【Match Rules: Both sides may deploy two pets for 1v1 combat. The match ends when both pets from one side are incapacitated.】
【Both sides, please release your first pet for combat.】
Fang Mingming was the first to raise his right hand, and a white figure leaped out from his Beast Taming Space.
It was a round sheep, covered in fluffy white wool like clouds. Its limbs were so short they were almost invisible, making its entire body resemble a flying cotton candy.
As soon as it appeared, it floated in mid-air, its four short legs dangling lazily, eyes narrowed into slits, looking completely harmless.
A Balloon Sheep.
It drifted slowly through the air, its wool swaying gently with the airflow. Occasionally, a strand or two would detach, refracting a subtle shimmer in the sunlight.
Liu Yi simultaneously summoned Ziyue from her Beast Taming Space.
The silver-blue figure leaped from the Beast Taming Space, landing steadily on the central main island.
After landing, Ziyue lightly shook her fur, her purple eyes calmly observing the Balloon Sheep opposite her, her two tails swaying gracefully.
The moment Fang Mingming saw Ziyue, his eyebrows twitched slightly.
He had heard of this Silver Snow Fox and seen videos of it on the forum, but this was his first time seeing it in person.
The fox's fur shimmered with a silver-blue luster in the sunlight, and its two tails were fluffy and long, indeed much prettier than an ordinary Snow-Drinking Fox.
But what's the use of being pretty?
“Is that the Silver Snow Fox?” His voice drifted down from above, tinged with a hint of nonchalance.
Liu Yi didn't reply.
Her gaze rapidly shifted between the Balloon Sheep and the four moving floating islands around them, already calculating the possible trajectory of their first engagement.
【First pets confirmed for both sides. Match start!】
The instant the mechanical voice faded, Fang Mingming launched his offensive.
“Wool Rain!”
The Balloon Sheep's lazy expression suddenly changed, and its entire body violently shook.
In an instant, countless tiny white strands of wool detached from its body like a blizzard, sweeping overwhelmingly towards Ziyue's direction!
The wool scattered through the air, extremely dense, almost completely obscuring vision.
Even more troublesome, these strands of wool weren't just for blocking vision.
The effect of the Wool Rain skill was to lower the opponent's accuracy while increasing its own evasion rate.
Under such density, Ziyue's ranged attack accuracy would be greatly reduced, and the Balloon Sheep would become even harder to target within the wool.
A slight smile played on Fang Mingming's lips.
He had practiced this move countless times. Opening with Wool Rain to block the opponent's vision and ranged attack capabilities, it was now the Balloon Sheep's time to shine.
Liu Yi's gaze pierced through the wool rain, landing on the Balloon Sheep.
As expected, the opponent began to move.
The Balloon Sheep's body suddenly contracted, its originally round form instantly compressed into a sphere, then violently expanded the next second.
“Float Bomb!”
A visible mass of compressed air burst from its body, like an invisible cannonball, carrying extremely compressed airflow, blasting towards Ziyue's position!
The air was torn apart, emitting a sharp whistle.
This wasn't the end.
While releasing the first Float Bomb, the Balloon Sheep's body contracted and expanded again, with the second and third shots following immediately, three compressed air projectiles sealing off Ziyue's evasion route!
Fang Mingming's combo was smooth and fluid.
Wool Rain blocked vision, three consecutive Float Bombs sealed off movement, and the Balloon Sheep's size and lazy appearance were a complete illusion; its attack rhythm was astonishingly fast.
Liu Yi finally spoke.
“Frost Path, ascend diagonally to the left.”
Ziyue moved.
It lightly tapped the ground with its front paw, and an ice-blue path instantly extended from beneath its feet, not forward, not backward, but diagonally upward to the left!
The ice path carved a graceful arc in the air. Ziyue galloped up the path, passing through the gaps in the Float Bomb blockade.
The first shot grazed its hind leg, exploding at the edge of the floating island behind it, the shockwave scattering shattered ice from the island's surface.
The second shot passed beneath its abdomen; the shockwave from the compressed air explosion made its body sway slightly, but the ice path remained as steady as a rock.
The third shot blasted directly towards its front.
Ziyue didn't slow down.
It leaped with a sudden burst of power on the ice path, its entire body flipping once in the air. The Float Bomb whistled past beneath it, exploding into a white surge of air against the energy shield in the distance.
The ice path continued to extend in the air. Ziyue landed steadily back on the ice surface, continuing her ascent.
The entire evasion sequence was smooth and fluid, without a single wasted movement.
Fang Mingming's expression froze for a moment.
That combo of his usually threw opponents in the same grade into a frenzy.
This first-year new student actually dodged it so easily?
He didn't have time to think further, as Ziyue had already used the Frost Path to ascend to the same height as the Balloon Sheep.
“Ice Blade.”
Twelve Ice Blades instantly formed around Ziyue, like twelve ice-blue sharp arrows, shooting towards the Balloon Sheep from different angles!
Fang Mingming's face changed. “Cotton Defense!”
The wool around the Balloon Sheep instantly expanded, condensing into a thick cotton barrier in front of it.
The barrier appeared soft, but its toughness was extremely strong. The Ice Blades shot into it, their speed dropping sharply as if sinking into a mire.
However, not all of Ziyue's Ice Blades were aimed directly forward.
Of the twelve Ice Blades, eight directly struck the cotton barrier, wearing down its defense.
The other four, however, arced strangely, bypassing the barrier, and flanked the Balloon Sheep from its sides and rear!
“What?!” Fang Mingming's eyes widened.
The Balloon Sheep reacted quickly, its massive body twisting sharply in the air to avoid two Ice Blades from the side, but it couldn't completely evade the two from behind.
“Whoosh—”
An Ice Blade grazed its back, kicking up a puff of white wool.
Several strands of wool were frozen into ice crystals, shattering in the air.
The Balloon Sheep let out a short cry of pain, its body swayed, and a gap appeared in the previously impenetrable Wool Rain.
Fang Mingming's expression completely changed.
It wasn't surprise, but... disbelief.
He clearly saw that the trajectories of those twelve Ice Blades were not random at all.
Eight blades pinned it from the front, four flanked from behind, and the flanking angle perfectly utilized the rapidly moving secondary island on the periphery.
The floating island had just blocked the Balloon Sheep's flank the moment the Ice Blades were fired, forcing it to dodge in another direction, which happened to be the landing point of the other two Ice Blades.
Fang Mingming gritted his teeth, shedding his last shred of underestimation.
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