128: Shadow Thrust, Making Great Contribution

"Refreshing, refreshing! This is how a fight should be!" Lin Queer held a giant battle-axe, swinging it with such force that it whistled through the air. It looked terrifying, but her face was filled with an extremely excited smile.

"Big sister, aren't you thinking about being a lady anymore?" Su Ze used the saber in his hand to constantly block the other's attacks, speaking with a frown.

Lin Queer's strength was immense. The force was transmitted through their weapons to his hands, making Su Ze's hands feel numb and sore.

Taking advantage of a moment when the opponent's offensive slowed down, he slightly loosened his grip on the saber and moved his wrists.

"My teacher is indeed always telling me to be a lady, but what use is being a lady?! Come, let's continue. Today, either I'll knock you down, or you'll beat me down!" Lin Queer roared and charged forward.

"If it's just about 'taking me down'... actually, we could change the location and the method."

Su Ze jumped back, and Lin Queer's axe slammed into the tree trunk.

A thin crack was split into the leaves and branches of the incredibly sturdy wutong tree, extending all the way to Su Ze's feet. Then, a bird made of flames soared into the sky, rushing straight between his legs.

"Little brother, you want to take me down? Then you'd better protect this place first!"

Su Ze was also startled, but he responded in time.

He promptly activated the Shadow Moon Wolf King's skill, Shadow Stealth.

He hid in the shadow of the nearby leaves, dodging the attack that was aimed straight at his vitals.

Then, he emerged from the shadows in the distance and said, "That move... was a bit ruthless."

Lin Queer curled her lips and said, "Tch, dark-attribute demon beasts from the Shadow Realm are such a hassle!"

Lin Queer shouldered her battle-axe and charged again, but as she ran, every shadow she stepped on suddenly seemed to come alive, rising from the ground.

They turned into prisons to block Lin Queer's path, or sharp spikes that suddenly thrust out from the ground.

These were also skills of the Shadow Moon Wolf King: Shadow Prison and Shadow Stab.

In a contest of strength, Su Ze found that he was actually no match for this woman, Lin Queer, so he could only resort to using beast taming skills.

These little tricks naturally couldn't trap Lin Queer, but they did restrict her movements.

Then, having charged up for a long time, Su Ze aimed at Lin Queer's position. The phantom of the Wolf King appeared behind him, opening its mouth to let out a soul-piercing howl.

Shadow Moon Howl—this was one of the Shadow Moon Wolf King's strongest and most difficult-to-defend-against attack skills.

Because its target was the person's soul, the powerful impact would cause the opponent to fall into a dazed state, leaving them at his mercy.

The disadvantage was that this move required a considerable amount of charging time, and those other control skills, while not very powerful, were used continuously to buy that time.

Sensing that something was wrong, Lin Queer had just looked up toward Su Ze's position when she was hit head-on by the Shadow Moon Howl, immediately falling into a semi-conscious state.

Su Ze seized this opportunity and rushed over. Since it wasn't a life-or-death battle, he used the side of the blade to strike Lin Queer's slender waist, intending to knock her off the branch.

"Sorry, it looks like I'm the one taking you down!"

"Is that so?" Lin Queer suddenly looked up at Su Ze.

An invisible crown on her head suddenly revealed itself, radiating a brilliant glow.

"Is this... her fourth demon beast?!"

Indeed, the crown on Lin Queer's head was the Weaponization of her fourth demon beast.

Although it was only a Gold-rank Demon Beast, it was a very rare Mental-type demon beast.

Furthermore, it had no attack power; its only effect was to defend against mental impacts.

With its specialized mental defense, it could even completely block the mental attacks of platinum-level demon beasts whose level and bloodline were higher than its own.

Even so, Lin Queer had indeed entered a brief state of mental daze just now; that wasn't faked.

This showed the power of the Shadow Moon Howl's mental attack.

"My teacher insisted on forcing me to contract this little thing. I didn't expect it to actually come in handy today."

Lin Queer's original idea was to choose only the strongest fire-type demon beasts for all her beasts, but her teacher felt that wasn't secure enough.

General defense could be abandoned, using extreme offense as defense, but defense on the mental level had to be solid.

Su Ze hadn't expected her to wake up so early. In his surprise, the battle-axe in Lin Queer's hands had already swung straight down from above.

Lin Queer also wanted to hold back, so she didn't use the axe blade, but rather the back of the axe.

The problem was that she didn't seem to notice that with such a large axe swinging down, the difference between using the blade and the back was merely between being split open or being crushed flat.

Next, it would depend on whose hands were faster: whether Su Ze would knock her out first, or whether he would be beaten to the point of being unable to care for himself.

Su Ze used Shadow Prison and Shadow Stab again to try to slow her down, but Lin Queer completely disregarded them, determined to end the battle in one move.

However, in Su Ze's hurried use, the Shadow Stab naturally couldn't be aimed perfectly.

One Shadow Stab, which was meant to hit Lin Queer's feet and make her lose her balance, missed its mark, but it didn't miss by much.

It didn't hit her feet, but instead pierced straight up.

Such a subtle detail went unnoticed even by Su Ze.

Only Lin Queer felt it intensely.

Lin Queer, who had been full of imposing momentum and determined to decide the winner, suddenly let out a soft, feminine whimper.

Her cheeks flushed red, and she could barely hold onto the battle-axe in her hands.

Su Ze didn't notice any of this; he only saw that he had seemingly succeeded in slowing her offensive and let out a sigh of relief.

It wasn't that he was afraid of losing; after all, Feng Qingyi was staying in the beast taming space, watching everything outside through his eyes.

Once she found the situation was wrong, she would naturally take action. Su Ze just didn't want to expose his full strength too early.

So, without reducing the force in his hands, the side of the blade slammed heavily into Lin Queer's body.

Suffering this sudden turn of events and feeling weak all over, Lin Queer failed to respond in time and was knocked directly off, falling toward the ground below.

Actually, although she hadn't reached level sixty to gain the ability to fly, her beast, the Scarlet Blood Sparrow, could have easily carried her to a lower branch.

At the very least, she wouldn't have lost her qualification and could have climbed back up afterward.

But Lin Queer seemed to have given up the struggle, her face red as she thought about who knows what.

Her current appearance did indeed have the air of a bashful young woman.

"This feeling... what is it? I've never felt it before. There's some pain, but more of it is..."

She couldn't quite say.

It wasn't until she returned to the ground that she regained her composure and returned to her school's team.

"I'm sorry, Teacher, I let you down," Lin Queer said, lowering her head in shame. The loss just now had been too sudden, and she hadn't even realized what had happened.

However, Yu Zhen, the principal of Vermilion Bird Beast Taming University, said with a smile, "It's okay. We weren't the first to be eliminated anyway. Look at Black Tortoise Beast Taming University over there; they were."

Then she added with some concern, "Queer, is your leg injured? Your walking posture is a bit strange."

Lin Queer hurriedly shook her head. "No, I'm fine..."

"It's good that you're fine, but you should still have a check-up. It would be bad if it's an internal injury," Yu Zhen said caringly, before continuing to watch the unfinished competition.