My starting summon is a small skeleton-Chapter 98 - 097 Competent Little Skeleton

If you were to ask Lu Wu what it felt like to enter the Secret Realm for the first time,

his answer could only be: Dark!

This "Underground Cave" Secret Realm was especially dark.

Even though there were torches at intervals inside the cave, the light was still insufficient, and the dark atmosphere was heavy.

Lu Wu was okay, but Dudu was having a tough time adjusting.

She was naturally timid and needed a light on to sleep at night. In such an environment, if Lu Wu hadn’t been holding her hand all the time, she could have burst into tears by now.

As they entered the Secret Realm, the program on their Secret Realm Bracelets was activated, and a series of information immediately appeared on the bracelet.

"Welcome two contestants to the Trial Type Secret Realm created by the Summoner Center.

As both of your Summoned Beasts are Ordinary 2-star, you are currently on the second level of the Secret Realm.

Each defeated Summoned Beast earns you 1 point, every 100 meters traveled adds 5 points, and every 30 minutes of stay adds 10 points (up to a maximum of 180 minutes).

Defeating the guardian boss earns you 50 points, and entering the third level earns 50 points.

…

"

After scanning the information briefly, Lu Wu focused on the last part highlighted in red font—[No killing of Summoned Beasts inside the Secret Realm without a valid reason]—and then he stopped paying attention, grabbing Dudu’s hand.

"Let’s go, Dudu, let’s level up by fighting monsters!

Don’t worry, I’m here, I’ll protect you!"

Dudu was easy to coax. With one pull from Lu Wu, one reassuring sentence, and she was no longer scared.

Nodding her head, she somewhat hazily followed Lu Wu as they stepped out of the safety zone of the Secret Realm entrance.

No sooner had they left the safety zone, barely having steadied their footsteps, than a whizzing sound rang out, and a mass of spikes came hurtling towards them.

Caught off-guard, Lu Wu’s face turned pale. Before he could react, a pig from Dudu’s family suddenly leapt out of her arms, then grew gigantic, using its rear to block the wave of spikes.

It saved Lu Wu and the others, casting a disdainful glance at Lu Wu.

Damn it, he was being scorned by a pig!

Lu Wu erupted in rage: "Little Skeleton! You..."

"Smack!"

With a series of cracking sounds, the Little Skeleton next to Lu Wu vanished.

Lu Wu looked again and saw his own Little Skeleton wielding a bat, ferociously thrashing a hedgehog-type Summoned Beast. The beating was harsh.

Red alarms went off on Lu Wu’s Secret Realm Bracelet. If the beating continued, the hedgehog was going to succumb, and Lu Wu would be penalized and fined.

After all, the monsters inside this type of Trial Secret Realm were someone’s personal property.

Lu Wu hurriedly told Little Skeleton to stop.

But Little Skeleton wasn’t very obedient at the moment; even after being told to stop, it had to hit a few more times.

It was evident that the little guy was really angry.

Though his owner, Lu Wu, was becoming bad Lu Wu, for Little Skeleton, both good Lu Wu and bad Lu Wu were its Lu Wu, and it absolutely wouldn’t allow anyone to hit its Lu Wu.

Holding onto Little Skeleton and feeling its huffy mood, Lu Wu’s anger dissipated, and he stroked its head while explaining,

"The Summoned Beasts here won’t harm me. Our Secret Realm Bracelets have protection features. Even if we get hit, we only lose our trial qualification.

And also, it’s not a bad guy. Don’t hit them so hard when you meet other Summoned Beasts next time, okay?"

Lu Wu’s words weren’t completely understood by Little Skeleton, but it still nodded.

It didn’t know what exactly it was nodding at, but as long as it did, Lu Wu would be happy, would pet Little Skeleton, and Little Skeleton would be happy too.

As for what would happen the next time they encountered a similar situation? Little Skeleton indicated it would still thrash them ruthlessly!

While Lu Wu was still petting it, naturally, the little one’s thoughts were noticed by him.

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His hands were a bit itchy at the time, but upon rethinking, this Secret Realm was a special case, fully controlled and commercialized with no danger. The upcoming trip to the Big Cemetery would be a different story.

At that point, in the Big Cemetery where real battles would occur, it would be a matter of life and death, and Little Skeleton’s mentality was actually the most appropriate.

With this in mind, Lu Wu decided not to correct him. Just needed to make sure Little Skeleton didn’t hit too hard and kill someone else’s Summoned Beast when fighting.

"Come on, let’s continue!"

After petting Little Skeleton a couple of times, Lu Wu took Dudu by the hand and continued their exploration or rather, trial in the Secret Realm.

With the experience of having been attacked, they adapted their formation,

Little Skeleton led the way upfront while Tuantuan went back to its mini form and was held in Dudu’s arms.

The two of them with two beasts walked leisurely through the realm.

Since this was only their first challenge, Lu Wu had no ambitions for a high score yet.

He took the first time as a chance for experience and information gathering, while casually training Little Skeleton and Tuantuan.

Ah, was there some misunderstanding in the order of things?

Never mind, let it be!

Little Skeleton, having just seen Lu Wu attacked, was extra vigilant now while scouting ahead.

It would rush forth at the smallest sign of trouble, stick ready to strike first.

It was overly nervous, but the problem was, its first few hits were accurate, even knocking down a Summoned Beast, stunning Lu Wu.

Lu Wu, not expecting such competence from his own Little Skeleton, praised him for a good while.

It wasn’t a problem until Lu Wu praised him—that caused trouble.

Little Skeleton had already been feeling nervous and resentful, afraid that good Lu Wu would turn bad, afraid that Lu Wu would abandon him.

Now seeing Lu Wu praising him, Little Skeleton suddenly felt the world was wonderful again.

Bad Lu Wu was turning back into good Lu Wu.

And its clever little mind wondered—how did bad Lu Wu turn into good Lu Wu?

By being competent!

It was because Little Skeleton was competent!

Lu Wu had just praised it, praised Little Skeleton for being competent!

So, to turn bad Lu Wu good, Little Skeleton had to be even more competent!

With that thought, the little guy was exceptionally motivated.

Holding the Electric Bat in the front, whenever it sensed something off, the little guy would swing wildly.

Then, the facilities in the cave suffered. Torches, walls, stones...

Little Skeleton was on point with its hits; wherever it went, nothing remained intact.

After walking for less than ten minutes, not many Summoned Beasts were incapacitated, but Little Skeleton was exhausted, both its Electric Bat and the thunder energy inside it nearly depleted.

Yet, that wasn’t the worst part. Its actions had caused quite a commotion.

The surrounding Summoned Beasts were immediately attracted to it, and thus, not even fifteen minutes into the Secret Realm, Lu Wu was surrounded by dozens of Summoned Beasts and was forced to press the button to exit the realm.

And coincidence had it that Long Legs was a bit sluggish today, taking over twenty minutes to enter the realm. As one left and the other entered, they ran into each other.

The two exchanged a look, creating a slightly awkward atmosphere.

The girl paused, then scoffed.

That scoff meant only one thing:

That’s it? That was quick!