CHAPTER 523: CHAPTER 515: BE CAUTIOUS WITH FRONT-ROW VIEWING, OR YOU MIGHT ACCIDENTALLY GO BALD

"Big boss, big boss! Quickly show us its new skill!"

"Big boss, big boss! Let us see the power of an A-level Magic Beast!"

"Big boss, big boss—"

A large group of students gathered around like frogs in a summer pond, croaking endlessly. Qian Qi wasn’t bothered and patted Ah Tu’s thigh—her height allowed her to only reach Ah Tu’s thigh at the moment. "Show all your Magic Beast skills."

Ah Tu let out a howl and began to unleash its skills.

First Skill: Ah Tu swung its right paw, the paw blazing with white flames, slashing across the opposing thick stone pillar and leaving five deep marks—four deep, one shallow, very noticeable. The scorching white flame burned atop the pillar, dissipating slowly after two seconds when it found no fuel to burn.

This special pillar can withstand the attack power of an A-level Magic Beast. A B-level Magic Beast can only leave a few scratches at most, yet Ah Tu’s first strike left claw marks about 3cm deep!

Qian Qi rubbed her chin, "This move shall be named..."

The students perked up their ears, waiting for Qian Qi to give this move a super cool name, eager to mimic and follow.

"Let’s just call it... First Skill!" Qian Qi said with satisfaction, the name succinct and very much in her style.

The expectant students: ...

Big boss, isn’t that a bit too perfunctory?

Give it another thought!

Second Skill: Ah Tu took a deep breath and spewed a mass of flames into the cone-shaped area ahead as if it was a rocket jet—let alone the power of the flame spray, the blinding bright white flames almost dazzled everyone.

Not only did it have spell attacks, it even came with a blinding effect!

"Second Skill." Qian Qi nodded earnestly, "Now let’s see your Third Skill."

Ah Tu lifted its head, and the two rows of fangs in its mouth quickly extended. With a lunge, it bit into the stone pillar, and the head of the pillar was directly shattered apart!

Such powerful biting force; it’s not even on the same level as a B-level!

Ah Tu spat out the stone fragments in its mouth, pawed at them twice, piling them at the base of the pillar. It locked eyes with Mr. Li, who was approaching with a pained expression, and silently looked away, pointing its paw at Qian Qi.

It wants compensation.

Mr. Li approached, looked at the pillar with a bitten-off top, and then at Ah Tu, marveling, "I never thought in my lifetime that I would see an A-level Flame Dog, and such a powerful one at that."

Since he became aware, Flame Dogs were the most common E-level Magic Beasts, used by novice Beast Masters for practice. Back then, who would’ve thought that one day, the least respected E-level Flame Dog would evolve into an A-level Magic Beast?

An A-level Magic Beast...

This is considered the strongest Magic Beast outside of instances, on land.

If all Flame Dogs could evolve into A-level Magic Beasts, there would be far fewer human casualties, wouldn’t there? Of course, Mr. Li also knew materials capable of evolving a Flame Dog to A-level would be precious, and replacing all A-level Awakened Warriors with A-level Flame Dogs was not realistic.

So he watched Ah Tu demonstrate its Fourth Skill and Fifth Skill.

Ah Tu’s Fourth Skill involved opening its mouth and consecutively firing five powerful Flame Bullets—one more than as a B-level, naturally increasing its power. The impact made several pillars in the square tremble, with one managing to barely stay upright after taking a hit.

The Fifth Skill is a newly evolved skill. Ah Tu raised its majestic horns, and streams of golden light surged along the beast’s horns as two nearly fifty-meter-long flame rays fired out, sweeping across the entire area as it turned its head.

The students on site only felt a scorching sensation overhead; upon touching, they found all their hair singed.

Front-row spectators should be cautious, or risk baldness with a careless move.

"This last skill, so powerful!"

The students didn’t have time to worry about their hair; they stared in shock at the two flame rays, hardly daring to consider the severe damage an A-level Flame Dog in a human city would cause.

After the shock, an ultimate desire for an A-level Flame Dog rose in their eyes.

"Qian Qi, big boss, what did you just feed Ah Tu that made it evolve into A-level?"

"If we put in effort, can we get it?"

"Just give us a hint! Tell us what to do to evolve our Flame Dogs to A-level too!"

The students chirped and chattered, looking at Qian Qi with expectation.

"Don’t rush, don’t rush."

Qian Qi waved her hand, then pulled out the Golden Sun Fruit from her pocket.

"Ah Tu, have a taste."

Ah Tu lowered its head, sniffed the Golden Sun Fruit and caught a scent of earth before taking a bite.

Once it swallowed it down, Ah Tu felt a strange energy spread throughout its body, and subsequently, an earthy-yellow crystal formed along a vein near its heart. Ah Tu sensed it could manipulate the Earth Element Power within the crystal, then opened its mouth and spat out a Fiery Bomb Egg.

Inside the Fiery Bomb Egg, a massive earth ball emerged, heavily crashing into the already shaky stone pillar. The tremendous impulse and impact finally made the pillar collapse, with the earth ball wrapped in the fireball bursting apart, scattering a mist of dust and fragments.

Those hard earth fragments also had considerable lethality, akin to debris after a bomb explosion, leaving pits on the ground as they struck.

"This—!"

Mr. Li and the students exclaimed in amazement, and Principal Zheng, drawn by the commotion, quickly arrived on scene. Witnessing this, he was stunned, unable to close his gaping mouth.

A pure Fire Element Flame Dog utilizing Earth Element attacks?

And it could use Combined Skills with Fire Skills too?

Mr. Li looked at Qian Qi’s empty palm in shock, mentally screaming: Where exactly does she get so many peculiar fruits?!

"Anything else?" Qian Qi seemed slightly unsatisfied, patting Ah Tu’s thigh.

Anything else?

Mr. Li and the principal also looked expectantly at Ah Tu, which in their eyes now was simply a Divine Beast, a symbol that their Awakener University and Beast Taming Department will soar ahead!

Ah Tu tilted its head, then raised its paw.

Under the expectant gazes of the crowd, its paw dropped a large sand pit, then it raised its front paw again and dug a depression into the soil, squatted above with a "pfft" sound.

A large pile of poop landed on the ground.

Ah Tu rubbed its behind on the ground, then reached out a paw to bury the poop in the soil pit.

It tilted its large head at the pit, seemingly indicating something, then looked at Qian Qi with shining eyes, waiting for praise.

Qian Qi: ...

Mr. Li, Principal Zheng: ...

The students present: ...

After a while, the students erupted in restrained laughter.

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Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a joyous new year, with money flowing in from all directions~