Complete the mission in simulated combat

During the break, Gu Xiaoyue went to find Teacher Han and asked him to activate a Beast Combat Simulator for her.

Teacher Han frowned in confusion; it was the first time someone had asked him to open a simulated combat session only a month and a half into the semester.

"Gu Xiaoyue, every student in the Elite Class only has three opportunities. If you open one now, what will you do before the final exam?"

"It is like this, Teacher Han; although I have been training with Chu Li, I basically have no practical combat experience. I also want to give Qingqing a chance to train and understand its strength better."

Gu Xiaoyue did not want to say that training with Chu Li only involved practicing the summoning skill. She really wanted to understand the strength of Xiao Qi, Xiao Jiu, and Xiao Hei.

The Beast Combat Simulator itself was not dangerous, and Teacher Han was just worried that Gu Xiaoyue would waste her usage quota. Since she was indeed doing it to test her strength, it would not be good for him to deny her the opportunity.

"Alright, I will take you there now."

"Teacher, I would like to ask, there is no surveillance or live broadcasting or anything like that in the simulated small secret realm, right?"

Gu Xiaoyue did not want to expose the pet beasts she had. If there were surveillance or anything similar, she would only be able to use Qingqing to fight. That would likely make her progress much slower.

"There is no such thing, but you need to set the level and quantity of the beasts you want to fight in advance."

"Okay, I understand, thank you, Teacher."

Gu Xiaoyue calculated that the mission content required 30 Young life stage 3 beasts, 40 Young life stage 4 beasts, and 50 Young life stage 5 beasts.

With her current strength, Young life stage 5 should not be difficult, even if it were 50 of them. She would add one Young life stage 6 and one Young life stage 7 beast to see if Xiao Qi and the others could handle it.

Teacher Han helped her activate the Beast Combat Simulator and handed Gu Xiaoyue a compact remote control.

"If you want to rest, press this pause button. If you cannot defeat the set beasts, press the green button on this remote, and you will be teleported out. Of course, after eliminating all the set beasts, you will also be teleported out after five seconds. I have a lot of administrative work today, so I won't wait here for you; take care of yourself."

The Beast Combat Simulator was very safe; even if it malfunctioned, it would not cause substantial harm to the students. However, Teacher Han still had to give a few more reminders, after all, Gu Xiaoyue was simulating combat alone.

Gu Xiaoyue thanked Teacher Han, and after he left, she set the level and quantity of the beasts according to her own plan.

Bringing them out one by one was too slow, so she set it to bring out 5 Young life stage 3 beasts at a time, 4 Young life stage 4 beasts at a time, and 2 Young life stage 5 beasts at a time.

After the settings were successful, she clicked to enter the secret realm and walked into the Beast Combat Simulator.

Gu Xiaoyue summoned Xiao Qi and Xiao Hei. Being able to summon two pet beasts simultaneously already made her stronger than the vast majority of primary and intermediate Beastmasters.

Due to the level and strength limitations of Beastmasters, only advanced and quasi-master Beastmasters could summon two pet beasts.

With a flash of white light, five flower leopards spawned. Xiao Qi impatiently cast a Lightning Strike.

Intermediate Lightning Strike could attack one to three beasts, and three flower leopards were instantly killed.

Xiao Hei unleashed a Void-Rending Claw; it was a low-level Void-Rending Claw, so it did not instantly kill the remaining two flower leopards. Immediately after, Xiao Hei used the Void-Rending Claw twice more in succession, and only then did those two flower leopards disappear.

Five seconds later, five more flower leopards spawned. Gu Xiaoyue said to Xiao Qi, "Xiao Qi, don't attack yet; let's see Xiao Hei's strength."

Xiao Qi nodded, hopped around Gu Xiaoyue, and rubbed its head against her hand.

"If you perform well, you will get snacks when we go out." Gu Xiaoyue patted Xiao Qi's head.

"Awoo—" Hearing Gu Xiaoyue say there were snacks, Xiao Hei also got excited. It unleashed a Void-Rending Claw, then immediately opened its mouth and spat out a cloud of black mist, engulfing the five flower leopards.

The five flower leopards became visibly weaker. If this battle were a game interface, Gu Xiaoyue would be able to see the black mist devouring the flower leopards' vitality, and the screen would be filled with continuous health-draining effects.

Xiao Hei used the Void-Rending Claw twice more in succession, and this time, the five flower leopards disappeared.

Although Gu Xiaoyue was very satisfied with Xiao Hei's combat power, she hoped more that Xiao Hei would level up its stealth skill.

It is easier to upgrade a skill from low-level to intermediate; taking Xiao Qi's Lightning Strike as an example, it still had not reached advanced level after a month.

Subsequently, the spawned flower leopards were eliminated by Xiao Qi and Xiao Hei; six waves of Young life stage 3 beasts were cleared in less than two minutes.

