Beast Tamer: After My Pet Space Mutated, I Became OP
Chapter 34: Shadow Trick
The Bone Underworld Spirit could no longer maintain Float and fell to the ground in a sorry state.
Its condition at this moment was not good; its skin was blackened from the explosion, and its fluffy fur was curled into char.
Moreover, its skeleton form appeared more and more frequently, which usually indicated that its injuries were not light.
Most Ghost-type pet beasts are squishy, and once hit, they can be severely injured.
This is also the Ghost-type's most fatal weakness.
No one expected that in this battle with such a disparity in strength, it would be the Bone Underworld Spirit, the one with the advantage, that was injured first.
The audience's clamor was even more intense than before.
"What's going on? Why wasn't that Thunder Demon Bird affected by the Ghostly Miasma?"
"Are you blind? It wasn't unaffected; it was affected but not seriously, and it quickly followed up with Chasing Wind, so it looked like the miasma had no effect." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
"That shouldn't be, though. How could a normal intermediate pet beast so easily shake off the miasma's influence?"
"I suspect this Thunder Demon Bird might have the The Immovable Wisdom King characteristic."
"The Immovable Wisdom King? Is that the one where you can maintain a firm will no matter what happens during combat?"
"Yes, that's the one."
"That makes sense. The Immovable Wisdom King characteristic works best against these types of confusing control skills. It seems this Thunder Demon Bird has pretty good talent."
"What's the use of good talent? A pet beast that can't evolve will remain like this until it dies."
While the crowd watched the excitement, the battle on the field had already entered a heated phase.
Seeing his pet beast injured, Gu Shengxi was shocked and furious!
His Holy Child was actually injured by an intermediate pet beast that didn't even have a chance to evolve!
What a great humiliation.
Gu Shengxi took a deep breath, finally no longer underestimating his opponent, and ordered with a grim face:
"Shadow Trick!"
Mingxi's expression tightened upon hearing the opponent's command, and she immediately shouted, "Golden Yuanbao, quickly finish it off!"
But it was still too late.
On the field, the Bone Underworld Spirit propped up its tottering body, its short toes raised, and the shadow beneath it rapidly expanded and grew, transforming into towering trees!
In an instant, the Thunder Demon Bird was in a magical forest specially constructed for it, trapping it firmly.
Shadow Trick!
This Bone Underworld Spirit actually knew Shadow Trick!
A miscalculation!
Gu Shengxi had another sharp trump card hidden.
Shadow Trick, a high-level Ghost-type skill, manipulates one's shadow to create various illusions. These illusions can be animals, people, props, scenes, and so on.
And illusions can not only be used to confuse and deceive enemies, making them fall into chaos and confusion, but also to attack, harming enemies invisibly.
If the proficiency of Shadow Trick is mastered perfectly, the shadow illusions can be materialized.
Let's put it this way.
If the Thunderstorm's position among high-level Thunder-type skills is compared to Romanée-Conti among red wines, then Shadow Trick is the Lafite among high-level Ghost-type skills.
Now, the opponent has already poured the Lafite.
But she hasn't even had the appetizer yet.
Even though Golden Yuanbao wasn't completely confused by the illusion thanks to The Immovable Wisdom King and barely remained conscious, don't forget that Shadow Trick isn't just a simple control skill; the illusions it constructs can attack.
Every leaf and every branch formed by the shadow illusions is a sharp weapon attacking Golden Yuanbao.
Even if limited by skill proficiency, these attacks actually cause little damage to Golden Yuanbao.
But even an iron rod can be ground into a needle.
Given the Bone Underworld Spirit's level, it could grind Golden Yuanbao to death!
Mingxi looked at Golden Yuanbao, whose feathers were flying from being whipped, but who didn't make a sound, feeling a bit distressed.
She wasn't in a hurry to have Golden Yuanbao counterattack.
It wasn't that she didn't want to, but being trapped by Shadow Trick, most skills released would simply waste energy.
They would only hit shadow illusions, causing no impact on the main body.
Gu Shengxi's Bone Underworld Spirit was indeed well-trained, and with Shadow Trick, it had already displayed two high-level skills.
Especially Shadow Trick, which was almost unsolvable for the current Golden Yuanbao.
Mingxi was a bit conflicted.
Was it really going to end here?
This was a match worth 50,000 star coins!
If she lost like this, she would suffer a huge loss!
50,000 was enough for her to pay off a quarter of her debt.
But if they continued to stalemate like this, Golden Yuanbao's injuries would only get worse and worse; it would be a loss sooner or later.
But she didn't want to lose!
Golden Yuanbao surely didn't either!
What should she do?
There was only one way to break Shadow Trick's skill lock: injure the caster's main body.
Given the Bone Underworld Spirit's squishiness, just one more Wing Slash would send it packing.
But the Bone Underworld Spirit was already hidden within the illusory 'forest' it created; not to mention Golden Yuanbao, who was within the illusion, even Mingxi, standing on the outer command platform, couldn't find it.
Unless it was a full-field coverage skill, the probability of finding its main body within a 'forest' and hitting it accurately was infinitely close to zero.
But unfortunately, Golden Yuanbao didn't have full-field coverage group skills.
Mingxi felt like tearing her hair out.
It wasn't that she couldn't accept losing, she just couldn't accept losing without having had a good chance to perform!
Unwilling!
So unwilling!
Golden Yuanbao seemed to sense her strong emotional fluctuations, and its bright red blood-colored eyes looked towards her.
"Lei Lei!"
Yes, it was also unwilling!
Just a mere little ghost, how could Xiao Ye lose to such trash?
Just then, a ball of purple Thunder Radiation energy suddenly appeared around Golden Yuanbao, who was bleeding profusely from being whipped by 'branches and twigs', and the energy ball expanded rapidly.
Until the energy ball reached a diameter of 5 meters.
The energy ball exploded with a roar, and in an instant, purple electric arcs ran wild across the entire field.
Mingxi's eyes widened.
Isn't this Thunder Radiation?
Golden Yuanbao learned Thunder Radiation?
It only practiced for such a short time last night, and it learned it?
When did this happen? It clearly didn't have it when it came out of the Time Realm last night!
So it awakened during the battle?
What kind of genius pet beast is this?
Mingxi's CPU burned furiously for 0.03 seconds before she managed to force herself to calm down.
Even though in her mind, she was already excitedly spinning in circles, in reality, she was as calm as an emotionless killer.
The match was still ongoing.
Hugs and kisses would have to wait until the match was over!
The Thunder Radiation covered the entire field, and the hidden Bone Underworld «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» Spirit was caught off guard and let out a wailing cry from the electric shock.
It was already severely wounded and was barely clinging to life to maintain the Shadow Trick's casting. Now, being attacked by Thunder Radiation, the skill was immediately interrupted.
The illusory 'forest' rapidly disintegrated, completely exposing itself!
If not now, when?
"Approach it, Wing Slash!"
"Quickly go invisible!"
Mingxi and Gu Shengxi shouted almost simultaneously.
"Lei!"
Golden Yuanbao had also successfully locked onto its opponent, its battle intent as fierce as fire.