Chapter 8
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Chapter 8: Moon Bait, Activate!
[Viewers: 37]
The private showdown between the Double Moon factions of the Double Moon Sect, featuring two Saintess Candidates, drew a modest audience of 37 spectators. These weren’t random onlookers, but high-ranking members of the Double Moon Sect and other prominent Saintess Candidates. As the most talented Saintess Candidate of her generation, Liuliu Yue, owner of Flash Butterfly, had attracted nearly half of her peers to witness her battle.
However, at this crucial moment, Su Huan and Liuliu Yue’s bodies inexplicably swapped again!
Facing the fierce wind unleashed by the enemy Battle Pet, the entire arena map shattered into pieces. Yet the girl with long golden hair dancing in the air remained composed. She raised one hand, commanding Flash Butterfly to launch its attack.
“……”
“……”
“——Moon Bait——”
In an instant, a dazzling wave of energy erupted from within Flash Butterfly. The dreamy diamond-colored light resembled celestial radiance, so brilliant it caused physical pain to look upon. Across the arena, both the silver-haired girl and her wind-type Battle Pet were forced to close their eyes against the unbearable glare.
The fierce winds that had been swirling across the map came to an abrupt halt. The air began to boil.
“Boom!!”
A deafening explosion followed. In the next moment, light burst forth from Flash Butterfly’s tiny form, spreading wildly with terrifying heat that engulfed everything within several hundred meters. Like a nuclear detonation, everything the light touched—ground, rocks, life, air—instantly turned to dust. Even the air wall at the map’s edge vanished in terror.
When everything else had disappeared, only a golden moon remained, its size exceeding the map’s boundaries. It hung high in the sky, radiating infinite moonlight as if under the watch of a deity.
The viewing channel fell into complete silence. A suffocating pressure descended over the entire venue.
A Diamond Skill…?
A Battle Pet in its infant stage, possessing a Diamond Skill!?
As the gravity of the situation slowly dawned on the spectators, a collective realization spread through the silence.
“Whoosh—!!”
In the empty void, the blonde girl reached out and absorbed Flash Butterfly back into her body, causing the moon halo floating in the sky to fade away. The Diamond Skill’s activation had been so complete that her opponent had vanished down to the last cell, leaving no trace behind.
This had been Su Huan’s first time controlling Flash Butterfly in battle, yet he had effortlessly activated the Diamond Skill—an ability requiring an exceptionally high Resonance Value. He decided to enjoy the victory and let Liuliu Yue handle the aftermath later.
As Su Huan prepared to exit the equipment, his expression suddenly froze.
[Defeated White Robe Dancing, points +4.]
[Remaining usable points: 39.]
[Can enhance Battle Pets: Thunder Element (thunder-type infancy-stage), Flash Butterfly (gold-type infancy-stage).]
“……”
“……”
“How is that possible?”
“No, this can’t be possible!”
The system prompt echoing in his mind left him standing frozen, muttering in disbelief. How could the Point System’s privileges be shared with Liuliu Yue? Not only could he earn points by defeating enemies here, but he could even enhance Liuliu Yue’s Flash Butterfly directly!?
This was going to be serious trouble…!!!
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Meanwhile, as Su Huan demonstrated great power using Liuliu Yue’s body, Liuliu Yue found herself forced to use Su Huan’s body in Tianfeng Academy’s friendly match.
After disconnecting from her own account, Liuliu Yue felt a measure of relief. That Su Huan had proven surprisingly reasonable to deal with, despite their recent status as mortal enemies…
“Su Huan, what are you doing over there? Quick, check the radar map and join us!”
“Hey, Su Huan, can you hear me!?”
“Su Huan, is your device malfunctioning?”
“……”
“…….”
“Um, yes, yes yes, I’m here.”
After collecting herself, Liuliu Yue realized she’d been called several times over the team’s voice chat and quickly responded. It took her a moment to register that she was now being addressed as “Su Huan.”
The familiar voice belonged to the green-haired girl who had defeated her that day, she was certain.
Once she understood the situation, Liuliu Yue immediately headed toward her teammates’ location according to the radar’s guidance. Though Su Huan had insisted the game wasn’t important, she would feel terrible if they lost because of her. Moreover, since Su Huan was planning to fight with all his might, how could she embarrass him with her incompetence?
“Crash!”
Just as Liuliu Yue had steeled her resolve, the Thunder Element following behind her was blown to the ground by a sudden gust of wind.
