13: Beast Taming Weaponization

"Lin He? You still dare to come looking for trouble? Was the lesson I gave you last time not enough? This time, I'll be the one to beat you down!" Wang Zi immediately stood at the front, speaking with eager anticipation.

Last time, he and his Blazing Flame Leopard Cat had been suppressed by the other party, which had left him feeling quite disgruntled. Now that his strength had increased significantly, he naturally wanted to teach Lin He a lesson.

The Blazing Flame Leopard Cat also bared its teeth at the North Wind Wolf, and then... let out a burp.

"Fatty, what kind of thing do you think you are? You think you're worthy of fighting me?!"

Lin He abruptly pulled open his outer garment, revealing a Beast Tamer badge pinned to his chest.

The badge had two star rings; the first ring had a full ten stars, while the second ring had only one.

"Eleventh Level Beast Tamer?" Wang Zi clicked his tongue incessantly upon seeing this, then quietly stepped back a few paces to hide behind Su Ze and Xu Yao.

"This guy is too tough; I can't handle him. I'll leave it to you guys."

He was only a Ninth Level Beast Tamer, while both Su Ze and Xu Yao wore Tenth Level badges.

Moreover, whenever they encountered demon beasts along the way that couldn't be easily dealt with, Wang Zi had witnessed Su Ze and Xu Yao take action; they were definitely stronger than Tenth Level!

But Su Ze wasn't paying any attention to the frantically provoking Lin He at all; instead, he was looking at the young man beside him.

He looked to be twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with features at least seventy to eighty percent similar to Lin He's, and he was wearing the uniform light armor equipped only by the Great Xia Spirit Guards.

He said tentatively, "Lin He, do you want to make a move against me in front of a Great Xia Spirit Guard?"

Lin He laughed upon hearing this and pointed arrogantly at the young man, saying, "So what?! This is my brother, Lin Jiang!"

Beside him, Lin Jiang glared at him, then looked at the Tenth Level Beast Tamer badge on Su Ze's chest and said, "Is this the kid who broke your finger?"

Although his level appeared to be one lower than his brother Lin He's, it was said that he had contracted a Gold-rank Demon Beast. The gap in bloodline rank could completely level or even surpass such a slight difference in level.

Furthermore, as a genius who had contracted a Gold-rank beast as his first, logically speaking, he shouldn't have been someone to cross.

However, the fact that the other party had broken his brother's finger was something he could not tolerate.

Thus, Lin Jiang took a step forward and said, "Stop wasting words. To help you get revenge, I specifically requested to be responsible for the defense of the area they were heading toward."

"But the shift change is in ten minutes. After I teach him a lesson for you, I'll take you to find demon beasts. The exam is still more important!"

Lin He gritted his teeth with some reluctance and finally said, "Brother, be a bit more ruthless. It's best if you break one of his legs and an arm or something!"

Lin Jiang hesitated for a moment but finally nodded.

A sturdy bull with lightning swirling around its body slowly walked out of his beast taming space, then transformed into a silver short rod in his hand. Both ends of the rod were constantly releasing lightning that intertwined into arcs of electricity.

Su Ze looked solemnly at the weapon the beast had transformed into in the other's hand.

Level twenty Beast Tamer was one of the recruitment conditions for the Great Xia Spirit Guards, which meant Lin Jiang was at least a Beast Tamer above Level twenty.

Moreover, Beast Spirit Weaponization and Armorization were courses taught in Beast Taming University. Su Ze had no way to learn them, so the gap in strength between the two was further widened.

"Thunder Strike!"

A brilliant bolt of lightning shot out from the short rod in his hand, flying straight toward Su Ze.

At the speed of lightning, Su Ze had no time to dodge at all.

Fortunately, the Void Spirit Turtle on his shoulder proactively activated a void spirit shield to block in front of him.

Su Ze did his best to maintain the void spirit shield to withstand the lightning attack, but after a moment, his expression changed slightly.

He murmured softly, "It seems... it doesn't feel that strong?"

Beside him, Lin He watched Su Ze being attacked by lightning with great excitement, looking forward to the moment he would be knocked down with black smoke rising from his body.

At that time, he would go up and finish him off, avenging his broken finger.

"I'm going to break your fingers one by one... no, I'm going to crush them one by one!"

But even after the lightning disappeared, as Lin He was about to run over excitedly, he found that the light shield in front of Su Ze was still holding firm.

His face contorted, and he questioned angrily, "Brother, what's going on?! Did you hold back?!"

Lin Jiang glared at him and shook his head with a solemn expression: "Shut up! His badge level is inaccurate. He's not at the Tenth Level at all, but a Level sixteen Beast Tamer!"

