Starting With Contract Pets
chapter-182

Chapter 182: Practical Exam

“Why did you bring me here?”

Su Bai glanced at the familiar surrounding environment. It was the top of Nangong Mountain, where he had gone through his first competition.

“Why? Isn’t the scenery beautiful here?” Hou Jie got out of the car and gushed at the sight of the scenery around.

Nangong Mountain was cool and eminent, and from here, they could see the entire Cannes. Whether it was the cold river flowing through the city or the various buildings on both sides, all were visible.

“The scenery is pretty.” He nodded.

“That’s right, I took you here to see the scenery and relax.” She handed him a can of beer.

“Are you drinking before driving back?”

“Do you think I’ll get drunk with this little alcohol?”

Chuckling, she opened the can of beer and took two sips.

Su Bai did not say anything and just leaned in front of the car, drinking beer while enjoying the mountain breeze and watching the busy traffic in the city.

It really relieved his stress by quietly watching the scenery.

“Teacher, are you going to run the training house fully after you resign?” he asked curiously.

“Maybe, I’m not too sure; I haven’t thought about it yet.” Hou Jie looked up at the sky and leaned her head on his shoulder.

He was about to resist, but she pulled him back. “Just lend me your shoulder for a while!”

Su Bai stopped moving and fell silent for a while before he asked solemnly, “Teacher, have you encountered any troubles recently? For example, have you been forced into marriage by your family?”

Upon hearing this, she snorted in laughter and then turned to look at him. “If that were the case, what would you do?”

“I don’t know. If you’re unwilling, I’ll try my best to take you to a safe place.” He scratched his head.

“I’m very happy to hear you say that, but don’t worry. I’m already out of the family, so no one will force me to marry.

“I’m just a little sad, so I came up here to relax.” She smiled sadly.

“Teacher, don’t worry; I definitely won’t forget you.” He thought for a while and assured her.

“Hahaha! Let’s go. You should also go back to eat.” Hou Jie smiled and got into the car.

She took him to dinner and then returned to the hotel.

After returning to the hotel, Su Bai thought for a while and sent a message to Hou Lan to check if his former teacher was actually being forced to marry. If so, he also wanted to do his part to help. Both siblings were his mentor and benefactor, so he must lend a helping hand no matter what.

This kind of marriage between big families was very common, so he was still quite worried.

Fortunately, Hou Lan replied by saying that there was no such thing and that he had not heard of such. He also said that he would ask for more information.

Su Bai heaved a sigh of relief.

“Ah, I’ll take a good rest and get ready for tomorrow’s physical combat assessment.”

He lay in bed.

After chatting with his girlfriend for a while and playing Kings of Glory with the cub, he slept.

In the blink of an eye, it was early the next morning. He woke up on time and went to the examination room after eating breakfast.

Today’s physical combat assessment was different from yesterday’s. Of course, it was not battling against other people. Instead, the assessment would scan and upload everyone’s data into the virtual space through the pet combat simulator and then set up a challenge in the virtual space itself.

This method was fast and efficient and was no different from actual combat.

The only difference might be that no one would die inside but would still experience the feeling of dying.

After checking the correct room, he entered. There were black cabinets 2.5 meters high, 1.5 meters long, and two meters wide in the classroom. Su Bai and the others only needed to find and walk to the corresponding cabinets to swipe their IDs, verify their details, and then accept the scan for the test.

Of course, he knew that this black cabinet was not a terminal as there was only one per school.

After the teacher explained the operation process, he quickly entered a black cabinet. Once his identity information had been confirmed, he summoned his contract book as required. A purple light scanned it from the top, and a moment later, he found himself on a golden beach. In front of him were an endless sea and a huge mid-level warlord Blue Sea Shark.

Seeing him, the Blue Sea Shark’s tail flicked and splashed a stormy sea toward him.

“Jade, get rid of it.” He immediately released the cub and instructed it.

Don’t hurt Ah Bai!

The cub appeared on the ground in the form of Limitless Beauty and waved the staff in its hand. Vines rose from the ground and directly pierced the heart of the Blue Sea Shark, calming the waves it had just raised.

Once the Blue Sea Shark died, he released all his other pets. Other than the dragon and the phoenix, the Purgatory Fire Thief and the Alluring Spirit Fox Queen all appeared beside him.