Hearing the commotion, she turned around with an odd expression, watching Thunder Element struggle to right itself as a bead of cold sweat rolled down her forehead.
“Su Huan, I’m sorry…”
“I really can’t control this Thunder Element!!”
Liuliu Yue sighed in frustration. The sound of heavy footsteps approaching from behind only added to her mounting despair.
A man wearing a purple leaf-patterned uniform—the exclusive attire of Divine Leaf Academy—emerged from the trees. Behind him lurked a misty cloud creature, its body emanating green smoke: an infancy-stage, water-type Battle Pet called Green Smoke!
Thunder Element, sensing the opponent’s fierce aura, let out a timid growl as it remained upside-down on the ground, looking utterly unthreatening.
“Goodbye, Mom, you might be going on a long journey today…”
“But please forgive me, I really didn’t mean to act like this.”
Before Liuliu Yue could cry, the words had already escaped her lips.
Sharp, pointed water whips slowly formed on both sides of Green Smoke’s silhouette. With a thunderous “bang,” the opponent casually waved in the air, severing all the surrounding trees at their roots.
Just as Thunder Element was about to be shattered into pieces, Liuliu Yue suddenly bent down, scooped it up with both hands, and without looking back, took rapid small steps—”pat pat pat pat pat”—rushing away into the distance.
The scene left both Green Smoke, who had missed its attack, and the Divine Leaf Academy team member frozen in place. He stared at the black-haired youth’s retreating form in despair, his brain clearly unable to process what he’d just witnessed.
While it was common in this world to see Battle Pets saving their masters, this was the first time anyone had ever witnessed an owner running away while carrying their Battle Pet…
Half a minute later, faced with repeated inquiries from his companions about the battle situation, he finally came to his senses and replied dreamily:
“Don’t disturb me, I’m thinking…”
His teammate responded with a puzzled “?”
“Su Huan, I see you’ve made contact with the enemy on the radar. How’s the battle going?”
“It’s nothing, it’s nothing…”
“Um, what do you mean by ‘it’s nothing’?”
“It means nothing happened.”
On the other side, after communicating with Liuliu Yue, Feng Qinqin stood on the mountaintop, unable to hide her extremely puzzled expression.
Though their team was indeed about to reunite, just as the red dot appeared on Su Huan’s side of the radar—without even time to say hello—he suddenly sped up and retreated.
This movement trajectory was really strange…
With the powerful firepower of that Thunder Element, shouldn’t they have at least tried to exchange fire with the enemy first?
With doubt lingering in her heart, Feng Qinqin continued to stand at the mountain’s high point, observing the terrain. Before long, the silhouettes of her four teammates appeared in her sight, one after another.
But before the five could regroup…
Without warning, the bright clear sky turned dark in an instant.
“Boom!!!!”
The next second, a purple lightning bolt pierced through the sky for several kilometers.
As Feng Qinqin belatedly realized with astonishment, the raging electric arc rapidly approaching in the sky was already falling toward her position.
“Oh no!”
“Wind Element!”
Realizing her position had been exposed, Feng Qinqin immediately gave an attack command to the Wind Element.
The storm element’s silhouette behind her wildly swung its arms, creating huge crescent-shaped wind blades slashing toward the sky.
However, the super-high-speed wind blades that could easily cut through things in their infancy stage seemed to freeze against the bursting thunderbolt, as if their speeds and hardness existed in different dimensions.
Accompanied by deafening crackling sounds, the purple thunder met the sweeping wind blades head-on. With a booming explosion like a missile, it heavily crashed down.
In just one glance, Feng Qinqin and the Wind Element were crushed into minced meat.
The extremely terrifying power even lifted half a small hill.
[Your teammate “Feng Qinqin” has been defeated.]
The remaining members of the Tianfeng Academy team heard the prompt ringing in their minds and looked toward the hilltop with serious expressions, as if facing a great enemy.
After a dozen seconds, as the smoke slowly dissipated, a Thunder Armor-clad illusionary thunderous figure appeared before everyone.
This humanoid Battle Pet’s body was made up of purple light particles, surrounded by a layer of raging purple electrical arcs, with its head being a floating lightning ball.
What stood out most were the purple dragon scale armguards on its arms and the purple dragon teeth protruding half a meter from its shoulders.
Mature-stage, thunder-type battle pet, Tipsy Dragon Song!!
It was a complete superior replacement of the Thunder Element!
In that instant, feeling the terrifying aura emitted by this Battle Pet, the other two infancy-stage team members stood still, their faces extremely pale.
