5: Chapter 5 achievement completed!

"So strong!"

"Pairing the dark-type skill Stealth with an assassin-type Scythe Mantis is simply a match made in heaven!"

Behind the bushes, Chu Xiu watched as the Scythe Mantis killed a Fire Savage Bull of the same rank with a single strike, a look of surprise crossing his face.

But at the same time, after witnessing the Stealth skill of the Scythe Mantis, he already had a strategy in mind to deal with it.

Although the Stealth skill of the Scythe Mantis could make its body disappear from his line of sight, the attribute panel floating above its head did not vanish.

In other words, when facing Chu Xiu, the Stealth skill of the Scythe Mantis was completely ineffective.

"Flame-Armored Lizard, it's your turn!"

Watching the Scythe Mantis slay the Fire Savage Bull and begin eating its meat, Chu Xiu had a thought and jumped down from the back of the Flame-Armored Lizard.

At the same time, the Flame-Armored Lizard under his control abruptly strode out on all fours, charging toward the feeding Scythe Mantis.

Swish!!!

The vigilance of the Scythe Mantis was extremely high. Even while eating, it reacted the very moment the Flame-Armored Lizard rushed out of the woods, turning to look at the charging Flame-Armored Lizard with a flash of annoyance in its compound eyes.

What it hated most was being disturbed while eating.

Without any hesitation, the Scythe Mantis leaped with both feet, its entire body shooting toward the Flame-Armored Lizard like an arrow released from a bowstring.

Its blade-arms crossed horizontally in front of its chest, and the sharp sickles flashed with a bone-chilling cold light as they slashed vertically toward the head of the Flame-Armored Lizard.

"Roar!"

Under Chu Xiu's control, the Flame-Armored Lizard reacted instantly, twisting its body and pulling its head aside to dodge the blow, while its thick tail swept horizontally toward the Scythe Mantis with a scorching aura.

This strike carried immense power, and the tail whipping through the air produced a series of explosive sonic booms.

The Flame-Armored Lizard's rapid reaction startled the Scythe Mantis. Missing its strike and daring not hesitate, it hurriedly unfolded and flapped the wings behind its back, rapidly retreating.

Only then did it narrowly dodge the heavy and powerful tail whip from the Flame-Armored Lizard.

As the Scythe Mantis dodged, the tail whip of the Flame-Armored Lizard directly struck a football-sized rock nearby.

With a 'bang',

the rock instantly shot out like a cannonball, smashing heavily into the trunk of a tree over thirty meters tall, embedding halfway into the thick trunk.

Such destructive power left the Scythe Mantis, which had just dodged the strike, with lingering fear, and it looked at the Flame-Armored Lizard with cautious eyes.

Although the Flame-Armored Lizard before it was an ash-white 7-star fierce beast just like the Fire Savage Bull, its strength was obviously much greater than that of the Fire Savage Bull.

At this moment, it dared not hold anything back and decided to use the Stealth skill once again, quietly approaching the Flame-Armored Lizard to deliver a fatal blow.

As a burst of black fog rose around the Scythe Mantis, its figure once again disappeared from the sight of Chu Xiu and the Flame-Armored Lizard.

"Hehe, couldn't sit still so soon?"

Watching the lines of attribute information in the air moving behind the Flame-Armored Lizard, Chu Xiu's lips curved up slightly, and his focus involuntarily concentrated.

Right now, he was just waiting for the Scythe Mantis to sneak up to the Flame-Armored Lizard and launch a fatal blow, and then have the Flame-Armored Lizard launch a surprise counterattack to severely injure the opponent.

"It's here! Right now! Flame-Armored Lizard, turn around and use Fireball!"

Seeing those lines of attribute information in the air stealthily arriving behind the Flame-Armored Lizard and rapidly approaching the back of its head, Chu Xiu immediately issued a command.

"Roar!"

Following his command, the Flame-Armored Lizard turned its head instantly, opening its mouth to spew toward the air behind it.

A football-sized fireball suddenly erupted.

