run into him—aside from the contestant Li Qiu, who still had no idea what was happening, the audience behind the scenes all stared wide-eyed, their faces full of disbelief.

H-holy crap, Shi Jin—the beast tamer himself hadn't moved at all, and he'd directly sent out a pet beast to snipe Li Qiu???

So he really had discovered Li Qiu, hadn't he!!

But sending out just one water slime—was he serious?

Don't tell them that this water slime had also been raised by Shi Jin to Monarch level!!

Although the contestants in the individual event were all the cream of the nine great academies, among these Masters, having two or three Monarch-level beasts among the several pet beasts they had contracted already made one outstanding.

Having all five contracted beasts at Monarch level—that was extremely, extremely rare.

Besides, even if it had reached Monarch level, was it going to fight one against six, taking on Li Qiu and his five contracted pet beasts all by itself?

The standoff between Lingdu University's captain Li Qiu and the water slime Shi Jin had sent out made every viewer following the national tournament's individual preliminaries swallow hard.

"Ning!!!" The next moment, the water slime in the image erupted with a powerful might, instantly making Li Qiu and the Tornado Sparrow's pupils contract.

Boom!!!

It was as if an invisible blue tsunami had burst out from the water slime and swept outward!

Along with the gaze it turned on its opponent, the surrounding air began to hum and vibrate, and a materialized deterrence wave formed a blue aura of deterrence around it—this scene instantly made Li Qiu and the Tornado Sparrow wear expressions of extreme gravity.

A Monarch aura, Mastery-level deterrence?

A water slime—how could that be!

The terrifying deterrence wave spread outward!

"Tornado Sparrow," Li Qiu called.

Li Qiu's Tornado Sparrow was no pushover either; it too instantly erupted with a powerful deterrence wave—which was also Mastery-level deterrence. A nearly materialized azure aura of deterrence swiftly pressed toward the water slime.

But...

Crack.

As the deterrence spreading out from the water slime as its center split open the surrounding earth and rocks, Li Qiu and the Tornado Sparrow's gazes instantly turned to utter shock.

It was not Mastery-level deterrence.

It was Perfection-level deterrence, capable of materializing and causing physical destruction!!!

Rumble!

The Monarch aura the Tornado Sparrow had erupted with was instantly shattered, and the terrifying deterrence enveloped both the Tornado Sparrow and Li Qiu.

The Tornado Sparrow's spirit and consciousness quaked in an instant; it directly felt a suffocating, terrifying aura. It stared at the small creature before it in disbelief, its face full of incomprehension, its mental state severely affected.

And Li Qiu was not much better off—the defensive pendant equipment on his chest trembled violently, on the verge of collapse, even showing signs of cracking, leaving Li Qiu pale-faced and barely able to make any other movement; his thoughts and actions were both restricted.

At the same time, dazzling, brilliant waves of water gathered in the water slime's mouth, and an astonishing deterrence coiled around them.

Transcendent-level deterrence—Deterrence Coil!

At this moment, Li Qiu's pupils contracted again, and he felt an incomparable threat.

"Damn it, it's not Perfection—it's Transcendent, what the hell!!!" he shouted.

Then, erupting with a powerful potential of his own, while barely resisting the deterrence, he unleashed his strength with all his might, using his wind-type enhancement talent on the Tornado Sparrow!

Hum!

The Tornado Sparrow's aura climbed steadily, and in the blink of an eye its strength far surpassed what it had been before.

But as the terrifying torrent, compressed to its utmost, churned within the Water Slime's mouth, Li Qiu and the Tornado Sparrow felt not the slightest relief.

BOOM!!!

Deterrence Armament · Water Elemental Mastery · Water Cannon!

Fired!

Azure light swirled in the Water Slime's mouth and in its eyes, and with a "rumble" the water cannon — thick beyond measure, terrifyingly fast, a whole stretch of sea compressed into it — locked onto the Tornado Sparrow through sheer deterrence and hurtled toward it.

"Chirp!!!!" At that moment, pinned beneath a deterrence lock two whole tiers above its own, the Tornado Sparrow still could not move; it could only laboriously gather a "Jade of Wind" in its beak, opposing the water cannon with a huge compressed, spiraling sphere of wind.