Beast Taming: My System is Bugged-Chapter 91 - 90: Must Cultivate a New Method of Attack
The Ice Heart Fox stood in the field. With just a slight shake of its tail, a vast mist of cold frost materialized.
It then waved a hand, spreading the layers of cold mist into a thick, circular defensive barrier.
Cyan Treasure wanted to use its speed to bypass the frosty mist and get behind the fox, but it saw there were no blind spots. It instinctively glanced at the sky. ’If I jump up...’
Just then, Gu Ming’s voice called out a reminder, "Be careful, it’s a trap. Think about how you fought Mouse Treasure before."
Cyan Treasure immediately thought of Mouse Treasure.
Back then, the system-simulated Mouse Treasure had used the Earth Shifting Technique to raise an earthen wall, luring it into a rear attack.
And this opponent had used Cold Qi to create a wall of icy mist, yet left an opening just big enough for it to jump through.
’No doubt about it,’ Cyan Treasure thought. ’The Ice Heart Fox is definitely trying to bait me into an aerial attack.’
A chill ran through Cyan Treasure at this realization.
’This is bad. How am I supposed to fight it now?’
It hadn’t even touched its opponent, yet it felt like it was already on the verge of losing.
Seeing the Little Cyan Snake halt its attack, Gu Ming nodded to himself. ’It seems last time’s lesson helped it grow.’
However, the current predicament was not easy to solve.
Besides using its Body Technique to dodge the enemy pet’s attacks, its only options were to land a bite with its Poison Fang to inflict poison, or to use its Master Level Head Hammer to interrupt the opponent’s movements or send it flying.
However, all of these attacks required close-quarters combat, and Cyan Treasure had no means of fighting from a distance.
"Try flinging sand with your tail," Gu Ming said.
Hearing this, Cyan Treasure whipped its small tail, flinging sand.
However, its body was too small.
It only managed to fling the sand half a meter, sending it into the icy mist.
The sand hit the wall of icy mist and was instantly frozen, turning into tiny pellets of ice that scattered on the ground and rolled to the Ice Heart Fox’s feet, failing to hit it.
The Ice Heart Fox, in turn, twisted its right hand, conjuring an Ice Spike and flinging it at Cyan Treasure.
At the same time, the shadow at its feet rapidly stretched out, passed through the icy mist, and took the shape of a fox’s paw. It solidified out of thin air by condensing frost into a tangible hand, which then lashed out with an Ice Claw.
Cyan Treasure reacted instantly. Its body instinctively trembled, creating an afterimage, and it just so happened to dodge the Ice Heart Fox’s attack.
After all, it had perfected a Master Level Body Technique that excelled at fine control and was specialized for dodging attacks.
After successfully dodging the Ice Claw from the shadow fox, its body trembled again the next second, twisting into another S-shape.
The Ice Spike shot through the empty space, missing Cyan Treasure.
After dodging, Cyan Treasure quickly retreated to create some distance.
Seeing this, the Ice Heart Fox remained in place, still not attacking.
It wasn’t an offensive-type Pet Beast, after all. It specialized in defense and positional warfare, waiting for Cyan Treasure to make a move.
The two were once again locked in a stalemate, neither able to get the upper hand.
HISS. HISS.
Cyan Treasure was growing anxious. It circled the perimeter again and again, its little brain nearly overheating from thinking so hard.
’If only I had some kind of long-range attack to blow away the wall of icy mist around the Ice Heart Fox.’
Just then, Gu Ming remembered when Cyan Treasure was cultivating its Breathing Technique, sitting and gazing at the back mountain as it exhaled a mottled, elemental Wind Ball.
Gu Ming called up the system to check the Skill Level of the Green Treasure Breathing Technique.
"Green Treasure Breathing Technique: Master Level."
"Skill Level to next stage: 700,000/1,000,000"
It was still three hundred thousand points away from the next stage, Master Level. In the real world, that would take many days of training.
But he had recently farmed some Achievement Points, so he might as well use them all at once here.
"Cyan Treasure, come here. Let me tell you what to practice next..." Gu Ming called out.
Cyan Treasure scurried over, extremely eager to learn a new combat method.
Gu Ming immediately told it about the Wind Ball from its training at school, jogging Cyan Treasure’s memory.
The little snake’s face lit up, and its tail wagged frantically. It was overjoyed.
’This is great! We still have a way!’
"First, try using your Master Level Breathing Technique. If it works well, we’ll focus on cultivating it tonight and get the Breathing Technique straight to the next stage, Master Level."
Gu Ming said.
Cyan Treasure nodded and immediately began circulating its Breathing Technique, absorbing the Spiritual Qi in the simulated Dao Field.
It used Visualization, picturing itself sitting on a windowsill, facing the back mountain, absorbing a sea of clouds and then exhaling it to nourish all living things.
Its whole body slowly expanded and began to squirm.
All of its muscles were in motion, performing Refinement to turn the qi into Mana.
