Beast Taming Begins with the Inner Circle of Pets

Chapter 67 Why did you provoke her?

"Honey Badger, Ah-Dai, it's up to you two." At Lin Manman's command, Honey Badger and Ah-Dai immediately activated their talents in perfect unison.

A violent sandstorm instantly covered most of the participants on the field.

"Ah-Dai, share your vision with Silver Moon and Rainbow Jade!" Seeing the contestants struggling to break free from the edge of the sandstorm, Lin Manman calmly continued to give instructions.

After Ah-Dai enabled vision sharing for Silver Moon, Silver Moon simultaneously activated her talents Wolf King Summoning and Shadow Clone.

The summoned clones and Howling Wolves, under Silver Moon's control, pounced on the edge of the sandstorm and the scattered participants who were not caught in it.

In a mere instant, more than a dozen of the remaining forty-nine contestants on stage were thrown off the stage with screams of agony.

The remaining contestants were either stunned and knocked off the stage by Hongyu's sneak attack, or they were still struggling in the sandstorm.

Silver Moon and Rainbow Jade worked together to send another wave down.

At this moment, only eighteen people remained on the arena, hiding motionless in the sandstorm.

Lin Manman simply had Honey Badger and Ah Dai remove their talents.

Since they knew they should join forces, yet each acted independently, there wasn't much trust between them. Without command or coordination, they were just a disorganized mess.

As the sandstorm dissipated, the eighteen people inside quickly dispersed to various locations on the arena, fearing they might be trapped again.

"Miss Lin...you don't need to do the rest, we'll handle it ourselves." One of the young men, dressed in a mage's robe, forced a smile, his tone pleading.

"When you were besieging me, you didn't give me a chance to speak." Lin Manman raised an eyebrow. Now you want to beg for mercy? Too late!

"Honey Badger"

"Roar!" The honey badger let out an excited growl, donned its rock armor, and charged at the remaining contestants. It preferred this savage fighting style to coordinated attacks.

"Silver Moon".

"Awoo~" Silver Moon raised its head and let out a wolf howl. The shadow clone beside it also let out a wolf howl. The thirty silver and black Howling Moon Wolves pounced on the remaining contestants at the same time.

In the air, Ah-Dai unleashed wind blades, driving the eighteen people in one direction like sheep being herded. On the ground, Silver Moon, with its pack of wolves and Honey Badger, formed an encirclement, while Rainbow Jade seized the loosest individuals and sent them out of the arena one by one.

In a short time, another eight people were sent off the stage.

"Stop! There are only ten people left on the field! We've already advanced, why aren't you stopping?!" A female beast tamer struggled to direct her beasts in battle. Seeing that the number of people on the field had reached the requirement for advancement, Lin Manman still refused to stop, and shouted in despair and anger.

"Huh? There are only ten left? Okay... everyone stop playing around~" Lin Manman realized that there were really only ten people left, including herself. She quickly reminded the spirit pets that they should get down to work. Before the referee blew the whistle, she quickly threw them all down.

"Roar!" He's so fragile!

The honey badger let out a low growl, then used its domain skill, Gravity Domain, to lift the remaining nine people into the air. Rainbow Jade and Silver Moon each delivered a clean and efficient blow, sending them all flying.

"What are you doing? That's a foul!"

"Exactly! We've already advanced!"

"Referee, that doesn't count, we're the last ten players!"

The nine people who were thrown down by Lin Manman went to the referee in tears, their emotions running high.

"The competition rules state that the last ten people standing in the ring advance. You went beyond the ring area before the end of the competition and were disqualified from advancing."

The referee looked at Lin Manman with a long face and a twitching mouth, his eyes full of helplessness.

"How could this be? This isn't fair!"

"Yeah, she practically threw us off the field. We've already advanced!"

"Referee, are you protecting her just because she's the team champion?"

The referee glared at the person who spoke. "Defaming a referee is considered disrupting the rules of the game, and serious cases can result in suspension!"

Upon hearing this, the other contestants who disagreed could only change their grumbling to muttering under their breath.

The referee couldn't help but roll his eyes at Lin Manman, who was grinning smugly with her bright white teeth. Then, realizing something was amiss, he quickly and solemnly announced the result.

"Lin Manman's elimination of the contestant before the end of the match was in accordance with the competition rules and there was no violation. The result of this match is valid!"

Lin Manman became the only player to advance in this elimination round!

The elimination round video was posted online, and netizens joked, "Why did you provoke her? You could have advanced together, but you had to let her knock you out!"

"It's obvious they didn't watch the team match carefully. Do you really think 'surprise attack' works?"

"Hilarious! Not only did she force the organizers to add rules before the competition, but she also set a precedent for a single-person elimination tournament. There's nothing she can't do!"

Lin Manman, enduring the resentful gazes of her fellow contestants, slowly walked out of the competition venue with Xu Yuemei.

They really can't accept defeat. She didn't say anything when they were ganged up on, but now that they've turned the tables on her, they're all grumbling and cursing.

The two hundred contestants who advanced from the singles elimination rounds need to gather at five o'clock tomorrow morning to go to the venue for the points competition. She didn't want to waste time staring at these people.

She would be better off going back to rest and prepare instead of wasting this time.

Before I even got back to the hotel with Xu Yuemei, I received a delivery notification from her; the package had just been delivered to the hotel reception.

Upon signing for the package, she discovered it was sent by her second senior brother!

Lin Manman thought her second senior brother had heard she was in danger and had given her some life-saving equipment. But when she opened the box, it was full of colorful... Maltesers?

Holding these unlabeled, unbranded Maltesers in transparent jars, she decisively dialed her second senior brother's video call again.

"Oh, you've already received this? I've been so busy these past few days that I completely forgot about it." Gao Zhixian only remembered the things he had sent a couple of days ago when he saw what Lin Manman was holding.

"So what did you send me, senior? It didn't even come with an instruction manual?"

"This is a new product that the research institute is planning to launch recently. It can be considered a meal replacement for spirit pets. Although the taste is not as good as spirit beast meat or spirit plants, it is enough to replenish energy when it is inconvenient to buy spirit food. It can also solve the problem of spirit food being inconvenient to store."

Portable and can be stored for a long time? This is a great product! Lin Manman's eyes lit up. "Senior brother... then my spirit beast shop..."

Lin Manman gave a sweet smile, her eyes conveying her longing.

"Since you're already flying the alliance's flag, you're naturally going to get your share," Gao Zhixian said with a helpless smile.

"Hehe, Senior Brother is so generous! By the way, why are these meal replacement balls so colorful?" Lin Manman continued to fiddle with the jars.

Gao Zhixian then realized that he had been too busy and had forgotten to prepare a copy of the precautions for her.

"The different colors are mainly to distinguish different types of energy. As you know, although spirit beasts have a much stronger ability to digest and absorb energy than humans, ingesting too much of the opposite energy in a short period of time can easily cause energy imbalances in a spirit beast's body, and even lead to disease."

"I have a detailed list of precautions and dosage instructions for spirit beasts of different ages. I'll send it to you."

Lin Manman received two documents on her bracelet. She first put the meal replacement balls in her hand into her spatial bracelet before opening them to read them in detail.

"Take your time looking at it. I'll go back to work. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Lately... please be extra careful and try to avoid going to secluded places when you go out."

"Okay, I understand. Go ahead and get busy, senior brother." Gao Zhixian's concern warmed Lin Manman's heart, and she smiled and waved goodbye to him.

(End of this chapter)