"Level sixteen?" Lin He's mouth hung open in a daze for a moment.

"Impossible, that's absolutely impossible. He only became a Beast Tamer ten days ago, how could he possibly improve so fast!" Lin He said, finding it hard to accept.

"I know! He must have used a quenching thought bead to let his beast level up first. This is a crooked path; he'll be backlashed sooner or later!"

"Haha, this way, it won't be long before he's eaten as food by his own out-of-control beast!"

But Lin Jiang frowned, and seeing how Su Ze controlled his beast with ease, he did not agree with Lin He's view.

However, he was now in a difficult position to back down.

Su Ze then dismissed the void spirit shield and looked at Lin Jiang, saying, "You haven't reached Level twenty yet, otherwise I couldn't have taken that attack so easily. Are you just a reserve Great Xia Spirit Guard?"

Lin Jiang didn't deny it and replied, "That's right, I'm still a Level nineteen Beast Tamer, just one step away from becoming a formal Great Xia Spirit Guard, but it's enough to deal with you!"

This time, to deal with the Fusang Dark Guards, all the Beishan City Spirit Guards had been mobilized, including their reserve teams.

Otherwise, the Tianyun Volcano Area was too large, and it would be impossible to set up defenses everywhere.

Su Ze finally understood why Lin He could successfully break through to the eleventh level in a short time even though his quenching thought bead had been won by Su Ze.

As a member of the reserve Spirit Guards, Lin Jiang must have been issued a quenching thought bead to help him break through smoothly.

And he chose to give this quenching thought bead to Lin He.

Su Ze and Xu Yao had also experienced military-grade quenching thought beads, which were far superior to the general ones issued by the school, which was why he could jump three levels from an eighth-level Beast Tamer.

This was good news for Su Ze and the others.

Every ten levels for a Beast Tamer was a qualitative change. Since Lin Jiang hadn't reached Level twenty yet, the level gap between them could be completely compensated for by bloodline.

Lin Jiang's beast was also Silver grade; he didn't have no chance of winning.

But Su Ze's thoughts seemed to be seen through by Lin Jiang, who said, "Do you think you can relax just because I haven't broken through to Level twenty? How naive!"

Holding the thunder short rod, with electricity flashing under his feet, he arrived in front of Su Ze in one stride and swung the rod, striking the void spirit shield Su Ze had opened in time.

The light screen fluctuated violently and was almost smashed open.

Su Ze, who was behind it, was also attacked by some of the leaked lightning, his expression contorting to the extreme.

"Kid, you know now, don't you? There's not only a gap in level between us but also a gap in technique."

Lin Jiang's Beast Spirit Weaponization was originally an attack-specialized type. Even if his level was only nineteen, in terms of pure attack, he definitely had strength surpassing Level twenty!

"Beautiful! Brother, smash his turtle shell and let me see how wonderful his expression is!" Lin He cheered upon seeing Su Ze's pained and contorted expression behind the light shield.

Xu Yao intended to step forward to help upon seeing this, but she was blocked by the North Wind Wolf controlled by Lin He, which flashed in front of her.

Behind the North Wind Wolf, Lin He's face was beaming with an uncontainable smile as he said, "Xu Yao, where do you think you're going?"

Xu Yao gave him a look of disgust: "Get out of my way!"

"I won't! What can you do to me..."

"Scram!"

Before Lin He could finish his sentence, the North Wind Wolf in front of him was swatted away by a wing from the Azure Phoenix Butterfly behind Xu Yao, heavily crashing into him, and then both flew out together again.

This scene was so similar to when he had been knocked flying by Su Ze's Darting Water Spear before.

"Your strength... this is impossible..." Lin He spat out a mouthful of blood.

He had originally thought that by relying on the high-quality quenching thought bead given by his brother, it would be enough to close the level gap with Xu Yao, leaving only the gap in beast bloodline.

Blocking her for a moment shouldn't have been a problem.

But the moment he was attacked just now, he knew he was wrong. The level gap between him and Xu Yao had not only failed to narrow but had instead become even larger.

The turn of events here also caused Lin Jiang to give up on continuing to attack Su Ze; he came to Lin He's side and helped him up.

"Brother, are you okay?"

Xu Yao also took the opportunity to get close to Su Ze.

"This time is different from before; even if we join forces, we won't be his match. I'll block him, you take Wang Zi and run first, find other Great Xia Spirit Guards and come back to expose him!"

But Xu Yao ignored the advice, supported the electric-shocked Su Ze, and whispered in his ear, "I'm not leaving! Did you forget? My dad is a teacher at the Beast Taming University; he taught me the techniques of Beast Spirit Weaponization!"