Meanwhile, the excess, non-Grass Attribute Spiritual Qi was rapidly compressed inside its body.
Finally, once it had expanded to a certain point, it actively forced the energy to its throat, where it condensed into a large sphere.
SWOOSH! It shot the mottled Spiritual Energy Ball out of its mouth.
The Ice Heart Fox didn’t stay put; it sidestepped three paces to the right.
At the same time, it waved its hand, gathering wisps of Spiritual Qi and quickly condensing them into an icy paw, attempting to catch the mottled ball of energy.
Unfortunately, there wasn’t much water vapor in the area.
Otherwise, it could have condensed a large amount of moisture into a thick ice wall to completely block the Spiritual Energy Ball.
BOOM! The paw condensed from icy mist caught the mottled Spiritual Energy Ball.
The Spiritual Energy Ball exploded inside the paw, shattering the ice into countless pieces.
At the same time, the blast tore an opening in the wall of icy mist.
Cyan Treasure’s face lit up at the sight.
It immediately darted through the opening in the misty wall and charged toward the Ice Heart Fox.
However, the Ice Heart Fox’s other trick was already in motion.
Its shadow suddenly moved, once again condensing into a paw of icy mist and launching a sneak attack on Cyan Treasure.
Cyan Treasure used its Z-shaped Shaking Body Technique, suddenly shifting its body and bending into a semicircular arc to dodge the blow.
Finally, it got within half a meter of the Ice Heart Fox. It twisted its body and brought its head crashing down, about to land a hit.
At that critical moment, the Ice Heart Fox activated its Ice Soul Synchronization Skill.
Instantly, the Magic Power Inner Core inside Cyan Treasure’s body trembled. The mist that had permeated the Inner Core froze solid, sealing off its source of Mana.
At the same time, layers of Cold Qi erupted from Cyan Treasure’s Dantian, surging through its meridians and rapidly freezing its body.
Not only was its control over its Mana locked down, but its Blood Qi was also about to be frozen. It was arguably Cyan Treasure’s most perilous moment.
This caused Cyan Treasure’s final Head Hammer to be somewhat stiff, making it unable to use the Z-shaped Shaking Body Technique to react.
The Ice Heart Fox was expressionless. Under the system’s control, it met the attack head-on, enveloping its paw in mist and brutally catching Cyan Treasure’s Head Hammer.
CRACK! The sound of bone fracturing came from the Ice Heart Fox’s right paw.
But immediately after, layers of frosty mist enveloped Cyan Treasure’s head, quickly filling the gaps between its scales and spreading from its head to the tip of its tail.
In less than three seconds, Cyan Treasure had become a long, icy sculpture, fixed to the ground, its body almost completely immobile.
After all, it was only a Zero-star; facing a Two-star Pet Beast was still too difficult.
At this point, the battle ended in Cyan Treasure’s defeat.
The Ice Heart Fox had traded a fractured paw for an absolute victory.
Gu Ming let out a long breath and subconsciously wiped the sweat from his forehead.
’A Pet Beast controlled by the system is just so unreasonably cold and logical.’
A normal Pet Beast, when faced with Cyan Treasure’s Master Level Head Hammer, would have obviously dodged instinctively to avoid injury.
But a system-controlled Pet Beast calculates the fastest path to victory and directly adopts strategies like trading injuries for injuries, or even those involving serious harm or death.
This kind of cold, AI-like thinking made Gu Ming break out in a cold sweat.
’If we were to encounter such a cold-blooded Pet Beast in reality, Cyan Treasure would be in real trouble.’
’Good thing this is just a practical battle in a dream.’
’With this experience, Cyan Treasure will definitely be more cautious next time.’
He snapped his fingers, and the field was instantly restored.
The injuries of both combatants healed in an instant, and the Ice Qi on their bodies vanished as if it had never been there.
After thawing and returning to normal, Cyan Treasure hung its head, feeling a little discouraged.
It had given its all, but the Ice Heart Fox’s power showed it an insurmountable gap.
"Cyan Treasure, you were able to get close to your opponent and force it to use a major skill like Ice Soul Synchronization. That’s proof enough that you’re very strong."
"Next, as long as you perfect the Master Level Breathing Technique and turn that breath-spitting move into a proper Skill, beating it will be much easier."
Gu Ming walked over, patted Cyan Treasure, and encouraged it in a gentle voice.
Hearing this, Cyan Treasure felt a warmth in its heart and its spirits lifted again.
Next, it was going to practice the Breathing Technique relentlessly, striving to get it to the Master Level of proficiency within this night’s dream.
Ah Kun watched the entire fight from the Fish Tank, inwardly shocked.
’Whoa, the Pet Beasts out there are really strong.’
’And that was just a support-type Pet Beast. If it were a combat-type, I can’t imagine how hopeless it would be.’
Ah Kun seriously doubted whether it would be able to help its master in the future.