He had hidden the dragon’s contract page with Wei Ya’s reliable treasure, and this helped prevent the scanner from finding it out.

He had left the phoenix at home because the college entrance examination’s information could be queried, and he did not want to expose all his cards.

Soon, the scene changed again. He appeared in a desert and faced a total of three warlord monsters. As soon as he appeared, they charged at him with murderous intent. Some of them restrained and attacked his pets, while some charged directly at him.

“Get rid of them all,” Su Bai said casually without paying attention to the monsters in front.

The physical combat had a total of 150 levels with a total score of 500 points. The strength of the monster changes according to the strength of each player. At the beginning, the strength was weaker than half of the player, while it was twice the strength at the end.

Having no fixed strength ensured the exam’s fairness; thus, regardless of the player’s strength, the strength of the monster could change accordingly. In the end, all of them had to battle against monsters twice as strong as themselves.

In addition, there were some environmental traps in the surroundings.

This was kid’s play to those who often ventured in monster wildernesses, though. This was mainly for those Pet Tamers who were inexperienced.

Soon, the strength of the monsters his pets were fighting against rose to the same level as the Little Tyrant.

“Interesting. This is also an alien plant purgatory, with the evolutionary direction of the Purgatory Fire Thief.”

Su Bai focused on the Purgatory Fire Thief among the few monsters.

“Roar!” Watch how I steal its fire!

The dino rushed forward with Fire Theft, but the opponent also launched the same attack. In an instant, the fire attribute abilities of both sides were restricted.

“Hing!”

The dreamy spiritual power of the fox exploded, and an Illusion Wave was launched over. At the same time, the cub expanded its Thorns Domain and mobilized it to turn into Forest Cluster, the skill it obtained when it evolved to a Limitless Beauty. In an instant, the countless vines, which had reached the monarch grade, came back to life and turned into monsters which attacked the three monsters on the opposite side.

The cub’s Forest Cluster, coupled with the Vine Whip that had been strengthened by Su Bai, was too formidable and was equivalent to possessing hundreds of monarch monsters. Although it could only inflict damage at close range and could not issue spiritual attacks, it still had outstanding power output.

Furthermore, the Thorns Domain of Limitless Beauty had a 500-meter coverage, and it was almost impossible to escape as long as it was within the area.

This strength could be described as a terrifying qualitative change. If this terrain were really a forest, battling with the elf would be even more terrifying. Just imagining the Limitless Beauty turning all the trees and plants in a forest into its fighting puppets was truly horrifying.

Moreover, its spiritual power recovered very quickly, and it was not afraid of consuming too much spiritual power with these skills.

It was obvious how terrifying its current strength was. Now, it had no problem dealing with the low-level monarchs, and its strength had even become on par with the Little Blood Dragon.

Along with its flow of torture, its strength would become even more terrifying in the future.

The moment the monsters made of vines rushed over to tear apart the opponents, the battle was already a done deal. On top of their poisonous attacks, the elf activated its parasitic Ultimate Absorption skill. After all, they were still vines in nature.

In this way, Su Bai completed one stage after another and reached the final one in the blink of an eye.

The scene changed and the final battlefield appeared. The ground was filled with magma and sulfuric acid, and its temperature was as high as a hundred degrees. Violent wind thrashed in the sky, while thunder and lightning flashed in the clouds. There was no oxygen in the air, only hydrogen, et cetera. The pressure of the toxic gases was hundreds of times higher compared to what could be felt on the Blue Planet.

Su Bai had long known that the environment would only get worse and worse, so he had activated his Internal Breath early on. After arriving and discovering this terrifying environment, he immediately activated the shield and heat insulation skills.

But even so, he still felt uncomfortable, knowing that he must not stay long in this place.

The three monsters that appeared in front of them were also terrifying, a monarch Flaming Stone Monster, a high-level commander Thunderbird, and a low-level commander White-Faced Ghost.

This environment was extremely detrimental to the elf, and specifically restrained it. The strength of these opponents were also strong and boundless, showing the difficulty of getting full marks.

“Jade, Mewling, help restrain them. Let your Brother Tyrant go up and steal the fire of that monarch Flaming Rock monster.”

