Chapter 53
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Chapter 53: July Fire, Complete-Stage Evolution!!!
The top of the Burning Hand ranking list is mostly filled with the Forbidden Area Strategy Team from Mohuang Court.
Phoenix Heart Team 1 is the team that Huang Qiuxuan is officially a part of.
Essentially, it still belongs to Mohuang Court.
The reason why the top teams from Wanxing State and White Moon State are not on the list is not because they are not strong enough, but because the officials of Phoenix Sand State do not want to sell the copyright of the Forbidden Area Fragment to them.
Otherwise, if the team from Mohuang Court gets easily defeated, the people of Phoenix Sand State would likely lose confidence.
In fact, it’s not just the Burning Hand map; each state controls their own ranking list for the forbidden area. Unless it is a special situation, they will not easily sell it to other schools.
The reason they sold it to Tianfeng Academy…
They are too weak and not a threat.
Even Su Huan, who just became popular with everyone, would not be able to affect this ranking list before he has grown stronger…
However, at this moment, while in the Burning Hand Forbidden Area Fragment—
Su Huan even thinks that this ranking list is somewhat too weak.
After all, when the great explosion of the executor arrives a few years later, the racing ranking list of the Forbidden Area Fragments in eight states will all be measured in seconds.
"……"
"……"
"However, there is still plenty of time, so there is no need to rush for now…"
After thinking to himself for a moment, Su Huan summoned July Fire and Princess Flash Thunder.
But he didn’t let either of them do anything.
He only made them stand still as a punishment.
For some reason, after a while, July Fire lowered its head more and more, and its breath became visibly painful.
Its entire body was filled with swirling white elemental energy, trembling wildly, showing signs of a volcano about to erupt.
Seeing this scene, Princess Flash Thunder beside her felt her eyelids twitch.
As one of Su Huan’s Battle Pets, she could clearly feel that July Fire’s Resonance Value was wildly fluctuating between 189% and 191%, reaching an extraordinary critical point that ordinary people could not comprehend.
However, it still had not evolved…
That was because, to prevent it from easily reaching complete-stage evolution, Su Huan was doing everything he could to suppress July Fire’s Resonance Value.
During the great battle with Liuliu Yue, July Fire’s Resonance Value had already reached around 130%, and after fighting the endless Flash Butterfly and Light Wing King, its Resonance Value soared to this terrifying number.
Strongly suppressing the Resonance Value is like forcing down a sneeze or a cough; for a Battle Pet, it is a painful and difficult experience.
This is what Su Huan mentioned before about special training!!!
"But, surely, it doesn’t have to be this cruel?"
Seeing July Fire’s increasingly painful state, Princess Flash Thunder couldn’t help but think with relief.
Her current Resonance Value is only about 90%, so it is still far from the time to evolve.
Even if it is painful, today is not the day…
However, Princess Flash Thunder suddenly turned pale, as if she couldn’t breathe due to a lack of oxygen, feeling weak.
Moreover, her once incredibly strong complete-stage aura quickly faded away.
The Resonance Value plummeted like a rocket, dropping from 90% to about 3% in an instant.
Su Huan actually pressed down Princess Flash Thunder’s Resonance Value!!!
Doing this so easily could reduce the strength of the Battle Pet!!!!
Princess Flash Thunder raised her head in embarrassment and anger.
Seeing this, Su Huan didn’t explain, he just gently patted her head with a hint of helplessness.
"Behave yourself, and when you get home, I’ll give you some pocket money to shop online freely!"
"Okay…"
Upon hearing this, Princess Flash Thunder suddenly fell silent.
It became even quieter than July Fire.
Unlike July Fire’s special training, which aimed to give her a stronger initial Resonance Value after evolution, Su Huan’s goal for Princess Flash Thunder was to make her weaker.
Weak enough that the strong wouldn’t even be able to see her…
One might ask, what is the difference in vision between a humanoid royal-rank battle pet and an ordinary human?
The answer is that the human eye struggles to see bacteria in the air.
And from the perspective of a humanoid royal-rank battle pet, they also cannot see some of the weaker beings; their vision is like a huge radar map covering the entire region, only noticing life forms that pose a threat.
