Chapter 57: Chapter 53 Alsius
“Qiao Sang, the contestant?” the reporter asked again.
“Go ahead,” Qiao Sang said.
Beside her, Bai Yunmiao looked dejected.
“May I ask why you decided to participate in the Bai Xinsai?” The reporter turned her head to signal the cameraman to prepare for shooting before asking.
“It’s for someone,” Qiao Sang replied.
“Oh? May I ask who that person is?” The reporter’s eyes lit up.
As a qualified reporter, she had a keen ability to capture news and had already thought of a headline based on Qiao Sang’s response.
[Fire Element’s Top Choice, Qiao Sang, Joins Bai Xinsai—all for Him!]
“Bai Yunmiao, my friend and also my rival,” Qiao Sang said as she extended her hand to pull Bai Yunmiao to her side.
The camera naturally shifted its focus.
Qiao Sang, I love you!
The top 64 competitions continued that afternoon.
Qiao Sang didn’t go to the venue but instead traveled to the open Pet Beast Training Ground she frequented these past few days.
Two days before, the training for the Fire-Toothed Dog had stalled due to running out of money.
Without the special milk to replenish its strength, whether it was speed training or skill deployment, the dog could barely make it a few hours before it was completely exhausted, requiring almost half a day to recover.
Fortunately, today was July 1, the day pocket money was distributed.
Early in the morning, her mother transferred 5,000 Alliance Currency to her.
After contracting the Fire-Toothed Dog, her monthly allowance had quintupled.
Although 5,000 Alliance Currency might be a drop in the bucket for nurturing a Pet Beast, it was like timely rain for Qiao Sang, who had just run out of money.
After unwisely consuming the insanely spicy Mars Rain chicken wings for several days without any progress, the Fire-Toothed Dog finally heeded Qiao Sang’s advice and resumed its regular training.
[Name: Fire-Toothed Dog]
[Level: Primary (156/1000)+]
[Skills: Bite (Beginner 74/100)+, Rush (Mastered 344/500)+, Flame Tooth (Minor Achievement 563/2000)+, Spark (Minor Achievement 697/2000)+, Shadow Clone (Beginner 62/100)+, Flame Vortex (Beginner 92/100)+]
The Fire-Toothed Dog’s self-training with the Mars Rain wings had mainly resulted in Flame Vortexes, so the numbers behind it had increased rapidly.
The points at the bottom had increased by 32 due to two battles.
This time it was divisible…
It must be because the level of the battling Pet Beasts was about the same.
After the training, Qiao Sang returned home and started watching the Bai Xinsai afternoon replays on her phone.
After watching for a while, she felt something was off.
Qiao Sang realized what it was.
Where did all the bullet chats go?
Usually, although not many people watched, the screen was half-filled with bullet chats. Today, however, there were only a few sporadic ones.
Then, a bullet chat floated by.
[Guys, hold the fort; I’m gonna go. Lin Ya’s match is starting.]
In Dragon Country, only one person was referred to as such: the thrice representative of Dragon Country at the Interstellar Cup, Lin Ya.
Qiao Sang quickly shut off her phone and went to the living room to turn on the TV.
There was no need to change the channel; almost every station was showing the Interstellar Cup once it began.
On the screen, a bird Pet Beast with orange feathers, a purple crown on its head, a short black pointed beak, and three rod-like protrusions rising from its back, was panting heavily and hovering in the air.
Its entire body was enveloped in terrifying bolts of electricity, forming a fearsome magnetic field that could be felt even through the screen.
Qiao Sang recognized it immediately; it was the Emperor Level Extraordinary Creature, the Purple Crowned Falcon.
As the Pet Beast of god-level player Lin Ya, every detail of its contract and evolution stages were thoroughly uncovered, including its emotional experiences, which no one spared.
The very next day after it was released, it made headlines on various major news outlets.
It could be said that it had no privacy at all.
A few hundred meters away from the Purple Crowned Electric Falcon floated a white Pet Beast in a humanoid form.
It’s known that Extraordinary Creatures tend to grow larger with evolution.
Like the Emperor Level Purple Crowned Electric Falcon, which has a massive body close to a hundred meters in size.
Yet, the white Pet Beast opposite it was not only similar in size to humans but also shared the stature of an adult male.
It was quite a rarity.
The difference between the two Pet Beasts was starkly conspicuous in the same frame; the white Pet Beast wasn’t even the size of one of the Purple Crowned Electric Falcon’s claws.
The humanoid Pet Beast raised its claw-like hand in the air, and the entire ground instantly darkened, its white silhouette vanishing from sight.
Qiao Sang blinked in surprise and quickly took out her phone to search the information.
As a participant’s Pet Beast in the Interstellar Cup, its data could be searched online.
Qiao Sang soon found the white Pet Beast’s information.
On seeing this, she was shocked.
This humanoid white Pet Beast turned out to be an Evil-type Pet Beast!
Aren’t Evil lineage supposed to be black?
But Qiao Sang didn’t dare to question it for too long, after all, she was academically challenged…
“Fire-Toothed Dog, quick, come here!” Qiao Sang called out.
After slurping some milk in the kitchen, the Fire-Toothed Dog sauntered over leisurely.
“Which one do you think will win?” Qiao Sang asked, pointing at the TV.
The two Pet Beasts on the screen had already started to clash.
Alsius weaved in and out of the darkness, and its white afterimage could occasionally be spotted.
Sang Jianzhuang couldn’t help but comment.
You’d think if you were a normal black Evil-type Pet Beast it would be better; hidden in the darkness, your afterimage would be invisible.
The Purple Crowned Electric Falcon, on the other hand, let out a sky-piercing shriek. Terrifying lightning bolts descended like fiery serpents wrapped in electricity, zigzagging chaotically through the dark environment created by Alsius.
The thunder roared, frighteningly loud.
The Fire-Toothed Dog watched intently for a while before making a judgment.
It pointed seriously at the Purple Crowned Electric Falcon wearing the purple crown and barked.
Qiao Sang suddenly had a bad feeling in her heart.
Lin Ya… wouldn’t be about to lose, would he…
Three to four minutes into the TV screen battle, the energy from the lightning gradually subsided, and the white silhouette still faintly appeared in the darkness.
After watching for so long, Qiao Sang finally heard Lin Ya’s command.
A black hole suddenly opened above the Purple Crowned Electric Falcon, a white claw-shaped hand stretched out from within, holding a high-speed spinning ball of Evil-type energy.
The next second, the energy ball smashed viciously on the Purple Crowned Electric Falcon’s head.
“Oh my gosh! What have I just witnessed! Alsius suddenly appeared above the Purple Crowned Electric Falcon! Two Alsius! Was the Alsius in the dark mist a fake?!” the commentator exclaimed excitedly.
With the Purple Crowned Electric Falcon plummeting from the sky and the dark mist dissipating, there was no sign of any white afterimage.
And from within the black hole slowly emerged a figure.
It was precisely Alsius.
“Let’s congratulate Klika on his victory in this match and on becoming the second contestant to make it into the top ten of this year’s Interstellar Cup!”
As the commentator’s voice faded, Qiao Sang turned to look at the innocent-looking Fire-Toothed Dog next to her.
A half-baked idea suddenly formed in her mind.
Perhaps she could use the Fire-Toothed Dog to pick winners and losers first before placing bets on the Interstellar Cup…