Su Bai looked at the opponent’s data and immediately came up with a battle strategy.

The opponents did not give them a chance to take a breather, either. The Thunderbird wielded an endless thunder light toward his side, while the White-faced Ghost laughed strangely and launched Illusion Waves to influence the pets.

The elf lifted its staff and expanded the Thorns Domain. It first used Vine Whip to form a shield in defense against the opponent’s thunder and lightning before launching the Holy Spirit Shield to protect itself and Su Bai.

On the other side, the fox used the same Illusion Wave skill to restrain the White-faced Ghost.

The dino smashed the Flaming Rock monster with blighted fireballs. Mushroom clouds rose one after another to protect the dino as it also activated its Fire Theft skill once it got near the opponent.

The moment the monarch Flaming Rock monster sensed that something was wrong with this skill, it turned around and tried to avoid the attack, but this was when a powerful force controlled it. The dino successfully hit it with Fire Theft, blocking all the Flaming Rock’s flame skills.

“Weep weep…”

The fox was hit by a black light and fell to the ground, severely injured. The White-faced Ghost had taken advantage of the situation when it helped the dino to launch a secret attack against it. Even though the elf had tried its best to protect it, the fox still failed to defend itself against the strange and unpredictable mental attack.

Purple Jade immediately mobilized a large amount of life force to heal the fox. As long as the Flaming Rock could not target them with fire attacks, their victory was only a matter of time.

Seeing that its blow had failed, the White-faced Ghost directly rushed toward Su Bai, hitting him with an illusion wave, but what shocked it most was that the life-threatening blow did not kill him.

What it did not know was that Su Bai had exposed this flaw in order to lure it over. With the protection of the Dragon Soul bond skill, he could resist its mental attack and only became slightly disoriented.

Unfortunately, the White-faced Ghost was done for the moment it exposed its back to the Mewling Fox.

A pink dreamy ray directly penetrated it, severely injuring and killing it.

After getting rid of the most troublesome spirit type White-faced Ghost, everything became much simpler.

The Little Tyrant continued restraining the monarch Flaming Rock, which did not pose much of a threat anymore without its fire skills.

The elf resisted the Thunderbird’s attack while continuing to heal the fox, which was seriously injured by the White-faced Ghost.

After the fox was healed, it used its control skills to cooperate with the elf and quickly killed the Thunderbird.

In the end, the three besieged a monarch monster, of which the ability was greatly restricted, and the Flaming Rock that could only use earth skills was forced to face its death.

In the end, it was restrained by the fox and the elf killed it with Energy Burst.

In fact, the three’s strength was not weak, but they just lacked coordination and command.

A light flashed, and his consciousness returned to reality. His test scores had been uploaded, and he confirmed it before leaving the test room.

He could directly leave after the practical exam.

After taking a breath, he walked out of the room, glad that his college entrance examination was over.

The corridor outside the room had long become bustling. There were too many people who had come out before him.

A group of his schoolmates had also come out already. Upon seeing him, Hou Jie handed him a bottle of water and smiled. “How did you do in the exam and how many stages did you pass?”

The other students also looked at him expectantly, very curious about how many levels he could pass.

“It’s alright. I passed all the stages; it’s not particularly difficult,” Su Bai took a sip of water and said.

Everyone: “…”

He had passed all stages and only thought that it was alright?

They were dealt a heavy blow when they heard that the exam was not particularly difficult.

At this moment, they understood how big the gap was. They had passed one hundred stages at most, but Su Bai had passed all without breaking a sweat. People with a big gap were desperate, thinking that it was no wonder Su Bai was so strong.

Especially Shi Lei and Guo Dong, who had been at the same level as Su Bai once. These two felt even more bitter in their hearts. They originally thought that this kind of practical test had nothing to do with their strength and that they would not be much worse than him, but the reality turned out to be different.

They did not know when, but somehow they could only look up at Su Bai’s back. The feeling of being unable to catch up with him no matter how hard they tried was too uncomfortable and depressing.

“Not bad. It’s better than I expected.” Hou Jie patted him on the shoulder.

His classmates were very envious to see him laughing and talking with the woman, but unfortunately not everyone had the courage to chat with the teacher like this.

“Let’s get ready to go back to school.” Once everyone arrived, Hou Jie announced this with a smile.