The other creatures are seen as dust.
Therefore, even if ordinary battle pets in their infancy and mature stages stand before a royal-rank battle pet, they might not even be noticed.
But the complete-stage Princess Flash Thunder is different.
She is about to step into the true Divine Domain.
Su Huan must suppress Princess Flash Thunder’s Resonance Value to be as close to zero as possible.
This is an experience he gathered from countless near-death escapes in his past life.
However, because this special training can easily cause a Battle Pet’s aura to go out of control, it could accidentally blow away most of the academy, so testing in this Forbidden Area Fragment is the best choice.
The environment in the forbidden area can effectively isolate the aura from spreading.
If it were an ordinary virtual map, it might even damage the instruments.
At the same time, while Su Huan and his two Battle Pets were training hard, the Tianfeng Academy was also facing difficulties on the map.
"Boom!!!"
"Boom boom boom!!!"
Seven mature-stage fire and wind-type Battle Pets were bombarding Huang Yu’s spiked shell fiercely.
All kinds of fiery explosions and wind blades continued to burst right in front of them.
Even with such terrifying firepower constantly attacking, the strong defense of the spiked shell, Heavy Mudstone, and Blue Sea Shell was on the brink of collapsing.
There was only one main attacking Battle Pet at the mature stage, and that was Wang Murou’s Fuying Snow Lotus.
At that moment, the Fuying Snow Lotus growing on the pink-haired girl’s head was sending out little blades, but before they could reach the enemy, they were canceled out by incoming long-range attacks.
The other infancy-stage attacks were no different from just a tickle.
"No way, this is too hard! This is just the first wave of little monsters, and we’re already in such a messy situation. Who on earth can clear the forbidden area…?"
While Liang Xiao was using her Charm Spirit to sprinkle water and cool everyone down, she sighed with some helplessness.
This was their first battle without Su Huan’s help, and they had already fallen into a tough fight.
Even seven mature-stage battle pets could leave them feeling hopeless.
In this moment, it felt like the whole Tianfeng Academy was brought back to its weak and helpless state from before.
"Don’t think about it for now. Teams that can fully clear the Forbidden Area Fragment are very rare in the entire region. This is our first time forming a team to tackle it; just being able to defeat a few waves of little monsters would count as a great success!"
Daiyue said to comfort them.
I have to say, her mindset seemed more like a seasoned third-grader compared to Liang Xiao, who seemed more like a first-year beginner.
To be honest, if it weren’t for the stronger characters getting more attention, she would never push herself to become stronger.
"Whoosh!!!"
While everyone was talking, Wang Murou’s Fuying Snow Lotus took advantage of a teammate’s attack to find an opening and unleashed an invisible blade that tore through the body of a fire-type battle pet from the side.
Seeing the other side lose a member, everyone’s spirits soared, and they worked even harder to create distractions.
With Huang Yu’s double defense formation and the Fuying Snow Lotus’s strong attacks, it was only a matter of time before they would defeat the enemy.
Finally, after half an hour, the last small creature was defeated…
Everyone let out a long sigh and collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily and looking utterly worn out.
Huang Yu’s two battle pets and Wang Murou’s Fuying Snow Lotus were completely exhausted as well.
"Sigh, I’m out of energy…"
"And that was just the first wave!!!!"
"Sorry, Senior Sister Huang Yu, it’s our fault for being too weak and holding everyone back…" Feng Qinqin said with a bit of guilt.
After this first wave of attacks, the few beginners in battle pet training began to realize what was happening.
As long as they replaced them with other experienced trainers, with Huang Yu’s defensive skills, they could quickly break through the first wave of small monsters.
Hearing this, Huang Yu casually waved her hand.
"It’s okay, it’s our first time, let’s just experience it."
"After all, we don’t expect to finish the game today."
"……"
"……"
"So now, what do we say? Should we give up, or take a look at what the second wave of small monsters is like?"
After resting for ten minutes in place, Liang Xiao, who was lying on the ground, spoke up.
Hearing this, everyone fell into hesitation.
Even in a Virtual Battle, if you lose, there is a chance of losing a tiny bit of Resonance Value; maybe they won’t even recover the cost of winning just now.