Bang!!!

The fireball had barely rushed out twenty centimeters when it suddenly detonated into fierce flames, forcing the Scythe Mantis out of its Stealth state and blasting it heavily backward.

"Squeak—"

The flames quickly engulfed the entire body of the Scythe Mantis, burning it and causing it to let out painful screeches.

"Flame-Armored Lizard, pin it down!"

Watching the fire-bathed Scythe Mantis, Chu Xiu did not stop. Instead, he continued to direct the Flame-Armored Lizard to rush forward, knocking down the Scythe Mantis—which was in agony and unable to dodge in time—with a single tail whip.

Then, standing up on its hind legs, its nearly three-meter-tall massive body performed a Mount Tai Press on the Scythe Mantis, pinning it tightly beneath its body so it couldn't move an inch.

Until the Scythe Mantis urged the magic power within its body to disperse the flames on it, its vibrant green exoskeleton had been scorched pitch black by the fire.

The heavily injured Scythe Mantis, pinned beneath the Flame-Armored Lizard which was several times larger than it, had no strength to struggle at all, and could only open its mouth wide to emit bursts of unwilling and despairing screeches.

"It's about time. The Scythe Mantis has already been heavily injured, and now is the prime opportunity to contract it!"

Seeing through the system that the Scythe Mantis was currently in a severely injured state, Chu Xiu walked out of the dense bushes where he was hiding with a face full of joy, stepping forward quickly.

"Squeak—"

Chu Xiu's appearance caused the Scythe Mantis to let out another despairing screech.

Although it lived in a mystic realm, it had also seen human Beastmasters.

Especially when it was still young, it had once witnessed teachers from Linjiang No. 1 High School entering the mystic realm to purge fierce beasts whose strength exceeded the ash-white tier.

At that time, it saw a powerful Black Iron Tier fierce beast killed in a single second without even lasting a single round in the hands of a teacher from Linjiang No. 1 High School. Ever since then, the might of human Beastmasters had been deeply branded into its memory.

At this moment, upon seeing Chu Xiu appear, nothing was left in it but endless fear.

"Scythe Mantis, don't be afraid. I won't kill you."

"As long as you become my beast, you and I will be family!"

The change in the status of the Scythe Mantis was learned by Chu Xiu through the system panel. Feeling the fear of the Scythe Mantis, Chu Xiu revealed a kind smile and said to the Scythe Mantis,

Afterwards, regardless of whether the Scythe Mantis could understand or not, with a thought, he summoned the Beast Taming Seed from within his sea of consciousness, and it flew toward the extremely terrified Scythe Mantis.

The Beast Taming Seed merged through the center of the Scythe Mantis's brow, and very quickly, the brilliance in the eyes of the Scythe Mantis became dull.

At this moment, Chu Xiu's consciousness also invaded the depths of the Scythe Mantis's soul along with the Beast Taming Seed.

Contrary to his expectations, facing his contract, the Scythe Mantis actually didn't show the slightest intention of resisting, simply allowing the Beast Taming Seed to fuse with its soul and become Chu Xiu's beast.

In just the blink of an eye, Chu Xiu and the Scythe Mantis completed the contract.

The sparkling brilliance returned to the eyes of the Scythe Mantis, and the prior dread was completely gone from its gaze towards Chu Xiu.

"It was even easier than I expected; this fellow is quite sensible."

After contracting the Scythe Mantis, Chu Xiu grinned and let out an exclamation.

With a thought, the Flame-Armored Lizard moved away from the body of the Scythe Mantis, allowing the Scythe Mantis to finally get up.

Just as Chu Xiu was preparing to leave with the Scythe Mantis, the prompt message popping up on the system panel immediately attracted Chu Xiu's attention.

"Ding! Host has successfully contracted a beast, achieving the 'Novice Beastmaster' achievement, achievement points +100!"

"Ding! Achievement points have broken through 100 points, activating the Lucky Turntable function. Current achievement points can be used to conduct one lucky draw. Would you like to start the lucky draw?"