They had practiced battling the captain’s mature-stage battle pet.
However, despite the practice, the difference between infancy-stage and mature-stage was like a high mountain. Just the aura itself made all the Battle Pets present feel intimidated, making them unable to imagine confronting it.
Only the captain of the Tianfeng Academy 307 team, a pink-haired girl wearing a mask, was rushing toward the mountaintop.
A pure white and dazzling snow lotus flower swayed gently above the girl’s head, leaving spiderweb-like cracks on the ground as it passed, as if being crazily slashed by invisible blades.
At the mountain top, as the pink-haired girl approached, Tipsy Dragon Song quickly noticed her figure.
However, this thunder-type battle pet only glanced at her before shifting its gaze elsewhere, surveying the entire battlefield.
Including Liuliu Yue hiding at the foot of the mountain, the positions of the other two teammates were also exposed.
At that moment, the pink-haired girl suddenly heard the opponent’s voice through the public channel.
“A thunder-type battle pet, pure speed is not as good as wind-type, destructive power is not as strong as fire type, and the skill mechanism is not as good as dark-type.”
“But when it comes to team battles, thunder-type is widely recognized as the undefeated king.”
“Especially in 5v5 team fights!!”
The voice from the opposite side was extremely arrogant.
Without a doubt, this was the captain of the Tipsy Dragon Song.
Without waiting for the pink-haired girl to speak, this mature-stage thunder-type battle pet once again took action.
“Boom!!”
In the sky, lightning flashed.
Accompanied by the deafening sound of interweaving thunder, Tipsy Dragon Song’s figure unexpectedly plunged down with the force of thunder, then, in the moment of fighting against the girl with pink hair and her Fuying Snow Lotus, suddenly transformed into a wandering electric arc flashing past from the side.
Immediately afterward, under the changing expression of the pink-haired girl, Tipsy Dragon Song successively approached the other two team members, swiftly engaging them.
“Boom!”
With Tipsy Dragon Song’s palm as the center, a purple glowing thunderball expanded.
In an instant, the trees and mountains within a hundred-meter radius were reduced to ashes.
Only four charred bodies of two people and two pets remained.
Faced with the swift attacks of the mature-stage battle pet, they couldn’t even see its movements, let alone defend against them.
When she saw her teammates falling one after another, the pink-haired girl became anxious. A snow lotus bloomed on her head, immediately blowing toward Tipsy Dragon Song’s direction.
“Whoosh!”
A gust of snow wind gently swept by.
Without warning, all the trees in that area were cut into pieces and powder by invisible chaotic blades.
The power of this mature-stage Fuying Snow Lotus was truly terrifying.
Unfortunately, before its attack could arrive, Tipsy Dragon Song had already turned into electric arcs and flown hundreds of meters away.
The pink-haired girl stamped her feet in frustration, unable to catch her opponent.
“Swish, swish, swish!!”
The bursting electric arcs shimmered and danced in the sky above the mountains.
Keeping a perfect safe distance from the Fuying Snow Lotus, Tipsy Dragon Song swiftly maneuvered along the mountains at low altitude, about to collide with Liuliu Yue’s position.
Evidently, it planned to first take out the other four members of the Tianfeng Academy team, and then have a fair 5v1 battle with the equally powerful mature-stage Fuying Snow Lotus.
At the same time…
Hearing the system alert signals for her teammates’ deaths, Liuliu Yue’s emotions became complicated.
But before she could think of a plan, her vision was covered by purple lightning.
Watching Tipsy Dragon Song charging toward her, she first froze, then instinctively made her final statement.
“Please spare me, I have a different opinion!”
“Um, I disagree with your point of view, I believe that… compared to thunder-type, gold-type Battle Pet is the king of overall abilities in team battles, even faster than wind-type, more powerful than fire-type, stronger mechanism than dark-type, better defense than earth-type, longer attack range than wood-type, and stronger support abilities than water-type!”
“……”
“……”
You can lose the match, but never show weakness.
That’s Liuliu Yue’s motto!!
However, upon hearing these unbelievable words, Tipsy Dragon Song’s actions inexplicably came to a halt, directly freezing in mid-air and stopping its attack.
Soon, the voice of the other party’s master sounded angry and desperate.
“What nonsense is a thunder-type Battle Pet Master like you doing here? You traitor, go to hell!”
As the words fell, Tipsy Dragon Song immediately raised his hand to cast a spell, sending a thunderbolt toward the dark-haired boy below.