But since they have already won the first wave, they couldn’t possibly lack the courage to take another look, right?
Therefore, after a brief thought, Wang Murou made a decision.
"How about this, you few in the infancy stage should just give up. The members of our formal team would like to take another look; perhaps later our captain might want to form a team to explore this Forbidden Area Fragment, so it’s better to understand it in advance…"
After hesitating for a moment, Feng Qinqin and the others agreed to this request.
They directly chose to give up and entered the viewing perspective.
Anyway, this group of infancy-stage Battle Pet Masters staying here would just hold them back…
Soon, only Daiyue, Liang Xiao, Huang Yu, and Wang Murou from the original team remained.
After a quick rest to regain some strength, they continued their journey north.
But soon, with the arrival of the second wave of attacks, everyone fell into despair.
A total of 12 mature-stage fire-type battle pets!!!
And each one is stronger than the strongest one from the first wave!!!
Faced with such a terrifying wave of monsters, Huang Yu’s defense was completely shattered in just about a minute, and one by one, the four declared defeat.
They returned to the viewing perspective to join Feng Qinqin and the others.
"This is unbelievable…"
"It feels like they are even stronger than the mature-stage opponents in the Academy League!"
"This is certain; even the strongest graduates from the eight states have to train in a group for two or three years to have a chance to join the Forbidden Area Strategy Team. This level of intensity is still a bit too early for us…"
"Huang Yu is definitely the strongest; she can hold her own against ten opponents for such a long time!!!"
The crowd, feeling defeated, began to comfort themselves.
However, it must be said that Huang Yu’s performance was truly wonderful, both in this Forbidden Area strategy and in the Academy League.
Her defensive formation has reached an extraordinary level among her peers, and if she continues to train for a while and enters the professional league, she should be in high demand.
Wang Murou’s Flower Fairy can act as a giant radar; once it evolves to the mature stage, it will be very suitable for joining the Forbidden Area strategy team and training together.
As for Liang Xiao…
I’ve heard that the white silk brand she represents is selling very well.
At this moment, after watching his teammates’ performance from the starting point, Su Huan thought this.
However…
Just then.
From the viewpoint of the bystanders, the teammates who were about to log out of the game suddenly noticed something strange.
"Huh, what is the captain doing?"
"We have all been eliminated, why hasn’t he declared a surrender yet?"
"And why do July Fire and Princess Flash Thunder look so pained?"
Daiyue asked, a bit confused.
After a moment of surprise, Wang Murou suddenly seemed to remember something and explained with realization:
"I remember now, the captain said he wanted to give the Battle Pet special training…"
"It must be a training to forcefully enhance the resonance in the forbidden area!"
"After all, the environment in the forbidden area is very special; almost all Battle Pets’ Resonance Values are suppressed to some extent. The captain must be planning to raise the Battle Pets’ Resonance Values to normal levels before leaving!"
At this moment, after hearing Wang Murou’s explanation, everyone present nodded in agreement.
That’s right, Captain Su Huan has been idle from the start, definitely focusing on strengthening the Battle Pets’ adaptability to the forbidden area environment.
To avoid disturbing the captain’s training, everyone willingly stepped back from watching.
Soon, only Su Huan and his two Battle Pets remained on the scene.
Before anyone realized it, an hour and a half of game time had already passed.
Princess Flash Thunder’s pale face seemed to be on the verge of passing out.
Meanwhile, July Fire’s body, which was twitching non-stop, looked like it might throw up at any moment.
Su Huan knew when to stop.
He directly canceled the suppression of Resonance Value.
In the next moment, Princess Flash Thunder suddenly collapsed to the ground, lying still like a lifeless body.
"Boom!!!!"
Meanwhile, July Fire unleashed a powerful arc of lightning from his mouth, wildly blasting the volcanic landscape into chaos.
After that, this fierce lightning swept across the map, traveling more than ten kilometers, and the twelve fire-type battle pets still roaming the map were struck down one by one, collapsing and getting electrocuted on the spot.
Su Huan quietly felt the moment, then showed a satisfied expression.
"198%"
"That’s enough; I’m almost at the limit…"
"From now on, there should be no need to hold back."