The system displayed: 【Kill Young life stage 3 beasts (30/30) completed.】

Gu Xiaoyue was not in a hurry to claim the reward; the Young life stage 4 beasts had not spawned yet, and the system issued another task.

【Task 4: Kill 60 Young life stage 6 beasts, do you accept the task?】【Yes】【No】

Gu Xiaoyue accepted the new kill task; she should have set more Young life stage 6 beasts earlier. At this moment, the Young life stage 4 beasts refreshed.

Four Bloodthirsty Geese. Being flying beasts, Xiao Hei's attack range could not reach them. Gu Xiaoyue recalled Xiao Hei into the Yu Beast Space and brought out Qingqing.

Xiao Qi still killed three of them instantly with one Lightning Strike.

"Qingqing, don't use skills; go up and engage in melee combat directly."

Qingqing's Ice Flame was also an area-of-effect skill with a continuous frostbite effect. Its combat power was actually not very strong.

Gu Xiaoyue wondered if a combined attack with Xiao Jiu's Water Wave would have a stronger effect.

Qingqing obediently rushed up to engage the last Bloodthirsty Goose in melee combat. After fighting for a while, the Bloodthirsty Goose barely caused any damage to Qingqing, as there was a difference in rank and level after all.

Although Qingqing injured the Bloodthirsty Goose, it had not killed it yet.

"Qingqing, Ice Flame!" Gu Xiaoyue could not wait any longer; knowing Qingqing's melee strength, she decided to end the battle quickly.

The second wave of Bloodthirsty Geese spawned, and Gu Xiaoyue still did not let Xiao Qi attack, wanting to test the strength of Qingqing's Ice Flame.

The four Bloodthirsty Geese were hit by Qingqing's Ice Flame; they flapped around in the air for a short while, then disappeared.

Although it did not count as an instant kill, this showed that the total damage of Qingqing's attack exceeded the health of the Bloodthirsty Geese.

Gu Xiaoyue touched the ice crystal stone on Qingqing's forehead; this crystal stone had played quite a significant role.

Having obtained the desired data, Gu Xiaoyue let Xiao Qi and Qingqing fight freely against the remaining Bloodthirsty Geese that spawned.

A few minutes later, ten waves of Young life stage 4 beasts were eliminated. 【Kill Young life stage 4 beasts (40/40) completed.】

【Task 5: Kill 70 Young life stage 7 beasts, do you accept the task?】【Yes】【No】

Gu Xiaoyue kind of understood the system's routine; kill tasks were not mandatory, and not rushing to accept them would not cause it to beep and annoy her.

However, if there was a reward, she would accept it; anyway, on the path to becoming stronger, killing beasts was a necessary step.

It was just that she had not expected at the beginning that simulated beasts would also count towards task completion.

Gu Xiaoyue chuckled to herself, isn't this basically free rewards for me!

The Young life stage 5 beasts spawned, and they were Thunder-Patterned Tigers.

Gu Xiaoyue remembered Lin Zhiyi's Thunder-Patterned Winged Tiger, and then looked at the 3 wingless Thunder-Patterned Tigers in front of her. The level difference was quite large.

Gu Xiaoyue did not attack; a Thunder-Patterned Tiger cast a Lightning Strike at her.

Xiao Qi opened its mouth, and the lightning ball that was originally heading towards Gu Xiaoyue went directly into Xiao Qi's mouth.

Xiao Qi chewed the lightning ball, swallowed it, and then licked its lips. It smacked its lips with an unimpressed expression.

"What's wrong, Xiao Qi, not strong enough?" Gu Xiaoyue was amused by its little expression.

Subsequently, Xiao Qi also threw out a Lightning Strike, and the three Thunder-Patterned Tigers were electrocuted and howled.

Seeing that Xiao Qi did not kill them instantly, Qingqing used Ice Flame, and the three Thunder-Patterned Tigers disappeared.

Compared with attacks of other attributes, lightning attribute attacks had slightly higher damage. If they were not lightning-type Young life stage 5 beasts, they might have been killed instantly by Xiao Qi.

Gu Xiaoyue recalled Xiao Qi and summoned Xiao Jiu.

When the new wave of Thunder-Patterned Tigers spawned, Xiao Jiu first used Water Wave, then used Fire Sea, killing one wave.

For the next wave, Gu Xiaoyue let Xiao Jiu and Qingqing use a combination skill; each beast used one skill, and they easily killed this wave of Thunder-Patterned Tigers again.

After testing the skills, Gu Xiaoyue stopped caring and let Xiao Jiu and Qingqing eliminate the remaining beasts.

In less than ten minutes, the task of killing Young life stage 5 beasts was also completed.

Gu Xiaoyue continued to receive the task of killing Young life stage 8 beasts.

It was not until the Young life stage 6 beasts spawned that Gu Xiaoyue realized she had a big problem now.