Chapter 129: Skill Compression
Chapter 129: Skill Compression
Xu Yajie’s face was as pale as paper, her eyes filled with panic and despair.
Powerful Duck silently took two steps back.
The vast training ground was silent except for the sound of water droplets falling, and...
"Seek! Seek! Seek!"
Treasure Seeker, who had been invisible the entire time, suddenly appeared, rolling and laughing on Qiao Sang’s head.
Qiao Sang’s head wasn’t big enough for it to complete a full roll, so Treasure Seeker tumbled off and steadied itself in the air.
It wasn’t done yet. After stabilizing, Treasure Seeker pointed at Fierce Dragon Zheng, whose face was still dripping with water, and burst into laughter again.
"Seek! Seek! Seek!"
Everyone’s attention was drawn to the scene, including Fierce Dragon Zheng...
Qiao Sang’s expression remained calm, but her mind was in turmoil. After a two-second pause, she raised her hand and put Treasure Seeker back into the Beastmaster Codex, pretending nothing had happened.
Shi Gaofeng and the others looked bewildered as Treasure Seeker disappeared. They had no idea that a Ghost Familiar was present in the training ground, and that it had been stored in the Beastmaster Codex by a freshman.
A freshman with two familiars?!
The news was so shocking that they momentarily forgot about Fierce Dragon Zheng’s dark expression.
Zheng Guoping’s temples throbbed, his face turning from white to green, then to black. He glanced at Xu Yajie and then at Qiao Sang, finally settling his gaze on the former.
"Xu Yajie, get out there and run 20 laps immediately!"
Running 20 laps in this weather was nothing short of inhumane.
Xu Yajie’s face was ashen, but she didn’t dare to argue. She turned and left the training ground with Powerful Duck.
"Next, Wang Yao."
Zheng Guoping continued the training test.
When Powerful Duck was being tested, Qiao Sang didn’t notice anything unusual.
She had assumed it was a simple exercise involving breaking through rock barriers and hitting micro targets with Skills.
But when Flamebird’s Flame Vortex appeared, she realized it was more complex.
Fangy, like Flamebird, was a Fire Familiar. When Fangy was still in its Junior form as Fangflare, it underwent daily training for fire-type Skills.
Flame Vortex was one of Fangy’s fire-type Skills, and Qiao Sang knew exactly what it looked like when released.
Apart from a higher rotational speed and temperature, the Novice-level Flame Vortex was about 20 cm wide with a 3-meter attack range. At the Proficient level, the width remained the same, but the attack range extended to 9 meters.
Although Fangy had never released Flame Vortex in its Flame Listener stage, Qiao Sang had thoroughly researched all of Fangy’s Skills online.
When a Fire Familiar evolved from Junior to Intermediate, the Flame Vortex’s attack length remained the same, but the width increased from 20 cm to 30 cm.
However, the Flame Vortex released by Flamebird was neither the 30 cm wide, 9-meter range of the Proficient level nor the 18-meter range of the Intermediate level.
Instead, it was about 8 cm wide and could reach up to 30 meters, nearly hitting the Red Targets.
This was because they were testing the compression and extension of Skill attacks.
No wonder Powerful Duck couldn’t control the Water Jet, causing it to spray in other directions.
The limbs’ strength was insufficient, naturally leading to a loss of control over the compressed Water Jet, causing it to lose direction.
It was like how firefighters in her previous life had to use high-pressure Water Jets, which required significant strength to counteract the water’s recoil.
Thinking about this, Qiao Sang began to feel a bit sympathetic for Fierce Dragon Zheng.
After a compressed Water Jet attack, his face must have been incredibly thick to withstand it...
After Wang Yao and Shi Gaofeng finished their tests, Zheng Guoping said, "Qiao Sang, it’s your turn to try."
Qiao Sang nodded and stood directly in front of the Red Targets.
"Your fire... what’s this familiar called?" Zheng Guoping asked.
Qiao Sang paused for a moment, then decided to use the name from the Beastmaster Codex: "It's Flame Listener."
"Fang?"
Fangy looked up at Qiao Sang with a blank expression. Flame Listener? Wasn't it supposed to be Blazefang?
Qiao Sang smiled down at Fangy. "I'll show you in the mirror when we get home tonight."
"Fang!"
Fangy let out an excited bark.
Ever since the Evolution, it hadn't had a good look at itself!
Wang Yao watched Qiao Sang and Flame Listener's interaction with a strange look on her face.
It was just a mirror, right?
Why was Fangy so happy? It didn't seem like the typical behavior of a Fire Familiar...
At this moment, shouldn't a Fire Familiar sneer and then haughtily turn away, ignoring the Beastmaster?
"Does your Flame Listener know any long-range attack skills?" Zheng Guoping asked next.
Qiao Sang thought for a moment, considering the many skills Flame Listener knew. "Spark, Flame Vortex, Mars..."
Before she could finish, Zheng Guoping interrupted her. "Let's go with Flame Vortex. Have Flame Listener release it once."
"Alright." Qiao Sang nodded and exchanged a look with Fangy.
"Fang."
Fangy nodded and immediately shot a Flame Vortex at the rocky terrain.
"Proficient-level Flame Vortex", Zheng Guoping noted, writing it down.
It was just a Proficient-level Flame Vortex, right?
Flame Listener was already an Intermediate Familiar, so this was pretty standard...
Zheng Guoping tried hard not to think about the fact that the person in front of him was still a high school freshman who hadn't even started school yet.
Wang Yao, though unaffected by the Proficient-level Flame Vortex, couldn't believe what she had just seen.
Just a glance, no words spoken, and the Flame Vortex was released?
How did Flame Listener know to use Flame Vortex?
Wang Yao suddenly turned to stare at her own Flamebird, hoping it could somehow read her mind.
Flamebird looked at her, confused.
After a moment of mutual staring, Flamebird finally understood.
"Yan yan."
It pointed at Wang Yao's left eye with its left wing.
Wang Yao instinctively touched her left eye.
And then, she felt an eyelash...
Wang Yao: "!!"
On the other side.
"Can you try to have Flame Listener keep the energy output of Flame Vortex the same but reduce its width?" Zheng Guoping asked.
Qiao Sang nodded and began communicating with Fangy.
"Use the same skill, but try to make the flames about this wide", Qiao Sang gestured, indicating a width of about 8 centimeters.
This was different from the energy compression they used to do while eating Super Spicy Wings in the alley.
Back then, they were compressing energy, but now the training was about maintaining the same energy output while compressing the width of the skill, which would increase its length.
The 8-centimeter width was set based on Flamebird's capabilities.
In Qiao Sang's view, since both were Fire Familiars, what Flamebird could do, Fangy should be able to do as well.
"Fang!"
Fangy focused on the energy within its body, quickly channeling it.
It remembered the width Qiao Sang had mentioned...
Zheng Guoping walked from the red targets on the side toward the center.
The first attempt at compressing and reshaping the skill was likely to fail.
A Proficient-level Flame Vortex, if successful at the width Qiao Sang had indicated, should reach about 15 meters.
He planned to set a length target for Qiao Sang once Flame Listener failed.
Fifteen meters would be impressive.
Zheng Guoping stood about 15 meters away from Flame Listener.
At the same time, Fangy perfectly released a Flame Vortex at the width Qiao Sang had indicated.
The high-speed, rotating flames hit a rock at 13 meters.
"Boom!"
The rock exploded, sending fragments flying in all directions. One of the pieces hit Zheng Guoping, who had just taken his position, right in the face.
(End of Chapter)
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