"But before you are free, you still need to defeat a real ultimate-stage as your final breakthrough, do you understand!?"
As Su Huan finished speaking, July Fire’s back, almost pressed to the ground, slowly arched. It did not say a word but limped silently towards the end of the map.
Seeing this, the recovering Princess Flash Thunder silently floated after it.
In the Phoenix Sand State, there is a common understanding among the major strategy teams about the Forbidden Area Fragment called Burning Hand.
That is, when fighting the final ultimate-stage BOSS, you must first clear away seven elite monsters to lower the temperature of this forbidden area significantly, which will also reduce the BOSS’s attack power.
Only in this way can they, along with the BOSS at the ultimate-stage, think about how to deal with each other in terms of royal strategies.
Wang Murou mentioned before that the virtual Forbidden Area Fragment has a BOSS with combat power one major level lower than that of real forbidden areas, but its form and capability still belong to the royal category, completely something that ordinary ultimate-stage Battle Pet Masters cannot handle.
However…
At this moment, July Fire and Princess Flash Thunder ignored the presence of the seven complete-stage elites and walked straight toward the final boss’s lair.
Along the way, they encountered several waves of small monsters, but before the monsters could get close, they were paralyzed and died from the chaotic Thunderstorm energy released by July Fire, without any chance to fight back.
Every minute, the stormy thunderclouds surrounding July Fire became more fierce, and even Princess Flash Thunder behind her squinted her eyes from the invisible sparks.
Finally, exactly two minutes into their journey, the two of them arrived at the entrance of the boss’s lair, one after the other.
It was a giant magma canyon, where flowing hot lava bubbled with intense heat.
A massive fire dragon with four flaming remnants of wings perched inside; just seeing it would scare any ordinary Battle Pet Master to the core.
Its towering and exaggerated body was as strong as an unbreakable wall.
The terrifying aura it emitted felt like the wind of hell.
It gave a sense of despair, as if just a breath could destroy an entire region.
[Fire System · Burning Sky Heart]
[The ruler that sits within the Burning Hand has made a pact with Mohuang Court, and must never kill the Battle Pet Master in the forbidden area, unless that master reaches its nest’s entrance.]
[Royal rank → Attack and defense values have been adjusted to the ultimate stage; all skill qualities have been lowered by one major level; desire to attack has greatly decreased; desire to fly has greatly decreased; skill release frequency has decreased significantly.]
At this moment, it sensed the arrival of an enemy.
Suddenly, the four-winged fire dragon slowly opened its eyes and cautiously extended its scaly head out of the lava, blocking the path of July Fire and Princess Flash Thunder.
In comparison, their combined sizes were even smaller than a single eyelash of the dragon!!!
However…
At this moment, July Fire’s life state appeared extremely twisted.
Its white flames were flickering dangerously, and its body was becoming more and more illusory, but the flames resembling thunder wrapping around its arms gradually solidified, forming two tangible cloud rings.
At the same time, the burning thunderfire on the surface stretched longer and flowed like it was slowly changing from flame into clouds.
Pure white volcanic clouds…
At this moment, although the main form of July Fire had not changed, its Resonance Value had completely frozen at 200%, as if it was solid and did not move, unlike before when it flickered and twitched constantly.
"Boom!!"
In the next moment, lightning burst forth from July Fire’s mouth.
The Prison Electrical Device activated!!
The skill quality of Lightning Chain and Electromagnetic Field jumped from Diamond to Emerald.
One Claw of Lightning, one Electric Vortex.
Like a thunderous hand gathered from dark clouds, it slammed heavily on top of Burning Sky Heart!!!
Both sides stared at each other, holding the gaze for several seconds…
The head of the fire-type ultimate-stage robot was forcibly pushed down and, amidst the terrifying, boiling lightning above, was literally dunked into the scalding magma for a face wash.
At the same time, in the face of this overwhelming act of violence, the entire terrain of the magma canyon began to sink in circles.
The nearby seven nests were also affected, causing seven complete-stage elite monsters to stumble and fall one after another.
At this moment, the terrifying aura emitted by July Fire was far beyond what an ordinary complete-stage Battle Pet could achieve!!
Even though it was still just a mature-stage little creature…
